Simonson Real Estate

AUGUST 24, 2020

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced COVID-19 as a global pandemic (this day also happens to be my birthday so good or bad, it’s an easy date for me to remember). On August 14, 2020, the Minnesota Real Estate Journal held the 13th Annual Capital Markets Summit at the Radisson Blue Mall of America Hotel.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2021

What happens when borrowers can’t or won’t walk into a lending branch? HousingWire recently sat down with Insellerate CEO Josh Friend to discuss that very question and what strategies retail lenders should look to adopt from direct-to-consumer lending. Power 2020 U.S. Record low-interest rates have driven U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

At Wolters Kluwer, Agarwal has tapped his extensive banking product development experience to create a group of offerings that assist local and regional banks to more effectively scale their operations and processes in support of their consumer-facing offerings.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

This year’s 2020 list of Housingwire Tech Trendsetters certainly earned their status as the housing industry was met with incredible challenges and new opportunities. One of the 2020 Tech Trendsetters, Kallol Das worked quickly to shift digital lending tech provider Blend’s product roadmap to its rapidly-changing client needs.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2021

The full extent of fraud in the mortgage industry may be impossible to fully quantify, but the 2020 True Cost of Fraud study by LexisNexis Risk Solutions estimated that the cost of fraud has risen 7.3% Now is the time for lenders to tighten their procedures not only on recruiting and hiring practices, but also lending operations.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2021

That has some producers of non-QM loans, which require specialized underwriting expertise, looking to technology, big data and the development of automated underwriting platforms as the solution for dealing with the anticipated surge in loan volume in the years ahead.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Home lending proptech Roostify is releasing the “first of many” APIs on its existing lending platform built to automate document validation and data extraction in the lending process. In 2020 alone, Roostify saw a 250% increase in the number of applications submitted through its system and processed just under 1.5M

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

The DOJ alleged that from 2015 through at least 2020, Patriot avoided providing mortgage services to majority- Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee and discouraged people seeking credit in those communities from obtaining home loans. Tennessee-based community bank Patriot Bank agreed to pay $1.9

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

The reverse lending industry’s most prominent attendee — Kristen Sieffert of Finance of America Companies (FOA), parent company of industry-leading lender Finance of America Reverse (FAR) — offered insights into various topics about the reverse mortgage product category. This year, it’s ‘prevail,’” she said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2023

million penalty due to lapses in its cybersecurity controls by “failing to effectively manage third-party service provider risk, manage access privileges, and maintain a formal application security development methodology.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2023

Future development projects will follow this collaborative approach with our clients and strategic partners. The company debuted in August 2020 with a mission to automate much of the underwriting process when making income, asset and lending decisions. In August 2021, Candor raised $12.5

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2021

Regions Bank is looking to make a big dent in the home improvement lending space , striking a deal to acquire EnerBank USA for $960 million in cash. EnerBank says it works with 10,000 contractors and develops personalized loan programs for their clients. billion in volume in 2020. in 2021 to $433 billion.

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Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2023

Wells Fargo forces its employees on the Bilingual team to offer predatory lending options to Spanish-speaking customers,” the initial legal complaint reads. For example, Wells Fargo has developed an ‘Earn the Business’ program for the Bilingual team. The bank, which paid a $3.7

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Jamie Thornton, director of online mortgage lending at Real Genius, said in a statement that the company has “invested a significant amount of time and resources” into developing technology for customers. Since 2016, we’ve helped more than 51,000 families with their mortgage needs, lending more than $15 billion,” said Thornton.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

As lenders continue to adjust to a new normal, the pivotal role of technology has become increasingly clear in maximizing productivity and keeping lending pipelines flowing. HW: Where would you advise clients and colleagues to focus their technology resources as we navigate the second half of 2020 and prepare for 2021?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

The capital raise follows a $5 million Series A funding round in June 2020. Clients include Credit Union of Colorado , Texas Lending and JMAC Lending. Increasing lending and servicing capacity – regardless of mortgage rates. In 2020, the company says it surpassed $6 billion in monthly loan volume on its platform.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

District Court for the Southern District of Ohio last month, alleged that Park National failed to provide mortgage lending services by redlining majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in the Columbus area from at least 2015 to 2021. The complaint, filed in federal court in the U.S. Park National Bank didn’t respond to requests for comment.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2021

For many in the housing industry, the events of 2020 accelerated tech adoption. Despite the increased pace, the industry as a whole still has room for continued tech development and usage. HousingWire: Why do you feel it is important to continually develop and use new technologies? First, mortgage lending is highly volatile.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

Our first goal was to make mortgage lending easier and more accessible, but we’ve been intentional in recognizing that our technology can be used to facilitate so much more, including commercial lending, servicing, foreclosure and more,” Ligris said. Presented by: Sagent Lending Technologies.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

2020 Rising Star Maggie Mae is Top of Mind Networks ‘ lead product manager, building and improving the capabilities of the company’s market-leading Surefire CRM. Another 2020 Rising Star Michael Oursler was promoted to Chief Operating Officer at NewDay USA at the age of 30 last year. And the list keeps going!

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with Desmond Smith , chief growth officer at United Wholesale Mortgage , about the role that wholesale lending plays in the mortgage ecosystem and common myths and misconceptions about becoming an independent mortgage broker. HousingWire: What role has wholesale lending historically played in the mortgage ecosystem?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

Roostify, which powers the digital mortgage platforms of JPMorgan Chase , TD Bank , Guild Mortgage , HSBC Bank USA and more, allows different lending parties to bring in data and information from online sources that then tailors the homebuying process.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. A seasoned retail and commercial banking salesman in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the 39-year-old Woodward joined Interfirst Mortgage as a loan officer in October 2020 after a recommendation from an old college friend. trillion in 2020 and then $4.4

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2022

By some estimates, origination volume will fall in 2022 to about $2 trillion, about half the volume from the record-breaking years of 2021 and 2020. Wells Fargo , one of the nation’s largest banks, had at least 114 layoffs in its home lending business following a drop in revenue in that division in the first quarter of 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Toronto-based cryptocurrency lending platform Ledn has raised $70 million in a Series B funding round to support the growth of its digital assets lending business, including a new Bitcoin-backed mortgage product. Founded in 2018, Ledn focuses on saving and lending products for Bitcoin and other digital assets.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2022

According to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice submitted to the Employment Development Department (EDD) in California, the company cut 108 jobs in three rounds from February to April but intends to add 81 to the list. “A Owning’s platform processed more than $20 billion in total loan volume in 2020.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Utah-based software developer offers a private-label digital mortgage platform and mobile app designed to connect lenders with borrowers and real estate agents. Most recently, the private-equity firm invested in Real , a technology-powered real estate brokerage in 2020, and perhaps most notably, e-recording provider Simplifile in 2013.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2021

A new agreement between the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) could heighten scrutiny of whether the government sponsored entities’ underwriting engines do enough to further fair housing. In 2020, 3.06% of loans Fannie Mae acquired were from Black borrowers and 3.8%

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2021

All told, the Detroit lending powerhouse originated $103.6 billion in closed loans in the first quarter of 2020, more than double its originations in Q1 2020. billion, a dramatic increase from the $99 million in profit the first quarter of 2020. billion in the first quarter of 2020. Expenses rose to $1.74

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2022

We are bringing together the most robust, powerful and efficient technology ever seen in lending and pairing that with a $25 billion a year loan originator,” Cagney, co-founder and CEO of Figure, said in a statement during the announcement. billion in mortgages, a decrease of 11% compared to 2020. But things did not happen as expected.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Athas Capital has been credited for “pioneering the re-birth of ‘sane’ subprime lending,” according to the company website. In light of this, HousingWire recently caught up with Teraverde’s Rob Peterson to learn more about what lenders need to succeed in today’s lending environment. ” Layoffs.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2022

That’s partly because, according to a joint notice of proposed rulemaking from bank regulators on Thursday, banks’ performance would be judged by where they lend, not just where they have branches. Honestly we don’t know if that is coming or not,” said Ricard Pochkanawala, senior policy council at the Center for Responsible Lending.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2022

California-based Pennymac Financial Services will lay off more than two hundred employees in the coming months, according to notices sent to the state’s Employment Development Department on March 7. Presented by: Acra Lending. Pennymac has said it is making an effort to boost its consumer direct lending business.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2022

Chicago-based Guaranteed Rate will discontinue its third-party wholesale channel, Stearns Wholesale Lending , just one year after it acquired the multichannel lender. In acquiring Stearns, the company sought to boost retail loan originations, scale its JV platform, and develop new multichannel capabilities.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Due to heavy financial losses and shrinking production, loanDepot has reduced its funding capacity by $1 billion, laid off thousands of workers and exited the wholesale lending business. In 2020, he notched $18.45 In 2020, he received $16.25 Walsh received a $1.5 million discretionary bonus in 2021 and earned $7.12

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Caliber, headed by CEO Sanjiv Das, has retail, wholesale and correspondent lending channels, and has developed a large book of business in the purchase space. Caliber is also among the 10 biggest GSE sellers, at nearly $34 billion in mortgages through August 2020.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2021

In March 2020, the CFPB announced it would no longer require certain lenders to report quarterly information under HMDA, however, now the agency is instructing all financial institutions to do so beginning with their 2021 first-quarter data due by May 31. .”

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