Loan Think

We're hearing about New York attorneys negotiating the terms of the mortgage contingency in residential real estate contracts.

A LinkedIn discussion talks about the need for originators to brand themselves.

Our industry is a complex system and there are a lot of pipes carrying a lot of information.

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.