• Nationwide Mortgage Bankers taps Herrera as president of Hispanic homeownership division,HousingWire Automation

    Nationwide Mortgage Bankers taps Herrera as president of Hispanic homeownership division

    Americasa, a division of Nationwide Mortgage Bankers (NMB), has promoted Yasser Valdes Herrera to president. Since December 2023, he has been based in Miami and has served as vice president of Americasa, a Spanish-language mortgage platform helping the Hispanic community achieve homeownership. “Yass

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  • HousingWire Mortgage Rankings: How top LOs dominated government lending in 2025,Flávia Furlan Nunes

    HousingWire Mortgage Rankings: How top LOs dominated government lending in 2025

    Loan officer Jason Smith, a U.S. Navy veteran who spent five years as an air traffic controller, entered the mortgage business 21 years ago. Reflecting on the similarities between the two careers, he said that he “didn’t have that epiphany until years later that you have to be in control of the situ

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  • A capital-light, local model could power this off-site builder’s plan to scale,Tyler Williams

    A capital-light, local model could power this off-site builder’s plan to scale

    While numerous firms in the residential off-site construction space push the limits of innovation, one company is distinguishing itself through a deeply localized approach to expansion across North America. Massachusetts-based Reframe Systems is betting that its microfactory concept, which relies on

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