Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Behind him, the recent financial crisis still cast a cautionary shadow over new business development, but ahead he saw opportunities for a client-centric, tech-focused family of companies in the title insurance and real estate settlement services industry. Now, at WFG’s 10-year anniversary, this vision holds even more relevance.

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Assurance Financial

MARCH 2, 2022

Katherine Campbell, Chief Digital Officer at Assurance Financial, shares her tips for achieving mortgage process digitization and handling market adoption. The greatest success story I have is winning over the ‘never-adopters’ of the industry, comprised of mostly the loan officers.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

So, we’re not little, but we’re not big, like some of these companies with 500 developers. We have a development team and so we have software developers, system analysts, business analysts, quality assurance testers, and people that manage deployments. We have smaller teams, but they’re very effective.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2021

This year’s class of Rising Stars matches the recording-breaking and unparalleled year that the housing industry experienced in 2020. SVP, Agent Engagement & Development. Genworth Mortgage Insurance. Alterra Home Loans. Senior Loan Officer. VP of Product Development. Branch Manager. PrimeLending.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2022

Like many loan officers, Dicker was working nights and weekends, banging out refinancings and purchase mortgages at record-low rates for clients. Less business for lenders and real estate brokerages, in return, is hurting title companies, tech vendors, appraisers and mortgage insurance firms. Landlords hold the cards.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

of GDP in 2020. 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. Incentivizing developers is necessary.

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Appraisal Today

AUGUST 13, 2023

2023 E&O Insurance Brokers Risks of Expert Work by Claudia Gaglione, Esq A long article from Claudia with 4 very good case studies. To read more, click here My comments: I remember the easy days before 2020, with enough sales, listings and pendings to figure out the market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

The three agencies in charge of such reviews — the Federal Reserve , the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency — have not denied a single bank merger in 15 years. And in a March interview with former president Bill Clinton, Department of Housing and Urban Development Sec.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2022

In 2020, Hispanic or Latino borrowers made up just 8% of Fannie Mae -backed refinances, and 7% of Freddie Mac -backed refinances, while non-Hispanic whites accounted for about two-thirds of agency refinances, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency ’s latest figures. Who should answer those questions? Where do you fall on that issue?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The National Association of Mortgage Brokers inaugurated Kimber White as its new president during the virtual NAMB National 2020 conference. We’re also working on finding solutions for the qualified mortgage and on issues surrounding flood insurance. That $30 a month may mean nothing to someone in D.C., What does that look like?

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