Planet Financial Group, the parent company of Planet Home Lending, announced two new hires this week. Rob Parsley was named senior vice president, non-agency sales and Tim Fisher was named senior vice president, non-agency lending. With a career spanning more than three decades, Parsley most recentl

NextHome Front Range has joined West + Main Homes and rebranded as the Front Range Collective team, the companies announced. The move expands West + Main Homes’ footprint in Colorado across Fort Collins and Colorado Springs — providing the team’s 28 agents with additional resources and offices in th

Jobs week ended with an eerie silence, as the government remains shut down and we didn’t receive the last two major reports for the week. Given that job growth has been slowing dramatically this year, it’s time to examine what is really going on.  For me, the situation is straightforward: over the p

Mike Kortas wanted to be clear as he announced the company’s rebrand from the stage at NEXA Fest 2025: the company is not going into retail. The name change — from NEXA Mortgage to NEXA Lending — could seem like the prelude to lending in a new channel, but Kortas said it was actually a sign that NEX