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As value-add opportunities continue to appear, mortgage brokers can help their clients grow their real estate portfolios by incorporating bridge loans from private lenders into the financing strategy.

In the perfect mortgage application process, the borrower could press a button and send out all the data, saying “I want to apply to these specific lenders.”

Originators need to stop being self-deprecating and start placing a high value on what clients and referral partners says about you.

By addressing concerns about how distressed loans are resolved, banks and non-banks alike can make a virtue out of necessity and regain the trust of policy makers and the public.

Easy money refinancings led originators to let their selling skills diminish and take on bad habits.

As servicers began modifying staggering numbers of mortgages, they took control and implemented stringent underwriting practices that will serve as a model for all mortgage underwriting in the future.

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Private-label residential mortgage securitizations are designed around a strict hierarchy of classes.

With an increasing industry and regulatory emphasis on streamlined communication with borrowers, servicers should evaluate every opportunity to build efficiencies into their processes.

The Senate GSE reform bill may bloat the bureaucracy, encourage risky behavior and expose taxpayers to losses, without sufficient support for affordable housing. That could still be better than nothing.