Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Mortgage Coach, founded in 2009 and based in California, offers an interactive borrower education platform that lets loan officers guide borrowers through a visual presentation of their loan options. This will enable borrowers to view accurate, side-by-side home loan comparisons, Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2022

Polly , a software-as-service mortgage technology firm that operates a loan-trading platform, integrated with six mortgage insurance providers to streamline the mortgage process for loan officers and mortgage lenders. .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Lisa Thomas, chief executive officer of Town Square, added that the deal also brings “a portfolio of expanded loan products backed by a lending platform with state-of-the-art technology.” The company said it has a full-service retail origination platform that originates agency, government and investor portfolio loans.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

The plaintiffs claim they hired independent mortgage brokers, believing the wholesale channel was the best option for getting affordable mortgages because these professionals can shop around — a different model from loan officers employed by retail lenders. “As Your technology has to be fantastic every day. They have options.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Detroit-based lender’s unmatched combination of name recognition, digital infrastructure and consumer technology enabled it to originate more than $670 billion in mortgages in 2020 and 2021, smashing records in the process. Its parent Rocket Companies rode the wave to a stunning $9.4 billion in profit in 2020 and $6.1 billion in 2021.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. billion, according to a review of bond-rating and industry reports.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2022

The title insurance space isn’t generally known for placing outsized bets on technology. But for First American, its shrewd investments in rising proptech companies are a core business strategy. In addition, He will continue to serve as the managing director of the company’s venture investing arm. As of Sept.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The company has shown steady growth since it was founded in 2008 and demonstrated profitability across varying market conditions, rising to become the nation’s top correspondent investor and the No. We are invested in their success,” Nichols said. The new POWER+ is technology plus people. Technology powers our partnerships.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Angel Oak made it happen thanks to our close connection with investors who trust our loans and lending standards. We have made improvements to our systems so that our team has everything they need from resources and technology to be successful at home. HW: How does vertical integration benefit a loan officer?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

News just broke that private equity investor LLR Partners announced strategic investments in two mortgage technology companies — Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang ( click here for article ). LLR is not a newcomer to mortgage technology or the overall fintech market. “Hey Clayton …” and a link. In 2016 LLR led a $26.5

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

For one thing, no fixed-income investor thinks that mortgage-backed securities with 7% mortgage rates will be there when the Fed finishes the inflation fight. So you’re having to encourage investors with wider spreads to accept that. The employment data comes out on a lag basis for brokers and loan officers.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2020

Fintech-focused Canapi Ventures led the investment, which brings Blend’s total venture raised to $365 million since its 2012 inception. Also, there’s no doubt that the economic situation around the COVID-19 pandemic has placed pressure on lenders to offer remote solutions while keeping up with record loan volumes.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

By combining its extensive industry expertise with continuous investments in innovative, new capabilities, Black Knight is helping clients perform stronger in today’s highly competitive marketplace. Black Knight is a proven mortgage industry leader in servicing technology. Originations.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2021

I have no problem if they want to work with [those two] but I’m not going to give you our proprietary technology, that’s not for people funding the competition of the broker channel,” Ishbia said. “UWM is closing loans in 16-17 days…In a purchase market you can’t miss the contract date. That’s our belief system.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2022

Last Friday, HomeSmart filed an “ S-1 ” with the Securities and Exchange Commission , a document that conveys HomeSmart’s intention to sell company shares to prospective investors and the public. HomeSmart, like Compass , Keller Williams , eXp and other brokerages, states it has unique technology to modernize real estate.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

A seasoned retail and commercial banking salesman in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the 39-year-old Woodward joined Interfirst Mortgage as a loan officer in October 2020 after a recommendation from an old college friend. However, they are hampered by comparatively poor technology and the slow speed at which they can close a loan, analysts said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In July, DocuSign acquired Austin-based startup Liveoak Technologies for $38 million in an all-stock transaction. Virginia became the first state to authorize remote notarization via live audio-video technology in 2011 with the passage of House Bill 2318/Senate Bill 827.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Underwriters are needed at the beginning of the process to conduct due diligence on mortgage originations, and they are in demand on the back-end of the pipeline to conduct due diligence on the loans being pooled and securitized in RMBS issuances sold to investors. It depends on who you are,” Mayhew explained.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Today, while the mortgage industry has the technology to support this, we’re still in the early stages of determining how it should be used. With the advances we’re seeing in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Robotic Process Automation, we have become experts at configuring our technology to meet the changing needs of lenders.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

Investors asked for higher premiums to invest in these assets amid a flight to quality caused by the expectation of higher U.S. “Even though the market may have priced in some of the rate change already, the volatility is just requiring additional yield to be provided to investors to accommodate for the changes going on.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2022

Ishbia is confident his firm can benefit from this trend by cutting prices for brokers and bringing more retail loan officers to its wholesale channel, whose market share currently stands at around 20%. I’m not really focused on the margins for this quarter,” Ishbia told investors in UWM’s second-quarter earnings call. “It’s

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Exponentially increase your loan officers’ origination potential without incurring additional expense? Examiners such as the CFPB and FDIC provide stringent oversight of digital activity, and mistakes can cost you and your loan officers dearly. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

With interest rates hitting all-time lows, lenders doubled their origination volume to more than $4 trillion in both 2020 and 2021, hired more staff and ramped up investment in technology to close loans faster. billion came from its origination technology, according to their earnings reports. Of the $387.2

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

HousingWire interviewed a dozen loan officers and mortgage executives about their strategies for 2024, which mortgage products they expect to be in demand, and the magic rate needed to get sellers and buyers back in the market. AI can understand the loan status, a loan profile and AI can respond to the consumer.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Williams IV, founder and CEO of Percy.ai, about what housing professionals can do to improve their deal flow despite the turbulence of the current housing market, and how investing in valuable data insights could be the key to success. . Well, there are fintech solutions that allow you to invest fractionally in a home. Only got $1000?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If you deliver 5,000 homes a year, that means you had 50,000 people looking for a house walk across your platform who are likely prequalified by your loan officers, and you … have a relationship with them. loan officers] in pods.’”. “The rest of those people are still looking for a house. “If

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2023

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Kathryn Amor, senior vice president and head of enterprise products at Guaranteed Rate , to talk about the intersection of product and technology. KA: Coming into 2023, a lot of people were just thinking about survival and there was a lot of movement going on with investors.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This makes the POS more relevant as a loan manufacturing tool, giving loan officers and underwriters a more complete borrower and property profile sooner in the process. In servicing , the must-have capabilities are more comprehensive: core servicing, consumer, default and loan movement (onboarding, transfers, etc.).

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Offering non-QM loans provides access to those millions of borrowers who want mortgages but are unable to qualify for a traditional loan. Residential mortgage credit provides diversification benefits to institutional investors. Today, Deephaven can close a DSCR loan in as few as 15 days.

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PennyMac

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Real estate, like many other industries, has been fundamentally changed by technology. Add in a worldwide pandemic to the mix, and technology has become the lifeline of the entire industry. Invest in educating potential [buyers] digitally. 2) Step Up Your Marketing With Instagram. Not sure where to start?

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Clear Capital

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Great news for users of Encompass® by ICE Mortgage Technology®. What is Encompass by ICE Mortgage Technology? Encompass is a digital lending software available through ICE Mortgage Technology. Encompass is a digital lending software available through ICE Mortgage Technology.

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Assurance Financial

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

With your mortgage bill gone, you could contribute that monthly amount to any number of things, such as other debt, your 401k, Roth IRA, HSA, your emergency fund, or other investment opportunities. Some people weigh the value of early repayment against missed investment opportunities.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2022

So you’ve got to pay loan officers the same on any loans they originate. If there are loans that are just more expensive to manufacture, or the margins just aren’t there, the lenders are going to say, ‘We want to do fewer of those loans.’

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