Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

The ideal real estate agent-lender relationship is symbiotic: the agent earns trust with their borrowers by connecting them with a great lending resource, while the lender receives a steady stream of business from the agent. Still, lenders are wise to cultivate rapport with real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

As you talk to more people across all aspects of our business, from the loan officers to the consumer to real estate agents, everybody is eagerly excited for what’s coming,” Sheinin said.

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Business Mortgage Loan Officers Clients 468

Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

Take, for example, Miami-based proptech firm Realfinity , which aims to challenge the status quo with a new business venture. The company recently launched a mortgage brokerage firm that offers a plug-and-play program for real estate agents to become mortgage loan officers, a practice called dual licensing.

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Real Estate Agent Loan Officers Real Estate Agents 487

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Real estate agents are facing a contracting issue that could seriously upend the traditional housing landscape. In order to survive, buyer agents will need to show this value to buyers and be willing to have clients pay a set fee or a pre-negotiated percentage of the sale price to secure the business.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As reverse mortgage industry professionals continue to look ahead into 2024 after enduring a challenging year for business in 2023, the prevailing attitude is optimistic. To understand how loanDepot’s business has started the year, RMD sat down with Moriello to hear about what she’s seeing and what the company’s loan officers are telling her.

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Business Mortgage Advertising Clients 434

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. It was another brutal year, pushing loan originators to work longer hours, close loans faster while diversifying their mortgage product offerings.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Stevens, President at SRE.com, about the challenges mortgage loan officers and brokers face as the market continues to shift toward purchase money business and how human-assisted eCommerce can help them win more business. HousingWire recently spoke with John G.

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Business Loan Officers Real Estate Agent Real Estate 431

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

HousingWire recently spoke with Propertybase CEO Vance Loiselle about real estate tech and how the past year has accelerated the need for digital collaboration tools across the entire customer journey. HousingWire: What role has the increase in technology played for both businesses and consumers in the real estate space?

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Loan Officers 359

Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2022

Last week, Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation announced the hiring of Tane Cabe as its new reverse business development manager with a focus on Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) for Purchase (H4P) business. And so, they know the local real estate agents. of all endorsements in 2021. Harlan Accola.

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Business Real Estate Agent Real Estate Loan Officers 370

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

residential mortgage industry” for its mortgage business outperforming in Q3 even as the industry experienced a nearly 20% decline in origination volumes. We don’t have a business of selling leads to real estate brokers and the like. ICE attributed “an analog to digital conversion occurring in the U.S.

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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’s comments offer insight into the scope of Rocket’s remote local loan officer program. The Detroit-based lender generated $22.3

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Loan Officers Mortgage Real Estate Agent Real Estate 370

Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 18, 2021

SimpleNexus , a homeownership platform developer for loan officers, borrowers, real estate agents and settlement agents, has acquired Georgia-based software firm LBA Ware. The post SimpleNexus Adds Business Intelligence Tools with LBA Ware Acquisition appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Tools Business Real Estate Agent Loan Officers 195

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The savvy real estate agents and loan officers see this not a crisis but a golden opportunity. This is a call to arms for real estate agents and loan officers ready to seize the day. While they’re busy worrying, you should be busy working. This is your moment.

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Real Estate Real Estate Agent Loan Officers Clients 353

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The relationship between a loan officer and a real estate agent is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle, as the two must combine forces to help borrowers achieve their goal of buying a home. The mortgage process involves many moving pieces and relationships with a variety of stakeholders.

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Real Estate Real Estate Agent Loan Officers Agents 455

Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Its centralized call center business model, which Rocket relied upon to dominate an unprecedented refi market , isn’t as durable when interest rates are high, there are few refi opportunities and having strong relationships with real estate agents is what brings home the bacon. And Rocket is well aware.

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Loan Officers Retail Real Estate Agent Real Estate 370

Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

A differentiating factor of our tech is that lots of point of sale systems are built to faciitate loan officers with the business they already have. While we do that, we’re also focused on driving new business — from new clients but also from the relationships they already have.

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Loan Officers Real Estate Agent Agents Technology 447

Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2023

“The 5% market’s a healthy market,” said Anna Ruotolo, branch manager and senior loan officer at Synergy One Lending. “A These hopes for a declining rate have many loan officers feeling optimistic about 2023’s business prospects after experiencing lower volumes last year. A 5% market will be good. Make a plan.

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Loan Officers Marketing Real Estate Agent Real Estate 433

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Evocalize’s technology makes it simple for corporate teams and technology platforms to unlock the power of sophisticated digital marketing for loan officers, brokers and real estate agents. Easily executed programs that create business for loan officers, brokers and real estate agents. #3.

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Real Estate Agent Loan Officers Real Estate Technology 346

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Cliffco Mortgage Bankers is among the rare independent mortgage banks doing more business than last year. To get there, Cliffco, which has been in business since 1987, is going after the non-qualified mortgage ( non-QM ) market and investing in tech to get in front of buyers and non-agent referral partners.

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Loan Officers Agents Retail Technology 418

Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

This new chapter gives me the freedom and flexibility to run my business without any red tape,” he added. His team at Zoom Home Lending currently has about 20 loan officers, but he is targeting 100 in the company’s first year of business. Each LO is closing 12 loans per month with an eventual goal of 15 to 20.

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Lending Brokerage Human Resources Real Estate Agent 459

Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

Roberts and thousands of other loan officers across the country continue to be hampered by a serious inventory shortage , which results in heavy competition for fewer deals. Niche loans consist of about 5% of Parkinson’s business. “It’s It could open up the door for more business,” he said.

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Loan Officers Mortgage Inventory Clients 418

Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2023

Most real estate agents, builders and potential customers have no idea that this financing option exists to purchase homes,” he said. Few loan officers make the purchase product a main part of their business. There is an incredible opportunity for growth,” he said. Why is this market underserved?

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Loan Officers Real Estate Agent Real Estate Finance 418

The Appraiser Coach

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

We frustrate buyers, sellers, loan officers and, sometimes, real estate agents. Appraisers have been accused of being “speed bumps” in the lending process. In some ways, I can understand their. Read More.

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Agents Appraisal Real Estate Agent Loan Officers 370

Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

It ceased that business in December 2022 after rising mortgage rates wreaked havoc on the housing industry. Bowlby noted that AmeriFirst never closed business. The lender maintained their servicing portfolio, servicing about $1 billion of Fannie Mae , Freddie Mac and Ginne Mae loans. relaunched its forward mortgage originations.

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Loan Officers Mortgage Real Estate Agent Business 370

Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite. The lender runs its business based on a “no-loan-officer” model in which all of its 45 employees are licensed and delegated to a specific role in closing a loan.

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Lending Real Estate Agent Loan Officers Retail 418

Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

Rocket Mortgage is looking to hire local loan officers at a time when mortgage rates are high and the industry remains heavily reliant on the purchase market. According to Rocket’s job post, the loan officer position is remote and requires a minimum of three years of experience in mortgage loan origination.

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Loan Officers Mortgage Retail Real Estate Agent 365

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Many loan officers have shifted their focus away from refinances in recent years, so a refresher is needed. “We We have taught loan officers how to redo loan refinances. So, there’s a meaningful refinance business.“ MBA data shows that, in 2025, purchase loan production is expected to increase 30.8%

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Mortgage Loan Officers Lending Real Estate Agent 433

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Ohio-headquartered Commitment Mortgage aims to leverage more than 600 Indiana real estate agents at Carpenter’s. The goal is to help home buyers search for homes and then capitalize on loan offerings, the lender said in a release. According to the NMLS , Commitment Mortgage has four sponsored MLOs.

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Lending Realtors Real Estate Agent Mortgage 369

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The second stage was pioneered by real estate agents that saw how hard the consumer experience was first-hand, so they created the PowerBuyer model to address those issues with less cost relative to iBuyers. It also arms the borrower’s real estate agent with a more powerful offer to win their client’s next property.

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Buyers Loan Officers Real Estate Agent Agents 447

Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

These housing professionals have been gaming out the potential impact on buyers’ agents – a significant source of referrals. Loan officers and mortgage executives expect home sellers and homebuyers to negotiate more aggressively on commission paid to buyer agents, potentially bringing costs down.

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Buyers Agents Mortgage Real Estate Agent 514

Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2023

SimpleNexus , a homeownership platform developer for loan officers, borrowers, real estate agents, and settlement agents, announced this week a new integration with Empower, the loan origination system (LOS) from Black Knight.

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Loan Officers Real Estate Agent Technology Real Estate 370

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Regardless, it’s clear that title businesses will need to compete for their share of that available volume, in large part, by differentiating themselves from the competition. In doing so, these title businesses will very likely be building unique differentiators for themselves , not just for the short term. Processes, or chokepoints?

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Business Technology Human Resources HOA 417

Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2021

So too does trust — usually manifested in the relationship between a buyer/seller and a real estate agent. For those who choose not to work with agents, the trust must be transferred to the technology platform or other form of “automation” that is used in the process. . In real estate, data is king.

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Real Estate Business Valuation Technology 476

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Apart from selling produce that is popular in former Soviet countries, these stores represent a marketing opportunity for Alex Naumovych, a loan officer at Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corporation. I have my business cards everywhere because the more people that see your cards and face, the better,” Naumovych said.

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Marketing Real Estate Agent Loan Officers Advertising 418

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In a market like this, every lead, loan and basis point matters more than ever for LOs. Dave Savage , chief innovation officer for Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang , described today’s market as a new era in the mortgage business — the advice era. The loan officers that do the best are the financial literacy teachers.”

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Loan Officers Real Estate Agent Real Estate Clients 370

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The California-based lender started to market late last year a non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) option to the “underserved population of entrepreneurs in the cannabis business.” The lender, based in South Dakota, offers conventional, FHA and VA loan products, as well as bridge loans.

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Mortgage Real Estate Agent Renovations Finance 493

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Margin compression, higher mortgage rates, and a purchase-focused market are dictating more sales process control among loan officers and fewer layers of bureaucracy in retail lenders. The lender has broker products, including non-QMs and jumbo loans, he added. The lender originated a volume of $1.8 It’s the local relationships.

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Mortgage Retail Real Estate Agent Loan Officers 435