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Mortgage rates are the highest they’ve been this year. Did loan officers expect this?

Housing Wire

Many investors had expected the Fed to cut benchmark rates as early as March, and loan officers had hoped to see a decline in mortgage rates that tend to move in tandem with long-term yields. Saghafi has clients who recently decided to pull the trigger and move to a bigger house by selling their home that had a 2.375% mortgage rate.

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AI will be a supercharger for loan officers: Blend CEO

Housing Wire

And, in the mortgage industry, AI will play an instrumental role in helping loan officers to be more efficient, according to Nima Ghamsari , Blend ‘s co-founder and CEO. Ghamsari: I think on the AI piece, it’s about combining an understanding of what the client is trying to accomplish.

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Desperate for deals, mortgage pros get creative

Housing Wire

Roberts and thousands of other loan officers across the country continue to be hampered by a serious inventory shortage , which results in heavy competition for fewer deals. There’s just more buyers than there are sellers,” added Steven Grossman, chief strategic officer at NJ Lenders.

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Opinion: Sitzer/Burnett decision presents an uncertain future for buyer agents

Housing Wire

A plausible, and hopeful, outcome of the commission lawsuit would be an agreed upon contract change which provides more transparent definitions of agent compensation and gives sellers the opportunity to set their buyer agent’s commission rate. Most successful loan officers get their business from buyer agent referrals.

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Anxiety grips LOs as layoffs sweep the industry

Housing Wire

If you take the temperature of how loan officers are feeling ahead of the holiday season, the scale would likely read “uneasy.” According to Fahad Janvekar, a loan officer at Fairway Independent Mortgage , “there is definitely some concern” about layoffs in the industry. Presented by: Black Knight.

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Mortgage lenders facing a dark, cold winter

Housing Wire

Jeff Walton, CEO and co-founder of mortgage data analytics company InGenius, which provides loan-officer data to IMBs for recruiting purposes, said it’s going to be a “tough time through winter.” These are the folks who are buying right now, and I you know because some of them are my clients.”

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Former academy resumes role as Funding Longevity Task Force

Housing Wire

But by definition, a task force comes together for a specific goal, and then could lay low for a while until needed again. But as we’ve said from the very beginning, it takes loan officers sitting [face-to-face with advisers] to really get the message across.” That’s what we want to continue to do.”