Snapdocs and Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation recently completed the largest eNote migration in mortgage history.
The migration was done as part of Fairway’s integration of Snapdocs’ eVault. Fairway is a leader in eClosing and operates hundreds of branches across the U.S.
The company has eClosed more than 100,000 transactions in the last five years and leads in delivery volume to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, alongside MERS registrations.
Teri Pansing, SVP of Corporate Closing for Fairway, said Snapdocs stood out for its ability to deliver a seamless digital closing experience for borrowers.
“The branches know their customers and their circumstances best. We want them to have trust in the process, the platform, and the support to know that eClose is…
Joy Knoch has been promoted to Chief Strategy Officer at Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp., the company announced.
In this newly created role, Knoch will oversee origination and processing, training, and lending tech systems.
“Our goal is to use systems to streamline our loan manufacturing process and improve the loan experience for borrowers, loan officers, and realtors,” Knoch said. “We’ll do this by gathering input from producing L.O.s, operations managers, and our corporate team to create a more efficient roadmap.”
Knoch brings nearly three decades of mortgage industry experience to the position, having worked at Fairway since 2011 where she most recently served as senior vice president of loan processing and branch support. Prior to that role, she was the company’s…
Fairway Independent Mortgage is rolling out a new program for first-time homebuyers in select communities, the company announced in a press release. The program, called Fairway Community Access, will offer qualifying first-timers up to $7,000 towards the down payment and $500 in the form of an appraisal credit, should appraisal be necessary. Borrowers who plan to purchase a home warranty will also receive a credit toward one year of warranty. Buyers in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, and Philadelphia will be eligible for the program. They must currently reside in the designated community, have no ownership interest in any other property, and the home must be their primary residence. Fairway says FCA is designed to help buyers combat high-interest rates…
A Florida real estate broker filed a federal lawsuit against United Wholesale Mortgage’s parent company and CEO Mat Ishbia over the launching the Broker Wars, in which Ishbia forbade brokers from doing business with two competitors if it wanted to continue to work with UWM. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Jacksonville, alleges UWM issued its ultimatum “in a desperate attempt to stifle competition” and to “mitigate its acknowledged risk of losing market share.” UWM announced in April that it would force brokers to sign an agreement that they will not work with Rocket Mortgage or Fairway Independent Mortgage – or else be banned from work with UWM, the largest wholesale mortgage lender. Ishbia charged the two companies…
United Wholesale Mortgage CEO Mat Ishbia went on CNBC on Wednesday to assert he is the good guy in the BrokerWars by standing up for brokers and “for what is right.” “I know how different people want to portray it, but the decision was not about doing things exclusively,” Ishbia said on an interview on CNBC. “We basically said ‘Hey mortgage brokers, 12,000 of you guys, if you’re partnering with Rocket, they’re out there doing things – maybe you call it underhandedly, maybe in a gray area, to affect consumers and brokers.’ What we’re saying is, listen I can’t stop them, but if you’re going to work with them, don’t work with us.” UWM announced earlier this month that it will force brokers to…
Like Rocket Mortgage, Fairway Independent Mortgage is reporting increased interest from brokers after United Wholesale Mortgage launched the Broker Wars. HousingWire reported today: Since UWM president and CEO Mat Ishbia appeared on Facebook Live on March 4 and announced that brokers could not work with Fairway and Rocket Mortgage and still do business with UWM, Fairway has seen a dramatic uptick in business, according to its CEO, Steve Jacobson. “We typically had one or two inquiries a week for the broker channel,” said Jacobson, who founded the lender in 1996. “We’re up over 100 inquiries since March 4.” Fairway, which did about $3.5 billion in the wholesale channel in 2020 (compared to about $62 billion in retail), lost roughly 5%…
