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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Guaranteed Rate Affinity has initiated legal action against former loan originators, accusing them of breaching contracts by failing to pay back advanced signing bonuses and commissions after they left the company. Gifoli served as a loan officer from May 2021 to October 2021. He declined to comment on the lawsuit.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

For most real estate agents, working with a reliable lending partner is essential to a smooth and successful transaction. Finding reliable lending partners takes time and some trial and error, but once established is often the lifeblood of LOs. The lender and LO can make or break the transaction.” Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

a subsidiary of Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway , discriminated in its marketing outreach, failed to hire minority loan officers, avoided making loans or locating offices in minority areas and sent racist internal emails. It must also contract with a lender to administer $18.4

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. billion, according to a review of bond-rating and industry reports.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Automation has been applied fairly well to both the front office and back-office sections of the mortgage life cycle, he said, citing tools like point-of-sale and loan officer portals on the front-office as well as the acceleration of digital closing capabilities on the back-office, but there are still opportunities for improvements to the process.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Equity Prime Mortgage (EPM) filed a counterclaim against Jesse Iwuji Motorsports (JIM) last week for allegedly breaching a sponsorship contract. The stock car team is also accusing EPM of breaching the contract by failing to make more than $4 million in sponsorship payments following a “margin call” from its investors.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Across its mortgage footprint, “ Citizens Bank has hired close to 100 underwriters, processors and loan officers this year to keep up with the demand and further their commitment in the mortgage retail space,” said Ace Watanasuparp, who heads residential lending for Citizens in New York City. Citizens is not alone.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

RMS had 70 offices in 14 states, 850 employees, and 250 loan officers. billion in mortgage loans. However, if the contract was terminated with cause – which includes cases of fraud or breach of fiduciary duty, among others – he would not receive the severance compensation. In 2020, it originated $8.5

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2023

This has resulted in the company closing branches and laying off loan officers on the retail side. Regarding EPM’s strategy in the wholesale space, Kevin DeLory, chief lending officer, said it is not chasing borrowers with specific credit scores or being aggressive in pricing. “Wholesale is growing.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Top 10 mortgage lender and servicer Newrez sued one of its former executives over multiple allegations, including breach of contract, disclosure of confidential information and unfair competition tied to soliciting several Newrez executives to join a competing lender. 21 in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

of the balance of a loan being assumed would be fair to both the borrower and the servicer.” ” Other stakeholders want even higher fees so they can compensate loan officers. And as a result, few mortgage loan officers have experience or comfort with the product. Tozer suggested “a fee of 1.3%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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.” ” He added that the hope is we see some improvement in the spring or summer, “but it’s anyone’s guess.” “I

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2020

If rates rise modestly, as MBA suggests, we will be left with rates still near historic lows, a boon for homebuyers but still a contraction in refinances. Despite this contraction, 2021 is forecasted to be a larger overall year than 2019 by approximately $195bb. Run a spreadsheet by LO, branch and region.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Eliminated positions included loan officers, closers, underwriters and client advocates, according to six former employees. The lender has a contract with Moder , the business outsourcing arm of Archwell Holdings , sources said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2023

It also accuses Movement of inducing these employees to breach contracts by soliciting others to leave loanDepot. A Movement representative did not return a request for comments. That’s not the Orange County, California-based lender’s only poaching legal battle.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In November, Interfirst issued pink slips to hundreds of non-commissioned loan officers at its call centers in Charlotte, North Carolina and Rosemont, Illinois, according to WARN notices in both states. Clients upload all documents into their loan origination system directly to reduce/eliminate operational staff.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

Jay Garrett, a loan officer at Supreme Lending ’s McClellan Branch in Austin, said he is seeing 10 to 40 offers on houses no matter where they are in Austin, and cash offers are winning the day because sellers don’t want to have to worry about the house appraising too low for someone who needs financing.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite. The lender runs its business based on a “no-loan-officer” model in which all of its 45 employees are licensed and delegated to a specific role in closing a loan.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 17, 2021

As appraisers, we faced tremendous pressure from buyers, sellers, real estate agents, and loan officers during the previous run-up. Almost daily, there is some story on social media about being “turned in” to the state by a disgruntled agent, buyer, or seller for appraising a property below the contract price.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

. “What we found was a couple had like two loans or four loans,” he said. “This company had hundreds of loans. And so this was the only one that was substantial enough…it was a large company that signed a contract, agreed to the terms of a contract and disregarded it.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2021

Rocket goes to real estate agents directly and helps them to get licensed to be a loan officer and says ‘we’ll pay you a fee if you don’t send to brokers’… that’s not good for brokers. “UWM is closing loans in 16-17 days…In a purchase market you can’t miss the contract date. I don’t like that.

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PennyMac

MARCH 4, 2024

There’s a lot to consider when it comes to choosing the right one — everything from interest rates, loan types and fees to service and experience. Purchasing a home is a big step, and you want a knowledgeable lending partner by your side as you weigh your financing options and navigate the paperwork involved.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Analysts at Cider Knoll Holdings , an equity research firm specializing in nonbank mortgage originators, project earnings per share for 10 nonbank mortgage companies to contract 30% in the fourth quarter, compared to the previous quarter. The pessimism about nonbank mortgage lenders reflects market conditions.

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Birmingham Appraisal

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Not really, and today I’m going to explain the differences between several different types of appraisals that could mean the difference between a home appraising for contract price or not. For the record, I will state that the goal of every appraisal is to estimate the market value of a home, usually for lending purposes.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

If you’re planning on staying in the mortgage business in 2022, you’re probably already shifting your strategy to better enable you to originate purchase money loans next year. The purchase money mortgage transaction begins with the real estate sales contract and that’s not something our industry controls. Those days are long are over.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

Ishbia: Game On, as I talked about before, was an investment in the broker community to help more loan officers join the broker community and it helped the brokers who needed more loans in the toughest time in the market, which was the fourth quarter. What is your pricing strategy looking ahead?

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 7, 2021

Josh : The course is taken by staff of lending institutions and appraisal management companies and centers on the need for companies to meet or exceed clients’ and regulators’ minimum training requirements. I have also served as the Chair and Co-Chair for the Agency Relations Committee of the Collateral Risk Network.

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Miller Samuel

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Miller measures listing discount by the percent difference between the contract price and the price that the property was listed for sale at the time of contract – not when it was first listed). The most recent asking price is “really the moment the property entered the market,” he said.

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Annarbor Appraisal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

When a sale is involved, the valuation may be lower than contracted price. Contact the loan officer for assistance in submitting an ROV, but remember these processes are mostly one-and-done, therefore be rational and compelling in that first submission. This begs the question, what, if anything, can the consumer do about it?

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Eppraisal

APRIL 20, 2021

A full pre-approval is when a mortgage loan officer pulls your credit, verifies your employment and income, has your complete application and has all the required documents from you. Your loan officer may even put your file through an initial underwriting. Then comes the issue of the appraisal.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Given the market contraction and numerous layoffs in the industry, it may be surprising to think that loan officer recruitment and retention could be a focus for some lenders and independent mortgage banks right now. Loan officers tend to move shops for one of two primary reasons: pain or gain.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 10, 2024

The mortgage loan officer handling the loan? In more recent downturns, such as during the 2008 recession, many foreclosures were due to bad lending. First-time homebuyers account for roughly half of purchase loans, and the government lending programs are an important source of financing for these homebuyers.

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McKissock

APRIL 20, 2021

Receive basic training in contracts and how to price properties using comparative marketing analysis. Meet with/learn from service providers such as loan officers, title companies, attorneys, home warranty, and insurance companies. Set clear expectations upfront about your availability.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

A fierce advocate for the industry, Stevens became a loan officer in 1983 in Colorado, rising through the ranks of World Savings during a 16-year tenure.

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