Professional athletes make the perfect recruits. Here’s why

The soft skills and mental strength pro athletes call on for high levels of performance are remarkably similar to those shared by top producers. Find out how you can tap into their strengths to supercharge your business. Continue reading

Top 5 luxury home features with Crestron

A Crestron smart home intergrator helps to ensure that your luxury client’s investment in smart home technology pays off. Smart home analyst and team leader Brandon Doyle offers tips for ensuring a smarter smart home setup. Continue reading

Roostify, Indecomm aim to expedite gig worker’s mortgage applications

The partnership integrates Indecomm’s automated income calculation technology, IncomeGenius, into the Roostify Beyond platform to analyze income of self-employed borrowers. Continue reading

Homebuyers are beginning to seek smaller mortgages as rates rise

As demand picks up for government loans favored by entry-level buyers, the average purchase mortgage request has shrunk by 10 percent, to $413,500. Continue reading

Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang merge under new CEO

Richard Harris, a veteran of SparkPost, Oracle and AddThis, will lead the merged company, which said it will employ 144 people with no layoffs anticipated. Continue reading

Tomo’s new Lock and Shop: lock a rate now without a property address

Tomo’s Lock and Shop service fee is $750, which homebuyers can recoup when they work with Tomo Brokerage partner agents. Homebuyers can choose either a 90- or 120-day rate lock. Continue reading

Demand rebounds as mortgage rates retreat from 2022 peak

Purchase mortgage applications are still down 10% from a year ago, with mortgage rates nearly doubling in the last 12 months, according to a survey by the Mortgage Bankers Association. Continue reading

Hippo’s mortgage partner channel takes off; helps find coverage faster

Program piloted last year now provides services to more than a dozen mortgage lenders and loan servicers, who help 7 million people finance or refinance their homes each year. Continue reading

Fannie Mae downgrades home sales expectations for 2022 and 2023

Higher mortgage rates are now “housing market’s primary constraint,” economists at Fannie Mae said in a new forecast predicting home sales will fall 13.5 percent this year. Continue reading