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The Real Brokerage to acquire LemonBrew Lending

Housing Wire

Publicly traded real estate firm The Real Brokerage has struck an agreement to acquire the mortgage brokerage arm of real estate and mortgage technology company LemonBrew. The Real Brokerage, headquartered in Ontario, Canada, will pay $1.25 million to acquire the tech-enabled home loan platform, which does business in 20 U.S.

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Expansion-obsessed eXp reports $80M in Q3 profits

Housing Wire

The cloud-based brokerage recorded $1.1 The brokerage on Wednesday also announced that the launch of its residential lending joint venture Success Lending with Kind Lending, LLC has been approved in Colorado, Illinois and Tennessee. The brokerage was the fourth-largest in the U.S. year over year to $1.09

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RealFi lays off employees without paying salaries, severance: sources 

Housing Wire

However, two former employees said the company communicated it’s shutting down its mortgage lending business. “They have let branch managers and loan officers go and say they are transitioning to a broker [shop].” Purchases comprised about 66%, conventional loans were 45% and 95% were banked loans.

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More layoffs at Keller Mortgage

Housing Wire

Keller Mortgage , the lending arm of real estate holding company kwx , is the latest firm to be hit by the rapidly decreasing demand for mortgages. According to the NMLS, as of October Keller Mortgage had 111 active loan officers spread across 28 branches. During the week ending Sept. 30, mortgage applications decreased 14.2%

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How InstaMortgage convinced top broker shop to jump to retail

Housing Wire

Tech-fueled retail mortgage lender InstaMortgage has merged with mortgage broker shop All Cal Financial , a rare example of a top-performing brokerage switching channels. As part of the merger, Jim Black, the founder of All Cal, will become chief lending officer of InstaMortgage. That means that they get more product options.

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How 2020 exposed a greater need for collaboration between real estate agents and LOs

Housing Wire

Successful agents, brokerages and loan officers of the future are going to rely significantly on technology to find, nurture and engage with buyers and sellers while also playing an expanding role as personal advisors in all things related to mortgage, insurance, moving, renovating and new home transitioning.

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Will new products stop the bleeding for mortgage lenders? 

Housing Wire

During the second-quarter earnings season, executives from publicly traded mortgage lenders detailed their forays into jumbo loans, non-qualified mortgages, reverse mortgages, home equity products and even personal loans. ” Just a little less vanilla. . ” Just a little less vanilla.

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