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How JVM Lending plans to expand without any loan originators

Housing Wire

California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite. The lender runs its business based on a “no-loan-officer” model in which all of its 45 employees are licensed and delegated to a specific role in closing a loan. I thought it was sparse.

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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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Interfirst Mortgage to lay off nearly 50 LOs

Housing Wire

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. Among those getting a pink slip are 49 loan officers, 10 national account managers, seven retail sales managers and seven transaction coordinators.

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EPM files a counterclaim against Jesse Iwuji Motorsports

Housing Wire

The stock car team is also accusing EPM of breaching the contract by failing to make more than $4 million in sponsorship payments following a “margin call” from its investors. Perez, who founded EPM in 2008, said he admired Jesse Iwuji’s personal story, according to the lawsuit. It’s mostly known for wholesale lending.

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Some mortgage companies expanding despite challenges

Housing Wire

New Western calls itself “the largest private source of investment properties in the country,” connecting more than 100,000 local investors looking to rehab houses with sellers. Since its establishment in 2008, the firm said it has bought and sold about $12 billion in residential real estate. and Puerto Rico, according to the firm.

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Nonbank lender job cuts could shorten the market downturn

Housing Wire

While it is true that many nonbanks entered this downturn with a large war chest of cash and capital, this is more than offset by the impact of warehouse and investor covenants, which are causing lenders to move expeditiously to cut costs,” Jim Cameron, Stratmor Group ’s senior partner, wrote in a report published this week. “In

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How the Fed’s rate hike will affect the housing market

Housing Wire

The Federal Reserve ’s 75 basis point interest rate hike – its largest since 1994 – proves the central bank is laser-focused on slowing inflation, but loan officers and housing economists don’t expect mortgage rates to come down until consumer prices fall. There’s still demand for homes, loan officers told HousingWire. “I