Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Movement is constant in the mortgage industry. The first article will address the movement of individuals or teams among mortgage companies. Without proper planning and investigation, continued use of such brands and marks can result in costly infringement claims.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

Reverse mortgages have a minimum age requirement that serves as a key differentiator for the product. But things seemed to take a step forward last week when one of the leading lenders in the space, Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. announced that it was implementing hybrid e-closings into its reverse mortgage processes.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2025

If the mortgage industry had a mantra at the start of last year, it was something like: Just survive to get to 2025. But now heres 2025, and its clear that mortgage rates arent falling the way wed hoped, and the market is going to take more time than we thought to find its new normal.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

… So when you look at Rocket’s strength in mortgage with Redfin’s leadership and home search and brokerage, what we’re doing is simply allowing our broker network to get access to a bigger ecosystem,” Krishna elaborated. ” “We think about it more like opportunity.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In this week’s episode of the Power House podcast , HousingWire President Diego Sanchez speaks with Steve Jacobson, CEO of Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. The duo also discusses Fairway’s status as a top 15 mortgage lender even after its decision to leave the wholesale channel. As consumers, we expect instant everything.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2022

Texas lender Mid America Mortgage rebranded as Click n’ Close to expand into the mortgage technology industry following the sale of the majority of its retail lending operations. The post Mid America Mortgage rebrands to Click n’ Close appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

Here are twelve mind-blowing ideas and prompts smart agents are using to close more deals with ChatGPT in 2025. It’s not perfect, but close. Here is a simple, step-by-step workflow and prompt to create engaging, on-brand drip campaigns for your leads using ChatGPT. Sound familiar? Let’s start with the basics.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2025

For real estate professionals and mortgage lenders, these shifts present both challenges and opportunities. For real estate professionals and mortgage lenders , these challenges heighten the risk of deal cancellations and complicate the closing process.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

On Wednesdy Citi launched mortgage.com, a new platform that creates a brand-endorsed, consumer-focused channel to leverage Citi’s brand authority and encourage mortgage or refinance applications for the bank. Enter mortgage.com, which Burgard says is a learning platform to grow the banks presence in the mortgage space.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2020

This week, industry experts discuss how to navigate client and referral partner expectations and minimize closing times when factors like these begin to decelerate the buying process. I get it, the seller needs to move, but doing a quick closing to incentivize the seller to accept your offer is no longer a selling point.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Despite a drop in overall profitability in the fourth quarter of 2024, FOA, one of the nations leading reverse mortgage lenders, remains optimistic about the total addressable market for home equity-based retirement products and will continue to develop its offerings in 2025.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

The texts between three industry titans would lead to arguably the biggest mortgage and real estate play in decades — Rocket striking a $1.75 It has a theory for how well the sales funnel works, attaching experiences like mortgage, converting leads and demonstrating efficacy throughout the mortgage process.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2021

Five years after introducing the Rocket Mortgage brand for digital lending, Rocket Companies will finally retire the legacy Quicken name on July 31. “Rocket Mortgage has grown to be the industry leader and the measuring stick for all other lenders. It became the country’s largest mortgage lender in 2017.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

In an era of high mortgage rates and stagnant home sales , a real estate transaction model is making waves by reintroducing and standardizing a once-popular financing method. We are the very first company in the country to standardize the seller financing process, put a wrapper around it, brand it and call it MORE, Leahy told HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Rithm Capital , which owns multichannel mortgage lender Newrez , built upon its success in 2023 with net income of $835 million in 2024. billion in consumer loans from Goldman Sachs while also closing a deal to purchase Sculptor Capital Management and its $33 billion in assets under management. In 2023, it acquired $1.4

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Rocket Companies on Tuesday launched a loyalty program to attract potential homebuyers into its ecosystem amid one of the most challenging mortgage markets in decades. In the first phase of the program, customers can use points to get discounts on their closing costs when purchase a home through the subsidiary Rocket Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2025

As Zillow expands into mortgage and other products, they should increase that rate, too. Mortgage in particular is an exciting proposition. Mortgage in particular is an exciting proposition. Zillow’s been scaling its call center mortgage business since 2022, and in 2024 achieved $3.1 billion in origination volume.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

based agents can sign up for a business checking account with Thread Bank , which includes a Real-branded debit card. This represents the future of real estate — seamless, efficient and client-centered — and we are proud to lead the charge.” The product is currently available to select agents in the U.S. and Canada.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In an evolving mortgage market, mergers and acquisitions could give mortgage company owners opportunities to achieve growth and avoid challenges. In the first episode , Hanson explains how an owner can decide on selling a mortgage company to avoid potential market challenges in the future.

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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. 8 on the Inside Mortgage Finance ranking of top originators at just under $40 billion. Throughout his 20-year career he has closed more than 40,000 units and $9 billion in funded loans.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2025

In beating its estimates for funded loan volume and by posting a profit in the first quarter of 2025, reverse mortgage lender Finance of America (FOA) saw its volume improve by nearly one-third compared to numbers from Q4 2024. Finance of America is setting the standard for how our industry communicates the role of reverse mortgages.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

United Wholesale Mortgage , the largest wholesale lending firm in the country, is joining the blank-check company craze and will make its public debut via an acquisition. ” The acquisition via SPAC is expected to close in the fourth quarter. . ” The acquisition via SPAC is expected to close in the fourth quarter.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

added mortgage lending under its umbrella by acquiring mortgage brokerage company Be My Neighbor on Monday. million in cash paid on the closing date, $1.5 Be My Neighbor will enable reAlpha to provide integrated mortgage services to consumers who utilize the reAlpha platform to purchase homes, reAlpha said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2025

If you believe you can originate mortgages today in the same way they were done in 2018, youve probably been on a very remote island since then. Thats probably not entirely true, but few mortgage professionals can remember a period of such extended turbulence, and that includes the early years of the Great Recession.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

.’ In a presentation for investors , Rocket outlined how its acquisition of Redfin will help the company create a more seamless and affordable way for consumers to transact real estate, showing how it will take consumers from the home search phase all the way through title and closing. But Zillow has that recognizable consumer brand.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Writing about digital mortgage in 2021, I am reminded of a cartoon in the New Yorker, in which two cavemen were starting a fire and one said “Stop saying everything is ‘unprecedented.’” I can set filters for my partner search on Bumble, so why can’t I filter results for a mortgage broker? 1 Personalization. Presented by: Snapdocs.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2022

Rocket Companies announced this week that its CEO Jay Farner has stepped away from his role as Rocket Mortgage CEO, to assume the role of CEO of Rocket Central , the mortgage company’s fintech platform. Bob Walters, COO of both Rocket Companies and Rocket Mortgage, has stepped into the role as CEO of Rocket Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These partnerships can take various forms including partnerships with mortgage brokers , title companies , property management firms, insurance providers, contractors, lenders , or technology vendors. Marketing and branding Effective marketing is essential to growing a real estate business or any business, regardless of the industry.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Onity Group , the parent company of PHH Mortgage Corp. and Liberty Reverse Mortgage , announced this week that it will offer $500 million in senior notes due in 2029. The issuance and sale of the notes is expected to close on November 6, 2024, subject to customary closing conditions,” the company explained.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2023

Columbus, Ohio-based Go Mortgage has announced the appointment of Jessica Manna as its chief marketing officer. In her new role, Manna will be responsible for overseeing all marketing initiatives and strategies to promote Go Mortgage’s brand further and drive business growth.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2022

parent company of Flagstar Bank , has reduced its mortgage staff by 20% since the calendar turned to 2022, laying off 420 employees amid a significant drop in origination volumes and margins. Mortgage revenue decreased $36 million in the same period, to $74 million from January to March. Other states will retain their current branding.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

.” Republic collapsed after it failed to raise $75 million in capital from investors and exited the mortgage lending space. Republic had an active business that specialized in jumbo mortgage products. Ultimately, it originated about $50 million in mortgages in 2023, per mortgage tech platform Modex.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Cooper CEO Jay Bray who is slated to report to Krishna as the president and CEO of Rocket Mortgage told HousingWire in an interview that the merger is expected to generate $100 million in revenue synergies and $400 million in expense savings. There is the potential for significant revenue growth depending on mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

After a year of challenge in the reverse mortgage industry, the major lenders in the industry look a bit different for calendar year 2023 when compared with recent years past. Reduced volume, a challenging mortgage rate environment and industry consolidation has contributed to some of the broader changes.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Texas-based lender Thrive Mortgage plans to merge with digital multichannel rival Lower , which will create a unified lender with more than 650 loan officers and 120 active branches across the country. Financial details of the merger, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2024, were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Florida-based First Federal Bank announced on Thursday that it struck a deal to acquire Watson Mortgage Corp., expanding its mortgage retail lending footprint in the communities in which it operates. Last year, the community bank originated about $435 million in mortgage volume, per mortgage data platform Modex.

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