Mortgage Intelligence

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Origination and underwriting

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Every Handoff in a Mortgage Loses Something. The File Is What Survives.

A loan passes through six or seven teams, each working from what the last recorded. What each stage produces, and what the handoff loses.

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Who Actually Touches a Mortgage: A Reference to the Participants

Who supplies, validates, approves and retains each record in a mortgage, and where responsibility transfers between them.

5 min read

The Same Loan, Five Business Models: How Mortgage Institutions Actually Differ

Funding, channel, holding and servicing: four choices that make two identical loans into different businesses with different QC priorities.

5 min read