Career moves

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Sept. 23.

Mortgage loan officers keep an eye on the long game, but making a sale is more than the sale; ushering people through the biggest purchase of their lives requires the ability to maintain relationships over time.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Sept. 16.

Washington Federal in Seattle has added the general manager of mortgages at Zillow Group to its board.

Industry veteran A.W. Pickel III is heading to AmCap Mortgage to become president of the lender's newly formed Midwestern division.

Hilltop Holdings in Dallas has promoted Alan White to share the chief executive role with Jeremy Ford.

From gathering information on buildings to complex income and asset profiles of buyers, loan officers in New York have many bases to cover and hurdles to leap. Debra Shultz of Guaranteed Rate makes it look easy.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Sept. 9.

Homebuilder PulteGroup Inc. said its president, Ryan Marshall, will take over immediately as chief executive officer.

It was 1976, the year of the U.S. Bicentennial, the dawn of Apple Computer and supersonic commercial flight aboard the Concorde jet. The average rate for a 30-year mortgage was 8.87% and the median sales price of existing homes was $38,100. And in an apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side, National Mortgage News was born.