The mortgage industry recorded a modest increase in the number of producing loan officers in 2025 — the first annual rise since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to preliminary data from mortgage technology platform RETR.

The number of LOs who originated at least one mortgage in 2025 reached 221,161, up slightly from 220,449 in 2024.

“That’s the number of loan officers who were producing regardless of license status — we can see that more LOs did work in 2025 than in 2024,” Steven Wynands, co-founder of RETR, said in an interview with HousingWire.

Final figures will be confirmed once the license details ⇒

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