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Mortgage Pre-Qualification vs. Pre-Approval: What’s the Difference?

HomeLight

Like pre-qualification or pre-approval. Let’s lay it all out: How pre-qualifications and pre-approvals are similar Pre-qualifications and pre-approvals have a few things in common. Learn More What’s a pre-qualification? What’s a pre-approval?

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Opinion: Is the lending market overcorrecting toward tech? Maybe

Housing Wire

Worsening market conditions are only going to accelerate an already hyper-competitive mortgage lending industry that is still learning to adapt to post-pandemic homebuying behaviors. Yes, a customer should be able to fill out a pre-qualification application digitally. Inventory is contracting. Application fallouts are worsening.

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How lenders can help borrowers improve their credit score

Housing Wire

At HousingWire’s 2021 Annual Spring Summit, CreditXpert VP of Sales and Client Success Matt Hydrew and T odd Worthington , director of qualification support at Bank of England, discussed top-of-the-funnel strategies lenders can use to help borrowers gain a better understanding of their credit score. Or, give up looking altogether.

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How 2020 exposed a greater need for collaboration between real estate agents and LOs

Housing Wire

This has heightened the need for digital tools for marketing, viewing, financing and closing on home purchases. This response has an end-life and those looking towards the future sense a renewed focus on more quality lead generation as the refinance boom draws to a close. VL: So many areas could benefit by embracing digitalization.

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LOs and brokers, are you prepared for an evolving workforce?

Housing Wire

In a housing market vastly different from the pre-pandemic period, how can industry professionals position themselves to achieve growth despite these current obstacles? There is also the matter of efficiency versus increased lending cost. With non-QM in a current transition state, forecasting future demand levels can be tricky.

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Opinion: Setting the record straight on IMBs

Housing Wire

The report also points out how IMB critics bootstrap legitimate concerns about largely unregulated nonbank financial products like crypto or payday lending to claim similar risks for IMBs, even though mortgages are more extensively regulated than any other financial product in the wake of the 2008 crisis.

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Why Can You Pay $2,000 in Rent (Or Any Other Amount) but Not Be Approved for a Mortgage That Costs the Same Amount per Month?

Lighter Side of Real Estate

Unless you come into a windfall of money, most people need to get a mortgage in order to buy a home, so getting a mortgage pre-approval to find out how much a lender will allow you to spend is the first step. Lenders will look at your credit history much more closely. But it isn’t quite that simple. Your job history.