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Driving Growth: Leveraging Home Equity to Expand Loan Officer Opportunities

Appraisal Buzz

At their best, Loan Officers (LOs) should act as financial guides to their customers, helping them see and help surface opportunities that they did not know existed. This is a good option for customers wanting to consolidate high-interest debt or finance home improvements.

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Making sense of ultra-low mortgage rates

Housing Wire

The company also said: “Since every borrower’s situation is different, interested loan officers can price out this specific product in UWM’s EASE system or call their AE [account executive] for more information.”. s San Diego office, to get a better understanding since he originates a lot of UWM’s Conquest loans.

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A homebuyer’s personal story from the post-Sitzer, post-settlement world

Housing Wire

Mortgage butterflies As confident and comfortable as I was in the home search process and the paperwork involved in signing on with an agent, I was not feeling great about the mortgage preapproval and application process. But in another stroke of luck, I have a cousin who is a loan officer at Guild Mortgage.

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How LOs can leverage their sphere of influence

Housing Wire

“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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Patriot Bank to pay $1.9M to settle DOJ’s redlining accusations

Housing Wire

In addition, Patriot Bank is required to have at least two mortgage loan officers to serve majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in the Bank’s service area and employ a director of community lending – responsible for development of lending in communities of color.

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First Financial Bank to invest $700M by 2028 in affordable mortgages

Housing Wire

Another $700 million is expected to be invested in mortgage lending, with a focus on rural areas, the development of community mortgage loan officers, small-dollar mortgages and home improvement loans, among other products for LMI borrowers.

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How LOs, mortgage execs are preparing for 2024

Housing Wire

HousingWire interviewed a dozen loan officers and mortgage executives about their strategies for 2024, which mortgage products they expect to be in demand, and the magic rate needed to get sellers and buyers back in the market. A successful loan officer in this market needs a very capable qualified assistant.

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