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 data can also be accessed via an API, in bulk data, or through a dynamic web application.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

Notable in light of the current servicing challenges facing the industry, Stavvy’s eClosing technology is designed to facilitate faster borrower communication and closings as servicers work through loan modifications, referrals and forbearance. Presented by: Sagent Lending Technologies.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2021

Acra Lending is doing what it can to help free up inventory. Acra’s jumbo prime mortgage solution is designed to provide borrowers with the larger loan amounts needed to purchase a high-value property, with loan amounts up to $3 million. Acra Lending plans to launch its fix’n’flip loan program in the coming weeks. Fix’n’flip.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

Roostify, which powers the digital mortgage platforms of JPMorgan Chase , TD Bank , Guild Mortgage , HSBC Bank USA and more, allows different lending parties to bring in data and information from online sources that then tailors the homebuying process.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 31, 2022

As we all know, the home valuation is an integral part of the lending process that helps Americans in their journey to homeownership. This series of articles explores the role of appraisal review processes in the risk system in the format of mortgage lending for 1-4 family real estate. The Appraisal Review.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2021

One issue is that among the low inventory, there are even fewer homes that are move-in ready, said Keith Lind, executive chairman and president of Acra Lending. “We According to Lind, one way for existing housing stock to be expanded and improved upon is through investors or developers using fix’n’flip loans.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. billion, according to a review of bond-rating and industry reports.

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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. Servicing Digital, offered as an app or web design, enables customers to access their loan- and home-related information.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Their collective expertise spans the entire spectrum of the sector, encompassing areas such as lending, tech, real estate, appraisal, compliance, operations, sales and so much more. The following list of honorees comprises many more examples of exceptional leadership from some of the industry’s most accomplished women.

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2022

The designers historically have been unwilling to tell lenders all the factors used and how they are weighted,” Kully said. In his own statement Thursday, Chopra said companies have “legal responsibilities when they let a black-box model make lending decisions.”. Presented by: Mortgage Coach.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

It took several years to re-establish effective and meaningful communication between appraisers and their lending partners. When it comes to lending activity, appraisal revisions have always been a part of the appraisal process. Complexity in Process and Properties. Is there room for more improvement? Technologies are moving fast.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2021

Head of Product and Design. Aslan Home Lending Corporation. Mortgage Investors Group. JMAC Lending. Synergy One Lending. SVP, Correspondent Lending. National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Community Development Fund. Planet Home Lending. Ashley Smith. VP, Marketing. Bernadette Kogler.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Purveyors of very complex financial instruments, sold to risk-averse investors under the careful oversight of government regulators, have given us a process that must conform to investor and regulatory compliance requirements. Lending technology out of focus. We have fared much better on the automation side.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

Clearly, not all these homes can be returned to the market in a cost-effective way, or face other obstacles, such as their location in higher-crime or deteriorating neighborhoods, according to Keith Lind, CEO of Acra Lending. Just because there’s vacant homes in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech-focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, insurance and real estate. To that end, Blend plans to use the new capital to invest in product development such as speeding up the release of its digital closing solution.

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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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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Real estate investment trust Redwood was founded in the early 1990s as the need for more private investors in the mortgage market grew. “The way the investor gets paid is that you share in the upside of the home.” Things take longer to develop, but the relationships are also typically stickier. There will be changes.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

That’s why a growing number of lenders are investing time and resources into developing and implementing robust social media compliance policies. Effectively implementing a social media program and training loan officers on the numerous regulations and policies pertinent to mortgage lending is no small task.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2021

After reading the recent report from the Federal Housing Finance Agency on the performance of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’ s credit risk transfer programs, anyone unfamiliar with the purposes of CRT might understandably conclude that the GSEs vastly overpaid capital market investors and insurance providers to transfer credit risk off their books.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

At a time when social distancing concerns play a large role in business decisions, many lenders are focused on implementing digital technology to update antiquated, paper-reliant lending processes. Total eClose maximizes user adoption by featuring an intuitive design and elegant workflow.

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Eppraisal

JANUARY 31, 2023

Having identified a parcel of vacant land -- and negotiated a purchase contract with the seller -- the investor in raw land is now at the point where financing becomes the issue.  There  There are a number of different options regarding getting the money necessary to acquire the property on which to build a house.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2022

Investors will need to quantify and charge for the risk that they will be held accountable for [with respect to] the acts of third-party servicers …,” he said. “It There could be allegations of predatory lending, for example. “. The appeal, if accepted, will be reviewed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Moody’s Take.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2021

To offset costs, the Biden Administration wants to raise the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% which, combined with measures designed to stop offshoring of profits, would fund the entire plan within 15 years, according to the White House. Presented by: Sagent Lending Technologies.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Luckily, advancements in evaluating consumers’ ability to repay have arrived and can enable lenders to adopt responsible and more inclusive lending practices. Industry leaders are investing in research and development to expand the realm of financial data that consumers can offer permission for lenders to view and analyze.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

At a time when social distancing concerns play a large role in business decisions, many lenders are focused on digital technology to update paper-based lending processes. DocMagic provides clients with an agile and technology-forward lending platform that ensures that they can sustain and scale critical business processes.

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McKissock

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Real estate investment crowdfunding is becoming the go-to for many developers who can’t or don’t want to go the traditional route to gain funding for a project. It’s also gaining popularity as a low-risk way for investors to break into real estate investing or expand an already established portfolio. With 130,000 members and nearly $4.9

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

However, as the campaign transitions to the Biden-Harris administration, the incoming team needs to address significant operational and design challenges before such a tax credit is sufficiently ripe for consideration by a narrowly divided Congress. of the average home price. Instead of letting the fee expire on Oct.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The SEC report offers a portrait of the regulatory process ongoing behind the scenes in the rating-agency world, which is a key to maintaining transparency for investors and issuers across a range of markets. The large NRSROs, according to the SEC report, are Fitch Ratings , Moody’s Investor Service and S&P Global Ratings.

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McKissock

JANUARY 6, 2023

There are appraisal jobs available in the lending sector, such as staff appraisers, review appraisers, fee panel managers, and with experience and time on the job, chief appraiser and valuation compliance officer jobs can be found. Non-lending appraisal courses. Who staffs these types of jobs?

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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. Grant Applications.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Coming off multiple quarters of financial losses , Rocket has accelerated those efforts in 2023, embarking on a remote local loan officer hiring spree designed to capture purchase market business from real estate agent connections, sources told HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Servicers, lenders and investors dealt with a tsunami of 7.7 Goldstone, who is president of Capital Markets & Lending at BSI Financial Services , estimates that between 20% to 25% of borrowers in BSI’s servicing portfolio have been non-communicative, he told HousingWire. of the U.S. population. An army of door-knockers.

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McKissock

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

McKissock’s Unlimited Learning Members enjoy unlimited access to online appraisal classes and a variety of professional development videos, checklists, and other resources. This course is a primer on how to inspect a residential property, and it is designed to be meaningful and relevant for experienced appraisers and novice appraisers alike.

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Appraisal Today

APRIL 12, 2024

Retrospective appraisals, drive-by (exterior inspection) appraisals, and valuations from plans and specifications, are all valuation assignments where an appraiser develops an appraisal opinion without personally inspecting the property. But if for lending, it might be rejected on review by GSE computers or humans. bath, 10,405 sq.ft.,

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Will Springer Realtor

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

That, in turn, can often weaken the confidence of builders, consumers and investors amid a looming recession. Facebook (Meta) is evolving its office arrangements, leaving space in Seattle and Bellevue and contemplating additional contraction while opening a new lab (Frank Gehry-designed Building X) in Redmond later this year.

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Realvals

JUNE 18, 2023

The LTV is a percentage that represents the amount of money to lend compared to the value of the home. Investment Analysis Whether you are a single-family, multi-family, or even commercial investor, you could benefit from an appraisal. Investors often buy multi-family properties to convert to TIC units.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 12, 2023

Fannie Mae will end up creating more instability for the trillions in the bond market – investors will have to process millions of valuations with the physical attributes of the home collected by unlicensed, uninsured, and unprepared individuals getting paid $10-$25 per inspection. Mortgage lending is very, very cyclical.

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