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RealFi lays off employees without paying salaries, severance: sources 

Housing Wire

However, two former employees said the company communicated it’s shutting down its mortgage lending business. “They have let branch managers and loan officers go and say they are transitioning to a broker [shop].” Purchases comprised about 66%, conventional loans were 45% and 95% were banked loans.

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The fight to standardize educational training for LOs

Housing Wire

The raison d’etre is the same whether you work as a mortgage loan officer at a depository bank or an independent mortgage bank – originate a purchase mortgage or refinancing for a client. Loan officers working for depository banks are not bound by the same requirements. Regulations to oversee them all.

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FHA or conventional? After LLPA tweaks, the calculus changes for some

Housing Wire

Are low-FICO, first-time homebuyers better off with a conventional mortgage and reduced LLPA fees, or an FHA loan with none at all? We spoke to multiple loan officers and Washington, D.C.-based They’re trying to protect their portfolios and make good loans. based think tank Urban Institute to hear their takes.

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Interfirst Mortgage raises $175 million

Housing Wire

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. Interfirst was founded in 2001 as a retail originator but expanded to the wholesale channel in 2008 and the correspondent channel in 2011.

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These mortgage lenders are making major job cuts as production plummets

Housing Wire

“This creates a challenging environment for volume-sensitive businesses such as mortgage originators and title insurers.” It affected at least 50% of the staff, positions in operations and loan officers, according to multiple former employees. A massive job cut. Marginal reductions . billion in the last 12 months.

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PRMG’s John Ashley on cybersecurity and privacy

Housing Wire

JA: I was going back through some old PRMG stuff and they had “the five tenets of mortgage lending success” and it was: product, pricing, compensation, marketing, and fulfillment. Of course, if I had to go back and pick a point in time that really changed mortgage data, it was the 2008 mortgage crisis and the regulations that followed.

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Bridging the gaps in the home buying process

Housing Wire

Largely hidden from view and misperceived by some to be on the lower end of the hierarchy of service providers, the position seemingly lacked the luster of the real estate agent or the panache of the loan officer. During the housing crisis of 2008, the title industry suddenly emerged from obscurity into full view.