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. LOs are aligning their strategies to target the purchase market, as rates are not expected to drop in a meaningful way in 2023.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

In October 2023, the firm — which is known for its “buy before you sell” product that enables a mortgage lender to treat the client’s current home as sold while giving them the ability to sell their home on the open market for up to 90 days after buying their new property — launched a partner channel.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

HousingWire spoke to Tom Hutchens, EVP of Production at Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions, about the outlook for non-QM in 2023 and why lenders should keep an eye on the non-QM space. HW: What is the outlook for non-QM in 2023? TH: Despite a turbulent end to 2022, I feel strongly that the 2023 outlook for non-QM is quite promising.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2023

Nearly every loan originator is fixated on going after the purchase mortgage market in 2023 following a brutal 2022 — a year in which even some of the top producers saw their origination volume drop to 20%. That is also the case for Chris Gallo, senior loan officer at NJ Lenders Corp. After dropping from $1.2

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

According to HousingWire ‘s Q3 2023 LenderPulse survey, industry workers said they would cut down on marketing spend and tools, as well as reduce additional headcount, if they had to further contain costs. Roughly 44% are neutral about the economic climate in the third quarter of 2023 while about 43.4% are pessimistic and 12.6%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Users can compare current mortgage rates , and use a mortgage payment calculator, a home-value estimator and online loan applications. Users can also find local loan officers when they are ready to buy a home or inquire about another financial product that Guaranteed Rate offers. This includes a Realtor partner network.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Coming off multiple quarters of financial losses , Rocket has accelerated those efforts in 2023, embarking on a remote local loan officer hiring spree designed to capture purchase market business from real estate agent connections, sources told HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

That’s because those were the two lowest case number assignment months in all of 2023, McCue said. Case numbers, product types In terms of case numbers, the low-issuance months at the end of 2023 served as a bit of a telegraph, McCue noted. With that said, you shouldn’t be too surprised to see endorsements fall off in February.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates in the 6% range have frozen the housing market, forcing loan officers to find business outside their wheelhouses. Business is at a “dead stop,” said a retail loan officer in Michigan. That’s going to be a new market for me Lonnie Glessner, loan officer at Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The pivot also coincided with its former chief retail officer Stephen Carpitella requesting the opportunity to start his own wholesale mortgage business. Many of EPM’s retail loan officers transitioned to Informed Mortgage , a lender Carpitella launched in August. The broker channel made up for 16.8%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Goldman Sachs predicts a 75 bps hike at the November meeting followed by a 50 bps raise in December and a 25 bps increase in January 2023. million units last month from July, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Existing home sales declined for seven consecutive months in August, declining 0.4% year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Steinway is the sole loan officer in his branch and is supported by the rest of his five team members, who primarily focus on marketing its realtor relationships. Closing just shy of $100 million of production in 2022, he’s aiming for a higher loan origination volume in 2023.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Beret Kechian, loanDepot ’s top producer and branch manager, is joining a slew of mortgage loan originators who are cautiously optimistic about the mortgage landscape in 2023. Read on for more about Kechian’s perspective on the housing market, business strategies for 2023, and his take on the loan level pricing adjustment (LLPA) fees.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

Here are the three biggest takeaways from the Q2 2023 earnings call with analysts on Thursday. Growth in purchase mortgage origination Analysts were particularly interested in seeing how much purchase mortgage origination/ market share the lender achieved in Q2 2023. That share lags behind the top 50 mortgage lenders of 84.7%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

With Fannie Mae and other organizations predicting a tough outlook for 2023’s housing market, loan officers should be looking to get their name out in front of as many potential borrowers as possible in order to secure business. and helping the general consumer understand those positives,” she said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As rates increase and housing prices correct in 2023, sellers will want to take advantage of improving their chances to do business with an excited buyer who can obtain a lower than market rate with seller participation,” Jeff Miller, vice president of Pacific Northwest at Churchill Mortgage , said. Lenders seize opportunity for lost volume.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Rocket Companies , the parent of Rocket Mortgage , returned to profitability in the second quarter of 2023 driven by an increase in the purchase mortgage market share and expense cuts in business lines that aren’t profitable. billion in origination volume in Q2, up about 31% from $17 billion in Q1 2023. Rocket generated $22.3

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Some of these professionals spoke to HousingWire during AIME Fuse 2023, an Association of Independent Mortgage Experts conference held Oct. The lender, based in South Dakota, offers conventional, FHA and VA loan products, as well as bridge loans. 4-7, in Las Vegas. “It’s hard for brokers to win deals now.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Despite higher mortgage rates , demand for FHA and VA loans has been on the rise. Of the $400 billion mortgage origination volume in the second quarter of 2023, FHA and VA share of loan volume consisted of 22.9%, up from 18% in Q2 2022, data from Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) and the Urban Institute showed.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Forecasting another purchase market in 2023, Nguyen started using his proprietary software for something new – to pursue relationships with realtors. “I I never had to work with realtors, but now I spend a lot of time working with realtors – supporting them and partnering with them,” Nguyen said in an interview with HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

The Federal Reserve ’s 75 basis point interest rate hike – its largest since 1994 – proves the central bank is laser-focused on slowing inflation, but loan officers and housing economists don’t expect mortgage rates to come down until consumer prices fall. trillion in new loans in 2020 and $3.9 trillion in 2023.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2023

He was cautiously optimistic for a better 2023. The combination of an economic uncertainty, high mortgage rates and persisting affordability challenges will further reduce purchase demand, which keeps Monson and thousands of loan officers up at night. of loans in October, according to the MBA. For the week ending Feb.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

My perspective is, you need to have companies that are willing to open up that credit risk profile in order to help your loan officers bring in volume. In a market where every loan counts, that’s a great resource for loan officers to have those outlets. We want to sustainably grow throughout 2023.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

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. But Woodward struggled to originate purchase loans. “I Without that being built, I was starting from scratch.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Lenders will close and some others will need to merge because of the new liquidity regulations that are coming in 2023.”. Pressure on rates has sharply reduced demand for mortgage loans, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The market composite index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume , declined 3.7%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

trillion in 2023 will look awfully rosy. “Given the magnitude of the move in rates, we think there could be a downside to current estimates for industry volumes in 2023.” trillion in 2023. You think things are bad in the housing market now? Stick around and see if mortgage rates climb into the 7% range.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

His goal is to bring his sales numbers up to $450 to $500 million, with origination coming from different states, and potentially capitalizing on a little refinance boom in the latter part of 2023. When loan officers don’t have refinance business, half of their businesses are gone. Kim: What are your sales goals for 2023?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

The company recently launched a mortgage brokerage firm that offers a plug-and-play program for real estate agents to become mortgage loan officers, a practice called dual licensing. of the loan amount, with a $5,000 cap, which adds to the typical buyer-side agent commission of up to 3%. according to the company.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It’s clear that 2023 will be a very different year for the title industry than what we’ve experienced in the recent past. A REALTOR who no longer has to wait for the mail to receive her commission. A real estate agent or loan officer who can get an updated status on a pending file without having to play phone tag.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2023

HousingWire is excited to announce the 2023 class of Rising Stars! Congratulations to the 2023 Rising Stars! In its tenth year, this industry award is showcasing the up-and-coming leaders in housing who have had major accomplishments all before the age of 40.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

The lender runs its business based on a “no-loan-officer” model in which all of its 45 employees are licensed and delegated to a specific role in closing a loan. Back in the 2007-2009 meltdown, we had loan officers with us at that time.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2023

With a focus on purchase mortgages through referral sources, Reich aims to close $1 billion in loan origination volume in 2023 through his division alone. In addition to offering borrowers FHA loans, conventional purchase mortgages and refis, the lender specializes in retail channel construction loans, according to the firm. “We

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

. “I didn’t want to just jump for money,” Miller said, noting that some lenders with lower rates have complexities of putting together a loan — and transferring over existing clients’ loans is a different process for every company. Loan officers who were part of those branches were brought over, he said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2023

Most of the publicly traded IMBs cut costs in the first half of 2023, and several pledged to keep sharpening their knives. billion in mortgage loans in the second quarter of 2023 “despite a historic decline in industry-wide origination volume during 2023,” according to CEO Mat Ishbia. UWM originated $31.8

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Nunes: Margins at loanDepot also rose in Q2 2023. lender in 2022 to 13th in the first half of 2023, per Inside Mortgage Finance estimates. We have a very large contingent of loan officers and branch networks. We don’t hold loans on our balance sheet. I’d expect the trend to continue.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

HousingWire: According to ICE Mortgage Technology’s 2023 Borrower Insights Survey, fewer than one in 10 borrowers want a fully digital experience (9%) despite many appreciating the convenience of digital processes and services. As a borrower today, I may have to interact with my Realtor in one place and my lender in another.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2023

In its July ESR note , Fannie Mae projected a modest recession beginning in Q4 2023 or Q1 2024. The group upgraded its 2023 real GDP growth outlook to 1.9% million in July 2022, according to the National Association of Realtors. “If on a Q4/Q4 basis and revised its 2024 GDP growth prediction to a 0.2% decline from 0.1%

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