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Planet Home Lending adds new regional sales manager

Housing Wire

Founded in 2007, it was the only top 10 national lender to grow its sales volume on a year-over-year basis in the first half of 2023, according to Inside Mortgage Finance data. By contract, the country’s top 50 lenders as a whole saw volumes fall by more than 50% during the same period.

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How JVM Lending plans to expand without any loan originators

Housing Wire

Back in the 2007-2009 meltdown, we had loan officers with us at that time. Under the revamped mode, business development officers build relationships with real estate agents to get leads and client advisors take incoming leads from borrowers.

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Homepie CEO Brad Rice on making FSBO easier

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Ironically, the technology he’s developed can be a benefit to real estate agents as well. SW: Why did you want to develop this platform? We’ve seen it happen in one day — there will be three or four counters within an hour, and they’ll get a contract. And that’s what I did.

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Supreme Court orders review of recession-era class action against Rocket

Housing Wire

The leading plaintiffs are two couples, Phillip and Sara Alig and Daniel and Roxanne Shea, who refinanced their mortgages in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Expert witnesses estimated the actual 2007 value of their home to be as much as $26,000 less than the appraised value. The Aligs obtained a $113,000 loan, putting them underwater.

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MCS CEO Caroline Reaves announces her retirement

Housing Wire

Caroline Reaves, CEO of property services provider Mortgage Contracting Services , announced her retirement on Tuesday after leading the company for 14 years. While Reaves will be departing from one position at the company’s helm, the mortgage veteran is set to transition to MCS’ board of directors as its chairwoman.

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Only 70,000 new homes available for sale

Housing Wire

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Last year, while the Census Bureau was reporting the new home sales numbers and the builders were having high cancellation rates, the monthly sales report didn’t account for the cancellations of contracts. percent (±11.8 percent (±15.1

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The real danger of releasing the GSEs from conservatorship

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In the mid 2000s Wall Street lenders such as Lehman , Bear and others initiated the massive intervention of the mortgage sector through the development of CDOs and other structures in the PLS market. of the total market and the GSEs saw their share of market contracting as well. Then came Wall Street. With investors believing the U.S.