Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Tane Cabe Prior to joining Fairway in 2022 as the reverse division’s business development manager for the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) for Purchase program, Cabe served as VP of 55places Mortgage and as a branch manager for Churchill Mortgage originating HECM and standard home loans. “C2

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

A Florida-based loan officer faces more than 30 years in federal prison if convicted on charges alleging she falsified divorce papers and child support payment information to help unqualified borrowers secure a loan, according to a Department of Justice indictment. She could also be ordered to pay $130,000 in restitution.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

But the industry is not yet out of the woods, said Todd Sheinin, the Maryland-based vice president of strategy and development at Primary Residential Mortgage Inc. “As Jared Evenson, a branch manager for CrossCountry Mortgage in Spokane, Washington, is ringing up all of his past clients to scope out refi opportunities. “As

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Over the years, Ive observed a glaring issue that stifles the growth and success of many mortgagecompanies: promoting top-producing loan officers into management roles without equipping them with the tools, training, or even determining whether they want to be leaders. Leadership, however,demands a shift to prioritizing team success.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

We’ve also implemented project management technologies and streamlined processes to improve workflow and turnaround times for loan officer requests, effectively halving the time it takes to fulfill them. Instead, we invest heavily in empowering our loan officers.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

In the message reviewed by HousingWire, DeJoseph wrote that by becoming part of a larger organization, Garden State gains access to a “national lending platform, greater resources, enhanced career development opportunities, and the ability to offer more comprehensive services to our clients, well beyond residential mortgage lending.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2021

As reverse mortgage loan officers aim to expand their repertoire of advertising methodologies, the use of an advertorial can be powerful but also comes with some caveats that any reverse mortgage loan officer should keep in mind prior to engaging in such advertising campaigns. “So, A couple of things.

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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. It’s almost farm-to-table programming.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Sean Shallis, a “Recovering Realtor” and top-producing loan officer , is offering strategies to help realtors break through this stagnation by leveraging micro-market shifts to create urgency and inspire action. Leveraging micro-market shifts Realtors have an opportunity to use local market changes to drive urgency for their clients.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Rawls is the latest addition to a leadership team of seven executives at the developing company. Guaranteed Rate Affinity highlighted Rawls’ promotion as a key development in their partnership with New Jersey-based real estate franchise Coldwell Banker , a subsidiary of Anywhere.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

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. of the loan amount, with a $5,000 cap, which adds to the typical buyer-side agent commission of up to 3%. For example, Realfinity pays LOs 1.4%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Coggiola’s efforts were focused on developing Ellie Mae to become a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider from an on-premise solution, rounding out his time there as SVP of product management. Polly’s “client-centricity” attracted him to the business, he noted. before it was acquired by ICE in 2020.

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Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2024

For reverse mortgage clients looking to use their loan proceeds to fund the goal of aging in place, home renovations and other preparations may be requested from the reverse mortgage loan officer due to the high-touch nature of reverse mortgage origination. LOs often occupy a place of trust among their borrower clients.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

“That’s the bullseye, it’s not just getting someone’s Social Security number so you can run a credit report and approve them for a loan. The loan officers that do the best are the financial literacy teachers.” Plus,] you’ll get good at having a critical conversation that loan officers should be able to have.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The new credit optimization platform will combine the best parts of the What-if Simulator and Wayfinder tools, giving mortgage professionals the power to reach more clients and close more loans. CreditXpert developed the platform to cut down loan filing timelines. 1 in preparation for the launch of the new platform.

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

And it seeks to expand the number of available loan officers and strategic development tools to continue building on the momentum that company executive say they’re seeing in the space. Now they’re asking, “How can I fold this into my conversation, my presentation, when I’m meeting with my B2B clients?”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The platform is intended for housing professionals in various sectors, including 5 million loan officers, appraisers , servicers , underwriters , developers, agents, brokers, attorneys and regulators. Through Araya, CoreLogic will give customers access to the data and analytics of nearly all U.S. properties on one platform.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

“Lenders and loan officers right now are just in survival mode,” Hoff said in an interview. About 20 loan officers under her leadership produced $116 million in mortgages over the last 12 months, a drop from $223 million in 2022, according to the mortgage tech platform Modex. trillion or $1.7

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

billion in the next five years for lending and investments to low- and moderate-income (LMI) clients and census tracts, with 30% of the total tied to mortgage lending. Cincinnati-based First Financial Bank has agreed to direct $2.4 The bank will continue to provide quantitative and qualitative reporting on the plan.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2024

Recent stagnation in refinancing loans, coupled with supply and demand discrepancies in housing, means originators still find themselves in an increasingly competitive landscape despite having expectations of the worst being over. Explore HELOCs, which come in all shapes and sizes, meaning you can tailor them to your client base.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Maxwell acquired LenderSelect Mortgage Group from Blue Ridge Bank in May to expand its secondary market trading platform, bringing hundreds of new clients to the company’s other solutions. Meanwhile, Colorado-headquartered Maxwell claims it has facilitated over $275 billion in loan volume to date and serves more than 300 lenders nationwide.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2021

Adding gas to the fire, Google acknowledged that they would not develop alternate identifiers to track individuals browsing the web or use them in their products. The more you leverage your own data the better off your agents or loan officers will be because they’ll be able to identify, target and create better customer experiences.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2023

By its own description, ChatGPT is “an AI-powered chatbot developed by OpenAI, based on the GPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) language model. ChatGPT for lenders Several use cases exist for mortgage companies and loan officers to use ChatGPT and AI. She had attempted to contact the developer for months with no response.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Probably about 60 to 70% of our business comes from referrals from our previous clients,” Chris Gallo, a top producing LO in New Jersey, said. Attorneys, Realtors and clients are a big part of our repeat business.” Finding reliable lending partners takes time and some trial and error, but once established is often the lifeblood of LOs.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

2 However, these potential clients will also face challenges — namely market volatility, unpredictable interest rates and limited purchasing power due to increasing debt. That’s where reverse purchase financing comes into play, the funding option specifically designed for older Americans. Yet staggeringly few are aware of its existence.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

“This unique technology will help our clients reduce costs, which is especially important today as verification-related fees increased significantly in the past three years,” said Sofia Rossato, Floify’s president and general manager. Founded in 2013, Floify — a subsidiary of Porch Group Inc. — in an $87 million deal in 2021.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

What we have now today is an extremely well-vetted solution for underwriting those areas of FHA loan — income, credit and asset.“ Clients use the technology for an initial conditioning at the point of sale and an underwrite later in the fulfillment stage, said Sara Knochel, chief operating officer of Candor.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Mortgage Brokers play a critical role in the homebuying process and are a vital part of helping millions of clients reach their dreams,” said Heather Lovier , COO of Rocket Companies. Sogorka fostered strong relationships with many large mortgage servicers, gaining an in-depth view of the home loan process from origination through servicing.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2024

Top mortgage technology executives say their companies are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) in their operations but still relying on human decision-making to sell loans. “There’s one question every CEO, CTO, CIO, loan officer, processor, underwriter, they all ask the same thing: will AI replace my job?”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Jake Droge joins the company as a loan officer, while Carol Olmos has joined the company as an account executive. Sue Haviland has also joined the division as a loan officer, coming off of a roughly three-year stint as Finance of America Reverse (FAR)’s national sales trainer in learning and development.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Borrowers, loan officers, and the corresponding processors and underwriters are often working on entirely different systems. The platform is loan origination system-agnostic and is designed to deliver value to both borrowers and lenders–”from the point of thought of buying a house to the point of owning a home.” .

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2022

HousingWire: Given the recent news about a few non-QM lenders shutting down, some loan officers might be hesitant about working with non-QM. What would you say to those loan officers? HW: What strategies can loan officers employ to win with non-QM in the second half of 2022?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

Homebot , a home education portal that keeps people connected to their loan officers and real estate agents, acquired Quo Finance , a mobile app for first-time homebuyers. million in seed funding, led by SignalFire in December 2021 to develop the mobile app. Quo raised $7.2

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

Another panel participant, Shelly Griffin, senior vice president of client development at non-QM lender Deephaven Mortgage , added, “When I’m talking with loan officers, I get asked about ARMs a lot. There’s a lot of different reasons why someone falls outside the agency loans.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

The brokers were in agreement that recruiting talent and maintaining strong partnerships will be key to not only brand development, but a lasting foundation that will continue post-pandemic. “So So really, it’s a team effort, the reason we got to where we’re at is because of the team involved behind it.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We recognize that loan officers have a choice, and when they choose to join a company on their own, it just seems to work better. We want to retain customers for our loan officers for life, so we don’t sell the loans we fund or the servicing rights. RA: We have always done really well growing organically.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

Savala will lead the company’s sales team, adding new clients for the company’s Appraisal Management Company (AMC) business and its appraisal management technology, AIM-Port. Turansky will oversee services delivery, according to a news release. . Nicholas Turansky, national account director at Appraisal Logistics.

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