Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Department of Housing and Urban Development Sec. If we want to change the narrative of disinvestment and marginalization, then we must transform the lending, appraisal and insurance industries to prevent lost revenue caused by misevaluation and undervaluation of properties,” said Fudge. Become a member today. Already a member?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

developing viral consumer campaigns to improve industry perception. HousingWire’s 2021 Rising Stars will represent the best young leaders in the housing economy industry – in lending, servicing, investing and real estate. And the list keeps going! The post 2021 HW Rising Stars nominations are now open!

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In the six weeks that followed, industry stakeholders and housing groups offered up a staggering number of ideas, ranging from eliminating loan-level price adjustments, incorporating cash-flow or childcare payment data into underwriting, or spurring a new secondary market for acquisition, development and construction loans. Enter the FHFA.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

The financial incentives are simply not there for mortgage companies that want to do more minority lending; therefore, it shouldn’t be a surprise that most banks and mortgage lenders do just enough minority lending to stay out of regulatory trouble but secretly have no desire to do much beyond that.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

As part of the merger, Jim Black, the founder of All Cal, will become chief lending officer of InstaMortgage. Black, a licensed mortgage loan officer and broker, will also lead product development, tech partnerships and sales growth. Magazine’s list of the 5,000 fastest growing companies in America in 2021.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2021

Mortgage industry groups on Tuesday made their voices heard in response to the Department of Housing and Urban Development ’s proposed reinstatement of its 2013 disparate impact rule. HousingWire Magazine delivered to your home or office. Start an HW+ Membership now for less than $1 a day. Become a member today. Already a member?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2021

In its quarterly earnings call on Thursday, CEO Jay Farner and CFO Julie Booth described a sophisticated company that has developed a product solution for every piece of the home-buying and home-selling ecosystem. HousingWire Magazine delivered to your home or office. Start an HW+ Membership now for less than $1 a day.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2023

For those in the mortgage space, there are a myriad of technology solutions claiming to help streamline lending operations and improve efficiency. The technology they use should complement their processes and optimize what they do, not replace the expertise they have spent decades building and developing.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

The ability to look past the now and develop strategies that poise an organization for future success is key to any leadership position in almost any business. It’s true for the mortgage industry and especially the long-term strategies we’ve developed to react to the current low-rate environment brought on by a global pandemic.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

We continue to see the benefits of using advanced AI and machine learning techniques when developing new mortgage lending solutions,” said Ann Regan, Executive, Product Management at CoreLogic. The performance, delivery and pricing of each THV solution are customized to unique needs of each lending use case.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2022

With more hopeful homeowners searching for non-traditional lending solutions, brokers are looking to partner with wholesale lenders that can offer unique options. On the other hand, they’re often worried it may be difficult to learn how to broker non-QM,” said Shelly Griffin, Senior Vice President of Client Development.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2022

About five years ago, Linthicum, Maryland-based NFM Lending was looking for a way to shift from sporadic donations to service members to a dedicated effort that regularly recognized their sacrifice. According to Sher, the families are not the only ones impacted by the salutes but so is the NFM Lending staff. Espinoza was one of 13 U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

As purchase transactions move back to the forefront of lending, the broker channel will only continue to grow and gain momentum. High tech – High touch’ is our mantra as we develop industry-leading tools and resources with a never-ending commitment to the relationships with our brokers and team members,” CEO Sanjiv Das said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

Prior to joining FormFree, Lapin served as first vice president of corporate development, national agency services, at Old Republic Title , and has also held leadership positions at Altisource , Black Knight , First American and Credit Suisse. To view past issues of our HW+ exclusive HousingWire Magazine, go here.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

One of the 2020 Tech Trendsetters, Kallol Das worked quickly to shift digital lending tech provider Blend’s product roadmap to its rapidly-changing client needs. Within 72 hours, Blend developed a digital portal with M&T Bank to enable lenders to accept Paycheck Protection Program applications from small businesses through the CARES Act.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2021

Andy Higginbotham, chief operating officer of Freddie Mac’s Single-Family business, said the partnership with Blend was a natural choice as both companies hone in on consumers demand for a fully digital lending experience. The investor had previously dropped $20 million on the Utah-based software developer in 2018.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 9, 2022

In the past, almost every major log home magazine has posted an article on the topic. In recent years, the log home suppliers have developed organizations that have successfully lobbied for lower energy standards in log homes through the International Code Council or wood product organizations. The answer is quite obvious.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

With demand for alternative lending expected to increase, Champions Funding empowers their broker partners to service diverse borrower needs by providing solutions-driven results in the non-QM space. Besides their end-to-end user experience and non-QM lending innovation, the company boasts a diverse and primarily woman-led team.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

With over 40 years of mortgage experience, Hale has held C-suite positions for some of the top housing companies in the industry, including ClosingMark Financial Group , Stearns Lending , MetLife Home Loans , MetLife Bank , Countrywide , Wells Fargo and Fleet Mortgage. To view past issues of our HW+ exclusive HousingWire Magazine, go here.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

UWM has significantly invested in our technology team and tech stack, offering career-focused training and development which has contributed to growing this function to over 1,100 team members,” Chief Technology Officer Jason Bressler said. Mat Ishbia, President and CEO. 1 wholesale mortgage lender in the nation for six years running.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

Magazine list of the 5,000 fastest growing private companies in America declined in 2023. 469 LoanStar Technologies 1,241% 2016 Enabling lenders to connect and lend to customers who are traditionally underbanked or unbanked. The past year hasn’t been particularly good for tech or housing. The self-reported list ranks U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

WFG develops solutions in direct response to industry concerns solicited through regular engagement with its Executive Roundtable (ERT) of C-suite lending executives. WFG’s Agency division operates a program called WFG Blocks, which offers title agents direct access to many of the services WFG has developed for its own operations.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2022

This week’s HW+ member spotlight features Arjun Dhingra, who serves as sales and business development at All Western Mortgage. Most importantly, it supports our industries of housing, technology, real estate and lending. To view past issues of our HW+ exclusive HousingWire Magazine, go here.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Most digital solutions in the lending industry are designed to solve one problem and built for one audience in mind. This fragmentation makes it difficult for everyone involved in the lending process to communicate with each other effectively. Stavvy has the power to bring these disparate components together.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

What differentiates us can differentiate our lending partners too. They can close confidently, knowing the best lending decision was made for the biggest investment of their life because we were able to ensure a top-quality appraisal report completed by the most qualified appraiser for the job.”.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The adoption of digital lending solutions has been increasing over the last few years, with the COVID-19 pandemic only accelerating the process. We’ve been at this a long time, so we understand our clients’ need for agile and technology-forward lending platforms to help them sustain and scale critical business processes.”.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2021

The company recently launched ClearLabs, an in-house research and development group that works alongside industry leaders and government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to continually build on what’s possible in compliant real estate valuation and analytics. Kenon Chen, Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2020

So you look at it and I surveyed people within the company and other people and said, Quicken has spent more money than probably anybody else on their technology development. HW+ includes weekly long-form digital content, HousingWire Magazine, access to HousingStack, and free admission to all HousingWire virtual events.

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Lamacchia Realty

APRIL 8, 2024

Her desire to help her clients earned Shauna the title of Rising Star in the September 2021 issue of the South Shore Real Producers Magazine ! Shauna was also named in the Boston Agent Magazine’s Who’s Who 2022 edition ! Most recently, Laurie was featured on the 2024 Who’s Who List in Boston Agent Magazine.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

The future of wholesale lending is a continued use of technology and innovation to help further streamline the lending process,” Pidgeon said. Nicole Blosch backs her role as client relationship executive with ServiceLink with more than 20 years in both lending and title. Nicole Blosch, Client Relationship Executive.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2021

Since its founding in 2010, WFG National Title Insurance Company has worked to advance the real estate, mortgage lending and title industries, adding greater efficiency and accuracy to processes and a vastly improved experience for consumers.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

Appraisal is one of the most time-consuming and inefficient parts of the lending process,” said Brian Zitin, co-founder of Reggora. “In Reggora is excited to be one of the few vendors positioned to help lenders immediately capitalize on this new era of lending.”. Brian Zitin, Co-Founder and CEO. Kevin Flynn, Vice President, Product.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Two of the biggest developments have been the phenomenal growth of remote online notarization (RON) and document management platforms. In order to achieve this goal, Simkoff is working to grow DOMA’s current technological offerings and is looking to expand into the lending and appraisal space. ow and ease of the entire closing process.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

However, over the past year, my business has been changing rapidly as I shift away from lending work to non-lender work as my primary business. – Cleveland Magazine You may be wondering where in the world I’ve been. Did I go dark? Did I give up on blogging and podcasting? The answer is no.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

With FinXperience, Tavant brings all parties together on one collaboration platform and provides hyper-personalized digital journeys to borrowers, loan officers, brokers, financial advisers and other participants in the lending ecosystem. Hassan Rashid, Chief Revenue Officer. Mohammad Rashid, Head of Fintech Practice.

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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. Even before integration begins, DocMagic partners with its customers to develop a strategic implementation plan.

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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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