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Mortgage rates are the highest they’ve been this year. Did loan officers expect this?

Housing Wire

Many investors had expected the Fed to cut benchmark rates as early as March, and loan officers had hoped to see a decline in mortgage rates that tend to move in tandem with long-term yields. Saghafi has clients who recently decided to pull the trigger and move to a bigger house by selling their home that had a 2.375% mortgage rate.

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HousingWire September Demo Day: InSellerate

Housing Wire

AgentConnect takes Co-Branded marketing to a new level by automatically delivering dynamic open house flyers, property websites, and landing pages instantly through MLS data in real-time, which is auto-generated and compliantly displayed, including loan officer’s specific loan and pricing options.

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Mortgage Coach integrates with Insellerate

Housing Wire

Mortgage Coach , a mortgage platform that enables lenders to educate borrowers with home loan presentations, announced that its platform will be integrated with Insellerate, a customer relationship management (CRM) platform.

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Top 5 reasons to reinforce your relationship with real estate professionals

Housing Wire

The relationship between a loan officer and a real estate agent is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle, as the two must combine forces to help borrowers achieve their goal of buying a home. The event that strengthens bonds Ultimately, loan officers should aim to be a valuable partner to the real estate agents you work with.

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Polly adds Total Expert to its API integration roster

Housing Wire

The API integration will allow lenders to bring product offerings to open houses, allowing them to engage borrowers “earlier in the lifecycle,” and will also enable lenders to better support co-marketing partners like real estate agents and loan officers.

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DataDigest: Mortgage pros when the tide goes out

Housing Wire

In our quarterly HousingWire LenderPulse survey , we asked retail loan officers, branch managers, C-suite execs, brokers and others how they feel about the market, where they expect rates to be in Q3, and what they’re doing to reduce costs. Money’s tight and lenders are plugging holes in the boat, not buying a new engine.

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As the market shifts to purchase, LOs get creative

Housing Wire

Apart from selling produce that is popular in former Soviet countries, these stores represent a marketing opportunity for Alex Naumovych, a loan officer at Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corporation. A sales manager, who requested anonymity, said that he helps newbie LOs by reviewing their strategies to pull in business at open houses.

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