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Comparing himself to Henry Ford and Elon Musk, CEO says he's reconfigured Better's assembly line to crank out mortgages in a single day
Soaring mortgage rates, slagging sales, thousands and thousands of layoffs: The past 12 months have offered a jarring reminder that what goes up must come down
A Better.com employee filed suit in New York alleging the online mortgage company fired him less than an hour after he told them his daughter was born. 17 others may have also been on leave
The latest round of cuts comes after the company laid off 10 percent of its workforce in June. Side's layoffs are among dozens of others in the housing industry this year
Calling it a 'kickback scheme,' HomeOpenly owner Dmitry Shkipin told the FHFA to ban referral fees charged by online brokerages — including Zillow — that don't actually buy and sell property
'To be absolutely blunt, I'd never managed more than 10 people in my life.' Better CEO talks to Insider after months out of the spotlight while the company struggled through market downturn
Brian Brown and Tina John are tapped to fill openings created by the retirement of two top executives, Julie Booth and Angelo Vitale
The company is among the most prominent of the upstart flat-fee brokerages that rose in recent years, but will lose cofounder and CEO Johnny Hanna as the market experiences 'turmoil'
The company, valued at $2B as of August 2021, has reduced its employee count by 40 people, the latest in a run of real estate companies that have enacted layoffs
Rocket Mortgage rolls out 'Inflation Buster' mortgage, which provides a lower rate for 1 year, as it battles rival United Wholesale Mortgage for homebuyer market share
United Wholesale Mortgage, the nation's biggest wholesale mortgage lender, is slashing rates and urging retail loan officers to defect to independent mortgage brokerages
Better still searches for options to remain a private company as the deadline to become a publicly traded company was pushed to March 8, according to a filing with the SEC
Better describes the Tinman Marketplace as 'the next evolution of Better's proprietary loan platform,' powered by Palantir’s Foundry operating system