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Here’s how a mortgage coaching platform wants to carve out a niche in a competitive market

Housing Wire

To take advantage of the shifting market, two key areas that loan originators should be focusing on are “nurturing and cementing relationships with preapproved borrowers,” said Tim Braheem, founder and chief content creator of The Loan Atlas. So, kind of like a turnkey kit to get in front of a one-to-many type situation.”

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Refi Sugar High: How to balance your lending diet

Housing Wire

You’ve probably staffed up on loan officers equipped to handle this influx, and you may be shunning riskier, less immediately gratifying business. They are specialists when it comes to buying and servicing government loans. Right now, while things are good, invest in cross-training your staff.

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Opinion: How to win the coming mortgage refi race

Housing Wire

It’s amazing how many loan officers miss this, don’t return the call quickly, and lose their race before it’s even underway. This was a crisis for many large Independent mortgage banks that had created fine-tuned systems for refinancing loans and had virtually no trained sales force to prospect for new purchase money business.

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Non-QM lenders hunt for LOs as consumer-direct model falters

Housing Wire

Non-QM lenders Angel Oak Mortgage , Acra Lending and Newfi alone currently have at least 130 openings on jobs listings sites. Kidwell said his company is looking for loan processors to identify fraud in non-QM loans, in addition to loan officers. “The area of focus for us right now is hiring LOs,” Lind said.

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UWM gave brokers big discounts to play with. It could be risky

Housing Wire

Mortgage compliance attorneys interviewed by HousingWire said the program, dubbed “Control Your Price,” raises potential areas of concern across three subjects: rules that govern loan officers’ compensation; fair lending; and unfair, deceptive and abusive acts and practices.

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These mortgage lenders are making major job cuts as production plummets

Housing Wire

It affected at least 50% of the staff, positions in operations and loan officers, according to multiple former employees. The layoffs impacted both the retail and wholesale channel and their positions following a training period of overseas staff, according to multiple sources. Marginal reductions .

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Interfirst, the phoenix of mortgage, lays off hundreds

Housing Wire

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. I think 99% of the loans that I was writing there were refinances. 375% below the market.”

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