Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke to Alex Elezaj, chief strategy officer at UWM , about the work independent mortgage brokers can do right now to prepare for when rates drop and how to go above and beyond for clients. The reality is, we can’t control the rates, but we can control the service we provide and make sure we stay in front of past clients.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The Tech100 Real Estate Award recognizes the 100 technology companies that are changing the home sales process forever – from home search to lead management solutions, and remote closing to transaction management software. million agents as of last year. million borrowers and 140,000 real estate partners as of 2020.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Most retail lenders are desperately seeking high producing loan originators to make up for the losses that occurred in 2022. California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

He most recently served as the president of troubled, largely defunct retail lender Celebrity Home Loans. During this 90-day period, the client can work with a real estate agent to list their prior home. Meadow has 25 years of mortgage industry experience.

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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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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

A seasoned retail and commercial banking salesman in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the 39-year-old Woodward joined Interfirst Mortgage as a loan officer in October 2020 after a recommendation from an old college friend. “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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

CMG Home Loans , the retail lending division of CMG Financial , has its eyes on growing its dedicated reverse mortgage segment. He also offers thoughts on retaining clients regardless of their needs.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

HousingWire s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD) had a chance to meet up with Medina Cicak, Heartland Bank s chief commercial officer in Australia , and Keira Billot, the New Zealand -based general manager of retail and reverse mortgages. industry takes with marketing reverse mortgages to potential clients. [R]everse Why make the trip?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

Desmond Smith: There are two ways to get a mortgage — wholesale or retail. Retail lending is when you walk into a bank branch or go to an online lender, and they help you get a mortgage. Consumers who use a mortgage broker instead of a retail lender save $9,400 over the life of the loan and that increases to $10,400 for minorities.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Roughly 20% of Cliffco’s production comes from the wholesale channel and 80% of origination volume comes from its retail channel – through which it offers GSE, government loans and non-QM products. Cliffco’s proprietary CRM platform enables loan officers to break away from being heavily dependent on real estate agents for referrals. “In

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

“You can lend where you live and continue to build relationships with clients and real estate agents in your community. We have Rocket retail, and we compete,” Fawaz said. The company is looking for someone who has a “proven track record generating organic referrals” that result in closings.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

That’s also an attitude shared by Lisa Moriello, the national retail reverse mortgage sales manager at multichannel lender loanDepot. Loan originators are also eager to engage in conversations about the product with potential clients, she said, as well as with existing and potential referral partners.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Rick Arvielo: What’s interesting about our growth is that we are the 13 th largest retail IMB in the country, but we’re only in about a third of the United States. We grew with a call center model for the first 10 years and only got into outside distributed retail 11 years ago. What made Draper and Kramer a good fit for NAF to acquire?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2021

billion in the wholesale channel in 2020 (compared to about $62 billion in retail), lost roughly 5% of its broker clients to UWM, according to company executives. Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration. Then you might as well just go work for UWM retail. ” Fairway, which did about $3.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2023

For Jason Stallworth, retail sales manager at Planet Home Lending , preparation for Q1 began last month by meeting with new prospects, real estate agents and brokers. For example, Ruotolo is keeping in touch with her database and the real estate agents that refer and support her. Make a plan.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

The National Retail Federation found that during the 2022 holiday season, retailers saw 17.9% Add the clients’ names and the date of their closing. Enhancing the entire client experience Real estate transactions can be stressful, and clients often remember the exceptional service and personal touches that set their agent apart.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2021

They’d then utilize the services of a real estate agent found through the growing Rocket Homes platform. Then comes the mortgage — which their agent would monitor through Rocket Pro Insight. When at the finish line, the client would close with the aid of Amrock , Rocket’s title and appraisal arm.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

You should be finding buyers before real estate agents anyway.” NEXA has always been focused on purchase loans , which means some of its LOs do significant business with buyers’ agents. Kortas believes that good buy-side agents will remain highly relevant and garner more business as competitors wash out.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Despite struggles in retail and wholesale, Pennymac has remained a standout in the correspondent channel, in which lenders aggregate loans from smaller originators. Meanwhile, the retail channel’s market share slipped to 56% of the overall originations pie in the third quarter of 2022. Stepping into the void.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

He built features that cater to realtors’ needs – such as weekly updates on the housing market, daily alerts of mortgage rates and keeping real estate agents informed of borrowers’ pre-approval status. We also help realtors follow up with their clients. A lot of agents send us loan pre-approval requests.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

The wholesale channel will continue to grow as more retail originators and borrowers learn the benefits of working with a mortgage broker. At UWM we focus on our client service, operational efficiency and speed to close loans. Blink+ is a white-label, borrower-facing digital application tool. Jason Bressler, Chief Technology Officer.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

This impacts every real estate sector, from industrial and office to retail and residential. MJ McFarland, a luxury real estate agent at The Agency in Austin, said during the panel that the run-up in home prices creates a difficult scenario for his clients, despite today’s slower market conditions.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Movement Mortgage’s deal to acquire top indie retail lender Mortgage Network marks a shift in the South Carolina-based company’s strategy. ” In addition, Movement, a distributed retail lender, has no plans to expand to other channels, eliminating some potential targets. In total, the company has 15 clients.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2024

Ultimately, this development will empower our members to better serve their clients and grow their businesses.” This means that member associations and MLSs pay NCRMLS a wholesale price per member and then charge their members a retail price of their choice to access the MLS.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

In 2024, agents have two choices; learn how to run your entire business from the apps on your phone or tablet, or find a new career. The days of running back to the office to write a tricky email to a client, follow up with a lead, or post on social media are long gone — and they’re never coming back.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

The retail channel – which accounts for 85% of the lender’s entire business – is On Q Financial’s bread and butter, and the remaining 15% of production comes from the correspondent and wholesale channel, Lamb noted. “We Having the ability to do a consortium joint venture like this gives us the ability to grow with our clients,” Lamb said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2023

Guild doesn’t have a refi wrecking ball like Rocket Mortgage or a loyal network of adoring broker fans like UWM , but it has quietly assembled an impressive collection of retail branches in key markets in recent years. So it seems like the real estate community is reacting positively to this particular program,” Emerson told analysts. “It

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

“I told my client, my friends, ‘Look, I know you’re supposed to close in 10 days but we’re closing Friday and you let everybody know it or you may not close,’” Dodson said. Loan originators at retail banks pushed non-QM deals to specialist brokers like Dodson and Yonce, they said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

The feature , published earlier this month, noted that Rocket embarked on a local LO hiring spree in 2023 to capture purchase market business from real estate agent connections. So it seems like the real estate community is reacting positively to this particular program,” Emerson told analysts.

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McKissock

APRIL 20, 2021

Becoming a real estate agent requires a giant leap of faith and an investment of time and money. That’s why some agents may choose to test the waters with a part-time real estate position while hanging onto a steady income from another job. Finding time for part-time real estate.

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Newz: Disturbing AMC Violations, Appraiser and Real Estate Agent Communication September 6, 2024 What’s in This Newsletter (In Order, Scroll Down) Top 10 Things Appraisers Wish Real Estate Agents Understood Divorce Appraisal Red Flags Carmel’s Iconic and Artistic ‘Owl House’ $3,750,000 Housing Market Update: August 2024 Please!

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2022

Ishbia is confident his firm can benefit from this trend by cutting prices for brokers and bringing more retail loan officers to its wholesale channel, whose market share currently stands at around 20%. It’s smoother for the client,” Hussam said. UWM is actively courting more brokers and retail LOs to the wholesale channel.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2022

Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. Local agents say these rising prices are not stopping buyers from Colorado, Florida, New York, New Jersey and California from flocking to the northern New England city. Conway, Arkansas.

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McKissock

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

For instance, in 2021 small and private investment firms were responsible for nearly 3/4 of retail asset acquisitions , representing a 30% increase from the prior 10-year historical average. . In this article, we will explore the significance of this trend and the opportunities it can present for you as a real estate agent. .

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McKissock

APRIL 14, 2021

How many of your real estate clients have used you before in a home sale? A survey by the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) said 91 percent of buyers would likely use the same real estate sales agent again or recommend them to a friend. Stay in touch with real estate clients.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2023

Two weeks ago, UWM announced that it would be giving 125 basis points to brokers as a discount to be used on any loans, with up to 40 basis points per loan. “Sometimes 10-20 basis points is all an LO needs to win over a real estate agent or get creative on a borrower’s loan,” the lender said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

” Better is partnering with other businesses to offer services such as homeowner’s insurance and to provide access to a network of real estate agents, rather than offering these products and services directly to borrowers. The change resulted in Better’s exit from its real estate business.

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