Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2023

Chicago-based technology company Gateless announced this week that Guaranteed Rate , a Chicago-based leading mortgage lender, has implemented its Smart Underwrite solution, a groundbreaking technology that aims to transform the borrower experience.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2022

Private equity firm Narrow Gauge Capital (NGC) acquired Inco-Check, LLC , a provider of quality control audit mortgage software and fraud prevention services. With NGC’s acquisition of Inco-Check, the company aims to enhance loan quality and prevent fraud in a competitive mortgage and consumer lending market, Inco-Check said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

California-based ICE Mortgage Technology announced this week two enterprise agreements to integrate its eClose solution to Maxwell and Roostify platforms, enabling a more streamlined closing process for lenders and borrowers. Encompass eClose will be part of the mortgage fintech Maxwell’s point-of-sale platform.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Mortgage platform SimpleNexus has tapped Cathleen Schreiner Gates to become its next company president. Between 2015 and 2019, she served as executive vice president of sales and marketing at cloud-based mortgage technology provider Ellie Mae. In her new role, she will work alongside Roostify co-founder and CEO Rajesh Bhat.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Interfirst Mortgage , the retail mortgage business he founded in 2001, had grown to $14.5 The lender originated $10 billion in mortgages in 2013, $5 billion in 2014, $3 billion in 2015 and just $2 billion in 2016 before shutting down altogether in 2017. In 2012, Dmitry Godin was seemingly on top of the world.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) just sued two more broker shops that allegedly violated its controversial “ultimatum” by sending loans to rivals Rocket Mortgage and Fairway Independent Mortgage. However, the lender said it was necessary to protect the long-term viability of the wholesale mortgage channel.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation , Fairway Wholesale Lending and the American Warrior Initiative (AWI) wrapped up last year by granting 16 service dogs to 16 veterans in a timespan of less than one hour. When I began to originate loans for active-duty military clients in Leesville, La.,

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

.” Many of the individual agents in the study had other full-time jobs as “teachers, government workers, restaurant servers, commercial employees, and a large number in associated industries – mortgage lending, real estate appraisal, commercial and residential investment, and the practice of real estate law.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In times like these, the “one-stop-shop” approach to the servicing and lending process has become even more appealing, and there is a company providing that in a flexible capacity: Xome. As low mortgage rates continue to fuel the housing market, lenders are reporting record-breaking purchase and refinance volumes.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 7, 2021

Depending on the client’s needs, my work includes coaching, customized training, quality assurance, continuing education, disciplinary action assistance, internal audit, and other customized projects. In 2015, I designed the Market Machine, a technological tool used by appraisers and other valuation professionals.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

They’ve been focused on mortgage payoffs, although they’re getting more sophisticated on mortgage payoff payment diversion. It’s causing us in the industry — title settlement, real estate, mortgage lending, the attorneys — to rethink, can you even trust a voicemail?

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DataMaster

JUNE 15, 2023

. — also known as short-term rentals (STRs) — to claim STR income as part of the borrower qualifications side of the lending decision. However, the GSEs did not make a parallel change to the property qualification side of the lending decision. This imbalance in the lending equation has created the situation we find ourselves in today.

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DataMaster

JUNE 15, 2023

. — also known as short-term rentals (STRs) — to claim STR income as part of the borrower qualifications side of the lending decision. However, the GSEs did not make a parallel change to the property qualification side of the lending decision. This imbalance in the lending equation has created the situation we find ourselves in today.

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Simonson Real Estate

DECEMBER 6, 2022

We’re grateful to work across several states and with so many great clients! We believe it’s important for appraisers to communicate with their clients to avoid surprises and ensure the appraisal process is as smooth as possible. The goal of this article is to help lenders, banks reviewers and appraisers. Prospective Values.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 10, 2024

I have never done an “official” ROV for a lender, but I did not like any lender clients objecting to my values. New FHA ROV Policy By Dave Towne, May 3, 2024 Excerpts: Up until recently, there has never been a standardized policy for mortgage loan related Reconsideration of Value (ROV) requests after an appraisal has been submitted.

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Simonson Real Estate

JULY 10, 2020

The appraiser’s role is to provide arm’s length, third-party, neutral, and impartial opinions about the value of real property and provide assistance to those who own, manage, sell, invest in, or lend money on real estate. Source: The Dictionary of Real Estate Appraisal, Sixth Edition, Appraisal Institute, Chicago, Illinois, 2015).

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

As a consequence, the number of real estate, mortgage and general housing tech firms to make the annual Inc. Mortgage origination platform Maxwell , which was in the top 200 last year and a HW Tech 100 award winner in 2021, was ranked No. The past year hasn’t been particularly good for tech or housing. The company was No.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

With a deadly combination of low housing inventory, reduction in refis and surging mortgage rates, consolidation in mortgage tech is expected. Businesses and entire industries tanked during the pandemic, but it created an ideal environment for mortgage tech companies, some of which rode the wave to banner years and historic growth.

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Appraisal Today

DECEMBER 8, 2023

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on Non-lender appraisals, dealing with lender hassles, real estate market, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. = $36M Beachfront Beauty on Maui Hawaii Excerpts: What exactly makes this oceanside manse on Maui so desirable? The four-bedroom, 4.5-bath

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McKissock

JULY 20, 2021

So right from the start, in at least 30 states that license home inspectors, the property inspection you make for the purposes of developing an appraisal should not be confused with a home inspection completed by a home inspector, because you are not licensed as home inspector and you were not hired by the client to complete a home inspection.

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Appraisal Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

I always made them and never had any complaints from my lender clients. Since Fannie started focusing on UAD analysis around 2015, losing business because of negative market conditions has almost stopped. Keep abreast of mortgage rate trends and affordability issues as they influence market dynamics. baths, 7,455 sq.ft.,

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Appraisal Today

APRIL 21, 2023

Increased numbers of state appraisal boards are looking at complaints against appraisers from the standpoint of the consumer, rather than that of the client and/or the intended user(s). As all appraisers are aware, the consumer has no standing with the appraiser (assuming the consumer is not the named client or intended user).

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2023

When prospective clients operate in highly regulated financial markets, enterprise sales don’t come easy. It wasn’t until 2014 – two years after his cloud banking platform launched – that Movement Mortgage took the leap and digitized its mortgage origination and underwriting process with Blend’s tech stack.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Combined, ProMerit and WLS will support more than 60 clients, from small lenders originating 40 loans a month for a $500,000 warehouse line, to big companies lenders receiving $15 billion warehouse lines, said Michael Franco, the CEO of SitusAMC. ” How lenders will benefit from Black Knight’s acquisition of Optimal Blue.

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 10, 2022

Recall the five forces of friction: practices, standards, education, regulation, and client expectation. The Inevitable Cyclicality of Mortgage Lending. NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on declining mortgage loans, real estate market, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. ==.

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Appraisal Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on barndominiums, liability, declining prices, non-lender marketing, Freddie bad appraisal practices, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. ==. The only appraisers who get sued are those performing appraisals for mortgage lending. Excerpt: 1.

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Appraisal Today

OCTOBER 14, 2022

While that number may seem high to some, in the context of lending and property complexities, that is a 54% improvement in performance cited earlier in this article (from 35% 10 years ago). NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc.

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Appraisal Today

OCTOBER 28, 2022

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on real estate market, mortgage forecast, Halloween haunted homes, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. Communicating with non-lender clients: Very, very different than lenders!! But purchase money lending will slip as well, by 3% to $1.53

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Behind him, the recent financial crisis still cast a cautionary shadow over new business development, but ahead he saw opportunities for a client-centric, tech-focused family of companies in the title insurance and real estate settlement services industry. Now, at WFG’s 10-year anniversary, this vision holds even more relevance.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2022

There’s a lot more to Southwest’s business model, and check out my book, “Strategically Transforming the Mortgage Banking Business” for a deep dive. Think about your lending business model. According to the MBA Quarterly Mortgage Report, compensation is about two-thirds of the cost to originate and close a loan.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2021

He started contracting with home mortgage lenders to appraise the value of the property tied to a loan. “It But DeZarn was an independent contractor business of one, and he lost his clients in 2008 when the housing market imploded. AMCs business model is to snare contracts from mortgage lenders, and serve as their appraiser middleman.

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Clear Capital

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And this comes courtesy of Next Mortgage News, thank you. They are a digital lending platform. The digital mortgage movement is alive and well. So I built a company in Europe that I sold in 2015. And, apparently 2021 is a record in investment in proptech — $9.5 But that’s mobile first. Daniel Mishin .

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2022

During her visits, one thing stood out to Golding, who served as the Department of Housing and Urban Development ’s principal deputy assistant secretary from 2015 to 2017. Some of my clients have told me that they’ll come back in and service FHA loans if there are reasonable requirements, along the lines of the GSE’s,” Chappelle added.

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