ATTOM: Origination volume spiked, but future is still uncertain
ATTOM released its fourth quarter 2020 U.S. Residential Property Mortgage Origination Report. Here are some of its findings. Origination volume...
Redfin: More single women are buying homes
Cue up Beyonce. More single ladies are making it happen. According to a new report from Redfin, single women purchased 8.7% more homes in fourth quarter 2020 than a year earlier, even though...
Zillow: Broadening credit access can help close homeownership race gap
Restricted access to credit and paradoxical “credit invisibility” are blocking Black and Latinx Americans from the wealth-building benefits of homeownership at a disproportionate rate...
TIAA names Thasunda Brown Duckett president and CEO
Thasunda Brown Duckett has been named president and CEO of TIAA, and will officially join the company on May 1. The much-lauded executive has a long list of accomplishments. As CEO of Chase...
Cassidy Spencer promoted to vice president of First Community Mortgage
First Community Mortgage (FCM), St. Augustine, has named Cassidy Spencer Vice President. She has nearly 20 years of industry experience and...
Tonita Webb named CEO of Verity Credit Union
The Board of Directors of Seattle-based Verity Credit Union have announced the appointment of its new CEO, Tonita Webb, who will take over the position on April 14...
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Cerita J. Battles: Lessons in Leadership
CERITA BATTLES KNEW, AT 10, SHE WANTED TO BE A BANKER. That tells you something, right there. Because what 10-year old growing up in a beautiful, historic, seaside, Florida city, says her ultimate career goal is to be a banker?Olympic swimmer, maybe? Marine biologist, possibly? Lead singer in a band, or top vet at a zoo, or Mariah Carey, maybe? But banker? I don’t think so. (Or, let’s just say, it’s not likely. At 10, I mean. For me, personally, anyway.) But this, of course, is not your typical 10-year old. Not even close. Let me introduce you to Cerita J. Battles, of St. Augustine, Florida. She’s pretty much always known what she wanted in life. And today, (yes) she’s a successful banker. And I have no doubt she was one, smart, ambitious, independent-minded, 10-year old…
Megan Darnell: Jeans and Bare Feet
Megan Darnell is new to the mortgage business. She’s actually new to all of financial services. She never worked on Wall Street. And she didn’t hedge servicing portfolios. She wasn’t a loan officer or an underwriter. So what did she do? She grew avocadoes in Mexico....
Suzy Lindblom Loves a Challenge
“SUZY LINDBLOM LOVES A CHALLENGE” BY JANET REILLEY HEWITT — Suzy Lindblom has built an amazing career. But she’s not the type to brag about it. Self-promotion is not in her DNA. Chest thumping is just not a part of who she is.
Lindblom is a detail person, an efficiency expert. One of those people who likes to let results speak for themselves. And in her case, boy, do they ever.
She is chief operating officer for Planet Home Lending, Meriden, Connecticut. And if she was put in charge of all mortgage lending on the planet, she could probably get that done. (Just kidding, but, maybe not?)
Lindblom’s resume reads like the yearbook of someone who has run operations for some of the biggest, most marquee names…