You ght be temedo takeer simply at face value o on e fact she is the glamorous mom on t plplaygroundnd. Dont be fooled, Susanna Quinn is the crereator oa new app calls e generating bigig numbs the veluxe generatiting big numbers. Weat down with this workg mom to find out how she turned her concept into a business making money and making waves. Susanna quinn, welcome to washington business report. You have been a big name in washington for many years. Now you are getting attention for a new reason, a startup called vluxe. What is it . Susanna t is fitness and Beauty Services delivered to your home at market price. Rebecca you were literally on the playground thinking about what busy moms needed and came up with this idea. A lot of us have good ideas but we never create a business. Talk to us about this started because it is the perfect example of an agreement organic startup. When did the idea come to you . Susanna my husband says i am a problem solver. I built a real estate biness to s
Many youngsters don’t know the “Shave and a haircut? Two bits!” knock, or musical notes. Some things are timeless, like British Prime Ministers coming and going, and like what happens to certain lenders and investors when rates go up and credit spreads widen out. And we were reminded, in the cases of FHA, VA, Fannie, and Freddie, why some level of government interaction is good as “Sprout is out” was making the rounds yesterday. Sprout, which made a name for itself in non-Agency TPO activity in correspondent, wholesale, and retail channels, shut down. Unfortunately, it is not the first, won’t be the last. In this case, Sprout President Shea Pallante held a companywide phone call. (Word has it that Sprout’s entire correspondent team was let go and moved over to Oaktree Funding Corp. Those impacted can always post their resume for free here, and anyone can view them for several months for a nominal fee.) One industry vet wrote to me saying
Anyone born around this time is a Capricorn, and if you believe in horoscopes, they are the most patient and careful, and they are down-to-earth for everything. The broad stroke feature of them is adamancy: they tend to hold on to their own views and never give up before achieving the goal. I like to believe that the goal of nearly every lender is to do more volume in a compliant manner, and the volume part is going to become tougher. According to Curinos, December 2021 mortgage rate-lock volume was down 40% YoY and 17% MoM across all channels, while funded volume decreased 25% YoY and 6% MoM. In the Retail channel, lock volume decreased 37% YoY and 17% MoM, while funded volume was down 25% YoY and 6% MoM. (Curinos sources a statistically significant data set directly from lenders to produce these benchmark figures. Drill deeper into this data here.) Farther up the food chain, do you think it is just your imagination that active real estate listings are down? Nope. The St. Louis Federa
Tabrasa’s Patrick H. wishes everyone a Merry New Year! Yes, 2022 is here, with its thousands of cancelled flights due to weather and omicron. Older loan officers tell me that being 20 in the seventies was much more fun than being seventy in the 20s. Things are always changing, although one thing that never changes are independent mortgage bankers who think the market is undervaluing their company. Remember all the doom and gloom predictions for mortgage volume in 2021? They were wrong, and the Mortgage Bankers Association estimates that we did a record $1.61 trillion in purchase loans last year. Not too shabby. It’s the new year, and wouldn’t it be fun, as a goal, to say you’ve had a drink (soda pop counts) in the oldest bar in each state!? Here’s your guide. Managers at lenders may need that guide this year, given rate, volume, and margin forecasts. We’re in a cyclical business, and managers enjoy expanding and hiring much more than cutting ba