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Mortgage lenders need to lean in to consumer expectations

Housing Wire

When it comes to consumers’ growing desire for a seamless, fully digital home-buying experience, coupled with COVID-19’s influence on buying behaviors, it’s safe to say there truly is “no turning back.”. From hybrid appraisals to virtual showings to RON/RIN, the digital mortgage process took center stage over the last year.

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Mike Fratantoni on MBA’s 2022 mortgage market forecast

Housing Wire

We’ve had the sharpest and yet also the shortest recession in history, record-low mortgage rates leading to record origination volumes, and record home prices as housing demand far outstripped supply. A silver lining is that we are expecting both 2022 and 2023 to be record years for purchase originations.

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Inside Redfin’s unique, brave and vulnerable business model

Housing Wire

But Alipour exited Redfin for Compass last month, due to Redfin’s sales expectations. Grace Alipour spoke loudly into the phone over the cries of her two-year-old being strapped into a car seat. “I I started at Redfin 12 years ago,” she said. And in 2017, I decided to go on full-time as a lead agent.”. The pay wasn’t great.”. On a mission.

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