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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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Longbridge Financial marks two years of national field sales

Housing Wire

I think loan officers are getting used to the rate environment as it is now, versus hanging on to the idea that they’re going to get better and things will pick up.” Parks has overseen other changes in the division, including growth of its third-party associate channel that works alongside Longbridge’s loan officer corps.

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What are the building blocks of digital lending?

Housing Wire

SM: I joined this industry as a Retail Mortgage Loan Officer growing to a Broker Owner in my local community and try to apply a simple concept we share with customers and prospects which is the idea of digital lending made simple. HW: What are some of the core building blocks for digital lending? Find more information here.

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How top LO Thuan Nguyen plans to grow his business in 2023

Housing Wire

I have about five loan officers helping me, and I have more than 30 processors and assistants helping me. CK: Has there been layoffs at Loan Factory as well? Nguyen: I would say more than 100 layoffs at Loan Factory, and many of them also left voluntarily. Most of the signing bonus came from retail lenders.

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DataDigest: Goldilocks and the big IMBs

Housing Wire

The speed of the rate hikes has shrunk gain-on-sale margins because mortgage companies haven’t contracted quickly enough to offset falling demand. How much of that servicing business can result in new loans in a couple years when rates drop? But we feel pretty good about how many LOs converted from retail to wholesale.

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NAR Appraiser Survey July, 2023

Appraisal Today

May a representative of the lender provide an appraisal management company a list or a panel of appraisers to use for loans involving a specified mortgage broker, real estate agent, or loan officer? This typically happens when an appraiser turns in an appraisal with an appraised value opinion lower than the sale contract price.

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ChatGPT for Appraisers

Appraisal Today

ChatGPT: Valuable Tool or a Replacement for Real Estate Appraisers? Anyway, I don’t mind going back in time and out further, but my preference in an appraisal report is to use older comps from the immediate neighborhood and adjust for how the market has changed since those properties got into contract. percent from 6.93 percent from 6.89