Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2024

Mortgage rates had a chance to break to new highs this year, but the Federal Reserve took a moderate tone at the last Fed meeting. We saw the benefit of lower mortgage rates with the last two existing home sales reports, which showed growth. Then mortgage rates rose, facilitating five weeks of negative purchase application data.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

“If the timelines get compressed, what could we do to still help our clients, understanding the time it will take our clients to implement, test and adopt any change that we make?” Step back and break the problem down The ability to step back from a problem and break it up into smaller processes can help with moving quickly.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

The only constant is change As MLS executives contemplate the future, they say they are currently focused on helping their subscribers navigate the terms of the settlement and what it means for their businesses. “We They are better off together and sharing certain elements of information.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

With automated tracking enabling quicker interventions as needed, these technological capabilities help drive down default rates, ensure smooth payments and significantly mitigate repurchase risk. This helps attract ongoing investment capital into the housing sector.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

Helping less affluent borrowers establish mortgage reserve accounts (MRAs) — ‘sidecar’ savings accounts that can be tapped to weather a financial shock — are one promising solution.” Research has shown that having financial reserves can help households avoid default.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2023

CoreLogic developed Image Analytics to drive innovation in the appraisal review process and help lenders and mortgage industry professionals analyze property images quickly and accurately. Reviewing appraisal imagery, an essential step in the valuation review process, is time-consuming and laborious.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

adults, the survey found that roughly 621 respondents have never “used a financial professional to help plan for retirement.” Just over 60% of U.S. Using a sample size of about 1,000 U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Our way of honoring first responders is by educating our podcast listeners, readers and coaching clients in the real estate industry about how to help those who helped all of us and are still being of service every day. One of the best ways to help first responders is to be of service yourself, as a professional real estate advisor.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2023

The federal Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program is a powerful tool to help low-income families find apartments they can afford, but the program isn’t reaching its potential because far too few landlords participate in it. Congress has helped, as well.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2023

These homeowners are seeking different retirement solutions to help allocate their home equity and make it more durable over the next 20 to 30 years. They can help mature customers who have looked at multiple homes and shown all the buying signals but never transacted — for a variety of reasons, but largely due to finances.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

If a servicer wants to manage its QA process internally, the company can help make that happen. And if an issue is identified, QC Ally can help with lookbacks and reviews to identify any populations of loans that may have to be remediated. “QC

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

We are augmented as part of their team attachments, where we come in and roll up our sleeves and accomplish what the lender is looking to accomplish, which a lot of that is, helping with their margin compression issues,” Moon said. The platform has four clients under its consulting business.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Servicing Digital can also facilitate longer, more profitable customer relationships by giving consumers data that can help them make decisions about lowering monthly payments while providing a direct connection to the financial institution for more information.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2023

AI chatbots can help improve customer service by providing 24/7 support, reducing response times and handling routine inquiries. AI can also help with risk management and fraud detection by enhancing data accuracy. As for the “limitations,” it’s not always correct, and much data has not been updated after 2021.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Customer engagement platform Total Expert ‘s customer intelligence and mortgage tech firm Polly ‘s product and pricing engine (PPE) will help California-based lender Mountain West Financial identify lending opportunities from its existing database.

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Inman

APRIL 9, 2024

title plants, says the remarkable granularity of its data can help identify renters who are getting ready to buy, empty nesters and fix-and-flip investors. DataTrace, which now operates more than 1,800 U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Measuring this cost will help occupants adjust their behaviors to schedule usage during non peak pricing periods. Level 3: Dynamic glass windows can help enhance indoor comfort while providing unobstructed views to the outside.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

The company is providing an educational platform help these stakeholders identify, track, and ultimately prevent bias in the appraisal process. Proactive bias prevention: The firm helps professionals identify, track, and ultimately prevent bias by equipping them with the tools and knowledge to foster a fair appraisal environment.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2022

To help drive adoption of digital closings, ALTA partnered with the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO) to be the sole provider of title and settlement agent data for the MISMO e-Eligibility Exchange, powered by Snapdocs. MISMO e-Eligibility Exchange helps address this challenge.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 27, 2022

According a new report titled “Americas Rental Housing … The post Policy Changes May Help Alleviate Disparities in Renting appeared first on theMReport.com. The post Policy Changes May Help Alleviate Disparities in Renting appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A suspected fraudster nearly brought financial ruin to an elderly resident of London, Ontario in Canada , but an area reverse mortgage professional’s quick thinking is credited with leading to the suspect’s arrest, according to a news release from the London Police Service.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2021

At HousingWire’s 2021 Annual Spring Summit, CreditXpert VP of Sales and Client Success Matt Hydrew and T odd Worthington , director of qualification support at Bank of England, discussed top-of-the-funnel strategies lenders can use to help borrowers gain a better understanding of their credit score. CreditXpert’s Xpert Credit Process.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

The company’s predictive analytics platform not only provides lenders with the benefit of intuitive technology, it also helps more applicants qualify for mortgages. However, CreditXpert isn’t just helping those with lower scores qualify for mortgages. In many cases, applicants who would otherwise be turned away.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As home equity reached another record high this year, mortgage companies have a big opportunity to help homeowners understand how to better manage or leverage their home’s equity to improve their housing and overall financial outlook. Use home equity to raise home value. Tackle high-interest debt.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Mike Darne, vice president of marketing at CreditXpert, about how mortgage lenders can leverage credit to help make homeownership more affordable. In time, this will help decrease the price of housing, too. Having two of the four factors improving is certainly helpful.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2021

The post Employment gains could help housing inventory appeared first on HousingWire. Purchase loans are still topping year-over-year highs, however, the refi market is taking a beating from rising rates. “We need more hammers at work to build more homes,” said Kushi.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2021

But even small, inexpensive adjustments could help your home sell quickly. The post Cosmetic tweaks to help sell your house fast appeared first on HousingWire. If you have the finances to do so, consider making some light renovations before selling your home. You don’t have to change everything. Don’t Forget About The Outside.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2022

As part of its recently enhanced Valuation Workflow Solution, CoreLogic launched a new Accounting Automation suite that can quickly help lenders reduce the costs associated with invoice processing and accounts payable overhead while simplifying their tax record management processes.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Let’s talk about three areas of a listing that, when completed accurately, can help appraisers to develop more supportable opinions of value. The more information the MLS listing offers on a home, the more useful the data is at helping appraisers to develop a supportable opinion of the value of a home being appraised.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

And with home-price growth climbing in many parts of the country, access to flexible jumbo loan options for borrowers in high-cost areas that exceed conforming loan limits is necessary to help well-qualified jumbo borrowers who cannot qualify for a conforming loan.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The growth rate of inflation has been falling for a year, but mortgage rates are still near multi-decade highs. While it is true that mortgage rates traditionally fall alongside inflation, I believed 2023 was going to be about the labor market. This was the core premise of my 2023 forecast, and so far it has worked.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with Tom Kriby, vice president of client development and partnerships at Westwood Insurance Agency , about the home insurance shopping process and how lenders can help make it simpler for their borrowers. HousingWire: How are climate-related risks impacting the home insurance shopping process for borrowers?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2022

His work focuses on helping Freddie Mac develop its economic outlook, including forecasts of trends in the economy and housing markets. The John Burns Real Estate Consulting research and consulting team collects and analyzes as much housing industry information as possible in order to help its clients make informed investment decisions.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

Stories and anecdotes that help to contextualize the information also assist in comprehension by attendees, he explains. Making a direct connection between reverse mortgage subject matter and the generally risk-averse nature of financial professionals can be helpful, Mangus says. Tie the class into a retirement strategy.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2021

The Urban Institute ‘s Housing Finance Policy Center recently posited that down payment assistance for first-generation homebuyers could help turn the tide of systemic racism by reducing intergenerational wealth disparities. ” The post Targeting first-generation homebuyers for financial help appeared first on HousingWire.

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Inman

JANUARY 29, 2024

Real estate professionals and financial advisers can help individuals make informed decisions, writes investment expert Michael Conticelli, whether buying a home, pursuing alternative investments or building a real estate portfolio.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

“This type of cutting-edge technology is driven by the needs of the broker community, and we’re always gathering and implementing feedback so we can provide tools that will help our clients continue to grow their business.”. UWM recently launched an exclusive new marketplace called Boost. Bryan Miller, Vice President of National Sales.

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