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Blend reaches unicorn status with $75 million Series F raise

Housing Wire

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. Blend announced Wednesday it has raised a $75 million Series F round at a valuation of nearly $1.7 Stay tuned for updates.

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Clear Capital and ICE Mortgage Technology Expand Partnership to Support Adoption of Modern Appraisal Programs

Clear Capital

Through this integration, Clear Capital will deliver an improved user experience for mortgage lenders and loan officers ordering products that support appraisal modernization, such as Universal Data Collection (UDC ) , Desktop appraisals and Hybrid appraisals. Our goal is to provide customers with a complete understanding of every U.S.

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ROV (Reconsideration of Value) Changes – FHA and GSEs

Appraisal Today

This is the statement in the HUD/FHA ML-2024-07: “This included guidance to improve the established process by which FHA program participants may request an ROV if the initial valuation is lower than expected.” The mortgage loan officer handling the loan? Was it the borrower? A Zillow Zestimate?

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WFG reports its highest volume months ever during Q2 and Q3 of 2020

Housing Wire

Behind him, the recent financial crisis still cast a cautionary shadow over new business development, but ahead he saw opportunities for a client-centric, tech-focused family of companies in the title insurance and real estate settlement services industry. Now, at WFG’s 10-year anniversary, this vision holds even more relevance.

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Lone Wolf Technologies CEO on the evolution of real estate tech

Housing Wire

Our Boost product, for example, is designed to help agents with lead generation. But as an organization, ultimately, we embrace design thinking, not just in R&D, we actually use it throughout. We have a really sharp design organization that will do the conceptual elements before we get anywhere near like writing a line of code.

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All You Need to Know About Reverse Mortgage Appraisals

AmeriMac

The reverse mortgage process typically begins with a borrower contacting a loan officer who specializes in reverse mortgages. The loan officer will assess the homeowner’s eligibility and explain the details of the loan, including the potential loan amount and repayment terms.

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ChatGPT for Appraisers

Appraisal Today

2023 E&O Insurance Brokers Risks of Expert Work by Claudia Gaglione, Esq A long article from Claudia with 4 very good case studies. In valuation we can either go out further in distance for comps or go back in time in the immediate neighborhood. Why are appraisers using older sales? For a balanced view of things, why not do both?