Interview: Tony Weick, president, Bell Bank Mortgage

Bell Bank executive Tony Weick has spent a quarter of a century in the mortgage business and he doesn’t plan to leave anytime soon. A graduate of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, Weick joined Bell in 2004. In 2013, after a stint as underwriting manager, he was named executive leader of Bell Bank Mortgage. Weick has twice been named to the “Minnesota 500” list of the state’s top business leaders, according to his company bio. In his current role, Weick is responsible for overall residential mortgage functions at Bell, which has about $10 billion in assets and main offices in Fargo, Minneapolis and Phoenix. The mortgage division, he notes, is spread “across a larger swath of the country,” including the central U.S. and into the southeast. Given his years of experience, Weick is a go-to source of information about industry trends. In the following interview with Finance & Commerce reporter Brian Johnson, he talks about what 2022 might have in store for interest rates, housing inventory, new home construction and more.