Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Looking for a quick and easy way to stay up-to-date on mortgage lending news, trends and technology? Podcasts are a great resource for mortgage professionals to continue learning, with shows covering industry updates, business advice and the experiences of other pros in the mortgage industry. Mortgage Marketing Radio.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

New York-based multichannel lender US Mortgage Corporation is expanding its efforts in the reverse mortgage space, illustrating its focus on growth. The company recently hired reverse mortgage industry veteran Ken Krajewski to serve as its managing director and head of reverse mortgage lending.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Cautious optimism is prevalent in the mortgage industry for 2024 as industry professionals anticipate the recovery of lost origination volume. Our mission is to help loan originators become better at what they do in every aspect of their business and in their life,” Braheem said. “Our

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Frankly, what will be left in the refi market will likely be harder credit quality transactions that a hungry mortgage origination industry will turn to as volumes drop. Here are some expectations and recommendations: First , the refi/purchase mix should be carefully evaluated down to the loan officer level. Conclusions ?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Applicants hoping to get a mortgage job in 2024. After cutting to the bone over the past three years, several large mortgage lenders are beginning to ramp up hiring. The data includes employees at parent companies and subsidiaries, in mortgage lending, servicing and other activities.) Image created by AI in Midjourney.)

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

Movement Mortgage will pay $75,000 to resolve allegations of racial discrimination, in violation of the Fair Housing Act, identified by undercover testers from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. ” NCRC had previously provided training to Movement Mortgage, at the lender’s request, in 2019.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2024

Top mortgage technology executives say their companies are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) in their operations but still relying on human decision-making to sell loans. “There’s one question every CEO, CTO, CIO, loan officer, processor, underwriter, they all ask the same thing: will AI replace my job? .

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

As any professional involved in it will know, bringing new people into the fold of the reverse mortgage business can be a difficult task. Reputational challenges , the narrow focus of the product and low mortgage market penetration are just a few of the reasons why. With the right ambassador, that task is made simpler.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

After nearly two years of trudging through a frozen housing market , the consensus among mortgage professionals is that the worst of it is over. The spread between the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage and the 10-year Treasury yield has narrowed after sitting at over 300 basis points, compared to the historic norm of 150 bps.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In his 20 years in mortgage banking, no year has compared to 2023 in terms of difficulty, said Ben Cohen, Guaranteed Rate ’s managing director and a top-producing loan officer. This is a lot different than 2008 where you needed a credit score and a heartbeat to get a mortgage. An additional 21% closed 1.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2023

American Pacific Mortgage (APM) has scooped up roughly 150 employees from 20 AmeriFirst Financial Inc. Not every loan officer that wanted to join APM was hired, however. The focus was on high-producing and profitable branches — and the loan officers who were part of those branches were brought over, Lowman explained. . “We

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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

MAY 25, 2022

Keller Mortgage , part of the kwx holding company, laid off operations positions in a conference call on Monday May 23, according to more than a dozen employees. Each pod has about 15 employees consisting of loan officers, processors, closers, underwriters, supervisors, and funders, according to multiple employees. .

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

relaunched its forward mortgage originations. It ceased that business in December 2022 after rising mortgage rates wreaked havoc on the housing industry. Of the 400 employees scooped up by American Pacific Mortgage (APM) late last year, about 20 LOs have returned to AmeriFirst Financial. In 2022, AmeriFirst closed $2.5

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2023

With the mortgage industry still rightsizing, mortgage professionals are worried about regulation of the industry and inflation that thins already tiny margins. of the surveyed mortgage professionals said loans falling through was the biggest challenge, ranking as the second most challenging factor. About 19.4%

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2022

LoanSnap has unveiled a cloud-based portal called LoanFLow that will allow licensed brokers and loan officers in the U.S. to originate mortgages anywhere at any time. The company says its new LoanFlow portal will allow originators to close loans in as little as 24 hours and in 15 days on average, the company said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Tim Nelson, a longtime reverse mortgage industry professional and reverse department manager at VIP Mortgage in Scottsdale, Arizona , spent 20 years in the home lending arena before shifting his focus entirely to reverse. Nelson is now a reverse mortgage borrower in addition to being an industry professional.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Rapidly expanding Cleveland, Ohio-based CrossCountry Mortgage (CCM) has struck a deal to acquire the smaller retail mortgage lender AmCap Home Loans and bolster its operations in Texas. billion in loans in 2023. 10, AmCap had only 43 sponsored LOs due to some having already transitioned to CCM.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Margin compression, higher mortgage rates, and a purchase-focused market are dictating more sales process control among loan officers and fewer layers of bureaucracy in retail lenders. billion from the start of the year, consisting of 70% purchase mortgages. The lender originated a volume of $1.8 Hiring local, top talent.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

A race is a useful analog for the mortgage business, especially as it relates to the refinance business. It’s amazing how many loan officers miss this, don’t return the call quickly, and lose their race before it’s even underway. Most experts believe that it’s only a matter of time before mortgage rates come down.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Chicago-based Interfirst Mortgage Co. will lay off 77 employees in its Charlotte, North Carolina office come January 2022, a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) notice filed by the company reveals. In returning from its three-year hiatus, Interfirst said it had reinvented itself as a tech-forward mortgage lender.

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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 16, 2021

Interfirst Mortgage , the retail mortgage business he founded in 2001, had grown to $14.5 The lender originated $10 billion in mortgages in 2013, $5 billion in 2014, $3 billion in 2015 and just $2 billion in 2016 before shutting down altogether in 2017. In 2012, Dmitry Godin was seemingly on top of the world.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

As the engines of the housing and mortgage markets continue to sputter due to higher interest rates and fewer buyers, industry innovators are looking for ways to get their company’s wheels off the ground. of the loan amount, with a $5,000 cap, which adds to the typical buyer-side agent commission of up to 3%. according to the company.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with Desmond Smith , chief growth officer at United Wholesale Mortgage , about the role that wholesale lending plays in the mortgage ecosystem and common myths and misconceptions about becoming an independent mortgage broker. HW: How has wholesale changed over the past 2–3 years?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

For those of us in the mortgage industry, the next 100 days is meaningful as it will be a period that requires the most focus and greatest amount of perseverance. Dustin Owen Waterstone Mortgage Contributor. Mortgage rates have doubled, and homebuyers are acting as if every seller has the plague. Want to train for a marathon?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

The mortgage origination industry has long made use of an operational strategy that relies on “staffing up” during cycles of high volume and then making staff reductions, sometimes en masse, when origination volume declines. It is very easy to add steps to a process, and overwhelmingly difficult to subtract them.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

This prestigious accolade recognizes the visionaries, innovators and strategists who have set new standards of marketing excellence in mortgage and real estate. She was crucial in expanding USA Mortgage’s offerings and developing its digital marketing to meet the current needs of mortgage loan originators and their real estate partners.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

At the end of August, Guild Mortgage announced a suite of products under the name “ Flex Payment Mortgage ,” which includes Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) reverse mortgage products alongside refinances, proprietary jumbo options and HECM for Purchase (H4P) loans.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

About 25 people from loanDepot ’s top producing team have joined boutique lender Revolution Mortgage to reunite with their former team lead. After Chevalier left for Revolution Mortgage in December, loanDepot gave the team an ultimatum to either work for another loanDepot team or leave, a former loanDepot employee told HousingWire. “We

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2022

It’s a tough time for mortgage lenders. A rapid rise in mortgage rates and a big drop in origination volume has led to thousands of industry job losses over the last six months. Nonbank lenders such as Pennymac , Mr. Cooper , loanDepot , Guaranteed Rate , Fairway Independent Mortgage , Interfirst Mortgage Co.,

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But Pavan Agarwal, CEO of Sun West Mortgage Company and the creator of the Angel Ai technology, has a different perspective, which he shares in this interview with HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler. Sarah Wheeler: What do people in the mortgage industry not understand about AI? So when I say this is disruptive, this is why.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

If you’re a mortgage loan officer with a decade of experience in the industry, you have likely spent over 80 hours taking continuing education courses. Tricky situations can arise in mortgage lending, especially when navigating less-common products or originating non-agency loans.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Larry Steinway, former senior vice president of lending and branch manager at Illinois-based Guaranteed Rate , has taken on a new challenge to expand the Ohio-based Revolution Mortgage footprint in the Chicagoland market. He was the fourth mortgage loan originator to join Guaranteed Rate in 2000. It’s the local relationships.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

In today’s low-rate environment, wholesale mortgage lending continues to grow, making up more than 20% market share. Three independent wholesale brokers discuss how they found success in the wholesale channel during a HousingWire webinar on Thursday titled: ”Taking the Mortgage Boom to the Next Level.”.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

In March 2022, reverse mortgage lender and servicer Longbridge Financial announced the launch of its national field sales (NFS) division , appointing reverse mortgage industry veteran Melanie Parks to lead the channel as vice president and national field sales leader. Two years later, the UPB has diminished right.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

But there’s another threat that Homepoint executives must worry about – United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), the top dog in wholesale, has embarked on a strategy of heavy price cutting, forcing Homepoint and others to limbo to compete for business. That has contributed to UWM’s competitors taking losses on loans when they can least afford it.

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