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Fannie Mae approves six vendors for controversial new valuation initiative

Housing Wire

Fannie Mae has approved six firms to handle its new valuation initiative, which cuts traditional appraisers out of the process and potentially represents the biggest shift in the valuation space in years. Because if the Fannie Mae trend continues, you won’t have any of that business in the future anyway.”

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Member Spotlight: John Brenan

Housing Wire

This week’s HW+ member spotlight features John Brenan, vice president of Valuation Policy and chief appraiser at Clear Capital. At Clear Capital, Brenan oversees the quality of the company’s appraisal and valuation products and implements changes to continually evolve the program. .

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10 Types of Non-Lending Appraisal Work to Pursue this Year

McKissock

In times like the present when the housing market is slow, you can help your appraisal business thrive by offering additional services beyond mortgage lending appraisals. What are some specific types of non-lending assignments that might be worth adding to your workload this year? Read the full survey results below.

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From Forms to Reports: A Look at the UAD Overhaul

Appraisal Buzz

Using the form structure, GSEs have been ingesting these eclectic abbreviations to develop a large database of residential valuation. We produce appraisal “reports” not appraisal “forms.” Most appraisers have diversity in their business channels. The abbreviations we use in our forms are in fact, data points for the GSEs.

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The looming non-QM commoditization question

Housing Wire

The question was on the minds of many at the Waldorf Astoria in Dana Point, California on Thursday – will non-qualified mortgage products become more commoditized as the rising rate environment wallops agency lending? Underwriters are trained as desktop underwriters (DUs). It’s not subprime lending. Scaling is hard.”.

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The appraiser can’t be replaced by technology – Here’s why

Housing Wire

This general alignment matters a great deal as the FHFA, through their oversight of the GSEs, who have the vast majority of the market share, plays a key role in the conforming lending market being the de facto regulator. In these responses, I hear a lending industry clamoring for the freedom to use the “new tools” that already exist.

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Dave Vermillion to speak at Spring Summit March 4

Housing Wire

He and his team have trained over 1 million lending professionals and worked with over 600 financial organizations and their operations teams in improving customer experience, streamlining processes and strengthening company culture. Vermillion is a trainer, speaker, consultant, author, consumer advocate, and philanthropist.

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