Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

HousingWire recently spoke with Propertybase CEO Vance Loiselle about real estate tech and how the past year has accelerated the need for digital collaboration tools across the entire customer journey. HousingWire: What role has the increase in technology played for both businesses and consumers in the real estate space?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2022

As the mortgage industry faces the realities of rising interest rates, savvy lenders are shifting gears towards the potential profitability of home equity lending. HousingWire: In a rising rate environment where a large percentage of homeowners have record-low mortgage rates secured, the lending industry is turning an eye to home equity.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

LodeStar Software Solutions, a provider of compliance tools for mortgage lenders, has partnered with loan origination system and software provider LendingPad, it announced on Tuesday. A statement from LodeStar says the alliance will allow clients from both companies to streamline their lending process.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2022

Hogle has more than 20 years of experience, including about 15 years with Supreme Lending. The shift to a purchase market makes effective digital marketing even more important, and collaborative marketing technology can generate more demand while reducing time spent on marketing. Presented by: Evocalize.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

CM : Firstly, reverse mortgages, whether government-insured or proprietary, are non-recourse loans. In fact, many financial researchers and scholars have identified it as a strategic tool that should be considered part of a holistic financial strategy for retirement.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2023

In their letter, MBA and CBA said that AVMs and technologies like them can alleviate appraiser shortages, reduce transaction costs, and safeguard against individual appraisal bias. Ultimately, a robust regulatory framework continues to be a critical imperative to achieve these outcomes.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

San Antonio, Texas-headquartered USAA eliminated 130 positions in the real estate lending group amid projections that the mortgage industry will shrink in 2023. In August, the bank issued pink slips to an undisclosed number of employees in human resources, client advising, information technology, according to the outlet.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 19, 2023

The newest prop tech applications to moat the client relationship are home management tools. Helping homeowners monitor the value of their home, access maintenance and remodel services, monitor mortgage rates, and other tools deepen the relationship between the homeowner and real estate professional. Evolve the technology stack.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Audience assets will be valued based on transaction volumes and bundles of listings, lending, loan sales and servicing and trading content. These essential tools require a collective commitment. Thinking differently about digital will matter more than any technology.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2021

Blend’s white-label technology is what powers mortgage applications on the websites of traditional banks such as Wells Fargo and U.S. It checks income, it verifies identities and has become a key consumer-facing processing tool for some of the largest mortgage lenders in the country.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

As agencies seek best practices, this is indicative of more specific requirements for banks, lending institutions and entities that have access to sensitive borrower data and recordable instruments. Those insurance policy coverage issues can include misrepresentation and unlicensed or unapproved parties attempting to provide services.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Most digital solutions in the lending industry are designed to solve one problem and built for one audience in mind. This fragmentation makes it difficult for everyone involved in the lending process to communicate with each other effectively. Stavvy has the power to bring these disparate components together.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2021

In acquiring Informative Research, Stewart is buying a company that uses proprietary tech to create workflow automation tools and lead generation insights. It claims to have more than 3,000 customers in lending and real estate.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2021

Despite 2020’s pause in originations and securitizations, the 2021 outlook for non-QM lending is promising. Investors are returning to the space with more confidence, and new investors like private equities and insurance companies are showing interest. billion in total securitizations – only a 33% decrease from its 2019 high.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech-focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, insurance and real estate. Virtually every aspect of mortgage lending can be improved through digitization,” Mayopoulos added. Stay tuned for updates.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2021

HousingWire recently spoke with Dave Steinmetz, Division President of Origination Services for ServiceLink, on what tools lenders should leverage to streamline home equity title and closing. Luckily, the technology and infrastructure we had in place at ServiceLink kept our client service uninterrupted.

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Eppraisal

AUGUST 22, 2023

The world of real estate has undergone a technological transformation over the past 10 to 20 years, with Automated Valuation Models (AVMs) emerging as powerful tools for property valuation. These tools are designed for user-friendliness, accessibility, and convenience.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In my career, I’ve swung between enabling technology and securing it at the same time. SW: At PRMG, do you generally build or buy technology? JA: I was going back through some old PRMG stuff and they had “the five tenets of mortgage lending success” and it was: product, pricing, compensation, marketing, and fulfillment.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

That question would be answered succinctly when the Dodd Frank Act retooled the entire consumer regulatory structure, redrafting lending and closing documents, stiffening enforcement of laws long on the books and creating new ones, and sending participants in the real estate process into a panic trying to figure out to make it all work.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

On the right tech mindset: Adam Carmel, Polly CEO : “When I was in lending, I think I always overestimated the impact technology or software, or more importantly, a switch in technology, would have on our business in the first six months or a year, and the difficulty in transitioning.

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The Robert Weiler Company

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Two of the best examples occur when there is lending involved or litigation pursued. An appraisal review is a second opinion or added insurance for the transaction to ensure the purchase price history, comps, adjustments, and disclaimers are accurate. Grant Applications. Who Conducts Commercial Real Estate Appraisal Reviews?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The title insurance industry generated $6.8 billion in title insurance premiums in Q3, marking the industry’s best quarter ever. HousingWire: What aspects of the title process can most benefit from technology? Nominations for HousingWire’s Tech100 award are now open through Friday, December 17, 2021.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2021

To do so, in June and July 2021, WFG Enterprise Solutions surveyed mortgage lending executives from across the industry on their top operational challenges. Among the top challenges were turnaround times (56%), operational capacity, volume and staffing (34%), technology implementation and integration (34%) and communication (31%).

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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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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

For example, PennyMac’s broker portal, POWER, has an easy-to-use pricing scenario tool backed by their sophisticated proprietary pricing engine. Additionally, the company’s mortgage insurance best-ex solution, OptiMIze, automatically delivers the best MI pricing available leveraging PennyMac’s highly competitive negotiated MI rates.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2022

It’s a great marketing tool for the right type of listing. Blockchain technology is probably best to record ownership interests for intangible assets associated with intellectual property rights,” Moringiello said in an interview. It also gives real estate agents ideas. But with real estate, we already have a way to signal ownership.”.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2022

A vertical which has seen a strong digital push is mortgages, with consumers, lenders and other agents increasingly using online tools and services to apply for and process home sales. A: Morty is an online mortgage marketplace, so we leverage great product and technology to first match customers with the right loan product for them.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2021

Residential lending professionals today are being tasked to weather one storm after another. Increasingly, lenders need to rely on credit reporting and risk mitigation tools from trusted partners. Leveraging technology can help. All of these concerns are exactly what lenders need to bring to their vendors.

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Appraisal Today

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Today, while there still remains some stickiness to the QC revision process, a recent survey completed by The STRATMOR Group commissioned by appraisal management technology company Reggora, indicates 25% of appraisal reports require some form of revision. Lenders want fire insurance for all mortgage loans. Few people have it.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

But the caveat, of course, is that all bets are off if there’s a more meaningful contraction in lending [in the wake of recent bank failures and other economic factors] because then you’re in serious trouble,” Petrosinelli added.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

Publicly traded title insurance giant Stewart Information Service Corporation has acquired AccountChek , a digital verification service for assets, income and employment, from solutions provider FormFree. The move gives Stewart additional tools to drive insights into a customer’s financial profile across multiple channels.

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Clear Capital

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Clear cCapital just announced that we have acquired a Finnish proptech startup called CubiCasa and CubiCasa is incredibly exciting technology that enables anyone with a smartphone and no training to do a 10-minute walkthrough a property and get a fully detailed, accurate floorplan with gross living area.

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