Tracking News, Trends, and Best Practices
The Internet mortgage market has traditionally been full of marketers pitching hopeful offers to hopeful homebuyers. Today, Move, Inc. placed a significant outlier into the Internet mortgage market. With the launch of MortgageMatch.com, Move, Inc. … [Read more...]
Lots of borrowers are in mortgage loans that considering home values, economic conditions, or ignorance is about to run them into a catastrophic personal financial meltdown. This is a market that really needs professional help--this could be your … [Read more...]
Channel Dollar's report of Nextag's recent surge in traffic caught my eye. I think this surge is just another indication of NexTag's aggressive style in a timid market. I reported back in February my opinion that NexTag was feeding on the … [Read more...]
As reported on Twitter by an early tipster to the Lead Critic, and quickly confirmed by LendingTree in letters to customers and a website FAQ, LendingTree uncovered a breach of internal security that allowed some mortgage lenders unauthorized access … [Read more...]
Zillow has been at the lead marketplace building business for about two weeks, and I bet internally they are saying, "wow this is hard!" Early responders to the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace were easy to categorize, as I pointed out in my Zillow Gets … [Read more...]
Many have watched in amazement as the mortgage industry has dramatically imploded. It is tracked like a body count on websites like the The Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter and each new melt down is a grand surprise. However, I was just pointed to a … [Read more...]
I remember the first time I went to my Dad's laboratory at the University of Kentucky and he showed me the magic of looking very closely at common everyday objects. You see, he had a scanning electron microscope and things you would think as simple … [Read more...]
I have been following the Zillow Mortgage discussion with great interest. By reserving follow-up to my early commentary in BusinessWeek I have an opportunity to survey the discussion and distill a few important observations: Zillow did something … [Read more...]
A pondering post by Jason Calacanis (Mahalo) about a camp to help startup entrepreneurs got me thinking. What would a Calacanis trained entrepreneur's mortgage or real estate business look like? Here is my guess: It would be efficient with it's … [Read more...]
