Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Coming off multiple quarters of financial losses , Rocket has accelerated those efforts in 2023, embarking on a remote local loan officer hiring spree designed to capture purchase market business from real estate agent connections, sources told HousingWire.

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Loan Officers Retail Real Estate Agent Real Estate 347

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Apart from selling produce that is popular in former Soviet countries, these stores represent a marketing opportunity for Alex Naumovych, a loan officer at Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corporation. Borrowers have called me from seeing my advertising in the stores and a couple of Realtors, too.”. trillion in 2021.

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Marketing Real Estate Agent Loan Officers Advertising 381

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Despite higher mortgage rates , demand for FHA and VA loans has been on the rise. Of the $400 billion mortgage origination volume in the second quarter of 2023, FHA and VA share of loan volume consisted of 22.9%, up from 18% in Q2 2022, data from Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) and the Urban Institute showed.

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Agents Sellers Buyers Finance 437

Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Nominations for HousingWire’s Marketing Leaders award are now open through Friday, March 25, 2022. Marketers and loan officers need to be prepared for a longer lead-nurture timeline today than the refi market frenzy we experienced the last two years,” said Jim Anderson, chief marketing officer at Finance of America Mortgage.

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Finance Loan Officers Lending Housing Market 257

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

With Fannie Mae and other organizations predicting a tough outlook for 2023’s housing market, loan officers should be looking to get their name out in front of as many potential borrowers as possible in order to secure business. Parker is a HousingWire 2022 Mortgage Marketing Leader with a focus on business development and marketing.

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Loan Officers Business Mortgage Clients 279

Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I started thinking about this when I saw the news coming from the National Association of Realtors about how far the current real estate market is out of balance. According to their public website, in June 2022, the supply of existing homes for sale would last 3 months. This month’s supply measurement remains 0.9 Of course not.

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Appraisal Marketing Real Estate Inventory 370

Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

As the Federal Reserve announced yet another 75 basis point interest rate hike Wednesday, loan officers and lending executives — already well aware of the news — were looking ahead, questioning whether mortgage rates will spike or dip in the aftermath. through the rest of 2022. in mid-June,” Yun added.

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Housing Market Marketing Loan Officers Buyers 300

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.”. They’ll be based at brick-and-mortar branches and going out into their communities and building customers for Realtors and affinity partners.”. billion,” and that non-QM volume is projected to expand to $5 billion for 2022.

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Marketing Retail Lending Mortgage 336

Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2022

Like many loan officers, Dicker was working nights and weekends, banging out refinancings and purchase mortgages at record-low rates for clients. Even if mortgage rates are hovering in the 6% range, homes are still going to sell, loan officers said. The last two years have been good to Christian Dicker.

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Housing Market Marketing Brokerage Real Estate 400

Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

million investment in eOriginal, a multi-year Tech100 winner that developed a ‘simple closing experience for lenders, borrowers and settlement agents.’ This brings me to a trend in the 2022 Tech100 nominations that was more prominent than any year I can remember — an emphasis on technology enabling headcount efficiency and cost reduction.

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Real Estate Brokerage Real Estate Agent Technology 316

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

from the previous year, marking the 116th straight month of year-over-year existing-home price increases, according to the National Association of Realtors. It also means we have to get back to the basics of building relationships with our clients and being their loan adviser for life instead of treating them as transactional customers.

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Finance Construction Law Inventory 334

Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2022

“MBA forecasts that the Fed funds target will reach 2.5%, the neutral rate, by the end of 2022.” “We’ll be prepared to adjust any of the details of our approach in light of economic and financial developments.” .” “In other words, we are far from done at this point,” said Fratantoni.

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Supply Chain Mortgage Tools Loan Officers 393

Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Appraisers are being told by their AMC clients and loan officers to appraise these as residential properties. But then the price jumped in 2022 to a high of $60 million, before the listing was removed. The community is part of a wider development in Georgetown, Texas called Wolf Ranch.

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Appraisal Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

Ignoring market conditions adjustments makes us look incompetent to buyers, sellers, lenders, Realtors, and the general public. The small rate declines expected will aid affordability to a minor degree after the surge in housing costs for buyers in 2022–2023. I purposely omitted AMCs from this group as they are order takers.

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Appraisal Contracts Mortgage Marketing 67

Appraisal Today

MAY 12, 2023

Unlicensed Data Collectors By Jonathan Miller (13-minute video) Here’s a great take on the difference between Certified Appraisers vs. Unlicensed Data Collectors by Leigh Brown, President of the NC Association of REALTORS. The residential lending appraisal business depends on low-interest rates, the same as for loan officers.

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