Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 15, 2022

PERSON OF THE WEEK: The mortgage market is, unfortunately, set for another slowdown, but that means mortgage lenders have more time to focus on refining the technology and processes they use to improve the experience for their borrowers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) counseling program was cited as an example. This program provides counseling to all applicants of the federally insured reverse mortgage program, the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program,” the report stated.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2023

a mortgage artificial intelligence firm focused on automated mortgage underwriting decisions, has conducted layoffs as lenders rush to cut costs. Candor is executing a change in strategy to address the ever-changing mortgage market and to pivot along with client operations,” Tom Showalter, CEO of Candor , said in an e-mailed response.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Louis-based developer of a leading white-label financial fitness and homeownership platform, announced the closure of a $17 million Series B funding round on Tuesday. In addition to product development, FinLocker (a former HousingWire Tech 100 winner) plans to expand its strategic partnerships and collaborations within the mortgage ecosystem.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

In his new role, Bledsoe will be responsible for the company’s technology innovation, design, infrastructure, application management and data service offerings. LERETA is a financial services company that offers a suite of nationwide real estate tax services for residential and commercial mortgages.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2023

Mortgage lender Revolution Mortgage has partnered with Tavant, an AI-powered digital lending company, to integrate Tavant’s Touchless Lending product suite into Revolution Mortgage’s platform. The technology is designed to automate and streamline the underwriting and application processes, per the statement.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2022

million in its seed round to build a mortgage-as-a-service platform for fintechs, banks and retail banks. The product is currently deployed with early design partner customers via a private beta, and Pylon plans to use the funding for product development and talent recruitment. . Startup Pylon raised $8.5

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

With its proven ability to develop cutting-edge technological solutions to streamline the HELOC lending process, Figure has cemented itself as one of the most exciting companies in fintech ,” Tannenbaum said in a statement. Tannenbaum will also be a member of the board of directors.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on Tuesday released its priority open recommendations report, submitted to HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge designed to highlight as-yet unaddressed risks in the management of the department.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 6, 2024

Over the past 20 years, he has served in key leadership roles in mortgage banking, private mortgage insurance, and appraisal management. Johnston is a certified real estate appraiser with advanced professional appraisal designations, project management designations, and process improvement credentials.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Churchill Mortgage has added Randy Starkweather to its executive team, naming him chief financial officer where he will be responsible for overseeing the company’s financial operations and performance. Verity also added Kerry Goodman to its team, naming him vice president of sales and business development.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

A proprietary reverse mortgage from Finance of America Companies (FOA) now secures the home of Rhode Island ’s honorary historian laureate after the property was returned to the owner after attempts to bequeath it to a nonprofit historical society he founded. This is according to reporting from The Providence Journal.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

Its plan takes aim at liquidity, budget authority, pay scales and other potential flexibilities to more closely align with the value it brings to the government and the broader mortgage market. CHLA added in a statement that the release of these recommendations is designed to coincide with relevant news.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

Black Knight recently launched a web portal that enables clients, third-party providers and their developers to access the company’s application programming interfaces (APIs) across the mortgage life cycle. Servicing Digital, offered as an app or web design, enables customers to access their loan- and home-related information.

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Empire Appraisal Group

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Real Estate and Design Trends to Watch in 2024 Design & Architecture , Design Trends By: Barbara Ballinger Source: [link] From ecosystem conservation to “new” darker neutrals in exterior paint, we look at the trends set to take hold in the industry this year. Land shortages make attached and stacked units smart choices.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 14, 2024

Mitch Bledsoe has been promoted to chief technology officer for LERETA , which provides real estate tax and flood services for mortgage servicers. As CTO, Bledsoe will be responsible for all aspects of LERETA’s technology innovation and design, infrastructure and application management, and data service offerings.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

When Curtis Mangus of Premier Mortgage Resources in Meridian, Idaho looked into pivoting into reverse after serving decades in the traditional mortgage business, he asked his managing partner at the lender about its reverse mortgage department. You are the reverse mortgage department,” he said. The partner smiled. “

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Cenlar FSB , the second-largest mortgage servicer and largest subservicer in the U.S., has partnered with financial services-focused data and analytics company BaseCap Analytics to pilot a new program designed to enhance regulatory and operational processes and compliance.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2022

Some Federal Housing Administration -approved mortgage servicers have routinely flouted the agency’s loan modification program, according to Washington, D.C. 21 letter that a number of mortgage servicers employed by FHA-approved lenders failed to adequately implement loan modification options the FHA introduced in July.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

Wells Fargo -backed mortgage fintech Maxwell rolled out a point-of-sale (POS) feature that offers tailored workflows and integrations. Lenders can also define workflows and business rules for any mortgage product, including construction loans, manufactured home loans, home equity loans and bridge loans.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

Six federal agencies have requested comment from the public on a newly-proposed rule that is designed to “ensure the credibility and integrity of models used in real estate valuations.” And the design and development of the models and algorithms can reflect the biases and blind spots of the developers.”

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) presented its annual Ken Markison Legacy Achievement award to Michael Eising, a vice president and mortgage compliance manager at Merchants Bank of Indiana. He authored Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System (NMLS) licensing courses for more than a decade.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2023

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) on Wednesday announced two new home-affordability mortgage products designed to help underserved borrowers become homeowners. We look forward to working with the enterprises, lenders, and other housing industry participants to further develop the ideas described in these plans.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

For example, borrowers who are prime and creditworthy but who may not qualify for traditional mortgages, such as the self-employed or those with non-traditional income sources, may benefit from non-QM programs. As a CDFI (Community Development Financial Institution) — a designation given by the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This week, Mortgage Cadence announced that it had appointed longtime reverse mortgage industry professional George Morales to serve on its sales team. The company is aiming to bring more reverse mortgage technology solutions to potential partners already in the industry and those that have yet to enter it.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Homeowners with the Federal Housing Administration -insured mortgage financing will now be allowed to obtain private flood insurance policies, expanding consumer options to protect borrowers from the country’s major natural disaster. . billion, did not have the required NFIP coverage. billion, did not have the required NFIP coverage.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

uses the power of OCR, Computer Vision (CV), and Ai to transform information on Mortgage documents (paper and digital) into data and improve mortgage operations’ efficiency by enhancing speed and accuracy. is designed to cater to the unique and critical requirements of the US mortgage industry. Product Fast Facts.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Pueblo County, Colorado, which encompasses an estimated population of about 170,000 people in and around the city of Pueblo, is sounding the alarm over potential fraud by creating a new alert system designed specifically to protect property owners. The reporting explicitly mentions reverse mortgages as a potential source of a fraudulent lien.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

Non-bank originator Change Lending lost its Community Development Fund Institution (CDFI) certification, according to a report from Barron’s. The CDFI certification is a designation given by the U.S. Change Lending was removed from the CDFI Fund’s list of certified program lenders last week, the outlet reported.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 15, 2024

UAD originated in 2010 and since then we appraisers are accustomed to using codes like “C4,” “N;Res,” and “1200sf0sfin” in our mortgage appraisal reports to communicate the results of our analysis. It all starts with the standard appraisal forms used in the mortgage process. But we are still stuck with the “form” functionality.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Policymakers and the mortgage industry must reckon with historical and present-day barriers that lock would-be homebuyers of color out of the market altogether,” according to the report published on Monday. In terms of adopters, government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), large mortgage lenders and fintech firms have used AI.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

“The exposure of the largest banks is quite low, but there may be smaller banks that are stressed by these developments.” Although commercial mortgage debt is propelling these concerns, the possibility of failure for a federally insured bank has implications for the residential mortgage sector. FDIC), banks held $2.78

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

Polly , a leading provider of innovative mortgage capital markets technology , recently announced the appointment of industry veteran Cheryl Messner as chief customer officer (CCO). Messner, who has extensive experience and expertise in mortgage fintech , joins Polly as the company experiences significant growth and adoption in the industry.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

the parent company of top five reverse mortgage lender Liberty Reverse Mortgage and PHH Mortgage Corp. Both companies will eventually be aligned under the name Onity Mortgage , but a timeline was not specified for wider implementation into the subsidiaries outside of “later this year.” Ocwen Financial Corp.,

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Wednesday issued a mortgagee letter that implements the Federal Housing Administration ’s (FHA) payment supplement partial claim. During this period, the mortgage will not be modified, facilitating the sale to Ginnie Mae. million COVID-19 loss-mitigation actions.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

These shifting dynamics are causing the California state government to work to ensure that certain issues that can stem from such a demographic development — particularly for health care, housing and social services — are addressed in a comprehensive statewide initiative called the “Master Plan for Aging.”

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