Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A recent lawsuit filed by Banc of California is claiming that mortgage lenders and servicers Sprout Mortgage (now defunct) and Planet Home Lending owe $1.5 Mortgage industry veteran Michael Strauss, Sprout’s founder, is also listed as a defendant. million related to the proceeds of two notes it owned and funded.

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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. The division’s leadership team will now also include Dan Ventura, who has served at Fairway since 2007 and last year was appointed as VP of reverse mortgage operations.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

University Bank ’s reverse mortgage division has added four key hires across different disciplines as it prepares to grow further in the reverse mortgage space. Both Droge and Olmos come to University Bank from Open Mortgage , which shuttered its own top 10 reverse mortgage lending division late last year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Nathan Knottingham, COO at Vetted VA , announced the launch of a new mortgage continuing education provider, MLO Force , from the stage at HousingWire’s The Gathering this week. When I tell my friends and family that I produce mortgage continuing education for a living, they often assume it’s a boring job,” Jones said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Wells Fargo , once the largest mortgage lender in America, was accused of discrimination through the common industry practice of offering mortgage loan discounts to select borrowers, CNBC reported. fair lending laws has been on regulators’ radar in recent years. Its findings showed that mortgage lenders violated U.S.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2021

Acra Lending, one of the largest independent non-QM specialty finance lenders, has added to its suite of mortgage loan programs with the launch of its Jumbo Prime mortgage solution. Acra designed the program as an extension to its suite of programs for purchase or refinance of higher valued properties.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

Wells Fargo -backed mortgage fintech Maxwell rolled out a point-of-sale (POS) feature that offers tailored workflows and integrations. 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.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

While a booming market kept brokers busy in 2021, the 2022 housing market has been underscored by rising interest rates, inflation and geopolitical turbulence. With 35 years of experience in the mortgage business, Flagstar has reputation for successfully navigating the ebb and flow of an ever-changing housing market.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 6, 2024

Over the past 20 years, he has served in key leadership roles in mortgage banking, private mortgage insurance, and appraisal management. Johnston is a certified real estate appraiser with advanced professional appraisal designations, project management designations, and process improvement credentials.

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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. Non-qualified mortgages will continue to be the dominant product in the broker channel, the company said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

When mortgage lenders are talking about compliance in loan origination or mortgage servicing, the worst case can be pretty bad, so we often see companies investing heavily in the best tools. Mike is an experienced mortgage loan officer. How marketing automation saved Mike’s business. How marketing saved my business.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Many analysts who cover the mortgage industry believe that the worst of the current cycle may be in the rearview mirror. In 2022 and 2023, quickly rising mortgage rates and shrinking volumes sent shockwaves through the industry and prompted massive job cutbacks. According to data from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

From mortgage origination to servicing, companies are constantly grappling with high volume and stringent regulatory oversight while managing a large cohort of vendor partners. Smaller mortgage originators often deal with this problem by throwing more people at it. We’re seeing mortgage executives and workers retiring at record rates.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Chris Mozilo: While I’ve spent most of my 30-year career working at large firms, the most I ever learned in the mortgage business was the five years I worked at a small independent mortgage banker. At a small mortgage banker, leadership has to know all aspects of lending. in mortgage banking.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Wholesale lender The Loan Store launched a consumer rewards program designed to help mortgage brokers offer competitive mortgage rates. Founded in 2019, The Loan Store offers mortgage products including conventional, jumbo, VA and non-QM loans.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Texas-based independent mortgage bank Thrive Mortgage has signed a letter of intent to acquire the Ohio-based lender American Mortgage Service Company (AMSC). The acquisition will strengthen Thrive’s retail channel and bring with it new territories amidst arguably the most challenging mortgage market since the early 1980s. .

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2021

Non-QM lender Sprout Mortgage is setting up a distributed retail operation, and it’s picked a veteran of Wells Fargo to lead the new division. Johnson, based in Miami, has also worked at PNC Bank during his career in mortgage banking. Sprout does most of its business through mortgage brokers.

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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. In 2021, he was a mortgage banker at USA Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

Wholesale lending is great for helping serve underserved borrowers. For example, borrowers who are prime and creditworthy but who may not qualify for traditional mortgages, such as the self-employed or those with non-traditional income sources, may benefit from non-QM programs.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Through every financial transaction in a person’s life — whether a mortgage, auto, student or personal loan — there is one constant: the borrower. Yet borrowers have had limited agency in the lending process to date. The smart contract presents the borrower’s lending request to the exchange. A bigger vision. “We’re

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

STG Mortgage has successfully implemented OptifiNow ‘s TPO CRM solution, according to a press release from the software provider. 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.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Mortgage tech firms Mortgage Coach and Polly have teamed up on a new application programming interface (API) integration that guides borrowers through a visual representation of their loan options. The goal is to help drum up business for lenders during an extremely challenging time in the industry. .

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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

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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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 23, 2024

Mortgage industry veteran Kurt Raymond, CMB, has joined Informative Research as senior vice president and borrower journey engineer. Raymond co-founded mortgage industry consulting firm Excelerate Advisors and serves as owner and founder of KATANTCO2, specializing in connecting small and emerging companies to other mortgage industry entities.

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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. HW: How has mortgage finance changed in the last few years?

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2023

For those in the mortgage space, there are a myriad of technology solutions claiming to help streamline lending operations and improve efficiency. When investing in a technology that someone else designed to automate workflows, it’s important to ask — how do I make this workflow work for me?

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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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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 15, 2024

UAD originated in 2010 and since then we appraisers are accustomed to using codes like “C4,” “N;Res,” and “1200sf0sfin” in our mortgage appraisal reports to communicate the results of our analysis. It all starts with the standard appraisal forms used in the mortgage process. Most appraisers have diversity in their business channels.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Tomo , a fintech mortgage startup run by former Zillow executives, is expanding its presence, announcing this week that it will now serve borrowers in Florida, Connecticut and Colorado. And they’re looking to capitalize on higher home prices and the market for jumbo mortgages. Presented by: Mr. Cooper. the fintech company said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Prior to 2020, the mantra around the mortgage industry going back to 2016 was that launching a new “digital experience” was the equivalent to table stakes in poker. The message was clear: if you weren’t already invested in new digital mortgage experience, then your competition already beat you to the sale.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2023

Cornerstone Servicing , a division of recently formed Cornerstone Capital Bank , has launched a subservicing business, the company announced Monday. Cornerstone Capital Bank was formed following a merger between a nonbank and a traditional depository. The deal created a financial institution with more than $380 million in capital and $1.5

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2023

” At that time, historically low rates spurred the mortgage market to $4 trillion in volume — and the perception among the rank-and-file was that Home Point Capital ‘s wholesale lending business Homepoint was a great place to work. It just seemed so awesome working at a company that just came public.”

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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. Servicing Digital, offered as an app or web design, enables customers to access their loan- and home-related information.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

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. State of Mortgage Automation. Indecomm’s automation continuum showcases several potential opportunities for RPA across the mortgage origination lifecycle.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The Mortgage Cadence Platform. The Mortgage Cadence Platform (MCP) is comprised of features and functions that deliver a complete, end-to-end cloud based digital lending platform. Designed with user experience at the center of the technology, delivered across all channels and products. #3. Get More Info.

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