Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2023

And, in the mortgage industry, AI will play an instrumental role in helping loan officers to be more efficient, according to Nima Ghamsari , Blend ‘s co-founder and CEO. Blend’s mortgage banking software processed 23.2% in the second half of 2021. Blend’s mortgage banking software processed 23.2%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

And now, with the COVID-19 vaccine circulating and the economy slowly regaining strength, Zillow researchers say millions of additional households could enter the housing market in 2021. While moving itself can be stressful, changing zip codes in 2020 and 2021 seems to be eliciting mostly happiness. Presented by: Propertybase.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The digital lender, run by CEO Vishal Garg , selected Bank of America and Morgan Stanley to prepare an initial public offering slated for 2021, according to sources cited by Bloomberg. It now has over 3,000 employees, many of whom, about 500, are non-commissioned loan officers. Write to him at jkleimann@housingwire.com.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

South Carolina-based Movement Mortgage has acquired the brokerage Superior Rate Mortgage of New England to expand operations in the region, the company announced Wednesday. The acquisition is another step to boost its sales amid shrinking loan origination volumes. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

The mortgage rate outlook component experienced the only decline in March’s HPSI, with the latest results indicating that only 6% of consumers believe that mortgage rates will decrease over the next 12 months. Mortgage applications decreased 2.2%, according to the March 31 report from the Mortgage Bankers Association.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

Loan officers saw an increase in mortgage demand during the first week of 2023 as mortgage rates ticked down. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), mortgage applications rose 1.2% Concessions, mortgage rate buydowns save deals. According to a new Redfin report, a record 41.9%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Applicants hoping to get a mortgage job in 2024. After cutting to the bone over the past three years, several large mortgage lenders are beginning to ramp up hiring. As a group, the number of employees shrank by 46%, from 88,203 in 2021 to 47,940 in 2023. Image created by AI in Midjourney.)

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Nonbank mortgage lender and servicer Pennymac Financial Services scrapped its plans to hire more than 300 staff in North Carolina due to prolonged periods of elevated interest rates. In 2021, Pennymac vowed to create 322 jobs in Wake County, North Carolina and invest $4.3 million over the course of 12 years. The lender’s U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

billion for 2021, a 65% increase from 2020. The government-sponsored enterprise saw a 20% growth in its single-family mortgage portfolio from 2020 to 2021, driven by soaring home prices and an increase in the average size of loans it acquired. income in 2021 appeared first on HousingWire. It reported $2.7

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2022

Pink slips arrived for nearly three dozen loan officers at Wyndham Capital Mortgage on Wednesday, HousingWire has learned. The consumer direct mortgage lender, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, said it laid off 35 LOs across its offices in Dallas, Charlotte, Salt Lake City, Kansas City, and Phoenix.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Leading property data and analytics company CoreLogic ’s newly launched digital mortgage platform (DMP) aims to streamline the mortgage process and improve efficiency for lenders. CoreLogic acquired digital mortgage tech provider Roostify in February. It then tailors that data to the home-buying process.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2022

South Carolina-based Movement Mortgage laid off around 170 employees in March, another case of a top-25 mortgage lender paring back its workforce due to a more challenging origination landscape. . billion in 2021, up 10.7% compared to the previous year, according to Inside Mortgage Finance. However, originations fell 0.7%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. Justin Woodward has experienced the best and the worst of the mortgage industry in only 18 months. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Digital mortgage automation solution provider Floify launched a mortgage point-of-sale (POS) platform for lenders. Solutions within Floify Lender Edition allow lenders to improve recruitment and retention of top-producing loan officers and to navigate regulatory landscapes, according to the company’s website.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), the nation’s largest wholesale lender, posted another record for production in 2021, but lower margins and declines in fair value of mortgage servicing rights impacted its earnings. billion in profits in 2021, down 53.6% billion in profits in 2021, down 53.6% million in Q4 2021.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

With a challenging year ahead, the professional services company affiliated with Rocket Mortgage has decided to restructure the marketing team in the first week of 2023, resulting in about 20 jobs cut, according to former employees. . Rocket Mortgage, like all mortgage lenders , was hurt by surging mortgage rates in 2022.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2022

Keller Mortgage , part of the kwx holding company, laid off operations positions in a conference call on Monday May 23, according to more than a dozen employees. Each pod has about 15 employees consisting of loan officers, processors, closers, underwriters, supervisors, and funders, according to multiple employees. .

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In his 20 years in mortgage banking, no year has compared to 2023 in terms of difficulty, said Ben Cohen, Guaranteed Rate ’s managing director and a top-producing loan officer. This is a lot different than 2008 where you needed a credit score and a heartbeat to get a mortgage. An additional 21% closed 1.5

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

Mortgage lenders loanDepot and Movement Mortgage have agreed to end a one-year dispute over the poaching of employees, according to a document filed Friday in a district court in Delaware. According to loanDepot, Movement’s actions in late 2021 and early 2022 resulted in “effectively crippling” several “now-depleted” branches.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Country Club Mortgage , a home lender based in California , has decided to lay off over 100 employees due to “facility closures,” documents sent to state regulators show. Job cuts include the leadership – the president and CEO, the finance manager and the credit risk officer. More than 50 mortgage loan officers were let go.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The coming winter is expected to be an existential test of survival for many independent mortgage banks (IMBs), according to leaders of several mortgage advisory firms. “We’re really at the darkest part of the market this winter,” Brian Hale, CEO and founder of consultancy Mortgage Advisory Partners , said. .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Writing about digital mortgage in 2021, I am reminded of a cartoon in the New Yorker, in which two cavemen were starting a fire and one said “Stop saying everything is ‘unprecedented.’” I can set filters for my partner search on Bumble, so why can’t I filter results for a mortgage broker? 1 Personalization. 3 Self-driving banks.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Kevin Peranio, left, of Paramount Residential Mortgage Group, and Candice McNaught of Supreme Lending lead a panel discussion during the HousingWire IMB Summit in Dallas on Oct. Photo courtesy of Willie & Kim Photography) As mortgage rates edge closer to the 6% mark, optimism has spread across the industry.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates, now around 6.5%, are cooling down the housing market and triggering mass layoffs in the mortgage and real estate industries. Mortgage rates have nearly doubled to around 6.5% Will Savage, an LO at PMC Mortgage. Before the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by 0.75

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2022

It’s a tough time for mortgage lenders. A rapid rise in mortgage rates and a big drop in origination volume has led to thousands of industry job losses over the last six months. By some estimates, origination volume will fall in 2022 to about $2 trillion, about half the volume from the record-breaking years of 2021 and 2020.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Guild Mortgage ’s acquisition of Academy Mortgage Corp. With the acquisition of Academy, Guild will be onboarding nearly 200 branches and 1,000 new employees, about 600 of which are loan officers. But she said there was no “serious talk” about an M&A deal until the end of 2023 amid a depressed mortgage market.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2024

1 and June 10 of this year that were related to the reverse mortgage industry, according to a database maintained by the bureau. About one in three complaints had to do with borrowers “struggling to pay their mortgage,” of which a portion were specifically related to foreclosures. Reverse mortgage accounted for 1.4%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Net income at eXp was $81 million for 2021, according to a virtual world earnings call Thursday livestreamed on YouTube. Agent count increased 72% in 2021 to over 71,000 at December’s end. eXp agents took part in 444,367 deals in 2021, 86% more than 2020. On Thursday the cartoon avatars returned. Revenue increased 110% to $3.8

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It’s worth looking inside the numbers though as we head toward year-end and think about 2021 strategies. 2021 is expected to show refinance volume being cut nearly in half by just over $800bb, almost 50% of 2020. Despite this contraction, 2021 is forecasted to be a larger overall year than 2019 by approximately $195bb.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2023

The last week of the calendar year is usually a slow time for the mortgage industry, but 2022 was something else. Mortgage applications decreased 13.2% That’s because costs for borrowers were higher, reflecting the mortgage market’s response to the Federal Reserve ‘s tightening monetary policy.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

The Department of Justice and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are taking the fight to non-bank mortgage lenders for redlining. The two agencies revealed their new strategy to rein in mortgage discrimination on Wednesday, with a $24.4 The complaint alleged Trident Mortgage Co. ,

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, purchase mortgages outpaced refinancings in the third quarter of 2021, according to the latest TransUnion report published on Wednesday. The total mortgage balances grew 8% year-over-year to $10.5 million in 2021. Jumbo loans had the best performance, up 36.9%

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2022

The nation’s largest wholesale lender, United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), in the first quarter of 2022 posted an increase in margins and profits over the prior quarter, increasing its purchase volumes to record levels. million registered in the fourth quarter of 2021. million registered in the fourth quarter of 2021.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

Movement Mortgage will pay $75,000 to resolve allegations of racial discrimination, in violation of the Fair Housing Act, identified by undercover testers from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. The agreement resolves a complaint the NCRC filed in October 2021 with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates in the 6% range have frozen the housing market, forcing loan officers to find business outside their wheelhouses. Business is at a “dead stop,” said a retail loan officer in Michigan. I feel bad trying to convince somebody that it’s a good time to buy and get a mortgage.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

Though its overall mortgage strategy has apparently not changed, Rocket Mortgage is undoubtedly ramping up its initiative to hire local loan officers to win purchase business. Kostegian added that about 5,000 approved insurance agents can also originate a mortgage with Rocket, Lazerson wrote.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Ahead of its initial public offering slated for mid-December, United Wholesale Mortgage is offering mortgage rates below 2% on FHA loans through its Conquest Program. on FHA loans, the company announced in a statement on Wednesday. 5 reasons to refinance your mortgage right now. Presented by: Citi Mortgage.

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