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Chicago-based mortgage lender Guaranteed Rate has laid off about 180 employees around the country — including about 30 in Chicago — after the amount of new mortgage loans the company funded dipped in 2017.

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

Brian Hale, the former head of Stearns Lending, will be leading a new financial services unit at William Lyon Homes that encompasses two joint ventures the builder has with mortgage companies.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending March 2.

In a move designed to recruit and retain high-quality origination staff and fuel its expansion plans, USA Mortgage is turning over 100% control of the St. Louis-based nonbank lender to its workers through an employee stock ownership plan.

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

William Parsley was most recently PNC's chief investment officer and treasurer and had previously served as head of consumer lending.

The deadline to participate in the Top Producers Survey is Wed. Feb. 28 at 6 p.m. EST. The 20th annual loan officer ranking has a number of new features to highlight the accomplishments of the industry's top performers.

Ditech Holding Corp. promoted Jeffrey Baker to interim CEO of the company, replacing Anthony Renzi who left the company.

Movement Mortgage quietly laid off employees at its Indian Land, S.C., headquarters late last week as well as other offices across the U.S.