Mortgage Banking Summit: Mike Kortas on NEXA’s hybrid model, next steps in servicing

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HousingWire reports that NEXA founder Mike Kortas describes his company as being in a "twilight zone," caught between its origins as a brokerage and its emerging identity as a retail lender and servicer. That liminal state is not unique to one firm. The mortgage industry has spent years consolidating, blurring lines between origination channels, and forcing borrowers to guess whether they are working with a broker, a banker, or a balance-sheet lender. Kortas's candor about the discomfort of that transition underscores a broader truth: the model a borrower encounters shapes everything from rate transparency to who ultimately owns the loan after closing.

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