Friday, February 18, 2011

LendingTree shifts direction

Tree.com Inc. saw its mortgage business drop off as interest rates rose at the end 2010. And Chief Executive Doug Lebda says the company is changing operations to cope with a shifting market.

The company will invest more heavily on marketing — both traditional advertising and the online and search-engine marketing Tree.com has honed over the years. But other changes are likely to continue to erode the importance of Tree.com's signature business — the LendingTree.com loan exchange — to the company's bottom line.

By far the largest business line has become the direct mortgage lender, LendingTree Loans. And Lebda plans ...

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