Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

We specialize in non-agency loans, including bank statement loans, government lending, new construction and renovation products, and HELOCs , positioning us as a leader in the industry.” Additionally, Flagstar offers direct access to underwriters for product-specific advice and expertise in Non-QM, VA, and FHA lending.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Tim Nelson, a longtime reverse mortgage industry professional and reverse department manager at VIP Mortgage in Scottsdale, Arizona , spent 20 years in the home lending arena before shifting his focus entirely to reverse. This also lends itself to discussions about areas that the loan should not interact with in a larger retirement plan.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As one of the largest correspondent investors in the country, AmeriHome is focused on being a consistent, reliable partner to its clients. In the COVID-19 era, that means AmeriHome has spent even more time listening to what clients need and adapting their products and services to help clients navigate constantly changing lending conditions.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite. After the 2008 mortgage meltdown, JVM let go of all its loan originators and trained its employees to target the jumbo loan market in the San Francisco Bay area instead.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

announced this week the appointment of Gabe Bodner to the head of its 55-plus lending division which includes its reverse mortgage business. I believe that the executive team at OneTrust has ultimately realized the importance of utilizing education with older clients, and specifically in the reverse mortgage space.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The complexities of serving borrowers under the CARES Act require lenders, servicers and investors to partner with a mortgage services provider who has the expertise and national network to provide high-touch support to its clients. Our clients have a moratorium on evictions, so we are not actively pursuing these opportunities.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with John Jeanmonod, Regional Vice President of Sales at Angel Oak, about non-QM lending and the outlook for the second half of 2022. We have trained originators on non-QM while they closed their first non-QM loan. JJ: As I have mentioned, our training that we offer could be very beneficial.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Right now, while things are good, invest in cross-training your staff. Their overarching goal is to help grow happiness — for customers, for clients and for their staff. The post Refi Sugar High: How to balance your lending diet appeared first on HousingWire. Maintaining a healthy culture has long been central to TMS’s mission.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

From tweaks in consumer protection laws to new lending standards and disclosure requirements, the goal is always to foster a clearer and fairer lending process. For example, ongoing updates to the Qualifying Mortgage Rule, which has been rewritten twice and may see another revision soon, have significantly shaped lending practices.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Braheem, former co-founder of Loan Toolbox — an online resource for training, tools, support and coaching — launched The Loan Atlas, a mortgage coaching platform, earlier this year with mortgage executives and top loan officers joining as faculty members. So, kind of like a turnkey kit to get in front of a one-to-many type situation.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2021

According to the Detroit-based company, it will be leveraging the same technology, data and client experience used in the mortgage, real estate and personal lending spaces “to help Americans make their home more energy efficient.”. “We have a significant portfolio of clients, roughly 2.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The company’s close partnerships with mortgage brokers and correspondents transforms feedback into impactful products, technology and services that help clients grow their businesses in any economic environment. That’s made Flagstar a true partner to the 3,600 clients the bank has served in its 35-plus year history.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Several historic events over the past few years have brought seismic changes to the way the mortgage lending industry operates. Today, as we face what appears to be the beginning of a modest recovery in the marketplace, we can see the effect of those events in the way mortgage lending has changed forever.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2022

One of the more interesting trends is that some of our historically smaller clients are beginning to grow rapidly over the last 90-120 days, with some of the larger lenders stepping away or pricing themselves out of the market. Keeping client scope systematically hardcoded maintains the integrity of the underwriter’s review of the loan.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Lenders and search companies alike need to look for trusted agent partners to provide the client with the experience they deserve. Serving some of the top organizations in the real estate and lending space is a privilege,” said Jason Mitchell, president of JMG. Our goal is not to simply be a distribution warehouse.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

During “ Partnering for Performance: Mortgage Operations Outsourcing ,” a panel of experts will explore how outsourcing can transform mortgage operations, by discussing strategic planning, cost-savings, and workflow advantages of staffing partnerships, including a practical breakdown of what operators should prepare for—from training to timelines.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with Desmond Smith , chief growth officer at United Wholesale Mortgage , about the role that wholesale lending plays in the mortgage ecosystem and common myths and misconceptions about becoming an independent mortgage broker. HousingWire: What role has wholesale lending historically played in the mortgage ecosystem?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2021

While mortgage lenders would do well to heed the statements from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that it will be carefully watching fair lending and servicing issues , especially with the likelihood of a default spike, title and settlement firms will be keeping an eye on more than just the CFPB.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

The company recently hired reverse mortgage industry veteran Ken Krajewski to serve as its managing director and head of reverse mortgage lending. 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.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

At UWM we focus on our client service, operational efficiency and speed to close loans. UWM has significantly invested in our technology team and tech stack, offering career-focused training and development which has contributed to growing this function to over 1,100 team members,” Chief Technology Officer Jason Bressler said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

There’s an opportunity here for risk and QC teams to encourage trust in the lending space through strong processes and review. Ensuring trust in lending opens doors for more creativity, such expansion of the credit box and additional products, ultimately increasing access to homeownership and therefore, expansion of the credit box.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Hladik gained significant expertise in lending law enforcement while serving in the Pennsylvania Attorney Generals Bureau of Consumer Protection, managing Unfair, Deceptive, and Abusive Practices (UDAP), Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), and Truth in Lending Act (TILA) cases.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Homelendia said the franchisor model offers a turnkey solution for things like licensing, training, marketing support, loan processing services and ongoing assistance.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 10, 2021

Through the partnership with SkillBridge, Clario’s training program will upskill and employ 35 active service members transitioning to civilian life in the next 12 months. To apply for the training program, visit this website. We specialize in real estate valuations for the mortgage lending and financial services industries.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2021

Record-breaking lending volumes led many lenders to tighten up their processes across every stage of the mortgage cycle. By integrating PTE, Plaza has, in turn, accomplished two vital goals: Faster turn times and happier clients. With client satisfaction as a key performance indicator, Plaza has found success with PTE. “I

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This commitment includes increasing educational efforts through more training sessions, improved communications and personalized consultations with our borrowers,” Robinson said. As a servicer of more than 40,000 reverse mortgage loans, we will notify our servicing clients when refinancing potentially makes sense,” Macerato said. “We

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Housing Wire

JULY 3, 2024

Like any powerful tool, it is essential to install proper fundamentals such as training, testing, accountability and continuous improvement before implementing. The machine learning model can be supervised, the data used for training can be governed, and results can be tested and even explainable given the appropriate design.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

In today’s low-rate environment, wholesale mortgage lending continues to grow, making up more than 20% market share. Nichols pointed out that after the 2008 financial crisis, wholesale lending began using technology that helped match pace with the processes of retail lenders. We’re not out building a retail person’s name.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2021

All told, the Detroit lending powerhouse originated $103.6 “The combination of our technology platform and Rocket Cloud Force of highly trained professionals, continues to deliver scalability and a client experience that is unmatched,” CEO Jay Farner said in a statement Thursday. billion in the first quarter of 2020.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

This is not a suggestion where you drop what you’re doing, push your production team into training and staff up the compliance department. Do you mandate training (regular, continuous and updated) on the basics like Dodd-Frank, Fair Lending and the most aggressive state-level rules and regulations? It’s tedious.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

An LO with a client at the closing table. The question was on the minds of many at the Waldorf Astoria in Dana Point, California on Thursday – will non-qualified mortgage products become more commoditized as the rising rate environment wallops agency lending? Underwriters are trained as desktop underwriters (DUs).

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2024

From our clients’ perspective, many felt that the writing was on the wall, so to speak, in terms of Fannie Mae’s expectations. The most significant issue we heard from clients was the timing of the change. With the market downturn, lenders shrank their operational staff across the board, and QC certainly wasn’t exempt from those cuts.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2022

Non-QM lenders Angel Oak Mortgage , Acra Lending and Newfi alone currently have at least 130 openings on jobs listings sites. Acra Lending, which rebranded from Citadel Servicing last year , more than doubled its headcount year-over-year from 200 employees to 420 in 2022. “The riches are in the niches.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

In addition to the momentum and the economics, digital lending just makes sense. They are willing to drive change across their operations and work with advisors, like Falcon, to develop a roadmap to integrate digitalization into policies, processes, and training. Some clients want to do all of these things and want them done yesterday.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 16, 2024

The Kahane & Associates team is dedicated to finding innovative ways to assist its clients in significantly reducing the costs of default servicing. The primary goal of the firm is to provide clients with the highest quality legal representation and the finest in personal service in the industry.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Available to clients aged 55 and older (in select states), this product allows eligible homeowners to tap into more of their home equity sooner rather than later with lower upfront costs. The program is available to a wide range of homeowners, with lending limits as high as $4 million*.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

These include effective governance and oversight, as well as employee training, to allow for quicker spotting of a potential instance of EFE. Institutions could also add trusted contacts for clients to designate on their accounts to check with in case of a disruptive event or suspected fraudulent activity, the statement read.

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