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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McKissock

APRIL 20, 2021

Becoming a real estate agent requires a giant leap of faith and an investment of time and money. That’s why some agents may choose to test the waters with a part-time real estate position while hanging onto a steady income from another job. How much is a part-time real estate agent salary?

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2021

All told, the Detroit lending powerhouse originated $103.6 billion in closed loans in the first quarter of 2020, more than double its originations in Q1 2020. billion, a dramatic increase from the $99 million in profit the first quarter of 2020. billion in the first quarter of 2020. Expenses rose to $1.74

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

“Another loan closing today is for a real estate agent who is an investor and has done many mortgages in the past. Mike did not hesitate: “I did more pricing exceptions for the real estate agent,” he said in an interview on the day of the loan closings. She’s well educated. It’s not without risk.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The momentum for non-bank lending is here to stay. Strategies lenders should adopt from direct to consumer lending. Join expert panelists to learn how the pandemic is ushering in a new era of digital lending and leading to the formation of a hybrid lending model. We are the Lyft to their Uber,” Hsieh said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2022

The key to winning purchase business in 2022 remains as it was in 2021, the year before that, and the year before that – building and maintaining relationships with real estate agents. “The agent is crucial,” he added. You’re really feeling it right now, you’re feeling it big time,” Medellin said.

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McKissock

AUGUST 10, 2021

So what does that mean for real estate agents like you? Besides the obvious advice to jump on the TikTok bandwagon to get in front of these smart consumers, Gen Z’s desire to get out of big cities and into urban and suburban areas could mean a growing need for real estate agents in these areas.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with Desmond Smith , chief growth officer at United Wholesale Mortgage , about the role that wholesale lending plays in the mortgage ecosystem and common myths and misconceptions about becoming an independent mortgage broker. HousingWire: What role has wholesale lending historically played in the mortgage ecosystem?

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

What does the top-producing lending officer (LO) in the country have to say to other mortgage lenders? HousingWire: What do lending executives need to understand when it comes to supporting top producers? My customer is the real estate agent. Mindset is everything. Weaver is the No. 1 LO in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2021

Find out how a single lead from Ylopo led to roughly $20 million in real estate closings for real estate agent Luis Robledo. of households in current neighborhoods that were once designated undesirable for mortgage lending are non-white, compared with 40.4% Presented by: Ylopo. Per Redfin, 58.1%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

” Meanwhile, Windsor Mortgage , which started in the wholesale space in 2020, “do like the state DPA products” and is “coming out with a DSCR [debt-service coverage ratio] ,” Boyd said. The lender, based in South Dakota, offers conventional, FHA and VA loan products, as well as bridge loans.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

When the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to zero on March 15, 2020 and set off an extraordinary real estate boom, Rocket Mortgage was ready. billion in profit in 2020 and $6.1 billion in profit in 2020 and $6.1 Its parent Rocket Companies rode the wave to a stunning $9.4 billion in 2021. billion in 2021.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Utah-based software developer offers a private-label digital mortgage platform and mobile app designed to connect lenders with borrowers and real estate agents. The fund raise comes as the company attempts to increase its marketshare within the eClosing and mobile mortgage segments. billion.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2021

The product expansion is in response to servicers who “exhausted all efforts” to keep people in their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic and economic collapse of 2020, according to WFG Default Title Services Senior Vice President Dean Kirchen.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. A seasoned retail and commercial banking salesman in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the 39-year-old Woodward joined Interfirst Mortgage as a loan officer in October 2020 after a recommendation from an old college friend. trillion in 2020 and then $4.4

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

Like every department within housing, marketing teams across the country were forced to re-strategize and tailor their programs to accommodate the changing climate of 2020. The HW Marketing Leaders make up the best and brightest minds in marketing within mortgage lending, servicing and real estate.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2021

According to the announcement, the decision comes in response to Rocket and Fairway participating in actions including soliciting loan officers away from brokers and working directly with real estate agents to cut brokers out of the entire process. Ishbia said that the program’s “been great.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2022

Compass on Tuesday said that it has shut down Modus Technologies , a Seattle-based company that Compass bought in October 2020, heralding its entry point into the title and escrow space. It also plans to reduce costs by not backfilling roles and by getting out of real estate office leases. Presented by: Change Wholesale.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

million investment in eOriginal, a multi-year Tech100 winner that developed a ‘simple closing experience for lenders, borrowers and settlement agents.’ Later in 2020, eOriginal was acquired by Wolters Kluwer for $280 million in cash and continues to operate within the Wolters Kluwer Governance, Risk & Compliance business.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

Smart lenders are leaning into the technologies that will solve on multiple fronts, helping drive more leads and real estate agent relationships, higher pull through to closed transactions, increased efficiency and time saved. Is this protecting me from a real business risk? the speed of the industry between 2018-2020.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2021

Digital lending software provider Blend announced on Monday that it is expanding its cloud-based platform with the acquisition of Title365 from the Mr. Cooper Group for approximately $422 million, reflecting an enterprise value of $500 million. How hybrid title and valuations help increase lending efficiency. Presented by: Altisource.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The DOJ also noted that this type of conditional offer is permitted under federal government lending programs, thus requiring no changes to lending regulations. Originally filed in 2020 in U.S. All of the brokerage defendants except for HomeServices of America have settlement agreements related to the suit.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2021

The first, Partner API, is used to unify title companies, real estate agents, lenders, and homebuyers throughout a single real estate and mortgage transaction. How hybrid title and valuations help increase lending efficiency. It’s the second proptech offering created by Qualia.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2021

In the 30-minute question-and-answer session with Kristy Fercho, MBA’s chair-elect and executive vice president and head of home lending at Wells Fargo , Calabria said his expectations are that by mid-summer, the FHFA would end the flexibilities on collateral valuations unless circumstances force another extension.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

These days, every week brings a new report, forecast or piece of news reminding us that the mortgage lending market is in uncharted waters. In a field built on risk — like mortgage lending — the lack of control or agency can often feel like the biggest risk of all. The polarization of the lending market. The biggest reason?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

In 2020, only 32% of 30-year-olds owned homes compared to 58% in 1980. Similarly, only 48% of all 30-year-olds in 2020 were married, in contrast to the 83% in 1980. Selling a home typically involves nearly 10% in transaction fees between real estate agents , title companies, inspections, and other expenses.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2022

Rocket Pro TPO has launched a program that will guarantee financing to close in 15 days, a move to entice mortgage brokers and their real estate agent partners in a scorching-hot housing market. While Rocket Mortgage capitalized on the pandemic-driven refi boom in 2020, notching an astounding $9.4

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

1 city in population growth for the last eight years and it was the hottest job market in 2019 and 2020, according to the Wall Street Journal. Rapidly accelerating home prices come with a variety of challenges for lenders and real estate agents, including one of the biggest pain points right now — the appraisal gap.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

trillion in mortgages were originated in 2020 and 2021, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported. How do you help real estate agents? We help listing agents generate significantly more buyers for their home sales. Raunaq Singh About $8.5 Included in that total were nearly $1.5 trillion in FHA and VA loans.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Census Bureau’s American Community Survey plus an NAR-conducted survey that 8,000 homebuyers took in 2019 and 2020 – shows that 10% of Black mortgage applicants were rejected. But NAR, which spent more in federal lobbying than any other group in 2020, stops short of criticizing specific political entities or financial institutions.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With the market shift, LOs whose businesses were mainly driven by refinances in 2020 and 2021, must quickly shift gears and figure out ways to bring in purchase leads. LOs interviewed by HousingWire say that they have actively ramped up their attempts to connect with prospective borrowers and real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Maxwell’s technology and solutions are specifically geared to empower the community lender to offer personalized service to the borrower and to the real estate agent partner from loan application to closing. This year has been record-setting for the industry — probably the best in almost two decades.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The funding will go toward product development and business development with real estate agents to reduce their time-to-close to 10 days, significantly higher than the industry average. The company claims it originated $100 million in mortgages in 2020. The funding consists of $7.5 million in equity financing and $17.5

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2021

At the end of the first quarter, Fathom — a real estate and technology services platform — had approximately 2,400 real estate agents in Texas, including around 1,700 in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Other Fathom brands include Dagley Insurance , Encompass Lending , intelliAgent , and Real Results.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

As part of the merger, Jim Black, the founder of All Cal, will become chief lending officer of InstaMortgage. Merging with All Cal gets InstaMortgage much closer to local real estate partners during a period in which refis have dried up and the purchase market remains hot , said Shashank Shekhar, founder and CEO of InstaMortgage.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

“Our mission at HW Media is to inform and engage real estate, financial services and fintech professionals through high-quality news media, insightful reports and analysis, and engaging newsletters and events,” said HW Media founder and CEO Clayton Collins. HousingWire is a leading source for news and information regarding the U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2021

during the second quarter of 2020 to 3.3% Despite the downturn in volume in recent months, LoanDepot said a strong investment in marketing and brand awareness increased the company’s market share from 2.3% in the second quarter of 2021. Overall, net income for the mortgage lender decreased all the way down to $26.3

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