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

Housing Wire

Coming off multiple quarters of financial losses , Rocket has accelerated those efforts in 2023, embarking on a remote local loan officer hiring spree designed to capture purchase market business from real estate agent connections, sources told HousingWire. So this isn’t brand new,” Kidwell noted.

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AmeriFirst Financial gets back into forward mortgage origination

Housing Wire

On June 1, Arizona-headquartered retail lender AmeriFirst Financial Inc. In its originations business, AmeriFirst kept its business purpose lending (BPL), providing four products, including debt-service coverage ratio (DSCR) loans, bridge financing, investor construction loans and residential transition loans (RTLs).

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

Housing Wire

You have a lot of flexibility in pricing, flexibility with other broker products, flexibility with marketing under an compliant umbrella,” Steinway said of Revolution Mortgage, which has a hybrid wholesale and retail lender model. He was the fourth mortgage loan originator to join Guaranteed Rate in 2000.

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What’s in store for non-QM in 2024?

Housing Wire

Non-QM borrowers such as those who are self-employed and real estate investors are generally less rate sensitive. In fact, a growing focus is the real estate investor population. with 85% owned by individual investors and LLCs based on 2021 U.S. The reasons for the success of non-QM lies partly in the composition of borrowers.

Investors 411
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Interfirst Mortgage to lay off nearly 50 LOs

Housing Wire

will lay off 77 employees in its Charlotte, North Carolina office come January 2022, a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) notice filed by the company reveals. Among those getting a pink slip are 49 loan officers, 10 national account managers, seven retail sales managers and seven transaction coordinators.

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Excelerate Capital is accelerating its growth in the non-QM market 

Housing Wire

“And one of our strategic plans for our growth is we’re really bolstering up our retail division in 2022.”. We will be hiring retail guys that carry our flag through the Excelerate branches, but they’re not only in California,” Yoon added. It was kind of a no brainer, just low-hanging fruit.

Marketing 360
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How JVM Lending plans to expand without any loan originators

Housing Wire

Most retail lenders are desperately seeking high producing loan originators to make up for the losses that occurred in 2022. California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite. Back in the 2007-2009 meltdown, we had loan officers with us at that time.

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