Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Figure Technology Solutions , the parent company of Figure Lending LLC , named Michael Tannenbaum as its new CEO, the company announced on Tuesday. Before taking the helm at Figure, Tannenbaum served as chief operating officer, chief financial officer and chief business officer at fintech company Brex.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

The housing market has undergone a significant transformation over the past two years. While a booming market kept brokers busy in 2021, the 2022 housing market has been underscored by rising interest rates, inflation and geopolitical turbulence. Our brokers are our partners.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2024

Seattle -based proptech company Flyhomes announced Tuesday that it has acquired the assets of startup ZeroDown and is launching an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered home search portal to bring “conversational real estate search and research to the market.“ How does the job market here compare to other cities?”

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Wisconsin-based mortgage lender Waterstone Mortgage Corporation appointed Chik Quintans its new director of digital marketing, the company announced Thursday. Quintans’ professional career spans more than two decades in mortgage lending. Prior to Waterstone Mortgage, he was a digital marketer at UnderGround Marketing Society LLC.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

His use of clear explanations combined with charts makes this crazy market comfortably understandable. Especially in uncertain times and market volatility, having the knowledge that I get from HW+ helps me communicate effectively with my team and my clients. At a small mortgage banker, leadership has to know all aspects of lending.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. It sets up a domino effect [for market activity].”

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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. Certifications, reverse posture Haviland and Droge have certified reverse mortgage professional (CRMP) designations from the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA).

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation announced on Tuesday a series of reverse mortgage maneuvers designed to increase the company’s investment in the space. Ventura’s new position is as president of reverse lending, where he succeeds former reverse lending president Tane Cabe.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Yet borrowers have had limited agency in the lending process to date. FormFree, the ATP fintech led by HousingWire Tech Trendsetter Brent Chandler , is launching a blockchain-based exchange for consumers to take control of the lending process. The smart contract presents the borrower’s lending request to the exchange.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In 2021, Gigliotti created Axis 360 Lift , an online academy designed to educate aspiring mortgage and title professionals. Axis 360 Lift strives to offer a comprehensive understanding of the mortgage business by addressing each step of the process. He expects hiring to pick up again on the lending side in the third quarter of 2024.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2021

Competition for home buyers is tougher than ever right now, as tightened housing stock supply continues to plague the housing market. Acra Lending is doing what it can to help free up inventory. In addition to low inventory, the massive competition in the market has led to an increase in home prices. 3-month bank statement.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

fair lending laws has been on regulators’ radar in recent years. According to the CNBC report, mortgage bankers at Wells Fargo would request pricing exceptions that typically lowered a customer’s Annual Percentage Rate (APR) by between 25 and 27 basis points to help secure deals in competitive markets. Wells Fargo paid $3.7

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2023

Digital lending solutions provider DocMagic announced this week that it has added ADA-compliant mortgage loan documents to its document library. The new digital documents are accessible to visually impaired users and others with disabilities, unlocking opportunities for these consumers into the broader mortgage market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with David Bernard, senior managing director of Specialized Mortgage Services at Western Alliance Bank , Member FDIC, about warehouse lending and how the warehouse sector and mortgage finance have progressed and continue to evolve. DB: Warehouse lending has evolved beyond traditional boundaries.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

California-based Impac Mortgage Holdings is repositioning itself as a mortgage brokerage and voluntarily giving up its seller-servicer designation with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Impac is transitioning its retail consumer direct lending division into a mortgage broker fulfillment model to offer various products at a reduced cost per loan.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 15, 2024

The original forms were designed before the digital age, to be completed on typewriters. Appraisal software companies have innovated the process of “filling out “these forms, but they are still constrained with the original typewriter design. Most appraisers have diversity in their business channels.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

The comprehensive continuing education courses cover federal and state-specific CE requirements in a compelling and entertaining digital-first video format designed to make the completion process as painless and informative as possible. Live classes are offered at a flat fee.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Several historic events over the past few years have brought seismic changes to the way the mortgage lending industry operates. Today, as we face what appears to be the beginning of a modest recovery in the marketplace, we can see the effect of those events in the way mortgage lending has changed forever.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

And hiring in a wave of high volumes can mean layoffs when the market is less robust. Lenders need to be able to grow their business in a way that is not linear and is not tied to the market cycles – leveraging automation technology can help. To learn more about the automation continuum and Indecomm’s solutions, visit [link].

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

Finance of America intends to acquire Parkside Lending ‘s third-party origination channel operation for $40 million, the publicly traded lender and servicer announced Tuesday. It’s the latest in a string of big M&A deals in the mortgage lending space – and the growing wholesale channel in particular – over the past six months.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

Add to those challenges increased competition in a rising interest rate environment that is choking off refinance business, driving overall mortgage volume down significantly. Originators will lose out to quicker competitors, especially in a purchase money market. The post Are these factors creating chaos in your mortgage lending ops?

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2022

There’s no question that 2022 has seen serious changes to the housing market. In a housing market vastly different from the pre-pandemic period, how can industry professionals position themselves to achieve growth despite these current obstacles? That means getting acquainted with the challenges common to the non-QM market.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

In today’s hot housing market where homes are selling quickly, brokers are busier than ever. As purchase transactions move back to the forefront of lending, the broker channel will only continue to grow and gain momentum. a home loan company, offers resources to help support a broker’s business for continued success.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

Facing a housing market in transition, mortgage lenders are striving to provide funding access to a growing population of non-traditional borrowers. The brokers who partner with Champions Funding benefit from exceptional support from a team that truly cares about their business goals.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Their collective expertise spans the entire spectrum of the sector, encompassing areas such as lending, tech, real estate, appraisal, compliance, operations, sales and so much more. The following list of honorees comprises many more examples of exceptional leadership from some of the industry’s most accomplished women.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As investors recognize the potential these older properties hold and the inventory and profits they could open up in such a red-hot housing market, demand for older, more distressed properties should increase. Traditional lending approaches are time-consuming when it comes to fix-and-flip properties. Waning agency business.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

However, in the most challenging mortgage market in over a decade, Impac’s equity reached a negative $11.6 In March, Impac announced changes to the business. The company will now operate as a mortgage brokerage, giving up its retail consumer direct lending division and winding down its third-party origination (TPO).

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2023

The case began in March 2021, when UWM CEO Mat Ishbia announced the lender would not work with brokers who also did business with Rocket Mortgage or Fairway Independent Mortgage. AML also claims that wholesale lending is a separate submarket of the mortgage industry, which has barriers to entry.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

Nectar Kalajian, CEO of STG Mortgage, said the company needed a CRM solution that could meet the sales and marketing needs of the entire business unit. “We were able to upload contacts and send out emails, but that was pretty much all it did for us,” said Karin Abdelmalak , marketing director at STG Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2023

Digital mortgage exchange and loan aggregator MAXEX announced on Monday it closed an equity investment round and partnerships to expand liquidity amid the recent market volatility. The companies claim they collectively serve more than 500 market participants. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Black Knight is looking to hook mortgage brokers with a new loan origination system designed specifically for them. By providing anytime, anywhere access to advanced LOS technology, LoanCatcher meets brokers when and where they are, giving them the freedom to expand their business and better serve their customers.”. “By

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

Betley, who has more than a decade of experience helping first-time and move-up buyers, joined NFM Lending as a loan officer in 2021. TikTok is probably 40% to 45% of my business.” Meanwhile, investors are taking steps to acquire the business. ban of the short-form video app. million ‘likes’ on TikTok. “I’ve

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 7, 2024

During his tenure at the FTC, he successfully worked to strengthen sanctions against repeat offenders, to reverse the agency’s reliance on no-money, no-fault settlements in fraud cases, and to halt abuses of small businesses. Chopra previously served at the CFPB from 2010-2015.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2022

One of the best ways to learn and grow is through experience-sharing, vulnerability and collaboration with others, which is what this workshop that rounds out the Women of Influence Forum is designed to create for attendees. Lending , and Sarah Crossley, vice president of brand strategy at Percy. Leadership can be an isolating place.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

It is active for calls handled in the servicing and origination sides of the business, including loans sent by mortgage brokers working with Rocket Pro TPO. According to Krishna, the company will pursue market share growth and profitability. The addressable market in mortgages is $1.5 million in loans serviced.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

“I’ve always been passionate about helping loan officers grow their business to serve more families in our communities. He will oversee expansion across the country by bringing on new teammates and will add value to all sales teammates through strategic initiatives designed to drive volume, the company said in a statement. “As

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