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US Mortgage Corporation committed to reverse channel, new HECM head says

Housing Wire

New York-based multichannel lender US Mortgage Corporation previously announced that it was renewing its efforts in the reverse mortgage industry, having hired industry veteran Ken Krajewski to serve as managing director and head of reverse mortgage lending. We are hearing from everyone interested in getting us on board.

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This growing IMB aims to capture leads through its proprietary tech, not agent referrals

Housing Wire

Target buyers for Cliffco include non-traditional buyers seeking investor loans. The lender has about 80 loan officers and aims to hire up to 100 in states. Cliffco’s proprietary CRM platform enables loan officers to break away from being heavily dependent on real estate agents for referrals.

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Rocket goes local: Testing the waters or shifting its strategy? 

Housing Wire

Its centralized call center business model, which Rocket relied upon to dominate an unprecedented refi market , isn’t as durable when interest rates are high, there are few refi opportunities and having strong relationships with real estate agents is what brings home the bacon. And Rocket is well aware.

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AmeriFirst Financial gets back into forward mortgage origination

Housing Wire

The lender maintained their servicing portfolio, servicing about $1 billion of Fannie Mae , Freddie Mac and Ginne Mae loans. AmeriFirst will keep physical branches in 20 states, but under a new corporate model, no branch managers will make an override on the production of the loan officers they manage.

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[PULSE] Mortgage lending in a post-COVID, digital world

Housing Wire

In fact, the changes we’ve seen since the advent of the global pandemic are significant enough to serve as a catalyst that will drive all lending digital. The trends and lending requirements I’ve highlighted below became important long before the coronavirus made it to the U.S. Peering into the future of lending.

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Guaranteed Rate’s Larry Steinway makes the jump to Revolution Mortgage

Housing Wire

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. It’s a different approach to lending. It’s the local relationships.

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Could the assumable mortgage level the playing field?

Housing Wire

In a paper published by the Urban Institute in October, Ted Tozer, the former head of Ginnie Mae , argued that government changes to assumable loans could benefit the market. of the balance of a loan being assumed would be fair to both the borrower and the servicer.” Tozer suggested “a fee of 1.3%

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