By KIMBERLEY HAAS
Leaders at Rocket Pro TPO have announced a new loan level pricing adjustment tool and the executive vice president says it is the result of listening to feedback from their partners.
Mike Fawaz sat down with The Mortgage Note on Monday to talk about Target Profit Control, which eliminates misquoting or loan adjustment oversights by applying systematic profit levels.
Fawaz said that before Target Profit Control, correspondent brokers were tracking files manually.
“Now, you have the ability to set your target profit per loan officer and you no longer have to really go into every single file manually. It’s now set on a loan officer basis,” Fawaz said. “It is an innovative technology. It’s something that is…
Wells Fargo’s net earnings dropped in Q4 2022, pushed down by a settlement and the pressures of a shrinking economy. The bank announced that its net income fell to $2.86 billion, or 67 cents a share. This is half of its profits from the same time last year, which came in at $5.75 billion, $1.38 per share. Leaders at Wells Fargo noted that the decline was driven by the fall-off in mortgage demand. Its home lending was down 57% from Q4 2021. The bank announced this week that it is narrowing its home lending business, exiting the correspondent lending channel and shrinking its servicing portfolio. This move will force a round of layoffs, but it is unclear how many jobs…
Wells Fargo is reducing its home lending footprint, a move that experts say will have major ramifications in the mortgage industry. Formerly the nation’s largest mortgage lender, the bank announced Tuesday that it is exiting the correspondent lending channel and shrinking its mortgage servicing portfolio. “We are making the decision to continue to reduce risk in the mortgage business by reducing its size and narrowing its focus,” Kleber Santos, CEO of Consumer Lending, said in a statement. The company’s correspondent arm accounted for 42% of its loan originations in Q3 2022. Demand is down across the country due to affordability issues and high mortgage rates. Lenders are seeing originations shrink, resulting in closures and layoffs. Wells Fargo has suffered the…
