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Feds seek to enlist real estate agents in anti-corruption push

Housing Wire

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network , or FinCEN, is floating a proposed anti-money laundering rule that could impose reporting mandates on a broad swath of professionals in the residential real estate market, including real estate agents, brokers, attorneys, title insurance companies and settlement agents.

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Joint ventures between title firms and real estate companies are under the microscope

Housing Wire

AI-generated image of two lawyers scrutinizing title insurance joint venture agreements. In 1983 Jim Campbell launched what is believed to be the first joint venture experiment between a real estate brokerage and a title and settlement firm. Image was created using MidJourney.

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Redfin: Former redlined neighborhoods at massive flood risk

Housing Wire

Find out how a single lead from Ylopo led to roughly $20 million in real estate closings for real estate agent Luis Robledo. of households in current neighborhoods that were once designated undesirable for mortgage lending are non-white, compared with 40.4% Presented by: Ylopo. Per Redfin, 58.1%

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Orchard raises $69M in Revolution-led Series C

Housing Wire

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, payments, insurance and proptech. Knock this year shifted into lending ). Orchard has also raised a total of $220 million in debt financing since its September 2017 inception.

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ROV (Reconsideration of Value) Changes – FHA and GSEs

Appraisal Today

This initiative was subsequently reaffirmed in the issuance of VA Circular 26-17-18 in July 2017. Ryan’s blog focuses on local real estate agents and market conditions, a most excellent method of becoming the “go-to” appraiser and getting lots of referrals from agents. What is your market like?

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Appraisal Risk, Reviews, and Revisions

Appraisal Today

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). Get started as a luxury real estate appraiser. Lenders want fire insurance for all mortgage loans. My personal risk is earthquakes.

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ClearCast Podcast E19 — Ribbon Co-Founder & CEO Shaival Shah

Clear Capital

” This has been a very hot and important topic within the lending space for the last year or so, we’ve talked about it on this podcast before Kenon. So there’s this real estate agent — are you with me? Just last week, Freddie Mac released what was a very eagerly anticipated research paper.

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