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Wire Fraud: Are you the weakest link?

Housing Wire

Trying to keep with the drive to the finish line, the harried consumer let down their guard. Trying to keep with the drive to the finish line, the harried consumer let down their guard. Instead of questioning email directions from their agent, title insurer or lender, the consumer hits ‘reply.’. BECOME A MEMBER TODAY.

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HW+ Member Spotlight: Max Simkoff

Housing Wire

” Below, Simkoff answers questions about the housing industry: HousingWire: To start off, what is your current favorite HW+ article? .” ” Below, Simkoff answers questions about the housing industry: HousingWire: To start off, what is your current favorite HW+ article? Max Simkoff: Keep going.

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HW+ Member Spotlight: Eric Lapin

Housing Wire

Tapping into more than 25 years of experience, Lapin will strategically identify and execute growth opportunities at FormFree to drive the company forward. Below, Lapin answers questions about the housing industry: HousingWire : What is your current favorite HW+ article and why? That’s what drew me to this role at FormFree, too.

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Mortgage lenders need to lean in to consumer expectations

Housing Wire

When it comes to consumers’ growing desire for a seamless, fully digital home-buying experience, coupled with COVID-19’s influence on buying behaviors, it’s safe to say there truly is “no turning back.”. From hybrid appraisals to virtual showings to RON/RIN, the digital mortgage process took center stage over the last year.

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2020 Housing Market Recap, 2021 Housing Predictions, and More Appraisal News

McKissock

The Mortgage Technology sector is growing rapidly, modernizing and digitizing what has traditionally been a fragmented and heavily regulated market. Read on for the latest in appraisal industry news. According to this HousingWire article , “the 2020 U.S. Read the full Redfin article here.

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Opinion: When it comes to default and REO, what you don’t know will hurt you

Housing Wire

A moment of reckoning may be imminent for the default and REO industry. Many in the industry are already rising to meet it. A look at default activity past and present The default industry was thrust into the public view during the Great Recession. The mortgage lending industry exists to make home loans, not to repossess them.

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Appraisal Institute Counters Flawed Appraiser Bias Narrative

Appraisal Today

Industry groups should also step up to support appraisers. In fact, appraisers’ discipline protects homebuyers and the industry from irrational biases. As Chance acknowledges, the Institute should have done more to advocate for appraisers and make the public aware of their professionalism. It is human nature.