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With homegenius Real Estate’s solutions, lenders can help homeowners explore their home equity options

Housing Wire

To help homeowners explore their home equity options, lenders, investors and others in the industry should consider leveraging tech-backed services. The technology is designed to analyze images as well as predict objects of value and room conditions within a house.

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ICE unveils two new property valuation solutions

Housing Wire

Valuation Selector helps lenders and investors identify the most suitable valuation method (AVM, AVM with inspection, desktop exterior, desktop interior or full appraisal) for a property, depending on its complexity.

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CAPE Analytics launches new AI-powered, automated property condition report tool 

Housing Wire

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 common understanding of valuation, inspection and even property value is shifting, as more and more technology-enabled alternatives are emerging.

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Lender Toolkit and Reggora partner to streamline mortgage underwriting

Housing Wire

By resolving common issues that arise during the appraisal process, such as payment, inspection scheduling, and status updates, the Reggora platform enhances the borrower’s experience. Reggora offers a two-sided platform with configurable workflows designed for mortgage lenders and appraisal vendors.

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Why it’s time for the housing industry to get serious about climate risk

Housing Wire

Change in uninsured losses As of late, however, the uninsured losses are being absorbed by other stakeholders in the housing finance system, including mortgage lenders, mortgage servicers, private mortgage insurers, government agencies, capital markets investors, and the government-sponsored enterprises.

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Fannie Mae pays $53M to settle recession-era discrimination suit

Housing Wire

Instead, investors bought the run-down properties in bulk sales. Our REO maintenance standards are designed to ensure that all properties are tended to and treated equally.”. During a four-year investigation, plaintiffs collected 49,000 photographs of poorly maintained properties in Black and Latino communities.

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Darwin Homes grabs $15 million in Series A funding

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Investors for the round of funding included Canvas Ventures and Camber Creek , among others, along with contributions from Tony Xu at DoorDash , Ryan Graves at Uber , and Andrew Marks with TQ Ventures. Existing software were all closed ecosystems that created more challenges than they were designed to solve.