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Title insurance industry premiums spike $7B year over year

Housing Wire

The American Land Title Association saw a nearly 36% year-over-year increase in title insurance premium volume in 2021 for a staggering $7 billion spike, according to the trade group’s Market Share Analysis , published Friday. The title insurance industry generated $26.2 The title insurance industry generated $26.2

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Realtor.com reveals new tools to evaluate climate risk exposure 

Housing Wire

Realtor.com is leveraging data from First Street , a climate technology company, and will offer three new risk factor scores — heat, wind and air — to complement existing fire and flood assessments. The cost of homeowners insurance policies has skyrocketed in the past two years as U.S. homes, valued at $19.7 ” U.S.

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The homegenius Platform gives consumers deeper insights in the home buying and selling journey

Housing Wire

The process of finding, buying and owning a home today is disjointed, antiquated and messy. homegenius Real Estate understands the need to deliver differentiated value in a very congested market. Geniusprice, an automated and instant home value estimate driven by AI, advanced machine learning and homegeniusIQ.

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The mortgage servicing experts at Sagent are building the future of fintech

Housing Wire

Building the future of mortgage servicing technology is about granular, nuanced innovation — knowing what changes must happen and when, and executing with no mistakes across scale operations where every tiny detail is highly regulated. and see the same data their customer is seeing.

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Home Appraisals vs Online Home Value Calculators

D Fritz Appraisals

Home Appraisals and Online Home Value Estimates Are NOT the Same Thing. On-site vs. Online: Proper Home Appraisals Need to be Done in Person. With so many types of transactions solely being handled online these days, it’s tempting to want to complete your required home appraisals entirely online and leave it at that.

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Opinion: Why fintech “disruption” doesn’t work in mortgage servicing

Housing Wire

trillion mortgage servicing sector shouldn’t be “disrupted” by financial technology, it should be reimagined with fintech. Customer expectations have evolved, but old processes have been dragged along within legacy technologies. These needs must be met with, or without, modernized technology. America’s $13.3

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ServiceLink offers brokers constant communication and transparency into valuation and closing

Housing Wire

Home values have increased over the past several months and consumers are realizing there is more equity in their homes than anticipated. This realization has increased demand for wholesale lenders and brokers as borrowers look to refinance, cash-out refinance or otherwise take advantage of the equity in their homes.

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