Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Mortgage professionals voiced their concerns of the potential ripple effects that might have on those cash-strapped buyers, depending on the results of the commission lawsuits. “It “But agent commissions have never been a closing cost from a buyer perspective. “VA loans are probably the best loans on the market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

Home-price growth has slowed markedly in many parts of the country, which has helped to improve buyers’ purchasing power,” Joel Kan, MBA’s vice president and deputy chief economist, said. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ). But it’s not just mortgage demand that has fluctuated recently.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

More than a mortgage app Developed by the company’s in-house technology team, the Rate App took two-and-a-half years to bring to market and an investment of “millions of dollars,” Ciardelli said, though he declined to provide a specific figure. Delivering value to stay relevant So what is the new app’s business benefit for loan officers?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

And many buyers are waiting on the sidelines, paralyzed by low housing inventory and high rates. It essentially allows qualified buyers with a government loan to purchase a home by assuming responsibility for the sellers’ mortgage terms, including the current balance and interest rate.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The letter showed that the first round of layoffs will start on December 2 and will impact marketing staff, loan processors, underwriters and a loan officer. Inlanta didn’t respond to requests for comment on the purchaser or when it will fund loans until.

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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. We want to retain customers for our loan officers for life, so we don’t sell the loans we fund or the servicing rights. RA: We have always done really well growing organically.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

The development is intriguing for a few reasons. Successful agents, brokerages and loan officers of the future are going to rely significantly on technology to find, nurture and engage with buyers and home sellers while also playing an expanding role as personal advisors. Presented by: Propertybase.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

With Fannie Mae and other organizations predicting a tough outlook for 2023’s housing market, loan officers should be looking to get their name out in front of as many potential borrowers as possible in order to secure business. Parker is a HousingWire 2022 Mortgage Marketing Leader with a focus on business development and marketing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

. “The pandemic has catalyzed purchases by millennial first-time buyers, many of whom can now work from anywhere.” Zillow officials said homes on its 3D Home Tour platform were saved by buyers 32% more than homes without, and received, on average, 29% more views than listings without. Presented by: Propertybase.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2021

The fact that Black buyers report earning more money and making more financial sacrifices to enter the homeowner class is one example of how difficult it is for Black people in this country to achieve the American dream.” The lender’s offices were concentrated in white neighborhoods, and nearly all of its loan officers were white.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

The best marketers are driving origination volume, purchase demand, buyer and seller leads and listing awareness by staying attuned to market trends and swiftly adjusting strategies and messaging to effectively communicate. If there’s one word to describe today’s successful marketers in mortgage and real estate it’s “adaptable.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

As the Federal Reserve announced yet another 75 basis point interest rate hike Wednesday, loan officers and lending executives — already well aware of the news — were looking ahead, questioning whether mortgage rates will spike or dip in the aftermath. Census and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

After completing countless Veterans Administration (VA) mortgage loan transactions over the years, Chris Pascoe, a Marine veteran turned RE/MAX agent, has developed something of a system. Next, he has his buyers write a letter to the seller, a practice that has come under scrutiny lately for creating potential biases.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2022

The FHA also insured more than twice as many loans to Black and Hispanic borrowers last year as the rest of the mortgage market combined. As interest rates rise, so do the monthly mortgage payments, which could be problematic for low-to-moderate income borrowers, said Alex Naumovych, loan officer at Draper & Kramer Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2022

It’s a tough time to be a loan officer. Amid all the chaos, loan officers may be pressed to get creative when it comes to generating new business. Amid all the chaos, loan officers may be pressed to get creative when it comes to generating new business. There are thousands of loan officers out there.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2022

This includes developing a stronger knowledge about mortgage products, origination, compliance and regulatory matters, how loan officers operate day to day and mortgage sales. In order to be more effective in my role at Homeward, I’ve had to deepen my understanding of mortgage. To become an HW+ member, click here.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

I developed a ton of great relationships over that time there. My perspective is, you need to have companies that are willing to open up that credit risk profile in order to help your loan officers bring in volume. In a market where every loan counts, that’s a great resource for loan officers to have those outlets.

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Mortgage Retail Loan Officers Brokerage 381

Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2021

Adding gas to the fire, Google acknowledged that they would not develop alternate identifiers to track individuals browsing the web or use them in their products. The more you leverage your own data the better off your agents or loan officers will be because they’ll be able to identify, target and create better customer experiences.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I can see why loan officers, real estate agents, or buyers might push back on appraisers’ conclusions. Market value indexes, just like the other data we use in our analysis, such as marketing time, exposure time and inventory levels, is taken into account when we develop our professional opinions of value. Of course not.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

According to NAR over 69% of buyers have a home to sell, so really homeowners represent the earliest buyer. Buyside helps real estate agents and loan officers engage homeowners with not just home value tools but also branded wealth optimization tips on their home’s equity so homeowners can now truly view their home as an asset.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2022

Last week, Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation announced the hiring of Tane Cabe as its new reverse business development manager with a focus on Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) for Purchase (H4P) business. Harlan Accola. The issue is that must be done [quickly], especially in a competitive market,” he explains.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Mike is an experienced mortgage loan officer. In 2000, Mike’s company used a CRM capable of automating the marketing for its loan officers. I lived in limbo much of the time because potential buyers would often change their minds or fail to qualify at the last minute, leaving me with weeks of work without pay.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2022

With first hand knowledge of how complex and time consuming appraisals can be, Reggora is motivated to streamline and modernize the process, benefiting appraisers, lenders and buyers themselves. Before founding Reggora, Brian Zitin and Will Denslow, co-founders, launched a successful real estate brokerage.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

During the second-quarter earnings season, executives from publicly traded mortgage lenders detailed their forays into jumbo loans, non-qualified mortgages, reverse mortgages, home equity products and even personal loans. It comes at a time in which the housing market favors buyers and seller concessions become more frequent.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

Since launching as a call center in 2003, the California lender has expanded into the outside distributed retail model with a target on the purchase mortgage market, serviced its own loans and developed its tech stack in-house. Kim: NAF bought Marketplace Home Loans in 2018. Are there plans to acquire a regional purchase lender?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2022

Founded in 2000, Scottsdale, Arizona-based HomeSmart is the seventh largest brokerage in the country by transaction sides, or how many times a HomeSmart agent represented the buyer or seller in a deal, according to RealTrends. Greif saw the stock options to a personal acquaintance – and workplace subordinate – as ethically questionable.

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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. Now under pressure in a shrinking market, they see their top loan officers transition to other competitors. By the same measure, Guild had just 1.1%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

million investment in eOriginal, a multi-year Tech100 winner that developed a ‘simple closing experience for lenders, borrowers and settlement agents.’ Certain Fiserv clients have expanded their active QC review from 10% of loan volume to 100% without increasing staff. Knock.com offers solutions for both buyers and sellers.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It’s so important in this market that when a buyer puts an offer on a home, it’s 100% clear that financing is available and ready to support the purchase. SW: Affordable housing initiatives are on the radar of more lenders this year, but your typical loan officer may not have a lot of experience there.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

A seasoned retail and commercial banking salesman in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the 39-year-old Woodward joined Interfirst Mortgage as a loan officer in October 2020 after a recommendation from an old college friend. But Woodward struggled to originate purchase loans. “I Without that being built, I was starting from scratch.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

In a competitive market where most borrowers are mortgage rate shopping, credit optimization can be the difference between closing a loan or losing out to an offer from a competitor. Here why CreditXpert’s new platform — that combines the best of Wayfinder and the What-if Simulator — can help you reach more buyers and close more loans.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

As the engines of the housing and mortgage markets continue to sputter due to higher interest rates and fewer buyers, industry innovators are looking for ways to get their company’s wheels off the ground. of the loan amount, with a $5,000 cap, which adds to the typical buyer-side agent commission of up to 3%.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

We recently spoke to Bao Huynh, Director of Business Development at LoanScorecard, about these changes and the challenges of originating non-QM loans. The last thing they want is to put a lot of work into a deal only to learn that there is no buyer for it and then have to go back to their borrower with the bad news.

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McKissock

JANUARY 18, 2022

Dale Schaechterle, the founding partner and CEO at Realty Executives Integrity , shares with Forbes that the services of a good real estate agent are essential for a first-time home buyer given the complicated network of mortgage rates and tax laws that they will have to navigate. How far will their budget truly go? Explain About Closing.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

I remember loan officers telling me that I needed to be “creative” with my appraisals. Another issue that led to the housing crash of 2008, was unqualified buyers who were able to secure mortgages on homes they couldn’t really afford. Or buyers are walking away from the deal. I kid you not!

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2022

I’ll continue to oversee First American’s venture investing arm, but now will also evaluate additional opportunities that could include external partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, and internal product and technology development. BH: Can you share developments related to Endpoint?

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

Largely hidden from view and misperceived by some to be on the lower end of the hierarchy of service providers, the position seemingly lacked the luster of the real estate agent or the panache of the loan officer. Technological connectivity The new generation of buyers is going all in on technology.

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