Mortgage brokers

Depositories still dominate home lending, but nondepositories' market share is the highest it has been in at least two decades. Here's why.

If the past 40 years has revealed anything about the mortgage industry, it's that change is constant, and inevitable. From the future of Fannie and Freddie to the role technology will play in underwriting, here's a look at 10 bold predictions that will shake up the mortgage industry.

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.

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 South.

For the second consecutive month, lenders reduced their staff as spring home sales get off to a good start.

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 West.

With the countdown of the 2016 Top Producers rankings now complete, check out the entire list of this year's best loan officers and brokers.

We're counting down the list of this year's 300 Top Producers. It's time to find out who made the Top 10!

We're counting down the list of this year's 300 Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the penultimate segment of the list!

Compliance experts have long disagreed about how much, if any, discretion loan officers have in pricing loans to consumers. But a recent auto lending case should bring that debate to a close.

We're counting down the list of this year's 300 Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the ninth segment of the list!