Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

Instead, its continuing to add agents at an explosive rate. On its earnings call for the fourth quarter of 2024, the company disclosed that its agent count was 24,140 at the end of the year. Real credited its technology offerings and business model for the explosive growth in agents. million in 2023 to $4 million in 2024.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2025

When industry experts think about what could lead to a significant departure of loan officers and real estate agents, two main things come to mind: AI and market conditions. More and more loan officers and real estate agents have realized they can positively impact their community by educating instead of selling.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Mortgage rates had climbed close to the 7% range and he was determined to remain competitive on pricing with rival loan officers in North Carolina. After Mike paid his loan officer assistant, he was clearing just 40 bps. The lower comp rate stung. Still, it was better than nothing.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Many investors had expected the Fed to cut benchmark rates as early as March, and loan officers had hoped to see a decline in mortgage rates that tend to move in tandem with long-term yields. What I tell all loan officers, no matter who I talk to, is that there’s no foreclosure crisis coming on the horizon,” Saghafi said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2025

We’re here to build the AI teammate every elite agent will use daily — one that listens, learns, and helps them win. According to the company, Shilo can deeply understand the context of business calls made by real estate agents and mortgage loan officers. That teammate’s name is Shilo.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2023

The combination of an economic uncertainty, high mortgage rates and persisting affordability challenges will further reduce purchase demand, which keeps Monson and thousands of loan officers up at night. For instance, most loan officers don’t see the point of their clients buying down rates by paying a lot of money upfront.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The platform is intended for housing professionals in various sectors, including 5 million loan officers, appraisers , servicers , underwriters , developers, agents, brokers, attorneys and regulators. Through Araya, CoreLogic will give customers access to the data and analytics of nearly all U.S. properties on one platform.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

Florida-based Theoris Software has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform, AI agent, it says could transform how mortgage companies handle operations. The platform introduces a digital agent named Alpha7x that automates key processes across the mortgage lifecycle.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Over the years, Ive observed a glaring issue that stifles the growth and success of many mortgagecompanies: promoting top-producing loan officers into management roles without equipping them with the tools, training, or even determining whether they want to be leaders. In my mind, success in sales equated to success in leadership.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2025

Optimal Blue introduces automated refi tool As refi activity shows signs of life, Optimal Blue launched a new tool to help loan officers capture refinance opportunities automatically. The tool, Capture for Originators, identifies leads, runs pricing, and preps borrower presentations — cutting hours of manual work.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2025

One example is that it allows us to do income calculation upfront for our broker partners and our loan officers, which helps them better prequalify the borrowers. Jones : The way to help loan officers is to make it very easy from our side. Lindblom : AI is our assistant.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Real estate agents are facing a contracting issue that could seriously upend the traditional housing landscape. Under current guidelines, sellers pay a 5-6% commission on a sale which is split between the buyer and listing agents. But what happens if consumers pivot away from buyer agents altogether? Enter the savvy seller.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2025

You sent your text, you followed up with a call and now youve landed the coveted meeting with that real estate agent from across town. How would you like me to follow up with you next to discuss ways I help agents like sell more homes? Youve spent the past two weeks engaging on social. Deep breath, take a step back, relax.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Facing a challenging housing market can be daunting for agents and loan officers alike. I’ve seen every market shift imaginable as an agent, team leader and executive in the brokerage , mortgage and proptech space. These are the mindset and actions that set successful agents and loan officers apart in a down market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

By recruiting top talent and building meaningful partnerships, we can create seamless connections between forward and reverse channels, empowering both our loan officers and clients.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

After you create it, you send it out to the agent and they put it in their listing on Friday. And when the market changes, I can just call now I have a reason to call the real estate agent. Instead of getting on a computer to change all this stuff and send it back out to them, now I can just shoot the URL off to the agent.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

I’m going to start by making Rate the absolutely best place for every single loan officer to work at figuring out ways in which we can develop them, give them all the skills, the coaching , the mentoring and the tools, so they can have an amazing business, but also better serve all their clients and all their partners.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2025

Amor and Banosian are actively promoting the product line through in-person training with loan officers, real estate agents and financial advisers. Among loan officers, the biggest misconception is that these loans are more difficult to originate and take longer, Banosian said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2025

But we’re also diversifying in the field through our brokers as well as our local loan officers, and well be able to add to that through the Redfin acquisition as well here very soon, Lovier said on stage during the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Secondary and Capital Markets Conference in New York on Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2025

As borrower expectations for personalized, timely communication rise, loan officers are turning to AI-powered tools to stay competitive. With deep real estate expertise and a proven record of innovation, Ryan has grown Fello into a platform used by 20,000+ real estate agents, including 500+ WSJ Real Trends teams.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2025

That’s why, despite the noise, we continue to invest in innovation, expand our model and deliver value for our agents by embracing the future not resisting it. At this time, Leo is able to have real-time voice conversations and we are planning to test these capabilities with our agents in the coming weeks. million a year ago.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In a recent episode of “The Loan Officer Podcast,” host Dustin Owen and guest John Coleman explore key tips that all aspiring real estate agents should know when navigating mortgage financing for a potential client. As a result, many condo deals don’t close due to a lack of understanding on the agent’s part.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2025

John Porath “John’s leadership and ability to connect with loan officers will be instrumental in driving our core conviction of growth and success for the region. We’re excited to welcome him to the Evergreen Home Loans family.” His career began in 1989 as a loan officer with Norwest Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

” “We are thrilled to partner with zavvie to make Arrival’s products available to zavvie’s impressive network of loan officers and real estate agents ,” Simon Chen, CEO of Arrival Home Loans, said in a statement. Arrival Home Loans, which is powered by Pacific Private Money Inc.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

Mat Ishbia , president and CEO of UWM, likened LEO to having the most intelligent loan officer in America review an estimate in seconds and advise how to beat it. LO assistant UWM also launched MIA, a virtual loan officer assistant focused on client engagement.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

There’s going to be ins and outs and fluctuations [in mortgage] in seasonal quarter to quarter, but it’s really strong growth against a really challenged market, and our enhanced market strategy is really driving the bulk of that as we introduce customers to Zillow Home Loans if they want to start with financing, Wacksman said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Sean Shallis, a “Recovering Realtor” and top-producing loan officer , is offering strategies to help realtors break through this stagnation by leveraging micro-market shifts to create urgency and inspire action. Sean Shallis is an author and top-producing loan officer.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

For most real estate agents, working with a reliable lending partner is essential to a smooth and successful transaction. That partnership is everything,” Amy Breach, a Seattle-based Keller Williams agent, told HousingWire in late 2022. The lender and LO can make or break the transaction.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2025

This includes traditional mortgage LOs who could refer business to the reverse division, as well as input from real estate agents and homebuilders. It’s a tall order to, I think, be a really effective loan officer in this business.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To get there, Cliffco, which has been in business since 1987, is going after the non-qualified mortgage ( non-QM ) market and investing in tech to get in front of buyers and non-agent referral partners. Target buyers for Cliffco include non-traditional buyers seeking investor loans.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

The move was announced via email to Real’s 26,000-plus agents and comes at a time when the brokerage continues to experience explosive growth in its agent count and revenue. His insight and advocacy for agents will remain invaluable as we continue to build the real estate platform of the future.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2025

Its about agentic AI. Agentic AI vs. generative AI: Why the difference matters Generative AI tools like ChatGPT , Claude , and Gemini are designed to assist with content creation. Agentic AI, on the other hand, is proactive. Loan Officers (Los) arent using the tools theyre given. Its too complicated.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2025

In an announcement, GRA explained that Guadagnino would primarily be focused on growing its reverse mortgage division, including through expanded education and tools for loan officers, real estate agents and customers.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

“Technology should work to enhance the job that you do, that loan officers do, that real estate agents do. .” As the CTO for the largest mortgage company in the U.S., The company claims it has never had to lay off any team members. It should never replace everyone.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

31, 2023, and has since reshaped the business practices for real estate brokerages and agents across the country. Finding an agent Like 43% of homebuyers , I began my search online, as I worked to get a sense for what the inventory in my preferred areas and in my price range looked like. Funny you should ask.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2025

This means empowering loan officers with the tools and training they need to serve todays buyersfast preapprovals, clear communication and seamless closings. It also means deepening relationships with real estate agents, builders and referral partners who are closest to the transaction.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

Our new platform brings unprecedented speed and certainty to home financing, helping loan officers and their clients win more deals. zavvie said that HomeFAI adoption has surged 155% year over year, with 83% of loan officers switching to the new app that’s available in all 50 states.

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