Shalendra Malhotra 
Mortgage Loan Application Volumes at 22 Years Low
The US mortgage industry is currently witnessing its lowest demand levels since 2000, driven by the US Fed’s actions to increase interest rates to combat inflation.
According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, it’s seasonally adjusted market composite index fell from 645.4 a year ago to 288.4, a drop of almost 55% in a year.
The refinance market, which is highly rate sensitive, saw a much bigger impact with demand dropping by 80% compared to the same period last year.
With inflation still continuing to be a source of concern and market expectations of the Fed not changing its bearish approach to interest rates, the pressure on margins will continue to be a key challenge for the industry.
Market dynamics leads to bloodbath in the Mortgage Job Market
As both demand and margins are currently under considerable pressure, mortgage companies are looking to rationalize cost to ensure survival. The recent news of Sprout Mortgage and First Guarantee Business shutting down their businesses is a tip of the iceberg, with recent estimates indicating that more than 4000 people have lost their jobs. This trend started with the infamous Zoom based layoff by Better.com, but the last few months have seen behemoths like J.P.Morgan, Wells Fargo, Dr. Cooper, Tomo etc laying off a large percentage of their workforce.
The role that a Virtual Captive Centre can play during these tumultuous times
A virtual captive center is a plug and play solution, that helps a company have a dedicated team up and running in a very short period of time. This solution reduces the administrative and compliance work dramatically. As against an outsourcing model, a virtual captive model gives the customer full control on the team’s work/ performance.
We have seen a number of mortgage and real estate companies set up virtual captive centers in India, allowing them to reduce their costs by over 70% in a short period of time. In addition to helping drive significant cost savings, customer’s who have built high performing teams have also seen an increase in productivity. This allows a customer to still have continuity of business while dramatically reducing costs and also not having to re-train the team once demand starts coming back.
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