Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

loan officer Timothy Potempa has departed Dallas-based multichannel lender OneTrust Home Loans to join E Mortgage Capital , bringing his team of about 40 people and more than $300 million in annual production to the company headquartered in California. ” According to Scotsman Guide , Potempa was the No. million. .

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

New Jersey-based Homebridge Financial Services will lay off 139 employees in June, three months after the acquisition of its retail division by CMG Mortgage, Inc. In addition, the company’s CEO, Peter Norden, will act as executive advisor to CMG’s retail division to ensure a successful transition. mortgage lender by volume last year.

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Retail Loan Officers Legal Technology 400

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Patton Gade, the top producing loan officer for VA home loans in the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, will continue to originate loans and hold the national director of military lending position at UMortgage. He’ll join forces with fellow veteran loan originator Jay Bunte in the brokerage firm. .”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

With the deal, Movement adds the brokerage’s more than $400 million in annual sales volume and 48 employees, including loans officers, support staff and executive members, to serve homebuyers and real estate agents in the Greater Boston Area. . The company announced new hires in the sales executive team in early August.

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Brokerage Mortgage Loan Officers Real Estate Agent 497

Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2022

Guaranteed Rate will continue to thrive and win market share by having a laser focus on leveraging our industry-leading purchase platform augmented by the best loan officers in the business,” Guaranteed Rate CEO Victor Ciardelli wrote in an email to brokers that HousingWire reviewed.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2023

Guild Mortgage announced on Thursday the appointment of Lamont Watson as the company’s first vice president of diverse talent development. Improving talent development processes, including mentorship and career advancement opportunities, will be a key priority to attract and retain diverse talent, the company said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2021

HousingWire recently sat down with Insellerate CEO Josh Friend to discuss that very question and what strategies retail lenders should look to adopt from direct-to-consumer lending. HW: What are some strategies that retail lenders should look at adopting from direct-to-consumer lending?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Top-producing loan officer Dave Medina and his team at the Temecula, California-based branch have left ​​ Fairway Independent Mortgage to join Movement Mortgage. The company has used the cash to acquire new businesses, such as the indie retail lender Mortgage Network and the brokerage Superior Rate Mortgage of New England.

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Retail Mortgage Loan Officers Brokerage 388

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Founded in 1970, UHM is a full-service retail, wholesale and consumer-direct independent mortgage banking company. billion in mortgage loans over the last 12 months, according to the mortgage tech platform Modex. It has 557 active loan officers, 168 branches and licenses in 49 states. . The lender originated $4.68

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Before that, Bergjans spent eight years at Caliber Home Loans , including stints as national director of military and veteran lending and as head of retail business development. Navy Reserves as the readiness officer for Navy Cargo Handling Battalion 11 HQ in Jacksonville, Florida. Bergjans serves the U.S.

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Retail Lending Loan Officers Mortgage 398

Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Coming off multiple quarters of financial losses , Rocket has accelerated those efforts in 2023, embarking on a remote local loan officer hiring spree designed to capture purchase market business from real estate agent connections, sources told HousingWire.

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Loan Officers Retail Real Estate Agent Real Estate 347

Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2022

In a letter to brokers about shutting down the Stearns wholesale channel, Victor Ciardelli, Guaranteed Rate CEO, wrote that the company will have a laser focus on leveraging its “industry-leading purchase platform augmented by the best loan officers in the business.”.

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Lending Retail Loan Officers Business 355

Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Candice McNaught has joined Planet Home Lending , a national mortgage lender, servicer, and asset manager, as senior vice president, business development and strategic initiatives for the distributed retail channel. In her previous role, McNaught oversaw 200 branch locations and a national network of more than 700 loan officers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

OneTrust Home Loans , a direct competitor of Newrez’s retail mortgage business, conspired with James Hecht, former Newrez executive vice president for national retail lending, to orchestrate the termination of several Newrez executives and have them join OneTrust, according to the suit filed Feb. 21 in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

InstaLend is a tech-enabled real estate loan lender that provides capital to residential developers through streamlined technology and automated workflow, according to its website. 5000 – is a mortgage broker and partners with other lenders to generate leads for VA, FHA, purchase, refi and personal loans.

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Loan Officers Mortgage Development Lending 358

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. But Woodward struggled to originate purchase loans. “I The retail lender originated $56.6

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Rebecca Anderson, senior vice president of strategic communications and public relations at loanDepot, wrote to HousingWire that the company “enjoys a long history of attracting and developing top-notch talent and “we thank Mosi for her many contributions to loanDepot and wish her the best in the next chapter of her career.”

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Loan Officers Development Mortgage Real Estate 413

Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2021

Retail Branch Manager. SVP, Agent Engagement & Development. EVP, Retail Lending. Alterra Home Loans. Alterra Home Loans. Senior Loan Officer. VP of Product Development. Company Name. Adam Greene. Sierra Pacific Mortgage. Alec Hanson. SVP Production, Pacific Southwest Division. Alex Khorn.

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Retail Lending Loan Officers Finance 410

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The shift from a refinance boom to a purchase market will leave some mortgage lenders and loan officers with only two options: “Consolidate or exit the business,” according to ​​Mary Ann McGarry, Guild Mortgage’s chief executive officer. “Think of 2020 and 2021. .”

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Mortgage Retail Loan Officers Business 435

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. Back in the 2007-2009 meltdown, we had loan officers with us at that time.

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Lending Real Estate Agent Loan Officers Retail 384

Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2023

According to the class-action-seeking lawsuit, filed in California, AmeriSave hired 200 loan officers to focus on the West Coast region in early 2022. It was part of the Atlanta-based mortgage lender’s strategy for developing a retail mortgage sales division.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

San Diego-based Smartfi Home Loans , which is primarily active as a wholesale lender in the reverse mortgage space and is actively building a retail division that offers reverse mortgage products, has hired industry veteran Martin Lenoir as its new chief marketing officer.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2024

start the conversation, the duo dive into the details of Guilds acquisition of retail mortgage rival Academy Mortgage in February 2024. We’re a retail channel, full-service lender. We also brought in Salesforce , and we call it our Guild 360, where we developed a semi-proprietary connection with Salesforce.

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Loan Officers Mortgage Retail Design 303

Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

Just having those additional layers in the retail model really creates strain there,” Kirby said in an interview. I think maybe if you look back a few years, the broker space from a technology perspective was lacking, but has really caught up to where retail was (…). I developed a ton of great relationships over that time there.

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Mortgage Retail Loan Officers Brokerage 368

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

loanDepot’s focus is on the sales side, attracting experienced loan officers (LOs) and people who want to join the industry via its accelerated career in effective sales (ACES) program. We’ve been hiring, training and developing our people. The number of loans closed per production employee rose to 2.2 in Q2 2023.

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Mortgage Loan Officers Retail Training 403

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

will lay off 77 employees in its Charlotte, North Carolina office come January 2022, a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) notice filed by the company reveals. Among those getting a pink slip are 49 loan officers, 10 national account managers, seven retail sales managers and seven transaction coordinators.

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Mortgage Loan Officers Retail Technology 368

Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2022

issued pink slips to over 350 non-commissioned loan officers, a workforce reduction that former workers claimed to represent more than half of Interfirst’s entire staff. Godin relaunched the business in late 2019 as a lender focused on both wholesale and retail channels. Six months ago Interfirst Mortgage Co.

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Human Resources Loan Officers Retail Training 362

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. Desmond Smith: There are two ways to get a mortgage — wholesale or retail.

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Mortgage Retail Lending Loan Officers 342

Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

In concert with the brand unification, we also developed and introduced a singular company purpose and shared values,” Sieffert said during the earnings call. The go-to market strategy of the company’s retail lending division was revised and includes stepping away from “strategies that have been less fruitful over time,” she explained. “We

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2022

As of May 27, Iowa Workforce Development lists 49 layoffs at the Wells Fargo campuses in Des Moines and 34 employee reductions in West Des Moine. Layoffs included 17 associate loan servicing representatives and eight loan servicing representatives as well as senior operations processors and senior loan servicing representatives.

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Mortgage Loan Officers Lending Human Resources 443

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The California-based retail lender has set a target of becoming a top-10 lender in the markets in which it has a presence, which would give it about 2% in overall market share. The company hopes to reach its goal by growing organically with more loan officers under a dozen business development managers. It won’t be easy.

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Mortgage Retail Lending Sellers 398

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Interfirst Mortgage , the retail mortgage business he founded in 2001, had grown to $14.5 Godin made plans to relaunch the business in late 2019 as a tech-forward lender that originated loans across both wholesale and retail channels. In 2012, Dmitry Godin was seemingly on top of the world.

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Mortgage Loan Officers Retail Training 338

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

CMG Home Loans , the retail lending division of CMG Financial , announced on Tuesday the appointment of Kari Van Kleef to the position of reverse mortgage operations manager. CMG has already proven that we’re committed to developing the Reverse space, as proven by our growth and addition of industry veterans like Kari.”

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Loan Officers Lending Retail Mortgage 350

Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

Wiener explained that his new role will involve running marketing and technology for the entire organization, which will undoubtedly dovetail with LowerOS’ development. “The vision for LowerOS, really, is to make getting a home loan feel a lot more like a car loan.

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Loan Officers Technology Real Estate Real Estate Agent 294

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 recognize that loan officers have a choice, and when they choose to join a company on their own, it just seems to work better. That’s why we started NAF Cash.

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Loan Officers Retail Clients Real Estate Agent 403

Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2023

Movement, which focuses on the distributed retail channel, was the 15th largest U.S. HousingWire reported that the Sacramento-based lender instituted a round of layoffs in late November 2022, affecting 72 employees , per a document filed with the state’s Employment Development Department. The company originated $4.1

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Retail Development Finance Lending 367

Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Software development company Blue Sage Solutions has launched a new servicing platform that merges loan origination and servicing functions using API-based technology.

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Retail Lending Design Technology 381