Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Miami-based fintech provider LoanPASS integrated Uplist ’s suite of home-shopping tools into its pricing engine, the company announced in November. The partnership will boost loan officers ’ capacity to deliver personalized, efficient and tech-powered solutions directly to their clients and agents.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2021

What happens when borrowers can’t or won’t walk into a lending branch? HousingWire recently sat down with Insellerate CEO Josh Friend to discuss that very question and what strategies retail lenders should look to adopt from direct-to-consumer lending. Retail lenders originate loans through their in-person retail branches.

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

As already evidenced by its ambitious new marketing campaign, “ Old Wives ,” the company is also aiming to streamline its existing presence in the reverse mortgage market. ” Clow: How does your team approach bringing these traditional loan officers up to speed with reverse? What else have you been trying?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Dan Catinella, chief lending officer at Total Expert, about how Customer Intelligence technology is improving deal flow and pushing the customer experience into the 21st century. . The best tools will allow lenders to be innovative in how they target prospects and engage with current customers. ???.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

CJ Rose was promoted to the role of executive vice president of growth and acquisition, while Chris Hutchens was hired as producing area manager for North Carolina and senior vice president of mortgage lending. Additionally, he will provide management and mentorship to other loan officers at Guaranteed Rate.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Mortgage lenders are offering discounts on loan pricing to capture borrowers. Mike, a North Carolina-based loan officer, had two loans closing in mid-January. The contrast between the deals was striking. “I have a loan closing today for first-time homebuyers who didn’t really press me on pricing,” he said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

It may be counterintuitive, but loan officer Scott Betley, a 32-year-old TikTok sensation , says he isn’t worried about a potential U.S. Betley, who has more than a decade of experience helping first-time and move-up buyers, joined NFM Lending as a loan officer in 2021. ban of the short-form video app.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Atlanta mortgage lender, which offers agency and non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) products, will implement the tech firm’s Nexus Origination and Nexus Engagement tools. Its core features include an integrated home search, loan payments calculator and the ability to begin a loan application.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Michael Brennan, president of Movement, said Waggoner can empower loan officers with the tools they “need to win.”. “She has a proven track record of leading sales-centric technology teams and delivering with speed to market,” he added. The key to growing in a challenging mortgage market. Presented by: Polly.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As a premier provider of innovative, high-performance software, data and analytics for mortgage and home equity lending and servicing, Black Knight is transforming the housing finance industry. This interactive tool gives customers the ability to review information about their loans and easily perform tasks, such as making loan payments.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Looking for a quick and easy way to stay up-to-date on mortgage lending news, trends and technology? Mortgage Marketing Radio. Mortgage Marketing Radio is a weekly podcast, hosted by Geoff Zimpfer, that covers “truth in mortgage marketing,” with interviews with top producers. Loan Officer Freedom.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Insellerate Modern CRM, Engagement & Customer Intelligence Platform Insellerate helps loan officers close more loans with our award-winning modern CRM, Lead Management, and Engagement platform, which handles all your lending channels, retail, wholesale, TPO, Consumer Direct, and Reverse. Get More Info

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

By writing and maintaining all of the code along with investing heavily in putting together a world class modern IT infrastructure that efficiently leverages a mix of modern technologies like the public cloud and API based software architectures, UWM has been able to turn on a dime and stay well ahead of shifts in the market utilizing technology.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with Desmond Smith , chief growth officer at United Wholesale Mortgage , about the role that wholesale lending plays in the mortgage ecosystem and common myths and misconceptions about becoming an independent mortgage broker. HW: How is broker market share trending?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To get there, Cliffco, which has been in business since 1987, is going after the non-qualified mortgage ( non-QM ) market and investing in tech to get in front of buyers and non-agent referral partners. On the non-QM side, only 3% of the market has been penetrated. But we’re heading into different segments of the ocean.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Lenders and mortgage tech companies have been cutting costs in the down market , but some firms have hired new executives who they hope will provide better strategies to navigate the shrinking loan origination market. for Planet Home Lending, will focus on increasing market share by adding branches and loan originators.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2023

on Monday announced that Frontwave Credit Union will now implement Empower, Black Knight’s cloud-based loan origination system, and its integrated solutions, for the expansion of its mortgage lending operations. The LOS accounts for about 10-15% market share. Black Knight, Inc.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

When mortgage lenders are talking about compliance in loan origination or mortgage servicing, the worst case can be pretty bad, so we often see companies investing heavily in the best tools. Mike is an experienced mortgage loan officer. Without marketing automation, he probably would have been right. Not anymore.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In light of rampant uncertainty and economic hardship, homeowners are leaping at the opportunity to save thousands in annual payments , and the refi market is booming. You’ve probably staffed up on loan officers equipped to handle this influx, and you may be shunning riskier, less immediately gratifying business.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The integration streamlines the sales process by enabling loan officers to generate and customize total cost analysis loan presentations with contact data directly from the Insellerate customer relationship management and lead management dashboard, Mortgage Coach said.

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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. Meanwhile, others worry that they will soon wash out of the industry. TikTok, Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2021

HousingWire recently sat down with Total Expert Director of Technology Alliances Josh Lehr to learn more about recent trends around direct-to-consumer lending. HousingWire: How have trends around direct-to-consumer lending changed over the past year? In fact, 36% of Americans said they would be willing to buy a home entirely online.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The primary challenge for non-QM has been the extreme volatility in the secondary markets. Self-employed borrowers, real estate investors and credit-worthy borrowers who have recovered from credit issues will always be in the market. Another key is that these loans are performing. That’s good news for the future of non-QM.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2021

If you take the temperature of how loan officers are feeling ahead of the holiday season, the scale would likely read “uneasy.” According to Fahad Janvekar, a loan officer at Fairway Independent Mortgage , “there is definitely some concern” about layoffs in the industry. Presented by: Black Knight.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Williams IV, founder and CEO of Percy.ai, about what housing professionals can do to improve their deal flow despite the turbulence of the current housing market, and how investing in valuable data insights could be the key to success. . utilizing data to help improve deal flow in today’s market? being brought into existence.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with New American Funding CEO and Co-founder Rick Arvielo to talk about the acquisition, the company’s strategy for the rest of 2024, and what differentiates NAF in this market. Sarah Wheeler: Market conditions have fueled a lot of M&A activity recently.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Lenders in a purchase money market, like the one we’re in now, are running a long-distance race. It’s amazing how many loan officers miss this, don’t return the call quickly, and lose their race before it’s even underway. Each lender is different and so their use of these tools will differ.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

And hiring in a wave of high volumes can mean layoffs when the market is less robust. Lenders need to be able to grow their business in a way that is not linear and is not tied to the market cycles – leveraging automation technology can help. AuditGenius uses supervised automation for risk management and quality control.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This acquisition is part of the company’s continued plan to grow both in existing markets and by entering new ones with selective acquisitions of like-minded lenders,” Guild CEO Mary Ann McGarry said in a statement. The company has 39 active loan officers across its retail branches, according to Modex data.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Exponentially increase your loan officers’ origination potential without incurring additional expense? However, today more than ever before, this ambitious goal is within reach thanks to the marketing power of the internet via social media. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2022

In an effort to counter margin compression and satisfy a new generation of homebuyers, lenders are looking to offer loan options that better fit the average borrower. HousingWire recently spoke with John Keratsis, President and CEO of Deephaven Mortgage, about the potential benefits of non-QM lending in today’s tight housing market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

In a competitive market where most borrowers are mortgage rate shopping, credit optimization can be the difference between closing a loan or losing out to an offer from a competitor. HW: CreditXpert has been in the industry since the early 2000s with tools like Wayfinder and What-if Simulator, why introduce a new platform now?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

As the market moves into a post-refi-boom era, loan officers face tough competition for purchase loans. HousingWire recently spoke with William Tessar, president of Civic Financial Services , about the private lending space and how LOs can benefit from serving real estate investors. .

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Given the market contraction and numerous layoffs in the industry, it may be surprising to think that loan officer recruitment and retention could be a focus for some lenders and independent mortgage banks right now. Loan officers tend to move shops for one of two primary reasons: pain or gain.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the world of mortgage lending, there’s an all-too-common sentiment that echoes through the industry: “My loan origination system (LOS) sucks.” Adjust your expectations At its core, an LOS is designed to serve a very specific purpose: ensuring that lenders can originate compliant and sellable loans.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

Digital mortgage platform Roostify announced on Tuesday it has raised another $32 million in a Series C funding round amid a booming real estate market, bringing the tech startup’s total capital to $65 million. Many loan officers who may not have in the past sought to engage with customers digitally.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

. “I didn’t want to just jump for money,” Miller said, noting that some lenders with lower rates have complexities of putting together a loan — and transferring over existing clients’ loans is a different process for every company. It also underwrites conventional loans and works as a marketing tool for LOs.

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