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Loan officers are dramatically cutting their pay to win clients. It’s often illegal. 

Housing Wire

Mortgage rates had climbed close to the 7% range and he was determined to remain competitive on pricing with rival loan officers in North Carolina. After Mike paid his loan officer assistant, he was clearing just 40 bps. The lower comp rate stung. Still, it was better than nothing.

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

Housing Wire

Real estate agents are facing a contracting issue that could seriously upend the traditional housing landscape. No matter what it looks like, buyer agents will be working for less and this is where trailing risk for loan officers comes in. Most successful loan officers get their business from buyer agent referrals.

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How the buyer commission lawsuits could upend the relationship between agents and LOs

Housing Wire

Attorneys, Realtors and clients are a big part of our repeat business.” There will likely be fewer Realtors, the sales volume will be handled by fewer Realtors. Finding reliable lending partners takes time and some trial and error, but once established is often the lifeblood of LOs.

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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.

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Princeton CEO Rich Weidel on the promise vs reality of mortgage tech

Housing Wire

Within mortgage companies, even those that have huge scale versus small scale, they’re offering really the same borrower experience and the same loan officer experience. Obviously, they’ve got some different systems to handle hundreds of loans a month versus thousands or tens of thousands. new referral partners.

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Buydowns become key for buyers to beat the market

Housing Wire

With the mortgage market rapidly shrinking – some experts believe it might contract to just $1.3 Temporary rate buydowns are a great tool for brokers and realtors to have in a rising rate environment,” a spokesperson at UWM said. ” Trudy Kelly, senior loan officer at Churchill Mortgage.

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State of the mortgage industry half-time report

Housing Wire

However, the lenders and loan officers who will be most successful in the second half of 2022 will be those who pivot quickly, understanding both the nuances of the market and the best strategies to help solve problems for today’s homeowners, homebuyers, homesellers, Realtors and financial advisors.

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