Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2021

The complaint, filed in early 2020, comes from two rival firms that claimed Modus committed various co-branding and social media violations. This could be a major setback for Compass, which announced new virtual real estate tools in April 2020 as a way to adapt to the changes COVID-19 made on the industry. In all, Compass has lost $1.1

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Successful agents, brokerages and loan officers of the future are going to rely significantly on technology to find, nurture and engage with buyers and sellers while also playing an expanding role as personal advisors in all things related to mortgage, insurance, moving, renovating and new home transitioning.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2023

Candor is executing a change in strategy to address the ever-changing mortgage market and to pivot along with client operations,” Tom Showalter, CEO of Candor , said in an e-mailed response. Future development projects will follow this collaborative approach with our clients and strategic partners. Candor Technology Inc. ,

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2021

Oregon-based WFG National Title Insurance Co. WFG is known throughout the title industry as one of the leading national title insurance underwriters because they continuously strive to provide the best service to their clients,” Richardson said. has added two underwriters in Michigan, the company announced this week.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2021

Previously, Zigg participated in Spruce’s $29 million Series B funding round in May, 2020 and is no stranger to the digital real estate space, having invested in digital mortgage closing platform Snapdocs ‘ Series D round in May. Spruce currently works with clients including Better.com, Hometap, and US Wide.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

Xactus will add flood services to its list of verification solutions with the acquisition of MassiveCert , a software company that provides flood zone determinations for insurance, lending and real estate. MassiveCert will be rebranded as Xactus Flood Solutions. “The Up until now, Xactus obtained data from third parties.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2021

WFG Title Insurance will now offer forbearance, loan modification, and foreclosure information reports as part of its general title and closing services. “Offering customizable solutions for all our clients is key to this effort, regardless of their size. .

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

We have an insurance problem,” said Charlotte Johnson , a Keller Williams agent based in Mandeville. Our insurance is pricing people out of their homes.” Between 2018 and 2023, homeowners insurance rates in Louisiana jumped 24.9%, according to an analysis by S&P Global. recorded in mid-February 2020.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

Sahi brings to the role more than 10 years across multiple executive positions in sales, strategy, client management and business development teams at companies including ICE Mortgage Technology and Ellie Mae. Ellie Mae was acquired by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) in September 2020.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

Xactus, which says it has more than 6,500 clients including bank and nonbank mortgage originators, uses its proprietary technology platform to close loans quickly. Since then, the firm acquired MassiveCert , a software company that provides flood zone determinations for insurance, lending and real estate in July.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2021

EnerBank says it works with 10,000 contractors and develops personalized loan programs for their clients. EnerBank funds most of its loans on its balance sheet through FDIC -insured brokered CDs; it also charges fees to the contractors. billion in volume in 2020. in 2021 to $433 billion. in 2021 to $433 billion.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

TitleWave is a division of the Fidelity National Finance family of companies, the nation’s largest title insurance company through its five national title insurance underwriters – Fidelity National Title , Chicago Title , Commonwealth Land Title , Alamo Title and National Title of New York. “As billion written in 2019.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

A HECM is insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) 2 and cannot be frozen or reduced at any time. The borrower simply needs to pay taxes, insurance and keep up to date on home maintenance. Another advantage of HECMs over HELOCs is that they’re FHA-insured and offer unique borrower safeguards.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2021

Big Four title insurer Stewart Title has acquired Title First Agency , headquartered in Westerville, Ohio. per diluted share, for the second quarter 2020. In late 2020, Stewart acquired a significant number of Western U.S. The arms race is heating up in title. That’s up from $54.2 million net income, at $2.01 million, at $1.44

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

In addition to backups, cybersecurity experts also stressed the importance of having a cyber insurance policy. “A A good cyber insurance policy can really help for some of these types of attacks that we are seeing,” Adams said. “It The industry has also struggled in recent years as some carriers have left the cyber insurance arena.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2022

million in 2020 during the refi-boom and with the market headed into a correction, executives warned investors revenue would plummet. With major deals to nab clients like Mr. Cooper , he expects market share to increase to about 20% in 2022. million in 2020 driven by the acquisition of Title 365 in a $422 million deal.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

We have deployed components and services that have changed our strategy while still offering boutique solutions to our clients’ growth goals. Our solution prioritizes the borrower experience and promotes a “self-cure” to insurance resolution with a multi-channel campaign that includes both digital and print touchpoints with consumers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2021

There have been a number of natural disasters in the last year, from flooding in the southeast to wildfires in the West: Redfin reported that more than 5 million acres burned across California, Washington, and Oregon in 2020. I had one client in St. All of these incidents have hit homeowners in the wallet. She relocated to New York.”.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2020

HousingWire recently spoke with Susan Falsetti, managing director of Origination Title and Close at ServiceLink, about the state of title in 2020 and how the EXOS technology platform allowed ServiceLink clients to take advantage of virtual closing solutions. This year, our teams have helped our clients keep pace with record volume.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2022

In its Q4 earnings report earlier this month, Blend executives told investors and analysts that it was committed to reducing costs at its Title365 arm in light of lower origination volume from its mortgage originator clients. With rapid changes in U.S. Overall, the company, which has never been profitable, lost $169.1 As of 11:50 a.m.

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2021

Title insurance provider First American Financial Corporation announced the acquisition of Texas-based Georgetown Title , a company with roots planted in the Lone Star State over 125 years ago. billion underwritten by title insurers in 2020 was a 22% increase from $15.8 billion in 2019.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2022

banks, lenders, credit unions, insurers and securities firms. IDS, founded in 1986 and based in Draper, Utah, employs roughly 75 people and has over 450 clients, including U.S. In late 2020, Wolters Kluwer GRC acquired cloud-based digital lending software firm eOriginal for about $280 million. Presented by: Wolters Kluwer.

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McKissock

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The Appraisal Foundation Q4 2020 Update. Fannie Mae Q3 2020 Appraisal Update. Next, you need to communicate your results, findings, conclusions, and opinions within a report so it is meaningful and useful to your client. But how do we know how much detail to include so our client understands the “story”?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2022

For the first time, the ALTA Registry will provide data on individual title insurance and settlement services companies, identified by an ALTA ID. It’s crucial that the title insurance industry urge progress and innovation in the digital closing space.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

WFG National Title Insurance Company (WFG) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Williston Financial Group and a national title insurance underwriter dedicated to taking time and cost out of real estate transactions. This ongoing engagement is an example of WFG’s foundational pledge to “Communicate, Collaborate, Coexist.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2021

It’s been a busy two years of acquisitions for TitleOne, which snagged Sandpoint Title Insurance in 2019, and Columbia Title Company , Payette Title Company and Washington Title Company in 2020. If you’re a title agent and you’re supporting a mortgage origination client, you’ve had a great year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2021

Residential brokerage and mortgage lender William Raveis is buying its clients’ homes across New England, the tri-state area and Florida. WRRE also will help them buy, finance and insure their next home purchase, with mortgage closing times in as few as eight days, considerably faster than the industry average.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Georganne Youngclaus, the former marketing director at RealFi, filed a civil lawsuit against a group of top male executives at the lender, alleging that they engaged in “severe and pervasive patterns of mentally and physically abusive conduct” from May 2016 through July 2020. rebranded to RealFi in August 2020.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Rocket Companies assisted more clients in the third quarter of 2020 than any quarter in our 35-year history,” CEO Jay Farner said on the Tuesday afternoon earnings call. Meanwhile, its partner network, which includes referrals from Charles Schwab and State Farm Insurance as well as mortgage brokers , generated $29.6

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2022

Dave Applegate, a board member since 2020, has been named the company’s chairman. Chief Operating Officer Rob Lux was named co-CEO for operations, technology, business development, client management, human resources, and legal. Tornquist served the company for 35 years and became CEO in 2008.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2022

He is alluding to Compass CEO Robert Reffkin, who failed to deliver on a stated goal to have 20% market share in 20 major American markets by 2020. In return, the Samson agent is asked – not told, asked – to refer clients to Cardinal Title Group , a title insurer wholly owned by Samson. “I From one perspective, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Attending industry-related conferences and visiting clients, I was typically the only person in the room under the age of 30. Going through this transitionary stage of life during a time of panic and crisis forced a lot of us to move back home in 2020 to be with family.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

Many existing Buyside clients have already begun to roll out this new enhancement and have also brought in their mortgage partners into the partnership to drive retention, referrals, and efficient lead generation. In 2020, Buyside clients closed close to $20 Billion in sales through Buyside, averaging over a 3000% ROI.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2022

In the end, some $850,000 in claims had to be paid on defaulted government-backed mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). Year over year as of Q4 of last year, the index was up 26.7% — from 109 in Q4 2020. Following is a breakdown of SARs filings by institutional category for 2021, compared with 2020.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In fact, Paradise’s housing market, though constrained by unresolved wildfire litigation and issues like proper home insurance, even has the high-demand, low inventory problems of most other U.S. In 2020, as part of its plan to exit bankruptcy , PG&E agreed to fund a $13.5

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

In the nearby metro area of Cape Coral-Fort Myers , active single-family inventory over the previous 90 days averaged 6,500 listings as of March 15, above its March 2020 level of 5,044 listings and approaching its March 2019 level of 7,243 listings. homeowners insurance policy was roughly $1,700 in 2023. In comparison, the average U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2021

Entering 2020 the market was expecting <$2.0 To aid lenders in the latter pursuit, SitusAMC purchased PP&E platform ReadyPrice in December 2020, providing a community-driven platform that connects brokers and wholesale lenders to facilitate more seamless loan discovery and delivery. We got the exact opposite.

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