Commentary for the Recent Period

Aug. 10: LO, closing mgr. jobs; POS admin, land loan, Agentic AI tools; Deep dive into earnings; Pennymac’s Spector on servicing value

Here in the hallways at the Western Secondary in L.A., there isn’t a lot of talk about GSE reform, although this short clip from Sam ...
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Aug. 8: Thoughts on flood maps, and diversification in housing; tourism is how much of U.S. GDP? Saturday Spotlight: TrueWork

U.S. mortgage rates, and rates in general, are not just a matter of what happens in the United States. LOs, and economists, are always watching ...
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Aug. 7: Sales VP, LO jobs; cap mkts education, mortgage ops support, QC, flood cert tools; weak jobs data moves rates

“In the near future, AI is going to tell a woman that she is wrong and to calm down. And that, my friends, will be ...
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Aug. 6: Tech enterprise AE, LO mgt. jobs; hedging, AVM, dashboard tools; UWM news turn heads; Chrisman Demo Day announced

Let’s open the mail bag and see what’s going on. “Rob, plenty of conferences offer continuing education. Do any organizations offer CE?” Yup. Lenders One ...
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Aug. 5: U/W job; non-QM, HELOC, DSCR, tech-stack, processing, loan buying tools; UAD 3.6 thoughts; AI panel interview

The cavalcade of M&A news continues, like two from yesterday. Stockton Mortgage, founded in 2001 and headquartered in Kentucky, inked a deal to take over ...
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Aug. 4: Shift at Better; Webcasts, capital deployment, DPA tools; AI & borrowers; Interview with Vesta’s Mike Yu on designing tech

After a general summer lull, and with talk of JPMorgan Chase’s $750 billion housing investment rifling through our biz, mortgage conference season shifts back into ...
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