{"id":497048,"date":"2026-01-06T18:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/497048\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:10:17","slug":"lending-vet-doug-smith-returns-to-rate-as-svp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/497048\/","title":{"rendered":"Lending vet Doug Smith returns to Rate as SVP\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chicagoagentmagazine.com\/whos-who-2020\/douglas-e-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Smith<\/a>, a former senior vice president of mortgage lending at CrossCountry Mortgage, has returned\u00a0to Chicago-based Rate Inc., where he will hold the same title.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Smith will continue to do business in both the <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagoagentmagazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicagoland<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/southfloridaagentmagazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Florida<\/a> markets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A 31-year veteran of the mortgage business, Smith\u00a0worked at\u00a0Rate for over 13 years until\u00a02021, when he became\u00a0a senior loan consultant at\u00a0loanDepot\u00a0before\u00a0moving to Cleveland-based\u00a0CrossCountry\u00a0in 2022.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Smith said he is \u201clooking forward to better serving my referral partners and their clients with our advanced technology and experienced team for a seamless customer experience.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doug Smith, a former senior vice president of mortgage lending at CrossCountry Mortgage, has returned\u00a0to Chicago-based Rate Inc.,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":497049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[26859,960,59696,223475,183647,223476,5386,1818,115037,223477,223478,1435,17506,223479],"class_list":{"0":"post-497048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-rate","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-real-estate","11":"tag-crosscountry-mortgage","12":"tag-doug-smith","13":"tag-guaranteed-rate-affinity","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-illinois","16":"tag-lending","17":"tag-loandepot","18":"tag-making-moves","19":"tag-mortgage","20":"tag-sc","21":"tag-south-florida-real-estate"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115849503171243861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}