Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Better Home & Finance Holding Co., Better’s earnings report also included the announced hiring of the executive team from NEO Home Loans to build out a distributed retail channel. The goal is to combine Better’s AI technology with NEO’s local loan expertise to increase market reach, especially in the purchase mortgage segment.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Milestone, the largest brokerage in Massachusetts over the past three years, said the companies will be able to combine Willow’s top-drawer proprietary technology platform with Milestone’s federal registration and state licensing footprint. “With this technology , we’re going to be able to flip the script.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2025

Welcome back to Tech Pulse — a new weekly series rounding up the latest in technology , including tools, integrations and trends impacting mortgage and real estate. As debate swirls over job loss and security risks, Bressler urged the industry to embrace AI or risk falling behind, likening resistance to ignoring the internet in the ’90s.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

will pay its loan officers 100% of the commission splits “without any per-file fees or other hidden fees,” according to co-founder and CEO Mike Kortas. NEXA usually pays loan officers 220 basis points (bps) out of 275 bps on most loans. NEXA Mortgage , the largest mortgage brokerage firm in the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Better Home & Finance, the parent company of digital lender Better.com , launched its voice-based artificial intelligence loan assistant on Thursday. This is true disruption of the non-licensed tasks performed by armies of traditional customer service reps, loan officers, and processors in the mortgage industry,” Garg added.

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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. But my biggest focus initially is going to be the loan officers.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2025

Tamir Poleg, chairman and CEO of The Real Brokerage , closed out the prepared remarks section of his firms first-quarter 2025 earnings call by addressing the transformative technological era the industry is currently operating in. Real is a real estate technology company that is differentiated in our industry. million in Q1 2025.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The top-producing loan officer brings a proven track record of high-volume production and financing solutions for borrowers. Franquemont funded $38 million across 103 loans 2024 alone, according to Rate. He first joined Guaranteed Rate in January 2019 after a two-year stint as a loan officer at Northpointe Bank.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

“As the market stabilizes, I look forward to helping clients achieve their home financing goals with the support of Rate’s unparalleled technology and commitment to low rates.” Most recently, Lindsay served as a mortgage loan officer at U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2025

Bidding wars for producing mortgage loan officers are back with a vengeance and it’s largely in the hopes of capitalizing on an upcoming refinance wave, recruiters and executives tell HousingWire. Then, loan officers licensed in multiple states can support the retention team by handling those loans.

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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

MARCH 6, 2025

Real credited its technology offerings and business model for the explosive growth in agents. It started 2024 with 18 loan officers and finished the year with about 90. Net cash provided by operating activities a measure of how the business is performing outside of investing and financing activities was $48.7

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The good news for 2024 for us was that we had a lot of forward loan officers realize that reverse mortgages are a great piece [to add to] their business, and a lot of people took the initiative to get certified, she said. There may be ways to improve that, whether it’s changes in guidelines or changes in technology.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO), a subsidiary of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), has been developing a series of uniform technology standards that will ideally allow for the somewhat siloed reverse mortgage industry to more easily collaborate with others in the mortgage finance ecosystem.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke to Sandra Madigan, EVP of product strategy – servicing technology at ICE Mortgage Technology , about improving the home buying and ownership experience with technology and how the industry can do so thoughtfully. What do you think the disconnect is there, and do you see this changing in the future?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

“Marketers and loan officers need to be prepared for a longer lead-nurture timeline today than the refi market frenzy we experienced the last two years,” said Jim Anderson, chief marketing officer at Finance of America Mortgage. Homebuyers often search for financing online before engaging a Realtor.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2022

California-based nonbank lender Carrington Mortgage Services has invested in boosting the growth of its wholesale channel, with the latest announcements including a new loan processing technology and plans to increase the sales team. The technology is available only for full-doc government and non-QM loans.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I sat down with Tim Bowler, president of ICE Mortgage Technology, a business unit of ICE, to talk about the company’s mortgage automation strategy — and what keeps him up at night. SW: ICE Mortgage Technology is known for its focus on automation. Sarah Wheeler: ICE’s acquisition of Black Knight just closed today.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

Rocket connects with 2 million purchase contracts annually when they explore affordability and mortgage financing. When these clients are then connected with the best agents and the best loan officers, it creates a virtuous cycle. “These are highly valuable buyers and sellers with a strong intent to transact.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As demonstrated in the brilliant UWM Superbowl ad , Millennial homebuyers are looking to technology to match them with the right partners in life, including their mortgage. Good technology should be the language loan officers use to communicate with their customers, not their replacement. #4 5 Technology becomes fintech.

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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.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

In light of this, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins spoke with Steve Reich, COO at Finance of America Mortgage, to learn more about tactics top originators are using to build and retain relationships with borrowers. . Here at Finance of America, we look at technology as an ‘and’ with our loan originators not an ‘or,’” Reich said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Better Home & Finance Holding Co. , The digital lender made changes in its commercial operating model to achieve this goal and will continue to invest in Tinman, its proprietary technology platform. The operating model change involved Better pivoting to hiring experienced loan officers on commission-based compensation plans.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The free app, which officially launches Tuesday, allows users to price out mortgages, personal loans and other finance products that Guaranteed Rate offers, but there’s a twist: users can also access financial, physical and mental health resources to help them “live their best lives.” As of Oct. As of Oct.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2025

Better Home & Finance Holding Co. At the core of this strategy is Better s AI loan assistant, Betsy , which executed 127,000 consumer interactions in March. Another notable factor in accomplishing all three goals is Better’s partnership with NEO Home Loans , announced in January.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2024

They also discuss fintech developments for loan officers, recruitment and even the CPO’s favorite hamburger. Collins follows up with a question on how mortgage industry changes have shifted the ways that bankers and brokers offer financing to consumers. Gillespie joined Lower last year after the acquisition of Thrive Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

We’ve also implemented project management technologies and streamlined processes to improve workflow and turnaround times for loan officer requests, effectively halving the time it takes to fulfill them. HousingWire: The Money Store prides itself on providing easy, efficient, and affordable home financing.

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2025

Critics may express concern about the substitution of human decision-making with technology-driven methods. Unlike individual underwriters and loan officers, algorithms dont become tired, make arbitrary mistakes, get distracted or have the same biases (whether explicit or implicit) that humans are prone to. Gillen, Ph.D.,

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Her role will focus on technology to drive the company’s growth. Michael Brennan, president of Movement, said Waggoner can empower loan officers with the tools they “need to win.”. “She has a proven track record of leading sales-centric technology teams and delivering with speed to market,” he added.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2024

Top mortgage technology executives say their companies are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) in their operations but still relying on human decision-making to sell loans. “There’s one question every CEO, CTO, CIO, loan officer, processor, underwriter, they all ask the same thing: will AI replace my job?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

From at least August 29, 2022 to December 2, 2022, individuals who were not licensed as loan officers (LOs) in Connecticut acted as LOs by taking residential mortgage loan applications , soliciting Connecticut borrowers for mortgages and offering or negotiating terms of mortgages, according to the order issued earlier this month.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

Our comprehensive product suite offers solutions for virtually every mortgage and home financing need,” Kamran said in a statement. The technologically advanced mortgage platform empowers loan officers to serve both customers and business partners with ease and excellence.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

A Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filed with the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development shows the job cuts will affect mortgage loan officers, final “docs” associates, desktop support professionals and business solutions architects, among others. “As mortgage lender by volume last year.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

While there will always be a need for the next innovative idea that keeps housing finance moving forward, our industry’s real problem is not an inability to devise technological advances that save lenders and consumers money—it’s our inability to adopt and execute at scale.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2021

If you take the temperature of how loan officers are feeling ahead of the holiday season, the scale would likely read “uneasy.” According to Fahad Janvekar, a loan officer at Fairway Independent Mortgage , “there is definitely some concern” about layoffs in the industry.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

Recent data from Inside Mortgage Finance shows a significant leap in broker market share, jumping to 24.3% Second, nearly 20,000 loan officers moved into the wholesale channel in 2023. in Q4 2023, the highest number we’ve seen since 2009. The big question is, what caused this increase?

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