Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke to Tom Kriby, vice president of client development and partnerships at Westwood Insurance Agency, about how working with an insurance agency can simplify the closing process for their customers, even in times of interest rate uncertainty. Take insurance, for example.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2021

When mortgage and acquisition activity picked up, marketers created new brand unity between companies. First Guaranty Mortgage Corporation. Princeton Mortgage. A&D Mortgage. Mortgage Capital Trading. Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation. Finance of America Mortgage. Arch Mortgage Insurance.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

year-over-year increase in title insurance premium volume during the third quarter of 2021 according to ALTA’s Market Share Analysis , published on Thursday. During Q3 2021, the title insurance industry generated $6.8 billion in title insurance premium, marking the industry’s best quarter on record. Presented by: ServiceLink.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Among the numerous issues that retirement preparation can present to those near the end of their careers, long-term care (LTC) provides an increasingly common discussion point. One potential product that could assist in paying for LTC and its insurance could be a reverse mortgage, according to personal finance publication Kiplinger.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Mortgage title insurance premiums surged by 17.6% billion in title insurance premiums seen in the second quarter this year. But with home sales and mortgage origination volumes rising, it comes as no surprise that mortgage title insurance is also seeing an uptick. Presented by: ServiceLink.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

In late June, Susan Gregory received an estimate for a new homeowner’s insurance policy on her 120-year-old St. Augustine, Florida property, after her previous insurer, United Property and Casualty, went insolvent earlier in the year. This is one of the easiest parts of Florida to insure and costs have gone up over 40%.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For some, their present lives are troubled, often through no fault of their own. The practice of redlining , initiated in the 1930s, where banks and insurers refused services to entire neighborhoods based on racial composition, further entrenched these disparities. Like the cities they inhabit, many have had a troubled past.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2022

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 Presented by: ServiceLink. and Doma Title Insurance Co.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach announced an API integration between Mortgage Coach and SaaS technology provider Polly on Thursday. Now, lenders can merge the benefits of our high-performance PPE with Mortgage Coach’s ability to multiply borrower conversion,” said Adam Carmel, founder and CEO of Polly, in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2021

Margaret Redman has been named director of national commercial services and senior regional underwriting counsel for North American Title Insurance Co. First American Data & Analytics’ solutions help lenders better identify fraud risks and errors in mortgage applications. Presented by: FADT. but projects to be at 5% by 2023.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

billion in title insurance premium volume during the first quarter of 2022, compared to $5.68 The title insurance industry had a record year in 2021 , generating $26.2 billion in premiums, which ALTA attributed to historic mortgage origination activity and the substantial increase in home values. Presented by: Stewart Title.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Mortgage tech firms Mortgage Coach and Polly have teamed up on a new application programming interface (API) integration that guides borrowers through a visual representation of their loan options. The new API integration will feed real-time data from Polly’s cloud-based PPE into Mortgage Coach’s total cost analysis (TCA) presentation.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2021

The title insurance and settlement services provider was originally bought b y Solutionstar Holdings , an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Nationstar Mortgage Holdings (Mr. Presented by: Altisource. Blend’s white label technology is what powers mortgage applications on the site of banks such as Wells Fargo and U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Using a 1-10 scale, the portal displays current risk factors for a property as well as the expected change for each risk in 15 and 30 years, the length of a typical mortgage. The cost of homeowners insurance policies has skyrocketed in the past two years as U.S. insurers have grappled with exponential growth in natural disaster claims.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

” Republic collapsed after it failed to raise $75 million in capital from investors and exited the mortgage lending space. Republic had an active business that specialized in jumbo mortgage products. Ultimately, it originated about $50 million in mortgages in 2023, per mortgage tech platform Modex.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Unfortunately, too many misconceptions persist among real estate and even mortgage industry professionals about the VA home loan, and those misconceptions have big (and negative) impacts. VA mortgage loans generally provide veterans and active-duty service members with more favorable terms than other loans on the market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

reported positive revenue for 2020, in large part because its title insurance arm made up for a decrease in general earned premiums. This growth stemmed from greater profitability in the general and title insurance segments. This comes as no surprise as mortgage title insurance premiums surged by 17.6% billion in 2019.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As the mortgage rate environment became increasingly volatile in August and early September, one in three title insurers reported order volume that was below or far below average. Presented by: SoftPro. That’s according to PropLogix ’s fifth annual “State of the Title Industry” report.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Publicly traded lending software firm MeridianLink has acquired OpenClose , a fintech company that specializes in residential mortgage software solutions for banks, credit unions and mortgage lenders. How mortgage lenders are qualifying the value of fintech solutions. Presented by: Total Expert. The company earned $71.8

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A federal judge ordered Ronald McCord, the founder of Oklahoma City-based lender and servicer First Mortgage Company , who was also once the president of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), to pay $51.8 million in restitution for mortgage fraud. Presented by: First American Data & Analytics.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2022

Full-service lender Cherry Creek Mortgage announced Rick Hogle has joined the company as its chief revenue officer. Hogle began his mortgage career in 2001 at New Century Mortgage , where he became a branch manager. How to make digital marketing easy and effective for mortgage professionals. Presented by: Evocalize.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) completed its acquisition of Black Knight Tuesday, making the combined company the biggest player in the mortgage tech space. I sat down with Tim Bowler, president of ICE Mortgage Technology, a business unit of ICE, to talk about the company’s mortgage automation strategy — and what keeps him up at night.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

San Francisco-based fintech Polly has hired Parvesh Sahi, a former executive from ICE Mortgage Technology , as chief revenue officer to scale the business in a highly competitive mortgage environment. Movement Mortgage , First American Financial and FinVC also joined existing investors 8VC , Khosla Ventures and Fifth Wall.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Mortgage Coach , a borrower conversion platform empowering mortgage lenders to educate borrowers with interactive presentations that model home loan performance over time, is now integrated with First American Title Insurance Co.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 24, 2021

National Mortgage Insurance Corp. is now integrated with the Mortgage Coach platform, which enables mortgage lenders to create accurate, digital home loan comparison scenarios for borrowers. Each personalized TCA presentation is delivered via a digital link, enabling the borrower to compare loan.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2023

Mortgage tech firm Lender Toolkit sued two mortgage lenders claiming that the companies failed to make payments while continuing to use its services and software solutions. Lender Toolkit accused Celebrity Home Loans and MLD Mortgage of breach of contract. That’s according to separate filings made in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The federal government’s top regulators announced Wednesday that they are collectively resuming mortgage servicing supervisory and enforcement practices in full, ending certain flexibilities it offered mortgage servicers at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Presented by: Snapdocs.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

For real estate professionals, this option presents an opportunity to capture more sales. They own the home with their name on the title, as with any mortgage, traditional or reverse. But the fact is, most people simply don’t know that a new home can be purchased with a reverse mortgage. What is reverse purchase financing?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2022

Publicly traded mortgage tech company Blend Labs laid off 10% of its workforce amid major headwinds in the mortgage industry. The company, whose white-label technology powers mortgage applications on the websites of major lenders such as Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank , expects to incur about $6.7 million in annualized savings.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

With few homeowners willing to give up their low mortgage rates, Mike Roberts has shifted his focus to targeting first-time homebuyers. A first-time homebuyer requires a tremendous amount of nurturing,” said Roberts, the president and founder of City Creek Mortgage. “A Niche loans consist of about 5% of Parkinson’s business. “It’s

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

mortgage lender announced that it will notify 16.9 According to the company, the cyberattack will add approximately $12 million to $17 million in expenses to its first-quarter earnings, the net of expected insurance coverage. Mortgage executives told HousingWire that these attacks have put the industry in “alert mode.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The HW Tech100 identifies and recognizes the most innovative technology companies serving the mortgage and real estate industries. The 2021 Tech100 Mortgage winners are revolutionizing the mortgage process – from origination to closing, and servicing to secondary markets. The following table presents the 2021 winners.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2021

Candor, a mortgage artificial intelligence firm that has pioneered automated underwriter technology, announced a $12.5 Nearly a year ago, when Candor vaulted onto the scene, mortgage lenders were desperate to hire underwriters. Presented by: CoreLogic. The post Mortgage AI firm Candor announces $12.5M

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2021

HousingWire’s people mover section covers the latest hiring announcements in the real estate and mortgage industry. Kicking off this week’s leadership announcements, Cherry Creek Mortgage changed its structure and ownership. How 2020 raised the stakes for the mortgage industry. Presented by: CoreLogic.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2023

Dallas-based Comerica Bank has decided to “organically exit” the mortgage banker finance business following the tumult in the banking industry that threatened the nation’s top warehouse lenders. Representatives at Comerica referred to the presentation when asked about the bank’s decision and its implications.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2022

s mortgage business has been the subject of industry speculation in the wake of a Bloomberg report indicating that the lending giant plans to shrink its enormous mortgage footprint , including a likely pull-back from the correspondent lending business. Presented by: Reggora. The fate of Wells Fargo & Co. ’s

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ’s regulator imagines a future where, perhaps through artificial intelligence and machine learning, errors in mortgages are identified in real time before a loan is closed. billion five years ago, per the Federal Housing Finance Agency — closing a mortgage loan has since gotten more expensive, not less.

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