Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Pennymac followed the tracks of Rocket Pro TPO and United Wholesale Mortgage in raising conforming loan limits ahead of the Federal Housing Finance Agency ‘s (FHFA) decision to do so in November. Official 2023 conforming loan limit changes will be determined by the FHFA announcement, she added.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

The integration, announced on Wednesday, connects Rocket to a network of approximately 28,000 active users, including 21,000 loan officers who source mortgage offers from multiple wholesale lenders including Rockets chief rival, United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) all within a single system.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Sellers loan officers who agree to move over to Buyer may want (in addition to use of their team name which is typically an assumed name of Seller) to continue to use Sellers name for a period of time after closing, as part of their recognized brand.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Jim Anderson Colorado-based lender Loan Simple brought on Jim Anderson as its new chief marketing officer. Anderson, who started the new role in September, will oversee all aspects of the firm’s marketing, branding and demand-generation efforts. Anderson won HousingWire’s Marketing Leader Award in 2021.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

It is easy to become blinded by the end goal of increasing loan volume and quality origination talent. Branding/Intellectual property: Trade names, DBAs, and domain names Trade names, DBAs, trademarks, fictitious business names or assumed business names are what the world knows the business as.

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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. Throughout his 20-year career he has closed more than 40,000 units and $9 billion in funded loans. But my biggest focus initially is going to be the loan officers.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Cloudvirga’s platform solves for both by creating the best experience for borrowers and loan officers. The Cloudvirga team has been able to dramatically improve the experience of the borrower and the loan officer. For borrowers, a point-of-sale system is typically their first physical interaction with a lender’s brand.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2022

Mortgage lender Celebrity Home Loans shut down its correspondent channel and laid off employees on Tuesday. Part of the financial services holding company Celebrity Financial, the Illinois-based Celebrity Home Loans is licensed in 48 states and has reached $21 billion in home loans since 2006, according to its website.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Sieffert called 2024 a significant period of strategic alignment for the company, citing the unification of its disparate brands under a single banner, and the challenges she said were overcome as it processed the particulars of its acquisition of American Advisors Group (AAG), the industrys former leading player.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

SPS) has struck a deal to acquire certain assets of Texas-based Rushmore Loan Management Services LLC. “We believe that this combination of two highly rated and well-recognized brands will create a stronger company to better serve our customers, clients, regulators and associates,” Gandhi said in a press statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

From leveraging the latest in artificial intelligence (AI) and digital marketing to mastering financial literacy, mortgage and real estate professionals have come together to provide these skills to loan officers in a new book titled, “Rethink Everything: You ‘Know’ About Being A Next-Gen Loan Officer.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

One of the ways the reverse mortgage industry has aimed to position the potential value proposition for prospective borrowers is by the ability to use the loan proceeds to fund home modifications. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has also given attention to home modifications specifically for aging in place.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

CUSO Home Lending rolled out Dark Matter Technologies ’ Empower loan origination system (LOS) for its credit union owners. Dark Matter Technologies, which completed the acquisition of Black Knight ’s Empower and Optimal Blue in September, is prioritizing bringing down origination costs for lenders.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Should the goal of marketing technology be to make it so that a loan officer never needs to log in? Or, should LOs be encouraged to engage with marketing tools as much as possible in order to help them build their own brand and connections? Ordering an appraisal was as easy as pushing a button.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

Rockets capabilities in mortgage are more advanced than basically anybody, so Zillow has to continue to up its game in mortgage offer more financing options, loan types, speed up the time to close, and possibly offer consumers rebates in certain areas. But Zillow has that recognizable consumer brand.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

Our team has created a remarkable platform and brand, and we are now set to embark on a new growth phase with Newfi as a key strategic partner together with Apollos backing,” Franck Ruimy, Dunmor’s founder and CEO, said in a statement. Established in 2021, Dunmor operates nationwide in the consumer direct and broker channels.

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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. For an LO working to get the loan to the finish line, this can be a huge time saver. Why do we need them? Who is eligible to take advantage of them?

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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. He will drive the wholesale lender’s strategic expansion, fostering greater financial inclusion for Hispanic, Latino and other underserved communities.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

We actually need to manufacture the loan as quickly, compliantly and secure as possible and nothing more. Snyder: There’s a lot of really good vendors out there that provide a solution within that tech that is either user-based or loan-based and it just keeps adding up. Is that something that you’re thinking about?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

Donny Kirby, former vice president of national direct-to-consumer sales at Wyndham Capital Mortgage , spent more than 12 years at Charlotte, North Carolina-based company before leaving to start a mortgage broker shop, Cornerstone Home Loans. We all know that home affordability is an issue for everyone right now.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In 2025, it will begin rolling out new regional and local programs designed to “build our brand profile and drive business in strategic markets,” she said. In the third quarter, we saw an 89% increase in HomeSafe Second loans compared to Q2, and we anticipate further growth as we invest more capital and resources in the product,” she said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2025

In our production segment, we acquired or originated nearly $30 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB) of loans at higher note rates, which strategically positions our consumer direct division for significant growth when interest rates decline. ” Fees from fulfilling correspondent loans for PMT totaled $5.3 million in Q1 2024.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2023

Top-producing loan officer Christopher Keelin has taken his 80+person team over to CrossCountry Mortgage to “take advantage” of the lender’s technology while scaling his business. Keelin closed $57 million in volume in the first quarter of 2023. This year, Keelin has a team goal to post $700 million in volume. “If

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

Another factor is Reals private-label program, which launched in 2024 and allows brokerage affiliates to keep their branding. It started 2024 with 18 loan officers and finished the year with about 90. The company said about 40 independent brokerages with about 2,200 agents in total joined under these terms.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The California-based lender recently introduced a revised branding effort , the “Flex Payment Mortgage“ suite, that is designed to broaden the appeal of its reverse offerings to more potential partners. We service most of our own loans on the traditional side as well as the reverse side.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2025

Better.com today announced a new partnership with Biz2Credit , which will provide Biz2Credits customers the option to receive $50,000 to $500,000 in additional financing options through Better.com s Home Equity Line of Credit ( HELOC ) and Home Equity Loan (HELOAN) products.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The brand includes Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) reverse mortgage products alongside refinances, proprietary jumbo options and HECM for Purchase (H4P) loans. With the Flex Payment Mortgage, Guild is looking to give the reverse mortgage product a new, fresh look and branding,” Cory said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

In a press release, the company said it plans to grow the partnership over the next several years through a variety of initiatives designed to build its brand while supporting its mission, vision, values, and industry leadership. Olympic and Paralympic teams at the 2028 Olympics. This includes meaningful engagement with U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

Vonder Haar was selected as a winner based on her crucial role in expanding the company’s offerings and developing its digital marketing to meet the needs of its loan originators and their real estate partners. Chelsea Vonder Haar: We tailor our marketing strategy based on the individual loan officer and the details of the market they are in.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

Bridget has become highly knowledgeable about both the HECM and our Platinum products , and is currently learning our servicing guidelines, Packer said, referring to its brand-name proprietary reverse mortgage offerings. So loan origination systems dont always talk to the range of point-of-sale technologies that are out there.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Executive leaders there pointed to the performance of the company’s proprietary loan products and trends in the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) space as favorable. This brings earnings potential from the brand integration between FOA and American Advisors Group (AAG), he said, making for a much healthier position.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

A key factor in this growth is its private-label program, which launched last year and allows brokerage affiliates to keep their branding. It more than tripled its mortgage revenue last year while growing its loan officer count from 18 to 90, according to its earnings report.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Mortgage technology platform provider Dark Matter Technologies announced on Monday that it has added a second loan origination system (LOS) — NOVA — to its product lineup. The company added that this consolidation is designed to benefit all the brands it oversees.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2022

Nonbank lender Panorama Mortgage Group has added Texas-based Lone Peak Lending to its growing stable of brands. Lone Peak is the fourth lender to join Panorama this year, following the additions of Utah-based Rely Home Loans , Texas-based Prosperity Mortgage and Oregon-based Vision Mortgage Group.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

We are excited to deliver the Heartland Bank brand to our reverse mortgage customers,” said Medina Cicak, the bank’s newly appointed chief commercial officer. The simplified and modern new brand elements are visually appealing and provide simple navigation across our customer facing platforms. billion AUD, or roughly $1.2

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech-focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, insurance and real estate. In addition to applying for loans digitally, consumers should have the ability to take care of everything else they want,” he said. Stay tuned for updates.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

If you think about what Rockets created as the most iconic brand in the industry and the greatest recapture capability in the market, and then you marry that with our 7 million customers, it’s pretty magical, Bray said. Rocket has built a world-class loan origination platform, and Mr. Cooper has built a world-class servicing platform.

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