Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

California-based ICE Mortgage Technology announced this week two enterprise agreements to integrate its eClose solution to Maxwell and Roostify platforms, enabling a more streamlined closing process for lenders and borrowers. Roostify, a mortgage technology provider, will integrate the solution to its digital home lending platform.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Mortgage credit availability decreased in January according to the Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI), a report from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) that analyzes data from ICE Mortgage Technology. The index was benchmarked to 100 in March 2012. The MCAI fell by 0.9% in January.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2022

The cooperative members cover the entire lending spectrum, originating between $50 million and $25 billion per year. Another initiative is a cloud-based technology called Lenders One Loan Automation (LOLA), launched to automate the loan manufacturing process.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 10, 2022

Mortgage credit availability decreased in April according to the Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI), a report from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) that analyzes data from ICE Mortgage Technology. The index was benchmarked to 100 in March 2012. The MCAI fell by 3.2% The Conventional MCAI increased 0.7%, while.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 11, 2022

Mortgage credit availability increased by 1% to 126% in February according to the Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI), a report from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) that analyzes data from ICE Mortgage Technology. The index was benchmarked to 100 in March 2012.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2021

It has raised a total of $655 million since its founding in 2012, according to Crunchbase. Blend’s white label technology is what powers mortgage applications on the site of banks such as Wells Fargo and U.S. Since it was estabslihed in 2012, Blend has been run by its co-founders ? Presented by: FADT.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

Real estate still relies on a “system” unable to integrate production across the silos of media, brokerage, lending, insurance and trading. Technology and the trust model Real estate is too vital to our economy to be so financially concentrated and functionally outdated.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Even in the midst of a banner year, originators have to keep one eye on the technologies and competitors that could upend their carefully crafted business strategy. Taking those lessons with him, Ghamsari decided to start Blend in 2012 along with his co-founders. The focus of the Spring Summit is The Year-Round Purchase Market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

has raised $175 million to accelerate growth and fund new technologies , just 16 months after relaunching its operations. billion in 2012 to $2 billion in 2016. Last year, Interfirst relaunched its services with a new proprietary loan origination technology platform. Chicago-based mortgage originator Interfirst Mortgage Co.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As demonstrated in the brilliant UWM Superbowl ad , Millennial homebuyers are looking to technology to match them with the right partners in life, including their mortgage. With smarter and faster data, a personalized service experience is key for the future of lending. #2 5 Technology becomes fintech. 1 Personalization.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2022

The company’s job cuts include human resources, technology, talent acquisition, and executive assistant positions. Presented by: Acra Lending. In 2012, the historically low interest rates led to a boom in refinances, and the lender grew to $14.5 The workforce reduction is also focused on mortgage loan production.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

Most recently, the private-equity firm invested in Real , a technology-powered real estate brokerage in 2020, and perhaps most notably, e-recording provider Simplifile in 2013. In fact, prior to founding SimpleNexus in 2011, CEO Matt Hansen worked on the Simplifile development architecture team for nearly five years. billion.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Deephaven will provide brokers with Incenter Appraisal Management’s RemoteVal technology, which reduces appraisal turn times from weeks to days, without compromising the integrity of the process. However, the challenges of appraiser shortages and appraisal backlogs are slowing down lending. About Incenter Appraisal Management.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2021

It has raised a total of $655 million since its founding in 2012, according to Crunchbase. Blend’s white label technology is what powers mortgage applications on the site of banks such as Wells Fargo and U.S. In all, its technology platforms saw $1.4 That January round gave Blend a $3.3 billion valuation.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2021

Blend’s investors are apparently convinced that the company can radically transform lending, simplifying and digitizing regimented-but-clumsy processes that are still rather paperwork-heavy. ” Blend’s white-label technology is what powers mortgage applications on the website of traditional banks such as Wells Fargo and U.S. .

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with John Keratsis, President and CEO of Deephaven Mortgage, about the potential benefits of non-QM lending in today’s tight housing market. The technology is excellent and has significantly streamlined our communications and processing. Deephaven has been doing non-QM since 2012.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2020

Fintech-focused Canapi Ventures led the investment, which brings Blend’s total venture raised to $365 million since its 2012 inception. That digitization, he said, has been fueled by rapidly changing consumer expectations and increased confidence in the ability of lenders and other mortgage industry players to adopt new technologies quickly.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In 2012, Dmitry Godin was seemingly on top of the world. The historically low interest rates that led to a boom in refinances in 2012 had ended, and Interfirst struggled to maintain volumes in following years as the market turned to purchase. Interfirst Mortgage , the retail mortgage business he founded in 2001, had grown to $14.5

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Over the last year, it has also sold off large chunks of the business – including sub-servicing with ServiceMac and delegated correspondent to Planet Home Lending – which accounts for several thousand workers transitioning to new firms. billion in 2012, the company decided to shutter its business in 2017.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

The program is available to a wide range of homeowners, with lending limits as high as $4 million*. For lenders unfamiliar with reverse mortgage products, RMF makes it easy to get into the business with its technology platform, training, marketing assistance and industry-leading support.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In our research, RealTrends interviewed top producers from RealTrends 500 firms and many didn’t bring up marketing, technology or office space as the top reasons they’re at their firm. “Every time, my family was in the construction lending business, and they’d lose homes and file bankruptsy. in California.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

LoanStar Technologies , which connects lenders with borrowers who are traditionally underbanked or unbanked, also made the list again. 403 Homelight 1,444% 2012 Providing a platform that helps deliver better outcomes for homebuyers and sellers. Homelight , a platform for homebuyers and sellers, was No. The company was No.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2023

Available in its Blend Builder Platform, users can build their own origination products, leverage integrations, and use modular blocks to resolve the complexity of an existing technology infrastructure, the company said in an announcement about the launch on Tuesday. Founded in 2012, Blend went public in 2021.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

Johnson, whose career with Fannie Mae spans for almost two decades, is currently responsible for leading the mortgage giant’s digital transformation , which includes overseeing Fannie Mae’s technology, data, enterprise models and operations. What are the building blocks of digital lending? Presented by: Wolters Kluwer.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Interest rates have risen from a low of less than 3% in 2012 to over 7% today, meaning that 99% – according to Goldman Sachs – have a lower rate and would not benefit from a refinance. This left a void in the mortgage lending market, which was filled by IMBs.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

The first category is real estate credit, which covers most establishments focused on lending with real estate as collateral. The second category is mortgage and non-mortgage brokers, which includes establishments that facilitate lending by bringing borrowers and lenders together. Source: Nationwide Multistate Licensing System.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke to Amanda Phillips, executive vice president of compliance at ACES Quality Management, about getting servicing staff and technology ready to meet upcoming regulatory requirements while ensuring quality throughout the life of the loan. Without technology, this will be an overwhelming burden.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The mortgage lending industry exists to make home loans, not to repossess them. A 2012 Gallup Poll asserted that 58% of Americans preferred that the federal government take additional action to prevent foreclosures. More importantly, technology is the ultimate fulcrum for “right-sizing” staffing levels. Nor should it be.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2023

I remember that 2012, 2013, 2014 were really tough years for us because the product is really good, it was early and there were no proof points, they didn’t want to be the first mover because if it didn’t work out the person who hired us was going to lose their job. When the mortgage industry generated more than $8.5

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

Freddie Mac also found a 50% increase in appraisals completed in 2020 compared to 2012, but no more appraisers on hand to complete those appraisals than there were in 2020. Leveraging mobile technology, there is also no reason why real estate professionals today cannot perform the basic duties of onsite data collection.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

Leveraging technology can help. By 2008, the capital ratio had dropped to 3.2%, and, by 2012, it had cratered into negative territory, -1.4%, requiring a $1.7 Presented by: DataVerify. billion draw on the U.S. Treasury in 2013. That is particularly important to how LMI borrowers and seniors fare during tough economic times.

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Patch of Land

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Congress has opportunities to address some of the challenges financial technology firms face in the lending sector. The pace of financial technology innovation in the alternative lending space is nothing short of phenomenal, but it has meant headaches for lenders and vendors waiting for regulation to play catch-up.

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