Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

While many proptech companies have struggled to adapt to the slower housing market conditions and challenging venture capital environment, Flyhomes is viewing this as a time to grow. As of mid-March, Richards said the company had signed up more than 20 clients with an aggregate total of more than 5,000 mortgage originations.

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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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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2022

Local markets spotlights 5 different areas across the country, showcasing what is uniquely happening in those housing markets. Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. The market is just insane,” she said. “I

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Cliffco Mortgage Bankers is among the rare independent mortgage banks doing more business than last year. To get there, Cliffco, which has been in business since 1987, is going after the non-qualified mortgage ( non-QM ) market and investing in tech to get in front of buyers and non-agent referral partners.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2023

Mortgage rates are surging again due to sustained economic growth and continued inflation, eclipsing 7% on Thursday. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage on Thursday, March 2 touched 7.10% , up 16 basis points from 6.94 Lower mortgage rates back in January brought buyers back into the market. on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

Donny Kirby, former vice president of national direct-to-consumer sales at Wyndham Capital Mortgage , spent more than 12 years at Charlotte, North Carolina-based company before leaving to start a mortgage broker shop, Cornerstone Home Loans. Connie Kim: You had a long run at Wyndham Capital Mortgage dating back to 2011.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Included in this agenda are also four, breakout sessions that cover different key parts of the housing sector. In these 20-minute sessions, attendees will walk away with tangible and actionable information from leaders at mortgage, valuation, real estate and title companies. Housing professionals don’t want to miss this one!

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

As the mortgage industry continues to reduce capacity amid shrinking volumes, mortgage professionals are reluctant to spend on tech, services or solutions. Other responses included cutting down excessive incentives, business trips, open houses and sponsorships. Of the 166 completed surveys, 31.9% were from the Northwest.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Mortgage rates for a 30-year fixed-rate loan are hovering around 7% levels and still-high home prices are slashing purchasing power. What helped Erica Davis, a loan originator at Guild Mortgage , in the current high-rate environment is a seller-funded temporary 2-1 rate buydown. It’s a terrible time for homebuyers.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Equity Prime Mortgage (EPM) has completely shifted to the TPO business after seeing growth opportunities in the wholesale channel, a distribution channel that’s been growing in recent years. Many of EPM’s retail loan officers transitioned to Informed Mortgage , a lender Carpitella launched in August.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Guaranteed Rate and CrossCountry Mortgage have their eyes fixed on serving more Hispanic borrowers, who are expected to make up 70% of homeownership growth in the U.S. Chicago-based Guaranteed Rate this week rolled out an expanded Language Access Program, which has applications and loan servicing in Spanish for consumers in all 50 states.

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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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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

During breaks in nearly every televised basketball game, it’s there: Tracy Morgan imploring pensive homebuyers “pretty sure” is not enough, and that they can only be certain about their giant life choice with Rocket Mortgage. The ads are mostly set not in a loan office, but a home showing.

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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. and helping the general consumer understand those positives,” she said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

SimpleNexus , a digital mortgage startup, announced on Tuesday that it picked up $108 million in a Series B funding around. The fund raise comes as the company attempts to increase its marketshare within the eClosing and mobile mortgage segments.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2022

Brian Gubernick: While I do not think I have a favorite article, I definitely have a favorite section right now…and that’s “Mortgage” ! In order to be more effective in my role at Homeward, I’ve had to deepen my understanding of mortgage. As a novice real estate investor at the time, the market downturn completely wiped me out.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

“It’s going to be competitive — thin margins, little business and LOs getting out of the industry,” Dave Krichmar, banker at Legend Lending Corporation, said of the mortgage industry in 2023. At least not in the foreseeable future, unless another pandemic would create favorable conditions for the housing market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Beret Kechian, loanDepot ’s top producer and branch manager, is joining a slew of mortgage loan originators who are cautiously optimistic about the mortgage landscape in 2023. We feel like we picked up more market share in 2022,” Kechian said. So more realtors in the area have started working with us.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2021

This week’s HW+ member spotlight features Reina Ramos, senior vice president, mortgage market leader at City National Bank of Florida. Below, Ramos answers questions about the housing industry: HousingWire: To start off, what is your current favorite HW+ article and why? There was so much information to absorb and retain.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2023

There were leads, referrals and action in January, after people returned from holiday vacations and rates declined, said Don Monson, branch manager at Sente Mortgage. Rising rates will likely scare buyers away from the market, as it makes monthly mortgage payments less affordable, loan officers interviewed by HousingWire said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2022

However, when mortgage rates started rising in the spring, Summers encouraged her clients to take advantage of the bank’s mortgage rate lock product. range, versus closing on their mortgage now when their homes are finally finished being built and rates are around 7.0%,” said Summers, a Keller Williams agent in Provo, Utah.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2023

Nearly every loan originator is fixated on going after the purchase mortgage market in 2023 following a brutal 2022 — a year in which even some of the top producers saw their origination volume drop to 20%. That is also the case for Chris Gallo, senior loan officer at NJ Lenders Corp. After dropping from $1.2

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Tai Christensen, CBC Mortgage Agency’ s director of government affairs, will join other housing luminaries to discuss how lenders can increase their diversity to impact minority homeownership at HousingWire’s Spring Summit on March 4. She also serves as an advisory council member for the American Mortgage Diversity Council.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

His corner of the Atlanta mortgage market – high-value home loans that wouldn’t be bought by the GSEs – was booming. At that point, Dodson was actively working on a jumbo loan for friends of his from church. Self-employed borrowers take advantage of the tax laws,” said Dodson, who runs Mortgage Capital Advisors.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2022

“This change had been telegraphed clearly in recent speeches,” said Mike Fratantoni, chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association. “Mortgage rates are an incredibly important channel through which Fed policy affects the real economy. . on mortgage rates.

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Cornerstone

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Now that we’ve reached the second half of 2021, it’s apparent: Today’s housing market is breaking records. Here’s a closer look at which four factors are creating this never-before-seen market. The 4 reasons that today’s housing market is unlike any other. Right now, we’re seeing unique conditions like: 1.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lack of inventory is an issue builders and mortgage loan originators alike are dealing with across the nation. It’s also what keeps Andrew Marquis, regional vice president at CrossCountry Mortgage and Scotsman Guide ’s seventh top LO, up at night, especially as he sees more buyers entering the market.

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Cornerstone

JANUARY 7, 2022

To give you accurate answers, we’ve gone to the source: trusted housing industry experts. Housing market predictions 2022: Insight from 5 experts. Mortgage rates should increase. With more housing inventory to hit the market, the intense multiple offers will start to ease. Exactly how high will rates climb?

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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. At the end of the day, Pascoe says the process is not all that different than purchasing a home with a conventional mortgage.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

In January I received a text message from Dave Savage, CEO of Mortgage Coach. News just broke that private equity investor LLR Partners announced strategic investments in two mortgage technology companies — Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang ( click here for article ). Tech100 Mortgage Winners. Hey Clayton …” and a link.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Forecasting another purchase market in 2023, Nguyen started using his proprietary software for something new – to pursue relationships with realtors. “I I never had to work with realtors, but now I spend a lot of time working with realtors – supporting them and partnering with them,” Nguyen said in an interview with HousingWire.

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Cornerstone

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

When the pandemic first hit in early 2020, mortgage forbearance plans were announced, allowing homeowners in crisis to temporarily stop payments. There were analysts who expressed concern that once forbearance plans expired, the real estate market could see a foreclosure surge, similar to what followed the housing bubble 15 years prior.

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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. About 40% of his business came from refis in the summer of 2021 even when his focus was on purchase mortgages his entire career. But the boom times are over, and he knows it.

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Cornerstone

OCTOBER 5, 2021

With all the activity we’re seeing in the current housing market, homeowners want to know: Is it smarter to sell my house now, or should I wait until next year? Should I sell my house now? 4 things to know about fall’s housing market. Your house will probably sell fast. percent, rising to 3.8

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Matt Van Fossen, CEO of Absolute Home Mortgage and Mortgage Automation Technologies , to talk about his unique view of the housing ecosystem and how it influences how he builds technology. MVF: We realized that we needed to focus on the real estate agents our loan officers work with.

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McKissock

JANUARY 18, 2022

Dale Schaechterle, the founding partner and CEO at Realty Executives Integrity , shares with Forbes that the services of a good real estate agent are essential for a first-time home buyer given the complicated network of mortgage rates and tax laws that they will have to navigate. Answer Questions.

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Genworth MI Blog

AUGUST 31, 2022

The housing market has seen many changes over the past couple of years, some as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and some from the rapid changes in the economy. With an increasingly competitive market for buyers, many homebuyers have taken new steps to secure a successful offer.

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