Mortgage Industry Trends

Rick Grant has been an editor, writer and new media advocate for nearly 20 years and has focused on various facets of the mortgage industry for the last decade. He served as the special reports editor for National Mortgage News and was the launch editor for Origination News Magazine, Broker magazine and Home Equity Wire, as well as managing editor of Mortgage Technology magazine while employed with SourceMedia, formerly Thomson Media.

Rick then served as editor of Real Estate Technology Insight, an October Research Corp. publication. A successful freelance writer, Rick continues to write for the industry and was published most recently by the MBA’s Mortgage Banking magazine, where he writes primarily about technology and the firms that employ it well. In 2006, he penned profiles of Navy Federal Credit Union and Flagstar Bank for that publication.

He is also a proponent of new media communication tools, such as blogs, podcasts, video blogs and online presentations. He believes that most online publications fall flat when compared to the potential offered by the Web and today’s technology. He was formerly the host of the MBA’s weekly podcast and is busy launching Rick Grant & Associates.