Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2022

Jim Linnane, the former head of retail at Stearns Lending , has joined Flagstar Bank as the president of the company’s distributed retail mortgage division. “We’re excited to have him on board and look for positive developments with Jim at the helm of Flagstar’s distributed retail operation.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Demand from the local community developers buying at distressed property auctions is often sensitive to retail market mortgage rates because those auction buyers are often selling their renovated properties to retail buyers using traditional financing. But these ratios vary significantly across local markets.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

Tech-fueled retail mortgage lender InstaMortgage has merged with mortgage broker shop All Cal Financial , a rare example of a top-performing brokerage switching channels. Black, a licensed mortgage loan officer and broker, will also lead product development, tech partnerships and sales growth.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2022

The company announced on Wednesday that Bryan Wright will be the vice president of national sales and Cyndi Garza, the vice president of national business development, a new position created in the company. Meanwhile, Steve Runnels will hold the role of vice president of retail sales, east division.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

The reverse mortgage industry already knew that Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsement volume in 2023 was cut nearly in half compared to 2022, but new data shows that the decline was not the same between the retail and wholesale channels of the business. The pullback in retail was not as severe as the one in wholesale.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2021

RoundPoint Mortgage has added three new senior executives to its management team, as it prepares to ramp up its retail operations. RoundPoint also added a new chief administrative officer, Joseph Gormley, who formerly held senior positions at the department Housing and Urban Development. Freedom is one of the country’s biggest lenders.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Top-25 retail lender Movement Mortgage struck a deal to acquire Massachusetts-based retail firm Mortgage Network , multiple sources told HousingWire. . We want to grow,” Casey Crawford , a former pro football player who founded distributed retail nonbank Movement in 2008, said in a statement to HousingWire.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 4, 2025

Cloudvirga reports that it has completed an enhanced integration for its Horizon Retail POS product and Encompass Partner Connect , the latest API framework for mortgage technology from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

While shoppers flock to malls and online retailers for Black Friday deals, M/I Homes is shifting the focus to residential real estate with holiday incentives that rival traditional doorbusters. The promotion applies to select homes in various housing developments across multiple cities.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has also given attention to home modifications specifically for aging in place. Home improvement retailers have also taken notice, with The Home Depot refreshing an in-house brand with accessibility in mind for things like grab bars and easier-to-use faucets.

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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

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 We’re not out building a retail person’s name. I mean we’re talking up to 30 years,” Nichols said.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) will co-host the “Mortgage Market Resilience and Access to Credit Summit” on Tuesday, October 15 at HUD’s headquarters. Census Bureau Advance Monthly Retail Sales (Thursday) Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey (Thursday) U.S. Ginnie Mae and the U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This data provides forward-looking insight into retail housing market trends. The late-Q4 jump in price demand did narrow the bid-ask spread in December, providing an early sign that the local community developers buying at auction are becoming more confident in the retail housing market for 2025.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Despite a drop in overall profitability in the fourth quarter of 2024, FOA, one of the nations leading reverse mortgage lenders, remains optimistic about the total addressable market for home equity-based retirement products and will continue to develop its offerings in 2025.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The Home Depot Foundation — the philanthropic arm of the home improvement retail conglomerate — announced that it is investing $10 million for the purpose of enabling older military veterans to age in place in their homes. There are four key areas the funding will be applied toward.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2021

mortgage sales , where he led distributed retail sales, direct to consumer sales, strategic market business development, community reinvestment strategy and sales support. retail banks. retail banking. retail banking. “As Citigroup named Brad Wayman as head of U.S mortgage after serving in the role since December.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

In a statement confirming the deal Tuesday afternoon, Guaranteed Rate said the acquisition of Stearns would enable a boost in retail loan originations and further scale its JV platform, while also developing “new multichannel capabilities.”

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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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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Part of the strategy, she said, is to remain focused predominantly on the retail side of the business. “We We decided going forward that we’re going to focus 100% on retail ,” she said. “We We look for like-minded companies that have the same culture, because culture and leadership are key.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

These are some of the elements that Medina Cicak, chief commercial officer for Heartland Bank in Australia , and Keira Billot, the bank’s New Zealand -based general manager of retail and reverse mortgages, discussed in an interview with HousingWire s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD). Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

Buyer behavior on the Auction.com platform provides one of the best barometers of the retail housing market because the success and livelihood of these buyers depend heavily on them accurately anticipating what the retail market will look like in the next six to 12 months.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

Hoffman added that speakers such as Allison Johnston , the president of Success Mortgage Partners, and Michele Kryczkowski, Citi s head of retail lending operations, will make appearances as guest speakers. The industry is getting the talent developments and potential new students to enter their workforce.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2025

During the 10-minute conversation, Pieklo explores his new focus on developing AFR’s wholesale lending strategy, the competitive landscape of the mortgage market, and the company’s unique approach to differentiating itself from other big names in the wholesale space.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

He is the CEO and Founder of Bluebird Lending, a national private lender servicing real estate developers and investors with an array of loan products to acquire, construct, and refinance residential and multifamily properties. He has developed and manages a portfolio of mixed-use properties throughout South Philadelphia.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 27, 2025

This suggests that local community developers who were purchasing distressed properties at auction gained more confidence in the 2025 real estate market after the election results. How Much Are Distressed Properties Worth?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2025

In distributed, retail or local, thats a 24-hour assistant where they are answering task-based pipeline questions that don’t need our highly talented sales person taking those calls. I have been shocked at how many people have reached out to us from distributed, retail, even wholesale, correspondent, etc. It was a clean slate.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

properties sold at foreclosure auction, showed that this trend is being fueled by rising levels of inventory on the retail market. If the demand pullback continues into Q3, it would also foreshadow a slowdown in retail home price appreciation.” from May to June. On an annualized basis, five major U.S.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

It has an emphasis on first-time homebuyers ; purchase loans through an expanded geographic footprint and partnerships; servicing portfolio scale and retention; operating leverage quality to drive down turn times; and recruiting, developing and retaining the best talent available. “The year over year.

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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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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The reverse mortgage industry in 2025 could be defined by two key developments: continuing efforts to establish partnerships with the forward mortgage industry, as well as the development of proprietary reverse mortgage products that could be the future of the industry. By FY 2024, that number had dwindled to roughly 26,500.

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Inman

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Dan Hanson, the former head of loanDepot's retail division, will develop "new revenue-generating opportunities" as the mortgage lender's executive director of enterprise partnerships and acquisitions.

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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. The company also appointed Nancy Smith to lead its Colorado and Wyoming branches as regional vice president of in-market retail.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2020

Michaelene Whyte has been promoted from processing manager of the East to VP, national fulfillment, distributed retail, and has been with Planet Home Lending since October 2018. Stephanie Gibbons has been promoted from AVP and underwriting manager of distributed retail to VP, national underwriting manager, distributed retail.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

However, the slowdown in price growth is a positive development for the housing market, which desperately needs it. Additionally, a few Fed presidents will be speaking this week, and there are bond auctions scheduled, along with retail sales data to be released on Friday. We will put this assumption to the test.

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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. Lenoir left AAG in late 2023 and observed its acquisition from afar.

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