Appraisal Buzz

JULY 6, 2022

Mortgage lender Guaranteed Rate has launched its new RED-VP mobile app. This end-to-end digital tool is designed to act as a mobile pipeline, empowering loan officers to accomplish anything from issuing a pre-approval letter to locking in a rate, all in real time and all fully remote using just their smart phone.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

A race is a useful analog for the mortgage business, especially as it relates to the refinance business. It’s amazing how many loan officers miss this, don’t return the call quickly, and lose their race before it’s even underway. Most experts believe that it’s only a matter of time before mortgage rates come down.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

New York-based multichannel lender US Mortgage Corporation previously announced that it was renewing its efforts in the reverse mortgage industry, having hired industry veteran Ken Krajewski to serve as managing director and head of reverse mortgage lending. Proprietary product offerings are on the table as well.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 18, 2021

SimpleNexus , a homeownership platform developer for loan officers, borrowers, real estate agents and settlement agents, has acquired Georgia-based software firm LBA Ware. The post SimpleNexus Adds Business Intelligence Tools with LBA Ware Acquisition appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

360), an online regulated training provider, acquired Mortgage Educators and Compliance (MEC), a mortgage lending training company, both companies announced this week. Approved by the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS) since 2009, MEC specializes in online mortgage and financial services professional development.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

To gauge what caught her attention about this space and how reverse mortgages intersect with her work, RMD sat down with Frankowska to discuss how and why she is choosing to become involved in the senior finance space. naturally exposing her more closely to the American reverse mortgage industry. reverse mortgage space.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

FirstHome IQ, a nonprofit focused on homeownership and financial literacy education, has expanded its ambassador program and now has 60 mortgage and real estate professionals who donate a portion of every loan to further this mission.

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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. HW: How has wholesale changed over the past 2–3 years?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) completed its acquisition of Black Knight Tuesday, making the combined company the biggest player in the mortgage tech space. I sat down with Tim Bowler, president of ICE Mortgage Technology, a business unit of ICE, to talk about the company’s mortgage automation strategy — and what keeps him up at night.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

The wholesale channel will continue to grow as more retail originators and borrowers learn the benefits of working with a mortgage broker. United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) is solely focused on growing the wholesale channel and helping independent brokers thrive. “At Blink+ is a white-label, borrower-facing digital application tool.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

Bettios has been at NFM Lending for seven years and previously worked at US Bank Home Mortgages and First American Mortgage Solutions. He started his career as a developer and spent 10 years as a senior product manager at Fannie Mae. Sarah Wheeler: You’ve been on different sides of the mortgage transaction.

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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. At UWM, we’re always looking for ways our brokers can grow their business,” said Justin Glass, Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at UWM.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Lenders have come to appreciate the benefits technology can bring – but those benefits are only useful if the implementation of new tools doesn’t make the loan process more complicated. Additionally, the solution leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to guide borrowers through the mortgage application process.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Insightful borrower data and enhanced tech solutions are paramount to success in today’s modern mortgage industry. HousingWire recently spoke with Dan Catinella, chief lending officer at Total Expert, about how Customer Intelligence technology is improving deal flow and pushing the customer experience into the 21st century. .

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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

MAY 9, 2024

Rocket Companies , the parent company of Rocket Mortgage , hired its first chief technology officer this week, bringing former Thomson Reuters and Intel executive Shawn Malhotra into the fold. We’re able to close loans two and a half times faster than the industry. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2021

In the past year, among the many challenges and difficulties brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the real estate and mortgage industries enjoyed a wave of success with low interest rates, refinance opportunities and etc. But if you’ve gotten this far I want to ask this question: how good is your real estate or mortgage CRM software?

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2022

new jobs hiring, housing jobs, recruiting for mortgage industry. Based on the headlines, one might assume the mortgage business is a complete disaster. Some mortgage companies will merge to stay afloat, and many others will go under. Recruiting battles for LOs remain fierce, mortgage executives and LOs told HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

In March 2022, reverse mortgage lender and servicer Longbridge Financial announced the launch of its national field sales (NFS) division , appointing reverse mortgage industry veteran Melanie Parks to lead the channel as vice president and national field sales leader. Two years later, the UPB has diminished right.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

They own the home with their name on the title, as with any mortgage, traditional or reverse. But unlike financing with a traditional mortgage, monthly principal and interest payments are not required on the loan, so long as the homeowner keeps up to date with real estate taxes, homeowners’ insurance and property maintenance.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We get our fulfillment not from the numbers but from watching our people develop and grow,” said Lawson. The broker leverages tools, like the newly redesigned pricing calculator, to increase the speed of the game throughout their business and relay information with incredible certainty.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2021

Josh Friend : Amid this global pandemic, mortgage rates have been at historically low levels, borrower demand has increased, refi’s have broken records and lenders have had to shift in many instances to a remote workforce. Retail lenders originate loans through their in-person retail branches. According to the J.D.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke to Sandra Madigan, EVP of product strategy – servicing technology at ICE Mortgage Technology , about improving the home buying and ownership experience with technology and how the industry can do so thoughtfully. SM: I think the industry needs to focus on advancing the end-consumer experience.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

For most of its history, New American Funding (NAF) has focused on organic growth, but earlier this month, the company acquired Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp. We recognize that loan officers have a choice, and when they choose to join a company on their own, it just seems to work better. That’s why we started NAF Cash.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The National Association of Mortgage Brokers inaugurated Kimber White as its new president during the virtual NAMB National 2020 conference. White is a partner at RE Financial Service and has been an active member of the mortgage industry for more than 30 years. HousingWire: What’s the biggest challenge for mortgage brokers right now?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Paul Anastos has been on the forefront of innovation within the housing industry for over a decade, specializing in developing technology solutions and transforming businesses into industry powerhouses.

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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. Tricky situations can arise in mortgage lending, especially when navigating less-common products or originating non-agency loans.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

In a competitive market where most borrowers are mortgage rate shopping, credit optimization can be the difference between closing a loan or losing out to an offer from a competitor. HW: CreditXpert has been in the industry since the early 2000s with tools like Wayfinder and What-if Simulator, why introduce a new platform now?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Another example is the LIDAR that’s now available on iPhones, which adds a whole other dynamic to developing point cloud technology to gather measurements and spatial information about anything that you’re scanning. Now, we’re giving a fully transparent data package to the appraiser that they have to use to develop their opinions.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

As interest rates continue to climb and mortgage applications decline , many in the industry are dreading what’s to come for lenders. HW: The future of the digital mortgage and mortgage tech have been a topic of interest in recent years. Click here to nominate someone you know — it can even be you! What are you waiting for?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

He previously served as enterprise director of business development for appraisal tech company Reggora and vice president of enterprise sales for Cloudvirga , a cloud-based point of sale system. Since then, he has worked extensively on the vendor side of the business, so he understands the value we bring to the industry,” Danna added.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2023

My college basketball career at Dartmouth College — and later during a professional stint overseas — played a significant role in developing the leadership skills I utilize every day. You develop stronger relationships with your teammates and coaches when they know that you are genuine and real.

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2021

Josh Lehr: Pre-pandemic, online home buying existed, but over the last year, shopping online for mortgages became much more popular and convenient as meeting in person with a loan officer was not an option. HousingWire: How have trends around direct-to-consumer lending changed over the past year?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

The AI-powered language tool has been sparking conversations about where and how it can be used to make work more efficient, and the mortgage business is no exception. The tool has been trained on millions of pages of writing dating from 2021 and earlier across the internet. ChatGPT was launched in November 2022 by OpenAI.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

Mortgage lender Angel Oak Home Loans has implemented SimpleNexus ‘ all-in-one mortgage app to streamline its loan origination process. The Atlanta mortgage lender, which offers agency and non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) products, will implement the tech firm’s Nexus Origination and Nexus Engagement tools.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Talk to any mortgage technologist about the future of the industry and two topics will emerge immediately: big data and smarter automation. Joe Camerieri, EVP Mortgage Cadence. Today, while the mortgage industry has the technology to support this, we’re still in the early stages of determining how it should be used.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Frankly, what will be left in the refi market will likely be harder credit quality transactions that a hungry mortgage origination industry will turn to as volumes drop. Here are some expectations and recommendations: First , the refi/purchase mix should be carefully evaluated down to the loan officer level. Conclusions ?

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