Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Financial services consulting firm ThoughtFocus appointed Santhosh Ananthakrishnan to the position of chief business officer. Before joining ThoughtFocus in January, Ananthakrishnan led the global mortgage business at Tata Consultancy Services. ThoughtFocus is a consulting, software engineering and business process management firm.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

With thoughtfully designed tools to drive better conversion rates, automate social media marketing, and streamline time consuming tasks, technology is a key enabler to business growth, but only when fully maximized. Agents need to move beyond a fixed mindset when it comes to technology and invest the time to learn the platform.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

Dallas -based Certainty Home Lending , an affiliate of Guaranteed Rate , named Shadi Kamran as its new national business development executive. The technologically advanced mortgage platform empowers loan officers to serve both customers and business partners with ease and excellence.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

is promoting its new development director, Jennifer Alese, to the position of chief business officer, The Real Deal reported on Monday. Alese will be the company’s first chief business officer, and Carolyn Sebba will replace Alese as the new development director. New York City -based brokerage SERHANT. The future of SERHANT.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

When mortgage rates declined in the third quarter of 2024, Mr. Cooper Group doubled its gains in the origination business. Taking all business together, however, the Dallas-based company delivered $80 million in net income in Q3 2024, compared to $204 million in the second quarter.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Despite having to make more phone calls, appraisers say they have not experienced a massive impact from the settlement-driven business practice changes. I certainly don’t want to inflate any value in light of having less access to concessions information and not hearing back from some agents.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2024

It’s a phrase we often hear, but its importance cannot be overstated in the real estate business. The ability to hold firm to your values, worth, and business practices is not just a strategy; it’s a necessity. Standing your ground is not merely a business strategy; it’s a way of life. Standing your ground.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2024

Mr. Cooper has opportunistically acquired business to grow its servicing portfolio, which reached $1.206 trillion in the second quarter of 2024, according to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings. Flagstar’s TPO business is largely correspondent, though it does also work with mortgage brokers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

Business update and market share The company announced the availability of the update in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Company has substantially completed its exit from all non-core businesses at the end of Q1’24.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

District Court in Kansas City — less than a month before the NAR settlement is slated for its final approval hearing — Monestier took issue with the business practice changes, saying they don’t do enough to protect consumers. In a document filed on Monday in U.S. The objection is 132 pages in length.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2024

In an era where businesses are increasingly expected to contribute to the well-being of their communities, finding the sweet spot between local engagement and national growth can feel like an impossible challenge. This support for local businesses contributes to the economic vitality of the communities you serve.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

CoreLogic promoted Kevin Greene to the role of executive general manager of its real estate business segment, the company announced on Monday. Most recently, he served as the head of the sales team for the real estate business segment. Throughout his career, Greene developed expertise in business development and product strategy.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

loanDepot has signed a new joint venture agreement with Smith Douglas Homes , a top-50 homebuilder with a solid book of business in the Southern states.

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Inman

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

True alignment, strategist Molly McKinley writes, offers opportunities for growth, innovation and transformation in both your business and the industry at large.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Last year was a challenging one for reverse mortgage business activity, and it likely hit no one harder than the industry’s front-line loan originators. The change is a welcome one, since 2023 may have been Cullen’s “poorest year of 19 years in this business,” he explained. “I I will confess that it was a struggle all year long.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Wells Fargo , the largest depository mortgage lender in America, issued pink slips to employees in its home lending business on Tuesday following its decision to exit the correspondent channel. “I Wells Fargo’s correspondent lending business was already in a freefall.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A new episode of “The Loan Officer Podcast” aims to teach mortgage originators how to leverage tools and grow their businesses. Host Dustin Owen and Lauren Walton, a senior loan officer at Lower -backed Gerber Group, sit down to teach viewers how to move from the call-center model to retail lending as a top-ranked and self-sourced originator.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2024

He discussed this year’s business trends and priorities in a recent interview with HousingWire ’s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD). Plack also touches on the company’s use of data science to source business, its use of direct mail and the importance of multiple modalities to support growth. I’m excited about where we’re headed.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

For real estate professionals, the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors ’ (NAR) nationwide commission lawsuit settlement agreement —which are set to go into effect on Aug. 17 — are top of mind.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We’ve done the hard work in 2023 to be leaner, to be more agile, to be able to rescale the business in a sustainable fashion.” Indicative of Opendoor’s scaled-back approach to business was the fact that it bought just 11,246 homes in 2023, compared to 34,962 homes in 2022. After posting a $1.4 billion for full year 2023.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This is a game changer for the industry and will not only create a more engaging platform for consumers, but will yield incredibly rich data for builders to inform their business and pricing strategy.”

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Jim and Hal are back from Valuation Expo and are joined by a fascinating guy they met there: Joshua Stephens, a Texas appraiser whose growing firm, WP Appraisers, is experimenting with bold new business models. The post A Work-Life Balance Business Model appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2024

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) this week published a mortgagee letter (ML) amending a 2022 requirement for mortgage lenders, and anyone seeking to do business with FHA, to obtain a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) in order to be eligible for such business. The rule is effective immediately.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2023

During this National Homeownership Month in particular, homeowners should be wary of a new business practice preying upon vulnerable homeowners — non-title recorded agreements for personal service ( NTRAPS ), long-term listing agreements that entrap consumers. Together, we can end this predatory business practice once and for all.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

Property preservation company MCS announced last month that it had entered the reverse mortgage business after acquiring Five Brothers Asset Management Solutions. Chris Clow/RMD: What do you hope the industry can do to offer more or better information about how MCS will pursue continued business in the reverse mortgage space?

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Mortgage lending work is only one type of business where appraisals are needed. Isn’t this just good business practice anyway? It just means we’re kind, and that can lead to more business and referrals. I do generate a little extra business from offering home measurement and floor plan services.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

US Mortgage recently surpassed 30 years in business. Business alignment Krajewski most recently served as vice president and head of reverse mortgage lending at University Bank , and he joined US Mortgage earlier this month. As Scott said, they’ve been in business for 30 years.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2024

Los Angeles -based Dunmor , a technology -enabled lender that specializes in loans for residential real estate investors , has added a pair of experienced executives in the business-purpose lending space. He previously managed a portfolio of business-purpose loans and nonqualified mortgages with a value of more than $2 billion.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The way I see it, there are two types of people in the mortgage space right now: those who are simply waiting around for rates to drop and those who are putting in the work to better their business. At UWM, we ensure our clients have a full suite of resources to help them grow their business in any market. They want the house.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 22, 2024

With the Fed’s recent rate cut and more cuts forecast, now may be a great time to start a title business. Q: Is now a good time to start a title business? In fact, with the recent Federal Reserve interest rate cut, this may be an ideal time to launch a title business.

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

To get a better picture of these initiatives and priorities, RMD sat down with Shannon Robinson , vice president of reverse mortgage lending at NAF, to gauge the way business is going as the industry navigates both broader mortgage headwinds as well as those unique to the reverse side of the business.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

He has experience building direct-to-consumer channel products and businesses from scratch,” Bill Greenberg, president and CEO of Two Harbors, said in an interview. “We ” Two Harbors’ origination business will hedge its servicing portfolio of $216 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB) as of Dec.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Northpointe Bank , a regional bank headquartered in Michigan, will walk away from its correspondent lending business to focus on its retail lending, mortgage warehouse financing division and specialty loan servicing business. Production declined 25% to $5.49 billion in 2022 from the previous year’s volume of $7.29

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2023

has decided to exit the origination business amid one of the most challenging cycles in decades, provoked by the Federal Reserve ‘s tightening monetary policy and a banking crisis. The company will focus on full-servicing banking and mortgage servicing businesses, it announced on Thursday. Texas-based Colonial Savings, F.A.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Coming off of the pandemic banner years, thinning origination volume, low inventory and soaring home prices made business much harder to come by for LOs in 2023. The inventory puts a cap on how much business we can do. They are staying busy relative to the market,” said Michael Ullmann, producing branch leader at Movement Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

First Internet Bank is shutting down its consumer mortgage business due to a steep decline in mortgage volumes and the negative outlook for mortgage lending that is forecasted to continue for the next several years. It will also include the company’s local traditional consumer mortgage and construction-to-permanent businesses.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

When it comes to marketing your real estate business, video is king. Here are 13 video marketing best practices for your real estate business. Videos for your real estate business are no different. Engagement builds relationships and trust — exactly what you need to build your business.

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