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. Saleh said he was leading between 250 and 300 people when he left Rocket in mid-May.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Digital mortgage automation solution provider Floify launched a lending platform for mortgage brokers built on the foundation of the Floify point-of-sale (POS) platform. The Colorado-headquartered firm was acquired by publicly traded proptech company Porch Group, Inc. in an $87 million deal in 2021.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2024

Chase Home Lending , the consumer and commercial banking arm of JPMorgan Chase & Co. , In just the past year, the Department of Justice has called for a full dislocation of real estate agent commissions between sellers and buyers, and new appraisal bias protections have been set up.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Full-service mortgage lender Nations Lending and local Indiana real estate firm Carpenter Realtors launched a joint venture, Commitment Mortgage , in order to offer an end-to-end experience — from finding a home to closing a loan in a cooled-down housing market. “We Nations Lending originated $3.43

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2021

The severe lack of inventory in today’s housing market has been a source of stress for home buyers and real estate agents alike. HousingWire sat down with Realtor.com CEO David Doctorow to learn how agents and brokers can alleviate some of the frustrations their clients are facing.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2021

As we think about coming out of this first month of the year, we’ve quickly realized this year is going to be anything but planned or what we in the mortgage lending industry are used to. The way we as mortgage lending originators conduct our business has quickly taken on a new form during these times of uncertainty.

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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 Knock option is available to loan officers and real estate agents in 22 states across the country, the company explained in its announcement. .

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite. We would feed them leads, but they came back to us because they didn’t know how to structure the full document deals,” Jay Voorhees, co-founder at JVM Lending, said in an interview with HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

Seventy million dollars in seed funding is a colossal investment for an unproven tech startup, even one that promises to fully disrupt a relatively low-margin, traditional industry like mortgage lending. The startup says it has also partnered with top local real estate agents who know their way around the markets they serve.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In fact, the changes we’ve seen since the advent of the global pandemic are significant enough to serve as a catalyst that will drive all lending digital. The trends and lending requirements I’ve highlighted below became important long before the coronavirus made it to the U.S. Peering into the future of lending.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

loanDepot has appointed David Smith to the newly-created position of vice president of national VA lending, the company announced on Monday. In this role, Smith, a former Army sergeant, will oversee the lender’s VA lending strategy. Smith’s promotion follows the departure of Patton Gade , the nation’s top VA loan originator in 2022.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The loan pre-qualification step is an area that almost all parties need for a successful outcome (consumers, real estate agents, loan officers, insurance agents). VL: Our mission at Propertybase is to empower real estate and lending professionals to grow their businesses through collaborative technology.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Maryland-based mortgage lender Apex Home Loans has appointed Leo Anzoleaga as its senior vice president of residential lending. Prior to his role at Apex Home Loans, Anzoleaga has held roles as a certified local facilitator at Buffini & Company, a senior vice president of residential lending at Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp.

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2022

“By combining all-cash offers with the lower rates and fees associated with wholesale lending, independent originators give homebuyers and their real estate agents the best shot at closing deals and saving money,” Shoemaker added. Planet Home Lending entered into a $2.5 While the lender had $20.7

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

Proptech HomeLight has raised $20 million to expand the offering of its Buy Before You Sell product to mortgage lenders and real estate agents across 40 new states, the company announced on Monday. In 2019, HomeLight acquired Eave , a digital mortgage lending startup. That was the company’s third acquisition.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2024

The real estate market has witnessed significant fluctuations over the years, and the accompanying challenges for real estate agents can offer valuable insights and opportunities. The aftermath of the 2008 crisis led to significant attrition among real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The excited and at times nervous first-time homebuyers that James Dunn often represents ask him how that whole process of taking out a mortgage works, and Dunn, a Los Angeles-based real estate agent with eXp , replies with a few trusted names. There are probably three or four people that I work with,” Dunn said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2022

Here is where it gets murky – choosing the right non-QM lending partner! The real estate agent is frustrated, the borrower is stressed, and they need someone to save the day. Will they go so far as to present on your behalf at meetings with real estate agents or other partners?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Visit Easy Street Capital Constitution Lending: Best for new investors If youre a new investor, finding the best hard money lenders for beginners can make or break your chance at success. Constitution Lending prides itself on helping investors kick off their projects.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tech-focused real estate brokerage Radius , flush with $14 million in venture capital raised this past April, has launched a mortgage lending arm in California that it plans to roll out to additional markets sometime next year. The post Real estate brokerage Radius unveils mortgage-lending arm appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Tessar, President and CEO of CIVIC Financial, about the keys to lending in a post-refi world. Many lenders cemented their positions with real estate agents while other lenders focused on refi business. We balance sheet all of our loans – making for a consistent lending experience for the borrower.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

A customized loan application developed for Angel Oak Home Loans will support both agency mortgage and non-QM lending “for borrowers of diverse financial backgrounds,” said Shane Westra, chief product officer at Simple Nexus.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Not long ago, homeowners insurance was a minor concern for most homebuyers, real estate agents and mortgage originators. Scalone has been an agent since 2019 and opened his own insurance company, Dignified. A lot of the lending professionals that I work with closely, I’ve done a good job of educating them,“ he said.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 22, 2025

Realfinity , which offers a an embedded finance platform designed for dual-licensed real estate agents offering mortgages as an ancillary service, has secured a $5 million warehouse facility from Bank of the Sierra which it will use to scale its new platform. says Luca Dahlhausen, CEO and co-founder of Realfinity.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In 2011, he founded the innovative brokerage The Agency RE, and he recently launched a real estate agent trade group that aims to serve as an alternative to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). JA: You also launched a joint venture called Aclara Lending in conjunction with Barrett Financial.

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The Appraiser Coach

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Appraisers have been accused of being “speed bumps” in the lending process. We frustrate buyers, sellers, loan officers and, sometimes, real estate agents. In some ways, I can understand their. Read More.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Rocket Companies will soon shut down Rocket Pro Originate , a mortgage origination platform for real estate agents, insurance agents, tax professionals and other financial professionals who are also licensed to originate mortgages.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

Mugge, a mortgage industry veteran with more than two decades in technology and business management, will lead the company’s push to secure high-profile mortgage lending partners to offer Calque’s products. Calque currently operates in 17 states, with plans of expanding this year. “As

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 3, 2025

Weve been scapegoated, slandered, and kicked to the curb by AMCs and lenders who see us as an inconvenient speedbump rather than a vital part of the lending process. A lot of appraisers are required to join NAR just to access the MLS, even though the organization is fundamentally geared toward real estate agents, not appraisers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

Stefani Berkin, president of R New York and one of the 35 founding members of the American Real Estate Association’s advisory board, expressed her optimism regarding the organization’s potential to outpace NAR in advocating for and educating agents across the nation. So why should agents have this requirement?”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Consumers have flipped the script on lenders and real estate agents when it comes to the home-buying process. Ninety percent of consumers start their home search online and many get prequalified for financing before they even reach out to a real estate agent. It’s a perfect circle of success.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Headquartered in Roswell, Georgia, Onward Home Mortgage specializes in residential purchase mortgage lending and has a presence in the greater Georgia and Alabama areas. It is part of the Newrez Ventures platform.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Collins points out that purchase lending is generally more stable than refinances. Collins asks Schwartz to share how he balanced working with real estate agents and other referral partners by leveraging AI to develop the “ Costco loan origination method.“

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Mortgage lender and servicer Planet Home Lending also named Kathryn Edelen as regional vice president of its sales division this week. for Planet Home Lending, will focus on increasing market share by adding branches and loan originators. Edelen most recently was a regional sales manager at Nations Lending.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2022

The key to winning purchase business in 2022 remains as it was in 2021, the year before that, and the year before that – building and maintaining relationships with real estate agents. “The agent is crucial,” he added.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 22, 2025

Rocket Companies has unified its real estate search platform with its mortgage lending platform to create a single resource where home buyers can search and purchase homes, making the process swifter and more efficient. By leveraging AI technology, we are making buying a home more accessible and achievable for everyone.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

While this means stepping away from our lending business in Canada, we thank our team members who have helped us expand over the last five years. The CFPB alleged that between 2019 and 2024, the brokerage incentivized real estate agents to direct business to Rocket-affiliated companies.

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