Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Today’s unique market requires flexibility and a pricing engine that empowers lenders and their loan officers to put the right loan products in front of borrowers. HousingWire spoke with Parvesh Sahi, chief revenue officer of Polly , about the importance of having the right PPE and strategic pillars that facilitate LO success.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Roughly a year after Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang were acquired by a private equity firm, they’ve merged their services onto one platform and rebranded to “TrustEngine.” The company says more than 200 independent mortgage companies, credit unions, banks and brokers currently use TrustEngine’s solutions.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

Lisa Moriello, the national retail reverse mortgage sales manager at multichannel lender loanDepot , recently spoke to RMD about how business in 2024 seemed to be off to a promising start. Diving deeper into the current reverse mortgage business environment, she offered additional perspectives on multiple topics.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

Mortgage fintechs Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach have merged, roughly six months after a Philadelphia-based private equity firm bought a controlling stake in each company. Richard Harris, former chief executive officer at email sending and delivering platform Spark Post , will take the helm as CEO.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In these 20-minute sessions, attendees will walk away with tangible and actionable information from leaders at mortgage, valuation, real estate and title companies. Presented on Oct. Presented on Oct. If you don’t have the best technology platforms, you are losing loans and leaving both borrowers and Realtors behind.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Publicly traded real estate firm The Real Brokerage has struck an agreement to acquire the mortgage brokerage arm of real estate and mortgage technology company LemonBrew. million to acquire the tech-enabled home loan platform, which does business in 20 U.S. Presented by: Acra Lending. and two Canadian providences.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2021

The average time to close on a mortgage has decreased for a fourth consecutive month to 51 days, according to a new study from ICE Mortgage Technology. The percentage of purchase mortgages increased to 43% of total closed loans. The percentage of purchase mortgages increased to 43% of total closed loans.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2022

As mortgage origination volume continues to fall from the heights of the pandemic-spurred boom, many lenders see cost-cutting as their top priority this year. With mortgage origination volume expected to drop by about 40% to $2.4 billion in loan origination volume in 2021. “In

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2021

If you take the temperature of how loan officers are feeling ahead of the holiday season, the scale would likely read “uneasy.” Numerous shops, including Better.com , Interfirst Mortgage , and Freedom Mortgage have announced layoffs in the past few weeks, and some LOs worry their jobs may also be on the chopping block.

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Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2022

The rollercoaster continues for mortgage rates. After falling 40 basis points last week to 5.30% , purchase mortgage rates climbed back up this week to 5.50%, according to the latest PMMS survey from Freddie Mac. Mortgage rates of all stripes moved north on Wednesday following the CPI news. Presented by: Polly.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

Digital mortgage and fulfillment platform Maxwell has raised $16.3 Other investors included Rotor Capital , The Mortgage Collaborative Emerging Technology Fund , Prudence Holdings and existing investors including Anthemis Group , Route 66 Ventures , and Sovereign’s Capital. mortgage market. Presented by: Sutherland.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. Justin Woodward has experienced the best and the worst of the mortgage industry in only 18 months. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

The second big mortgage joint venture announcement this week is a meeting of the Glenns. Glenn Sanford’s eXp World Holdings announced Thursday a mortgage joint venture with Glenn Stearns’s Kind Lending , called Success Lending. The Mobile “Must-Haves” Reshaping Mortgage Technology. Presented by: SimpleNexus.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The latest weekly survey data from Freddie Mac shows the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage jumped 40 basis points to an average of 6.70% this week, the highest level since 2007. The uncertainty and volatility in financial markets is heavily impacting mortgage rates,” said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist. Presented by: FormFree.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Fresh off its acquisition of Stearns , Guaranteed Rate has picked up Owning Corporation , a direct-to-consumer mortgage lender. According to Guaranteed Rate, Owning’s direct-to-consumer platform processed over $20 billion in total loan volume in 2020. Presented by: Black Knight. It grew nearly 100% in 2020.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Philadelphia-based private equity firm LLR Partners announced Tuesday its investment in Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach , two fintechs focused on attracting and retaining mortgage borrowers and making loan originators more efficient. Both firms will maintain their existing brands and teams.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

That is the kind of broker we like working with – a team that succeeds by focusing on the human aspects of their operation, so everyone brings their full and most productive selves to the office. Part of this success-filled ecosystem is PrimeLine Capital’s use of Rocket Pro TPO technology.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2021

Venture capital-backed mortgage lender Better.com is going international. The company, which is expected to go public later this year, has agreed to acquire United Kingdom-based digital mortgage brokerage Trussle. since early 2020, with plans to usurp the traditional mortgage brokerages that dominate the U.K.’s homeowners.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2022

Six months ago Interfirst Mortgage Co. issued pink slips to over 350 non-commissioned loan officers, a workforce reduction that former workers claimed to represent more than half of Interfirst’s entire staff. The workforce reduction is also focused on mortgage loan production. Presented by: Acra Lending.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Pink slips will arrive for 58 employees working in the mortgage business at Texana Bank in California, according to a Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification (WARN) sent to the state’s Employment Development Department. The layoffs include loan officers, underwriters, processors, post-closing and secondary market staff.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

Cyberattacks are on the rise in recent weeks, as sanctions on Russia push its economy to the breaking point , and mortgage lenders may have unique vulnerabilities. As the mortgage world becomes more technologically interconnected, the risks to cybersecurity, data and infosecurity increase. Presented by: FundingShield.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

California-based ICE Mortgage Technology announced this week two enterprise agreements to integrate its eClose solution to Maxwell and Roostify platforms, enabling a more streamlined closing process for lenders and borrowers. Encompass eClose will be part of the mortgage fintech Maxwell’s point-of-sale platform.

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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 31, 2022

As more aspects of the mortgage process venture into the online realm, appraisal remains a bottleneck that regularly causes significant delays and loss in profit. As the world races towards automation in nearly every industry, Reggora aims to remain a leader in mortgage technology.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Instant homebuyer Opendoor has acquired “tech”-focused mortgage brokerage RedDoor , the companies announced Friday. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Sacramento, RedDoor calls itself a “digital first mortgage brokerage” that can preapprove a loan applicant “within 60 seconds,” likely what was appealing to the iBuyer.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

The mortgage rate outlook component experienced the only decline in March’s HPSI, with the latest results indicating that only 6% of consumers believe that mortgage rates will decrease over the next 12 months. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2021

HousingWire sat down with Renata Sheyner, vice president of product at CreditXpert, to learn more about key technologies that lenders need to give more attention to. HousingWire: Why do you feel it is important to continually develop and use new technologies? First, mortgage lending is highly volatile.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It also includes some new content, like a Q&A with Shant Banosian, Guaranteed Rate ’s top-ranked loan officer , and demos with top housing tech companies. This online, streamlined recording of the most popular and insightful HW Annual panels and presentations, will give attendees a chance to experience it all again.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. Successful agents, brokerages and loan officers of the future are going to rely significantly on technology to find, nurture and engage with buyers and home sellers while also playing an expanding role as personal advisors.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On the heels of going public, Rocket Companies’ broker channel, Quicken Loans Mortgage Services (QLMS), made waves throughout the industry when it announced it would be rebranding to Rocket Pro TPO in an effort to closer align itself with the brand that has become ever-present in the lending space.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2021

There are many more moving pieces and loan originators spend a great deal of time communicating with clients and their real estate agents. Rocket Pro TPO helps accelerate the entire mortgage process with underwriting speed and by offering brokers’ clients the information they need in a concise and clear format. .

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The supply-chain bottleneck afflicting the global economy has its own counterpart in the world of residential mortgage-backed securities, also referred to as RMBS. One group of industry players — loan underwriters — are the chief cause of the logjam. They don’t underwrite every loan in an MSR trade,” he explained.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

3 will transition from breakfast to the event space where they can look forward to a keynote presentation from Tamsen Webster, author of “Find Your Red Thread.” . 3 Can’t-miss HW Annual panels for new mortgage loan officers. Lock in your exclusive room rate for HW Annual by Sept.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

As record-low interest rates drive a refinance boom and spikes in mortgage applications, many businesses are adjusting to the present market. One of the drivers for a pivot to profit is that loans are expensive. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, it costs an average of $7,535 to produce a loan.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

And even with fast-rising home prices and an uptick in mortgage rates , 30% of those surveyed said they wouldn’t move to an area with natural disasters or rising sea levels even if home prices were affordable. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. Successful agents, brokerages and loan officers of the future are going to rely significantly on technology to find, nurture and engage with buyers and home sellers while also playing an expanding role as personal advisors.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

Optimal Blue ’s newly launched mobile app for the Optimal Blue PPE – one of the industry’s most widely used product, pricing and eligibility engine – gives loan officers full product and search capabilities from their mobile phones. All eligible products and rates are presented – including any adjustments, notes, and advisories.

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