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Married Couple Indicted for Scam Mortgages

A disbarred attorney and his wife, who was his office assistant and paralegal, have been charged with putting together a range of mortgage scams, according to authorities. So reports the Cape Cod (Mass.) Times. Read more...

Q&A with Tom Hutchens of Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions

Tim Murphy, Publisher of The Mortgage Leader, discussed the impact of the gig economy, the non-qualified mortgage market, the return of common sense underwriting, millennials and more with Tom Hutchens, the Executive Vice President of Production at Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions. Hutchens has more than 18 years of experience leading sales for a wholesale and… Read more...

Good Managers and the Remote Working World

Every day, we are witnessing changes that many predicted would be coming to the mortgage landscape, but now they have arrived. From online loan processing to video conferencing, our industry is undergoing a fundamental shift. Read more...

Ask The Expert: What Will the Rest of 2020 Look Like?

In my previous column, Jason from California asked about the rest of 2020 and I wrote about keeping in touch in a different way this year. Here is part 2 of my response. Read more...

Bodnar of MMG: Never-ending Stimulus

Bill Bodnar of The Mortgage Market Guide (MMG) discusses how The Fed is pushing everything higher except rates. He also discusses the coronavirus, stocks have gone higher, all-time closing low yields on 10-year notes, jobs, and supersized auctions from the Treasury. Read more...

Black Knight to Buy Optimal Blue for $1.8B

Black Knight has unveiled a $1.8 billion agreement to purchase Optimal Blue, an online mortgage marketplace that links mortgage originators to secondary investors. So reports the Jacksonville (Fla.) Daily Record. Read more...

Court Nixes DOJ Bid to Toss Whistleblower’s Mortgage Fraud Case

The Trump administration has been hit with another setback in its effort to avoid prosecuting a whistleblower claim against Academy Mortgage. So report Law360 and Bloomberg Law. Read more...

Fraudster Pleads Guilty to $32M in Fictitious Mortgages

A Colorado man has pleaded guilty to federal bank fraud and aggravated identity theft charges in a scheme involving almost $32 million in phony mortgages, according to authorities. So reports the Boulder, Colo. Daily Camera. Read more...

Ask The Expert: What Will the Rest of 2020 Look Like?

Jason from California asks: "In my 20 years as a loan officer, this has been the weirdest year. What do you think the rest of this year is going to look like from a production standpoint? Will the refinances continue? Will the purchase market collapse as it did the last recession?" Read more...

There is Never a Perfect Time Change Your Sales Process

In the current marketplace, where volume is overwhelming and many lenders are turning away business, it may seem counterintuitive to discuss what it will take to succeed in a 2021 purchase money environment. Nothing could be further from the truth. Read more...

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