Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Mortgage lender and servicer Planet Home Lending also named Kathryn Edelen as regional vice president of its sales division this week. RE/MAX and Motto were having trouble hiring experienced processors, so about four years ago they bought wemlo, which has a platform connecting mortgage brokers and loan originators to a processing network.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

That’s according to four former employees and company registration documents reviewed by HousingWire. The address that Beth Strauss listed on the incorporation documents is 610 Park Avenue, New York NY, which the Strauss’s are trying to sell for $26.5 Yet Strauss, who already has a $2.45 Michael Strauss’s Smart Rate?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

HousingWire recently spoke with Propertybase CEO Vance Loiselle about real estate tech and how the past year has accelerated the need for digital collaboration tools across the entire customer journey. HW: How has the financial industry’s response to COVID accelerated the need for digital tools?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Stavvy , a fintech company at the intersection of lending and real estate, on Wednesday announced partnering with Guaranteed Rate , one of America’s largest nonbanks. The announcement comes as 40 states have permanent Remote Online Notarization (RON) laws , with seven more having temporary authorizations on the practice.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This white paper will examine the growing importance of modernization in the mortgage lending industry. It will provide insight and actionable advice for lenders aiming to maintain a competitive edge by adopting the right tech tools to help profits grow and keep customers satisfied. Presented by: ServiceLink.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What we’re trying to do at ICE is break down the various transactions where a borrower and a lender might interface and figure out how we can deliver a set of technology tools and solutions so that the borrower can get their loan — for purchase or refinance — as fast as possible with the least amount of cost.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

In a HousingWire webinar , Lyman and Kelly Gill, VP of marketing and advertising for Motto Franchising, emphasized that lending operations need to shift their focus for the rest of 2020 from growth to profitability. One of the drivers for a pivot to profit is that loans are expensive.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

The ideal real estate agent-lender relationship is symbiotic: the agent earns trust with their borrowers by connecting them with a great lending resource, while the lender receives a steady stream of business from the agent. And that’s not just anecdotal—across industries, the success of referral business is well documented.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

In this market , when transactions are few and far between, lenders need another set of tools that extend that value proposition well-beyond the closing table. In our mind, the narrative goes something like this: I’m more than your loan officer – I’m your adviser that can help you make smarter decisions and build wealth from your home.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2021

Data analytics giant Black Knight unveiled a new self-service style platform aimed at correspondent lending that will allow lenders to manage conditions and validate pricing locks on Best Effort loans.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Do you mandate training (regular, continuous and updated) on the basics like Dodd-Frank, Fair Lending and the most aggressive state-level rules and regulations? It just matters that your team is given the tools it needs to stay compliant. Do you have qualified trainers who are constantly abreast of changes in the law? It’s tedious.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

As the market shifts, interest in non-QM lending from traditional lenders and brokers has increased. We recently spoke to Bao Huynh, Director of Business Development at LoanScorecard, about these changes and the challenges of originating non-QM loans. HousingWire: How is the shift from refi to purchase affecting the non-QM market?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Atlanta mortgage lender, which offers agency and non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) products, will implement the tech firm’s Nexus Origination and Nexus Engagement tools. Its core features include an integrated home search, loan payments calculator and the ability to begin a loan application.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Mike, a North Carolina-based loan officer, had two loans closing in mid-January. The contrast between the deals was striking. “I have a loan closing today for first-time homebuyers who didn’t really press me on pricing,” he said. Fair lending concern To start, here’s how pricing exceptions work.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 7, 2021

In 2015, I designed the Market Machine, a technological tool used by appraisers and other valuation professionals. Josh : The course is taken by staff of lending institutions and appraisal management companies and centers on the need for companies to meet or exceed clients’ and regulators’ minimum training requirements.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

Largely hidden from view and misperceived by some to be on the lower end of the hierarchy of service providers, the position seemingly lacked the luster of the real estate agent or the panache of the loan officer. During the housing crisis of 2008, the title industry suddenly emerged from obscurity into full view.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

. “I didn’t want to just jump for money,” Miller said, noting that some lenders with lower rates have complexities of putting together a loan — and transferring over existing clients’ loans is a different process for every company. It also underwrites conventional loans and works as a marketing tool for LOs.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Ocrolus , an AI-driven financial document automation platform, has launched an enhanced dashboard for mortgage lenders, the company announced on Tuesday. This new tool will combine in one product three of the capabilities that single out Ocrolus: classifying, capturing and analyzing.

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Listing Spark

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Episode Summary Julie Daniels subs in for host Aaron Jistel and Rachael Holladay, VP of Lending at Stallion Funding. About Rachael Holladay Rachael Holladay is the VP of Lending at Stallion Funding, a real estate and hard money lending firm. She also recommends documenting everything and getting mechanics, lean waivers, etc.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

JA: I was going back through some old PRMG stuff and they had “the five tenets of mortgage lending success” and it was: product, pricing, compensation, marketing, and fulfillment. And we’re also looking at changes for our wholesale lending technology to help streamline that. JA: First, privacy is a huge area.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Lending technology out of focus. Focusing our efforts to leverage big data and smarter automation on the front end of the loan origination process made sense in the beginning when the mortgage industry was entering the digital age. Borrowers were not comfortable turning over their credentials to loan officers or processors.

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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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