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Guaranty Home Mortgage hires EVP to expand retail channel

Housing Wire

Tennessee-based mortgage lender Guaranty Home Mortgage Corporation hired Andy Voyles as executive vice president and director of retail lending. The mortgage lender hopes to boost volume in the channel. The lender offers a variety of mortgage products, including conventional, FHA, VA, jumbo, rural development loans.

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Guaranteed Rate’s Larry Steinway makes the jump to Revolution Mortgage

Housing Wire

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.

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Where are mortgage rates headed?

Housing Wire

Bad news for mortgage professionals: not only are mortgage rates at their highest level in over two decades, they might not drop anytime soon. On Wednesday morning, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate was 7.29% at HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center and 7.49% on Mortgage News Daily. When asked why U.S.

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Interfirst Mortgage raises $175 million

Housing Wire

Chicago-based mortgage originator Interfirst Mortgage Co. Funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management , MFA Financia l, various family offices, and other strategic investors invested through a StoicLane’s special purpose vehicle, StoicLane said. billion in loan volume between June 2020 and June 2021.

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Interfirst Mortgage to lay off nearly 50 LOs

Housing Wire

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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Some mortgage companies expanding despite challenges

Housing Wire

Mortgage lenders and real estate investment firms this month entered tight housing markets in the Midwest and the Northwest to better reach prospective homebuyers, despite a challenging mortgage market. While many lenders laid off some of their staff to cut costs, others continue opening offices to capitalize on demand from homebuyers.

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Nonbank lender job cuts could shorten the market downturn

Housing Wire

The current market downturn for mortgage lenders may be shorter than the previous cycles, mainly due to the recent rounds of workforce layoffs imposed by nonbanks. Nonbanks have more than 60% market share of mortgage industry production — and they are more likely than banks to move quickly to reduce capacity.

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