BLOG VIEW: As the housing market moves toward one characterized by rising home prices, increasing interest rates and decreased consumer demand, lenders may feel more pressure to meet borrower expectations of a more efficient, seamless and secure origination process – or risk losing those borrowers to the competition.
In today’s lending environment, the goal is to get borrowers to the closing table as quickly as possible. In response, many lenders are taking a hard
Does the cost of homeowners insurance affect the price of a home? In some markets, the answer is increasingly yes. In recent years, insurance companies
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Let’s get real for a moment. When that email from an AMC hits your inbox, asking for your best fee and quickest turnaround, do you
By now, most appraisers are aware that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (GSEs) have embarked on a complete overhaul of the Uniform Appraisal Dataset (UAD).
