Author name: Ricky Vasquez

Earlier this month, about a hundred loan officers found out their company was being sold. Envoy Mortgage was buying Mason-McDuffie’s distributed retail operation, a billion dollars of production moving with it, closing by the end of August. Within days, agents who’d been working with those originators went looking to see where they’d landed. Recruiters at […]

The Uniform Appraisal Dataset 3.6 is set to create massive changes to the appraisal industry when it becomes mandatory on Nov. 2, a transition some appraisers don’t want to deal with. With some of an already shrinking appraiser workforce expected to take the new system’s implementation as a cue to retire, a market that faces

A 15-year musical-chairs frenzy of mergers-and-acquisitions-powered U.S. homebuilding consolidation and concentration isn’t exactly stalling. But after nearly 200 combinations since 2010, the music may be slowing, and the change in tempo could leave some would-be sellers standing longer than they’d planned. The question for those sellers is no longer simply whether a willing acquirer partner