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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MARCH 15, 2024

These housing professionals have been gaming out the potential impact on buyers’ agents – a significant source of referrals. Loan officers and mortgage executives expect home sellers and homebuyers to negotiate more aggressively on commission paid to buyer agents, potentially bringing costs down.

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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

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

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

JULY 18, 2023

Agent recruitment has been off to a strong start this month at The Agency Dallas. In recent weeks the brokerage has welcomed brokers and agents who have collectively closed over $110 million in the last 12 months, the company claims. Whitfield and Wilbanks are both leaving Compass to join The Agency.

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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 3, 2023

On Friday afternoon, my real estate agent called with good news. The agent wished me well and said that she would appreciate a review on her website. My agent exchanged a few emails with the buyer’s agent over a few minor repair requests, but this was all buttoned up very quickly. Congratulations!” And that was that!

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

If you’re planning on staying in the mortgage business in 2022, you’re probably already shifting your strategy to better enable you to originate purchase money loans next year. That means you’ve been thinking about real estate agents…a lot. It’s the real estate agent who has the consumer’s trust at this point.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

. “It is common across the board right now,” Ryan Grant, co-founder and division president of Neo Home Loans , said of borrowers using discount points to lower their mortgage rate. “But agent commissions have never been a closing cost from a buyer perspective. Grant said.

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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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RIS Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

He’s been their top loan officer for nine consecutive years, and top officer nationwide for six years… The post Home-Financing Solutions From America’s Leading Loan Officer appeared first on RISMedia.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

Rocket obviously has the moat in mortgage and Zillow has the moat in search and agent referrals, so it is not surprising to see Rocket make a move to expand its presence on the other end of the spectrum in home search and with that agent network. John Campbell, an analyst at Stephens , shares a similar view.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

In a down market disrupted by the commission lawsuits, agents and LOs are considering working in a dual capacity. The company recently launched a mortgage brokerage firm that offers a plug-and-play program for real estate agents to become mortgage loan officers, a practice called dual licensing. according to the company.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Beginning a career as a real estate agent is an exciting time. That’s why new agents shouldn’t miss these three panels at HW Annual that will set you up for a long, successful career. . That’s why new agents shouldn’t miss these three panels at HW Annual that will set you up for a long, successful career. .

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

BLVR – a marketing and promotional campaign launched by EPM on Monday – aims to reach as many retail loan officers to provide information about the wholesale channel. When retail loan originators visit the website, LOs are asked to fill out their names, contact information and comments or questions about wholesale lending.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

“Sometimes 10-20 basis points is all an LO needs to win over a real estate agent or get creative on a borrower’s loan,” the company said in a statement. . Brokers can use the points for conventional, government and non-agency loans up to $1 million. . ” .

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When affordability meets fair housing Recently, during a coaching session with an agent, that agent shared how a recent seller, Bob, sold his home of 20 years and made so much money on the sale that he was able to purchase a retirement home in Savannah, Georgia, and have plenty of money left over for a nice retirement nest egg.

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Real Estate News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Fidelity National Financial, the nation’s largest title company, coming back “office by office” as real estate agents and loan officers find low-tech solutions.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

“Spending nearly $2 billion on a money-losing tech company with entry-level agents doesn’t change that.” When these clients are then connected with the best agents and the best loan officers, it creates a virtuous cycle. What consumer wouldn’t be tempted?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

The prudent selection of the escrow agent, assessment of the escrow fees and interest paid, identification of the escrow buckets and related escrow amounts, and detailed drafting of the mechanics and timing for release or payments from the escrow buckets, will help avoid or resolve liability disputes.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The relationship between a loan officer and a real estate agent is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle, as the two must combine forces to help borrowers achieve their goal of buying a home. By strengthening your relationships with agents you’ve worked with in the past, you can be their first choice for a referral.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

The ideal real estate agent-lender relationship is symbiotic: the agent earns trust with their borrowers by connecting them with a great lending resource, while the lender receives a steady stream of business from the agent. Still, lenders are wise to cultivate rapport with real estate agents. Simple, right?

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