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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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Consumer direct mortgage lender lays off 35 LOs

Housing Wire

Pink slips arrived for nearly three dozen loan officers at Wyndham Capital Mortgage on Wednesday, HousingWire has learned. The consumer direct mortgage lender, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, said it laid off 35 LOs across its offices in Dallas, Charlotte, Salt Lake City, Kansas City, and Phoenix.

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Guaranty Home Mortgage hires EVP to expand retail channel

Housing Wire

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. His career also includes senior management roles at First Community Mortgage , Elite Mortgage Services and Ace Mortgage Funding since 2001.

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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. He then transitioned to PHH Home Loans in 2001 for an in-house lending stint, a role he stayed in for about nine years.

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Guaranteed Rate acquires DTC lender Owning Corporation

Housing Wire

HW Media CEO Clayton Collins and Scott Happ, president of Secondary Marketing Technologies at Black Knight, discuss Black Knight’s acquisition of Optimal Blue and what the industry can expect from the company’s new Secondary Marketing Technologies division. According to the NMLS, Owning has 62 loan officers and was formed in 2018.

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Wyndham Capital Mortgage to have a new round of layoffs

Housing Wire

“Of these impacted employees, 38 work out of the facility or hybrid (office & remote) in North Caroline & South Carolina, and 10 are fully remote employees living in other states outside of the Carolinas,” Angela Fumo, senior vice president of human capital, wrote in the WARN notification reviewed by HousingWire.

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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. Interfirst is a mortgage business founded in 2001 by Dmitry Godin that has been harmed before by market downturns. Presented by: Acra Lending.