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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 was the fourth mortgage loan originator to join Guaranteed Rate in 2000. It’s the local relationships.

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Interfirst Mortgage to lay off nearly 50 LOs

Housing Wire

Chicago-based Interfirst Mortgage Co. 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. In returning from its three-year hiatus, Interfirst said it had reinvented itself as a tech-forward mortgage lender.

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Interfirst to lay off 140 employees

Housing Wire

Six months ago Interfirst Mortgage Co. 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. The workforce reduction is also focused on mortgage loan production. Presented by: Acra Lending.

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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 lender originated $10 billion in mortgages in 2013, $5 billion in 2014, $3 billion in 2015 and just $2 billion in 2016 before shutting down altogether in 2017. In 2012, Dmitry Godin was seemingly on top of the world.

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Opinion: Solutions to restore housing as an economic growth engine

Housing Wire

As a driver of the economy, housing should be bolstered by: Non-bank lending institutions to lend in lower-income areas and to minorities in the same way that CRA provides for banks Reducing government-insured and guaranteed mortgage loan fees. in 2001 to 44.8% The need for change in current mortgage underwriting guidelines.

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