Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

Patricia Suazo has joined FundingShield as its vice president of technology operations and integrations. Before that Yankowski was president and CEO of Executive Title Insurance Services. Valuation technology company Valligent Technologies has named Walter Allen as its executive vice president of digital transformation.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The nation’s second largest title insurer , First American , as well as some of its subsidiaries, remain offline as of Wednesday morning in the wake of the title firm’s Dec. The First American Financial umbrella includes First American Title Insurance and First American Title Guaranty , as well as nearly two dozen subsidiaries.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

Six federal agencies have requested comment from the public on a newly-proposed rule that is designed to “ensure the credibility and integrity of models used in real estate valuations.” Department of the Treasury ; and the Federal Reserve System.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2023

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and the Consumer Bankers Association (CBA) sent a letter to regulators on Monday warning of the “unintended consequences” of new quality control standards for automated valuation models (AVMs). Department of the Treasury ; and the Federal Reserve System.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Name Job Title Company Name Aaron VanTrojen CEO Geneva Financial Home Loans Abbie Tidmore Senior Managing Director and Chief Revenue Officer Pennymac Adam Kessler CEO Academy Mortgage Baron Silverstein President Newrez Ben Madick Co-Founder and CEO Matic Insurance Bernadette Kogler Co-Founder and CEO RiskSpan Bill Rogers Founder and CEO Homeowners (..)

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

For more than a decade, HousingWire’s Tech100 program has identified and recognized the most innovative technology companies serving the mortgage and real estate industries. Their groundbreaking technologies and visionary ideas are transforming the way we buy, sell and finance homes.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

brands, including brokerage, mortgage, title, insurance and technology. As the Chief Marketing Officer, she has overseen the brand development and strategy and helped Pacaso reach unicorn status with a $1 billion valuation in 2021. Whitney Curry , has propelled Pacaso to become the pioneer of co-ownership of luxury real estate.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Amrock , a title insurance, property valuations and settlement services provider that is part of the Rocket Companies family, announced Wednesday that longtime CEO, Brian Hughes will be retiring later this month and Nicole Beattie, the current vice president of mortgage servicing at sister company Rocket Mortgage , will take over.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

eMerge, a company that offers alternative valuation solutions, including broker price opinions (BPOs), will allow Accurate Group to increase its broker network and leverage property inspection technology, the company said. The company claims on its website that the total value of homes it has appraised is over $517 billion since 2010.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

RealReports is a real estate platform that gathers property data — including permits, climate risk, rental rates, flood insurance costs, internet providers and speeds, crime statistics, solar potential, liens, zoning details, remodel potential and valuation — in one place.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

More than a week after it shut down systems to combat a cybersecurity incident , title insurance giant First American Financial says it has restored some key systems and “contained the threat.” “As of the date of this filing, the Company believes it has contained the incident. .”

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2021

Shares closed trading at $20.90, giving Blend a valuation of around $4.6 ” Blend’s white-label technology is what powers mortgage applications on the website of traditional banks such as Wells Fargo and U.S. He also said the money the IPO raised will go toward investing in technology.

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2022

The CFPB issued a statement to warn creditors that technology being “too complicated” is not an excuse for noncompliance. The government watchdog in February also announced a potential clamp down on the use of automated valuation models by lenders and appraisers.

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Clear Capital

JULY 13, 2023

Clear Capital solutions combined with ICE’s API technology ensures fast and accurate collection and submission that is designed to meet Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae data standards for property data reports and property data collections respectively. Clear Capital’s automated status updates keep the lender informed in real-time.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

However, it still appears that lenders are focusing their technology investments on the point of sale. A 2020 ICE Mortgage Technology survey confirmed this, reporting that 58% of borrowers were affected in their decision making by the presence (or lack thereof) of an online application. This comes as no surprise.

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Clear Capital

AUGUST 30, 2021

Company recognized for innovation in global real estate technology industry. Clear Capital , a real estate valuation and analytics fintech leader, today announced that its ClearInsight app was named “Property Valuation Tool of the Year” in the inaugural 2021 PropTech Breakthrough Awards. August 30, 2021 —.

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Valuation Review

MARCH 17, 2021

Donegal Insurance Group, a family of property and casualty insurance companies, has selected CoreLogic as its technology provider. The move should help power and streamline property claims operations and help improve the policyholder experience. Read on to learn more.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

As many real estate professionals saw firsthand, the valuation process was disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. Using this technology, homeowners, lenders and inspectors don’t have to worry about putting off the inspection process or skipping it altogether. Mark Walser, President of Appraisal Management.

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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. Technology and the trust model Real estate is too vital to our economy to be so financially concentrated and functionally outdated.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

“We saw the challenges created by the Fidelity National Financial and First American Title cyber events prompted lenders’ risk & compliance, operations, funding & accounting teams to address the impact of bank closures, widespread technology or data outages and preparing for those challenges today,” Suri added.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2021

billion valuation. Blend’s white label technology is what powers mortgage applications on the site of banks such as Wells Fargo and U.S. In all, its technology platforms saw $1.4 That January round gave Blend a $3.3 It has raised a total of $655 million since its founding in 2012, according to Crunchbase.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2022

Stewart is one of the largest global title insurance companies and underwriters in the industry. Investing in people and technology. Services, Cloudvirga, Pro Teck Valuation Intelligence, Signature Closers, United States Appraisals, Informative Research, PropStream, and NotaryCam. And it does.”.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2021

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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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2021

Mortgage software platform Blend Labs set terms for its initial public offering Tuesday including its goal to raise up to $360 million for a targeted valuation of nearly $4 billion. Blend’s white label technology is what powers mortgage applications on the site of banks such as Wells Fargo and U.S. Presented by: FADT.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2021

Judd Hoffman has been hired as chief executive officer for Proper Title LLC , an Illinois-based title insurance agency that’s backed by top independent real estate brokerage @properties. There, he oversaw States Title use of predictive analytics and technology on its title and escrow platform. “The Presented by: Altisource.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Like Realtor.com, Redfin will be publishing data compiled by First Street Foundation , a science and technology nonprofit organization that quantifies flood risk through Flood Factor. “Buying a home is the biggest purchase most people will make in their lifetime,” Redfin Chief Product Officer Christian Taubman said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

It’s a topic she’s well-suited to speak on — at CoreLogic, Hepp is responsible for analyzing, interpreting and forecasting economic trends in real estate, mortgage and insurance. where she oversaw economic and technology intelligence. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland College Park and an M.A.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Name Job Title Company Name Agnes Standowicz Senior Vice President and Head of Underwriting United Wholesale Mortgage Alayna Gardner Director of Sales and Marketing LodeStar Software Solutions Ali Haralson President Auction.com Amanda Tucker Chief Risk and Compliance Officer Atlantic Bay Mortgage Company Amy Gromowski Executive of Science and Analytics (..)

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 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. Stay tuned for updates. At the time, Rocket Companies had said it was actually registering a total of 172.5 million shares, including 22.5

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2021

Stewart has been on an acquisition tear in the past 18 months, closing deals to acquire over a dozen companies — including Cloudvirga , NotaryCam , Pro Tek Valuation Intelligence , United States Appraisals , and A.S.K. Informative Research said the deal, which is subject to regulatory approvals, values IR at about $192 million.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

When we started, the idea was to obtain exterior photos as fast as possible, at a time when Uber, Lyft and marketing technology was advancing, and anyone with a smartphone could get exterior photos,” said Tomaszewski, who worked to turn his idea into ProxyPics. The State of Appraisals in 2022. The State of Appraisals in 2022.

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Valuation Review

MAY 24, 2021

Valuation Review reached out to Russell Kitzberger, a residential and commercial appraiser (Pointer Appraisal Services, LLC) and a certified general appraiser providing real estate appraisal, litigation consulting, and expert witness services for attorneys, property owners, insurers, lenders, and government agencies.

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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. Blend announced Wednesday it has raised a $75 million Series F round at a valuation of nearly $1.7 Stay tuned for updates.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2021

Not for lack of effort, however, resource restrictions, regulatory burden, and rapidly evolving technology, not to mention pandemic impact, often take precedence. The homebuyer receives the binder in the form of a gift, offering robust maintenance and home valuation tools that are event-driven and informative.

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Clear Capital

APRIL 20, 2023

Clear Capital Expands Relationship with CoreLogic in Support of Modern Appraisal Readiness Clear Capital’s Universal Data Collection product available to be ordered, fulfilled through CoreLogic Valuation Workflow Solutions Reno, Nev. CoreLogic’s Valuation Workflow Solutions power over 1,400 of the nation’s mortgage lenders.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

Technology will be the most popular solution, but choosing to implement multi-million-dollar platforms to streamline operations introduces even more complexity before savings are realized. Servicers, especially those who service government-insured loan products, are under statutory time constraints that give them very little wiggle room.

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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. It's not uncommon to find agents using them as part of their marketing, as a first step of introduction to a potential client.

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