Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

Tech-fueled retail mortgage lender InstaMortgage has merged with mortgage broker shop All Cal Financial , a rare example of a top-performing brokerage switching channels. Black, a licensed mortgage loan officer and broker, will also lead product development, tech partnerships and sales growth.

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Retail Loan Officers Brokerage Technology 429

Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Part of the strategy, she said, is to remain focused predominantly on the retail side of the business. “We We decided going forward that we’re going to focus 100% on retail ,” she said. “We We look for like-minded companies that have the same culture, because culture and leadership are key.

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Inman

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Dan Hanson, the former head of loanDepot's retail division, will develop "new revenue-generating opportunities" as the mortgage lender's executive director of enterprise partnerships and acquisitions.

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Retail Development Mortgage 172

Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

The brokers were in agreement that recruiting talent and maintaining strong partnerships will be key to not only brand development, but a lasting foundation that will continue post-pandemic. “So We’re not out building a retail person’s name. I mean we’re talking up to 30 years,” Nichols said.

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Retail Mortgage Loan Officers Marketing 370

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

OneTrust Home Loans , a direct competitor of Newrez’s retail mortgage business, conspired with James Hecht, former Newrez executive vice president for national retail lending, to orchestrate the termination of several Newrez executives and have them join OneTrust, according to the suit filed Feb. 21 in the U.S.

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Retail Legal Lending Business 421

Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

New Jersey-based Homebridge Financial Services will lay off 139 employees in June, three months after the acquisition of its retail division by CMG Mortgage, Inc. In addition, the company’s CEO, Peter Norden, will act as executive advisor to CMG’s retail division to ensure a successful transition. mortgage lender by volume last year.

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Retail Loan Officers Legal Technology 410

Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Software development company Blue Sage Solutions has launched a new servicing platform that merges loan origination and servicing functions using API-based technology.

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Retail Lending Design Technology 420

Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

Buyer behavior on the Auction.com platform provides one of the best barometers of the retail housing market because the success and livelihood of these buyers depend heavily on them accurately anticipating what the retail market will look like in the next six to 12 months.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2021

mortgage sales , where he led distributed retail sales, direct to consumer sales, strategic market business development, community reinvestment strategy and sales support. retail banks. retail banking. retail banking. “As Citigroup named Brad Wayman as head of U.S mortgage after serving in the role since December.

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Retail Mortgage Clients Lending 485

Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2023

Movement, which focuses on the distributed retail channel, was the 15th largest U.S. HousingWire reported that the Sacramento-based lender instituted a round of layoffs in late November 2022, affecting 72 employees , per a document filed with the state’s Employment Development Department. The company originated $4.1

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2024

The goal is to help them develop this territory and use this platform to attract talent – established loan officers, up and coming loan officers,” Steinway said in an interview with HousingWire. Most recently, NAF acquired $2 billion Chicago-based retail shop Draper & Kramer Mortgage Corp.

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Loan Officers Retail Finance Buyers 419

Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

With Blueprint Builder, triggers and business rules can be configured to align the borrower experience to operations processes (such as credit score-based rules), and to support multiple business units or channels, including retail, direct-to-consumer and wholesale.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The California-based retail lender has set a target of becoming a top-10 lender in the markets in which it has a presence, which would give it about 2% in overall market share. The company hopes to reach its goal by growing organically with more loan officers under a dozen business development managers. It won’t be easy.

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Mortgage Retail Lending Sellers 421

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

According to Class, the two companies align on important issues, including culture, service, efficiency and technology development. This collaboration will allow us to accelerate the development of cutting-edge appraisal technology and deliver unmatched value.”

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Valuation Technology Clients Modernization 409

Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

The company has used the cash to acquire new businesses, such as the indie retail lender Mortgage Network and the brokerage Superior Rate Mortgage of New England. It’s a more entrepreneurial style, but compensation follows the traditional model at retail lenders.

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Retail Mortgage Loan Officers Brokerage 384

Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

A look back: The early 2023 housing slowdown Bidding behavior on the Auction.com platform provides one of the best barometers of the retail housing market because the success and livelihood of these bidders depends heavily on them accurately anticipating what the retail market will look like in the next six months.

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Housing Market Marketing Retail Sellers 432

Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

He will focus on product development and building the company’s retail lending network. By contract, the country’s top 50 lenders as a whole saw volumes fall by more than 50% during the same period. Earlier this month, Planet added Doug Long as a senior vice president and divisional sales manager.

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Lending Retail Contracts Construction 413

Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

After its acquisition last year of Cherry Creek Mortgage , Guild increased its involvement in the reverse mortgage industry due to Cherry Creek’s well-developed reverse lending apparatus. Guild’s in-house retail reverse mortgage originations reached $49.8 million for the year.

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Mortgage Lending Retail Investing 417

Eppraisal

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Whether you decide to hold it and sell when real property values climb or -- alternatively -- develop the lot to convey at a higher price, you are subject to forces of market, timing and competition. If the lot is zoned for commercial use, they do well to develop it as a retail space or other business, and later serving as the landlord.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

In a statement confirming the deal Tuesday afternoon, Guaranteed Rate said the acquisition of Stearns would enable a boost in retail loan originations and further scale its JV platform, while also developing “new multichannel capabilities.”

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Lending Retail Real Estate Agent Brokerage 538

Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

Desmond Smith: There are two ways to get a mortgage — wholesale or retail. Retail lending is when you walk into a bank branch or go to an online lender, and they help you get a mortgage. Consumers who use a mortgage broker instead of a retail lender save $9,400 over the life of the loan and that increases to $10,400 for minorities.

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Mortgage Retail Lending Loan Officers 370

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

His responsibilities extend across retail and correspondent originations, operations, and loan servicing divisions within the bank. Previously, Eising served as a credit risk policy analyst at Freddie Mac , where he contributed to the development and implementation of credit risk policies and procedures.

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Retail Legal Design Mortgage 397

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Industry veteran Dan Hanson joined loanDepot in 2011 and, in January 2017, became the company’s chief retail production officer, a job position he held for six years. According to the company, Hanson will be responsible for “developing new revenue-generating opportunities, including national referral relationships and acquisitions.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2022

Founded in 2000, Guaranteed Rate sought to boost retail loan originations, scale its JV platform, and develop new multichannel capabilities by acquiring Stearns. After the deal, HousingWire reported that Stearns’ retail operations was folded into Guaranteed Rate.

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Lending Retail Loan Officers Business 370

Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2022

HousingWire reported in 2021 that Stearns’ retail operations would be folded into Guaranteed Rate. Stearns had a sizable partnership business, led by Steve Stein, a more limited retail operation, and a wholesale channel that was the largest in the industry as recently as 2013, but had lost market share to UWM.

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Retail Loan Officers Best Value Business 384

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Through the development of improved and sophisticated systems, protocols and technology, these operations leaders are driving their companies to growth and success. In its 8th year, the HW Insiders program is spotlighting the talented operations professionals who are laying the foundation of success for their organizations.

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Technology Development Real Estate Realty 450

Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

He will be responsible for developing a road map to expand Pennymac’s proprietary servicing platform, Servicing Systems Environment (SSE). David Spector, chairman and CEO at Pennymac, said Follette’s “strategic acumen” positions him to lead the company in a “new era of technological advancement and ingenuity.”

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Technology Retail Contracts Tools 421

Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2022

In his new role, Hogle will manage the firm’s retail operations, overseeing growth and development of retail sales and the production network, while supporting the firm’s business channels. Hogle said he’s “delighted and honored” to join Cherry Creek’s “thriving retail organization.”.

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Mortgage Retail Insurance Development 397

Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

To gain insight into how Rocket plans to strengthen its local presence to capture purchase volume, HousingWire spoke to more than a dozen former Rocket employees, current retail loan officers and mortgage brokers who have been contacted by Rocket recruiters to join its local initiative. So this isn’t brand new,” Kidwell noted.

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Loan Officers Retail Real Estate Agent Real Estate 370

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Retail giant Amazon announced on Wednesday the launch of a new pilot program designed to assist moderate-income families in three different U.S. communities with the purchase of up to 800 homes, in partnership with the National Housing Trust (NHT). the Douglass Community Land Trust in Washington, D.C. and The Housing Fund serving Nashville.

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Renovations Investing Retail Design 397

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2022

million in its seed round to build a mortgage-as-a-service platform for fintechs, banks and retail banks. The product is currently deployed with early design partner customers via a private beta, and Pylon plans to use the funding for product development and talent recruitment. . Startup Pylon raised $8.5

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Mortgage Retail Development Design 368

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In August 2021, Citi hired Liz Bryant as head of retail mortgage sales directly from Wells Fargo , the top depositary bank by origination volume in the U.S. . Beginning late last year, Bryant was tasked with reorganizing Citi Mortgage, in an effort to better align with Citi’s retail banking division. JPMorgan Chase and U.S.

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Mortgage Retail Lending Finance 384

Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

Just having those additional layers in the retail model really creates strain there,” Kirby said in an interview. I think maybe if you look back a few years, the broker space from a technology perspective was lacking, but has really caught up to where retail was (…). I developed a ton of great relationships over that time there.

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Mortgage Retail Loan Officers Brokerage 397

Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

The continuous development of loss mitigation tools and practices in the mortgage industry will play an essential part in preventing future foreclosures, but additional safety nets — particularly for those mortgage customers who belong to historically disadvantaged populations — will play a critical role in thinning the racial wealth gap.

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Mortgage Tools Insurance Development 370

Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2022

South Carolina-based Movement Mortgage has hired two executives away from rival Fairway Independent Mortgage to boost the growth and development of its distributed retail sales team. The nonbank lender named the 34-year veteran Sarah Middleton to the new position of chief growth officer to attract, onboard and develop sales leaders.

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Development Retail Mortgage Finance 384

Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

This is an encouraging development for the housing market and in particular first-time homebuyers who are sensitive to changes in housing affordability. This week, December’s retail sales report showed strong consumer spending even after adjusting for holiday spending and inflation as policy makers mull rate cuts.

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Mortgage Inventory Retail Construction 530

The Robert Weiler Company

JUNE 1, 2021

Just as many today predict an all-digital retail environment, a final death blow to brick-and-mortar retail rental space, so have they expected the long-coveted “paperless office.” Retails must also adopt curbside purchase and payment options for customers interested in speed and health safety. Amazon Immunity.

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