Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2025

Empower Mortgage , part of the Equity Prime Mortgage family of brands, has appointed Rogelio Goertzen as its chief growth officer. Goertzen, the founder of Hispanic Organization of Mortgage Experts (HOME), said in a statement that for many first-generation Americans, homeownership represents more than just buying a house.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2022

Texas lender Mid America Mortgage rebranded as Click n’ Close to expand into the mortgage technology industry following the sale of the majority of its retail lending operations. The post Mid America Mortgage rebrands to Click n’ Close appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

On Wednesdy Citi launched mortgage.com, a new platform that creates a brand-endorsed, consumer-focused channel to leverage Citi’s brand authority and encourage mortgage or refinance applications for the bank. Enter mortgage.com, which Burgard says is a learning platform to grow the banks presence in the mortgage space.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2020

This week, industry experts discuss how to navigate client and referral partner expectations and minimize closing times when factors like these begin to decelerate the buying process. I get it, the seller needs to move, but doing a quick closing to incentivize the seller to accept your offer is no longer a selling point.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2025

For real estate professionals and mortgage lenders, these shifts present both challenges and opportunities. For real estate professionals and mortgage lenders , these challenges heighten the risk of deal cancellations and complicate the closing process.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Despite a drop in overall profitability in the fourth quarter of 2024, FOA, one of the nations leading reverse mortgage lenders, remains optimistic about the total addressable market for home equity-based retirement products and will continue to develop its offerings in 2025.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Rithm Capital , which owns multichannel mortgage lender Newrez , built upon its success in 2023 with net income of $835 million in 2024. billion in consumer loans from Goldman Sachs while also closing a deal to purchase Sculptor Capital Management and its $33 billion in assets under management. In 2023, it acquired $1.4

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Rocket Companies on Tuesday launched a loyalty program to attract potential homebuyers into its ecosystem amid one of the most challenging mortgage markets in decades. In the first phase of the program, customers can use points to get discounts on their closing costs when purchase a home through the subsidiary Rocket Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2021

Five years after introducing the Rocket Mortgage brand for digital lending, Rocket Companies will finally retire the legacy Quicken name on July 31. “Rocket Mortgage has grown to be the industry leader and the measuring stick for all other lenders. It became the country’s largest mortgage lender in 2017.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

Reverse mortgages have a minimum age requirement that serves as a key differentiator for the product. But things seemed to take a step forward last week when one of the leading lenders in the space, Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. announced that it was implementing hybrid e-closings into its reverse mortgage processes.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

.’ In a presentation for investors , Rocket outlined how its acquisition of Redfin will help the company create a more seamless and affordable way for consumers to transact real estate, showing how it will take consumers from the home search phase all the way through title and closing. But Zillow has that recognizable consumer brand.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

based agents can sign up for a business checking account with Thread Bank , which includes a Real-branded debit card. This represents the future of real estate — seamless, efficient and client-centered — and we are proud to lead the charge.” The product is currently available to select agents in the U.S. and Canada.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

1 loan originator in the country by volume for at least five years, is assuming the role of president at Rate Mortgage , the company announced Tuesday. 8 on the Inside Mortgage Finance ranking of top originators at just under $40 billion. Throughout his 20-year career he has closed more than 40,000 units and $9 billion in funded loans.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

.” Republic collapsed after it failed to raise $75 million in capital from investors and exited the mortgage lending space. Republic had an active business that specialized in jumbo mortgage products. Ultimately, it originated about $50 million in mortgages in 2023, per mortgage tech platform Modex.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

added mortgage lending under its umbrella by acquiring mortgage brokerage company Be My Neighbor on Monday. million in cash paid on the closing date, $1.5 Be My Neighbor will enable reAlpha to provide integrated mortgage services to consumers who utilize the reAlpha platform to purchase homes, reAlpha said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Cooper CEO Jay Bray who is slated to report to Krishna as the president and CEO of Rocket Mortgage told HousingWire in an interview that the merger is expected to generate $100 million in revenue synergies and $400 million in expense savings. There is the potential for significant revenue growth depending on mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Spurred by the impact of the coronavirus, the partnership closed more than 1,600 RON transactions in the first half of 2020, a more than 200% increase over the 500 RON transactions that they closed in all of 2019, the companies told HousingWire. “We It’s a welcome improvement.”. We have continued to grab market share.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2022

Rocket Companies announced this week that its CEO Jay Farner has stepped away from his role as Rocket Mortgage CEO, to assume the role of CEO of Rocket Central , the mortgage company’s fintech platform. Bob Walters, COO of both Rocket Companies and Rocket Mortgage, has stepped into the role as CEO of Rocket Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

United Wholesale Mortgage , the largest wholesale lending firm in the country, is joining the blank-check company craze and will make its public debut via an acquisition. ” The acquisition via SPAC is expected to close in the fourth quarter. . ” The acquisition via SPAC is expected to close in the fourth quarter.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2022

parent company of Flagstar Bank , has reduced its mortgage staff by 20% since the calendar turned to 2022, laying off 420 employees amid a significant drop in origination volumes and margins. Mortgage revenue decreased $36 million in the same period, to $74 million from January to March. Other states will retain their current branding.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Writing about digital mortgage in 2021, I am reminded of a cartoon in the New Yorker, in which two cavemen were starting a fire and one said “Stop saying everything is ‘unprecedented.’” I can set filters for my partner search on Bumble, so why can’t I filter results for a mortgage broker? 1 Personalization. Presented by: Snapdocs.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2023

Columbus, Ohio-based Go Mortgage has announced the appointment of Jessica Manna as its chief marketing officer. In her new role, Manna will be responsible for overseeing all marketing initiatives and strategies to promote Go Mortgage’s brand further and drive business growth.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

After a year of challenge in the reverse mortgage industry, the major lenders in the industry look a bit different for calendar year 2023 when compared with recent years past. Reduced volume, a challenging mortgage rate environment and industry consolidation has contributed to some of the broader changes.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These partnerships can take various forms including partnerships with mortgage brokers , title companies , property management firms, insurance providers, contractors, lenders , or technology vendors. Marketing and branding Effective marketing is essential to growing a real estate business or any business, regardless of the industry.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Texas-based lender Thrive Mortgage plans to merge with digital multichannel rival Lower , which will create a unified lender with more than 650 loan officers and 120 active branches across the country. Financial details of the merger, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2024, were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Florida-based First Federal Bank announced on Thursday that it struck a deal to acquire Watson Mortgage Corp., expanding its mortgage retail lending footprint in the communities in which it operates. Last year, the community bank originated about $435 million in mortgage volume, per mortgage data platform Modex.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

In an industry where managing a web of technology vendors to support LO’s sales and marketing needs has become overwhelmingly complex, inefficient and creates unnecessary security and compliance risks, CANDID is quickly becoming a leader in transforming how mortgage lenders operate.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

HW Community, Today we are thrilled to announce that HW Media has acquired Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD) – the reverse mortgage industry’s premier independent source for news, commentary and analysis. According to the Urban Institute , the homeownership rate for seniors ages 65 and older is close to 80%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2021

As we think about coming out of this first month of the year, we’ve quickly realized this year is going to be anything but planned or what we in the mortgage lending industry are used to. But for others, low mortgage rates gave way to pre-approved borrowers struggling in a very competitive seller’s market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Guild Mortgage ’s acquisition of Academy Mortgage Corp. Final decisions on these employees are still being worked out based on the needs to wind down the current pipelines and close out the Academy business, she said. The acquisition of Academy’s retail assets is scheduled to close by the end of February.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

PennyMac Financial Services , one of the nations largest mortgage lenders and servicers, on Wednesday announced a partnership that will give the company a high level of visibility during the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. California-based Pennymac will be the official mortgage supporter of the U.S. The company closed $115.1

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2024

After the reverse mortgage industry’s key performance metrics rallied in May, June fared slightly worse than previously telegraphed by case number assignments. Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements fell by 14.4% Guild Mortgage also posted a gain of 19.1% Each type of reverse mortgage use case also declined in June.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

That’s why HousingWire is honoring the outstanding accomplishments of marketing execs in mortgage and real estate with the Marketing Leaders award. These leaders are the visionaries behind the strategies, campaigns, and branding efforts that push the industry forward. . For me personally, it was incredibly validating.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2022

Jim Linnane, the former head of retail at Stearns Lending , has joined Flagstar Bank as the president of the company’s distributed retail mortgage division. “He’s a results-oriented team-builder with a demonstrated ability to grow people and organizations,” said Lee Smith, president of Mortgage for Flagstar.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

When assessing December’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) volume data for December 2023, Reverse Market Insight (RMI) used a choice word as the title for its commentary : “thud.” One of the top 10 lenders that posted gains, however, was Open Mortgage. This is a different situation.” HMBS issuance in 2023 came out to $6.5

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2025

HousingWires Marketing Leaders award honors standout marketing executives driving innovation, strategy, and brand growth across the housing industry. “ In an industry as close-knit as ours, its critical for brands to be both authentic and innovative. I call this Authenovative Marketing.

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