Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

With so much changing in the market, it’s no surprise that the risk of mortgage fraud has increased this year. HousingWire: In this time of market change and as we head towards the last quarter of 2022, what are the hot topics in risk, fraud prevention and loan quality? DG: We’ve all been keeping up with the headlines.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today, a mortgage lender must have scalability in its operation, an ability to pivot quickly to meet changing market conditions and client needs, a well-designed technology stack and, above all, a keen sense of what its customers and the marketplace truly want from them.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Our market is popular with out-of-state buyers and agents relocating from other states. Foxfire cited RE/MAX’s technology offerings as a major draw to the brand. “We were completely blown away by the tools and technology and the culture of RE/MAX,” Owen Boone, RE/MAX Foxfire’s vice president and director of operations, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

While ChatGPT has become a go-to tool for many of us, predictive analytics tools offer a more efficient, data-driven approach to generating new client leads. Since real estate tech changes by the hour these days, we did a deep dive into the most helpful AI tools for real estate agents on the market today. Need more examples?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

With AI’s capacity to perform complex reasoning and manage autonomous operations, it is critical to explore how this technology can reshape industry standards, enhance operational efficiency, and how we as an industry manage its inherent risks. HW: What myths around AI would you like to set straight?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Flagstar ’s presence and expertise in the third-party wholesale mortgage origination market have combined to create a history of success extending over 35 years. That’s made Flagstar a true partner to the 3,600 clients the bank has served in its 35-plus year history.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

Up until the financial crisis in 2008, mortgage brokers held nearly 50% market share. DS: The growth of the channel has been significant, especially in terms of technology. UWM is focused and committed to building custom technology specifically for independent mortgage brokers. HW: How is broker market share trending?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

Intuitive technologies developed and built by experts in both mortgages and technology can drive efficiency, reliability and profitability when paired with exceptional customer service. We keep our ears to the ground and are always ready to pivot, find a solution and develop technologies our clients need to have a competitive edge.”.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Knock Home Swap has expanded into Orlando, Florida and Tampa, Florida, its first markets in the Sunshine State. Home Swap is offered exclusively through local real estate professionals who have been trained as Knock Certified Agents. Explore three steps that enable technology to work more efficiently, which helps drive profitability.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of the passions that has spanned my career in its entirety is creating exceptional experiences — for agents and their clients, our brokerage staff and anyone who interacts with our brand. 2. Make sure marketing is in your wheelhouse Of course, marketing is an essential part of most great brand experiences.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

At UWM we focus on our client service, operational efficiency and speed to close loans. UWM has significantly invested in our technology team and tech stack, offering career-focused training and development which has contributed to growing this function to over 1,100 team members,” Chief Technology Officer Jason Bressler said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

Austin-based real estate technology firm OJO is acquiring The LEAD Syndicate , a leverage platform for real estate professionals, according to an announcement on Tuesday. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The LEAD Syndicate was founded by Nikki Miller, who will join OJO in an undisclosed role.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Regardless of the outcome, real estate brokers are doing all they can to prepare their brokerages and their agents for more transparency, education on the value real estate agents bring to the transaction, and more, according to the 2023 Q4 BrokerPulse survey , a forward-looking housing market sentiment survey by HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2024

With the industry quickly changing and the market conditions that we are facing, the impact of both having this strong network of our affiliated agents and brokers, but also the power of the scale of our organization behind them is really evident. I have also learned a lot about the power of scale.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Charfi is the former senior director of sales and strategic growth at Compass and he has a background in business development for both real estate and technology companies including LinkedIn and Oracle. Meanwhile, Kevin is equally talented when it comes to our pl@tform technology , coaching, training, and recruiting.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

According to a statement from the company, “Homelendia Mortgage will offer a unique and streamlined approach to mortgage brokerage ownership and the mortgage process, utilizing cutting-edge technology to provide a seamless and efficient experience for borrowers and lenders.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

But they acknowledge that they keep a vast amount of customer data and some players may be vulnerable amid a shrinking market. It’s scary out there,” a technology leader at a top lender said anonymously, adding that there were recent cyberattack attempts at his company. “We Training their workforce is also crucial, they said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Lenders and search companies alike need to look for trusted agent partners to provide the client with the experience they deserve. All our agents have an incredible amount of accountability to each of our partners to make sure all clients have a world-class real estate experience.”. Technology plays a vital role in this.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We discussed the current market and ways the real estate industry is addressing this industry-wide issue. Chris Knight: The shortage of appraisers is not going to be remedied without focusing on the larger issue—the lack of focus on recruiting and training new appraisers. Since early 2020, we’ve trained more than 150 cadets.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

In today’s low-rate environment, wholesale mortgage lending continues to grow, making up more than 20% market share. Nichols pointed out that after the 2008 financial crisis, wholesale lending began using technology that helped match pace with the processes of retail lenders. We’re not out building a retail person’s name.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Despite low inventory, the housing market is expected to remain strong in 2021 due to low mortgage rates. Real estate brokers need to be able to target these clients effectively, so they can close deals quickly. One of the biggest mistakes housing professionals make is not keeping in touch with past clients.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2022

Unlike other solutions, Solex from Docutech is a fully integrated, end-to-end eClose solution meaning lenders work with only one vendor and implement one technology. Adam Stern, Chief Technology Officer, Docutech. Documents are also generated in seconds and do not have a delay when creating the eClose sessions.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Too many real estate agents are watching artificial intelligence (AI) from the sidelines, assuming technology will never replace them. However, it was deemed as too challenging technologically so it languished. It is trained on text data and learns to identify patterns from that data to generate human-like text responses.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2021

There are many more moving pieces and loan originators spend a great deal of time communicating with clients and their real estate agents. Rocket Pro TPO helps accelerate the entire mortgage process with underwriting speed and by offering brokers’ clients the information they need in a concise and clear format. .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The pandemic has brought to the surface the glaring inefficiencies – limited trained staff, multiple claims systems, inefficient manual processes – and (unnecessary) financial costs that have plagued the claims servicing process for decades. Servicers are taking a harder look at technology to reinvent the way they process claims.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with John Keratsis, President and CEO of Deephaven Mortgage, about the potential benefits of non-QM lending in today’s tight housing market. HousingWire: In today’s tight market, margin compression is impacting countless mortgage companies. You also have a mortgage market shrinking from $4.1

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The real estate market has been on a crazy ride for the past few years. Frankly, much of my work has been time-consuming for many reasons, including trying to measure different markets in this interesting time. In the meantime, I had a chance to interview Anastasia Corjan, who is the Senior Marketing Manager at CubiCasa.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

Lenders and applicants alike rely on powerful tools and technology that increase transparency and create ease, speed and convenience. The company’s predictive analytics platform not only provides lenders with the benefit of intuitive technology, it also helps more applicants qualify for mortgages.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2021

As Chief Strategy Officer at Mortgage Capital Trading , Leslie Winick has harnessed her industry experience to help lead new technology innovations and industry-leading support that allowed MCT to continue to meet client needs despite the volatility of the past year. Some examples include expert, third party training (e.g.,

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2021

According to the Detroit-based company, it will be leveraging the same technology, data and client experience used in the mortgage, real estate and personal lending spaces “to help Americans make their home more energy efficient.”. “We have a significant portfolio of clients, roughly 2.5 thus far and counting.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with David Peskin, president of Reverse Mortgage Funding, who said entering the reverse mortgage business could allow originators to break into a growing market with significant demand that is largely untapped. David Peskin: As we all know, the housing market is booming right now.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2022

The 2022 housing market has been underscored by interest rate spikes and refi decline and lenders are working hard to adjust to new borrower trends. We are seeing many lenders take advantage of this opportunity by increasing their share of the fast-growing home equity market. Technology equals efficiency.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2024

While real estate brokerages have no control over interest rates, transaction levels or home sales prices, they realize that proactive recruiting of agents is a key to success in a slow market. Simultaneously, predictive marketing also gained a lot of traction. When labeled training data is not available (i.e.,

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 12, 2024

Lamacchia Realty achieved multiple Number One Rankings for Market Share in 2023 in Worcester & Leominster. CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL PRESS RELEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL PRESS RELEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL PRESS RELEASE The company’s mission has become to guide REALTORS®, employees, and clients to their success.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2023

Aaron Drago: In today’s market, wholesale brokers face several challenges. Not only are they navigating a market that continues to bring changes and fluctuations, but they are also challenged with the need to interact with multiple different companies and platforms. HousingWire: What are the current challenges wholesale brokers face?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

As president and CEO, Donnellan ensures the delivery of top technology, data and customer service to Bright MLS’ subscribers. Donnellan and his team understand their role in helping the real estate professionals of the Mid-Atlantic navigate their rapidly-evolving industry and provide maximum value back to their clients.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Whether additional volume comes from an uptick in foreclosure activity or onboarding new clients, we have vendors that are hungry for it.”. Safeguard’s technology. If we have better technology, better mobile applications, people can actually end up doing more work and generate more revenue,” Greenbaum said.

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