Practice and client management

Mortgage lenders' crisis communications frameworks are too slow for today's markets, leaving dangerous narrative gaps, according to the founder of ClearLine.

Newly minted doctors want to buy homes but because of student debt and job history, likely can't even meet the wider jumbo underwriting criteria without help.

Jumbo loans demand more scrutiny and documentation, but automation is streamlining the process — and lenders who master the product stand to gain in a moderately bullish market.

Fintech Candid says its AI-powered newsletter platform can scrape social media and public data to help loan officers send hyper-personalized outreach at scale.

Mike Kortas will be adding a separate mortgage servicing company and hiring NEXA loan officers to assist with the process and give them customer insights.

While San Francisco had the biggest improvement in affordability for prices today versus 2019, Hartford remains in a very deep freeze, First American said.

The 30-year fixed mortgage has increased by 40 basis points since February, while the 15-year is 14 basis points lower than a year ago, Freddie Mac reported.

Some of the best mortgage companies to work for discuss how they incorporate community service in their plans and the resulting business and personnel benefits.

The company dropped the broker channel just months after Frank Martell became CEO; now that Anthony Hsieh is running things again, LoanDepot brought it back.

Rate discounts are available for both refinance and purchase mortgage applications from several lenders including UWM, Carrington, Chase and Silver Hill.

Industry participants are turning to trade organizations, vendors and each other to barnstorm ways to get more out of their marketing spend and remain compliant.

New limits on trigger leads push originators toward first-party data, past customers and referral networks as they rethink how to reach borrowers.

Mortgage One is accused of using an artificial intelligence voice agent for outbound solicitations, recommending a cash-out refi to the plaintiff in the case.

The former two-time head of the Federal Housing Administration is an industry consultant since he left government service following Pres. Trump's first term.

While originators are not the primary focus of the Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act going into effect on March 5, the way they do business is going to change.

Home prices edged up nationwide, but gains were modest and uneven. Major indexes agree on direction, differ on size, as 2025 posted weak growth.

The lawsuit accuses Veterans United of deceptively suggesting it's part of the Department of Veterans Affairs and steering clients to more costly loans.

Some observers say changes to MSR risk-weighting would have limited near-term impact and are unlikely to prompt banks to rush back.

An ugly legal dispute between two San Diego credit unions offers a warning about what can go wrong when careful relationship-building doesn't precede a marriage.

State regulators and attorneys general could be picking up the gauntlet on anti-kickback provision enforcement, especially in the mid-Atlantic states.