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Fintech Maxwell launches POS feature that offers tailored workflows for lenders

Housing Wire

Lenders can also define workflows and business rules for any mortgage product, including construction loans, manufactured home loans, home equity loans and bridge loans. The Denver-based fintech made its first mergers and acquisition (M&A) deal in May 2023 when it acquired mortgage solutions provider LenderSelect.

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Opinion: Pass the Neighborhood Homes Investment Act

Housing Wire

The Neighborhood Homes Investment Act (Neighborhood Homes) would begin addressing these challenges by developing or renovating 125,000 affordable homes in economically distressed communities. Neighborhood Homes creates a tax credit that covers the gap between the cost of construction and a home’s sale price.

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Mary Ann Azevedo named Managing Editor of FinLedger

Housing Wire

Azevedo joined HW Media from Crunchbase News where she covered startups and venture funding trends with a special focus on real estate tech, construction tech and under-the-radar regions. Founded in 2016 through the acquisition of HousingWire , HW Media is based in Dallas, TX with team members across the country. About HW Media.

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Rural America is losing affordable housing at a crisis pace

Housing Wire

It now faces a wave of mortgage maturities and payoffs on the thousands of affordable-housing complexes it has helped to finance over the years — with no new construction carried out under the program since 2012. This USDA program, however, is in serious trouble.

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A look behind this year’s Tech100 winners

Housing Wire

In 2016 LLR led a $26.5 million investment in eOriginal, a multi-year Tech100 winner that developed a ‘simple closing experience for lenders, borrowers and settlement agents.’ Sourcepoint has developed CoBot , a “digital employee”, that fulfills tedious, manual tasks and enables human staff to focus on work that requires judgment.

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Are you prepping for worst-case commission lawsuit outcomes?

Housing Wire

Merle Whitehead, who in 2016 sold his brokerage RealtyUSA to Howard Hanna Real Estate Services , “years ago, worked diligently to increase the share of buyers who were under contract to work with his agents,” says Murray. I was just too busy building the company, selling real estate and developing properties.”

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Guide to EaDo / East Downtown Townhomes

Houston Properties

Home to some of the best townhomes in the Inner Loop, EaDo is also one of Houston’s most exciting neighborhoods thanks to great access to downtown and fantastic new development projects. East Downtown (EaDo) is a rapidly developing neighborhood adjacent to Downtown Houston. – 2016: #1 Individual Agent, Keller Williams, Texas.