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Mortgage Educators and Compliance acquired by 360training

Housing Wire

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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Clear Capital expands its partnership with ValueLink

Housing Wire

Trained, certified, and background-checked Clear Capital data collectors utilize ClearInsight and CubiCasa to ensure the accuracy of the data collection. Founded in 2009, ValueLink Software provides valuation management technology for lenders, appraisal management companies, and appraisers.

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Opinion: The ripple effect on the U.S. housing market from China’s real estate crisis

Housing Wire

Like a slow-motion train wreck at first, it is now definitively off the rails and heading over a cliff. in 2008 and 2009. The real estate market in China, both commercial and residential, have been unwinding over the last few years. Following a pattern eerily similar to the U.S.

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Shaun Donovan is named Enterprise Community Partners CEO

Housing Wire

Prior to serving as HUD Secretary from 2009 to 2014, Donovan served as the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development commissioner under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Coming to Enterprise is, in a way, coming home for me,” Donovan said in a statement. Donovan will assume his new position in September.

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Reverse purchase financing: The financing option no one is talking about

Housing Wire

The company consistently holds reverse for purchase training sessions on the product, offering insight into best practices when communicating expectations to all parties involved — as well as a plethora of supporting marketing collateral. For real estate professionals, this option presents an opportunity to capture more sales.

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Rechat CEO Shayan Hamidi on keeping up with the furious pace of AI

Housing Wire

This is from 2009 — I opened up a high-tech real estate brokerage with actual agents, working through transactions day in day out and really understanding what processes look like. You see very little production-grade products out there, because it’s very expensive and hard to train the models to get them to do what you want to do.

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RON is here to stay – Here’s what you need to know

Housing Wire

In addition to complying with state laws, you must make a plan on how to train and certify staff and comply with the rules and expectations set by your underwriting and lending partners. According to a Global Workplace Analytics study , remote work has grown 159% since 2009. How should you prepare for RON?

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