Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

With economists, analysts and industry leaders in the room, discussions revolved around key economic indicators, inventory shifts, technology advancements and what lenders should be doing right now to prepare for the next cycle. Heres Why We Attend Every Year At Dark Matter Technologies, we dont merely follow the industrywe help shape it.

Technology

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.

Loans

Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

Banosian has served as executive vice president of sales at Rate for more than a decade, leading his Boston-based team to originate more than $2 billion in 2021. 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.

Loan Officer

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. The firms sales volume rose 80% year over year to $13.5 One Real Title generated $1.03 million in Q1 2025.

Technology

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. She also suspects that some firms offering generous compensation may be positioning themselves for a sale.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2025

Heidi Iverson is the company’s new vice president of growth and Anthony Savala is the new vice president of sales. The technology is impressive, and I’m proud to join such a talented team that’s making a real difference. Anthony Savala Savala has spent more than 15 years in the mortgage technology sector.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2025

I feel fortunate to be surrounded by so many talented professionals – all of whom are committed to maintaining and continuing to innovate the technology that’s been foundational to mortgage servicing for decades. Here’s why the integration between our point of sale and our servicing digital capabilities is so important.

Loans

Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2025

mortgage lender, announced a deal on Wednesday to acquire Hallmark Home Mortgage in an asset sale. Hallmark had 45 sponsored loan officers and 19 active branches as of Wednesday, per Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS) data. Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. , a top 20 U.S. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2025

His point was ostensibly about how homeowners locked into low mortgage rates are choking off home sales and mortgage origination volumes. HELOCs are often a secondary consideration among loan officers because they dont make as much money on them as they do a first-lien mortgage. Thats what I think the HELOC is right now.

Equity

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Hanson: There’s two types of sales. A stock sale means we’re going to buy the company’s stock, establish loan liability for already-produced loans and buy the shell. The asset sale also doesn’t carry any liability for past loans, which stays with the original founders.

Loan Officer

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

LenderLogix , a provider of mortgage point-of-sale and automation software for lenders, said that borrowers generated 49,392 preapproval letters through its QuickQual preapproval program in third-quarter 2024, a 15% decrease from the second quarter. The average number of preapproved borrowers per loan officer decreased slightly to 28.5

Loan Officer

Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2025

Purchase business was up 25%, refinances soared 611% and home equity products (which include HELOCs and closed-end second-lien loans) saw 416% year-over-year growth. Garg : We were already four times more productive than the industry from our loan officers. I see us being 40 times more productive for our loan officers.

Loan Officer

Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2025

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Chad Smith, president and COO of Better Mortgage , to talk about leadership, technology, and how they have pivoted their business strategy to meet the needs of this market. Smith joined Better in May 2024 after serving in senior leadership roles at Mission Loans, Caliber Home Loans and loanDepot.

Loan Officer

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Lisa Moriello Lisa Moriello, national retail reverse sales manager at loanDepot , said that this outreach was a bright spot in 2024 and fully expected both industry-wide and company-specific efforts to continue into the new year. There may be ways to improve that, whether it’s changes in guidelines or changes in technology.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

The integration, announced on Wednesday, connects Rocket to a network of approximately 28,000 active users, including 21,000 loan officers who source mortgage offers from multiple wholesale lenders including Rockets chief rival, United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) all within a single system.

Loan Officer

Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

He climbed the ladder to the role of president, and led sales and operations at a top-25 independent mortgage bank with 5,600 employees that notched $33 billion in volume during the peak of the mortgage boom. billion in origination volume in 2024, has 29 offices and is licensed in 47 states. It was serendipitous. NMB did about $1.6

Loan Officer

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

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. The loss was driven by sales and marketing expenses, which rose from $658 million in 2023 to $790 million in 2024. The loss for 2024 was $112 million, down from $158 million in 2023.

Purchase and sale agreement

Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2025

My initial snarky reply is that the space hasn’t changed,” Mike DelPrete, a real estate industry technology strategist, said. “If Through the deal, Lower’s retail network — comprised of roughly 480 sponsored loan officers — has access to Movoto’s nationwide footprint and a platform that connects consumers with top local real estate agents. “At

Loan Officer

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The initial digital integration involved reports, pay stubs and W-2s to the more than 370 mortgage companies and 52,000 loan officers that rely on nCino to manage the loan application process. Our expanded integration with nCino reflects Argyles commitment to meeting lenders and their customers throughout the loan journey.

Loan Officer

Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2025

As HomeStreet carried this servicing portfolio at current market value at June 30, 2025, no gain or loss is expected to be realized upon the close of the sale,” the company stated in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). As of Tuesday, the company had 66 producing loan officers and 54 active branches.

Banks

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. Rate is the second-largest retail mortgage lender in the U.S.

Lending

Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2025

The wholesale lender’s gain-on-sale margin improved to 113 basis points, up from 94 bps in Q1 2025 and 106 bps in Q2 2024. To help brokers stay top of mind, UWM launched technologies like the Loan Estimate Optimizer (LEO) and Mia, an artificial intelligence -powered assistant for loan officers.

Loan Officer

Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2025

The HECM Tool a software platform designed to serve as a reverse mortgage sales conversion tool announced this week that it has integrated the proprietary reverse mortgage offering from Smartfi Home Loans into the platforms existing visualization and comparison capabilities.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

When these clients are then connected with the best agents and the best loan officers, it creates a virtuous cycle. Now, by joining forces with Rockets 3,000 loan officers and expansive mortgage broker network, were building a highly efficient funnel that matches motivated buyers with top professionals.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

Real has never been in a stronger position to empower agents through its innovative business model, proprietary technology and collaborative, entrepreneurial culture, Srivatsaa said in a statement. According to 2023 data from RealTrends Verified , Real was the nation’s fastest-growing brokerage by transaction sides and sales volume.

Brokerage

Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2025

Now, lets talk about the most important part of your tech stack: the point-of-sale (POS). By loan officer. In a market where speed is survival, you cant afford platforms that punish agility. If your tech partner isn’t removing roadblocks, they are the roadblock. Its your first impression. Your qualifying engine.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2025

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. “In January, we funded $2 million of loans for four families.

Purchase and sale agreement

Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2025

Figure Technology Solutions , a blockchain-native capital marketplace, announced on Monday an expansion of Intellidebt, its Direct Debt Payoff (DDP) solution. The move aims to allow borrowers to consolidate existing liens and high-interest debt directly through the loan application process.

Loan Officer

Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2025

After embarking on an ambitious project designed to ease the technological processes and interfaces of the reverse mortgage industry compared to traditional mortgage workflows, the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO) announced this week that the latest version of its reference model includes reverse mortgage features.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2025

Most of the 15 to 20 loan officers he spoke to were ecstatic about being able to use the new credit scoring model. Implementation challenges Mortgage technology firms, credit reporting bureaus, resellers and the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are already feverishly working to get VantageScore 4.0 credit scores.

Loans

Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2025

The more detailed responsibilities include showing and listing properties, generating leads for your business, marketing your services on and offline, maintaining communications with current and past clients, leveraging technology to build your business and creating a network of real estate professionals.

Property Management

Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2025

Host a training or lunch-and-learn on a topic relevant to your local market, like understanding short sales or wire fraud prevention. Whether they’re a nervous buyer, a new agent or a busy loan officer, people remember the professionals who help them win.

Title

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In this HousingWire executive conversation, Chris Kennedy , Director of Sales and Business Development at RiskSpan , explores the key recapture strategies that lenders can follow to maximize profit in the 2025 real estate market. Using servicing data and analytics to recapture these MSRs and new loans is a hugely important function.

Loans

BAM Media

MAY 13, 2025

It will leverage Movoto’s digital reach of over 150 million visits in 2024 to connect consumers with local agents and Lower’s network of 478 sponsored loan officers across 76 branches. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Read on for the highlights.

Loan Officer

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Ready to capitalize on refis, UWM structured a program that transforms individuals with no experience into loan officers in just five weeks and implemented an artificial intelligence (AI) technology, dubbed Keep, to send pre-validated opportunities as soon as borrowers can save in their monthly payments. billion in Q3 2023.

Loan Officer

Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2025

Millennial homebuyers (born between 1981 and 1996) are reshaping the real estate landscape with their strong preference for digital tools and technology-driven experiences. Too often, loan officers treat automation like a necessary evil a cold, robotic system that strips out the human touch. Heres the hard truth.

Loan Officer

Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Mortgage companies are among the many business sectors that could be impacted by a sale or ban of TikTok. Every loan officer has their own means of how to reach Realtors and potential borrowers. Some previously told HousingWire that the the loss of the social media app would be harmful to consumer outreach efforts.

Sales