Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2022

At an investor conference last fall, Redwood Trust Inc. CEO Christopher Abate outlined the company’s strategy to expand its reach in existing markets while also seeking out strategic investments in new markets. Those new investments include venture capital plays, particularly in the financial-technology arena.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 29, 2024

Dovenmuehle Mortgage reports that Moody’s Investors Service has affirmed its servicer quality (SQ) assessment as a servicer of prime residential mortgage loans at SQ2-. Our sustained performance reflects the dedication of our experienced team and our ongoing investment in technology and process enhancements.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

“The transition just became along the lines of the team’s ability to have a product suite and technology.” But according to him, the firm has invested in new construction, land, and condominiums in a challenging mortgage market. “In wholesale, you can shop and sell the loan to a multitude of investors.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Repurchases have been a hot topic for lenders, and to some degree, the agencies and investors have gotten a bad rap in these discussions,” said Nick Volpe , executive vice president of ACES Quality Management. “ Non-QM loans are those that cannot be purchased by the GSEs.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2023

California-based real estate investing platform Peer Street, Inc. Founded in 2013 by Brew Johnson, Brett Crosby and Alex Perelman, Peer Street developed a marketplace connecting lenders and borrowers seeking capital to investors looking for real estate-related debt. Burry was one of PeerStreet’s first investors in 2015.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2022

Figure , a blockchain-focused financial service company and Apollo , a global alternative asset manager, announced today completing a transaction involving the origination of digital mortgage loans and transfer of ownership via blockchain technology, according to a press release shared with FinLedger.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

Despite advances in technology, the mortgage industry still lacks efficiency. Mortgage executives are aware of a problem: despite billions of dollars in technology investments , the mortgage industry still largely looks like it did two decades ago. He added: “We have a tremendous amount of proprietary technology being built.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Moon Mortgage’s CryptoMortgages will allow investors to take out loans against their digital assets. The product also takes the investors’ digital assets as collateral and gives 100% financing for investment properties. With CryptoMortgage, the company aims to connect crypto and TradFi to make leveraging digital assets easier.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

TTV Capital , Moderne Ventures , Erez Capital and other venture capital firms led the round of investment. With this capital infusion, the company aims to accelerate its product development, grow its team and pursue market penetration with real estate brokerages, MLS associations and other proptech companies nationwide. “We

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

Stavvy, a Boston-based fintech, announced Monday that it landed a $40 million Series A funding round led by Morningside Technology Ventures. COVID19 certainly accelerated development and focus on servicing, coming out of 2019 with record low default and foreclosure.”. Presented by: Sagent Lending Technologies.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2022

Founded in 2000, Irvine, California-based Inco-Check leverages its proprietary web-based platform to support GSE, regulatory agency, and investor requirements. Boston, Massachusetts-based NGC, founded in 2015, is focused on making investments in health care services, financial services technology, distribution and logistics sectors.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Jamie Thornton, director of online mortgage lending at Real Genius, said in a statement that the company has “invested a significant amount of time and resources” into developing technology for customers. Additionally, the lender promises borrowers a “personalized approach” and “access to veteran mortgage professionals.”.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2021

Fintech lender Figure Technologies is going full force in to the mortgage lending – and now servicing – blockchain revolution. Just one week after its announcement that it would merge with lender Homebridge Financial Services , the company revealed a partnership with loan servicing software developer Sagent. billion valuation.

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The Robert Weiler Company

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Every year, new commercial real estate investment blogs and podcasts are started and books published. They all promise to have the best secrets and latest tips on CRE investing, but which resources are worth your time? They cover trends and research that focus on commercial real estate investment, finance, development, and leasing.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

On its fourth quarter earnings call with investors, Fidelity National Financial announced that its adjusted full-year net earnings came in at $2.3 Our adjusted earnings in the fourth quarter reflect the best quarter in the company’s history,” newly appointed CEO Mike Nolan said during a call with investors. billion, with $1.0

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

“Investors have a view of this sector in general; every company has a low valuation, and certainly in mortgages,” Martell said. ” Martell said loanDepot is investing in fundamental, underlying systems and looking at the point-of-sale technology. ” loanDepot’s stock closed at $1.47 on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2022

The title insurance space isn’t generally known for placing outsized bets on technology. But for First American, its shrewd investments in rising proptech companies are a core business strategy. In addition, He will continue to serve as the managing director of the company’s venture investing arm. As of Sept.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Other investors included Golden Tree Asset Management , Raptor Group , and FJ Labs. Another 11 existing venture investors, such as White Star Capital and Kingsway Capital , followed on in the round. Regarding the mortgage industry, the acceptance of cryptocurrencies by investors lags the development of new products.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2022

With eMortgages, when the most critical component of the loan file – the note – is digitized, it allows lenders to expedite the delivery of loan collateral to their investors or warehouse lenders. While the benefits of eMortgages are apparent, adoption of the technology is just beginning to take off in a significant way.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Build the right team Given the new technologies and expert outsourcing options available to lenders today, staffing up to handle new business doesn’t make as much sense as it did in the past. Fine-tune your tech stack Once your team is in place, it’s time to empower them with the right technology.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2022

Karl Jacob, CEO and co-founder of LoanSnap , said the cyrpto-mortgage system his company has developed can originate more than just loans that LoanSnap mints. LoanSnap is a mortgage company that employs artificial intelligence (AI) technology to originate loans more efficiently and faster. We’re not huge, but we’re not small either.”.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

As a marketer by profession, I tend to put these companies into categories to create a narrative and to develop brand specificity. Principal among these are: Invested capital “requires” the highest return. Investors’ No. Intransigent capital is the clear answer and the usual suspect. 1 job is to optimize shareholder value.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Mark Birschbach, Senior Vice President, Strategic Business, Innovation and Technology National Association of Realtors. Birschbach is a founding team member of NAR’s award-winning REACH technology program. In his role at the association, Birschbach is a key thought leader and innovator in real estate.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

News just broke that private equity investor LLR Partners announced strategic investments in two mortgage technology companies — Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang ( click here for article ). LLR is not a newcomer to mortgage technology or the overall fintech market. In 2016 LLR led a $26.5 No surprise here.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2021

Canadian real estate technology company Voxtur Analytics Corp. “This strategic acquisition bolsters recurring revenues and accelerates the development of Voxtur’s data ingestion engine, allowing clients to achieve optimal efficiency and cost savings,” Voxtur said in a statement. million, the company said this week.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Surveyed professionals also pointed to finding investor clients and have had success with products such as non-qualified mortgages ( non-QM s), down payment assistance programs (DPAs) and home equity line of credits ( HELOC s). Others allocated resources into digital marketing (31.1%), automation technology (26.7%) and market data (19.3%).

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2021

That has some producers of non-QM loans, which require specialized underwriting expertise, looking to technology, big data and the development of automated underwriting platforms as the solution for dealing with the anticipated surge in loan volume in the years ahead. Automation just increases efficiencies,” Hutchens added.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Working as a commercial real estate developer can be a lucrative career path for savvy entrepreneurs. Setting Yourself Up for Success in Real Estate Development. Perhaps the most important trait for a commercial real estate developer is the ability to identify an ideal piece of land. Invest in marketing.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

million raise in equity funding with participation from affiliates of Starwood Capital Group and Freedom Mortgage , alongside independent investor and Softbank Group International CEO, Marcelo Claure. Third co-founder Jon Hsu is also familiar with cloud-based development having worked for Twilio, a cloud-based communication platform.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Our app is a must-have for real estate investors,” said Michael Jansta, general manager of Hubzu in a statement. It’s reflective of our commitment to invest in technology and continuously improve the Hubzu marketplace.”. Since 2009, it has facilitated the more than 4.5 million bids and the sale of more than 225,000 homes.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2021

HW Media CEO Clayton Collins and Scott Happ, president of Secondary Marketing Technologies at Black Knight, discuss Black Knight’s acquisition of Optimal Blue and what the industry can expect from the company’s new Secondary Marketing Technologies division. How lenders will benefit from Black Knight’s acquisition of Optimal Blue.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2021

Clear Capital’s suite of field valuations, real estate analytics, and platform technology solutions help servicers prevent fraud, check the accuracy of completed appraisals and broker price opinions (BPOs), conduct portfolio valuation analysis and updates, and help with disposition analysis on distressed loans. Duane Andrews, CEO.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The company has shown steady growth since it was founded in 2008 and demonstrated profitability across varying market conditions, rising to become the nation’s top correspondent investor and the No. We are invested in their success,” Nichols said. The new POWER+ is technology plus people. Technology powers our partnerships.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 24, 2021

Musalem is CEO, Co-Chief investment officer, and a founder of Evince Asset Management LP, a company developing portfolio technologies for investors and managing a quantitative global fund. Freddie Mac today announced that Alberto G. Musalem has, as of June 17, joined its Board of Directors.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2022

For investors, a warning: it means that profitability will take some time to achieve. ” Blend is reducing general and administrative expenses in human resources, finance, and legal, but decided not to cut costs related to engineering and product development. on April 20.

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Listing Spark

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Margins are tightening for businesses all throughout the real estate industry, and property investors are also squeezed by rising property, renovation, and service costs. These tightening margins don’t mean that real estate investment is no longer profitable—far from it.

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