Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Brian Covey, a high-profile vice president at loanDepot, is leaving the company after five years to join Revolution Mortgage , another direct-to-consumer retail mortgage lender which was founded in 2018. He also provided training to loan originators. billion in 2021.

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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. Leonhardt said that AmCap employees will participate in a two-week training program at CCM, with the integration expected to be complete in 45 to 60 days.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

Desmond Smith: There are two ways to get a mortgage — wholesale or retail. Retail lending is when you walk into a bank branch or go to an online lender, and they help you get a mortgage. Consumers who use a mortgage broker instead of a retail lender save $9,400 over the life of the loan and that increases to $10,400 for minorities.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2022

Godin relaunched the business in late 2019 as a lender focused on both wholesale and retail channels. Interfirst boasted of its ability to train people with no background in mortgage through a rigorous training course. The post Interfirst to lay off 140 employees appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Prior to HOMESTAR, he served as the executive vice president of retail production at AmeriSave Mortgage Corporation and area lending manager roles at Citi. Mortgage lender Homestar Financial Corporation on Friday announced appointing Gurp Bhandal as executive vice president of national production.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2025

In almost any retail shop but definitely in the wholesale community there is no system that goes end to end with a seamless flow that allows for all of those things to really come together. We’ve trained them from the ground up. Sanchez: Why did you choose them for this first tight integration with your platform?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

NCRC alleged the Fort Mill, South Carolina-based retail lender discriminated against Black and Hispanic people seeking mortgages in the Seattle-Tacoma area. ” NCRC had previously provided training to Movement Mortgage, at the lender’s request, in 2019. further impacts the number of approvals in majority-minority census tracts.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2020

The company is seeking to fill positions in all four of its business channels – direct to consumer, JV/retail, wholesale and correspondent lending. The company’s virtual training programs are continuing to operate in support of employee culture, continuing education, and internal advancement.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 8, 2025

During her career at Waterstone Mortgage, Husslein has facilitated employee training, process improvement, and new vendor relationships across the organization. Through it all, Ive appreciated working with talented individuals who have helped to guide the changes needed to ensure we can continue to fulfill the dream of homeownership.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

SVP, Retail Lending Analytics Manager. SVP, Retail. EVP, Training and Operational Support. Executive, Customer Experience. Huruy Yohannes. AmeriHome Mortgage. Jacob Gibbs. VP, Technology. Mortgage Coach. Jo Ellen Bergstrom. VP, Data Acquisitions. Joe Dombrowski. Senior Director of Product Management. John Aslanian. SimpleNexus.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Most retail lenders are desperately seeking high producing loan originators to make up for the losses that occurred in 2022. California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite. Back in the 2007-2009 meltdown, we had loan officers with us at that time.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

I don’t do that so much internally right now because we’ve got this separation in retail and wholesale, but my job is to do that for the partners and for the 86,000 loan officers out there not offering reverse mortgages. I knew the first thing we needed to do was to combine our training and marketing approach,” he said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2021

In Ishbia’s estimation, these two companies, which both have retail operations, are trying to cut the broker out of the mortgage equation. Rocket is training real estate agents to originate loans, and Fairway is trying to poach loan officers, he claims.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Among those getting a pink slip are 49 loan officers, 10 national account managers, seven retail sales managers and seven transaction coordinators. Interfirst was founded in 2001 as a retail originator and then expanded to the wholesale channel and the correspondent channel in 2008 and 2011, respectively.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Interfirst Mortgage , the retail mortgage business he founded in 2001, had grown to $14.5 Godin made plans to relaunch the business in late 2019 as a tech-forward lender that originated loans across both wholesale and retail channels. In 2012, Dmitry Godin was seemingly on top of the world. Interfirst 3.0?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This is according to an interview with James Mittleman, senior vice president of retail sales at Finance of America (FOA). I’d like to see some softening there, but I think the proprietary products really help fill in certain gaps.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

They also realize that if they don’t provide this experience, larger national retail lenders will. They are willing to drive change across their operations and work with advisors, like Falcon, to develop a roadmap to integrate digitalization into policies, processes, and training. banking, shopping, transportation).

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2020

Before he joined Home Point Financial, Hilzendeger was at Wells Fargo for 30 years, most recently with Wells Fargo Home Lending , where he led as head of Retail Operations, head of Servicing Operations, senior vice president of Default Services, and senior vice president of Real Estate Servicing.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Ohio lender also slashed 6% of its workforce in October leaving about 1,200 employees across its business including retail, wholesale and its direct-to-consumer arm Lower.com. Lower, a subsidiary of Lower Holding Co.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

To gain insight into how Rocket plans to strengthen its local presence to capture purchase volume, HousingWire spoke to more than a dozen former Rocket employees, current retail loan officers and mortgage brokers who have been contacted by Rocket recruiters to join its local initiative. So this isn’t brand new,” Kidwell noted.

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GoForrmz

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

You’ve probably seen it happen before, by the time the holiday season arrives, retail employees are already feeling burned out, stresses are high, and some team members aren’t even able to fully enjoy their holiday season. They can apply to any business and any industry, but in the retail industry, these can be especially pervasive. “

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

With that, I feel like we have a much higher focus on what it is we’re going after, which lane we’re focusing on, and then the training, experience and knowledge around those specific channels.” A lot of companies don’t necessarily have that [process], especially when you’re dealing with a retail shop,” she said.

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The Robert Weiler Company

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Planes, Trains, Automobiles, and More: Transportation links are essential for any industrial space or commercial properties for lease. Ideally, you want your property to be at or very near an intermodal transit point where planes, trains, trucks, and seagoing vessels easily interchange. Swimming in Success: Restaurant and Retail Space.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

At the start of 2023, the company is investing in training the sales team on tactics to start growing the business again. retail and residential market shows how demand for home loans has quickly increased. Like its competitors, Tennessee-based First Community Mortgage, Inc. (FCM) Surprisingly, the landscape is helping.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

You have a lot of flexibility in pricing, flexibility with other broker products, flexibility with marketing under an compliant umbrella,” Steinway said of Revolution Mortgage, which has a hybrid wholesale and retail lender model. He was the fourth mortgage loan originator to join Guaranteed Rate in 2000. It’s the local relationships.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2021

billion in the wholesale channel in 2020 (compared to about $62 billion in retail), lost roughly 5% of its broker clients to UWM, according to company executives. Then you might as well just go work for UWM retail. “My business is not designed to make my competitors like me, especially retail competitors,” he said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Many Axis trainees come from sales-based careers in hospitality, retail or insurance, which makes it easier to adapt to the mortgage business. Brandon Weiss, CEO of EscrowTab, hired Hall soon after she completed her training. He expects hiring to pick up again on the lending side in the third quarter of 2024.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Forward-reverse divide With the addition of more forward mortgage companies to the space recently, a natural question comes up about what kind of professionals to hire — either dedicated reverse mortgage specialists who know how this kind of transaction works, or forward specialists who can be trained in the particulars of reverse.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

UWM, however, brings in people with no prior mortgage experience and provides extensive in-house training, according to chief strategy officer Alex Elezaj. We’ve been hiring, training and developing our people. Most mortgage companies hire fast and fire fast based on the cyclicality of the business,” Elezaj said. in Q2 2023.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

The wholesale channel will continue to grow as more retail originators and borrowers learn the benefits of working with a mortgage broker. The company also offers both onsite and virtual Success Track training for loan officers, processors and broker owners.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Jesse Allen “Rate offers a comprehensive platform — we’re one of the top-ranked retail lenders in the industry,” Allen said of its forward lending side. He recognized that the company is uniquely suited to become a larger player in the reverse mortgage space.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2023

HousingWire: When you were selected for HW Insiders in 2019 you were the National Support and Training Director at Mid America Mortgage. In April of 2022, the retail division of Mid America Mortgage, Inc. This new role has challenged me to learn another side of mortgage retail originations.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2023

HousingWire: When you were selected for HW Insiders in 2019 you were the National Support and Training Director at Mid America Mortgage. In April of 2022, the retail division of Mid America Mortgage, Inc. This new role has challenged me to learn another side of mortgage retail originations.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

“And one of our strategic plans for our growth is we’re really bolstering up our retail division in 2022.”. We will be hiring retail guys that carry our flag through the Excelerate branches, but they’re not only in California,” Yoon added.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

loanDepot hired Richards in February 2018 to oversee its channels at that time — retail, wholesale , consumer direct and joint ventures — as well as processing, underwriting, closing and operational support functions. ” It also claimed the company needed its “COO to step up” when the market was booming.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Within four years, Akinmade and his team have built a robust, automated marketing platform, which is driven by investment in technology, to give retail loan officers a competitive edge. Paul Akinmade joined CMG Financial in 2016 to lead the expansion of the company’s marketing department ahead of a major staffing initiative.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2023

Defendants also said they had to attend mandatory training and tests without compensation. Defendants claim they were required to undergo extensive training “off-the-clock.” They were also tested daily for two to three months after the training period on practice or section tests. The lawsuit was filed on August 10 in a U.S.

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