Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

The Blueprint Builder features more than 60 third-party integrations, allowing lending teams to connect with other pieces of their workflow, from credit and verifications to pricing and disclosures. With the deal, Maxwell expanded its secondary market platform to add more than 180 clients.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As one of the largest correspondent investors in the country, AmeriHome is focused on being a consistent, reliable partner to its clients. In the COVID-19 era, that means AmeriHome has spent even more time listening to what clients need and adapting their products and services to help clients navigate constantly changing lending conditions.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

As lenders continue to adjust to a new normal, the pivotal role of technology has become increasingly clear in maximizing productivity and keeping lending pipelines flowing. HW: Where would you advise clients and colleagues to focus their technology resources as we navigate the second half of 2020 and prepare for 2021?

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Business Lending Technology Clients 409

Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 29, 2024

For at least ten good years, appraisers have had a flood of business. By the mid-2000s, I’d built up a large residential and commercial appraisal business with a partner and was now striking out on my own. The biggest question for me was: Do I even want to be in this business if this is how it’s going to be?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with John Jeanmonod, Regional Vice President of Sales at Angel Oak, about non-QM lending and the outlook for the second half of 2022. We were founded during a time of volatility and our business model has set us up to survive challenging times since. Not in droves like in 2021, but the business is out there.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

With the acquisition , Consolidated Analytics expands its valuation solutions, offering clients tools — from data and analytics to appraisals — to predict market value and access a more comprehensive selection of collateral assessment products, the company said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

But when it comes to marketing a real estate or mortgage lending business, people who have made a sale in the past often consider marketing automation a “nice to have.”. He knew it would be really tough to maintain the relationships with his partners and clients from a hospital bed. How marketing saved my business.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

Wholesale lending is great for helping serve underserved borrowers. The wholesale channel has the ability to offer borrowers a variety of choices, with access to many different bank and lending programs. As a CDFI (Community Development Financial Institution) — a designation given by the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

The reverse lending industry’s most prominent attendee — Kristen Sieffert of Finance of America Companies (FOA), parent company of industry-leading lender Finance of America Reverse (FAR) — offered insights into various topics about the reverse mortgage product category.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This exercise can reveal inherent weaknesses and strengths in the business model. Mortgage lending businesses tend to place the greatest value on production-oriented LOs — and it shows in compensation formulas tuned in to new applications and new loans rather than customer retention and loyalty.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In that context, First Home appointed Chris Channell, a 2022 HousingWire Rising Star , to the position of vice president of business development at the Bethesda location. First Home Mortgage Corp. bolstered its presence in the Washington, D.C. Previously, Channel worked at Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This sounds like great news for lenders, for whom millions of newly refi-eligible mortgages means a lot of new business coming in. To help prepare, the industry experts at TMS have compiled a list of proactive steps to take to make sure that, when refi sweets are less abundant, your business will already be nutritious.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2021

mortgage sales , where he led distributed retail sales, direct to consumer sales, strategic market business development, community reinvestment strategy and sales support. mortgage sales, Wayman was a division lending executive on the East Coast, which includes the New York, New Jersey and North East Suburban markets.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Both Droge and Olmos come to University Bank from Open Mortgage , which shuttered its own top 10 reverse mortgage lending division late last year. Sue Haviland has also joined the division as a loan officer, coming off of a roughly three-year stint as Finance of America Reverse (FAR)’s national sales trainer in learning and development.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2023

With the Optimal Blue PPE’s extensive network of HFA content, lenders using the platform will now have access to more diverse financing options for their clients. “This allows us to increase our visibility so more lenders and homebuyers can benefit from the unique options available to them through HFAs,” Laca said.

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Lamacchia Realty

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We are thrilled to announce our Business Development team has expanded to Florida! Theresa Ercoli, a Florida resident, will be the first business development consultant based out of the Fort Lauderdale office and we cannot wait to see what she accomplishes! Vice President of Business Development. “I

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke to Jonathan Scarpati, Senior Vice President of Wholesale Lending at Finance of America Reverse, about tapping into the reverse mortgage market in light of the changing market. . So, adding reverse just makes good business sense. For originators, business growth is all about opportunity.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2022

With more hopeful homeowners searching for non-traditional lending solutions, brokers are looking to partner with wholesale lenders that can offer unique options. Brokers who are new to non-QM are eager to offer these loans to grow their value and their business. Shelly Griffin, Senior Vice President, Client Development.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

It’s a difficult lending market right now — one in which lenders and servicers can’t afford to lose customers. Precision Marketing was developed as a way for lenders and servicers to cross-sell and up-sell to their existing client base, growing their wallet share via extensive CRM enrichment.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2023

We’re thrilled to offer our clients the efficiencies and conveniences that this partnership brings,” MaryKay Theriault , director of product management at Finastra, said. ” Finastra’s MortgagebotLOS, a web-based mortgage lending platform, supports retail, wholesale, and correspondent business channels. .

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Technology has made many aspects of day-to-day life more seamless than ever, with instant, easy and personalized consumer experiences; however, lending is still difficult. The Origence Mortgage Platform is an end-to-end lending platform that puts the power of modern technology in lenders’ hands, enabling them to close more loans, faster.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

That trajectory is now being put in place for the servicing operation because we’ve seen such great success on the origination side of our business. Home Point has woven its “We Care” mentality into the fabric of how it conducts business daily, and it’s an excellent fit for me. PH: It’s simple.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with Desmond Smith , chief growth officer at United Wholesale Mortgage , about the role that wholesale lending plays in the mortgage ecosystem and common myths and misconceptions about becoming an independent mortgage broker. HousingWire: What role has wholesale lending historically played in the mortgage ecosystem?

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Mortgage Retail Lending Loan Officers 365

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Toronto-based cryptocurrency lending platform Ledn has raised $70 million in a Series B funding round to support the growth of its digital assets lending business, including a new Bitcoin-backed mortgage product. Founded in 2018, Ledn focuses on saving and lending products for Bitcoin and other digital assets.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2023

What the Ernst & Young study showed was that women who are high school and college athletes are also being coached on how to be leaders in the business world. It ensures team members understand their duties and responsibilities, helps build quality client relationships and creates a positive work environment. Perspective.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2022

HousingWire Annual is where the community from across the housing ecosystem comes together to share strategies, drive business, discover new technologies, discuss best practices, and meet industry leaders. Presented by: Tom Kriby, VP, Client Development and Partnerships, Westwood Insurance Agency. All Things Housing.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

KBRA Analytics , an affiliate of Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA), has acquired digital-information service Direct Lending Deals , which offers investors and loan originators coverage of deal data, news and analysis in the direct-lending sector. KBRA Analytics’ acquisition of DLD closed quietly on Aug.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2022

“We intend to change how lending is going to be done fundamentally – behavior, market dynamics, products,” Kumar said. LendArch has over 30 clients, including lenders and broker firms. The company, with 25 employees, is focused on the origination side of the business.

Mortgage 342

Mortgage Architecture Technology Clients 342

Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

Black Knight recently launched a web portal that enables clients, third-party providers and their developers to access the company’s application programming interfaces (APIs) across the mortgage life cycle.

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Mortgage Tools Clients Development 323

Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

California-based fix-and-flip lender Anchor Loans launched a third-party originator (TPO) channel to serve mortgage brokers, banks, private and non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) lenders and other referral partners whose clients are home builders, developers and investors.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Meanwhile, borrower’s real estate agents, brokers and financial advisers may not even have access to those systems, preventing them from supporting their clients through what is typically the largest financial transaction of their lifetime. Mohammad Rashid, Head of Fintech Practice. Abhinav Asthana, Head of Products and Innovation.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2021

Two key figures contribute to the trend of reverse mortgage product penetration decreasing over time even though the reverse mortgage business is in a generally productive place in terms of raw numbers, Lunde explains. Reverse mortgage penetration remains stubbornly low. Nobody wants to see their market share go down,” Lunde says.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

RA: One thing that most don’t realize about NAF is that we consider ourselves a legacy family business. We are a family business, and a lot of our family works here. We also like to build our own technology and develop tools and products that give our LOs an advantage in the field and enhance the experience with our customers.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

At UWM we focus on our client service, operational efficiency and speed to close loans. With this unwavering focus, we help brokers close loans fast, get referrals and grow their business,” Chief Operating Officer Melinda Wilner said. UWM subscribes to a “build vs. buy” mentality that incorporates the scale at which they’ve grown.

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Tools Training Technology Clients 306

McKissock

MARCH 28, 2023

In times like the present when the housing market is slow, you can help your appraisal business thrive by offering additional services beyond mortgage lending appraisals. What are some specific types of non-lending assignments that might be worth adding to your workload this year? Read the full survey results below. We do that.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

Tristan Watson has been promoted to the role of director of subservicing pricing and will oversee all revenue pricing generated by the subservicing business. Watson, who has been with Cenlar since 2016, previously held the role of senior pricing analyst and is a graduate of the Cenlar Leadership Development Program. territories.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending.

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