Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Tomo touts its use of artificial intelligence in streamlining loan underwriting and closing processes. It claims to save the typical homebuyer up to $4,000 in closing costs and offers interest rates that are 50 to 100 basis points lower than the industry average, according to a press release.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

That was a repeated idea shared by a group of reverse mortgage professionals when asked to assess what they see as the biggest industry challenges of the year. Rates re-emerged as a challenge and continue to be as the year winds down to a close. I think that’s true from an industry standpoint.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The state of leadership in the mortgage industry When people say, Theres no such thing as a perfect company, are they really acknowledging an inherentflaw or are they feeling the void left by inadequate leadership? Four months later, the branch was still struggling, and worse, my top loan officer now the branch manager quit.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Multistate mortgage lender Click n’ Close on Thursday announced that it’s adding a 30-year, fixed-rate conventional loan option to its SmartBuy Shared Appreciation Mortgage (SAM) program. SAM loans grant the lender a share of the home’s future appreciation in exchange for a lower interest rate. to 5% down.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

The company analyzed a portfolio of residential , commercial and business-purpose loans totaling approximately $80 billion. of these transactions contained issues that could lead to fraud, with each problematic loan averaging 2.5 It found that 46.8% errors the highest number on record. In Q1 2025, 10.8% of all transactions.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In addition to all of these challenges, economic factors outside of housing are making it harder for potential buyers to acquire qualifying mortgage loans. Most lenders focus on offering traditional mortgage loans to clients, choosing to shy away from unconventional options in the market. Finance a loan, and you may lose money.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

In its 2025 State of eClose Adoption Report released on Tuesday, Snapdocs revealed that 90% of mortgage lending institutions now offer digital closings to customers. Snapdocs said that the rise in digital closings is due to the measurable efficiencies and improved experience that digitization delivers. the industry average.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

While the Redfin acquisition (still pending close) was a clear push into the purchase market, the Mr. Cooper acquisition is about scale, servicing, and customer lifecycle retention. Mr. Cooper services a vast portfolio, including loans originated by top competitors. And thats before Rocket even leans into marketing. [3:45]

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

The company calls the move an “industry-first initiative.” FinLocker details that the initiative will eliminate verification costs at all stages of the mortgage journey, from prequalification and underwriting to final reverification before closing. ”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Mortgage servicers, regulators and economists are closely watching the delinquency rates for Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans following a spike in the fourth quarter of 2023. Meanwhile, the FHA-insured loan delinquency rate recorded a larger jump during the same period to 10.81%, up from 9.5%, the highest level since Q3 2021.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2025

What’s the deal with all the discussion across the lending community about the fluctuation of the loan officer population recently? There have been social media posts and editorials debating the current total number of loan officers, whether the population has decreased, and if so, by how much.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2024

And industry experts have pointed out that many ARM loans have reset — or will soon reset —at higher rates. million ARM loans in the lead-up to the Great Financial Crisis. According to the ICE report, higher rates already hit 831,000 ARM loans that reset between March 2023 and March 2024. million in May 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Rocket Companies is buying Mr. Cooper , America’s largest mortgage servicer, in a market-shattering deal that could reshape the mortgage industry for years to come. Rocket also has arguably the strongest recapture game in the industry, and a deal like this would give it a distinct advantage over all other competitors.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

To open the conversation, Sanchez asks Jacobson to explain how Fairway harnesses the power of positive recommendations to boost production for the company’s loan officers. He explains that speed and customer service rule every aspect of business, including the mortgage industry. As consumers, we expect instant everything.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2025

billion in total or as much as $1,692 per loan. According to the release, Nigrinis and Zywicki analyzed how much widespread use of automated title risk assessments would lower consumer costs, promote greater transparency and increase industry competition. The pilot program is slated to run through May of 2026.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In this HousingWire Executive Conversation, Tom Davis, Chief Sales Officer at Deephaven , discusses the opportunities in the non-QM investor loan space as we head into the new year. He emphasizes the importance of a diverse product portfolio including DSCR and business-purpose loans, to better serve clients.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Reverse mortgage industry leader Finance of America (FOA) announced updates on Thursday to the interest rate for HomeSafe Second, its proprietary second-lien reverse mortgage product. The interest rate on the loan has been lowered from 9.99% to 9.49%. The interest rate on the loan has been lowered from 9.99% to 9.49%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2025

Reverse mortgage professionals made more inroads into the forward mortgage industry in 2024. Continuing this momentum into 2025 is a priority for many in the reverse mortgage space, according to conversations with leaders at various industry lenders. One key is to bolster connections between a companys forward and reverse divisions.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Schwartz points out that starting Tomo required an adaptive approach to leadership by people who maintain a “wartime“ leadership style that adjusts to industry changes. But he notes that building a successful mortgage company requires hard work and diligence, regardless of industry changes.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

Patrick Stone, the founder and chairman of Williston Financial Group (WFG), is celebrating 50 years in the real estate industry a milestone that coincides with the 15th anniversary of WFG, which he launched in the wake of the Great Recession. The industry kind of shrugged and said, Thats a lender problem. Its surreal, Stone said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

There were a total of 298 consumer complaints submitted to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in 2024 that were related to the reverse mortgage industry, according to a database maintained by the bureau. About 13% of all complaints were related to applying for a loan or refinancing an existing one.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The Tech100 Mortgage award recognizes the most innovative and impactful organizations driving the mortgage industry forward. Now in its 13th year, the Tech100 program serves as a trusted resource for housing professionals, providing a definitive list of the industrys top technology providers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Younger service members struggle during the homebuying process, particularly around paying closing costs. The housing benefits pushed more than 28 million home loans for Veterans over the last 80 years. The number of financial institutions servicing home loans has declined. In 1944, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

billion in loans in 2024, according to an Instagram post on the company’s website. Schoep told HousingWire that Farrington has a proven track record of leadership, expansion and mortgage industry expertise. Skilled in Mortgage Underwriting, Processing, Closing, Contact Centers, Management, Loan Servicing, and Financial Risk.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

From streamlining title verification to enabling collaborative loan processing and automating key title production tasks, these leaders are helping shape a faster, smarter, and more efficient housing market. It’s a game-changer for an industry often bogged down by outdated, siloed processes.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The new credit optimization platform will combine the best parts of the What-if Simulator and Wayfinder tools, giving mortgage professionals the power to reach more clients and close more loans. CreditXpert developed the platform to cut down loan filing timelines. 1 in preparation for the launch of the new platform.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

It has built an MSR platform with 608,000 loans, representing $192 billion in unpaid principal value (UPB) and $2.8 Meanwhile, Rocket’s servicing portfolio, including subserviced loans, had a UPB of $534.6 million loans, generating about $1.4 billion in market value as of June 30. billion as of June 30. Annaly was No.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2025

Richards has a long history in leadership and executive roles in the mortgage industry. Other positions shes held include director and vice president roles at Caliber Home Loans , as well as a three-year stint as loanDepots COO. But her relationship with loanDepot ended in acrimony after she left in 2021. The case is still ongoing.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Tim Nelson, a longtime reverse mortgage industry professional and reverse department manager at VIP Mortgage in Scottsdale, Arizona , spent 20 years in the home lending arena before shifting his focus entirely to reverse. Nelson is now a reverse mortgage borrower in addition to being an industry professional.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

New York Community Bancorp , the parent of Flagstar Bank , said it’s still committed to the home loan business despite selling approximately $5 billion in warehouse mortgages to JPMorgan Chase Bank to improve its capital and liquidity position. The sale is expected to close in the third quarter of 2024. billion; 5.7%).

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2025

Doing so would close what he described as the 1099 loophole. In his view, these LOs are getting paid on the terms of the loan, which he and more than one industry lawyer I spoke to believes is a violation of LO Comp rules. Illustration made with ChatGPT A source called with what sounded like big news.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The third party origination (TPO) division of Rocket Mortgage on Monday announced the rollout of its latest product, 24 Takeoff, which allows mortgage broker partners to receive a 24 basis point credit on all eligible loans until Nov. 29, which gave borrowers a 75-basis-point rate cut on various refinancing options.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Mortgage pros have closely monitored the commission lawsuit developments since a Kansas City, Missouri jury determined that NAR, HomeServices of America , and Keller Williams conspired to inflate or maintain high commission rates through NAR’s so-called Participation Rule. You should be finding buyers before real estate agents anyway.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2024

Rocket Pro TPO , the wholesale arm of Rocket Mortgage , announced Monday that it has decided to waive the $795 origination fee charged to broker partners on home equity loans. Rocket claims that its home equity loans are clear to close in an average of 15 days.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

However, the industry is approaching this cycle with caution. loanDepot’s focus is on the sales side, attracting experienced loan officers (LOs) and people who want to join the industry via its accelerated career in effective sales (ACES) program. The number of loans closed per production employee rose to 2.2

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Our mortgage industry is experiencing a fundamental shift. Traditional loan officers who focus solely on transactions are being replaced by mortgage professionals who act as financial strategists, long-term advisors, and educators. Heres how the mortgage industry is changing and what loan officers must do to thrive.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Funded loan volumes came in at $661 million, up 25% quarter over quarter. Purchase loans comprised 80% of the funded volume, followed by refinances (12%) and HELOCs (8%). Better also produced more loans via its direct-to-consumer channel (54% of the total) than through business-to-business (46%) in the quarter.

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