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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. Voyles will be responsible for growing the retail division overseeing sales, operations and marketing as well as building on the existing framework, the company said Wednesday.

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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. It’s a different approach to lending.

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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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Interfirst to lay off 140 employees

Housing Wire

issued pink slips to over 350 non-commissioned loan officers, a workforce reduction that former workers claimed to represent more than half of Interfirst’s entire staff. Presented by: Acra Lending. Interfirst is a mortgage business founded in 2001 by Dmitry Godin that has been harmed before by market downturns.

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Interfirst, the phoenix of mortgage, lays off hundreds

Housing Wire

Interfirst Mortgage , the retail mortgage business he founded in 2001, had grown to $14.5 The historically low interest rates that led to a boom in refinances in 2012 had ended, and Interfirst struggled to maintain volumes in following years as the market turned to purchase. In 2012, Dmitry Godin was seemingly on top of the world.

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A look behind this year’s Tech100 winners

Housing Wire

LLR is not a newcomer to mortgage technology or the overall fintech market. As operators in an industry that ebbs and flows on economic conditions, demographics trends and, dare I say, the current mood of the Federal Reserve, these technology innovators are bringing efficiency and elasticity to the market. In 2016 LLR led a $26.5

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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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