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The opportunity cost of modern-day redlining

Housing Wire

Modern-day redlining persists, and it’s costing lenders millions in legal fees. The true cost of redlining Lenders need to carefully evaluate their lending strategies to ensure that they are not unintentionally practicing redlining by neglecting MMCT and LMI neighborhoods, or they may face millions in penalties.

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A loan officer’s ultimate guide to appraisal modernization

Housing Wire

However, a year after the GSEs announced new appraisal modernization solutions, as they’re more widely adopted, questions arise. And as a loan officer (LO), why should I care? A look into GSE appraisal modernization efforts The GSEs have each offered appraisal waivers on eligible loans for several years.

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Digital mortgage startup Maxwell lands $16M in Series B

Housing Wire

The capital raise follows a $5 million Series A funding round in June 2020. In short, their AI platform, which is built on aggregated loan data from its network, allows loan officers, processors and underwriters to offload manual, arduous tasks. Clients include Credit Union of Colorado , Texas Lending and JMAC Lending.

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ESSA Bank to pay $3M to settle DOJ’s redlining allegations

Housing Wire

District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania , ESSA “failed to provide mortgage lending services and did not serve the credit needs of majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in the Philadelphia metropolitan area” from 2017 to 2021. According to a complaint filed by DOJ in the U.S. It is simply the right thing to do.”

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Originators gear up for the purchase market

Housing Wire

Lenders will have to “manage expenses and improve customer service in a purchase market,” Tom Wind, executive vice president of consumer lending with U.S. One of the ways that lenders “manage expenses” has historically been by laying off processors and loan officers. Bank Home Mortgage , said at the MBA Annual convention.

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Compass is Guaranteed Rate’s latest dance partner

Housing Wire

OriginPoint has a Chicago address, and it is actively looking for loan officers, according to OriginPoint’s website. After a relatively slow start, Guaranteed Rate Affinity took off in 2020 – its equity earnings jumped to $126 million compared to $15 million a year earlier, according to Realogy’s public filings.

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The surprising future of mortgage technology

Housing Wire

Lending technology out of focus. Focusing our efforts to leverage big data and smarter automation on the front end of the loan origination process made sense in the beginning when the mortgage industry was entering the digital age. Borrowers were not comfortable turning over their credentials to loan officers or processors.