Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2023

Related to its goal of achieving profitability , title insurer Doma announced Thursday that it had sold its title operations in Texas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana to two different companies. The financial terms of the deals were not disclosed. We are excited to welcome the talented team from Doma.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Consider the residential client disappointed at the lack of inventory , or the commercial investor with many vacancies in a once-thriving property. Communicate effectively with clients Proactive communication — answering the question before it’s asked, or offering solutions to impending problems — is key. But don’t kid yourself.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2021

Real estate tech startup Spruce announced on Wednesday a Series C funding round of $60 million led by Zigg Capital and backed solely by repeat investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners and Scale Venture Partners. Spruce currently works with clients including Better.com, Hometap, and US Wide.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2021

Blend’s investors are apparently convinced that the company can radically transform lending, simplifying and digitizing regimented-but-clumsy processes that are still rather paperwork-heavy. ” Blend’s white-label technology is what powers mortgage applications on the website of traditional banks such as Wells Fargo and U.S. .

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2021

Real estate tech company Spruce announced a joint project Tuesday with insurtech platform Digital Partners and American Digital Title Insurance Company to offer a fully underwritten title commitment that it says can be completed in minutes. In September, the companies announced a joint project to offer cost-effective title insurance.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polly, a software-as-service mortgage-technology firm that operates a loan-trading platform , has raised $37 million through a new funding round, its third since launching in 2019 — bringing the total raised from investors to $57 million.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2022

The company, whose white-label technology powers mortgage applications on the websites of major lenders such as Wells Fargo and U.S. Blend wrote in its Q4 earnings presentation that rising mortgage rates have forced executives to pull back “very hard” on hiring and hinted layoffs in title insurance. Bank , expects to incur about $6.7

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2022

First American Financial Corporation ’s digital closing platform firm Endpoint is now offering a suite of integrated title tools specifically designed for proptech companies, investors and tech-forward real estate organizations looking for a scalable digital closing platform. Presented by: Rently.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2023

million in a seed round, the Miami-based cryptocurrency lending platform announced on Tuesday that it launched a product that allows investors in Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDC to use their assets to secure funding for real estate purchases. “The use case for crypto has to go beyond investment potential. Six months after raising $3.5

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2022

In 2008, as the financial crisis was unfolding, he landed a job at secretive big data startup Palantir , where he learned that the $10 trillion mortgage industry was still in the Stone Age technologically. million in 2020 during the refi-boom and with the market headed into a correction, executives warned investors revenue would plummet.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2021

“In the second quarter we continued to expand our customer base and grow within existing customers, closed a large acquisition that will accelerate the advancement of our platform, and executed a successful IPO with strong investor interest and support,” Ghamsari said in a statement. It also said it now has deals with 32 of the top 100 U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Servicers are taking a harder look at technology to reinvent the way they process claims. The flexibility of being able to make the required changes to processes and technology can be extremely daunting without the right tools and vendor partners in place. This resulted in the expanded use of Cloud-based technologies like Cloud-Claims.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

First American Financial, which provides title insurance, settlement services and risk solutions for real estate transactions, has acquired a minority interest in ServiceMac’s parent company and that interest will convert into equity of ServiceMac at the acquisition’s closing, pending regulatory approvals. First American Financial Corp.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2021

Thankfully, technology is increasing efficiency and making it possible for companies to create solutions that help lenders receive timely and accurate title services. This solution uses technology as a driver to shorten the loan cycle time, increase transparency and reduce friction with the title product.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Many of them are determined to make an impact in industries that have yet to be significantly modernized by technology. A quick look at the history of real estate technology will tell you that almost everything up and down the transaction chain has been targeted for innovation. At this point, you need clients. Very regulated.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

Figure Technologies co-founder and CEO Mike Cagney. The plan was for Figure Technologies to launch such a product only after completing the merger with multichannel mortgage lender Homebridge Financial Services. Although interest in blockchain is gaining steam in mortgage, it is still very much a nascent technology.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

” Better is partnering with other businesses to offer services such as homeowner’s insurance and to provide access to a network of real estate agents, rather than offering these products and services directly to borrowers. That technology platform has helped us maintain best-in-class compliance and regulatory audits.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2022

For the first time, the ALTA Registry will provide data on individual title insurance and settlement services companies, identified by an ALTA ID. It’s crucial that the title insurance industry urge progress and innovation in the digital closing space.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2021

This must be more than just an individual technology or system, but comprehensive, end-to-end solutions that can drive efficiency from application through close to the delivery of loans into the secondary market. At the heart of our ecosystem approach is technology.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As an industry, we observed first-hand during the pandemic the transformative power technology has over the mortgage origination process, especially with the borrower’s experience at closing. With compelling data such as this, there shouldn’t be anything stopping lenders from implementing RON technology and reaping the benefits.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. Successful agents, brokerages and loan officers of the future are going to rely significantly on technology to find, nurture and engage with buyers and sellers while also playing an expanding role as personal advisors. .

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Cooper Elly Cummings Divisional EVP New American Funding Eloise Schmitz Co-founder and CEO LoanNEX Erika Franks President ACT Appraisal Felecia Bowers Senior Vice President and Director of Compliance and Servicing Homeowners Financial Group Georgia Perez Chief Growth Officer LiveEasy Heidi Mason Executive Vice President and General Counsel Freddie (..)

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

Investors asked for higher premiums to invest in these assets amid a flight to quality caused by the expectation of higher U.S. “Even though the market may have priced in some of the rate change already, the volatility is just requiring additional yield to be provided to investors to accommodate for the changes going on.”

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The Robert Weiler Company

MARCH 29, 2023

As an investor, you know that income-generating properties can bring a reliable monthly cash flow and build long-term wealth. Ask for referrals from industry professionals, such as commercial real estate brokers, appraisers, developers, and investors. Join a local commercial real estate investor network.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

Still, despite the gloomy news of late for SFR and fix-and-flip investors, some industry experts see better fortunes ahead in 2024 for both sectors. “We That should help to unlock more inventory while also reducing financing costs for leveraged investors.

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McKissock

APRIL 3, 2022

With how quickly the crypto wave is catching on in general, this is a good time for real estate agents to study how crypto technology can potentially be used to benefit your real estate practice before it becomes a new norm — with or without you. Marketplace Platforms. The Current State of Bitcoin.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

So why aren’t more commercial real estate (CRE) entities – investors , principals, banks, law firms or developers – seeking the same? Rapidly advancing technology and data analytics have also revolutionized the commercial real estate landscape, offering scores of new avenues for value creation and risk mitigation.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Meanwhile, homeowners insurance is increasingly becoming a bigger issue for consumers and servicers. In California, Texas and Louisiana, as well as portions of other states that are at risk for natural disasters , just getting homeowners insurance is getting more difficult as large insurers stop writing coverage.

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Listing Spark

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We’ll dive into how newer builders and investors can navigate the changing market with Greg Naughton, Owner of Magnets REI with 22+ years experience in construction and 10 years experience as an investor and builder. 00:07:14] Here’s what you should be doing as an investor or builder in the current real estate market.

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McKissock

MAY 8, 2022

With how quickly the crypto wave is catching on in general, this is a good time for real estate agents to study how crypto technology can potentially be used to benefit your real estate practice before it becomes a new norm — with or without you. Marketplace Platforms. The Current State of Bitcoin.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2024

On the right tech mindset: Adam Carmel, Polly CEO : “When I was in lending, I think I always overestimated the impact technology or software, or more importantly, a switch in technology, would have on our business in the first six months or a year, and the difficulty in transitioning.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2021

Vice President of Technology Services. Nexsys Technologies. Mortgage Investors Group. VP, Purchase and Client Relations Operations. Senior Director, Product & Client Solutions. Mortgage Insurers. Westcor Land Title Insurance Company. WFG National Title Insurance Company. Cassandra Alvis.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

Similarly, seemingly every element of a real estate transaction demands numerous siloed service providers working simultaneously with technology and data kept in silos. Almost every state, county and municipality has its own, unique set of real estate customs, laws and regulations.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2022

SitusAMC subsidiary Securent is expanding its reach into the private-label market with plans to soon introduce a loan-defect insurance product for residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) transactions, according to executives from both companies. Nobody else has done loan-defect insurance for securitizations yet.”.

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The Robert Weiler Company

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The obligation to the client isn’t met. An appraisal review is a second opinion or added insurance for the transaction to ensure the purchase price history, comps, adjustments, and disclaimers are accurate. As economics, finance, law, and technology change, The Robert Weiler Company stays on top of the CRE trends.

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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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