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Fintech Maxwell launches POS feature that offers tailored workflows for lenders

Housing Wire

Lenders can also define workflows and business rules for any mortgage product, including construction loans, manufactured home loans, home equity loans and bridge loans. Unlike off-the-shelf POS solutions, Blueprint Builder allows lenders to customize technology that is designed to help improve operations, Maxwell noted.

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HUD launches Office of Manufactured Housing Programs

Housing Wire

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced this week that it has established a new Office of Manufactured Housing Programs , which will report to Assistant Secretary for Housing and Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Commissioner Julia Gordon.

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Opinion: A more balanced approach to manufactured home energy efficiency?

Housing Wire

We also commend the administration for the White House initiative announced a week ago Monday to “Ease the Burden of Housing Costs,” which a Housing Wire article noted is designed to reduce regulatory hurdles. Both the standards and the underlying methodology used to develop them are fundamentally flawed.

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Can 3-D printed homes help solve the housing crisis?

Housing Wire

A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials. TreeHouse worked with Tesla on an ecofriendly home battery and opened a 25,000-square-foot retail store in Dallas.

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Engineering Trends to Watch for in 2024

GoForrmz

Here we’ll dive into some of the most exciting engineering trends to watch for in 2024, exploring how these developments are reshaping industries and driving positive change on a global scale. Autonomous Vehicles More than a vessel for imprinted ML plans, autonomous vehicles pose substantial opportunities for the engineering sphere.

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Savvy real estate agents look beyond ChatGPT

Housing Wire

The history of AI and where it is going The Turing Test was developed by Alan Turing in 1950. Geoff Hinton, a professor at the University of Toronto, and two students, constructed a viable neural network. The latest chatbots, like ChatGPT, are far more advanced than those encountered on most retail websites. What is next?

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Desktop Appraisals: Who, When, and Why

Appraisal Today

Retrospective appraisals, drive-by (exterior inspection) appraisals, and valuations from plans and specifications, are all valuation assignments where an appraiser develops an appraisal opinion without personally inspecting the property. I was lucky to have never had to use new construction as a comp on an existing home.