Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Technology is at the core of everyday real estate operations. Real estate professionals handle a plethora of personal data from buyers and sellers, making them enticing targets for cyber threats. Many personal dreams and aspirations take shape in our industry, so safeguarding information is essential.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2021

The severe lack of inventory in today’s housing market has been a source of stress for home buyers and real estate agents alike. HousingWire sat down with Realtor.com CEO David Doctorow to learn how agents and brokers can alleviate some of the frustrations their clients are facing. Why or why not?

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McKissock

AUGUST 24, 2022

There is probably some app or bit of technology that can resolve it all together—or at least make it easier to manage. The same is true for your career in real estate. When you are a busy agent who is strapped for time and maybe feeling a little overwhelmed, technology can simplify your life and help you be more productive.

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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. HousingWire: What role has the increase in technology played for both businesses and consumers in the real estate space?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Trying to find the right documents can require a lot of back and forth between the lender, the borrower and the title partner. Borrowers may have already provided the information, but the documents were misplaced or even lost among hundreds of other emails in a lender’s inbox. refinDan Bailey WFG Lender Services. “We

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Unfortunately, those ads don’t talk much about the next month or six weeks, the period real estate professionals call the “settlement process.” More than a few real estate agents will roll their eyes and sigh when asked by a client, upon the signing of a sales contract, “What’s next?”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Mortgage Call Reports (MCR) function allows brokers to swiftly generate mandatory national mortgage licensing system (NMLS) reporting documentation and export reports by quarter, year and state — streamlining a burdensome compliance requirement. Founded in 2013, Floify — a subsidiary of Porch Group Inc. — in an $87 million deal in 2021.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Unfortunately, those ads don’t talk much about the next month or six weeks, the period real estate professionals call the “settlement process.” More than a few real estate agents will roll their eyes and sigh when asked by a client, upon the signing of a sales contract, “What’s next?” in question.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

When we contemplate the potential of AI and Web3 technologies in real estate , it goes beyond simply revolutionizing how consumers search for homes and take ownership of assets. Over the past two decades, the real estate transaction process has become increasingly complex, placing even greater demands on real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

Title agents historically have felt like they played second fiddle to other players in the buying and selling of real estate. Regulators were suddenly curious about what exactly the industry contributed to a real estate transaction. This is the superpower of a great title agent.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Berg told ALTA One attendees that they should be particularly wary of escrow account “shenanigans” and that they need to keep tabs on how builders and real estate agents are shifting funds around through escrow accounts. You all in this room are the biggest targets for impersonation in a real estate transaction.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2023

Chicago-based technology company Gateless announced this week that Guaranteed Rate , a Chicago-based leading mortgage lender, has implemented its Smart Underwrite solution, a groundbreaking technology that aims to transform the borrower experience.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2023

SimpleNexus , a homeownership platform developer for loan officers, borrowers, real estate agents, and settlement agents, announced this week a new integration with Empower, the loan origination system (LOS) from Black Knight.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Lender Edition maintains features that are popular among Floify users, such as an intuitive interface for borrowers and lenders; automated document management workflows; free native e-sign functionality; verification of income and employment waterfall functionality; and loan progress transparency.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2021

In 2002, Natalya Delcoure and Norman Miller, two real estate economists, set about to learn what fees consumers pay real estate agents in America. They were especially interested in real estate commissions. On average 6% of the proceeds from each home sale went to the participating real estate agents.

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McKissock

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

is becoming increasingly more entwined with real estate. But does that mean real estate agents need to worry about artificial intelligence taking their jobs? Artificial Intelligence in Real Estate Speeds Up the Document Search. Be a Good Thing For Real Estate Agents?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Curbio , a provider of pre-sale home improvement services that requires payment at closing, will provide its “Build Your Own Estimate” mobile app to NAR members, which offers free repair estimates for home inspections upon the upload of a PDF document.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2021

Real estate technology company Lone Wolf Technologies announced its launch of Digital Title Orders, a digital title solution allowing agents to select their preferred title provider and submit orders directly within a transaction.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Texas residents interested in becoming a real estate agent must first complete 180 hours of approved coursework to be eligible to sit the state licensure exam. We estimate that it’ll take three to six months to get up and running as a licensed real estate agent in the Lone Star State.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Technology makes this possible as it builds new efficiencies. This is what that process can look like: Title – Instant title technology determines clear-to-close readiness in seconds. Closing – Automation speeds the generation of closing documents and reduces errors in post-close review. 60% cited speed.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2023

The integration with Black Knight’s digital ecosystem will give Frontwave access to technology, data and analytics solutions. It will also cut down on recurring hosting costs by reducing technology-based work.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Mortgage Technology reported an adjusted operating income of $131 million in the third quarter of 2023, up from Q3 2022’s $126 million — despite the headwinds the mortgage industry is facing. We don’t have a business of selling leads to real estate brokers and the like.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

California-based ICE Mortgage Technology announced this week two enterprise agreements to integrate its eClose solution to Maxwell and Roostify platforms, enabling a more streamlined closing process for lenders and borrowers. Roostify, a mortgage technology provider, will integrate the solution to its digital home lending platform.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Regardless of the outcome, real estate brokers are doing all they can to prepare their brokerages and their agents for more transparency, education on the value real estate agents bring to the transaction, and more, according to the 2023 Q4 BrokerPulse survey , a forward-looking housing market sentiment survey by HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

One of the advancements this year has been the adoption of new technology platforms like chatGPT, using AI to mimic somebody’s voice to spoof phone numbers. And that’s all publicly available technology now. Those documents go back to the title company and it funds to an account in the hands of the bad actor.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

More than a few real estate agents have come to dread calling the closing company to find out when they can close. Where automation can help It’s easy to think that investing in technology can solve some of our biggest communications bottlenecks. Our industry as a whole has made tremendous strides in that regard.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

With Nexus Origination, what SimpleNexus calls its flagship point of sale system, borrowers can apply for a loan, upload documents, view loan status, pay and sign disclosures on the app. Its core features include an integrated home search, loan payments calculator and the ability to begin a loan application. Presented by: Polly.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Here are 14 real estate trends Gen Z buyers won’t pass up. Smart home technology is not optional Gen Z marks the first generation of true digital natives. This group was raised on technology and expects their homes to be outfitted accordingly.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2021

While Stone does not believe these hurdles will be cleared anywhere anytime soon, he too believes that software and technology are key to making a seamless homebuying transaction possible. It is hard to say, ‘You filled out all this paperwork digitally, but by the way you need to come into the office and sign these additional documents.’

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2021

The brilliance of HomeBinder’s client for life approach is that it fully engages real estate agents as well. As the industry migrates to focusing on purchase volume, originators will look to rekindle their relationships with key real estate agents. HW: What are some actionable ways they can do so?

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Inman

OCTOBER 27, 2023

What started in 2005 has become the foundation for what is now a multifaceted business application that can benefit all level of agents who hang a license at an @properties | Christie’s International Real Estate office.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

With this solution, real estate agents gain loan status visibility, and borrowers enjoy a simple application process from their preferred device with single-login simplicity. After downloading the mobile app, borrowers can upload documents, eSign disclosures and closing documents, and check their status in real-time.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

billion in damages to residential home sellers who successfully proved that the organization – which represents real estate agents at most of the top brokerages in the United States – colluded with other defendants to inflate agent commissions. Unless the decision is appealed, NAR will have to pay at least $1.8

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The borrower’s real estate agent has opened escrow with their preferred vendor. Using New Technology and New Approaches. Forward-thinking lenders are already adopting new technology to help their processing teams solve the challenges of document/data collection and verification. Talk To Your Team.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In today’s rapidly changing technology landscape, businesses in the title insurance , mortgage and real estate industries must prioritize cybersecurity response planning and business continuity. Document Incident Response Procedures: Create step-by-step guidelines for responding to different types of incidents.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

Some use their inbox as de facto storage for such information until the time is right to enter it into the proper documents. A title agency is charged with a good portion of populating and accurately preparing the vast majority of the documentation required for a legal closing. The continued struggle to collect and store data.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 13, 2022

Launching a national network for property condition reports, 3D tour technology brings lightning turnaround, industry-leading accuracy and a better borrower experience to property data collection. Asteroom’s technology has been extensively vetted for property dimensional accuracy. San Francisco, CA–Asteroom Inc.

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