Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Braheem, former co-founder of Loan Toolbox — an online resource for training, tools, support and coaching — launched The Loan Atlas, a mortgage coaching platform, earlier this year with mortgage executives and top loan officers joining as faculty members. “Our

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Home lending proptech Roostify is releasing the “first of many” APIs on its existing lending platform built to automate document validation and data extraction in the lending process. A super useful tool, given the tech can trigger additional steps if needed in what would typically be a paper-leaden trail.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 23, 2024

He spent over a decade in various executive and managerial positions, where he led a highly successful team that included analytics, risk management, training, communications and vendor management while managing two of the top five lending institutions and the firm’s GSE relationships.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

This was a crisis for many large Independent mortgage banks that had created fine-tuned systems for refinancing loans and had virtually no trained sales force to prospect for new purchase money business. Fine-tune your tech stack Once your team is in place, it’s time to empower them with the right technology.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2022

To mortgage lenders, adoption has been the constant, insurmountable challenge keeping the industry from realizing the benefits of technological advances. Why embrace the new when the folks in the back office were doing just fine with the tried-and-true tools — even if these tools were pen and paper?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Matt Lehnen, chief technology officer at Deephaven Mortgage , to talk about building a tech stack for non-QM loans. Lehnen has been at Deephaven for the past five years leading the technology team. SW: What are the particular advantages you offer brokers with your technology?

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 18, 2022

ProxyPics partnered with technology innovators CubiCasa, a global Floor Plan provider, and FoxyAI, B2B PropTech leader in real estate visualization and property intelligence, to equip their trained data collectors, or Proxies, with powerful tools to complete the Property Data Report. About ProxyPics. About ProxyPics.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2021

But don’t expect UWM to jump aboard the crypto train just yet. As we said last quarter, we were going to look into accepting cryptocurrency and test it to see if it’s a faster, easier and cheaper solution and thanks to our innovative technology team members, the transactions were successful,” Ishbia said. Presented by: Mr. Cooper.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 10, 2021

Through the partnership with SkillBridge, Clario’s training program will upskill and employ 35 active service members transitioning to civilian life in the next 12 months. To apply for the training program, visit this website. We specialize in real estate valuations for the mortgage lending and financial services industries.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2021

As technology continues to provide ways to digitize and automate manual aspects of the real estate transaction process, increased efficiencies through tech are enabling companies to handle a level of volume that has never before been achievable. . HousingWire: What aspects of the title process can most benefit from technology?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

They will try to woo you with promises of free marketing materials, high commission splits, and fancy tech tools. Marketing and Technology: The marketing strategies and technology tools provided for agents. Support and Training: The level of training, mentoring, administrative, and marketing support provided to agents.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

There’s an opportunity here for risk and QC teams to encourage trust in the lending space through strong processes and review. Ensuring trust in lending opens doors for more creativity, such expansion of the credit box and additional products, ultimately increasing access to homeownership and therefore, expansion of the credit box.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2022

It truly is time for lenders to consider how technology can improve this part of the mortgage process and reduce turn time. HousingWire: What is your most useful tech tool? I wish I could offer something more exciting, but it is just the most versatile, handy tool in my arsenal! Amanda Hill: My cell phone!

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2023

Last year, Freddie Mac launched another solution that allows a trained property data collector to visit the home and gather images, measurements and property characteristics. A trained and vetted third party can perform the data collection. More recently, Fannie Mae launched a similar solution.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Tom Cronkright, co-founder and executive chairman of CertifID and CEO of Sun Title , to talk about battling the latest frauds and scams as bad actors leverage a new arsenal of tech tools to wreak havoc on buyers and sellers of real estate. And that’s all publicly available technology now.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Looking for a quick and easy way to stay up-to-date on mortgage lending news, trends and technology? The Loan Officer Leadership Podcast hosted by Steve Kyles offers strategy and tools to help LOs grow their business and leadership, with the goal of helping them close more loans in less time. Mortgage Lending Mastery.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Arming your origination team with the right technology and training to manage consistency, compliance and brand recognition on social media is worth the investment – not to mention the peace of mind. Training Loan Officers on Compliance Issues. Ongoing Training and Monitoring. Discussing Privacy Concerns.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Mortgage lender and servicer Planet Home Lending also named Kathryn Edelen as regional vice president of its sales division this week. Erickson will be in charge of product management, the procurement and advancement of technology solutions and will oversee the training department and support teams for Motto Mortgage and wemlo.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

The question was on the minds of many at the Waldorf Astoria in Dana Point, California on Thursday – will non-qualified mortgage products become more commoditized as the rising rate environment wallops agency lending? Underwriters are trained as desktop underwriters (DUs). It’s not subprime lending. Scaling is hard.”.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2021

Accurately establishing a home’s value is not just an important factor in real estate transactions and mortgage lending, it is integral to household wealth creation, as homeownership continues to be one of the primary pathways for Americans to build wealth. The answer lies in evolving valuation technology.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2021

As homebuyers increasingly demand personal, service-driven experiences with their mortgage providers, community lending teams are well-positioned to capture business via the strong relationships they excel at creating. Outsourced solutions allow small to midsize lenders to rapidly and seamlessly scale their operations.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

In a HousingWire webinar , Lyman and Kelly Gill, VP of marketing and advertising for Motto Franchising, emphasized that lending operations need to shift their focus for the rest of 2020 from growth to profitability. There may be a way to leverage technology to perform those manual tasks for them, freeing up more time in their workflow. “If

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the COVID-19 era, that means AmeriHome has spent even more time listening to what clients need and adapting their products and services to help clients navigate constantly changing lending conditions. “We We believe in being a true partner to our clients,” said John Hedlund, chief operating officer of AmeriHome.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

This is not a suggestion where you drop what you’re doing, push your production team into training and staff up the compliance department. But many of us don’t have huge compliance teams—maybe an officer or two or a consultant and a committee combined with some technology. Again, this takes resources (people and technology).

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 18, 2021

My frustration centered on the mundane tasks such as setting up files, data entry and getting the data into the analytical tools used to develop and support adjustments. My solution was to hire and train a few folks that could help me develop and support my workflow and processes. That is unfortunate and disingenuous.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

In fact, many financial researchers and scholars have identified it as a strategic tool that should be considered part of a holistic financial strategy for retirement. HW: How does Reverse Mortgage Funding help lending professionals educate themselves and their clients on the benefits of reverse mortgages in our current housing market?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2022

Using automated tools to establish home values helps remove human bias, although it limits the collection and evaluation of a property’s current condition,” wrote Freddie Mac. We are constantly refining our system, and we frequently bring in new technologies to improve our capabilities,” a Freddie Mac spokesperson said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

The program is available to a wide range of homeowners, with lending limits as high as $4 million*. DP: While the upcoming generation of retirees are likely to enjoy a retirement period of close to 30 years, a reverse mortgage can be a strategic tool for funding the retirement lifestyle they’ve always dreamed of.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with John Keratsis, President and CEO of Deephaven Mortgage, about the potential benefits of non-QM lending in today’s tight housing market. Yes, we offer training and webinars. We have online tools that make it easier to submit applications and expedite response times. We have in-house underwriters.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

By continuing to invest in its platform, the Freedom Mortgage Wholesale Division is able to provide clients with loan processes and technology that deliver greater levels of control, speed and ease. Freedom Mortgage’s experienced account executives have an average tenure of 8.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2021

It has brought in interactive technology and cognitive business process tools as resiliency responses to the crisis. The sprint to accommodating business process delivery in response to COVID-19 has awakened a new interest in direct-to-consumer and direct business-to-business technology collaboration opportunities.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2021

HousingWire recently spoke with Dave Steinmetz, Division President of Origination Services for ServiceLink, on what tools lenders should leverage to streamline home equity title and closing. Luckily, the technology and infrastructure we had in place at ServiceLink kept our client service uninterrupted.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

In many of those reviewed, there is a strong desire to keep appraisals and appraisers as key components of the mortgage lending process. Because Freddie and Fannie are such a large share of the market, their appraisal guidelines—forms and methods—become the de facto industry standards for residential mortgage lending.

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McKissock

MARCH 24, 2022

Address potential bias in the use of technology-based valuation tools through rulemaking related to Automated Valuation Models (AVMs). Update appraiser qualification criteria related to appraiser education, experience, and examination requirements to lower barriers to entry in the appraiser profession.

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Clear Capital

MAY 24, 2022

Each year, technology plays more of a role in valuing homes for property appraisals , loan originations, secondary market investments, and even portfolio monitoring. As a leading real estate technology company, Clear Capital pioneers new advances in AVMs for mortgage lending.

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Clear Capital

JUNE 28, 2022

Reno, NV — June 28, 2022 — Clear Capital , a national real estate valuation technology company, today announced the launch of two Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Property Valuation API and Risk Assessment API. Self-Serve APIs Will Enable Faster Adoption, More Control for Lenders, Investors and System Providers.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Real Estate Finance: Covers the real estate finance essentials, including the current real estate market, types and sources of real estate loans, real estate residential and commercial loan process, the OH foreclosure process, government involvement, the construction and development lending process & more.

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