Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

SimpleNexus, developer of the platform for loan officers, borrowers, real estate agents, and settlement agents, is now a Fannie Mae- and Freddie Mac-reviewed eClosing solution provider, the company announced in a press release.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

That’s where reverse purchase financing comes into play, the funding option specifically designed for older Americans. The bottom line The reverse mortgage (HECM) for purchase program was designed to help older Americans buy a more suitable home in retirement, while still conserving cash and assets for future expenses.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

SimpleNexus , developer of the homeownership platform for loan officers, borrowers, real estate agents and settlement agents, is now a Fannie Mae- and Freddie Mac-reviewed eClosing solution provider. eMortages are faster, offer improved data quality and can be cheaper to execute than.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2023

Artificial intelligence refers to computer systems designed to perform tasks that usually require human intelligence, such as recognizing speech, identifying patterns or making decisions. By its own description, ChatGPT is “an AI-powered chatbot developed by OpenAI, based on the GPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) language model.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Coming off multiple quarters of financial losses , Rocket has accelerated those efforts in 2023, embarking on a remote local loan officer hiring spree designed to capture purchase market business from real estate agent connections, sources told HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Borrowers, loan officers, and the corresponding processors and underwriters are often working on entirely different systems. The platform is loan origination system-agnostic and is designed to deliver value to both borrowers and lenders–”from the point of thought of buying a house to the point of owning a home.” .

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Utah-based software developer offers a private-label digital mortgage platform and mobile app designed to connect lenders with borrowers and real estate agents. In fact, prior to founding SimpleNexus in 2011, CEO Matt Hansen worked on the Simplifile development architecture team for nearly five years.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

Intuitive technologies developed and built by experts in both mortgages and technology can drive efficiency, reliability and profitability when paired with exceptional customer service. We keep our ears to the ground and are always ready to pivot, find a solution and develop technologies our clients need to have a competitive edge.”.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Within four years, Akinmade and his team have built a robust, automated marketing platform, which is driven by investment in technology, to give retail loan officers a competitive edge. Paul Akinmade joined CMG Financial in 2016 to lead the expansion of the company’s marketing department ahead of a major staffing initiative.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

With Fannie Mae and other organizations predicting a tough outlook for 2023’s housing market, loan officers should be looking to get their name out in front of as many potential borrowers as possible in order to secure business. Parker is a HousingWire 2022 Mortgage Marketing Leader with a focus on business development and marketing.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

If cooperative compensation is banned, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the VA must weigh in to develop or accept a mechanism for FHA and VA borrowers and how to pay the buyer’s agent’s commission. “This is going to be a massive needle mover,” Grant said. “I

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2021

Hansen told HousingWire that he stepped down to lead a team of software developers and sales staff for upcoming research and development tactics within SimpleNexus. This new role will give him more time to focus on his passion for product and development, he said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2023

According to Sahi, there are three primary components that will help lenders succeed in today’s mortgage environment, and beyond: speed to market, margin management and loan officer experience and education. “If First, the PPE should be architecturally designed to accommodate any lenders’ unique business strategy or use case.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

The opportunity to re-design the future of home lending through technology cannot be overstated, as the mortgage lending industry has been relatively slow to embrace digital technologies,” said Kittredge. And software and platform developers Qualia and Blend both achieved unicorn status by the end of the year. “I

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech-focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, insurance and real estate. To that end, Blend plans to use the new capital to invest in product development such as speeding up the release of its digital closing solution.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Mike is an experienced mortgage loan officer. In 2000, Mike’s company used a CRM capable of automating the marketing for its loan officers. Developers don’t understand sales in our industry. Mike Jameson doesn’t think this, however. Not anymore. Without marketing automation, he probably would have been right.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

With so many people involved – including the appraisal desk, loan operations, loan officers, underwriters, the IT/product team, borrowers and appraisal vendors – there’s room for error that could negatively impact the home buying experience. There’s no denying the complexity of the appraisal process.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

All of the above categories of automation solutions are built on a foundation of machine learning solution which has been developed by Indecomm specifically for the mortgage industry over the past several years. Despite any automation effort, there will always be exceptions and fallouts that a human being needs to oversee,” Bharadwaj said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Bureau of Labor Statistics does not have a job category set up solely for mortgage underwriters, but it does track job growth, or lack of it, in a category it calls “loan officers,” which includes underwriters as a subset. Charlotte-based Canopy is a relative newcomer to the TPR market. “The

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The Origence Mortgage Platform is an end-to-end lending platform that puts the power of modern technology in lenders’ hands, enabling them to close more loans, faster. Origence designed its platform with the ability to continually transform and stand the test of time. THE EXECUTIVES: Roger Hull, Chief Product Officer.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Our rebrand to Pennymac TPO is a sign that we are increasing our investment in talent, technology, products and services – all designed to support our wholesale partners on their journey of success,” said Kim Nichols, Senior Managing Director at Pennymac. title and appraisal) and other industry experts.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

And what I witnessed is that the difference between a good product design engineering team and a great one is actually exponential. So a lot of my time is spent working together with our chief human resource officer, working through how we make sure we’re attractive to great talent — either recruiting them or identifying them internally.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

“Unlike banks and credit unions, nonbanks can’t hold these [home equity] loans on their balance sheets. … Home equity loans originated by Rocket Mortgage, UWM and Pennymac, loanDepot, Spring EQ, Figure Lending and a nonbank called Achieve Home Loans have all been used as collateral in securitization offerings so far this year.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Christos Bettios, chief information officer at NFM Lending , to talk about the company’s private, proprietary GPT that is making his whole team more efficient. He started his career as a developer and spent 10 years as a senior product manager at Fannie Mae.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Exponentially increase your loan officers’ origination potential without incurring additional expense? Examiners such as the CFPB and FDIC provide stringent oversight of digital activity, and mistakes can cost you and your loan officers dearly. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, payments, insurance and proptech. Notarize said its application development team built bank-grade, highly secure software systems. Register for the FinLedger Daily Newsletter.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

The company recently launched a mortgage brokerage firm that offers a plug-and-play program for real estate agents to become mortgage loan officers, a practice called dual licensing. of the loan amount, with a $5,000 cap, which adds to the typical buyer-side agent commission of up to 3%. For example, Realfinity pays LOs 1.4%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

Debbie launched the marketing campaign for “A Seat at the Closing Table,” designed to train loan officers on the nuances of working with underserved borrowers and to offer toolkits and templates that will help them close more loans in minority communities.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

To address these lender needs, Black Knight developed Borrower Digital – a point-of-sale solution that delivers a single, fully integrated and customer-facing mortgage loan application solution. Borrower Digital was designed based on specific borrower personas and scenarios.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Customer intelligence and mortgage tech firm Polly named Troy Coggiola as its chief operating officer amid the company’s effort to scale. Coggiola will be responsible for Polly’s product, implementation, support and design teams, working toward seamless cross-organization collaboration. before it was acquired by ICE in 2020.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It is critical to also digitize the front-end processes, which enable you to give borrowers a better experience, while also making it easier for your loan officers and other staff members to do their job. This really comes down to designing products and experiences around the customer journey and mapping it from that point of view.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

If you’re a mortgage loan officer with a decade of experience in the industry, you have likely spent over 80 hours taking continuing education courses. We would welcome the opportunity to approve courses with a creative take on how they design and develop content.”. How can they be sure? Did they interview every borrower?

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2023

The goal was to create a configurable and robust Point of Sale to Loan Origination System integration, according to a press release from the company. “Built by the people that use it every day, The Big Point of Sale was designed with the consumer in mind and the mortgage professional at heart.

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Genworth MI Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Loan officers and listing agents are familiar with homeowner anxiety about real estate appraisals. To relieve some of the stress, savvy loan officers educate their borrowers on what to expect from an appraisal inspection and how to prepare. Will worn carpeting hurt my value? Will the appraiser look in my closets?

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

Largely hidden from view and misperceived by some to be on the lower end of the hierarchy of service providers, the position seemingly lacked the luster of the real estate agent or the panache of the loan officer. During the housing crisis of 2008, the title industry suddenly emerged from obscurity into full view.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Even in a digital-first shopping landscape, loan officers are still a valuable resource for borrowers. For instance, if you choose to build your platform, you’ll have plenty of freedom in its design. This route could help you save on development time. Creating that platform, though, is often easier said than done.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

While running employment and income verification reports can be an expensive step in the mortgage process, it’s designed to reduce loan risk during underwriting. is a software development company that offers a digital loan origination and point-of-sale system for the mortgage industry. in an $87 million deal in 2021.

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