Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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. Operating expenses also increased 100.3%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

But there’s another threat that Homepoint executives must worry about – United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), the top dog in wholesale, has embarked on a strategy of heavy price cutting, forcing Homepoint and others to limbo to compete for business. That has contributed to UWM’s competitors taking losses on loans when they can least afford it.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2022

Like many loan officers, Dicker was working nights and weekends, banging out refinancings and purchase mortgages at record-low rates for clients. About 40% of his business came from refis in the summer of 2021 even when his focus was on purchase mortgages his entire career. But the boom times are over, and he knows it.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2022

The title insurance space isn’t generally known for placing outsized bets on technology. We caught up with Hurst to talk about his new role and why the firm is looking to invest in commercial real estate tech startups and mortgage tech firms. As of Sept. Here is how Hurst, via email, responded to our questions.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2021

In 2016, Brad Sullivan’s Mortgage Financial Services ruled the roost in housing with a rank of 733. And Nationwide Mortgage Bankers posted an insane average three-year growth rate of 16,396% in 2020. Mortgage Bankers Association data reports that total mortgage origination volume in 2019 came in at $2.25 Top Verticals.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Consumers today expect access to instant information and don’t want to spend lots of time making calls to coordinate showings or filling out paperwork to get a mortgage. Our focus at Propertybase is to make collaboration between consumers, agents and loan officers as easy as shopping from third-party sellers on Amazon.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

25 and March 1, 628 said they would move due to natural disasters, extreme temperatures, and rising sea levels in their area, according to real estate brokerage Redfin, which conducted the survey. Helena [California] whose home burned down in the last fire and only half of it was covered by the insurance company.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

After years of aggregating behavioral data from homebuyers and homesellers at the largest real estate brokerages in the country, Buyside is proud to announce the launch of their expansion into core & ancillary services by focusing on the homeowner.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2023

Busch is vice president and senior mortgage banker at First Savings Mortgage Corporation , a Virginia-based lender that produced $2 billion in mortgages in 2022, less than half the $4.2 billion volume of the previous year, per the mortgage data platform Modex. And he hasn’t done so voluntarily. billion in 2022, down 41.3%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Stick around and see if mortgage rates climb into the 7% range. Mortgage-backed securities are right about the worst place on the duration spectrum for this move. Mortgage-backed securities are right about the worst place on the duration spectrum for this move. .” Blake Bianchi, CEO of Future Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2021

Homebuyers and sellers contend with a variety of entities — banks, insurance companies, mortgage servicers, appraisal companies, title providers, agents, brokerages, and even real estate marketers— and the process can be labyrinthine to even those who have gone through it before. Technology plays a big role.

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Miller Samuel

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

When Jeff and Marie asked me to be formally interviewed for their blog " The Apple Peeled " I was happy to do so, especially because I could veer off the road into issues about the current mortgage and appraisal process. Mortgage rates weren’t wildly different in ’09 compared to today. That process can take time. “If

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PennyMac

JUNE 14, 2021

Buyer’s agents have connections to other industry minds, such as home insurance professionals, inspectors, mortgage lenders and more. Ask your loan officer about connecting you with the real estate concierge team at Home Captain. Need more information on how a buyer’s agent figures into the mortgage process?

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Clear Capital

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

And the mechanism behind it is if I have an offer that is accepted as a Ribbon-backed offer, I go to closing and if for some reason the lender is unable to finance the mortgage on time, we’ll step in, we’ll buy the home on behalf of the consumer. Sellers always prefer a cash offer over a mortgage-backed offer.

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