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. HW: How has wholesale changed over the past 2–3 years?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Photo credit: AJ Canaria Reverse mortgages became an unexpectedly prominent topic during certain parts of The Gathering by HousingWire , held earlier this week in Scottsdale, Arizona. Reverse mortgages for purchase are taking up more conversation on the reverse side of the business recently.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As a premier provider of innovative, high-performance software, data and analytics for mortgage and home equity lending and servicing, Black Knight is transforming the housing finance industry. Black Knight is a proven mortgage industry leader in servicing technology. Business Lines, Services and Products. Originations.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Movement Mortgage on Friday announced the appointment of Lyra Waggoner as its chief information officer. Waggoner’s professional career spans 18 years in the mortgage industry. Michael Brennan, president of Movement, said Waggoner can empower loan officers with the tools they “need to win.”. Presented by: Polly.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

With the acquisition , Consolidated Analytics expands its valuation solutions, offering clients tools — from data and analytics to appraisals — to predict market value and access a more comprehensive selection of collateral assessment products, the company said.

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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. United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) is solely focused on growing the wholesale channel and helping independent brokers thrive. “At Blink+ is a white-label, borrower-facing digital application tool.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

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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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

LenderLogix , a provider of white-label mortgage software, has integrated with AccountChek , a digital verification service for assets, income and employment, the companies announced on Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Unfortunately, too many misconceptions persist among real estate and even mortgage industry professionals about the VA home loan, and those misconceptions have big (and negative) impacts. VA mortgage loans generally provide veterans and active-duty service members with more favorable terms than other loans on the market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Wells Fargo and information services company CoreLogic partnered on real estate tax processing operations to enhance risk management, compliance and customer experiences in the mortgage servicing sector. mortgages are serviced by CoreLogic tax solutions, the company’s website shows.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Guaranteed Rate made two significant executive appointments, the Chicago -based mortgage lender announced on Monday. CJ Rose was promoted to the role of executive vice president of growth and acquisition, while Chris Hutchens was hired as producing area manager for North Carolina and senior vice president of mortgage lending.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with David Bernard, senior managing director of Specialized Mortgage Services at Western Alliance Bank , Member FDIC, about warehouse lending and how the warehouse sector and mortgage finance have progressed and continue to evolve. HW: How has mortgage finance changed in the last few years?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Over the past couple of years, I have learned that Guaranteed Rate is truly the company with all the tools and the platform to help originators grow their business and provide the best service for customers and clients.” Since leaving Guaranteed Rate, Nelson held executive positions at Nations Lending and Movement Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Acquisitive lender Guild Mortgage on Tuesday announced the acquisition of Legacy Mortgage , increasing its footprint in the Southwest. The lender originated approximately $309 million in mortgages in 2022, according to data from mortgage technology platform Modex. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

Black Knight recently launched a web portal that enables clients, third-party providers and their developers to access the company’s application programming interfaces (APIs) across the mortgage life cycle. Its new tools also allow lenders to cut costs in a higher-rate environment. homeowners and industry stakeholders.”.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As one of the largest correspondent investors in the country, AmeriHome is focused on being a consistent, reliable partner to its clients. In the COVID-19 era, that means AmeriHome has spent even more time listening to what clients need and adapting their products and services to help clients navigate constantly changing lending conditions.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The lending industry is notorious for its poor customer retention – in fact, only 1 in 5 borrowers return to their original lender for a subsequent loan. Without the right tools to beat these odds, lenders have had little choice but to pour dollars and resources into new customer acquisition instead. Arend de Jong, CFO.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Stavvy , a fintech firm specializing in digital and remote collaboration for lending and real estate companies, acquired SigniaDocuments, a technology suite from Texas-based lender Evolve Mortgage Services. Epperson was tapped as chief product officer and Anderson was named executive vice president of digital mortgage strategy.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Christian Mills, head of Financial Advisor Relations at Reverse Mortgage Funding, about the ways a reverse mortgage can create a stable cash flow for homeowners in the midst of a volatile housing market. CM : Firstly, reverse mortgages, whether government-insured or proprietary, are non-recourse loans.

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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

JUNE 29, 2023

This integration aims to deliver an enhanced customer experience for mortgage borrowers while streamlining the closing process. “The integration of Total eClose into MortgagebotLOS offers new tools to enhance the customer experience. Finastra is a global provider of financial software applications and marketplaces.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Mortgage Cadence , a subsidiary of Accenture, has unveiled their new Mortgage Cadence Platform (MCP) and announced the release of version 1.1 to help users throughout the mortgage lending life cycle across all channels and products.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Maintaining and deepening relationships with borrowers is important for lenders, but it takes valuable time away from other business efforts for mortgage organizations. Additionally, creating compelling content on a regular basis and maintaining separate systems or tools for its dispersal is stressful, cumbersome and time-consuming.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

STG Mortgage has successfully implemented OptifiNow ‘s TPO CRM solution, according to a press release from the software provider. Nectar Kalajian, CEO of STG Mortgage, said the company needed a CRM solution that could meet the sales and marketing needs of the entire business unit.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polly, a software-as-service mortgage-technology firm that operates a loan-trading platform , has raised $37 million through a new funding round, its third since launching in 2019 — bringing the total raised from investors to $57 million. Building the next generation of tech: Three ways to digitize home lending.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

We need to work to provide better integrations, tune the technologies to support the business and make sure that considerations for digital mortgages are included in the mid- and long-term technology roadmaps.”. HousingWire: How has COVID-19 impacted technology strategies for mortgage lenders?

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) has launched a new service to handle all the title work for its brokers on refinancings. mortgage lender announced the service on Thursday during an annual meeting with its broker partners in Pontiac, Michigan. The top U.S. ChatUWM is based on the company’s knowledge base, “The Search.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Seeking business growth in the current rising rate environment, originators are contemplating the benefits of adding reverse mortgages to their product mix. With mortgage interest rates steadily on the rise and refinance volume dropping, originators should immediately consider tapping into products that are less interest rate sensitive.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2022

Wells Fargo agreed to pay $12 million to more than 1,800 mortgage borrowers to resolve a class action lawsuit that alleged the bank’s clients had loan modifications wrongfully denied due to calculation errors in the bank’s system. A spokesperson for Wells Fargo, the largest depository residential mortgage lender in the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But before diving back in headfirst, it would be worthwhile for lenders to think through what the last two years of scarcity reveal about the normal working model of an independent mortgage bank (IMB). Last year, Floify commissioned an independent study of 150 high-performing loan originators (LOs) to gain recruiting and retention insights.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

When industry veteran Michael Strauss abruptly shut down Long Island-based Sprout Mortgage in early July, there was uproar. million mortgage fraud settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to his name, seems to be back in the mortgage business. Shocked employees didn’t receive their last paychecks.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2023

The collapses of Silvergate Bank , Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank , the rescue of First Republic Bank and the acquisition of Credit Suisse by UBS, brought turbulence to the financial markets that led to a decline in mortgage rates – despite the Federal Reserve hiking federal funds rate by 25 basis point on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In times as tough as these, mortgage lenders must be proactive in borrower outreach and find consumers’ home finance needs if they’re going to close a deal, a new report by mortgage relationship data company Sales Boomerang concludes. Rocket launched a similar product in September. Presented by: Polly.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

Betley, who has more than a decade of experience helping first-time and move-up buyers, joined NFM Lending as a loan officer in 2021. Gougé views TikTok as a shorter form of content intended to capture attention and educate borrowers, a strategy that has become more relevant in a shrinking mortgage market. million ‘likes’ on TikTok.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Return to a ‘task force’ The original task force was co-founded in 2012 by Giordano and Security One Lending ’s Torrey Larsen. Its mission statement included a desire to “champion groundbreaking research focused on reverse mortgages.” We have to be honest; that’s the reality.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

LodeStar Software Solutions, a provider of compliance tools for mortgage lenders, has partnered with loan origination system and software provider LendingPad, it announced on Tuesday. The aim of the partnership is to introduce LodeStar Discovery, a closing fee calculator, to mortgage loan originators using the LendingPad platform.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As the Fed pulls out all the stops to stimulate economic activity, mortgage rates have reached record lows. This sounds like great news for lenders, for whom millions of newly refi-eligible mortgages means a lot of new business coming in. Their overarching goal is to help grow happiness — for customers, for clients and for their staff.

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