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Industry vet launches new mortgage CE company, MLO Force

Housing Wire

The aim is to leverage the pair’s experience in content, training and digital production to make required NMLS training more fun, Knottingham said. In this way, we support our friends and colleagues looking to grow business into the coming years,” Knottingham said.

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Informative Research Hires Kurt Raymond as Senior Vice President 

Appraisal Buzz

He spent over a decade in various executive and managerial positions, where he led a highly successful team that included analytics, risk management, training, communications and vendor management while managing two of the top five lending institutions and the firm’s GSE relationships.

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As the housing market bottoms out, educating the future mortgage pro becomes paramount

Housing Wire

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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Opinion: The role of the LO will soon be very different

Housing Wire

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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Borrowers want consistency through the lending process – Here’s how to give them that

Housing Wire

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. Because as much as automation is a long-term vision, it’s also about lenders proving value to the business as they move along the course.”. State of Mortgage Automation.

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From Forms to Reports: A Look at the UAD Overhaul

Appraisal Buzz

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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Fannie Mae approves six vendors for controversial new valuation initiative

Housing Wire

For the new value acceptance plus property data option, third parties are authorized to do that collection at the property site, as long as lenders verify that they have a background check, have been “professionally trained” and are competent to do that collection. “Shift NOW as much appraisal work as possible away from Fannie Mae.

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