Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2023

Mobility Market Intelligence (MMI), a data intelligence and market insight tool provider for the mortgage and real estate industries, has acquired Bonzo – a relationship management and mortgage marketing platform. The company has more than 2,000 clients, according to its website.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We used to sell certain tools to the agent by telling them they would be great for their buyer, but now we may have the opportunity to bring those tools right to the buyer,” Braga said. Back in 2008, when the [housing] crash took place, the only think that kept real estate brokers’ doors open was ancillaries,” Sterbcow said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

SmartZip at-a-glance SmartZip key specs SmartZip pricing SmartZip pros & cons SmartZip features Smart Data Market Pulse Smart Targeting Reach 150 Other SmartZip tools SmartZip Alternatives How SmartZip compares Who is SmartZip best for? Summary How does SmartZip work? FAQs Is SmartZip right for you? How does SmartZip work?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

Up until the financial crisis in 2008, mortgage brokers held nearly 50% market share. As the top mortgage lender, we are always building, growing and improving broker tools on a daily basis. And those tools are just the start. These tools come at no cost to the originator, which is a huge cost savings to the broker as well.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

While reverse mortgage customers benefit greatly from low rates, the current high-rate environment doesn’t fully cancel out their potential use as a planning tool, he explained. I think reverse mortgages might be the single most underutilized retirement planning tool,” he told the outlet. “I

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2020

The first is listing tools – the products designed for you to convert potential sellers into listing contracts. And the last area is seller tools or companies that help to convert lookers to buyers (I could probably have thought of a better name here). Listing tools. Seller tools / Buyer conversion tools.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

LBA Ware founder and CEO Lori Brewer is an accomplished entrepreneur and technology leader, having dedicated her career to developing innovative business process optimization tools for mortgage lenders.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Class Valuation, which itself is owned by private equity firm Gridiron Capital, said the acquisition of Metro-West would fit into its larger strategy of fusing tech tools such as automation and 3D measurements to help clear the well-documented capacity issues in appraisal. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Interest rates are at their highest level in 20 years, and housing inventory is only at about a quarter of what it was in 2008, according to National Association of Realtors Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. Why smart home technology now? More people are renting but still seeking the premier amenities enjoyed by homeowners. “We

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Compared to 2007 and 2008 there’s more due diligence in mortgage qualifying. I’m focusing on preparing my lenders with the right tools to be successful and stay sharp in this ever-changing industry. The good news is that there’s a lot of cash in the market. HousingWire : What keeps you up at night and why?

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2021

Since the 2008 housing crisis, banks have increasingly resorted to mortgage credit overlays, in order to focus on higher income borrowers so that they can cross sell other bank products. Finally, how would IMB compliance be enforced?

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DW Slater Company

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

New tools and techniques help me to become a better appraiser. The number of non-appraisal valuation products on the market is concerning as so much the economy can be impacted by wrong valuations (just look back at the 2008 crisis). Challenging – No one said it was easy to become an appraiser or to appraise real estate.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Anyone who has gone through the great financial crisis of 2008 will have proven that they’re able to get through a credit event,” explained Adam Carmel, founder and CEO of Polly. Lenders want not only to survive the storm but become better-built businesses with the tools needed to meet inevitable demand increases in the years to come.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2021

While this market will look different than 2008, there still could be significant default activity. BB: EXOS One Marketplace is an asset decisioning tool that gives servicers and investors unprecedented visibility of assets throughout the entire lifecycle. HW: How does ServiceLink’s EXOS One Marketplace address this challenge?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

The Urban Institute report, published in November 2023, shows that the average number of months from origination to repurchase between 2005 to 2008 (prior to and during the early stages of the global financial crisis ) was 46 months for Freddie Mac and 52 months for Fannie Mae.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2022

In 2008, as the financial crisis was unfolding, he landed a job at secretive big data startup Palantir , where he learned that the $10 trillion mortgage industry was still in the Stone Age technologically. Nima Ghamsari, CEO and founder of mortgage fintech Blend Labs. Blend Labs CEO Nima Ghamsari is a betting man. He was right.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 12, 2024

The company—was established “to provide portfolio managers with reliable and high-quality outsourcing services to manage their REO assets”—launched just before the 2007-2008 financial crisis, a time when REO inventories were abundant as the nation navigated wide-spread foreclosures, bank collapses, and economic strife.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2022

HW: From 2004-2008 — at the height of the financial crisis — you served as EVP and chief business officer at Freddie Mac. What we’ve evolved to is a model where we provide customers with the tools and expert guidance they need to help enable them to make better financial decisions. Patti Cook: That was certainly quite the experience.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2023

With this new variable, I am looking at the economic data differently to see whether we get the credit contraction the Fed wants to see to stop inflation, or if they have the tools to keep the banking crisis at bay so the economy can expand, making their fight against inflation harder.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This tool is ideal for a situation like COVID-19, where a short-term crisis boosted defaults arising from a temporary loss of a job or income (and Congress offered these borrowers forbearance ). And FHA, under Commissioner Julia Gordon, continues to refine the partial claim tool to improve it. The 2008 Housing Crisis was a nightmare.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Xome CEO, Mike Rawls reiterated that while the pandemic has propelled every mortgage company into unchartered territory, if there’s one lesson we’ve learned from the 2008 crisis, it’s the importance of preparedness. Now, they’re bracing for another increase as customers transition out of forbearance.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The housing industry is much more regulated in a post housing crisis era, and ARMs may not be utilized as they were pre-2008. Trained experts in this space know what to look for based on the rapidly changing regulatory and investor environment, and technology is a tool in their toolkit to support with efficiency and speed.

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Mashvisor

JANUARY 15, 2022

Since its launch in 2008, Airbnb has spawned an entirely new business of short-term vacation rentals. Platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo have shaken the hotel sector and established a shared…

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Public health officials note that we have many more tools to address this latest — and likely not the last — challenge. More specifically, that means targeting an unemployment rate close to 4%, inflation close to 2%, and using regulatory tools to prevent unsound lending or other financial imbalances.

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Mashvisor

JANUARY 20, 2022

Since its launch in 2008, Airbnb has witnessed unprecedented growth. Over the past couple of years, Airbnb’s undoubtedly changed the way people view rental properties. In addition to offering the…

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Mashvisor

MARCH 30, 2023

Airbnb’s launch in 2008 revolutionized both the hospitality… AllTheRooms is one of the most popular online sources of short term rental data and analytics. But should you consider AllTheRooms alternatives?

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

”, posted by EarthSky in Human World , according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, from 2008 to 2018, our groundhog friend has only been accurate 40% of the time. AVM’S ARE GREAT MARKETING TOOLS. AVM’s are marketing tools. I know it’s just for fun. .

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Lamacchia Realty

APRIL 22, 2022

The full-service, value-based brokerage has been serving clients in Worcester County since 2008 and opened a temporary office in Worcester in 2016. Lamacchia Realty fuels its rapid and continuous growth by its formula of offerings to its agents in addition to its unique selling tools for consumers, like the? tools to its agents.?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

1,403 SavvyMoney 417% 2009 A leading provider of credit score solutions, serving over 1000 financial institutions by combining real-time data with digital personalization tools. 1,971 Mobility Market Intelligence 285% 2010 A market leader in data intelligence and market insight tools for the mortgage and real estate industries.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 4, 2024

veterans and their families are able to stay in their homes while mortgage servicers implement the Veterans Affairs Servicing Purchase (VASP) program —a new, last-resort tool for qualified veterans experiencing severe financial hardship. Since 2008, HUD has issued new HUD-VASH vouchers every year.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 19, 2023

Chat GPT For Fannie Form Appraisal Reports By Dustin Harris Excerpts: The world of real estate appraisal is constantly evolving (much to our dismay sometimes), and as professionals in this field, it is crucial to stay ahead of the curve by embracing innovative tools and technologies. There are very few direct lender appraisals now.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2022

“Due to the minimal use of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs), teaser rates and exotic mortgage products, relatively few current single-family borrowers are subject to payment shocks from rising interest rates in the way many borrowers were in 2006-2008,” the ESR group said.

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Town & Country Residential Appraisals

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Today we look at some declining markets, and how to use simple tools to visually determine if there is a decline, and at what rate. We can see the slow down in real estate around 1990, the decline of 2008 some possible trends emerging now. The above is the national median sales price trend since 1990 vs. the builder cost trend.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

What we are experiencing right now is absolutely not a 2008 scenario. HW Media: What is your most useful tech tool? I enjoyed Aaron’s approach in communicating to panic-stricken originators. Those of us that have been around long enough have a touch of PTSD from the “Implode-O-Meter” days.

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Genworth MI Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In 2008, Congress passed the Housing and Economic Reform Act. Training is accomplished by using examples of acceptable rural appraisals as training tools for underwriters. To understand the discussions, it’s important to review a little bit of the history. Underwriting Training.

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Genworth MI Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In 2008, Congress passed the Housing and Economic Reform Act. Training is accomplished by using examples of acceptable rural appraisals as training tools for underwriters. To understand the discussions, it’s important to review a little bit of the history. Underwriting Training.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

But more broadly, since the Great Recession in 2008, there has been a greater implementation of standardized loss-mitigation measures designed to prevent a foreclosure crisis. This program provides mortgage servicers with an additional tool to reduce the amount borrowers pay instead of pursuing foreclosure. foreclosure rate at 0.3%

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