Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As a premier provider of innovative, high-performance software, data and analytics for mortgage and home equity lending and servicing, Black Knight is transforming the housing finance industry. Black Knight is a proven mortgage industry leader in servicing technology. Originations.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

HousingWire: What role has the increase in technology played for both businesses and consumers in the real estate space? Vance Loiselle: In the 20th century, the primary technology innovations in real estate were the telephone and the MLS. HW: What steps in the real estate transaction could benefit from further digitalization?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The home lending industry has a massive opportunity to digitalize to create efficiencies and to deliver a simpler end-to-end user experience hat would benefit both borrowers and servicers. Digitalization in the home lending industry does not always require companies to entirely invent new technology solutions.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with Desmond Smith , chief growth officer at United Wholesale Mortgage , about the role that wholesale lending plays in the mortgage ecosystem and common myths and misconceptions about becoming an independent mortgage broker. In 2020 and 2021 when refinances were booming, we saw every lender thriving.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2021

If you take the temperature of how loan officers are feeling ahead of the holiday season, the scale would likely read “uneasy.” According to Fahad Janvekar, a loan officer at Fairway Independent Mortgage , “there is definitely some concern” about layoffs in the industry.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. A seasoned retail and commercial banking salesman in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the 39-year-old Woodward joined Interfirst Mortgage as a loan officer in October 2020 after a recommendation from an old college friend.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

When the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to zero on March 15, 2020 and set off an extraordinary real estate boom, Rocket Mortgage was ready. billion in profit in 2020 and $6.1 billion in profit in 2020 and $6.1 Its parent Rocket Companies rode the wave to a stunning $9.4 billion in 2021. billion in 2021.

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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

MARCH 25, 2021

Other investors included Rotor Capital , The Mortgage Collaborative Emerging Technology Fund , Prudence Holdings and existing investors including Anthemis Group , Route 66 Ventures , and Sovereign’s Capital. The capital raise follows a $5 million Series A funding round in June 2020. mortgage market. Presented by: Sutherland.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2021

Fred Bolstad, executive vice president of retail lending at U.S. Bolstad will be joined on the panel by Dave Vermillion , founder and CEO of Mortgage Champions , and Lisa Patterson, chief originations officer at Homepoint. He leads both retail sales and operations, a channel that originated over $47 billion in 2020.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

Roostify, which powers the digital mortgage platforms of JPMorgan Chase , TD Bank , Guild Mortgage , HSBC Bank USA and more, allows different lending parties to bring in data and information from online sources that then tailors the homebuying process. Many loan officers who may not have in the past sought to engage with customers digitally.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2021

For many in the housing industry, the events of 2020 accelerated tech adoption. HousingWire sat down with Renata Sheyner, vice president of product at CreditXpert, to learn more about key technologies that lenders need to give more attention to. First, mortgage lending is highly volatile.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

Glenn Sanford’s eXp World Holdings announced Thursday a mortgage joint venture with Glenn Stearns’s Kind Lending , called Success Lending. The company will be headquartered in Santa Ana, California, Stearns said, home of Kind Lending. The Mobile “Must-Haves” Reshaping Mortgage Technology. Presented by: SimpleNexus.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In my career, I’ve swung between enabling technology and securing it at the same time. SW: At PRMG, do you generally build or buy technology? JA: I was going back through some old PRMG stuff and they had “the five tenets of mortgage lending success” and it was: product, pricing, compensation, marketing, and fulfillment.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

As part of the merger, Jim Black, the founder of All Cal, will become chief lending officer of InstaMortgage. Black, a licensed mortgage loan officer and broker, will also lead product development, tech partnerships and sales growth. Terms of the deal, which was announced on Tuesday, were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

will lay off 77 employees in its Charlotte, North Carolina office come January 2022, a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) notice filed by the company reveals. Among those getting a pink slip are 49 loan officers, 10 national account managers, seven retail sales managers and seven transaction coordinators.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

Smart lenders are leaning into the technologies that will solve on multiple fronts, helping drive more leads and real estate agent relationships, higher pull through to closed transactions, increased efficiency and time saved. Are there multiple outcomes this technology impacts and improves?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The brokerage on Wednesday also announced that the launch of its residential lending joint venture Success Lending with Kind Lending, LLC has been approved in Colorado, Illinois and Tennessee. by transaction volume in 2020 with $72.2 The brokerage was the fourth-largest in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

The platform allows loan officers to become “mobile originators,” using their smartphones to view applications, pull credit reports and oversee all aspects of the loan process while connecting in real-time to their LOS. billion.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2022

The nonbank mortgage lender is expanding its consumer direct lending business while some competitors are laying off employees with the expectation that the channel cools down with higher mortgage rates. PennyMac is growing fast with its consumer direct lending business. California-based PennyMac Financial Services will invest $3.9

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2022

By some estimates, origination volume will fall in 2022 to about $2 trillion, about half the volume from the record-breaking years of 2021 and 2020. Wells Fargo , one of the nation’s largest banks, had at least 114 layoffs in its home lending business following a drop in revenue in that division in the first quarter of 2022.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

HousingWire: We’ve seen multiple predictions of non-QM lending heating up in 2021. We saw and endured COVID force a pause on the business and had to quickly respond and adapt to continue to lend. Angel Oak made it happen thanks to our close connection with investors who trust our loans and lending standards.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

“Market dynamics in early 2020, which have caused significant disruption to the origination and servicing markets, accelerated our plan to reenter the market with our new business model in a more robust way with a broader relaunch of the Company,” Mark Freedle, Interfirst’s executive vice president of production, told MReport in July 2020.

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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. Funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management , MFA Financia l, various family offices, and other strategic investors invested through a StoicLane’s special purpose vehicle, StoicLane said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2021

This year’s class of Rising Stars matches the recording-breaking and unparalleled year that the housing industry experienced in 2020. ICE Mortgage Technology. EVP, Retail Lending. Alterra Home Loans. Senior Loan Officer. Supreme Lending. VP, Lending Support. Louis daRosa. VP of Engineering.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2022

a software and data company whose mini-empire includes ICE Mortgage Technology , has bought Black Knight. The move between what are generally regarded as the two biggest suppliers of mortgage loan origination software is the latest domino to fall in a mortgage market careening off the rails.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

News just broke that private equity investor LLR Partners announced strategic investments in two mortgage technology companies — Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang ( click here for article ). LLR is not a newcomer to mortgage technology or the overall fintech market. This isn’t a new story in mortgage lending or real estate brokerage.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

” Prospective borrowers can talk to a licensed loan officer if they prefer during the approval process, however. In a traditional home equity product, the lender disburses a lump sum upfront to the borrower, who then pays the loan back in fixed-rate installments. The company achieved a 3.4%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

According to Beeline, the company plans to unveil a new office in Charlotte in the fall of 2020 – followed by a new branch on the West Coast towards the end of the year. The company has developed an alternative to what is traditionally know as a loan officer role.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2021

The deal will allow Black Knight access to Top of Mind’s brain child, Surefire, a customer relationship management system and marketing automation software for the mortgage lending industry. ” The software boasts an all-in-one connectivity between LOSs, CRM, POSs, lead sources and sales acceleration systems. .

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We’re trying to make sure our focus is on the strategic growth areas that we think will contribute to the first-time homebuyer, diverse lending and affordable [lending]. We have a very large contingent of loan officers and branch networks. We don’t hold loans on our balance sheet. We’re stable.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yes, 2020 gave certain sectors a tail-wind but nonetheless these companies all had to manage through uncertainty while growing at breakneck speeds. And Nationwide Mortgage Bankers posted an insane average three-year growth rate of 16,396% in 2020. 2020 total volume for refinances and purchase mortgages totaled $3.83 5000 map.”.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

With interest rates hitting all-time lows, lenders doubled their origination volume to more than $4 trillion in both 2020 and 2021, hired more staff and ramped up investment in technology to close loans faster. billion came from its origination technology, according to their earnings reports. Of the $387.2

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

As the market shifts, interest in non-QM lending from traditional lenders and brokers has increased. We recently spoke to Bao Huynh, Director of Business Development at LoanScorecard, about these changes and the challenges of originating non-QM loans. Technology is a big part of the answer to this education challenge.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

In a HousingWire webinar , Lyman and Kelly Gill, VP of marketing and advertising for Motto Franchising, emphasized that lending operations need to shift their focus for the rest of 2020 from growth to profitability. One of the drivers for a pivot to profit is that loans are expensive. Drive internal technology adoption.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

PPP may have meant something different in 2020, but this year the 3 P’s are the guiding light to long-term mortgage success and domination. Technology at the intersection of borrower and LO satisfaction. Panelists: Scott Betley, Loan Officer, NFM Lending Brena Nath, Managing Editor, HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2020

HousingWire recently spoke with Susan Falsetti, managing director of Origination Title and Close at ServiceLink, about the state of title in 2020 and how the EXOS technology platform allowed ServiceLink clients to take advantage of virtual closing solutions. This technology became essential amid social distancing guidelines.

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