Mortgage brokers

A surge in new and existing home sales is prompting lenders to increase their payrolls.

Donald Trump had heard all the chatter, the idle talk about how the U.S. housing market was overheating and trouble was looming. He was unfazed. It was the spring of 2006 and he was pushing a new mortgage business, Trump Mortgage LLC.

United Wholesale Mortgage has begun offering a conventional 1% down payment program to mortgage brokers.

Carrington Mortgage Services has added conventional loans to the portfolio of products offered by its wholesale lending division.

Brokers remain perplexed over how to strike a balance between helping borrowers shop for the best deal and maintaining compliance with the TILA-RESPA integrated disclosures. Specifically, how do brokers and wholesalers meet TRID's delivery deadline and accuracy requirements when a loan is resubmitted to a new lender?

TRID wasn't as hard on the wholesale channel as was once feared, but some parties involved in the process still either do not fully understand the rule or haven't perfected their operations to handle it.

Increased loan production during the spring home buying season has nonbank mortgage lenders stepping up their hiring.

Forecasters expect stronger originations in the second quarter as home buying outpaces refinancings.

Learn how the some of the industry's most successful loan originators get it done with these tricks of the trade from the 2016 Top Producers rankings' top 20 loan officers of the Northeast.

Learn how the some of the industry's most successful loan originators get it done with these tricks of the trade from the 2016 Top Producers rankings' top 20 loan officers of the Midwest.