Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

Xactus will add flood services to its list of verification solutions with the acquisition of MassiveCert , a software company that provides flood zone determinations for insurance, lending and real estate. Up until now, Xactus obtained data from third parties.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Watch Now The challenge and power of updating your brand Speaker: WeiLing Jang, Chief Marketing Officer, CoreLogic.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

More than that, the fintechs that flooded in brought with them a promise to modernize the mortgage industry with data-rich, cloud-enabled and digitally secure workflows. Sure, new online lending operations like SoFi, Better and a handful of others are taking advantage of their lack of traditional infrastructure.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

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: What is Allied Solutions doing differently than the rest of the mortgage lending market?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

Gloudeman’s career in mortgages and financial services will help “modernize compliance strategies for the quickly evolving mortgage landscape” as traditional approaches are falling behind, said Perry Steiner, chairman and CEO of Xactus said. Gloudeman started on Tuesday. .

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Speakers: Carrie Gusmus, President, CEO, Aslan Home Lending AJ Barkley, head of Neighborhood and Community, Lending Bank of America Charmaine Brown, Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Finance of America Companies Courtney Graham, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief People Officer, Princeton Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Their collective expertise spans the entire spectrum of the sector, encompassing areas such as lending, tech, real estate, appraisal, compliance, operations, sales and so much more. The following list of honorees comprises many more examples of exceptional leadership from some of the industry’s most accomplished women.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Modernizing origination to stay competitive in today’s housing market. This white paper will examine the growing importance of modernization in the mortgage lending industry. PenFed reportedly laid off “potentially hundreds of employees,” which was first reported by Credit Union Times.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2021

Bank CRA obligations cover far more than their mortgage lending. IMBs have expanded because of the warehouse lending and short-term credit provided them by the nation’s depositories and because they can sell their loans into the government-guaranteed agency secondary market ( Ginnie Mae , Fannie Mae , Freddie Mac ).

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

Real estate still relies on a “system” unable to integrate production across the silos of media, brokerage, lending, insurance and trading. Geographically aware marketplaces that link listings, lending and liquidity will unlock actionable information. Many industries began to deploy electronic supply chains in the 1980’s.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To this end, Sagent believes servicing fintech must address three areas to set a modern data standard in 2023 and beyond: First, homeowners should be able to access their data easily and securely from any device to manage every aspect of their home-owning lives.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, payments, insurance and proptech. Knock this year shifted into lending ). It’s doing that, he claims, by a “more modern approach to search using photos as a search modality.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2023

The Federal Reserve , Federal Depository Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released on Thursday the proposed changes for the Basel III rule (called the Basel endgame), which significantly increases capital requirements for banks. Community banks would not be impacted.

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McKissock

MARCH 6, 2023

On March 1, 2023, Fannie Mae issued Announcement SEL-2023-02, which addressed several different lending-related topics. Predictably, the appraisal online community reacted to this announcement in much the same way that a vampire in a low-budget horror movie reacts when shown a crucifix.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2020

We’re the largest centralized mortgage transactional services provider in the country, backed by the country’s largest provider of title insurance services. These time-savings are critical in today’s lending environment. The best providers combine improving their clients’ processes with modernizing the consumer experience.

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McKissock

MARCH 6, 2023

On March 1, 2023, Fannie Mae issued Announcement SEL-2023-02, which addressed several different lending-related topics. Predictably, the appraisal online community reacted to this announcement in much the same way that a vampire in a low-budget horror movie reacts when shown a crucifix.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2021

So far his venture-backed title company has launched platforms that have sped up title clearance and title insurance acquisition, and they have their sights on expanding into the lending and appraisal space. As title insurers our business practices and our regulatory oversight are different in every single state,” Stone said. “So

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Appraisal Today

MARCH 15, 2024

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on USPAP and Personal Inspection, GSE Appraisal Modernization, Transaction costs and values including real estate commissions, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. = Is the GSE’s “Appraisal Modernization” Really Just Mass Appraisal? By Dallas T.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The recent experience with state distribution of rental assistance and unemployment insurance is perhaps a preview of the challenges ahead. States, overwhelmed with claims and understaffed, also had problems paying unemployment insurance. Up to the task? 15 for state assistance have been paid to claimants.

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Eppraisal

AUGUST 22, 2023

From their utilization in the residential market for individual buyers and sellers to their integration within the operations of banks, insurance and real estate companies, AVMs have revolutionized the way property values are assessed. These professionals can utilize Commercial AVMs to conduct thorough analyses of potential investments.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The complaint filed in federal court on Wednesday alleges that from at least 2015 to 2021, Lakeland failed to provide mortgage lending services to Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Newark. Federal officials said similar banks generated five times as many loan applications from prospective Black and Latino home buyers as Lakeland.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Yes, the process of orchestrating the collaboration of lenders, appraisers , home inspectors, one or two real estate agents, a title insurance company, and possibly others is complex. It doesn’t lend itself to a 24-hour cycle. The title industry has finally put the foundation in place for a modernized workflow.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania , ESSA “failed to provide mortgage lending services and did not serve the credit needs of majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in the Philadelphia metropolitan area” from 2017 to 2021. According to a complaint filed by DOJ in the U.S.

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Appraisal Today

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Click here E&O Insurance Tips Many appraisers are very slow now. Unfortunately, very few appraisers who are leaving the business get “tail coverage” They just let their insurance lapse. This means that they are self-insuring for all possible claims for appraisals done before they discontinued paying for insurance.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The process of orchestrating the collaboration of lenders, appraisers, home inspectors, one or two real estate agents, a title insurance company and possibly others is complex. It doesn’t lend itself to a 24-hour cycle. The title industry has finally put the foundation in place for a modernized workflow.

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Appraisal Today

APRIL 21, 2023

2 Lenders require appraisers to carry E&O insurance because they routinely seek to hold appraisers responsible for loan losses. Despite the fresh coat of paint and a small but modernized kitchen and bath, the home retains many of its original features, including the loft bedroom, where the school’s headmistress once slept.

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Listing Spark

AUGUST 17, 2023

The FHA has insured over nine million mortgages since 2009 , and as home prices have climbed higher than ever in the past three years, many prospective homeowners are turning to FHA loans due to the increased assistance and down payment requirements. FHA loans are becoming an increasingly popular option for buyers all across the home market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In a statement, the agency said the final rule would “facilitate the ongoing interagency work to modernize the CRA regulatory framework and promote consistency for all insured depository institutions.”. The federal banking agencies have in recent years disagreed on how to modernize the CRA, a 1977 anti-redlining statute.

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Walitt Solutions

JULY 28, 2019

During my presentation, I reviewed with the audience a number of appraisal scenarios that have been common practice for decades – often in spaces outside of first mortgage lending. Are these “other” inspection-and-valuation processes appropriate for lending? But is this so-called “new” process really new at all?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2022

When it comes to origination, modernization is key to enhancing the customer experience, improving overall cycle times and increasing overall profit. Regardless of the size of a lending business, having the right origination software is the first step in creating a homebuying experience built for the 21st century.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2021

How hybrid title and valuations help increase lending efficiency. And the issue is only compounded by the fact that every state (and seemingly, every city) has its own rules and requirements to issue title insurance and hold a closing. It’s also a selling point to your potential lending clients. Streamline by combining services.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

Now, after two years of drinking from a firehose, mortgage lenders must pivot once again to succeed in the vastly different lending landscape that lies ahead. Lenders’ focus on tightly managing margins was replaced by the need to triage an unprecedented surge in refinance volume, which led to a record-shattering $4.3 trillion in U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

Blend brought in more than $71 million in the first three months of 2022, but more than half of its revenue came from title insurance and settlement services provider Title 365 in the challenging origination environment. Many mortgage analysts and consultants noted new tech is needed to build modern, efficient and automated processes.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Her nomination sends a strong message that the Fed will continue to prioritize efforts — which Brainard has spearheaded — to modernize the Community Reinvestment Act. They now see her nomination as a signal that efforts to modernize the CRA will continue to be a priority. David Dworkin, a former U.S.

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Insurance companies. House Passes VA Appraisal Modernization Legislation. This legislation is an important first step towards broad modernization of VA appraisal processes and could make veterans’ home purchase offers more viable in today’s competitive housing market. Done for divorce and sometimes for estates.

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on non-lender appraisals, VA, flood and fires no insurance, retirement, few lender appraisals, unusual homes, mortgage origination $22M Modern Mansion on 130 Acres in Napa Has Its Own Cabernet Vineyard Excerpts: 6 bedrooms, 6.5+ Data before 1971 is minimal.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2022

The pushback from banks came after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced it is mulling changes to regulations that govern bank merger transactions and asked the industry for input. The closing of these banks has impacted low-income communities, the administration said.

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