Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

Buyside helps real estate agents and loan officers engage homeowners with not just home value tools but also branded wealth optimization tips on their home’s equity so homeowners can now truly view their home as an asset. According to NAR over 69% of buyers have a home to sell, so really homeowners represent the earliest buyer.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2022

Most seasoned mortgage companies have seen these peaks and troughs and are positioning themselves to adapt to the changing market conditions by focusing on purchase business and other products like non-qualified mortgage loans. In the mortgage business, many expenses are front-ended. How do you manage that?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Borrowers, loan officers and the corresponding processors and underwriters are often working on entirely different systems. Rashid steers Tavant’s strategy for continued profitable revenue growth, supported by a fully aligned business development engine. Mohammad Rashid, Head of Fintech Practice.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech-focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, insurance and real estate. To that end, Blend plans to use the new capital to invest in product development such as speeding up the release of its digital closing solution.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

But there’s another threat that Homepoint executives must worry about – United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), the top dog in wholesale, has embarked on a strategy of heavy price cutting, forcing Homepoint and others to limbo to compete for business. That has contributed to UWM’s competitors taking losses on loans when they can least afford it.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

These [rated offerings] can start to bring in investors like insurance companies, money managers with mutual funds that have ratings constraints, investment banks … [and more], which will provide better financing on rated bonds.” Unlike banks and credit unions, nonbanks can’t hold these [home equity] loans on their balance sheets. …

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2022

The title insurance space isn’t generally known for placing outsized bets on technology. But for First American, its shrewd investments in rising proptech companies are a core business strategy. Title plants are datasets of records that are critical to underwriting title insurance policies for real estate transactions.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I sat down with Tim Bowler, president of ICE Mortgage Technology, a business unit of ICE, to talk about the company’s mortgage automation strategy — and what keeps him up at night. SW: Affordable housing initiatives are on the radar of more lenders this year, but your typical loan officer may not have a lot of experience there.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2020

For many years, we’ve been developing and investing in technology to deliver an end-to-end digital mortgage experience. We’re the largest centralized mortgage transactional services provider in the country, backed by the country’s largest provider of title insurance services.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

Take, for example, Miami-based proptech firm Realfinity , which aims to challenge the status quo with a new business venture. The company recently launched a mortgage brokerage firm that offers a plug-and-play program for real estate agents to become mortgage loan officers, a practice called dual licensing.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 10, 2024

These policies were the result of a collaborative effort between the GSEs, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). The mortgage loan officer handling the loan? Click here == How to stay positive with slow business In the April 2024 issue of Appraisal Today.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

So, we’re not little, but we’re not big, like some of these companies with 500 developers. We have a development team and so we have software developers, system analysts, business analysts, quality assurance testers, and people that manage deployments. We have smaller teams, but they’re very effective.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2021

Homebuyers and sellers contend with a variety of entities — banks, insurance companies, mortgage servicers, appraisal companies, title providers, agents, brokerages, and even real estate marketers— and the process can be labyrinthine to even those who have gone through it before. Does your CRM hurt or help the customer experience?

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Assurance Financial

MARCH 2, 2022

The greatest success story I have is winning over the ‘never-adopters’ of the industry, comprised of mostly the loan officers. After a few months, however, these capabilities made the loan officers the heroes. PEX Network: What key developments do you see happening in the mortgage space over the next couple of years?

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2023

They help run major corporations, and are the entrepreneurs building tomorrow’s great businesses. They work in any and every area of the housing economy and come from diverse backgrounds but share one common trait — an outsized impact on the industry and within their businesses.

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Genworth MI Blog

JULY 13, 2023

There is an on-site visual inspection of the property and a suggestion of improvements followed by the research, analysis and development that produces the appraisal report. For traditional products and hybrid, the accurate identification of physical features and location is paramount in the development of a credible value opinion.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2021

Triumph Business Capital. SVP, Agent Engagement & Development. Genworth Mortgage Insurance. Alterra Home Loans. Senior Loan Officer. VP of Product Development. Freddie Mac Single-Family Business. Director, Business Operations. First Guaranty Mortgage Corporation. Allison Mills.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Behind him, the recent financial crisis still cast a cautionary shadow over new business development, but ahead he saw opportunities for a client-centric, tech-focused family of companies in the title insurance and real estate settlement services industry. Now, at WFG’s 10-year anniversary, this vision holds even more relevance.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Regardless of the size of a lending business, having the right origination software is the first step in creating a homebuying experience built for the 21st century. It can take on ‘stare-and-compare’ and validation responsibilities, such as verification of income, assets and insurance more accurately and at scale,” Gagliano noted.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2022

Like many loan officers, Dicker was working nights and weekends, banging out refinancings and purchase mortgages at record-low rates for clients. About 40% of his business came from refis in the summer of 2021 even when his focus was on purchase mortgages his entire career. The last two years have been good to Christian Dicker.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

We also sought input from industry experts, lenders and loan officers. The nation’s biggest banks stepped in to stabilize the lender with $30 billion of their own money, giving the Federal Depository Insurance Corporation time to find a buyer. After a weekend of negotiations, the FDIC sold First Republic to JPMorgan.

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Assurance Financial

JUNE 15, 2023

Freddie Mac also plays a role in setting underwriting standards for the loans it purchases, working with lenders to help ensure that the loans they originate meet those standards. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are two separate entities, but they have a similar business model and operate in the same industry. housing market.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Jimmy Kelly, president and CEO of Lone Wolf Technologies , to discuss the company’s development process and his vision for a connected real estate platform. But I think there’s still kind of an old-school mentality: it’s a face-to-face, belly-to-belly style business.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 12, 2023

If you make it through this downturn there will be few appraiser competitors left for the next big upturn in business. Appraisal vs Zillow vs AVM which is best Appraisal Business Tips Humor for Appraisers Click here to subscribe to our FREE weekly appraiser email newsletter and get the latest appraisal news!!

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Appraisal Today

AUGUST 13, 2023

2023 E&O Insurance Brokers Risks of Expert Work by Claudia Gaglione, Esq A long article from Claudia with 4 very good case studies. As appraisers we can learn a lot from this, both in terms of how to interpret our market and how we interpret our own businesses and careers. I recognized the use of software similar to ChatGPT.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

As a driver of the economy, housing should be bolstered by: Non-bank lending institutions to lend in lower-income areas and to minorities in the same way that CRA provides for banks Reducing government-insured and guaranteed mortgage loan fees. Incentivizing developers is necessary.

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Assurance Financial

MARCH 18, 2021

Refinancing could potentially lower your monthly payments , allow you to consolidate debt, speed up the payoff process for your mortgage, eliminate your private mortgage insurance (PMI) and put more cash in your pocket. A home office can be a great, tax-deductible investment, particularly if you are self-employed or a small business owner.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

The three agencies in charge of such reviews — the Federal Reserve , the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency — have not denied a single bank merger in 15 years. And in a March interview with former president Bill Clinton, Department of Housing and Urban Development Sec.

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Clear Capital

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

So, we’re excited to help CubiCasa grow as an independent company, serving customers independently, and open for business to any and all customers, and really to help drive the change for the industry towards modernization. And then that triggered a whole series of developments for us. There’s 500,000 loan officers.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

We’re also working on finding solutions for the qualified mortgage and on issues surrounding flood insurance. HW: You talked about playing the long game — developing strategy that looks beyond just growth. We have lobbied hard against the adverse market fee, which should just be called a consumer tax. What does that look like?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Few things terrify lenders more than the arrival of a manila envelope from the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) containing a redlining allegation. For a borrower with tarnished credit and thus unable to get conventional financing, an FHA-insured mortgage is the go-to choice. Many have called for reductions.

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