Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

UWM’s TRAC+ announcement comes as the federal government pushes title insurance alternatives designed to save consumers money. the company also announced ChatUWM, an AI-powered search engine that provides instant responses to clients, including guidelines, matrices, lender tools, and technology. loans but only for refinances.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Getting the home insurance required to close is often more complicated than it needs to be. HousingWire recently spoke with Tom Kriby, vice president of client development and partnerships at Westwood Insurance Agency , about the home insurance shopping process and how lenders can help make it simpler for their borrowers.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2023

methodology in October 2021, thousands of homeowners in low-elevation coastal areas of the United States braced for federal flood insurance hikes. Recently released data from the agency shows that annual flood insurance premiums will eventually double or even triple for homeowners in some U.S. When FEMA released its Risk Rating 2.0

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

Through the partnership, loan officers can introduce their clients to an RIA within Encompass. Borrowers will receive financial advice including – college savings plans if their household is expanding, additional life insurance and 401k at no cost.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

So how do you provide overwhelming value to your buyer clients? Here are the top five ways to provide value to your buyer clients. Present to your buyer clients just like you would in a listing presentation. Repeat, referral, lather, rinse and repeat. Be a matchmaker. This is where being proactive matters. Overcommunicate.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

While buying a house is typically an exciting process for our clients, it can also be overwhelming. We’ve compiled this house-hunting checklist you can review with your buyer clients to help them better understand the home-buying process. I used to play a fun game with my buyer clients. I gave them a piece of paper and a pen.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2021

With multiple organizations – such as the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB), Fannie Mae, FEMA, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and others – guiding these regulations and outlining protocols, it is necessary but challenging to maintain compliance.

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Inman

AUGUST 24, 2023

Insurance as a hot-button issue is likely not going away anytime soon. Unfortunately, as long as Mother Nature is in control, agents, buyers and sellers need to be more proactive than ever, broker Cara Ameer writes.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2022

Polly , a software-as-service mortgage technology firm that operates a loan-trading platform, integrated with six mortgage insurance providers to streamline the mortgage process for loan officers and mortgage lenders. . When a quote is selected, the user will receive documentation from the applicable mortgage insurance provider.

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Inman

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The ever-evolving technology and business services company is offering an “accessible, affordable and award-winning” home insurance plan for agents to offer clients in Florida.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

MGIC Investment Corporation’s principal subsidiary Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC) has announced that Sri Kadasinghanahalli joined the company on October 18, 2021 as Vice President of Systems Development. The post Kadasinghanahalli Joins Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Inman

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Two days after being hit by a cyberattack, the title insurance giant says it's still trying to restore operations and warns clients that it's taken its email system offline.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 16, 2021

Through the enhanced Radian integration, Mortgage Cadence clients can now access Radian’s suite of insured and non-insured title and settlement services via Mortgage Cadence’s Collaboration Center, in addition to Radian’s mortgage insurance services. The Collaboration Center enables mortgage lenders, title agents and.

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Inman

APRIL 19, 2024

With new clients including USA Mortgage and New American Funding, Matic says it's doing business with more 100 mortgage lenders and servicers that together process 20 percent of U.S. home loans.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

First, he has his clients lender call the listing agent. But because inventory remains at record lows, home prices have soared to astonishing highs, and bidding wars still occur in housing market across the country, Pascoe and other real estate agents on the buy-side have had to go the extra mile to fight for their VA clients.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2021

White label title insurance franchise Proliant Settlement Systems announced Friday the acquisition of Great Northern Title Insurance Agency (GNTIA) in Michigan as a franchisee. ” This was appealing to GNTIA owner Neville Nofar, who also counts Great Northern Tax and Great Northern Insurance Agency as part of his portfolio.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

Through partnerships with Bubble Insurance Solutions and New American Funding , real estate agents at The Agency will have access to mortgage lending services and insurance services for their clients. The affiliation will provide The Agency’s agents with access to Bubble Insurance’s insurance coverage for their clients.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2021

In light of that, HousingWire sat down with Peter Paglia, Chief Strategy Officer at HomeBinder, to discuss how to create a “Client for Life” in this environment. HousingWire: As the refi boom simmers down, why should lenders focus on creating clients for life? HW: How does HomeBinder help lenders establish Clients for Life?

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Inman

MARCH 20, 2023

Bubble, the technology-blended insurance brokerage, provides clients of JPAR with a web-based series of solutions for home, auto and life insurance.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

One of our big goals at Blueprint Title is to shrink the title insurance business from an $18 billion business to a $10 billion business,” Berneman, the company co-founder and CEO. “We share of the market controlled by small, independent title insurance companies. of the market, should be too concerned about the rise of the little guy.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

As part of the agreement, NAR members and their clients will be eligible to receive exclusive rates and discounts on mortgages , student loan refinancing, and personal loans, among other perks. million clients and has branched out into mortgages, car loans, personal loans and more.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

RealReports is a real estate platform that gathers property data — including permits, climate risk, rental rates, flood insurance costs, internet providers and speeds, crime statistics, solar potential, liens, zoning details, remodel potential and valuation — in one place.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

Founded in 2006, Carson Realty serves clients in the South Carolina markets of Hilton Head, Bluffton and Lake Keowee. On Thursday, the family-owned firm announced that it had acquired South Carolina -based Carson Realty. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. We look forward to our partnership with Carson Realty (CR).

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

Stavvy , a fintech company specializing in digital and remote collaboration for lending and real estate companies, announced on Wednesday a new partnership with WFG National Title Insurance Company (WFG) to provide the company and its customers with eClosing technology solutions.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

The lenders that have prepared for the market improvements, including some of our new clients, have tech tools for their risk & compliance, operations, funding & accounting teams to fight back against threats. of transactions having errors, as well as a higher rate of insurance coverage issues, at 2.2% billion in 2023.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

Title insurance giant First American Financial reported progress on restoring its systems from a pre-Christmas cybersecurity incident. The First American Financial umbrella includes First American Title Insurance and First American Title Guaranty , as well as nearly two dozen subsidiaries.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

He’s replacing Gibson, who spent nearly five years leading the TPO channel and focusing on client experience. In March 2023, Flagstar surprised the market amid the banking crisis by acquiring some assets, liabilities and deposits of Signature Bank from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. ( FDIC ). lender in the space.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2023

Last week we talked about the cost of flood insurance going up by over 200% for some homeowners in the Southeast as both the federal government and private insurers determine how to price the soaring cost of climate risk, or abandon insuring them altogether. What does this all mean for Californians?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2023

“Having managed large-scale servicing operations, we will lean on Michelle’s expertise and are confident that she will deliver the best possible solutions for Cenlar, our clients and their homeowners,” Bill Moffett, Cenlar’s senior vice president of loan operations, said. Its client base includes banks, credit unions and mortgage bankers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Tom Kriby, Vice President of Client Development and Partnerships at Westwood Insurance, about how insurance issues can hold up a home closing and how lenders can integrate insurance into their process to help their homebuyers avoid delays. It’s more common than you think.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

One potential product that could assist in paying for LTC and its insurance could be a reverse mortgage, according to personal finance publication Kiplinger. Insurers currently offer few affordable options for those in the economic middle , according to Kiplinger. population grows older in the coming years.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Fidelity initially notified the public two days after the attack, revealing the firm experienced disruptions to title insurance, escrow and other title-related services, as well as mortgage transactions and technology for the real estate and mortgage industries.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2023

Your potential clients are looking for experts to guide them through what could be the most significant financial decision of their lives. While this may seem too simple of a first step for a title expert, keep in mind that your clients may be starting from ground zero. Remember that your clients may not know the difference!

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

New York-based AmTrust Title Insurance Company on Tuesday introduced MidPoint , its new title closing solution enabling title agents to work outside their geographic areas to serve clients nationwide. AmTrust Title is a wholly owned subsidiary of AmTrust Financial Services, Inc.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Enhancing our clients’ tech stacks with simple, digital-first tools is the foundation of our company’s mission, and it’s integrations like these that help us further that mission,” Patrick O’Brien, LenderLogix co-founder and CEO, said in a statement. “The

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The nation’s second largest title insurer , First American , as well as some of its subsidiaries, remain offline as of Wednesday morning in the wake of the title firm’s Dec. On Friday, it notified clients that it had taken its email system offline and that recipients should be wary of any emails that come through from FirstAm.com.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

With the integration, CoreLogic’s digital mortgage platform clients can now access FundingShield’s “cost-saving and risk-reducing ecosystem of applications” and work toward protecting borrowers and financial institutions from the rapid increase in wire and title fraud, the companies stated in a release. million customers was stolen.

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