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09/11/2017

Radian Serves as Title Sponsor of NAHREP’s 2017 Elevate Mortgage Summit

Company Underscores Commitment to NAHREP Mission Naming Steve Lujan Multi-Cultural Business Director

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 11, 2017-- Radian Guaranty Inc., the exclusive mortgage insurance partner of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP), today announced that the company served as a title sponsor of NAHREP’s 2017 Elevate Mortgage Summit in Dallas on September 9. In addition to providing strong networking opportunities, the Summit’s panels provided business insights, exclusive training and educational opportunities designed to advance sustainable homeownership for Hispanics nationwide, and was the main event leading up to the NAHREP National Convention that was held September 10 – 12.

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Radian Executive Vice President and Chief Franchise Officer Brien McMahon opening NAHREP's 2017 Elevate Mortgage Summit. (Photo: Business Wire)

Radian also announced that the firm reinforced its commitment to the mission NAHREP serves by hiring Steve Lujan as Director of Multi-Cultural Business. In this new role, Lujan, who formerly promoted Fannie Mae’s HomeReady® product as a senior business manager to lender customers and external industry stakeholders, will focus on coordinating and expanding support for Radian-NAHREP programs and initiatives.

“Radian and NAHREP share a mutual commitment to help Hispanic Americans realize the American dream of homeownership in a sustainable way,” said Radian Executive Vice President and Chief Franchise Officer Brien McMahon. “We brought in Steve Lujan, with his extensive business and mortgage banking experience, to help us augment support for our sales professionals, customers and Realtors and make a stronger impact on homeownership among the Hispanic community across the country.” McMahon opened the Summit alongside NAHREP Co-founder and CEO Gary Acosta.

Acosta said, “Radian’s training programs are some of the best and most relevant in the market and our partnership has proven to be extremely valuable to our members. Hispanics are nearly 50% of all first time homebuyers. Real estate and mortgage professionals who are looking to increase their purchase market share must have a thorough understanding of mortgage options and innovative financing solutions that are available to low down payment borrowers. In two short years, the Elevate Mortgage Summit has become a go to event for top producing loan originators nationwide.”

Radian’s industry-leading training programs have such appeal among NAHREP’s membership that Radian Vice President of National Training Kate Raetsch presented at the Summit a training segment entitled “Emotional Intelligence – Top Producers Mindset.” Additionally, Senior Vice President of National Sales and Account Management Marshall Gayden moderated an informative panel discussion entitled, “Getting the Most Out of Today’s Loan Products.”

At the NAHREP National Convention, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Customer Experience Zoe Devaney spoke at a session entitled “Lender - Loan Products for Latino Homebuyers” that discussed a variety of products designed to help low down payment borrowers achieve their homeownership dream.

Launched last year to strong demand, NAHREP’s 2017 Elevate Mortgage Summit was crafted specifically for mortgage professionals and is tailored with the latest information to help them grow their business to the next level of success. Additional information regarding the NAHREP 2017 Elevate Mortgage Summit may be found at http://elevatemortgagesummit.org/

ABOUT RADIAN

Radian Group Inc. (NYSE:RDN), headquartered in Philadelphia, provides private mortgage insurance, risk management products and real estate services to financial institutions. Radian offers products and services through two business segments:

• Mortgage Insurance, through its principal mortgage insurance subsidiary Radian Guaranty Inc. This private mortgage insurance helps protect lenders from default-related losses, facilitates the sale of low-downpayment mortgages in the secondary market and enables homebuyers to purchase homes more quickly with downpayments less than 20%.

• Mortgage and Real Estate Services, through its principal services subsidiary Clayton, as well as Green River Capital, Red Bell Real Estate and ValuAmerica. These solutions include information and services that financial institutions, investors and government entities use to evaluate, acquire, securitize, service and monitor loans and asset-backed securities.

Additional information may be found at www.radian.com.

ABOUT NAHREP

The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals, a non-profit 501(c)(6) trade association, is dedicated to increasing the homeownership rate among Latinos by educating and empowering the real estate professionals that serve them. Based in San Diego, NAHREP is the premier trade organization for Hispanics and has more than 20,000 members in 48 states and 40 affiliate chapters.

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Source: Radian Guaranty Inc.

Radian Guaranty Inc.
Emily Riley, 215-213-1035
email: emily.riley@radian.com
or
Jordan Grant, 619-719-4814
jgrant@nahrep.org