Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

In today’s low-rate environment, wholesale mortgage lending continues to grow, making up more than 20% market share. Because as loan officers, they believe that there’s nothing better than a broker channel, and to them this is most important for their consumers,” said Kortas. “We

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

Connecticut-based lender and servicer Planet Home Lending has acquired the assets of Illinois-based retail lender Platinum Home Mortgage Corporation. Founded in 1993 by Bill and Michael Giambrone, Platinum has 22 branches and 79 active loan officers, according to the mortgage tech platform Modex. million in cash.

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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. Desmond Smith: There are two ways to get a mortgage — wholesale or retail.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

Rocket Mortgage is looking to hire local loan officers at a time when mortgage rates are high and the industry remains heavily reliant on the purchase market. According to Rocket’s job post, the loan officer position is remote and requires a minimum of three years of experience in mortgage loan origination.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Roughly 20% of Cliffco’s production comes from the wholesale channel and 80% of origination volume comes from its retail channel – through which it offers GSE, government loans and non-QM products. The lender has about 80 loan officers and aims to hire up to 100 in states.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Coming off multiple quarters of financial losses , Rocket has accelerated those efforts in 2023, embarking on a remote local loan officer hiring spree designed to capture purchase market business from real estate agent connections, sources told HousingWire. So this isn’t brand new,” Kidwell noted.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The California-based retail lender has set a target of becoming a top-10 lender in the markets in which it has a presence, which would give it about 2% in overall market share. The company hopes to reach its goal by growing organically with more loan officers under a dozen business development managers. It won’t be easy.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2023

Ravi Patel, a top loan officer and former senior vice president of mortgage lending at Guaranteed Rate , and his team, have moved to UMortgage, according to a statement issued on Monday. ” While at Guaranteed Rate, Patel and his team closed more than 250 loans in 2022 and increased the purchase volume by 20% from 2021. “I’m

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

The company recently hired reverse mortgage industry veteran Ken Krajewski to serve as its managing director and head of reverse mortgage lending. Business alignment Krajewski most recently served as vice president and head of reverse mortgage lending at University Bank , and he joined US Mortgage earlier this month.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2021

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.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Rick Arvielo: What’s interesting about our growth is that we are the 13 th largest retail IMB in the country, but we’re only in about a third of the United States. 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. That’s why we started NAF Cash.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The merger will result in an “increased lending footprint” to better serve clients, Paul Kessel, president of American Portfolio, said in a statement. Lisa Thomas, chief executive officer of Town Square, added that the deal also brings “a portfolio of expanded loan products backed by a lending platform with state-of-the-art technology.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. 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.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Michael Brennan, president of Movement, said Waggoner can empower loan officers with the tools they “need to win.”. “I’m excited to translate this vision into transformational action across our technology platform by putting the best tools in the hands of our loan officers,” Waggoner said in a statement. .

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates in the 6% range have frozen the housing market, forcing loan officers to find business outside their wheelhouses. Business is at a “dead stop,” said a retail loan officer in Michigan. That’s going to be a new market for me Lonnie Glessner, loan officer at Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

“While we do not comment on pending litigation, Guild’s long-standing reputation for doing what’s right is built from our core values of integrity and respect, and we are committed to those values with every employee, client, and partner,” Guild said in a statement. RMS had 70 offices in 14 states, 850 employees, and 250 loan officers.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

Glenn Sanford’s eXp World Holdings announced Thursday a mortgage joint venture with Glenn Stearns’s Kind Lending , called Success Lending. The company will be headquartered in Santa Ana, California, Stearns said, home of Kind Lending. Unclear is what pressure eXp’s agents may feel to direct their clients to Success.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

Though its overall mortgage strategy has apparently not changed, Rocket Mortgage is undoubtedly ramping up its initiative to hire local loan officers to win purchase business. Kostegian’s comments offer insight into the scope of Rocket’s remote local loan officer program. Rocket didn’t respond to requests for comment.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2023

“The 5% market’s a healthy market,” said Anna Ruotolo, branch manager and senior loan officer at Synergy One Lending. “A These hopes for a declining rate have many loan officers feeling optimistic about 2023’s business prospects after experiencing lower volumes last year. “I A 5% market will be good. Make a plan.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

I am fighting back against UWM because my freedom and independence, the reason my clients choose to work with me, has been stripped away,” O’Kavage said in a statement. “If If I didn’t want to operate in an independent fashion, I would work on the retail side of the industry and work in-shop for one of the major lenders.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Interfirst Mortgage , the retail mortgage business he founded in 2001, had grown to $14.5 Godin made plans to relaunch the business in late 2019 as a tech-forward lender that originated loans across both wholesale and retail channels. In 2012, Dmitry Godin was seemingly on top of the world. 375% below the market.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

There is also growing demand for non-QM products from a banking sector that is taking note, presenting new opportunities where some banks see the need to sell loans they would traditionally hold as portfolio products. Our client development team spends a lot of time at conference forums and in retail branches educating loan officers.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

The wholesale channel will continue to grow as more retail originators and borrowers learn the benefits of working with a mortgage broker. At UWM we focus on our client service, operational efficiency and speed to close loans. Jason Bressler, Chief Technology Officer.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

in early 2021 as part of a larger plan to expand its origination reach beyond California — with the goal of creating a national lending footprint. . With the Castle acquisition and tech integration now completed, our intent is to lend nation nationwide in the non-QM market. We need to have footprint outside of [California].

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It affected at least 50% of the staff, positions in operations and loan officers, according to multiple former employees. The layoffs impacted both the retail and wholesale channel and their positions following a training period of overseas staff, according to multiple sources. Marginal reductions .

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

Under Sweeney’s leadership, BAC will step up efforts to raise and manage funds for the Broker Action Coalition PAC (BACPAC) – the political action committee launched in 2022 by Sweeney that collects contributions to support bipartisan public policy initiatives that benefit independent brokers and their clients.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2023

and Delaware employees also transitioned to the retail competitor. In some cases, Movement offered a $125,000 signing bonus to loanDepot loan originators to come to the company, the lawsuit claims. Additional Maryland, Washington, D.C., ” loanDepot has ongoing arbitrations with certain of the former employees.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2023

Mortgage compliance attorneys interviewed by HousingWire said the program, dubbed “Control Your Price,” raises potential areas of concern across three subjects: rules that govern loan officers’ compensation; fair lending; and unfair, deceptive and abusive acts and practices.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Goldman Sachs ’s analysts wrote in a report to clients on January 6 that, overall, they remain negative on the group of nonbank mortgage originators for this year. Rocket is the largest mortgage originator in the country, but they are there mainly because of the size and substance of their retail direct lending, the call center,” he said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

At that point, Dodson was actively working on a jumbo loan for friends of his from church. “I told my client, my friends, ‘Look, I know you’re supposed to close in 10 days but we’re closing Friday and you let everybody know it or you may not close,’” Dodson said. And non-QM loans in my experience are harder.”.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2021

billion in the wholesale channel in 2020 (compared to about $62 billion in retail), lost roughly 5% of its broker clients to UWM, according to company executives. Then you might as well just go work for UWM retail. “My business is not designed to make my competitors like me, especially retail competitors,” he said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Most retail lenders are desperately seeking high producing loan originators to make up for the losses that occurred in 2022. California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite. Back in the 2007-2009 meltdown, we had loan officers with us at that time.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The change in market share coincides with nonbanks tapping the capital markets through IPOs, according to Koss, who noted that retail has “squeezed against” the correspondent channel and brokers have gobbled up more market share since March. “As an investor, you’re looking at all this trying to figure it out,” he said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

Scott Miller, a former mortgage loan originator at Sprout Mortgage , knew the clock was ticking when the non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) lender abruptly closed doors in July 2022. In turn, thousands of loan originators could soon be looking for a new lender to hang their license. But not every LO will find a new workplace.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2023

After Finance of America Companies closed its forward mortgage origination unit in October, a total of 21 FoA retail branches transitioned to Go Mortgage, said Steven Reich, a division president at Go Mortgage and former executive at FoA, in an interview with HousingWire. “Refis are the easier product of the industry,” Reich said. “We

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Mortgage lenders are offering discounts on loan pricing to capture borrowers. Mike, a North Carolina-based loan officer, had two loans closing in mid-January. The contrast between the deals was striking. “I have a loan closing today for first-time homebuyers who didn’t really press me on pricing,” he said.

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McKissock

APRIL 20, 2021

Despite your chosen work schedule, you’ll have to juggle clients who generally want their agents to be available around the clock. Meet with/learn from service providers such as loan officers, title companies, attorneys, home warranty, and insurance companies. Finding time for part-time real estate.

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