Loan Think

From smartphones and tablets to social networking, technology infiltrated the way we live so immensely it is hard to imagine not having them constantly at our fingertips.

It would almost seem reasonable for large banks to first extend the Home Affordable Refinance Program to those most at-risk, but many still need help.

We're hearing despite all the progress the mortgage industry has made in going paperless, it's perhaps more than a little ironic that the most important event in the mortgage process is still largely a paper-driven affair.

A hint on keeping a consumer who is soliciting other originators.

The demand for homeownership has always been a primary indicator of the state of the national economy.

Even though you work for a mortgage company, a bank or a credit union, in the mortgage loan origination business, you are truly “self-employed.”

We're hearing that a funny thing happened on the way to a radiant world of paperless lending: a lot of people decided they liked using paper.

The release of the Consumer Financial Bureau’s federal consumer financial complaints database is little more than the regulator stroking its ego.

The top originators believe they are the owners of their occupation and they act accordingly.

We're hearing the piquant financial metaphor “the dead cat bounce” recently, describing the remarkable bounce up in home prices all across the America.