Rethinking Mortgage Operations: How AI Can Actually Lower Origination Costs
Mortgage lenders, ready for further adventures in the valley (of death), are at a crossroads. Despite massive tech spends, they continue…
Month: June 2025
June 25: LO, AE jobs; TBA trading, servicing compliance, digital marketing, DPA products; Bank M&A continues; why rates are falling
AI doesn’t have an NMLS number. (Zillow has never, ever set foot in a house for that matter.) Do you own a computer? Most in lending do….
June 24: Corres. AE job; SOC, warehouse, legal guidance tools; webinar on comp; LOs as financial advisors; rates rangebound
Residential business is coming through in dribs and drabs for many lenders, but that doesn’t stop all the random news out there. To no…
MLO VieauxPoint: Budget Like an Owner, Not a Renter
Let’s talk about the advice most homebuyers don’t hear. When a renter becomes a homeowner, something fundamental shifts, or at least it…
How Well Are Fannie, Freddie, and Ginnie Serving First-Time Home Buyers?
With the foundational mission of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Ginnie Mae centered around expanding access to homeownership, especially…
June 21: Goldman Sachs on rates and the economy; vendor news from soup to nuts; Saturday Spotlight: Finance of America
“I’ve started telling everyone about the benefits of eating dried grapes. It’s all about raisin awareness.” You should also be aware of…
June 23: MI job; HELOCs & 2nds, doc tracking, execution, POS, webinars & training this week; rates steady despite Iran conflict
For many, business is slow out there, and the industry waits for the House vote today on the abusive trigger lead bill. Depository banks…
June 20: Retail jobs; digital HELOC, appraisal review products; background AI; hurricane season is here; rates snoozing
Happy Summer Solstice, and happy 50th birthday to the movie Jaws . Back then, for security, all we had to remember was where we hid our…
Jerome Powell Caught Whispering “Higher for Longer” to Potted Plant During Live CNBC Interview
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In what sources are calling “deeply consistent with recent guidance,” Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was caught…
June 19: Housing data, workflow, corresp. eNote products; Guild deal… do branches have value anymore? STRATMOR on customer service
Sometimes you have just one more thing to “ get over ” in order to fund that loan. In Hawai’i and other places, the conversation has, to…