Mortgage Industry Trends

One of the interesting disconnects in the real estate and home finance business is that people are very willing to go online to do research about a new home or loan, but when it comes time to transact

The following is a posted response to Source Media / Mortgage Technology editor Anthony Garritano’s weekly blog (http://www.mortgage-techno

Has anyone else noticed the proliferation of “Chief Strategy Officers” (CSO’s) within the mortgage industry as of late?  It feels like every week, organizations are anointing highly skil

Last week, I was in Dallas for the Mortgage Bankers Association's Technology in Mortgage Banking Conference.

Are you planning on making it down to Dallas for the Mortgage Bankers Association's Technology in Mortgage Banking conference?

Market conditions in the mortgage industry are clearly forcing lenders to find better ways to conduct business in an effort to sustain themselves.

Once upon a time in a land far away, there lived a homeowner – happy amid rising market prices, a large HELOC, and with variable loan terms.  The home owner was created by an originating ban

Choosing leaders by name is a losing proposition.  Suffice it to say, that our next leadership base will be less concerned with how things were historically performed, and more concerned about

There are several permanent shifts actively taking place – some technology based and other socio-economic.  Addressing the latter first, the world economies are no longer independent financi

Even after two years, a melancholy and dark mood still permeates the future of the mortgage industry.  Saddled with the continual unwinding of financial market instruments, leaders have gone u