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HousingWire Magazine: The ‘Servicing’ Issue

Housing Wire

My answer would be your mortgage servicer. Historically there has been so much focus on choosing the right real estate agent and loan officer. The February magazine has long focused on the servicer and borrower relationship. The February magazine has long focused on the servicer and borrower relationship.

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HousingWire Magazine: The ‘Title and Escrow’ Issue

Housing Wire

The homebuyer just wrapped this long process with their real estate agent and mortgage loan officer, but it’s the photo with the title agent that they tend to post on social media as they hold the keys to their new house. To add to the story, the buyer usually doesn’t even pick the title agent — the seller does.

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Just 16 mortgage lenders, brokers make Inc. 5000 list in 2023

Housing Wire

Reflecting the housing industry’s headwinds, just 16 mortgage lenders and brokers made the annual list of Inc. Magazine ‘s 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. It’s a sharp decline from 2022, when nearly 70 mortgage lenders and brokers were named. The top mortgage lender on the Inc. Zap Mortgage (no.294)

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Why 28% of mortgage applicants never close the loan

Housing Wire

trillion this year, stretching the capacity limits of lenders and everyone else in the housing ecosystem, some mortgage applicants simply haven’t been worth his while. “I I have a refinance client in California and they own a geodesic dome home,” said Glessner, a senior loan officer at Draper & Kramer Mortgage in Englewood, Colorado.

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Why Princeton Mortgage pays average performers poorly

Housing Wire

Princeton Mortgage CEO Rich Weidel. When Rich Weidel took over his family-owned lender Princeton Mortgage , the company had funded 11 loans in January of 2018, employed about a dozen people and had zero loan officers. What was the reaction at Princeton Mortgage to the news? Become a member today.

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Reverse mortgage industry courts financial planners

Housing Wire

As reverse mortgage loan officers aim to expand their repertoire of advertising methodologies, the use of an advertorial can be powerful but also comes with some caveats that any reverse mortgage loan officer should keep in mind prior to engaging in such advertising campaigns.

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Can the mortgage workforce demands of 2020 stand the test of time?

Housing Wire

Four months into the new year and conversations among mortgage executives were focused right back on the same issue that always happens after a mortgage boom — LO com p. Three mortgage executives were virtually gathered to talk about the routine topic at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Spring conference in April.

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