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Blackstone Group's Invitation Homes, the largest owner of single-family rental houses in the U.S., hired Ernest Freedman from Apartment Investment & Management Co. to become its chief financial officer.

Exchange Bank in Santa Rosa, Calif., has hired the president of Sequoia Pacific Mortgage.

Brian Webster, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's mortgage originations program manager who has worked on a number of technology-related policy and research initiatives, is leaving the agency to join Wells Fargo Home Mortgage.

When he's not co-hosting his talk radio show or helping clients, Residential Home Funding's Marc Demetriou is studying loan program guidelines, a task he credits for helping him become one of the industry's top producing loan officers.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Sept. 11.

Charles Hallac, the Wall Street veteran who got his start working with mortgage-backed securities on his way to becoming co-president of BlackRock Inc., has died after an almost four-year battle with cancer. He was 50 years old.

Fidelity National Financial has promoted two executives to the position of co-chief operating officer.

Consulting firm The Collingwood Group has hired former Freddie Mac executive Paul Mullings.

Mortgage companies must rethink their recruitment strategies and emphasize company culture to attract millennials, or they will become the banks they once worked to replace.

Guaranteed Rate has added 75 former Discover Home Loans employees as well as the Irvine, Calif., call center facility that they worked at.