Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

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. Back in the 2007-2009 meltdown, we had loan officers with us at that time. I thought it was sparse.

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Lending Real Estate Agent Loan Officers Retail 361

Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2023

Name Job Title Company Name Alayna Gardner Director of Sales and Marketing LodeStar Software Solutions Alex Boand Managing Director of Correspondent Group Sales Pennymac Alison Flinn Chief of Staff Development Amherst Amanda Morrow Director of Investor Relations Atlantic Bay Mortgage Company Andres Munar Owner and President Co/LAB Lending Andrew Jewett (..)

Real Estate 370

Real Estate Loan Officers Development Realtors 370

Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Coming off multiple quarters of financial losses , Rocket has accelerated those efforts in 2023, embarking on a remote local loan officer hiring spree designed to capture purchase market business from real estate agent connections, sources told HousingWire.

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Loan Officers Retail Real Estate Agent Real Estate 348

Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2022

HousingWire: Given the recent news about a few non-QM lenders shutting down, some loan officers might be hesitant about working with non-QM. What would you say to those loan officers? HW: What strategies can loan officers employ to win with non-QM in the second half of 2022?

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Lending Loan Officers Training Investors 332

Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

SentriLock , the home lockbox company wholly owned by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), announced Tuesday that they created a computer and smart phone platform to help real estate agents juggle their home showing appointments. The development is intriguing for a few reasons. Presented by: Propertybase.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Brokerage Realtors 404

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. Borrowers have called me from seeing my advertising in the stores and a couple of Realtors, too.”. trillion in 2021.

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Marketing Real Estate Agent Loan Officers Advertising 382

Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Mortgage pros have closely monitored the commission lawsuit developments since a Kansas City, Missouri jury determined that NAR, HomeServices of America , and Keller Williams conspired to inflate or maintain high commission rates through NAR’s so-called Participation Rule.

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Buyers Agents Mortgage Real Estate Agent 498

Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2021

. “Black people who succeed in buying a home have to be Superman or Superwoman,” said Bryan Greene, vice president of policy advocacy for the National Association of Realtors. The lender’s offices were concentrated in white neighborhoods, and nearly all of its loan officers were white.

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Loan Officers Realtors Open Houses Law 476

Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Utah-based software developer offers a private-label digital mortgage platform and mobile app designed to connect lenders with borrowers and real estate agents. In fact, prior to founding SimpleNexus in 2011, CEO Matt Hansen worked on the Simplifile development architecture team for nearly five years.

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Architecture Real Estate Agent Loan Officers Real Estate 386

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

If cooperative compensation is banned, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the VA must weigh in to develop or accept a mechanism for FHA and VA borrowers and how to pay the buyer’s agent’s commission. Realtors will have to decide, do I negotiate or not?

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Agents Sellers Buyers Finance 438

Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

As part of the merger, Jim Black, the founder of All Cal, will become chief lending officer of InstaMortgage. Black, a licensed mortgage loan officer and broker, will also lead product development, tech partnerships and sales growth. Terms of the deal, which was announced on Tuesday, were not disclosed.

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Retail Loan Officers Brokerage Technology 352

Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2024

In the homeownership journey, the consumer has a lot of conversations: they talk to a loan officer, they talk to a client experience specialist, they may talk to someone in the servicing experience. We have a lot of metrics that we use to measure that, but it’s an important philosophical way of how we develop ethical AI.

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Clients Technology Tools Loan Officers 289

Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2022

This includes developing a stronger knowledge about mortgage products, origination, compliance and regulatory matters, how loan officers operate day to day and mortgage sales. There are just so many companies that have the objective of displacing the Realtor altogether. To become an HW+ member, click here.

Real Estate 353

Real Estate Realtors Brokerage Business 353

Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2021

Those include collaborative communications (Realtor to closing officer; loan officer to escrow assistant, etc.) One Realtor may prefer text while a loan officer might wish to use a technology integrated with her LOS and the buyer might only communicate via phone.

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Loan Officers Agents Realtors Clients 379

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

As a borrower today, I may have to interact with my Realtor in one place and my lender in another. There is also the transition when you close your loan and go to yet another place to engage with your servicer. HW: How does ICE approach its digital strategy and product development? Everything should be in sync.

Technology 361

Technology Tools Loan Officers Development 361

Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

As the housing market continues to move from last year’s refinance boom, lenders’ ability to identify customers and maintain consumer relationships has become more important than ever in not only securing loans but also ensuring they make it to close. Homebuyers often search for financing online before engaging a Realtor.

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Finance Loan Officers Lending Housing Market 258

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

With Fannie Mae and other organizations predicting a tough outlook for 2023’s housing market, loan officers should be looking to get their name out in front of as many potential borrowers as possible in order to secure business. Parker is a HousingWire 2022 Mortgage Marketing Leader with a focus on business development and marketing.

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Loan Officers Business Mortgage Clients 280

Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

Largely hidden from view and misperceived by some to be on the lower end of the hierarchy of service providers, the position seemingly lacked the luster of the real estate agent or the panache of the loan officer. During the housing crisis of 2008, the title industry suddenly emerged from obscurity into full view.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Project Management Agents 296

Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2021

Hansen told HousingWire that he stepped down to lead a team of software developers and sales staff for upcoming research and development tactics within SimpleNexus. This new role will give him more time to focus on his passion for product and development, he said.

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Real Estate Agent Development Real Estate Technology 242

Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

I developed a ton of great relationships over that time there. My perspective is, you need to have companies that are willing to open up that credit risk profile in order to help your loan officers bring in volume. In a market where every loan counts, that’s a great resource for loan officers to have those outlets.

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Mortgage Retail Loan Officers Brokerage 345

Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I started thinking about this when I saw the news coming from the National Association of Realtors about how far the current real estate market is out of balance. I can see why loan officers, real estate agents, or buyers might push back on appraisers’ conclusions. Of course not.

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Appraisal Marketing Real Estate Inventory 370

Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

.” The FOMC noted that it was still targeting a 2% inflation rate , and in doing so, will “take into account the cumulative tightening of monetary policy, the lags with which monetary policy affects economic activity and inflation, and economic and financial developments.”

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Real Estate Agent Inventory Loan Officers Mortgage 370

Birmingham Appraisal

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

If you were buying a home and the loan officer told you that they needed to get an appraisal this is what they were talking about. In the quest to provide faster and cheaper alternatives to banks and mortgage companies, Fannie Mae has developed alternative appraisal products for their customers.

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Realtors Appraisal Market Value Real Estate Agent 80

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. But Woodward struggled to originate purchase loans. “I Without that being built, I was starting from scratch.

Mortgage 519

Mortgage Marketing Retail Lending 519

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 Market Marketing Loan Officers Buyers 300

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Behind him, the recent financial crisis still cast a cautionary shadow over new business development, but ahead he saw opportunities for a client-centric, tech-focused family of companies in the title insurance and real estate settlement services industry. Now, at WFG’s 10-year anniversary, this vision holds even more relevance.

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Insurance Real Estate Technology Loan Officers 367

Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2022

Like many loan officers, Dicker was working nights and weekends, banging out refinancings and purchase mortgages at record-low rates for clients. Even if mortgage rates are hovering in the 6% range, homes are still going to sell, loan officers said. The last two years have been good to Christian Dicker.

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Housing Market Marketing Brokerage Real Estate 401

Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

The Hispanic homeownership rate grew moderately to 48.4%, partly due to organized advocacy and the work of Latino Realtors and lenders. Incentivizing developers is necessary. Another option would be to require the construction of high-density housing units when planning transit-based development plans around employment centers.

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Insurance Construction Government Lending 367

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

from the previous year, marking the 116th straight month of year-over-year existing-home price increases, according to the National Association of Realtors. It also means we have to get back to the basics of building relationships with our clients and being their loan adviser for life instead of treating them as transactional customers.

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Finance Construction Law Inventory 335

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. Alex Naumovych, a loan officer at Draper & Kramer , has noticed similar trends in his work at a lender.

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Clients Agents Buyers Sellers 378

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

They’ll be based at brick-and-mortar branches and going out into their communities and building customers for Realtors and affinity partners.”. If you look at it from an origination standpoint, think about all the loan officers that were able to just refi their current pipeline, with interest rates at 3% [or lower],” Yoon explained. “It

Marketing 337

Marketing Retail Lending Mortgage 337

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I liked that they were trying to solve the problem across a variety of different channels of customer touch points, which I thought was much more relevant to the way that customers want to interact with their loan officers. SW: How are you developing products for the next wave of homebuyers?

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Technology Investors Development Loan Officers 319

Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

million investment in eOriginal, a multi-year Tech100 winner that developed a ‘simple closing experience for lenders, borrowers and settlement agents.’ Certain Fiserv clients have expanded their active QC review from 10% of loan volume to 100% without increasing staff. In 2016 LLR led a $26.5 This could be read through a negative lens.

Real Estate 318

Real Estate Brokerage Real Estate Agent Technology 318

Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2022

” As news of the Fed’s decision circulated, the S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq all rose and extended gains while Realtors, loan officers, mortgage brokers and other industry professionals considered the immediate ramifications on the housing market. ” Powell said “after expanding at a robust 5.5%

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Supply Chain Mortgage Tools Loan Officers 393

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Jimmy Kelly, president and CEO of Lone Wolf Technologies , to discuss the company’s development process and his vision for a connected real estate platform. How do you as a software executive think about those use cases and how those fit into the overall tech picture for Realtors?

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Technology Real Estate Agents Design 354

McKissock

JANUARY 18, 2022

Schaechterle suggests that part of developing trust is by setting up clear expectations for a new home buyer. A good agent is willing to share their knowledge of different areas, as well as share their contacts regarding loan officers, essential documentation that shows sellers the buyers are serious, among other services.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Buyers 96

Genworth MI Blog

JULY 13, 2023

There is an on-site visual inspection of the property and a suggestion of improvements followed by the research, analysis and development that produces the appraisal report. For traditional products and hybrid, the accurate identification of physical features and location is paramount in the development of a credible value opinion.

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Appraisal Inspection HOA Real Estate 78