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. Blend’s white label technology is what powers mortgage applications on the site of banks such as Wells Fargo and U.S. Stay tuned for updates.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The bank has 197 active loan officers and 12 branches across the country. The company is offering impacted employees “a full suite of benefits, services, and tools to help with the transition, including a paid transition period and career workshops,” according to Russell. It has offices in seven U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 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. In July, DocuSign acquired Austin-based startup Liveoak Technologies for $38 million in an all-stock transaction.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2021

It’s much more efficient to reach a loan officer and input an application into the pipeline than ever before. Depository or not, that still means almost half of the cost to originate a loan comes from the production element. We’ve seen great advances in LOS technology in the just the past two years. Yet, it usually is.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Jimmy Kelly, president and CEO of Lone Wolf Technologies , to discuss the company’s development process and his vision for a connected real estate platform. That is a lot of technology and a lot of wasted effort. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

Largely hidden from view and misperceived by some to be on the lower end of the hierarchy of service providers, the position seemingly lacked the luster of the real estate agent or the panache of the loan officer. Technological connectivity The new generation of buyers is going all in on technology.

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Assurance Financial

MARCH 2, 2022

The number one point to make with our industry is that due to the incredible new capabilities of mortgage fintech, we need to rethink technology. Instead of thinking about the process and how to plug technology into the different steps, we need to think about the capabilities of the technology and how we change the process to adapt to it.

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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? Well, technology is now the sixth tenet, because you can’t do any part of the other ones without the technology and that’s where the big change has happened.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2021

Homebuyers and sellers contend with a variety of entities — banks, insurance companies, mortgage servicers, appraisal companies, title providers, agents, brokerages, and even real estate marketers— and the process can be labyrinthine to even those who have gone through it before. Technology plays a big role.

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PennyMac

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Their advice was varied, but they all agreed that using a smart combination of the right tools, techniques, and safety measures is the key to protecting your home and family. Now that you have considered the physical and structural aspects of home security, it’s time to think about ways that digital and virtual tools can help you.

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Assurance Financial

MARCH 1, 2021

Homeowners insurance. Private mortgage insurance, if applicable. On top of carving out a large chunk of your paycheck for rent, you also likely have to pay for utilities, groceries, transportation, insurance and internet — not to mention the costs of treating yourself to luxuries like vacations and going out to eat.

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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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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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