Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Cloudvirga’s platform solves for both by creating the best experience for borrowers and loan officers. The Cloudvirga team has been able to dramatically improve the experience of the borrower and the loan officer. Cloudvirga is here to help capture and retain the market you need and deserve.”.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2023

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. of the total market originations in the second half of 2022, up from 14.5% We are growing market share a lot right now and helping our customers a lot.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

ICE Mortgage Technology — part of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) – will be offering lenders access to investment advisory advice in its Encompass loan origination system (LOS) through a partnership with Halcyon , a tech firm specializing in advanced data integration. “In

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Though this seems like a whole new stress-inducing worry for many real estate agents , the fact is that commissions have never been a set amount, just an expectation or a tradition in many markets. So how do you provide overwhelming value to your buyer clients? Here are the top five ways to provide value to your buyer clients.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

To take advantage of the shifting market, two key areas that loan originators should be focusing on are “nurturing and cementing relationships with preapproved borrowers,” said Tim Braheem, founder and chief content creator of The Loan Atlas.

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Housing Wire

JULY 3, 2023

PrimeLending , a Texas-based retail mortgage bank, aims to expand its market share by growing within its existing footprint in a margin-thinning environment. The lender brought on 100 loan officers in June, bringing the total number of LOs to about 800. The goal is to expand its overall market share to 1% this year from 0.6%.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

Nominations for HousingWire’s 2024 Marketing Leaders Leaders award are open now through April 30th, 2024. Savvy marketing leaders like Coleen Bogle, CMO at New Jersey-based mortgage lender The Money Store have become critical to the industry. Click here to nominate someone.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

one of the latest M&A transactions amid a challenging landscape for home loan originators. “We We did transfer our branches and loan officers to ML Mortgage. As of Thursday, per the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS), it had 18 active branch locations and 86 sponsored loan officers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

John Abraham, former top-producing mortgage loan officer at Caliber Home Loans /NewRez , has joined The Money Store. The Money Store boasts a nimble lending platform, transparent loan process and highly competitive rates. “The Data shows that the lender has 28 branches and 100 active loan officers.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2020

DataTrace Information Services announced on Thursday its launch of MarketView – a platform that will provide title companies with accurate market insights including existing market share. Market reporting can then be verified through the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System consumer access website that is available in reports.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In an environment where 30-year fixed mortgage rates are racing towards 8%, loan officer pipelines are thinning dramatically. Originators who primarily served move-up buyers with high credit scores and strong down payments are struggling to find clients. They are staying busy relative to the market,” Ullmann said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In this low interest rate environment, lenders are staying busy with high volumes and new clients. Ernie Graham: Once you’ve closed a transaction, there’s this natural halo effect you have with the client that means that they think well of you – until they forget about you. EG: You create balance by focusing on quality.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The seller, who struggled to find a buyer in a cooled down housing market, agreed to deposit a lump sum payment into an escrow account at closing – ultimately saving Davis $6,900 in monthly payments in the first two years. It gives the buyer and seller the feeling of beating the mutual enemy, ‘the market,’ and gaming the system.”.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

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. Strategies to differentiate themselves include buying leads, providing niche loans and getting on builders’ preferred lender list.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The partnership will boost loan officers ’ capacity to deliver personalized, efficient and tech-powered solutions directly to their clients and agents. Meanwhile, LoanPASS’s flagship products and pricing engine (PPE) automates product and pricing decision-making for all loan products.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Additionally, he will provide management and mentorship to other loan officers at Guaranteed Rate. Everything at Guaranteed Rate is geared towards delivering a world-class client experience; the website and app are easy to navigate and built to drive business our way.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

It may be counterintuitive, but loan officer Scott Betley, a 32-year-old TikTok sensation , says he isn’t worried about a potential U.S. 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. ban of the short-form video app.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

Guaranteed Rate has introduced a new feature that allows sellers working with a G-Rate loan officer to pay a fee that locks in a permanently discounted mortgage rate for a buyer. For as low as $995 the seller can secure a discounted rate to market the listing, according to Guaranteed Rate.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Today’s unique market requires flexibility and a pricing engine that empowers lenders and their loan officers to put the right loan products in front of borrowers. Parvesh Sahi : It has always been important, but it’s now glaringly obvious in today’s market that lenders have to be able to react fast.

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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 A 5% market will be good. I think that brings enough people back into the market, [though] I do think there’s still a lot more demand than supply.”. Consistency is key to getting there.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The savvy real estate agents and loan officers see this not a crisis but a golden opportunity. This is a call to arms for real estate agents and loan officers ready to seize the day. Your clients need a guide, and you are poised to be that guiding light. You need to own the narrative with your clients.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today, a mortgage lender must have scalability in its operation, an ability to pivot quickly to meet changing market conditions and client needs, a well-designed technology stack and, above all, a keen sense of what its customers and the marketplace truly want from them. The lender’s role in succeeding by helping its LOs succeed.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To get there, Cliffco, which has been in business since 1987, is going after the non-qualified mortgage ( non-QM ) market and investing in tech to get in front of buyers and non-agent referral partners. On the non-QM side, only 3% of the market has been penetrated. But we’re heading into different segments of the ocean.

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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. First, he has his clients lender call the listing agent. More education is really the only way to improve this situation.”.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

The new tool is designed to help loan officers, processors and underwriters instantly find the relevant mortgage guidelines they need. All features are offered in English and Spanish, enabling loan officers to expand its reach to more markets.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

Clients of FinLocker include loan officers, mortgage lenders, servicers, banks and credit unions. Through this strategic investment, clients of FinLocker will have the benefit of Radian’s integrated Homogeneous’ suite of technology around real estate search. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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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. Rather, Rocket is simply focused on the purchase market now, just like most other lenders in this market. “I

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. But the housing market in the second half of 2022? By September, a full-fledged housing market recession had set in. The 2002 housing market has been a tale of two halves,” said Green. A mortgage rate lockdown freezes the housing market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

While many proptech companies have struggled to adapt to the slower housing market conditions and challenging venture capital environment, Flyhomes is viewing this as a time to grow. As of mid-March, Richards said the company had signed up more than 20 clients with an aggregate total of more than 5,000 mortgage originations.

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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. I know Rocket Homes has been happy to see it.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Robinson said that even within the challenging market, the team was able to roughly double its headcount of dedicated reverse employees compared to when she started in January 2023. If you’re already a client at New American Funding, why not continue and let us help you implement what your retirement goals could be?”

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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. Profitability may resemble the market in 2018 , when around one-third of nonbank lenders failed to turn a profit.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Shannon Hoff, a California-based branch manager at American Pacific Mortgage (APM), finds herself both enthusiastic and cautious as she assesses the prospects of the mortgage market in the coming year. “Lenders and loan officers right now are just in survival mode,” Hoff said in an interview. trillion or $1.7

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Local markets spotlights 5 different areas across the country, showcasing what is uniquely happening in those housing markets. Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. HousingWire Magazine delivered to your home or office.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

neighborhood, housing market, Fall, homes, new house sales, forbearance. The Federal Reserve ’s 75 basis point interest rate hike – its largest since 1994 – proves the central bank is laser-focused on slowing inflation, but loan officers and housing economists don’t expect mortgage rates to come down until consumer prices fall.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

Austin, Texas might be the hottest housing market in the country. 1 city in population growth for the last eight years and it was the hottest job market in 2019 and 2020, according to the Wall Street Journal. Garrett said aside from cash buyers, he also has clients who have money to offset any appraisal gap.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Apart from selling produce that is popular in former Soviet countries, these stores represent a marketing opportunity for Alex Naumovych, a loan officer at Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corporation. Meanwhile, others worry that they will soon wash out of the industry. I have my own booth at the festival,” said Naumovych.

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