Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Independent mortgage lender Embrace Home Loans has promoted Ryan “Buddy” Hardiman to the position of president, the company announced on Wednesday. In his new role, Hardiman will lead its lending and fulfillment operations. Hardiman first joined Embrace Home Loans in 2008 as a project manager, the news release stated.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Mortgage lender and servicer Planet Home Lending also named Kathryn Edelen as regional vice president of its sales division this week. RE/MAX and Motto were having trouble hiring experienced processors, so about four years ago they bought wemlo, which has a platform connecting mortgage brokers and loan originators to a processing network.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2023

About a quarter of American homeowners are unable to access the equity in their homes because of strict lending standards, and EasyKnock said the partnership will “improve housing stability for our mutual customers, providing them liquidity, flexibility and control in their finances.” Licensed in Washington, D.C.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

billion in 2012 to $2 billion in 2016. Last year, Interfirst relaunched its services with a new proprietary loan origination technology platform. It’s also made a push to hire teachers and first responders to be loan officers. The originations went from $14.1

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2022

issued pink slips to over 350 non-commissioned loan officers, a workforce reduction that former workers claimed to represent more than half of Interfirst’s entire staff. Presented by: Acra Lending. The company reduced its origination to $2 billion in 2016 before shutting down altogether in 2017.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Founded in 2014 with a focus on automating Medicaid application processes, Ocrolus decided in 2016 to use its technology to classify financial documents.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Prior to HOMESTAR, he served as the executive vice president of retail production at AmeriSave Mortgage Corporation and area lending manager roles at Citi. Stallings and Paul Abraham, who have been at the firm about a decade, and Michael Stallings, who joined in 2016.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Return to a ‘task force’ The original task force was co-founded in 2012 by Giordano and Security One Lending ’s Torrey Larsen. But as we’ve said from the very beginning, it takes loan officers sitting [face-to-face with advisers] to really get the message across.” We’ve got all the ammunition.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

The investment comes at a pivotal time for the mortgage industry, which has seen record refi volume give way to a market dominated by purchase loans. million investment in eOriginal in 2016, said both companies offer solutions that make a difference for lenders facing stiff competition and low margins in a purchase environment.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Keeping that momentum going is a priority for Jesse Allen, who was recently announced as the president for Rate’s reverse lending division. Jesse Allen “Rate offers a comprehensive platform — we’re one of the top-ranked retail lenders in the industry,” Allen said of its forward lending side.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

The addition of Cloudvirga, founded in 2016 and used by 10 of the country’s top 40 mortgage lenders, strengthens Stewart’s positioning in the mortgage finance space, said Fred Eppinger, Stewart CEO. “By The company has made big investments to capitalize on the rise in wholesale lending. In May 2020, it launched CloudVirga TPO.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Over the last year, it has also sold off large chunks of the business – including sub-servicing with ServiceMac and delegated correspondent to Planet Home Lending – which accounts for several thousand workers transitioning to new firms. After origination volume plummeted nearly 86% to $2 billion in 2016 from $14.1

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

The go-to market strategy of the company’s retail lending division was revised and includes stepping away from “strategies that have been less fruitful over time,” she explained. “We Brokers have shown a lot of interest in the product, and FOA aims to direct that inbound interest into more advertising in the coming quarter. “We Fred Thompson.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2021

In 2016, Brad Sullivan’s Mortgage Financial Services ruled the roost in housing with a rank of 733. Lending Heights ( 592% growth) President Jason Cecco said his focus was on “empowering our team members to thrive, which leads to the best customer experience.”. Top Verticals. Real Estate. Tech & Solutions. rankings for many years.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2021

The community lending segment has experienced impressive growth over the last 10 years. From 2010 to 2016, for instance, the top five depositories saw mortgage origination fall from 64% to 25% , a loss of ~$500 billion in originations.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

JA: I was going back through some old PRMG stuff and they had “the five tenets of mortgage lending success” and it was: product, pricing, compensation, marketing, and fulfillment. We’ve been using the big common one on the market, Optimal Blue , for so many years, since about 2016 when we changed from another one.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The lender originated $10 billion in mortgages in 2013, $5 billion in 2014, $3 billion in 2015 and just $2 billion in 2016 before shutting down altogether in 2017. Godin made plans to relaunch the business in late 2019 as a tech-forward lender that originated loans across both wholesale and retail channels. “And 375% below the market.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2022

Purchase-focused lenders that didn’t balloon in size to capture refinancing business during the boom, in particular, are looking to hire loan officers. But despite the worst business climate in over a decade, there are mortgage companies hiring workers and thinking opportunistically about the cycle.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

When rates start to trend down, the company expects to add more loan officers, call center staff and operation staff. We dabbled under the hood from mid-2016 to about mid-2018, and then really started to perfect it. Kim: One of NAF’s priorities is on lending to the Hispanic community. We’re growing quite a bit.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

In 2016 LLR led a $26.5 This isn’t a new story in mortgage lending or real estate brokerage. But ultimately, efficient mortgage lending and real estate sales is what is most important to a healthy housing market. Mortgage lending has its problems. LLR is not a newcomer to mortgage technology or the overall fintech market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2023

2017 99,880 2016 88,105 2015 94,101 As you can see in the chart below, new listing data is very seasonal; we don’t have much time to get some more growth here. Since the entire marketplace is keeping an eye out on credit getting tighter, I will be watching the Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices on Monday.

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Genworth MI Blog

MAY 28, 2020

Remember when loan officers avoided underwriting loans for manufactured housing for fear of low commissions, foreclosure risks, and the added complexities of underwriting those types of “unreliable” homes? Remember when manufactured housing used to equate to mobile homes? Manufactured Housing Construction Advantages.

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Genworth MI Blog

MAY 28, 2020

Remember when loan officers avoided underwriting loans for manufactured housing for fear of low commissions, foreclosure risks, and the added complexities of underwriting those types of “unreliable” homes? Remember when manufactured housing used to equate to mobile homes? Manufactured Housing Construction Advantages.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

But that engine could stall if action isn’t taken to increase the supply of affordable housing and expand opportunities for lending to underserved families. Since 2016, legal immigration growth has declined by 40%. Committing non-bank lending institutions. Housing has always been an engine of economic growth. of GDP in 2020.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) imposed a $12 million penalty on Bank of America (BofA) for violating federal laws by submitting false mortgage lending information for about four years, it announced on Monday. A top-20 U.S. Overall, the bank posted a net income of $7.8 billion in the third quarter of 2023.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

In 2016, LLR Partners led a $26.5 million investment in eOriginal, a digital platform that aims to securely digitize the lending process from the borrower to the secondary market. Sales Boomerang monitors customer databases on behalf of lenders to identify when a customer is ready for a new loan.

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Clear Capital

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

” This has been a very hot and important topic within the lending space for the last year or so, we’ve talked about it on this podcast before Kenon. And that was like the last straw so it was back in 2016 or 2017, and that’s when we decided to start Ribbon. My professional background is out of finance and lending.

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