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. Profitability may resemble the market in 2018 , when around one-third of nonbank lenders failed to turn a profit.

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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 (…). What is the upside of launching a mortgage broker shop?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates in the 6% range have frozen the housing market, forcing loan officers to find business outside their wheelhouses. Business is at a “dead stop,” said a retail loan officer in Michigan. Mark Glebman, Caliber Home Loans. higher than last year. million to 1.93 million. .

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

Borrower demand for home loans increased across the board, despite rates being at their highest level in over a month. Plenty of buyers, but not enough homes for sale,” California-based mortgage loan officer Dan Stone, who works with hundreds of mortgage lenders, told HousingWire. retail residential mortgage applications.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Larry Steinway, former senior vice president of lending and branch manager at Illinois-based Guaranteed Rate , has taken on a new challenge to expand the Ohio-based Revolution Mortgage footprint in the Chicagoland market. Steinway left Guaranteed Rate last month, eight years after he returned to the Illinois retail lender in January 2015.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Mortgage lender CRM and marketing automation solutions provider Insellerate has launched a new third party origination (TPO) solution for wholesale lenders, the company announced on Monday during ICE Experience. The new product is fully integrated into loan origination systems, like ICE Technology’s Encompass and MeridianLink.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

Large banks have historically been the rulers of the jumbo market. Economic conditions, however, are opening up space for new entrants eyeing market share. Their retreat opens up opportunities for rival firms to grab market share. Part I explains the jumbo market’s decline.) Part I explains the jumbo market’s decline.)

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

The mortgage industry continues to rightsize , and On Q Financial is taking it as an opportunity to expand through loan officer recruitment and tapping into its network of homebuilders. New builds are a bright spot in a bleak housing market as buyers seek new builds due to the lack of resale inventory.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

And the market has gotten much darker over the last few years. After six years of no enforcement actions and a rapidly declining housing market, RESPA attorneys believe some in the industry may be more willing to test the boundaries. “I The same happens with concert or sports tickets as a marketing opportunity.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 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. Conway, Arkansas. Rochester, New York.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2022

Founded in 2008, Movement Mortgage focuses on providing loans quickly and easily to homebuyers, with a network of loan officers in more than 775 locations nationwide, and more than 4,500 employees, the company’s website shows. Movement cut 180 jobs in 2018 due to a nationwide downturn in the housing and mortgage market.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

Mat Ishbia is optimistic about the mortgage market. The Pontiac, Michigan-based United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) CEO believes that 2022 and 2023 are equally challenging years, but the market will improve in 2024. What does Ishbia think about surging mortgage rates , lack of housing inventory and monetary and policy pressures ?

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2023

Colonial Savings, a federally chartered thrift founded in 1952, originated $470 million in mortgage loans over the last 12 months, per the mortgage tech platform Modex. However, its monthly production declined by a third during this period when the market faced surging mortgage rates and low inventory levels.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

The outside distributor retail is a hedge against the call center in the different environments. Since launching as a call center in 2003, the California lender has expanded into the outside distributed retail model with a target on the purchase mortgage market, serviced its own loans and developed its tech stack in-house.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

The residential housing market has turned quickly due to historically low inventory of homes for sale and a rapid rise in interest rates due to inflation,” Cindy Flynn, chief marketing and communications officer, said in a statement. “We,

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

California-based lender Guild Mortgage posted a higher profit in 2022 thanks to its increased purchase mortgage market share — and now has its eyes set on acquiring other lenders. Executives noted that Guild will focus on seeking out additional opportunities, including potential acquisitions , particularly as the market consolidates.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Many homebuyers are aware of the lack of inventory of existing homes for sale, he explained. Because of that, they want to avoid any potential bidding wars by getting back into the market earlier rather than waiting for mortgage rates to drop further. They’ve also re-entered the home-buying process,” Mettle told HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2023

That alone suggests better days ahead for IMBs, even if rates don’t fall into the 6s for a few more months, the secondary market remains a mess, and seasonality results in low volume in the first quarter of 2024. This should contribute to the biggest IMB lenders gobbling up additional market share, even if no single lender is at 10%.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The uncertainty and volatility in financial markets is heavily impacting mortgage rates,” said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist. Consequently, the Federal Reserve increased the federal funds rate by 75 basis points at its Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in September. A year ago at this time, rates averaged 3.01%.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Loan officers and mortgage executives expect home sellers and homebuyers to negotiate more aggressively on commission paid to buyer agents, potentially bringing costs down. Meanwhile, trade groups representing lenders believe that more details on the settlement are needed to understand its coming impact on the housing market.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

By both companies’ admission, a major key to Success’s success will be hiring loan officers. Many LOs still have a relatively full pipeline thanks to lower-than-expected mortgage rates and slowly climbing housing inventory – it will be a challenge convincing them to leave their current shops. The company now has a $4.2

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2023

(The FHFA’s conforming loan limit was a baseline of $647,200 in 2022, and $726,200 in 2023.) In the secondary market, these jumbo loans are sold to other investors, such as real estate investment trusts, hedge funds and insurance companies. In June, only 30% of his mortgage production came from jumbo loans.

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Appraisal Today

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Appraisers and Local Market Analysis. Excerpts: Social media and the mainstream media make a mess of these markets even in the best of times. They do not have the bandwidth to cover local markets. National data simply does not apply to the local real estate market and the closest large markets are Richmond and Washington DC.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

Looking again at data from MBA’s Quarterly Performance Report, loans closed per production employee [1] per month (in the retail and consumer direct channels combined) ranged from 1.3 The monthly Employment Situation Summary news release based on the CES data is regarded as a key report in gauging the health of the overall job market.

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Appraisal Today

AUGUST 13, 2023

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on non lender appraisals, liability, markets with few sales, Bias, unusual homes, mortgage origination A California Winery With a 91-Acre Vineyard for $12,995,000 Red Soles Winery, a 91-acre vineyard. Markets hate uncertainty. Or hit the reply button.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 10, 2024

The mortgage loan officer handling the loan? To read more, Click Here To read the listing with a virtual tour and 111 photos, Click Here == Some red flags for the housing market By Ryan Lundquist, May 2, 2024 Excerpts: Consumers are feeling economic pain, and we need to talk about some of the things that are brewing.

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Appraisers are being told by their AMC clients and loan officers to appraise these as residential properties. It’s been on and off the market since 2014, four years after a lengthy construction project there was completed. After all, this isn’t the first time the unique property has been listed.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 12, 2023

Fannie Mae will end up creating more instability for the trillions in the bond market – investors will have to process millions of valuations with the physical attributes of the home collected by unlicensed, uninsured, and unprepared individuals getting paid $10-$25 per inspection. Very tough market now with many layoffs.

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Appraisal Today

OCTOBER 14, 2022

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on Reviews and Revisions, AMC layoffs, real estate market, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. ==. Utah’s Largest Home Hits the Market With a Bowling Alley and Lazy River for $17.5M, discounted from the initial $21 million listing last year.

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