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Mobile app for Optimal Blue PPE allows loan officers access to scenario pricing anywhere

Housing Wire

Optimal Blue ’s newly launched mobile app for the Optimal Blue PPE – one of the industry’s most widely used product, pricing and eligibility engine – gives loan officers full product and search capabilities from their mobile phones. The mobile app is available for Android as well as iOS for download.

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How ChatGPT can help you work more efficiently and generate more leads

Housing Wire

By its own description, ChatGPT is “an AI-powered chatbot developed by OpenAI, based on the GPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) language model. No downloading of software or an app is required. ChatGPT for lenders Several use cases exist for mortgage companies and loan officers to use ChatGPT and AI.

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Yoga and a mortgage? Guaranteed Rate has a new app for that

Housing Wire

More than a mortgage app Developed by the company’s in-house technology team, the Rate App took two-and-a-half years to bring to market and an investment of “millions of dollars,” Ciardelli said, though he declined to provide a specific figure. Delivering value to stay relevant So what is the new app’s business benefit for loan officers?

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Better.com to acquire UK-based digital mortgage brokerage

Housing Wire

The digital-only lender, whose loan officers don’t make commissions, capitalized on an incredible boom in refinancings. Download the white paper for a playbook to building a tech-enabled acquisition strategy for growth. Better is one of America’s fastest-growing lenders. The digital journey starts at acquisition.

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AI can finally address some of the chokepoints in title

Housing Wire

Those include collaborative communications (Realtor to closing officer; loan officer to escrow assistant, etc.) One Realtor may prefer text while a loan officer might wish to use a technology integrated with her LOS and the buyer might only communicate via phone. Things like: “How long until the closing?

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5 Ways to Help First-Time Homebuyers

McKissock

Schaechterle suggests that part of developing trust is by setting up clear expectations for a new home buyer. A good agent is willing to share their knowledge of different areas, as well as share their contacts regarding loan officers, essential documentation that shows sellers the buyers are serious, among other services.

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An Appraiser’s First Impressions of Clear Capital’s AVM

Portland Appraisal Blog

An appraiser should keep an eye on alternatives to the services he/she offers, so I recently downloaded a number of white papers on AVMs from different websites, including Clear Capital’s. For reference, my developed opinion of value was: $400,000, so the AVM was ~4.2%