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 12, 2023

Black Knight recently launched a web portal that enables clients, third-party providers and their developers to access the company’s application programming interfaces (APIs) across the mortgage life cycle. Its new tools also allow lenders to cut costs in a higher-rate environment.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Mortgage lending businesses tend to place the greatest value on production-oriented LOs — and it shows in compensation formulas tuned in to new applications and new loans rather than customer retention and loyalty. A credibility problem might explain why so few borrowers return to their original LO for subsequent transactions.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Technology has made many aspects of day-to-day life more seamless than ever, with instant, easy and personalized consumer experiences; however, lending is still difficult. The Origence Mortgage Platform is an end-to-end lending platform that puts the power of modern technology in lenders’ hands, enabling them to close more loans, faster.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2022

“With technology impacting all areas of our lives, it is time for participants across the mortgage ecosystem to experience an improved process that simply works better and costs less,” said Daniel Wallace, GM of Figure Lending.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2023

My college basketball career at Dartmouth College — and later during a professional stint overseas — played a significant role in developing the leadership skills I utilize every day. It ensures team members understand their duties and responsibilities, helps build quality client relationships and creates a positive work environment.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Their overarching goal is to help grow happiness — for customers, for clients and for their staff. People take pride in their work when they believe that their leaders are invested in them as people — not just as tools to help them reap short-term rewards. But brand recognition doesn’t develop overnight.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We also like to build our own technology and develop tools and products that give our LOs an advantage in the field and enhance the experience with our customers. That allows us to turn our clients into cash buyers, which will be very relevant as the housing market heats up. That’s why we started NAF Cash.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

billion valuation, CEO Mat Ishbia today unveiled a new tech tool that he claims will bring “game-changing flexibility” to brokers. The app will enable brokers to instantly lock or extend loans; submit, review and track changes of circumstances; upload and review cleared conditions/invoices; and create and manage client requests.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2022

With NGC’s acquisition of Inco-Check, the company aims to enhance loan quality and prevent fraud in a competitive mortgage and consumer lending market, Inco-Check said. Founded in 2000, Irvine, California-based Inco-Check leverages its proprietary web-based platform to support GSE, regulatory agency, and investor requirements.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

An LO with a client at the closing table. 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? It’s not subprime lending. Scaling is hard.”.

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Lamacchia Realty

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We are thrilled to announce our Business Development team has expanded to Florida! Theresa Ercoli, a Florida resident, will be the first business development consultant based out of the Fort Lauderdale office and we cannot wait to see what she accomplishes! Vice President of Business Development. “I tools to its agents.?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2021

HousingWire: What does the performance of non-QM in the first half of 2021 tell us about the future of non-QM lending? As well, restrictions set forth by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac along with increased bank lending restrictions mean increased demand for non-QM. We can save the deal for our clients and the borrower.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2021

As the appraisal industry struggles to meet demand, Voxtur has developed a solution to streamline the process. For appraisers, we have developed an end-to-end, encrypted, AI-driven platform to streamline scheduling, manage payments, and facilitate direct, real-time communication between stakeholders.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2021

HousingWire sat down with Realtor.com CEO David Doctorow to learn how agents and brokers can alleviate some of the frustrations their clients are facing. If you needed a doctor or a lawyer, you’d expect those professionals to be knowledgeable about the latest developments in treatment options or how changes in the law might affect your case.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2021

With the increasing “need-for-speed” at which the lending community moves, keeping up is a constant task that never gets any easier. In 2019, for example, one national lender reportedly spent $100 million to develop a digital platform that could originate and close transactions in eight days.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2023

But the trade groups are worried about the impact of quality control standards on the GSEs’ alternative valuation methods, such as desktop appraisal , since these tools are essential in times of high demand. When announcing the proposed rule, Vice President Kamala Harris weighed in.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Available to clients aged 55 and older (in select states), this product allows eligible homeowners to tap into more of their home equity sooner rather than later with lower upfront costs. The program is available to a wide range of homeowners, with lending limits as high as $4 million*.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

What differentiates us can differentiate our lending partners too. We listen to our clients, and we pivot quickly. By investing in business intelligence tools, NAN transforms appraiser selection and increased efficiencies for lenders.”. “Our Cari Pinkert, Founder and Chief Information Officer.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The platform was designed and developed using direct broker feedback, which shaped our workflow and functionality,” said Kim Nichols, senior managing director of Pennymac TPO. The POWER+ platform’s tools also ensure URLA accuracy before submission, the California-based firm said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

million investment in eOriginal, a multi-year Tech100 winner that developed a ‘simple closing experience for lenders, borrowers and settlement agents.’ With efficiency metrics and client outcomes like these it’s no surprise that the company continued to attract capital and investor interest. In 2016 LLR led a $26.5 Jobs are important.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

When mortgage lenders are talking about compliance in loan origination or mortgage servicing, the worst case can be pretty bad, so we often see companies investing heavily in the best tools. He knew it would be really tough to maintain the relationships with his partners and clients from a hospital bed. How marketing saved my business.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Most appraisers are experiencing a significant slowdown in mortgage lending work due to rapidly increasing mortgage rates which are slowing down the housing market. I have seen a slowdown in my lending work also. Half my work is non-lending work, and that’s been a blessing. I think potential clients appreciate this.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2021

The IPO gives the cloud-based software company the ammunition to grow market share , develop new products and dive deeper into various sectors within fintech, including consumer banking and auto. The startup, led by co-founder Ghamsari, helped 291 clients process roughly $1.4 “So, the roadshow was very, very well received.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke to Jonathan Scarpati, Senior Vice President of Wholesale Lending at Finance of America Reverse, about tapping into the reverse mortgage market in light of the changing market. . New research has even shown that reverse mortgages can be used to reduce market risk and increase portfolio growth.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2021

When COVID forced the real estate industry to get digital, gasoline was thrown on the same trend within mortgage lending. Utilizing data from AI to understand key players in the industry based on their match to an organization, culture and leadership has allowed mortgage recruiters to use passive recruiting as a tactical growth tool.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Now retired, Mohtashami has years of direct lending experience and his astute analysis of economic data allows him to present a unique, informed and unbiased perspective on the financial markets. His work focuses on helping Freddie Mac develop its economic outlook, including forecasts of trends in the economy and housing markets.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 27, 2022

Over the past 10 years my focus has been on developing new lines of business and ways to bring the skills we possess as valuation experts to markets outside of just lending and bank work and beyond the four walls of ‘appraisal practice.’ I remember taping pictures onto reports and hand-delivering them to the clients.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

CAPE Analytics has unveiled a new, AI-powered , automated property condition report (aPCR) tool crafted for institutional lenders, whole loan investors, and real estate investors. The tool can be paired up with other types of valuation metrics. The real competition for us is the status quo,” added Begley.

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McKissock

MARCH 2, 2021

As an experienced appraiser, you’ve likely encountered pressure to hit the purchase price or develop your appraisal based on a predetermined value. A major source of frustration for appraisers is the realization that clients do not have to follow USPAP. Blog post: Advice for Working with Difficult Clients.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

As the market shifts, interest in non-QM lending from traditional lenders and brokers has increased. We recently spoke to Bao Huynh, Director of Business Development at LoanScorecard, about these changes and the challenges of originating non-QM loans. HousingWire: How is the shift from refi to purchase affecting the non-QM market?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2021

Data analytics giant Black Knight unveiled a new self-service style platform aimed at correspondent lending that will allow lenders to manage conditions and validate pricing locks on Best Effort loans. suburbs in the upcoming months.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Some LOs are making inroads with potential clients through use of social media, leaning on their multilingual skills and doing old fashioned cold calling. However, Davis’ relationship with the agent turned sour and she has not yet been able to develop relationships with other agents. TikTok, Facebook and LinkedIn.

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The Robert Weiler Company

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In most instances, such as public development projects or litigation cases, the commercial appraisal review is a mandatory examination of an appraisal report to spot mistakes, address errors in a CRE appraiser’s judgment or update information based on changing conditions due to the passage of time. The obligation to the client isn’t met.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2022

A rising player in the world of crypto-mortgages and blockchain-enabled financing, LoanSnap, plans expand its reach in the market by opening its lending platform to licensed mortgage brokers across the country in the near future. The financing for the initial deal was handled through a cryptocurrency lender called Helio Lending.

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Birmingham Appraisal

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

On one hand, the real estate agent’s main goal is to advocate for their client while the appraiser must be an impartial and non-biased third party. The lender then obtains an appraisal to make sure that the property they are lending on, which is the collateral for the loan, is worth what they are paying for it.

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Robinson Appraisal Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

This form has been a requirement since 2009 as a tool to establish the increase, decrease or stabilization of markets in the aftermath of the housing crisis occurring between 2007 – 2010 due to sub prime lending practices. The most recent Fannie Mae change is the removal of the 1004MC form in an appraisal.

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