Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You’ve probably staffed up on loan officers equipped to handle this influx, and you may be shunning riskier, less immediately gratifying business. You’ve brought on processors, underwriters and loan officers to accommodate the rise in refi volume, and perhaps that includes some wild incentive plans based on how much they can handle.

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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. Right now, we have 200 different investors.” million. .”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

Tavant , a Silicon Valley-based digital lending solutions provider, is adding a new product called Asset Analysis to its AI-powered digital lending platform, Touchless Lending. Touchless Lending provides straight-through mortgage processing and automated underwriting as part of the end-to-end mortgage manufacturing pipeline.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2022

Redfin announced Tuesday layoffs of 121 employees as it shakes up its mortgage department, including purchasing a lending company. The real estate company entered into an agreement to acquire mortgage lender Bay Equity Home Loans for $135 million, two-thirds in cash and one-third in stocks, Redfin said in a press release and public filing.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

million in 15 funding rounds with 25 investors since its inception in 2012. HousingWire reported that in June 2022, the company raised $115 million — $60 million in equity and $55 million in debt — while acquiring Denver-based lending startup Accept.inc. In 2019, HomeLight acquired Eave , a digital mortgage lending startup.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The partnership will boost loan officers ’ capacity to deliver personalized, efficient and tech-powered solutions directly to their clients and agents. Meanwhile, LoanPASS’s flagship products and pricing engine (PPE) automates product and pricing decision-making for all loan products.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A California regulator has revoked the residential mortgage lending license of LoanSnap , the latest in a series of difficulties for the fintech lender. The state’s banking commission also charged the firm with violations of the Truth in Lending Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

“Lenders and loan officers right now are just in survival mode,” Hoff said in an interview. About 20 loan officers under her leadership produced $116 million in mortgages over the last 12 months, a drop from $223 million in 2022, according to the mortgage tech platform Modex. When will the market turn?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Most of last year’s top-producing loan officers at Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp. The remainder transitioned to CrossCountry Mortgage , Synergy One Lending , Capital Bank , First Home Mortgage Corp. and NFM Lending. The Regulation Z loan originator compensation rule does not govern this issue.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In a high(er) rate environment, non-QM (non-qualified mortgage) lending continues to play an increasingly pivotal role. To explore how Acra Lending has adapted to these shifts, we sat down with Ryan Barrus, a key player in the company’s non-QM division. For some brokers, there can be a short learning curve on their first Non-QM loan.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

of the company and there were no outside investors. billion in mortgage loans in 2023, according to Kortas, easily more than any other brokerage. According to the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System, NEXA had 2,385 sponsored mortgage loan officers as of Thursday. Kortas told HousingWire that he owns 50.5% NEXA did $6.29

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Chrissi Callaghan Rhea, co-founder of Mortgage Investors Group and member of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) board of directors, died on Nov. Starting Mortgage Investors Group with a handful of people in 1989, she built it into one of the Southeast’s leading mortgage lenders, all while championing fair lending and affordable housing.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Demand from investors is still solid, albeit more guarded. Self-employed borrowers, real estate investors and credit-worthy borrowers who have recovered from credit issues will always be in the market. Another key is that these loans are performing. Tom Hutchens: The non-QM space has evolved quite a bit in the past year.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

If there’s a bet to be made on the future of the non-agency lending space, it’s that the adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) will become far more popular this year as purchase mortgages increasingly dominate a housing market pivoting to an up-rate environment. There’s a lot of different reasons why someone falls outside the agency loans.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The nation’s top loan officer Shant Banosian joined the board of directors at Healing Realty Trust , a healthcare-focused real estate investment company. Aiming to take the company public next year, Healing Realty Trust will tap into Banosian’s network of big banks as well as investors to grow its portfolio.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

It may be counterintuitive, but loan officer Scott Betley, a 32-year-old TikTok sensation , says he isn’t worried about a potential U.S. Betley, who has more than a decade of experience helping first-time and move-up buyers, joined NFM Lending as a loan officer in 2021. ban of the short-form video app.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

Connecticut Banking Commissioner Jorge Perez alleged that LoanSnap violated the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) and Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Also participating in the funding included prior investors Baseline Ventures , Richard Branson’s Virgin Group , and MANTIS , according to the company’s previous release.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

Other investors included Rotor Capital , The Mortgage Collaborative Emerging Technology Fund , Prudence Holdings and existing investors including Anthemis Group , Route 66 Ventures , and Sovereign’s Capital. Clients include Credit Union of Colorado , Texas Lending and JMAC Lending. mortgage market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Mortgage Coach provides an interactive borrower education platform that lets loan officers walk borrowers through a visual presentation of their loan options so that the LO becomes a trusted advisor, Co-founder and CEO Dave Savage said. “There should be a relationship beyond the transaction. “The

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Exponentially increase your loan officers’ origination potential without incurring additional expense? Examiners such as the CFPB and FDIC provide stringent oversight of digital activity, and mistakes can cost you and your loan officers dearly. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The non-QM demand for loans is very healthy,” Acra Lending CEO Keith Lind said. “We First, Lind said, it is important to note that nearly 50% of non-QM production right now is investor loans. Another plus for non-QM lending has been the volatility in the banking sector. “I billion in 2023, an increase from $2.1

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2023

Ravi Patel, a top loan officer and former senior vice president of mortgage lending at Guaranteed Rate , and his team, have moved to UMortgage, according to a statement issued on Monday. Together, we’re going to continue to create a better mortgage experience for our clients and referral partners.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2024

The duo dive into several topics, including Lower’s transformed culture and leadership structure following its acquisitions of Thrive Mortgage and Universal Lending. They also discuss fintech developments for loan officers, recruitment and even the CPO’s favorite hamburger.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Purveyors of very complex financial instruments, sold to risk-averse investors under the careful oversight of government regulators, have given us a process that must conform to investor and regulatory compliance requirements. Lending technology out of focus. In other cases, the loan officers didn’t trust the technology.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

Its investors included Virgin Group , led by British business magnate Richard Branson; Liquid 2 Ventures , led by former NFL star Joe Montana; and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. In May 2022, it launched a cloud-based portal, LoanFlow , that gives mortgage brokers and loan officers the ability to originate loans anytime, anywhere.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

If it finds “a good company,” the lender is willing to pay a premium to the owners, according to Dan Snyder, the fintech’s founder and investor. In November 2023, Lower announced the acquisition of Colorado-based Universal Lending Home Loans , which became a separate division.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

Tennessee-based mortgage lender Guaranty Home Mortgage Corporation hired Andy Voyles as executive vice president and director of retail lending. After being sold to frequent bank investor Gaylon Lawrence in January 2019, the business name changed to Guaranty Home Mortgage Corporation. Guaranty Home Mortgage originated $68.76

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Target buyers for Cliffco include non-traditional buyers seeking investor loans. The lender has about 80 loan officers and aims to hire up to 100 in states. Cliffco’s proprietary CRM platform enables loan officers to break away from being heavily dependent on real estate agents for referrals.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. 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. The closer, the better.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

Roostify, which powers the digital mortgage platforms of JPMorgan Chase , TD Bank , Guild Mortgage , HSBC Bank USA and more, allows different lending parties to bring in data and information from online sources that then tailors the homebuying process. Many loan officers who may not have in the past sought to engage with customers digitally.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

New York-based multichannel lender US Mortgage Corporation previously announced that it was renewing its efforts in the reverse mortgage industry, having hired industry veteran Ken Krajewski to serve as managing director and head of reverse mortgage lending. We are hearing from everyone interested in getting us on board.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

CMG Home Loans , the retail lending division of CMG Financial , recently made a key hire in its reverse mortgage division by adding industry veteran Kari Van Kleef as its operations manager. Both are working with loan officers who recently joined us, and they collaborate with all our certified people in the field.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

HousingWire: We’ve seen multiple predictions of non-QM lending heating up in 2021. We saw and endured COVID force a pause on the business and had to quickly respond and adapt to continue to lend. Angel Oak made it happen thanks to our close connection with investors who trust our loans and lending standards.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2022

“The dedication and the attention to detail from brokers today is great, because they’re focusing to get these loans through,” said Keith Lind, CEO at Acra Lending. The second group is brokers on the private lending side. The latter allows investors to qualify for a mortgage based on their cash flow.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

As part of the merger, Jim Black, the founder of All Cal, will become chief lending officer of InstaMortgage. Black, a licensed mortgage loan officer and broker, will also lead product development, tech partnerships and sales growth. Terms of the deal, which was announced on Tuesday, were not disclosed.

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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. Additionally, the platform is accessible to all users, regardless of their current loan origination software.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

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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