Women made up approximately one-third of the submitted entries to this year’s Top Producers survey, and three of them did over $100 million in volume in 2025. Processing Content Tammy Saul of Federal Hill Mortgage led the way with a total volume of $235.7 million. Had she not been omitted from the original listings due […]
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Reverse mortgage professionals converged in Knoxville, Tennessee, this week for the inaugural Reverse Mastermind Summit — a three-day event designed to bolster the sales skills of industry newcomers by surrounding them with knowledge from industry veterans. The event opened Tuesday with remarks from three leaders behind the event — Loren Riddick of NEXA Lending, Shannon
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As large national brokerages and franchisors consolidate, two regional independent firms, the West Coast-based FirstTeam Real Estate and the East Coast-based Brown Harris Stevens, are teaming up to show that there is a way for independents to compete more aggressively while maintaining their independence. On Tuesday, the two companies announced a strategic multi-year marketing partnership,
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CrossCountry Mortgage has put out its own response to the latest statements from UWM Holdings regarding the financing conditions of their respective offers for Two Harbors. Processing Content UWM has made a cash or stock offer, but only the cash portion is for a set price of $12 per share. Meanwhile Two Harbors has an
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When doing these surveys over the years a common comment we receive is that they reward those who have high unpaid principal balance totals because they get their loans from areas with elevated home prices. Processing Content To recognize those who do plenty of business, but whose results are not seen in the dollar totals,
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Chase Home Lending is offering a mortgage rate discount for the next two weeks to boost activity in the second half of the spring homebuying season. Processing Content The promotion offers rate cuts of as much as 25 basis points, depending on product and location, on new-home purchases as well as rate-and-term and cash-out refinance
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As the mortgage industry planned for 2026, it anticipated a strong purchase market, benefitting from a declining interest rate environment. Processing Content Early reports were lining up for a good spring homebuying season. In late February, several sources, including the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey, had the conforming 30-year fixed close to or under
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While most of the originators responding to this year’s Top Producers survey are looking to the tried and true method of mining the existing client database in order to drive customer retention, some are planning to take their game up to the next level. Processing Content Customer retention was one of the open ended questions
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Planet Home Lending is the latest mortgage company to rebrand, simplifying its identity to just one word, and coming out with a new logo. Processing Content The new visual image resembles two nearly completed half-circles, with a horizontal line bisecting them. This logo shows its unified capabilities across its four business lines: origination, servicing, sub-servicing,
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The Veterans Affairs mortgage benefit got high marks in a survey of current and past military members, but more than half still have at a minimum one misconception about the program. Processing Content NewDay USA, which specializes in serving this community, commissioned the online survey of 1,238 people conducted by Researchscape between Feb. 18 and
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