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The Similarities Between 2007 and Today

Appraisal Buzz

During the 2007-10 mortgage default meltdown, appraisals were a target of complaints and allegations by lenders, the GSEs, some state appraisal boards, and a few unscrupulous entrepreneurs. We provide a service that helps clients make informed decisions on how to proceed. We are seeing that as a profession again.

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How JVM Lending plans to expand without any loan originators

Housing Wire

Back in the 2007-2009 meltdown, we had loan officers with us at that time. Under the revamped mode, business development officers build relationships with real estate agents to get leads and client advisors take incoming leads from borrowers.

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Supreme Court orders review of recession-era class action against Rocket

Housing Wire

“The facts of this case are clear, and demonstrate that our practices were compliant and that the refinance loans we provided benefited our West Virginia clients,” a Rocket spokesperson said. Expert witnesses estimated the actual 2007 value of their home to be as much as $26,000 less than the appraised value.

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MCS CEO Caroline Reaves announces her retirement

Housing Wire

Caroline Reaves, CEO of property services provider Mortgage Contracting Services , announced her retirement on Tuesday after leading the company for 14 years. This is an exciting time for Caroline, and I want to thank her for all she has done for MCS, our clients and our team members,” said Mosley.

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Homepie CEO Brad Rice on making FSBO easier

Housing Wire

BR: I’m not a tech person, but when I had my large mortgage company that I grew from 1999 to 2007, we had built technology that we ran the company on, so I was very familiar with that process of hiring developers. We’ve seen it happen in one day — there will be three or four counters within an hour, and they’ll get a contract.

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Top of the list: An interview with Ben Caballero

Housing Wire

Caballero is like any real estate listing agent, on the hunt for clients. But instead of individual homesellers his clients are homebuilding companies including Toll Brothers , Trophy Signature Homes , and Historymaker Homes. You said before 2007 that you were providing services for homebuilders manually.

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Opinion: ICE’s Joe Tyrrell on the Black Knight acquisition

Housing Wire

Every year we are asked by our clients if we will provide servicing technology, because many lenders experience the inefficiencies when trying to onboard loans from a loan origination system into a servicing system. I believe that Black Knight contracts are similarly structured. .