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Blend hopes to be valued at $4B following IPO

Housing Wire

Mortgage software platform Blend Labs set terms for its initial public offering Tuesday including its goal to raise up to $360 million for a targeted valuation of nearly $4 billion. It has raised a total of $655 million since its founding in 2012, according to Crunchbase. The company also announced expectations to have a total of 219.6

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Blend is now worth $4.6B. Now what?

Housing Wire

Shares closed trading at $20.90, giving Blend a valuation of around $4.6 Over the last two years, Blend has acquired its own mortgage insurance firm and title insurance firm (the latter in a $422 million deal). “So if you’re getting a mortgage, you need homeowners insurance and title insurance.

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Blend, valued at $3.3B, plans to go public

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billion valuation. It has raised a total of $655 million since its founding in 2012, according to Crunchbase. Doma , a title insurance firm , and digital lender SoFi are also both hoping to go public this year at valuations of $3 billion and about $9 billion, respectively. That January round gave Blend a $3.3

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Opinion: What the ICE-Black Knight merger means

Housing Wire

Real estate still relies on a “system” unable to integrate production across the silos of media, brokerage, lending, insurance and trading. It entered real estate in 2012 after buying DebtMarket, an exchange for distressed home debt. Many industries began to deploy electronic supply chains in the 1980’s.

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Blend reaches unicorn status with $75 million Series F raise

Housing Wire

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech-focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, insurance and real estate. Blend announced Wednesday it has raised a $75 million Series F round at a valuation of nearly $1.7 Stay tuned for updates.

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ClearPath Lending surpasses 50,000 FHA and VA mortgages

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These were guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs or insured by the Federal Housing Administration since the company was founded in 2012. ClearPath Lending, a VA home loan origination firm, has provided more than 50,000 mortgage loans.

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SFR with ADU or Two Units?

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on non-lender appraisals, VA, flood and fires no insurance, retirement, few lender appraisals, unusual homes, mortgage origination $22M Modern Mansion on 130 Acres in Napa Has Its Own Cabernet Vineyard Excerpts: 6 bedrooms, 6.5+ Risk to Home Values.