Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Virginia-based mortgage bank Prosperity Home Mortgage, LLC has acquired the assets of Arizona-based JFQ Lending, LLC to explore the direct-to-consumer channel. However, amid a challenging mortgage market, monthly production fell from over $1.1 The company has 548 active loan officers and 379 branches, per the Modex data.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2021

What happens when borrowers can’t or won’t walk into a lending branch? HousingWire recently sat down with Insellerate CEO Josh Friend to discuss that very question and what strategies retail lenders should look to adopt from direct-to-consumer lending. Retail lenders originate loans through their in-person retail branches.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I sat down with Tim Bowler, president of ICE Mortgage Technology, a business unit of ICE, to talk about the company’s mortgage automation strategy — and what keeps him up at night. SW: ICE Mortgage Technology is known for its focus on automation. What’s the role of tech as lenders play the long game in this market?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Dan Catinella, chief lending officer at Total Expert, about how Customer Intelligence technology is improving deal flow and pushing the customer experience into the 21st century. . HW: What role does Customer Intelligence play in today’s challenging housing market?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The partnership will boost loan officers ’ capacity to deliver personalized, efficient and tech-powered solutions directly to their clients and agents. Meanwhile, LoanPASS’s flagship products and pricing engine (PPE) automates product and pricing decision-making for all loan products.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

Tavant , a Silicon Valley-based digital lending solutions provider, is adding a new product called Asset Analysis to its AI-powered digital lending platform, Touchless Lending. The new product is in the near-final stages of production and will be available in-market by the end of June 2023.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Her role will focus on technology to drive the company’s growth. Michael Brennan, president of Movement, said Waggoner can empower loan officers with the tools they “need to win.”. “She has a proven track record of leading sales-centric technology teams and delivering with speed to market,” he added.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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. On the non-QM side, only 3% of the market has been penetrated. But we’re heading into different segments of the ocean.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Loan officers will be able to add MeridianLink Mortgage loan pipeline data directly into Polly’s product and pricing engine in real time, and vice versa. Earlier in October , MeridianLink announced another integration with Blend Labs to streamline the digital lending experience.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As a premier provider of innovative, high-performance software, data and analytics for mortgage and home equity lending and servicing, Black Knight is transforming the housing finance industry. Black Knight is a proven mortgage industry leader in servicing technology. Secondary Marketing. Originations.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. 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.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

In a low-volume mortgage origination market, some sellers “don’t have the balance sheet or their owners are not interested in legacy and continuity,” which is a different model than Lower’s, Snyder said. Founded in Denver in 1981, Universal added 60 loan officers to Lower.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Looking for a quick and easy way to stay up-to-date on mortgage lending news, trends and technology? Mortgage Marketing Radio. Mortgage Marketing Radio is a weekly podcast, hosted by Geoff Zimpfer, that covers “truth in mortgage marketing,” with interviews with top producers. Loan Officer Freedom.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. It sets up a domino effect [for market activity].”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

To redesign the interface, the company collected feedback from more than 250 loan officers, demonstrating the company’s commitment to enhancing user experience. Insellerate’s services work across all lending channels, including retail , wholesale , TPO , consumer direct, recruiting and reverse.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

People who invest in technology often ask the question: is this a “nice to have,” or a “need to have?” Few have the resources to invest in technologies they don’t need. What’s the worst that can happen if we don’t invest in this technology?”. Mike is an experienced mortgage loan officer. Not anymore.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with Desmond Smith , chief growth officer at United Wholesale Mortgage , about the role that wholesale lending plays in the mortgage ecosystem and common myths and misconceptions about becoming an independent mortgage broker. HW: How is broker market share trending? And those tools are just the start.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

In today’s low-rate environment, wholesale mortgage lending continues to grow, making up more than 20% market share. Because as loan officers, they believe that there’s nothing better than a broker channel, and to them this is most important for their consumers,” said Kortas. “We

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Customer engagement platform Total Expert ‘s customer intelligence and mortgage tech firm Polly ‘s product and pricing engine (PPE) will help California-based lender Mountain West Financial identify lending opportunities from its existing database. billion in generated loan application volume, and $6.7

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Lenders and mortgage tech companies have been cutting costs in the down market , but some firms have hired new executives who they hope will provide better strategies to navigate the shrinking loan origination market. for Planet Home Lending, will focus on increasing market share by adding branches and loan originators.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Setting your sights on the future is important for any business owner, agent or loan officer looking to find success in the ever-changing housing market. The Future of Marketing panel on Oct. Everything from social media and marketing to different generations of homebuyers will be covered during the panel.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The primary challenge for non-QM has been the extreme volatility in the secondary markets. Self-employed borrowers, real estate investors and credit-worthy borrowers who have recovered from credit issues will always be in the market. Another key is that these loans are performing. That’s good news for the future of non-QM.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

For years broker channel evangelists told me that a down market would give them an edge on their retail brethren. Well, it’s certainly been a down market. I asked the good folks at mortgage data technology firm InGenius to run the numbers. How has the broker channel fared in the wake of the Fed rate hikes ? Take a look.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We were focused on being able to take a consumer all the way through on our technology platform for just the conventional loans, and we achieved that milestone back in the summer of 2023. VA loans are 12% of the mortgage market,” Garg said. “So, billion in Q3 2022. “VA He did not disclose the current size of the team.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2023

on Monday announced that Frontwave Credit Union will now implement Empower, Black Knight’s cloud-based loan origination system, and its integrated solutions, for the expansion of its mortgage lending operations. It will also cut down on recurring hosting costs by reducing technology-based work. Black Knight, Inc.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the world of mortgage lending, there’s an all-too-common sentiment that echoes through the industry: “My loan origination system (LOS) sucks.” In reality, the LOS is not the problem; the technology is doing exactly what it was designed to do. The LOS is a foundational piece of technology for every lender.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

And hiring in a wave of high volumes can mean layoffs when the market is less robust. Lenders need to be able to grow their business in a way that is not linear and is not tied to the market cycles – leveraging automation technology can help. It depends on the level of technology maturity of each lender’s middle office.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Mortgage lending titan Rocket Mortgage is bringing its tech straight to financial institutions. thanks to a near $84 billion dollars in volume in the second quarter, Rocket sees this program as an opportunity to further increase market share. Already the leading originator in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

Trius Lending Partners (no.678), InstaLend is a tech-enabled real estate loan lender that provides capital to residential developers through streamlined technology and automated workflow, according to its website. Founded in 2019, the Virginia-based lender saw a 2,230% three-year growth rate. Zap Mortgage (no.294)

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Lenders in a purchase money market, like the one we’re in now, are running a long-distance race. It’s amazing how many loan officers miss this, don’t return the call quickly, and lose their race before it’s even underway. Fine-tune your tech stack Once your team is in place, it’s time to empower them with the right technology.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This acquisition is part of the company’s continued plan to grow both in existing markets and by entering new ones with selective acquisitions of like-minded lenders,” Guild CEO Mary Ann McGarry said in a statement. The company has 39 active loan officers across its retail branches, according to Modex data.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The current market downturn for mortgage lenders may be shorter than the previous cycles, mainly due to the recent rounds of workforce layoffs imposed by nonbanks. Nonbanks have more than 60% market share of mortgage industry production — and they are more likely than banks to move quickly to reduce capacity.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2021

In the last decade, community lenders—those credit unions, community banks, and independent mortgage banks who serve their local markets—have grown to own the market. Now, with 2021 leaning back to purchase-driven volume, they are positioned to accelerate that market dominance.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Thanks to this latest collaboration, lenders who use Finastra’s software will benefit from a seamless, fully integrated CRM as well as a marketing automation solution. “Finastra has a long history of delivering innovative solutions to its customers,” Josh Friend, CEO of Insellerate, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Detroit-based lender’s unmatched combination of name recognition, digital infrastructure and consumer technology enabled it to originate more than $670 billion in mortgages in 2020 and 2021, smashing records in the process. Its parent Rocket Companies rode the wave to a stunning $9.4 billion in profit in 2020 and $6.1 billion in 2021.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

Connecticut-based lender and servicer Planet Home Lending has acquired the assets of Illinois-based retail lender Platinum Home Mortgage Corporation. The deal also expands Planet’s footprint in the Midwest, Northwest and West Coast markets. The deal also expands Planet’s footprint in the Midwest, Northwest and West Coast markets.

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