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engage.marketing 2021

Housing Wire

In 2021, all housing professionals must be focused on the 3 P’s: Process, Profitability and Purchase. And to help you power your business forward in 2021 and beyond we brought together the smartest minds in purchase mortgage marketing to share the insights, tactics and strategies that set the leaders apart. ALL EYES ON PURCHASE.

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Rocket Mortgage plans to hire 500 remote LOs by the end of 2023

Housing Wire

Though its overall mortgage strategy has apparently not changed, Rocket Mortgage is undoubtedly ramping up its initiative to hire local loan officers to win purchase business. Kostegian added that about 5,000 approved insurance agents can also originate a mortgage with Rocket, Lazerson wrote.

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Expansion-obsessed eXp reports $80M in Q3 profits

Housing Wire

For the sixth straight quarter , eXp World Holdings , the parent company of eXp Realty , reported record breaking revenue, according to the company’s earnings report for the third quarter of 2021, released Wednesday. Year-over-year the number of agents and brokers increased 82% in Q3 2021 to 65,269. million, while net income was $23.8

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How InstaMortgage convinced top broker shop to jump to retail

Housing Wire

As part of the merger, Jim Black, the founder of All Cal, will become chief lending officer of InstaMortgage. Black, a licensed mortgage loan officer and broker, will also lead product development, tech partnerships and sales growth. Magazine’s list of the 5,000 fastest growing companies in America in 2021.

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These mortgage lenders have cut jobs in 2022

Housing Wire

By some estimates, origination volume will fall in 2022 to about $2 trillion, about half the volume from the record-breaking years of 2021 and 2020. Wells Fargo , one of the nation’s largest banks, had at least 114 layoffs in its home lending business following a drop in revenue in that division in the first quarter of 2022.

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These mortgage lenders are making major job cuts as production plummets

Housing Wire

“This creates a challenging environment for volume-sensitive businesses such as mortgage originators and title insurers.” It affected at least 50% of the staff, positions in operations and loan officers, according to multiple former employees. A massive job cut. over the past 12 months to 6,121. Not much better.

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FHA borrowers are getting hammered by rising rates

Housing Wire

Over 80% percent of FHA purchasers are first-time homebuyers, and borrowers of color obtained over 40% of FHA loans last year, according to HUD. The FHA also insured more than twice as many loans to Black and Hispanic borrowers last year as the rest of the mortgage market combined.

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