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

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Arrival Home Loans on Tuesday announced a partnership with zavvie a fintech company that specializes in bringing liquidity to residential real estate in an effort to enhance the homebuying experience for its customers. Arrival Home Loans, which is powered by Pacific Private Money Inc. produced a total volume of $52.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2025

Evergreen Home Loans , which is based in Washington state and has a presence in seven Western states, announced a major expansion of its footprint on Friday. 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.

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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. said Craig Strent, former CEO of Apex Home Loans and head of the faculty of mentors at The Loan Atlas , a mortgage coaching platform. “A

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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

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

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. I see a lot more low credit scores, funky income, foreign nationals or bank statement loans,” he said. ” Monson said.

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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. One of the other things that we leverage with those results is using them to educate our customers better to understand the bank-statement loans or other income calculations.

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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

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

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 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

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

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. Here are the 10 questions every loan originator needs to take into their first meeting with a potential Realtor referral partner: What did you do prior to real estate? You are not there to speak.

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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

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

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

MAY 19, 2025

Industry veteran Jesse Allen, formerly of OneTrust Home Loans and American Advisors Group (AAG) is now leading the division as its new president. Were focused on execution, getting our sales force in front of customers, and having good conversations and manufacturing the loans well.

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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

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

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

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

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Origination volume is up even more, as the company’s purchase loan volume doubled in 2024, while refinance originations rose 69%. Or we work with agents and agent teams to introduce loan officers to them to partner with when they want to start by touring first.

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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

MAY 15, 2025

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) is rolling out new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools designed to help brokers analyze competitors loan estimates and assist borrowers online. The loan estimate optimizer, dubbed LEO, identifies gaps and opportunities line by line, enabling brokers to offer better deals to borrowers.

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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

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

JUNE 20, 2024

Real estate technology firm Knock announced Thursday that its bridge loan product is being integrated into the borrower application process at Baltimore -based NFM Lending. The bridge loan estimate is being integrated into the lender’s workflow through an Encompass plugin. The loan includes no interest for six months.

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In his 20 years in mortgage banking, no year has compared to 2023 in terms of difficulty, said Ben Cohen, Guaranteed Rate ’s managing director and a top-producing loan officer. It was another brutal year, pushing loan originators to work longer hours, close loans faster while diversifying their mortgage product offerings.

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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

JUNE 9, 2025

“Technology should work to enhance the job that you do, that loan officers do, that real estate agents do. The company claims it has never had to lay off any team members. It should never replace everyone. It should take away the tedious, laborious tasks,” he said.

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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

MAY 21, 2025

His past experience also includes time at Homebridge Financial Services , Prospect Mortgage , First Choice Loan Service and American Advisors Group (AAG). He added that his focus at the moment is on building a team of values-aligned loan officers with an emphasis on service to clients and partners.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2023

Most retail lenders are desperately seeking high producing loan originators to make up for the losses that occurred in 2022. The lender runs its business based on a “no-loan-officer” model in which all of its 45 employees are licensed and delegated to a specific role in closing a loan.

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