Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

Non-bank originator Change Lending lost its Community Development Fund Institution (CDFI) certification, according to a report from Barron’s. The CDFI certification is a designation given by the U.S. Change Lending was removed from the CDFI Fund’s list of certified program lenders last week, the outlet reported.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

I am a big believer in developing a brand for your real estate business from Day One. While you can develop name recognition over time, I believe that naming your team or brokerage something other than the leader’s name allows more opportunity for scale and differentiation. A great brand is a valuable tool, and it’s worth protecting.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The Los Angeles-based startup was designed and developed in a collaboration with BCG Digital Ventures , a global corporate venture, investment and incubation arm of the Boston Consulting Group. Endpoint charges a flat escrow rate that covers fees for recording services, mobile notary, document prep and wire services.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Mortgage Industry Standard Maintenance Organization (MISMO) announced last week that the organization is looking for participants for an initiative focused on standardizing pre-closing title document data sets. This frequently results in delayed document review and general inefficiencies in pre-closing procedures.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The CE Shop’s real estate courses are designed by licensed industry leaders, educators and subject matter experts, including real estate brokers, lawyers, CPAs, mortgage loan originators and other professionals with experience in the real estate industry. Some of these documents are PDFs and some are links to external websites.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Department of Treasury that would keep the firm certified as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). The CDFI certification is a designation given by the Treasury Department CDFI Fund to specialized organizations that provide financial services to low-income communities and people who lack financing.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Most digital solutions in the lending industry are designed to solve one problem and built for one audience in mind. Stavvy’s solution securely digitizes every aspect of the process – not just replacing pen and paper with electronic documents and signatures, but rethinking the entire workflow.

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Real Quantum

JUNE 8, 2022

How Do I Earn the MAI Designation? MAI designated appraisers have access to a wealth of career opportunities, increased recognition, and accelerated advancement through the industry. But what is the MAI designation exactly, and how does someone go about applying? What is the MAI Designation? Benefits of MAI Designation.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2022

Our technology and service model is designed to enable companies to configure their workflow dynamically as they move along the eClosing adoption curve,” said TCX CEO Alan Frelix. And its technology also includes tools to make the workflow efficient and scalable.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Minneapolis-based CarVal Investors , a global alternative investment manager and long-time player in the mortgage market, has launched a real estate mortgage investment conduit, or REMIC, that plans to work with loan originators around the country to develop and acquire innovative nonagency mortgage products.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Tuesday resolved uncertainty around special purpose credit programs, 45 years after Congress allowed lenders to tailor products to groups that have historically been excluded from homeownership. In a legal memo, HUD stated that SPCPs are allowed under the Fair Housing Act.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Further, our platform has a POS and LOS that are tightly integrated for bi-directional data and documents, removing the hurdles of disparate systems.”. We have implemented high-level process design plans, resulting in project plans curated to the lender’s specific needs,” Farris said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2021

Addressing these key issues is at the heart of WFG’s MyHome design, and continues to be the driving force behind each enhancement. MyHome also streamlines the settlement process and increases throughput by eliminating duplicate touchpoints, enabling proactive communication, and facilitating data and document collection, storage and sharing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2022

RON is the notarization of a document completed 100% electronically. The process includes a notary and a document signer using secure audiovisual and digital signing technology to finalize any financial document. In our industry, that often means home closing documents. Designate a subject matter expert on all things RON.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Over a billion documents are notarized each year — you probably know the drill. You sit down with a notary and the document to be notarized, the notary squints at your ID, looks at you, looks back at your ID, and then fills in some blanks on the document and applies a stamp. The seal is completed, and your document is official.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Last week’s announcement from the Department of Housing and Urban Development cleared the way for lenders to adopt targeted lending programs, but so far, they are treading carefully. But in the wake of HUD’s announcement, some lenders have, privately, grumbled that there are not sufficient incentives to develop the programs.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2021

Borrowers can qualify with their most recent personal or business account bank statements rather than going through an agency underwrite that requires more documentation. Fix n’ flip loans are ideal for investors and developers looking to purchase a home and renovate it.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Our hands-on approach to implementation, from developing the project roadmap to synchronized testing of each facet of the eClosing process, is what ensures our clients’ success.”. By switching the majority of loan documents from paper to digital, lenders can reduce a loan closing from hundreds of pages to just a few. Can I eClose?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, payments, insurance and proptech. Consumer loans such as mortgages and other financial documents require notarization. Register for the FinLedger Daily Newsletter.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

SH: I think technology and design are there to help solve the problem and the best technology and the best design are the ones you don’t actually realize are there. And the documentation is not even available for it. SW: What differentiates your tech? You are just experiencing them as you do what you need to do.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The platform is loan origination system-agnostic and is designed to deliver value to both borrowers and lenders–”from the point of thought of buying a house to the point of owning a home.” . Hassan Rashid steers Tavant’s strategy for continued profitable revenue growth, supported by a fully aligned business development engine.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2021

It’s no revelation that we all work in an antiquated system, but the coronavirus has brought into focus just how dependent the industry is on paper documents, the postal service and person-to-person contact. First, we need to standardize and digitize the regulatory infrastructure the entire industry relies upon. It’s time for the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2021

There was a time when the only goal of the LOS was to take a collection of consumer and property data, spread it out onto a number of executable documents and bundle it all into a closed loan that could be sold into the secondary market. Responsive design makes the LOS as easy to use on a tablet as it is on a laptop or desktop.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2021

BNT has developed Default Title Lifecycle Management Services, which works as an end-to-end solution to help clients further streamline the process from loan modification to re-performance. Sean Cooke is a 15-year veteran of the mortgage finance industry with deep experience in solution design and continuous process improvement.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

billion, according to offering documents. Since then, based on bond-rating documents and a report by ratings firm DBRS Morningstar — which rated the recent Saluda Grade shared-equity offering — there has been a total of 20 securitization deals backed by HELOCs and/or CES valued at about $4.8 There’s plenty of demand.,

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Origence designed its platform with the ability to continually transform and stand the test of time. Origence’s breakthroughs in automation of workplans, document processing, compliance and other time-consuming tasks help eliminate manual processes and streamline workloads. THE EXECUTIVES: Roger Hull, Chief Product Officer.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Prior to the pandemic, ALTA and MBA saw a need to develop model RON legislation. The first recommendation was for states to authorize RON and to pursue legislation that permitted the use of this technology and the interstate recognition of remotely notarized documents.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Essentially, Bharadwaj said, intelligent automation is “extracting the data sitting inside of documents and direct-sourced data to apply those against rules to automate straight-through processing.”. Despite any automation effort, there will always be exceptions and fallouts that a human being needs to oversee,” Bharadwaj said.

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GoForrmz

MAY 30, 2023

Our Professional Services team can help your business achieve: A streamlined and successful GoFormz implementation Rapid training of your users (and the development of internal experts) Templates and Workflows tailor-made for your business Access to powerful Workflows that require ProServices support and setup (e.g.

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McKissock

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

One party may forget to pass along a message, another may have the day off, or there may be a missing document. Title companies offer tips to help you organize all the documents required by closing agents. Several high-tech, paperless, digital document software systems exist—making real estate transactions much smoother and safer.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Any lender can access DocMagic’s Total eClose eClosing platform, regardless of their current document provider. Because the technology can consume data and documents from any source, it has the ability to dynamically e-enable any third-party documents, even if they were not originally produced by DocMagic.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

This new development is being propelled by an alleged Fannie Mae “request” that, according to industry sources, was made recently of several lenders active as buyers in M&A deals. It is not clear how many other lenders received the request from Fannie Mae.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

To do so, they utilize a data-driven approach to conceptualize, design and test solutions specifically aligned with the strategic markets in which they plan to deploy them. Key learnings from implementation and the identification of successes will result in an ability to scale impact to additional markets.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Participants choose from designated class dates. Q&A available w/ live streaming webinar 75-Hr Live Broker Class $559 Classes on designated dates / times. Prices Starting at Prelicensing $129 Exam Prep $59 Post-licensing CE $29.95 Instructor-paced outline for home study + LIVE time with instructor. out of 5 stars Rating: 4.5

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McKissock

MAY 15, 2023

An online legal team such as Rocket Lawyer can provide templates for various legal documents, as well as personalized legal advice, for a monthly fee—usually less than $100. You can design your own website for very little money, but you might want to hire a professional website designer who knows what works and what doesn’t.

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GoForrmz

DECEMBER 13, 2021

As your team is already familiar with the paper document, transitioning to a digital version of the form will decrease errors in data collection. Additionally, for many industries, it is critical that the document’s branding or formatting is preserved due to compliance or regulatory requirements.

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Simonson Real Estate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

We then analyze the data and develop opinions of value. MAI is a designated member of the Appraisal Institute. The appraiser’s role is to provide arm’s length, third-party, neutral, and impartial opinions about the value of a real property and provide assistance to those who own, manage, sell, invest in, or lend money on real estate.

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