Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

Pontiac, Michigan-based lender United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) Wednesday launched a new platform for independent mortgage brokers to access purchase leads, past clients and real estate agents — a move to entice and retain loan officers in a shrinking mortgage market. Purchase loans grew from 24.9%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Borrowers, loan officers, and the corresponding processors and underwriters are often working on entirely different systems. The platform is loan origination system-agnostic and is designed to deliver value to both borrowers and lenders–”from the point of thought of buying a house to the point of owning a home.” .

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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. trillion in 2021.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Apart from selling produce that is popular in former Soviet countries, these stores represent a marketing opportunity for Alex Naumovych, a loan officer at Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corporation. trillion in 2021. trillion in 2022, while refinance origination will dip by 62% to $860 billion from $2.26

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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. 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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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.

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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. Join a real estate team that can handle administrative work.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2021

While home-buying has been historically seen as difficult, the process is getting a rebrand as loan officers, real estate agents and industry experts answer the questions that Gen Z (and any generation that won’t willingly admit to using the app) have on TikTok’s platform.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Despite rising housing unaffordability , we in the real estate business know that homeownership is still a fantastic way to build generational wealth. Not surprisingly, affordability is inextricably linked to fair housing , as fair housing (and lending) for all is foundational to affordability for all. in 2021. .

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The builder’s real estate agent swapped in the middle of the transaction, so things got a bit mixed up and no one updated the clients’ files to reflect the change in lender,” Summers explained. “So, In turn, real estate agents are doing everything they can to ensure they get their clients into their home of choice.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2021

In the announcement, UWM said that the decision came in response to Rocket Mortgage 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, a narrative that is far from new.

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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.’ Refinance volume is projected to fall by 63% in 2022 and overall origination volume is projected to be down 35% after 2020 and 2021 had recording-setting origination volume.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

The majority of lenders easily lost half of the volume last year that they originated in 2021, and LOs who have their own databases to tap into are highly sought after. California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2021

Rocket goes to real estate agents directly and helps them to get licensed to be a loan officer and says ‘we’ll pay you a fee if you don’t send to brokers’… that’s not good for brokers. UWM will require its broker partners to sign an addendum by March 15 that says they will not work with Rocket or Fairway.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So when that happens, you don’t originate, you don’t lend at par for something at 88. But unlike Fannie and Freddie, most non-QM loans rely on the borrower’s credit score and the loan-to-value ratio on the loan, rather than the debt-to-income ratio. And non-QM loans in my experience are harder.”.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

“It’s going to be competitive — thin margins, little business and LOs getting out of the industry,” Dave Krichmar, banker at Legend Lending Corporation, said of the mortgage industry in 2023. In turn, LOs will be fighting for a piece of the mortgage pie with less rate-sensitive mortgage products, just as they did in 2022.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Mortgage lenders are offering discounts on loan pricing to capture borrowers. Mike, a North Carolina-based loan officer, had two loans closing in mid-January. The contrast between the deals was striking. “I have a loan closing today for first-time homebuyers who didn’t really press me on pricing,” he said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

A customized loan application developed for Angel Oak Home Loans will support both agency mortgage and non-QM lending “for borrowers of diverse financial backgrounds,” said Shane Westra, chief product officer at Simple Nexus.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2022

By the end of 2021, the firm said it had invested in 20 proptech companies and its venture investments had produced $355 million in gains. The man spearheading these venture investments is Paul Hurst, who was promoted to chief innovation officer at First American earlier this month. As of Sept.

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Eppraisal

APRIL 20, 2021

According to a homebuyinginstitute.com article, in February of 2021, there were fewer home for sale than in February 2020. A full pre-approval is when a mortgage loan officer pulls your credit, verifies your employment and income, has your complete application and has all the required documents from you.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

The rule follows through on an Executive Order issued by President Joe Biden in the summer of 2021, who directed the FTC to ban or limit such agreements in the U.S. It’s not common practice in the mortgage and real estate industries to make use of noncompetes. labor force.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2022

” Our real estate agent and mortgage lending partners experience a strong ROI, generating leads by engaging with consumers through unique and compelling information based on data. HW: How can real estate agents and loan officers collaborate to foster strong relationships with clients despite rising rates?

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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? During the Peak Performers sessions, Weaver will share his 10 points to high-level loan originations. HousingWire: What do lending executives need to understand when it comes to supporting top producers? 1 LO in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

With interest rates hitting all-time lows, lenders doubled their origination volume to more than $4 trillion in both 2020 and 2021, hired more staff and ramped up investment in technology to close loans faster. A handful of vendors made strategic acquisitions and acquisitions for capitalization in the fall of 2021.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 10, 2024

VA’s Tidewater Initiative written in 2021 by McKissock (Similar idea as current ROV changes), effective in 2003. The mortgage loan officer handling the loan? I first started writing a real estate column in the local newspaper back in the late 1980s but did not like it. Was it the borrower?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2022

In 2021, United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) CEO Mat Ishbia set a three-year goal to make UWM the No. 1 and we’re going to do that,” Ishbia told HousingWire in 2021. “I 1 and we’re going to do that,” Ishbia told HousingWire in 2021. I can get you (borrower) a conditional loan approved in 20 minutes.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2022

Purchase-focused lenders that didn’t balloon in size to capture refinancing business during the boom, in particular, are looking to hire loan officers. Though purchase volume across the industry is down from 2020 and 2021, it’s among the only source of business out there for lenders.

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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. To 2021 and beyond.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

MARCH 30, 2021

I’m grateful that nearly half of my work these days is not for lending purposes. The problem with most of these requests for reconsiderations of value, is that the listing agent or seller almost never provides me, or other appraisers I have visited with about this situation, with any data that helps their case.

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Appraisal Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

5 The time period covered, the third quarter of 2018 through the fourth quarter of 2021, includes all the UAD data available to FHFA when the analysis began. Acre lot Built in 2000 and recently renovated, the main estate and guesthouses offer a total of 7,455 square feet of living space. Many referrals come from real estate agents.

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