Pacific Northwest Housing Summit – March 18-19

Pacific Northwest Housing Summit – March 18-19

2010 Pacific Northwest Housing Summit and Real Estate Bar Camp are coming to Seattle on March 18-19. The Pacific NW Housing Summit is an opportunity to bring together professionals from all aspects of the real estate industry with the intent to evaluate the current market conditions, forecast the coming years prospects and plan for the resurgence of the housing industry here in the Northwest.

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Making Some Design Changes On Lenderama.com

Making Some Design Changes On Lenderama.com

You may notice a few changes on our blog over the next week or so. I realize that there are a few missing links and contributors, but this is still a work in progress. Just didn’t want anyone thinking we were sitting around on the job.

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Enhancing Your Social Media Presence Through Email

Enhancing Your Social Media Presence Through Email

One simple step everyone can take to make their mortgage marketing email efforts more compatible with their social media efforts is to link all of your emails to your social networking profiles or blogs.
Most of us already have email signatures, so why not add these links right there with the rest of your contact [...]

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Two Examples of What’s Right With the Mortgage Industry

Two Examples of What’s Right With the Mortgage Industry

Example #1:  Embrace Home Loans Foregoes Annual Sales Rally - Instead Conducts Employee Auction and Raises $20,000 for Haiti
By the way, I love the website on which I found this little nugget.  Do yourself a favor and visit them at www.nationalmortgageprofessional.com.  But here’s the point… our elected officials seem to blame everything that’s wrong with the [...]

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Mortgage Market Update

Mortgage Market Update

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and had plenty to be thankful for.  Unfortunately, mortgage backed securities only received a lump of coal.  Well, I would actually say a truckload of lumps of coal based on the week’s results.
Last week was a shortened week for the holiday and that usually brings volatility to the [...]

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Mortgage Market Update

Mortgage Market Update

I am running behind schedule today, but things continue to play out exactly as I said they would in last week’s update.  Here is how I ended the Mortgage Market Update last week…
The bottom line this week, expect a swing higher in MBS prices (lower mortgage rates), followed by the resumption of a new leg [...]

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Mortgage Market Update

Mortgage Market Update

This week has things getting back to normal in my life, though still hectic, but I am used to that anyway.  As for the mortgage market, things have turned ugly as I warned last week, and while there will need to be a corrective period, or brief floating opportunity, the long haul has turned for [...]

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