Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

Vonder Haar was selected as a winner based on her crucial role in expanding the company’s offerings and developing its digital marketing to meet the needs of its loan originators and their real estate partners. Vonder Haar spoke to HousingWire about the strategies that set her apart in the competitive residential lending market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

The move in government refinances was driven by a 75% increase in VA loans, which have been prone to large changes in recent months. On-the-ground observations Loan officers say they’re seeing an increase in government loan demand.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

Real estate technology firm Knock announced Thursday that its bridge loan product is being integrated into the borrower application process at Baltimore -based NFM Lending. The bridge loan estimate is being integrated into the lender’s workflow through an Encompass plugin. billion.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

Michael Saleh, a former senior vice president of Rocket Mortgage who spent about two decades at the company, has transitioned from the retail lending channel to wholesale by launching independent brokerage firm Zoom Home Lending. Each LO is closing 12 loans per month with an eventual goal of 15 to 20.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2024

Loan originators in today’s mortgage market have weathered significant challenges. They’ve endured a major drop in volume, a rapid rise in rates, and uncertainty surrounding realtor commission settlements and their impact on referral partners. If you are still in the game, you’re already demonstrating resilience and adaptability.

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

Mortgage lender Kind Lending has hired Tammy Richards , who previously held positions at Bank of America , Caliber Home Loans and loanDepot , as its chief operating officer. Tammy is stepping in with Kind Lending to handle some of their strategic initiatives and she is partnering with them to help grow their vision.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Los Angeles area-based mortgage lender Premier Plus Lending announced last week that it is expanding into the senior-focused home equity market with a new division, Retirement Mortgage Solutions , which will include reverse mortgages and other home equity-based lending instruments.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Banks reported having tightened lending standards across almost all categories of residential real estate loans over the fourth quarter of 2023 amid an elevated interest rate environment. As for their expectations for 2024, banks expect loan demand to strengthen across all loan categories, citing an expected decline in interest rates.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 20, 2024

Planet Home Lending Area Sales Manager Tom Reber National mortgage lender and servicer Planet Home Lending has hired Tom Reber as Area Sales Manager in Jacksonville, Florida. Reber’s Jacksonville team will include Mortgage Loan Originators Allen Lewis and Jeromy Peters, and Loan Officer Assistants Nicole Crabtree and Priscilla DeMasi.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

HighTechLending , a California -based top-10 reverse mortgage lender, announced on Friday that it is rebranding its wholesale lending division to American Senior Lending Wholesale Division in an effort to better align its identity with key business lines designed to serve older borrowers.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Maxwell , a Wells Fargo -backed mortgage fintech, announced Wednesday that it has struck a deal to acquire the digital lending platform Revvin ( formerly known as MortgageHippo ) to enhance its point-of-sale technology. The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Guaranteed Rate Affinity announced a promotion on Tuesday as the joint venture company named 22-year industry veteran Mark Rawls as vice president of mortgage lending. At Movement, Rawls started as a loan officer before taking over as producing bank manager.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Acra Lending , a private mortgage lender, announced its integration with Tavant ’s Touchless Lending Collateral Analysis. This partnership marks a milestone in Tavant’s expansion into non-QM lending. Collateral Analysis is a proprietary product of Tavant’s Touchless Lending automation platform.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

And that offers an incredible opportunity for banks and non-banks alike to improve their digital channels to better support home equity lending. Home equity line of credit (HELOC) and home equity loan originations increased 50% in 2022 compared to two years earlier, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association ’s Home Equity Lending Study.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

California-based lender Summit Funding has appointed Thomas Yoon as the head of subsidiary Lead+ Wholesale Lending, the company announced on Wednesday. It’s not just about offering non-QM loans; it’s about providing a foundation for brokers to confidently navigate this complex market,” Yoon said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

BLVR – a marketing and promotional campaign launched by EPM on Monday – aims to reach as many retail loan officers to provide information about the wholesale channel. When retail loan originators visit the website, LOs are asked to fill out their names, contact information and comments or questions about wholesale lending.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Nationwide direct mortgage lender US Mortgage Corporation announced the appointment of Alana Dorbandt as its new vice president and division lending manager. In the new role, Dorbandt will lead the company’s expansion into the Southwest Region.

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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. ” According to Scotsman Guide , Potempa was the No. million. .”

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Multigenerational housing, once a rarity, is now becoming commonplace and reshaping not just how we live, but also how we lend and borrow. Imagine a young couple, burdened by student loan debt, and discouraged by the competitive housing market. Amid the whirlwind of economic forces impacting the housing market, one trend stands out.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In March, the company struck a deal to acquire Homebridge Financial Services ‘s retail division to grow its retail lending business footprint. CMG makes its services and products available through wholesale and correspondent lending as well. 21, NMLS showed the lender had eight loan officers and 13 branches.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

Tennessee-based multichannel mortgage lender First Community Mortgage announced on Wednesday that it has selected the Blue Sage Solutions digital lending platform and its LION Consumer POS to help scale its growth efforts across the 48 states it operates in. In FCM’s case, this also includes interim servicing.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2024

In the message reviewed by HousingWire, DeJoseph wrote that by becoming part of a larger organization, Garden State gains access to a “national lending platform, greater resources, enhanced career development opportunities, and the ability to offer more comprehensive services to our clients, well beyond residential mortgage lending.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

one of the latest M&A transactions amid a challenging landscape for home loan originators. “We We did transfer our branches and loan officers to ML Mortgage. Department of Agriculture (USDA) loans, as well as down payment assistance programs. One idea would be a ”builder that wants to add a lending arm,” he added.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

John Abraham, former top-producing mortgage loan officer at Caliber Home Loans /NewRez , has joined The Money Store. The Money Store boasts a nimble lending platform, transparent loan process and highly competitive rates. Data shows that the lender has 28 branches and 100 active loan officers.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Department of Justice (DOJ) over the regulators’ allegations of mortgage lending discrimination in majority-Black neighborhoods of the Birmingham, Alabama , metro area. In neighborhoods with Black populations of 80% or more, Fairway granted loans at less than one-eighth of the rate of its competitors. million civil penalty.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Several historic events over the past few years have brought seismic changes to the way the mortgage lending industry operates. Today, as we face what appears to be the beginning of a modest recovery in the marketplace, we can see the effect of those events in the way mortgage lending has changed forever.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The company named veteran mortgage professional Connie Lindsay as its senior vice president of mortgage lending in Washington state. The lender was later acquired by Caliber Home Loans in September 2014, prompting Lindsay to continue her career as a loan consultant and sales manager there until December 2022.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2024

But Ryan Ogata, executive vice president of reverse mortgage lending at the Chicago-based lender, added that his vast experience on the forward side has helped to facilitate the transition of other company professionals in getting up to speed with reverse lending characteristics. It’s another thing within the arsenal.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

We are continuing that focus by working to streamline the origination process for loan officers through technology and process improvement. TH: Angel Oak has always prided itself on being a technology- and service-focused lender. Everything we do operationally is built on that premise.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

“We would prefer to be picking up the loan officers without the branches, without physical locations because we’re trying to backfill into where we have existing retail opportunities and we have space.” In June, the lender brought on 100 loan officers and hired 33 additional LOs based in Texas since that period.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

California -based mortgage lender loanDepot has hired military advocate Bryan Bergjans as part of an effort to boost its lending capacity in the U.S. 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.

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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. Miami-based fintech provider LoanPASS integrated Uplist ’s suite of home-shopping tools into its pricing engine, the company announced in November.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

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. HomeLight has offices in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Dallas and Chicago.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

Planet Home Lending confirmed on Tuesday the acquisition of certain retail assets from Axia Home Loans , describing the transaction as an opportunity to expand its operations in the Western, Northwestern, and Midwestern markets. HousingWire broke the news in early August. s origination staff and branches in the retail space.

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