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 correspondent lending platform.

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.

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.

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?"