Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Publicly traded real estate firm The Real Brokerage has struck an agreement to acquire the mortgage brokerage arm of real estate and mortgage technology company LemonBrew. million to acquire the tech-enabled home loan platform, which does business in 20 U.S. Presented by: Acra Lending. It rebranded in summer of 2020.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

Phishing remains the go-to attack for hackers targeting the mortgage and real estate industries. Loan officers and mortgage executives alike continue to click on links in seemingly routine emails, ultimately giving bad actors complete access to lenders’ systems and mortgage transactions.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The complaint filed in federal court on Wednesday alleges that from at least 2015 to 2021, Lakeland failed to provide mortgage lending services to Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Newark. Federal officials said similar banks generated five times as many loan applications from prospective Black and Latino home buyers as Lakeland.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Present to your buyer clients just like you would in a listing presentation. Offer them solutions to get a better-than-average mortgage rate. Loop your buyer’s lender into the mix and have coffee with your buyer clients and the loan officer to discuss loan options that meet their goals.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Guaranteed Rate and CrossCountry Mortgage have their eyes fixed on serving more Hispanic borrowers, who are expected to make up 70% of homeownership growth in the U.S. Chicago-based Guaranteed Rate this week rolled out an expanded Language Access Program, which has applications and loan servicing in Spanish for consumers in all 50 states.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2021

with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week gave the mortgage industry a glimpse into how its partner Better.com fared in the second quarter. The digital mortgage lender, which plans to go public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), reported a net loss of $86 million in the second quarter. And it wasn’t great.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It also includes some new content, like a Q&A with Shant Banosian, Guaranteed Rate ’s top-ranked loan officer , and demos with top housing tech companies. This online, streamlined recording of the most popular and insightful HW Annual panels and presentations, will give attendees a chance to experience it all again.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Don’t be fooled by last week’s mortgage rate collapse. A combination of elevated mortgage rates, sluggish home sales and inflation continue to plague the housing market workforce, with numerous mortgage lenders and real estate startups shedding employees. Presented by: ServiceLink.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Investors have largely shunned nonbank mortgage stocks, and analysts believe the hard times are still ahead. Driven by a desire to achieve greater scale and gain access to cheaper capital, nonbank mortgage lenders dove headfirst into the public markets during the Covid-19 boom. How could they resist? Finance data.

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Realtor

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Costs of buying a home #2: Escrow account An escrow account is basically a way for your mortgage company to make sure you have enough money to cover related taxes and mortgage insurance. The amount you need to pay varies by location, lender, and loan type. The origination fee is a small percentage of the total loan.

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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. Much has changed in the mortgage market over the five years since our last major product launch.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Homebuyer , an Ohio-based software startup offering digital mortgages to first-time home buyers, announced on Monday it had snagged $1.4 An ex-software engineer, Green is also a former loan officer and founder of The Mortgage Reports, a mortgage education website that was eventually acquired by Full Beaker.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

As a driver of the economy, housing should be bolstered by: Non-bank lending institutions to lend in lower-income areas and to minorities in the same way that CRA provides for banks Reducing government-insured and guaranteed mortgage loan fees. The need for change in current mortgage underwriting guidelines.

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Realtor

OCTOBER 16, 2023

“Doing your due diligence can help you avoid some of the most common rookie mistakes, so you come out not only with the home of your dreams, but also a mortgage you can afford.” Here are some common blunders homebuyers make when attempting to secure a mortgage.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2021

In 2016, Brad Sullivan’s Mortgage Financial Services ruled the roost in housing with a rank of 733. And Nationwide Mortgage Bankers posted an insane average three-year growth rate of 16,396% in 2020. Mortgage Bankers Association data reports that total mortgage origination volume in 2019 came in at $2.25 Top Verticals.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Independent mortgage banks have been “completely blindsided” by the increase in enforcement activity, said Daniella Casseres, who leads the mortgage regulatory practice group at law firm Mitchell Sander. As some independent mortgage banks have found out, a modern-day redlining allegation does not need to prove intentionality.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

And even with fast-rising home prices and an uptick in mortgage rates , 30% of those surveyed said they wouldn’t move to an area with natural disasters or rising sea levels even if home prices were affordable. Presented by: Propertybase. ” Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration. “I had one client in St.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

Buyside helps real estate agents and loan officers engage homeowners with not just home value tools but also branded wealth optimization tips on their home’s equity so homeowners can now truly view their home as an asset. According to NAR over 69% of buyers have a home to sell, so really homeowners represent the earliest buyer.

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PennyMac

MARCH 4, 2024

If you’re like most people embarking on a home-buying journey, one of your first steps will be finding a mortgage lender. There’s a lot to consider when it comes to choosing the right one — everything from interest rates, loan types and fees to service and experience. Mortgage brokers. Direct lenders.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2020

For many years, we’ve been developing and investing in technology to deliver an end-to-end digital mortgage experience. We’re the largest centralized mortgage transactional services provider in the country, backed by the country’s largest provider of title insurance services.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2021

The story, “The secret bias hidden in mortgage-approval algorithms,” included statements from fair housing activists who concluded that there is “systemic racism” in the mortgage process. Presented by: iEmergent. This is important as FHA in particular has a much higher mix of successful mortgages to minority borrowers.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We have tools where AI is very useful, like our lead generation products and lead nurturing where you detect buying signals and filter through a lot of noise, and then present that to agents. But the truth is, there are components outside of our realm today that include mortgage and title and insurance.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2021

Homebuyers and sellers contend with a variety of entities — banks, insurance companies, mortgage servicers, appraisal companies, title providers, agents, brokerages, and even real estate marketers— and the process can be labyrinthine to even those who have gone through it before. Presented by: Propertybase.

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PennyMac

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

We’re talking about the Assumable Mortgage. What Is an Assumable Mortgage? An assumable mortgage is a special type of home financing that allows a homebuyer to take over (or, assume) the seller’s existing mortgage and all of the terms that come with it, such as the interest rate, current balance, and repayment period.

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Genworth MI Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The mortgage process involves diligence and timeliness to ensure that borrowers can meet their closing date – that diligence is also required to master the appraisal review process. However, if items are present that rise above the appraiser’s level of expertise, they would then defer to more qualified professionals to make that call.

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East Coast Appraisal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Private mortgage insurance, or PMI, allows lenders to offer home loans to buyers without the traditional 20 percent down payment. This insurance covers the risk of financing a mortgage with less equity from the buyer. But for most homeowners, PMI mainly represents an extra fee on their monthly mortgage statement.

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PennyMac

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Like many American homeowners, your first mortgage may have been a loan with the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). Loans backed by the FHA are attractive to first-time homebuyers because FHA loans are easier to obtain financing for and require only minimal down payments and fair-to-good credit scores.

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AmeriMac

MARCH 29, 2024

Reverse mortgages are becoming an increasingly popular financial tool for homeowners over the age of 62 who want to access equity in their homes. One important aspect of the reverse mortgage process is the appraisal, which determines the value of the property and plays a crucial role in determining the size of the loan.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2021

The closing process, that time between underwriting approval and the actual closing, is the mortgage industry’s not-so-secret Achilles’ heel. But the fact is that it takes an average of 47 days to close a mortgage (according to Ellie Mae as of September 2020 ). There’s just a lot more to a purchase mortgage. More emotion.

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Assurance Financial

JULY 23, 2021

How to Get a Mortgage Loan. If you’re going to finance your home purchase, one of the first things to do is figure out how to get a mortgage. You might have heard that getting a mortgage is a long and complicated process, with plenty of twists and turns along the way. 10 Steps to Get a Mortgage Loan.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

The three agencies in charge of such reviews — the Federal Reserve , the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency — have not denied a single bank merger in 15 years. And HUD can bring lawsuits claiming bias in mortgage lending. Photo provided by Calvin Bradford.

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Appraisal Today

AUGUST 13, 2023

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Appraisal Today

OCTOBER 14, 2022

After many years of reading appraisal reports, my response is “One that leaves the reader with few unanswered questions, allows the data to tell the story, keeps appraiser interventions to a minimum and is able to present a case for what a property is worth, as well as what it is not worth.”. Many residents don’t have flood insurance.

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Appraisal Today

OCTOBER 21, 2022

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PennyMac

APRIL 29, 2022

Throw in additional costs such as property insurance and taxes, and that monthly payment can get pretty steep. Refinancing your home gives you the opportunity to secure better interest rates and terms, so you can lower your monthly payments, turn your home’s escrow into cash in hand or pay off your mortgage sooner.

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PennyMac

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In order to become an REO property, it must go through these general steps: Loan Default. The homeowner/borrower defaults on (fails to make) their mortgage payments for a certain length of time, with the qualifying amount usually specified in the mortgage terms. Foreclosure. Step 10: Closing.

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