Industry Watch: Fairway debuts YouTube documentary about originators and more

Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. enlisted director Kirby Bradley, who has won 32 Emmy Awards helming shows at HBO, CNN and ESPN, to produce a multipart reality documentary series about mortgage originators. Titled “L.O. Confidential: A Season on the Street,” the three-part, behind-the-scenes series totaling 50 minutes is available on YouTube. The series goes behind the […]
Attom: Residential mortgage count down 3% in third quarter

Measured by dollar volume, lending down 4% quarter over quarter
Featured Top Originator: Spiro Petritsis, Prosperity Bank

No. 2 Top Non-QM Volume, No. 31 Top Dollar Volume
Jewel of a Loan

USDA loans can help many borrowers, not just farmers, overcome affordability challenges
Feeling the Squeeze

Commercial property owners must deal with the new environment of reduced values and rising taxes
2023 Featured State Champions

Meet six of the top producers from across the nation
2023 State Champions

Crowning mortgage royalty across the country
Residential Spotlight: Atlantic Region

Envision these eastern states as tortoises rather than hares.
Q&A: Marty Green, Polunsky Beitel Green LLP

Rate-driven market gridlock could end next year
Retail price increases didn’t harm fix-and-flip profits

Retail prices across the U.S. housing market rebounded in second-quarter 2023 — and so did the profits for home flippers. This bump in profit margins, however, occurred even as the fix-and-flip share of all home sales dipped near a two-year low point, according to the Q2 2023 U.S. Home Flipping Report from Attom. From April […]