Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

HousingWire: What role has the increase in technology played for both businesses and consumers in the real estate space? Vance Loiselle: In the 20th century, the primary technology innovations in real estate were the telephone and the MLS. HW: What steps in the real estate transaction could benefit from further digitalization?

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2022

Polly , a software-as-service mortgage technology firm that operates a loan-trading platform, integrated with six mortgage insurance providers to streamline the mortgage process for loan officers and mortgage lenders. .

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

The product can check for relevant loan details and document acceptability to identify and condition for large deposits or deposits from sources that are inconsistent with the loan application. Touchless Lending also integrates with existing systems, including client CRM, POS, and LOS.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In November, Interfirst issued pink slips to hundreds of non-commissioned loan officers at its call centers in Charlotte, North Carolina and Rosemont, Illinois, according to WARN notices in both states. Clients upload all documents into their loan origination system directly to reduce/eliminate operational staff.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

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. However, they are hampered by comparatively poor technology and the slow speed at which they can close a loan, analysts said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2021

“To be competitive in today’s correspondent market, lenders must be able to offer their sellers a simple, self-service platform,” said Rich Gagliano, president of Black Knight Origination Technologies. suburbs in the upcoming months. suburbs in the upcoming months.

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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

MAY 12, 2022

Technology has been the focal point of that evolution more out of necessity than some consensus that homebuyers don’t want to interact with their lenders at all. Customer-facing technologies, particularly loan origination and decisioning software, are now standard in mortgage lending’s tech stack. We’re not cavepeople.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

Overall, I think the consensus we’re hearing from clients is that the overall non-QM market is going to continue to grow in 2022. BH: There’s no question that non-QM is more difficult to originate than conforming or government loans, so many mainstream brokers and loan officers have been reluctant in the past to offer these products.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2021

billion in the wholesale channel in 2020 (compared to about $62 billion in retail), lost roughly 5% of its broker clients to UWM, according to company executives. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. Why would anybody sign that document?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

Selecting vendor partners that care about our clients and help us solve problems. Now we have begun updating a number of our documents to make sure that we are serving our limited English proficiency customers. Interestingly, our company gets a lot of insight about what customers want and/or customer issues from our loan officers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2022

In addition, loan officers can act as trusted advisors to the borrower and keep referral centers happy, with 24/7 visibility into the appraisal process, which historically has been considered the “black box” of the mortgage process.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Even as lenders make significant investments in new technology and digital infrastructure, they continue to struggle with increasing costs per loan and time-to-close metrics. It turns out this capability is pretty important to our clients,” said Keri Kramers-Dove, executive of Product Management for CoreLogic.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 7, 2021

I provide services to appraisers, banks, technology firms, education providers, appraisal management companies, and attorneys. Depending on the client’s needs, my work includes coaching, customized training, quality assurance, continuing education, disciplinary action assistance, internal audit, and other customized projects.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2024

Rocket Companies , the parent company of Rocket Mortgage , hired its first chief technology officer this week, bringing former Thomson Reuters and Intel executive Shawn Malhotra into the fold. As a technologist, one of the biggest strategic imperatives that we have is to bet big on technology , and specifically AI technology.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

But many of us don’t have huge compliance teams—maybe an officer or two or a consultant and a committee combined with some technology. Is your policy documented and available to pretty much anyone who asks for it—especially on your team? Again, this takes resources (people and technology).

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

And that’s not just anecdotal—across industries, the success of referral business is well documented. To find out, I interviewed Longmont, Colorado agent Mindy Jensen on Maxwell’s Clear to Close podcast to discuss her relationship with John, the lender who transacts her clients’ loans. Advocate for updated technology and tools.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

Largely hidden from view and misperceived by some to be on the lower end of the hierarchy of service providers, the position seemingly lacked the luster of the real estate agent or the panache of the loan officer. Is it having a happy client who will be a great reference? Is it closing on time? Is it closing on time?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Digital mortgage automation solution provider Floify launched verification of income (VOI) and verification of employment (VOE) waterfall technology that aims to save lenders and mortgage brokers time and reduce costs during the loan origination process.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The solution leverages the power of innovative, integrated technologies to not only simplify the mortgage application and approval process for borrowers, but also to improve the backend process for loan officers. For clients using Empower, all data is stored in Empower and accessed using APIs.

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Assurance Financial

MARCH 2, 2022

The number one point to make with our industry is that due to the incredible new capabilities of mortgage fintech, we need to rethink technology. Instead of thinking about the process and how to plug technology into the different steps, we need to think about the capabilities of the technology and how we change the process to adapt to it.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Lenders have come to appreciate the benefits technology can bring – but those benefits are only useful if the implementation of new tools doesn’t make the loan process more complicated. Information is routed from the borrower to the loan origination system and vice versa, with the solution providing prompt feedback.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2023

Real estate professionals who listen carefully better understand their clients’ wants and needs. They won’t waste time on mismatched properties or investments beyond a client’s reach. This does not mean you should allow clients to walk all over you. So how comfortable are you with new real estate technology?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

With interest rates hitting all-time lows, lenders doubled their origination volume to more than $4 trillion in both 2020 and 2021, hired more staff and ramped up investment in technology to close loans faster. billion came from its origination technology, according to their earnings reports. Of the $387.2 Halbrook said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It’s becoming clear that the settlement services industry, long reluctant to adopt new technology, is finally moving in the direction of comprehensive automation. Most of it is happening “between” technologies and systems. The result is extra time away from clients or other tasks, not to mention the potential for error.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Despite steep financial losses, mortgage tech company Blend continues to add some of America’s largest mortgage lenders to its client roster. Once an application is submitted, customers have a single portal for tracking its status, completing outstanding tasks, reviewing and electronically signing loan documentation.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The company’s powerful, end-to-end eMortgage technology is available via an intuitive interface that can be deployed quickly, and the company prides itself on its highly consultative approach designed to make the transition as easy as possible. By 1988, it was incorporated and had employees, functional technology and customers.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2021

Scheduling and even to some degree the ability to scan documents without as much human attention have also been improved. Those include collaborative communications (Realtor to closing officer; loan officer to escrow assistant, etc.) The loan officer might send something via encrypted email.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Loan officers dread having to email an appraisal firm for the report they’re waiting on. Title agents dread being blamed by everyone from the buyer to the seller, from the real estate agent to the lender, for that delay that falls between the signing of a sales agreement and the signing of the closing documents.

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