Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Brian Covey, a high-profile vice president at loanDepot, is leaving the company after five years to join Revolution Mortgage , another direct-to-consumer retail mortgage lender which was founded in 2018. He also provided training to loan originators. billion in 2021.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

I don’t do that so much internally right now because we’ve got this separation in retail and wholesale, but my job is to do that for the partners and for the 86,000 loan officers out there not offering reverse mortgages. I knew the first thing we needed to do was to combine our training and marketing approach,” he said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2022

Godin relaunched the business in late 2019 as a lender focused on both wholesale and retail channels. Interfirst boasted of its ability to train people with no background in mortgage through a rigorous training course. The post Interfirst to lay off 140 employees appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

With that, I feel like we have a much higher focus on what it is we’re going after, which lane we’re focusing on, and then the training, experience and knowledge around those specific channels.” A lot of companies don’t necessarily have that [process], especially when you’re dealing with a retail shop,” she said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

To gain insight into how Rocket plans to strengthen its local presence to capture purchase volume, HousingWire spoke to more than a dozen former Rocket employees, current retail loan officers and mortgage brokers who have been contacted by Rocket recruiters to join its local initiative. So this isn’t brand new,” Kidwell noted.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Prior to HOMESTAR, he served as the executive vice president of retail production at AmeriSave Mortgage Corporation and area lending manager roles at Citi. Mortgage lender Homestar Financial Corporation on Friday announced appointing Gurp Bhandal as executive vice president of national production.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

NCRC alleged the Fort Mill, South Carolina-based retail lender discriminated against Black and Hispanic people seeking mortgages in the Seattle-Tacoma area. ” NCRC had previously provided training to Movement Mortgage, at the lender’s request, in 2019. further impacts the number of approvals in majority-minority census tracts.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Forward-reverse divide With the addition of more forward mortgage companies to the space recently, a natural question comes up about what kind of professionals to hire — either dedicated reverse mortgage specialists who know how this kind of transaction works, or forward specialists who can be trained in the particulars of reverse.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Tom Ferry International Key Facts For good reason, Ferry International refers to itself as the real estate industry’s leading coaching and training company. It involves independent work pulled from training videos and downloadable resources. Known as the “Real Life Realtor,” she’s the brain behind Real Life Real Estate Training.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Ohio lender also slashed 6% of its workforce in October leaving about 1,200 employees across its business including retail, wholesale and its direct-to-consumer arm Lower.com. Lower, a subsidiary of Lower Holding Co.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Many Axis trainees come from sales-based careers in hospitality, retail or insurance, which makes it easier to adapt to the mortgage business. Brandon Weiss, CEO of EscrowTab, hired Hall soon after she completed her training. He expects hiring to pick up again on the lending side in the third quarter of 2024.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

You have a lot of flexibility in pricing, flexibility with other broker products, flexibility with marketing under an compliant umbrella,” Steinway said of Revolution Mortgage, which has a hybrid wholesale and retail lender model. He was the fourth mortgage loan originator to join Guaranteed Rate in 2000. It’s the local relationships.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2023

Defendants also said they had to attend mandatory training and tests without compensation. Defendants claim they were required to undergo extensive training “off-the-clock.” They were also tested daily for two to three months after the training period on practice or section tests. The lawsuit was filed on August 10 in a U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Interfirst Mortgage , the retail mortgage business he founded in 2001, had grown to $14.5 Godin made plans to relaunch the business in late 2019 as a tech-forward lender that originated loans across both wholesale and retail channels. In 2012, Dmitry Godin was seemingly on top of the world. Interfirst 3.0?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2023

HousingWire: When you were selected for HW Insiders in 2019 you were the National Support and Training Director at Mid America Mortgage. In April of 2022, the retail division of Mid America Mortgage, Inc. This new role has challenged me to learn another side of mortgage retail originations.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2023

HousingWire: When you were selected for HW Insiders in 2019 you were the National Support and Training Director at Mid America Mortgage. In April of 2022, the retail division of Mid America Mortgage, Inc. This new role has challenged me to learn another side of mortgage retail originations.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Among those getting a pink slip are 49 loan officers, 10 national account managers, seven retail sales managers and seven transaction coordinators. Interfirst was founded in 2001 as a retail originator and then expanded to the wholesale channel and the correspondent channel in 2008 and 2011, respectively.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

loanDepot hired Richards in February 2018 to oversee its channels at that time — retail, wholesale , consumer direct and joint ventures — as well as processing, underwriting, closing and operational support functions. ” It also claimed the company needed its “COO to step up” when the market was booming.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

They also realize that if they don’t provide this experience, larger national retail lenders will. They are willing to drive change across their operations and work with advisors, like Falcon, to develop a roadmap to integrate digitalization into policies, processes, and training. banking, shopping, transportation).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

AI can also help close the gap with entry-level talent by reducing the amount of training needed to get started in a role. These flexible services can attract and retain a modern set of residents who are used to flexible models and digital payment options on their favorite retail sites and online banking platforms.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2021

In Ishbia’s estimation, these two companies, which both have retail operations, are trying to cut the broker out of the mortgage equation. Rocket is training real estate agents to originate loans, and Fairway is trying to poach loan officers, he claims.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

At the start of 2023, the company is investing in training the sales team on tactics to start growing the business again. retail and residential market shows how demand for home loans has quickly increased. Like its competitors, Tennessee-based First Community Mortgage, Inc. (FCM) Surprisingly, the landscape is helping.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

The wholesale channel will continue to grow as more retail originators and borrowers learn the benefits of working with a mortgage broker. The company also offers both onsite and virtual Success Track training for loan officers, processors and broker owners.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

“And one of our strategic plans for our growth is we’re really bolstering up our retail division in 2022.”. We will be hiring retail guys that carry our flag through the Excelerate branches, but they’re not only in California,” Yoon added.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

Covey plans to expand the company’s reach by targeting local and purchase markets through training and hiring top talent, he said in a previous interview with HousingWire. “If If 100 LOs get out of the market in one state, where does the one or two loans that they did a month go?” he said in December. “It The lender originated $2.04

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Our client development team spends a lot of time at conference forums and in retail branches educating loan officers. The high interest rate environment has created a situation with more brokers wanting training to become experts in non-QM. Deephaven is the teaching university of lenders!

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2020

The company is seeking to fill positions in all four of its business channels – direct to consumer, JV/retail, wholesale and correspondent lending. The company’s virtual training programs are continuing to operate in support of employee culture, continuing education, and internal advancement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2021

billion in the wholesale channel in 2020 (compared to about $62 billion in retail), lost roughly 5% of its broker clients to UWM, according to company executives. Then you might as well just go work for UWM retail. “My business is not designed to make my competitors like me, especially retail competitors,” he said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2022

Communication, borrower education and training of consumer-facing staff are all critical elements to ensure your servicing operation is properly prepared to help borrowers as they exit forbearance plans. Guild, a purchase-focused lender with a distributed retail model, registered a deterioration in the origination business.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

On June 1, Arizona-headquartered retail lender AmeriFirst Financial Inc. In line with AmeriFirst’s new motto, “broker pricing and banker service,” Bowlby noted that he will train loan originators to convince renters to buy and bring the deal to real estate agents. “If relaunched its forward mortgage originations.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2020

Before he joined Home Point Financial, Hilzendeger was at Wells Fargo for 30 years, most recently with Wells Fargo Home Lending , where he led as head of Retail Operations, head of Servicing Operations, senior vice president of Default Services, and senior vice president of Real Estate Servicing.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

Fairway’s workforce reduction included the wholesale and retail channels, from analyst to senior positions such as underwriting, training, and information technology. Still, according to the IMF data, the company was the 12th-largest mortgage lender in the country in the first quarter of 2022. Workforce reduction.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2022

The layoffs included closing managers, underwriter managers, processors, post closers, funders, and pipeline management positions who were in the retail channel, employees that were notified of their layoffs told HousingWire. “A Pink slips will arrive for affected employees on May 27 and no later than June 1.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 2, 2022

While with Fannie Mae, he drove the training and consulting tied to the roll out of Collateral Underwriter and was the collateral policy lead when the GSEs kicked off the UAD and Forms Redesign project. Earlier in his career, Staudenmaier was a credit risk manager and collateral policy and strategy analyst at Fannie Mae.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2023

​​The Federal Reserve ‘s (Fed) interest rate hike pause will give the housing industry a cautious sigh of relief, but observers are already nervous that the rate-induced pain train won’t come to a complete stop for a while longer and volatility will remain. up from March’s projection at 3.3%; core PCE inflation at 3.9%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

The company also provides extensive product, credit and technology training to ensure clients can take advantage of new product benefits and process enhancements. Keith Bilodeau brings over 39 years of national retail and wholesale mortgage management experience in production, operations and capital markets.

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