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The “Big Four” take on the upstarts in title insurance

Housing Wire

One of our big goals at Blueprint Title is to shrink the title insurance business from an $18 billion business to a $10 billion business,” Berneman, the company co-founder and CEO. “We share of the market controlled by small, independent title insurance companies. ow and ease of the entire closing process.

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Citywide Home Loans settles a $1.2M data breach lawsuit

Housing Wire

Citywide Home Loans , a Utah-based mortgage lending company, agreed to settle a $1.2 The data compromised included “names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, social Security numbers, passport numbers, driver’s license numbers, credit card information, bank account information and/or medical or insurance information,” the lawsuit says.

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The First 100 Days

Housing Wire

Well, after 5 years with that team as the Director of Operations I thought I had dealt with every situation ranging from appraisal disputes, title insurance questions, and most recently a market with incredibly low inventory and more buyers than we could handle due to the record low interest rates.

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How InstaMortgage convinced top broker shop to jump to retail

Housing Wire

As part of the merger, Jim Black, the founder of All Cal, will become chief lending officer of InstaMortgage. Formerly known as Arcus Lending , InstaMortgage originated about $800 million in volume last year and All Cal notched about $300 million in origination volume in 2021.

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WFG reduces time and cost in real estate transactions

Housing Wire

WFG National Title Insurance Company (WFG) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Williston Financial Group and a national title insurance underwriter dedicated to taking time and cost out of real estate transactions. This ongoing engagement is an example of WFG’s foundational pledge to “Communicate, Collaborate, Coexist.”

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Hot Seat: Philip Reinking of Allied Solutions

Housing Wire

Our solution prioritizes the borrower experience and promotes a “self-cure” to insurance resolution with a multi-channel campaign that includes both digital and print touchpoints with consumers. HW: How have you seen technology impacted by COVID-19? Seeing a better way, Allied has revolutionized mortgage tracking.

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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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