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Homebridge to lay off employees following deal with CMG

Housing Wire

A Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filed with the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development shows the job cuts will affect mortgage loan officers, final “docs” associates, desktop support professionals and business solutions architects, among others. “As mortgage lender by volume last year.

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loanDepot adds Andrews, Wilkish to its sales leadership ranks

Housing Wire

Andrews also previously worked in business development, sales and marketing roles at Hometown Lenders , Finance of America , Veristone Capital , Yarrow Bay Mortgage and Merit Financial. In his new position with loanDepot, he will be responsible for driving market share growth in Seattle and the surrounding areas. “In

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Online lender slapped for allegedly deploying unlicensed LOs

Housing Wire

From at least August 29, 2022 to December 2, 2022, individuals who were not licensed as loan officers (LOs) in Connecticut acted as LOs by taking residential mortgage loan applications , soliciting Connecticut borrowers for mortgages and offering or negotiating terms of mortgages, according to the order issued earlier this month.

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Movement Mortgage to acquire top indie retail firm Mortgage Network

Housing Wire

Houlihan Lokey served as financial advisor and Pierce Atwood served as legal advisor to Mortgage Network. Troutman Pepper was Movement’s legal advisor in the M&A transaction. “We Movement says it employs more than 1,500 loan officers nationwide and has over 550 branches.

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AmeriSave accused of defamation, failure to pay wages in lawsuit

Housing Wire

The group also alleges that the company conducted a defamatory campaign against them after their layoffs in July 2022. According to the class-action-seeking lawsuit, filed in California, AmeriSave hired 200 loan officers to focus on the West Coast region in early 2022. The company originated $12 billion in 2022, down 62.2%

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FHFA: GSE servicers must keep fair lending data

Housing Wire

What will servicing look like in 2022? That development prompted concern from legal experts that the information could be used as a basis for fair lending lawsuits. In August 2021, Cadence Bank settled allegations of redlining which stemmed, in part, from the bank’s loan officers’ lack of Spanish language skills.

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How the buyer commission lawsuits could upend the relationship between agents and LOs

Housing Wire

That partnership is everything,” Amy Breach, a Seattle-based Keller Williams agent, told HousingWire in late 2022. Loan officers may increasingly place more importance on reaching consumers directly especially when a buyer takes initiative in the homebuying process rather than relying on agents. “If

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