Mortgage lenders navigating today’s unpredictable environment need more than resilience—they need strategic agility. That’s the core message from STRATMOR Group Senior Partner Garth Graham, who shares practical recommendations for staying competitive amid policy shifts, rate volatility, and shrinking margins in the mortgage advisory firm’s latest Insights Report.
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Click n’ Close, a multi-state mortgage lender and innovator in third-party origination (TPO), announced that Tony Catanese has joined the company as regional sales manager. In this role, Catanese will lead the company’s wholesale and non-delegated expansion across the East Coast, focusing on building and developing a high-performing sales team.
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Novaprime, a mortgage technology company dedicated to making homeownership more affordable, announced a collaboration with Tradeweb, a global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets.
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Homebuyer affordability declined slightly in April, with the national median payment applied for by purchase applicants increasing to $2,186 from $2,173 in March. This is according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Purchase Applications Payment Index (PAPI), which measures how new monthly mortgage payments vary across time – relative to income – using data from MBA’s Weekly Applications Survey (WAS).
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MISMO published enhancements to the MISMO Version 3.6 Reference Model and the new MISMO Version 3.6.1 Reference Model has reached “Candidate Recommendation” status, which means that they have been thoroughly reviewed by a wide range of organizations and industry participants and are available for industry use.
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Move Concierge, a provider of home services and utility set-up for homebuyers, has hired marketing veteran Gary Frank to head its marketing efforts.
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Insellerate has had huge growth in the first half of 2025 with 13 new enterprise clients leveraging its AI-powered Aithena platform. This milestone underscores the increasing urgency across the mortgage industry to embrace AI for more innovative lending, improved outreach, and accelerated borrower engagement.
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Mortgage applications decreased 1.2 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending May 23, 2025.
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Next Level Education (NLE), a provider of continuing education and training for the mortgage industry, has acquired Summit Mortgage Training of Hanover, NJ. Andrea Gagliardi, founder of Summit, has joined the Next Level team as Director of Content Management.
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Lead+ Wholesale, a premier Non-QM wholesale mortgage lender, has selected OptifiNow as its sales workflow platform. The partnership marks a strategic move to enhance broker engagement, drive sales efficiency, and fuel scalable growth in the wholesale mortgage space.
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