Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

Now, they are sitting at 22% and climbing, because they offer the most loan options to borrowers. DS: The growth of the channel has been significant, especially in terms of technology. UWM is focused and committed to building custom technology specifically for independent mortgage brokers. And those tools are just the start.

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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? Loan Officer Freedom. Host Carl White, founder of The Mortgage Marketing Animals loan officer coaching program, shares insights for loan officers on how to close more while working less. Housing News.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2022

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 company’s job cuts include human resources, technology, talent acquisition, and executive assistant positions.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We’ve right-sized areas of our business impacted the most by this volatile market, such as refinance, operations, training, and recruiting,” Lindsey LeBerth, the company’s director of communications, wrote in an email to HousingWire. “In In August, Lower announced that Honor Home Loans , founded by U.S.

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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 30, 2022

Intuitive technologies developed and built by experts in both mortgages and technology can drive efficiency, reliability and profitability when paired with exceptional customer service. At UWM, we’re always looking for ways our brokers can grow their business,” said Justin Glass, Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at UWM.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

By writing and maintaining all of the code along with investing heavily in putting together a world class modern IT infrastructure that efficiently leverages a mix of modern technologies like the public cloud and API based software architectures, UWM has been able to turn on a dime and stay well ahead of shifts in the market utilizing technology.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

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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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In November, Interfirst issued pink slips to hundreds of non-commissioned loan officers at its call centers in Charlotte, North Carolina and Rosemont, Illinois, according to WARN notices in both states. I think 99% of the loans that I was writing there were refinances. The firm told HousingWire that it had originated $1.65

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

Lenders and applicants alike rely on powerful tools and technology that increase transparency and create ease, speed and convenience. The company’s predictive analytics platform not only provides lenders with the benefit of intuitive technology, it also helps more applicants qualify for mortgages.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

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 Nichols pointed out that after the 2008 financial crisis, wholesale lending began using technology that helped match pace with the processes of retail lenders.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

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. The company’s solutions involve applications of a few different types of automation technology. Indecomm’s Automation Continuum. State of Mortgage Automation.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Within four years, Akinmade and his team have built a robust, automated marketing platform, which is driven by investment in technology, to give retail loan officers a competitive edge. Paul Akinmade joined CMG Financial in 2016 to lead the expansion of the company’s marketing department ahead of a major staffing initiative.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

If your loan officers don’t have the resources to handle the inbound volume, they may not be able to follow up with every lead, which can lead to lost revenue. Combining the human element of your workforce with technology to help them work more efficiently makes it that much easier for them to build those customer relationships.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Built using Rocket technology, the pricing calculator helps LOs see loan scenarios side-by-side so they can deliver better options to their clients. They can share up to three loan options with clients on one screen to present the best options. Speed Sets Mortgage Brokers Apart From Competition.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In many cases, no technology existed to specifically address that new requirement (or could only be created on a costly, custom basis). And not all of them are technological. The industry has evolved in the way it hires, trains and deploys its human resources. Technology, too, has changed.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Erickson will be in charge of product management, the procurement and advancement of technology solutions and will oversee the training department and support teams for Motto Mortgage and wemlo. Mortgage lender and servicer Planet Home Lending also named Kathryn Edelen as regional vice president of its sales division this week.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

So who could possibly be thinking about compliance right now, except maybe, compliance officers? This is not a suggestion where you drop what you’re doing, push your production team into training and staff up the compliance department. Again, this takes resources (people and technology).

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2022

All of a sudden, you have loan officers and brokers out there hearing what the market is demanding. In addition to our popular bank statement loans, DSCR loans are also seeing a high demand for those getting into the rehab and rental markets. Yes, we offer training and webinars. We have in-house underwriters.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 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 sellers while also playing an expanding role as personal advisors. .”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2022

Pink slips will arrive for California employees at six offices in Thousand Oaks, Pasadena, Roseville, Westlake Village, Agoura Hills, and Moorpark. The latest round of WARN notices will impact 59 loan officers in the Thousand Oaks, Pasadena, and Roseville offices. Rosemont, Illinois-based Interfirst Mortgage Co.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Exponentially increase your loan officers’ origination potential without incurring additional expense? Examiners such as the CFPB and FDIC provide stringent oversight of digital activity, and mistakes can cost you and your loan officers dearly. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

With two decades of marketing experience both on the agency and the brand side, as well as a personal passion for rehabbing homes, Wooden’s know-how, grit, and fresh perspective has continued to propel the Anywhere portfolio of well-known and well-loved brands forward in an ever-evolving technological landscape.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

While Nguyen had to cut his workforce to about half this year, he plans to scale his company in 2023 by hiring 1,000 LOs and targeting the purchase market in Loan Factory’s 44 licensed states. “I I think I built a very good system – good process and good technology. CK: Has there been layoffs at Loan Factory as well?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

HousingWire interviewed a dozen loan officers and mortgage executives about their strategies for 2024, which mortgage products they expect to be in demand, and the magic rate needed to get sellers and buyers back in the market. AI can understand the loan status, a loan profile and AI can respond to the consumer.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

In December, the National Multistate Licensing System (NMLS) showed that AmCap had more than 400 sponsored loan officers while CCM had over 4,000. Leonhardt said that AmCap employees will participate in a two-week training program at CCM, with the integration expected to be complete in 45 to 60 days.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2023

And as a loan officer (LO), why should I care? A look into GSE appraisal modernization efforts The GSEs have each offered appraisal waivers on eligible loans for several years. A trained and vetted third party can perform the data collection. Who is eligible to take advantage of them?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2021

That’s true even if those complex, multi-outcome tasks didn’t really require highly trained professionals. Those include collaborative communications (Realtor to closing officer; loan officer to escrow assistant, etc.) The loan officer might send something via encrypted email. The forms are many.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

According to the CFPB, hundreds of loan officers at BofA failed to ask mortgage applicants demographic questions and falsely reported that they had chosen not to respond.” Lee Davenport, PhD, is a real estate coach/trainer and blogger who trains real estate agents and brokerages on how to work smarter with technology.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

“The opportunity for a new player to come in 10 years ago, and be client-oriented and use technology to replace hierarchical management structures, is exactly the kind of firm lenders want to partner with today. In these uncertain times, we see our vision of a fully integrated tech stack as the main force of customers’ stability.”

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Clear Capital

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Great news for users of Encompass® by ICE Mortgage Technology®. What is Encompass by ICE Mortgage Technology? Encompass is a digital lending software available through ICE Mortgage Technology. Encompass is a digital lending software available through ICE Mortgage Technology.

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AmeriMac

MARCH 15, 2024

Loan officers can focus on other aspects of the loan origination process, knowing that the appraisal process is being handled by qualified professionals. Incorporation of new technologies and data sources in the appraisal process.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2021

As a candidate, Biden’s campaign said he would “establish a national standard for housing appraisals” to ensure that appraisers are adequately trained, understand the neighborhoods in which they work and “do not hold implicit biases” that influence their work. Third : The efforts to automate property valuation should be enhanced.

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Clear Capital

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Clear cCapital just announced that we have acquired a Finnish proptech startup called CubiCasa and CubiCasa is incredibly exciting technology that enables anyone with a smartphone and no training to do a 10-minute walkthrough a property and get a fully detailed, accurate floorplan with gross living area.

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