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How smart home technology increases property value in a challenging market

Housing Wire

Over the past few years, we’ve seen an increased demand for smart home technology as consumers continue to embrace a digital lifestyle. Now, however, renters actually expect to see this technology in their living spaces.”. Why smart home technology now?

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ICE Mortgage Technology President Tim Bowler on mortgage automation

Housing Wire

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. SW: ICE Mortgage Technology is known for its focus on automation. Sarah Wheeler: ICE’s acquisition of Black Knight just closed today.

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Lenders can use closing technology as a bargaining chip

Housing Wire

While new technologies have a reputation for breaking the bank, the average lender only budgets less than 10% of their overall operations costs for technology. Without loan officer adoption, that spend becomes frivolous, making a lender’s decisions on which technologies to include in the tech stack extremely important.

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‘Stale’ Housing Inventory Rises in July

Appraisal Buzz

the technology-powered real estate brokerage. of for-sale homes were on the market for at least 30 days, up from … The post ‘Stale’ Housing Inventory Rises in July appeared first on DSNews. The post ‘Stale’ Housing Inventory Rises in July appeared first on Appraisal Buzz. The share of U.S. In other words, 61.2%

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Employment gains could help housing inventory

Housing Wire

HousingWire sat down with Renata Sheyner, vice president of product at CreditXpert, to learn more about key technologies that lenders need to give more attention to. The post Employment gains could help housing inventory appeared first on HousingWire. Presented by: CreditXpert.

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How data and technology can combat appraisal bias

Housing Wire

Now, anyone can idly browse real estate listings and find out what homes have sold for and what inventory is available. Tara Dugan, who works in marketing and real estate for Tavant, said that technology should focus on integrations and aggregations.

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Radian Group announces strategic investment in FinLocker 

Housing Wire

Radian Group announced a strategic investment in FinLocker that will closely connect the technology between Radian’s Homegenius platform and FinLocker’s financial fitness and homeownership platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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