Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Looking for a quick and easy way to stay up-to-date on mortgage lending news, trends and technology? Podcasts are a great resource for mortgage professionals to continue learning, with shows covering industry updates, business advice and the experiences of other pros in the mortgage industry. Loan Officer Freedom.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

Additionally, each business had a minimum revenue of $190,000 in 2019 and $2 million last year. 5000 list was VA Wholesale Mortgage , which specializes in offering home loans to veterans and active duty military members. Trius Lending Partners (no.678), We continue investing in tech while it’s not that crazy busy.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

New York-based multichannel lender US Mortgage Corporation previously announced that it was renewing its efforts in the reverse mortgage industry, having hired industry veteran Ken Krajewski to serve as managing director and head of reverse mortgage lending. Proprietary product offerings are on the table as well.

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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 27, 2024

Rebecca Anderson, senior vice president of strategic communications and public relations at loanDepot, wrote to HousingWire that the company “enjoys a long history of attracting and developing top-notch talent and “we thank Mosi for her many contributions to loanDepot and wish her the best in the next chapter of her career.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Jake Droge joins the company as a loan officer, while Carol Olmos has joined the company as an account executive. Both Droge and Olmos come to University Bank from Open Mortgage , which shuttered its own top 10 reverse mortgage lending division late last year. University Bank has been around for 130-plus years,” he said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

360), an online regulated training provider, acquired Mortgage Educators and Compliance (MEC), a mortgage lending training company, both companies announced this week. Approved by the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS) since 2009, MEC specializes in online mortgage and financial services professional development.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2021

million to create a loan subsidy fund for residents of predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in the Houston area, $750,000 for development of community partnerships to provide services that increase access to residential mortgage credit in those neighborhoods. Specifically, Cadence will provide $4.17

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

Tennessee-based mortgage lender Guaranty Home Mortgage Corporation hired Andy Voyles as executive vice president and director of retail lending. After being sold to frequent bank investor Gaylon Lawrence in January 2019, the business name changed to Guaranty Home Mortgage Corporation. Guaranty Home Mortgage originated $68.76

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

For most real estate agents, working with a reliable lending partner is essential to a smooth and successful transaction. Finding reliable lending partners takes time and some trial and error, but once established is often the lifeblood of LOs. Attorneys, Realtors and clients are a big part of our repeat business.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

million into Pennymac Loan Services, its mortgage lending subsidiary, to establish a mortgage fulfillment production center in Cary, North Carolina. Unfortunately, we do not see this change taking place within the base period or extended base period of the Community Economic Development Agreement (CEDA),” Allen noted.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

A race is a useful analog for the mortgage business, especially as it relates to the refinance business. It’s amazing how many loan officers miss this, don’t return the call quickly, and lose their race before it’s even underway. In our business, that’s the refinance transaction.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2022

According to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notices submitted to the Employment Development Department (EDD) on April 28 and May 9, the company plans to cut 207 jobs in two rounds on June 27 and July 8, in letters to the EDD reviewed by HousingWire. Loan servicing followed at 4.1% in the first quarter.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Its centralized call center business model, which Rocket relied upon to dominate an unprecedented refi market , isn’t as durable when interest rates are high, there are few refi opportunities and having strong relationships with real estate agents is what brings home the bacon. Its parent Rocket Companies rode the wave to a stunning $9.4

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2022

Chicago-based Guaranteed Rate will discontinue its third-party wholesale channel, Stearns Wholesale Lending , just one year after it acquired the multichannel lender. Wholesale, JV and partnership businesses remained as stand-alone segments led by Stearns’ CEO David Schneider.

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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. In fact, in 2022, over 20,000 loan officers joined the wholesale channel.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

A Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filed with the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development shows the job cuts will affect mortgage loan officers, final “docs” associates, desktop support professionals and business solutions architects, among others. “As

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Borrowers, loan officers and the corresponding processors and underwriters are often working on entirely different systems. The platform is loan origination system-agnostic and is able to “surround and extend” loan origination systems to provide a more efficient lending experience.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2022

Wells Fargo , one of the nation’s largest banks, had at least 114 layoffs in its home lending business following a drop in revenue in that division in the first quarter of 2022. Wells Fargo: at least 114 employees in home lending. The bank’s revenues in the home lending business totaled $1.5

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

OneTrust Home Loans , a direct competitor of Newrez’s retail mortgage business, conspired with James Hecht, former Newrez executive vice president for national retail lending, to orchestrate the termination of several Newrez executives and have them join OneTrust, according to the suit filed Feb. 21 in the U.S.

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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

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. 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.”.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

6, 2024,” Sherry Carson, human resources generalist at Country Club Mortgage, wrote in a letter sent to the Employment Development Department in California in early December. Job cuts include the leadership – the president and CEO, the finance manager and the credit risk officer. More than 50 mortgage loan officers were let go.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The company hopes to reach its goal by growing organically with more loan officers under a dozen business development managers. Guild, the most active lender in terms of M&A deals on our list, wants to expand its retail business model nationwide to gain market share. Take Planet Home Lending as an example.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Borrowers, loan officers, and the corresponding processors and underwriters are often working on entirely different systems. The platform is loan origination system-agnostic and is designed to deliver value to both borrowers and lenders–”from the point of thought of buying a house to the point of owning a home.” .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We recognize that loan officers have a choice, and when they choose to join a company on their own, it just seems to work better. 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.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Pink slips will arrive for 58 employees working in the mortgage business at Texana Bank in California, according to a Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification (WARN) sent to the state’s Employment Development Department. The layoffs include loan officers, underwriters, processors, post-closing and secondary market staff.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

“Lenders and loan officers right now are just in survival mode,” Hoff said in an interview. About 20 loan officers under her leadership produced $116 million in mortgages over the last 12 months, a drop from $223 million in 2022, according to the mortgage tech platform Modex. When will the market turn?

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Simonson Real Estate

AUGUST 24, 2020

Our adaptive, hassle-free and convenient appraisal process will provide you with the confidence to make the right business decision for your needs, no matter what the market is doing. It was here that I had the opportunity to moderate the Banking and Construction Lending Update discussion with Patricia Gnetz of U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2022

issued pink slips to over 350 non-commissioned loan officers, a workforce reduction that former workers claimed to represent more than half of Interfirst’s entire staff. Presented by: Acra Lending. Interfirst is a mortgage business founded in 2001 by Dmitry Godin that has been harmed before by market downturns.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

When mortgage rates rose and demand for lower-priced mortgages grew, Kirby saw opportunities in the wholesale lending channel. Nothing in the mortgage industry is easy right now (…) With the broker model, you’ve got so many outlets to send these loans to that it’s really easy to find a home for most borrowers.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Lenders that adopt artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) into the mortgage lending landscape want to see operational efficiency, Fannie Mae ’s mortgage lender sentiment survey showed. A total of 242 senior executives from 219 lending institutions completed the survey between Aug.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

In today’s low-rate environment, wholesale mortgage lending continues to grow, making up more than 20% market share. The brokers were in agreement that recruiting talent and maintaining strong partnerships will be key to not only brand development, but a lasting foundation that will continue post-pandemic. “So

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

California-based mortgage lender WinnPointe Corporation , doing business as Interactive Mortgage , has started a reduction in its workforce of around 180 employees, after suffering more than $1 million dollars in losses. . The layoffs at Interactive Mortgage are but one example of the recent bloodletting in the mortgage business.

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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. You develop stronger relationships with your teammates and coaches when they know that you are genuine and real. That communication focus extends to business.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2021

Despite the increased pace, the industry as a whole still has room for continued tech development and usage. HousingWire: Why do you feel it is important to continually develop and use new technologies? Renata Sheyner : Two key industry factors drive the need for continual use and development of new technologies.

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