Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Looking to bridge that digital divide, Agarwal spearheaded development of Online Loan Applications, purposefully designed for smaller lenders seeking to extend their online and digital reach – and provide a better customer experience for online lending inquiries.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The official 2022-2023 Online Update Course for Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), now available online , comes with a first-of-its-kind reference manual designed to help you quickly find answers to your USPAP-related questions.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

The investment from Radian Group and existing shareholders will enable FinLocker to introduce a suite of new features and tools designed to optimize the homebuying and homeownership experience. ” FinLocker raised roughly $20 million in 2020 in its Series A round ( TransUnion was one of its early backers ) and $2.25

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) Fannie Mae announced on Wednesday that it will launch new programs and resources designed to tackle the homeownership gap experienced by the Latino community , designed to “to provide responsible access to housing and long-term sustainable homeownership opportunities.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

A state-level program in Connecticut that pays caregivers living with loved ones who require special attention, and is designed to facilitate aging in place, is seeing a surge in demand across the state. From 2020 to 2023, the number of people in the AFL program jumped 42% to 3,862 with a total spending of $98.9 million as of 2023.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

The action is designed to inform consumers about the potential pros and cons of taking out these loans, according to an announcement issued by Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office on Monday. “A The CFPB issued guidance in 2020 warning about ways that bad actors may mention reverse mortgages when targeting older homeowners. “AG

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

Despite mentioning that a reverse mortgage can be used for the purchase of a new home, much of this article seems designed to introduce real estate agents to the concept of the H4P product. “A reverse mortgage could also benefit those who might outlive their retirement savings.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The latest survey is an expansion from its 2020 version and compared how homeowners’ and renters’ awareness and attitudes towards flood risk and flood insurance changed over the years. Premiums are rising About 24% of the surveyed respondents said flood insurance is not very or not at all affordable in 2022, compared to 25% in 2020.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2022

The nonbank lender said it did not have sufficient staff with the experience to design and operate its controls over financial reporting. billion in origination volume in 2021, up 5% from 2020. million in 2020, a 23% decrease. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Guild reported on Thursday $36.8 million in 2021 from $370.6

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

MC: The demand for REO assets remains strong, with inflows and overall REO inventory levels remaining significantly less than post-Q1 2020 inventories. How has the foreclosure-related regulatory landscape changed since 2020 and 2021? HW: What does the current market and demand for REO assets look like?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

While the development is in partnership with Universal, it is open to anyone who “meets specific income and other resident requirements” according to a spokesperson for the developer and is not designated specifically for Universal employees. with only 15 available units for every 100 extremely low-income renter households.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In both cases, our clients and Compass had to design new ways to structure the transaction to get a favorable outcome for all parties. The reality is that in all the deals we have worked on since July 2022, EBITDA in absolute terms is not what it was in calendar years 2020 and 2021.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2021

Originally introduced in April 2020, the MISMO RON compliance certification was designed to assure RON tech providers meet a universal set of standards. The third company granted the compliance designation was digital signature servicer Signix , followed by Pavaso on Aug. And borrowers liked the tech.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Romeo also will continue to oversee the education department, NTP Designation program, legal publications and the ALTA Registry. Last year, ALTA added a key feature to its ALTA Registry : a designation that clearly identifies title and settlement company locations that can perform remote online notarization closings.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The secondary market, often an afterthought for most participants in the mortgage process, took center stage in 2020. It was always there working hard in the background, just waiting for a year as unpredictable as 2020 to come to the rescue. That is, until March 2020. The rest of this content is for HW+ members.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 23, 2021

PERSON OF THE WEEK: Since October 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been engaging the mortgage industry through a number of “ tech sprints.” Designed to connect CFPB staff and industry technologists with consumer, financial, and regulatory stakeholders for short, intense problem-solving sessions.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2023

The company debuted in August 2020 with a mission to automate much of the underwriting process when making income, asset and lending decisions. The firm’s automated underwriting tech is designed to augment human underwriters’ capabilities, allowing underwriters to handle more loans.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Although some enterprising and lucky Gen Z home buyers locked in incredibly low mortgage rates during 2020 and 2021, those who weren’t ready to buy now have to contend with interest rates as high as 8%. Flexible design matters Flexible design goes beyond rooms with multiple functions or a layout that can be easily changed.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

While that is still 2 percentage points below the first quarter of 2020, it is way up from its pandemic low point, 77.8% This is in addition to a lack of necessary renovations in seniors’ existing homes, which are designed to make aging in place easier to accomplish for longer periods of time. in the 31 largest U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Stewart said it “generates over a billion dollars of revenue a year in transactions that depend on the ResWare software to process,” and that it “could not operate without a title production system software implemented and designed for Stewart Title’s business.” Adeptive was acquired by Qualia in Dec.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Since March 2020, lenders and servicers have provided borrowers with nearly 1.9 The new loss-mitigation alternative resulted from the FHA’s acknowledgment that its toolkit wasn’t enough to support struggling borrowers as mortgage rates surged. million COVID-19 loss-mitigation actions.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The bank claims it’s the owner and funder of two notes: one dated February 19, 2020, which designates Craig Ataide as the primary borrower, and the second, dated March 10, 2020, which names Raymond Topps as the primary borrower.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

billion the company originated in the fourth quarter of 2020. Throughout 2020, loanDepot averaged a gain on sale margin of 427 bps, easily a record for the California-based lender. “Market demand in 2020 was driven by a prolonged period of historically low interest rates. . Mortgage Tech Demo Day.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Industry-leading lender Movement Mortgage will become an “early adopter” of FICO Score 10 T, the updated credit scoring model designed to take advantage of trended data information to help expand mortgage approval rates. The word “trended” is the source of the “T” in the 10 T name.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Three million dollars of the full amount will also be allocated for institutions designed to “bridge the racial homeownership gap and support underserved communities,” including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). HUD awarded $51.4

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2021

billion in the second quarter of 2020. Pre-tax earnings were $644 million, versus $528 million in the second quarter of 2020. “We are building a company that has a financial model designed to deliver earnings and cash flow through changing market environments,” Foley said. Net earnings were reported at $546 million.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The entire system has to be designed to inflate the price over time. We finally paid the price — pun intended — of not having enough product, with massive home price gains from 2020-2022. We can see a clear deviation in home-price growth starting in 2020, when we broke to all-time lows in inventory.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), is designed to reduce barriers faced by nonprofit organizations, churches, synagogues and mosques for constructing multifamily housing units on their properties. The bill, introduced last December by Sen. Tackling our housing crisis requires every tool available to us,” Sen. “SB

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In 2020, RON became an essential service to ensure closings continued uninterrupted, and now more than ever, lenders need RON tools that empower and optimize their workflow,” Notarize CEO Pat Kinsel said. The ALTA Registry now designates title and settlement company locations that can perform RON closings.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Black Knight is looking to hook mortgage brokers with a new loan origination system designed specifically for them. The product news follows a series of acquisitions designed to improve the company’s LOS capabilities. And in July 2020, the company paid $1.8

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McKissock

DECEMBER 25, 2020

This very popular, top-rated job aid provides a breakdown of the more common roof designs and the corresponding advantages and disadvantages of each. The post Top 5 Appraisal Membership Resources of 2020 appeared first on McKissock Learning. To access to these top appraisal resources and much more, become an Unlimited Learning Member.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2021

The product expansion is in response to servicers who “exhausted all efforts” to keep people in their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic and economic collapse of 2020, according to WFG Default Title Services Senior Vice President Dean Kirchen.

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McKissock

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The official 2022-2023 Online Update Course for Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), now available online , comes with a first-of-its-kind reference manual designed to help you quickly find answers to your USPAP-related questions.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2021

“That shows continued interest among homebuyers in marginal areas and continues to bode well for the redevelopment that Opportunity Zone tax breaks are designed to promote.” The total percentage of zones with typical values below $200,000 was 60% in the first quarter of 2021 — down from 67% in the first quarter of 2020.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

The move, designed to slow the pace of inflation, which reached 7.9% The purchases of Treasuries and MBS, which ended this month and were designed to support the economy during the Covid-19 pandemic, helped the housing and mortgage markets reach never-before-seen heights. mortgage industry funded $4.1

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Following extensive renovations that took nearly a year to complete, the property was resold to an owner-occupant buyer in July 2020. counties with at least 10 online REO auction sales through the first 10 months of 2020. The average sales price for REO properties sold so far in 2020 in Comanche County was $28,240 — just $20.10

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2021

Kutsishin will outline a borrower retention game plan designed to ensure every borrower has the right loan, right now. The 2021 Spring Summit is designed for our HW+ premium members, who get access to all HousingWire virtual events, long-form digital content published weekly, an exclusive Slack community and more.

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