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JANUARY 28, 2022

Vesta , a mortgage loan origination system software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, has received a $30 million Series A investment led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from new investor Zigg Capital.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

homeowners are “house-rich, cash-poor,” home equity investment firm Hometap provides clients with a way to tap into their home equity instead of selling their home or taking out a loan. Hometap, as an investor, provides cash in exchange for a share of their home’s future value. Based on the notion that far too many U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Stone Point Capital has purchased Vista Equity Partners’ stake in real estate software company Lone Wolf Technologies. Stone Point will become Lone Wolf’s lead institutional investor, powering the next phase of its growth and expanding its product offering, the company said. The HousingStack is exclusively for HW+ members.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

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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Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2023

Digital mortgage exchange and loan aggregator MAXEX announced on Monday it closed an equity investment round and partnerships to expand liquidity amid the recent market volatility. Several of MAXEX’s existing investors, including J.P. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Figure Lending LLC is now operating under the umbrella of Figure Technology Solutions , independent of CEO Mike Cagney ’s Figure Technologies. Figure Technologies launched a wholesale lending platform in June 2023 that gives loan originators access to the company’s home equity line of credit (HELOC) offering.

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JUNE 5, 2023

Be it new experimental technology, legislation or regulation to respond to, disruptive proptech models, shifting market dynamics and so on,” said Price. The solutions we provide would benefit investors, proptech firms, tech-forward brokerages and other companies looking for a better way to conduct their real estate transactions.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

Blockchain-based real estate platform Parcl is betting people want a piece of the real estate pie so badly customers are willing to invest in an emerging, small slice of the market: a digital square foot of real estate. Not only are customers investing in Parcl’s product, but the company itself also recently secured funding of $7.5

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Rising home prices continue to fuel the growth of the nation’s multi-trillion dollar home-equity market, a fact not lost on behemoth investment-management firm PIMCO. And if we can better bank those investors and consumers, it could be just a massive addressable market for the company.”. As of the end of September, it had some $2.2

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

Publicly traded real estate technology company Doma Holdings has entered into a definitive agreement to sell to title insurance underwriter Title Resources Group (TRG) and become a private company. Its most recent endeavor is Upfront Title , launched during the third-quarter earnings call with investors and analysts.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

The real estate sector is constantly evolving, and one technology has emerged as a true game changer: virtual reality (VR). This transformative technology has opened up a new world of possibilities, empowering agents and captivating potential buyers like never before.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Multi-year HousingWire Tech100 winner Built Technologies , a construction finance software and construction payment technology company, closed an $88 million Series C funding round. The Series C was led by Addition , venture capitalist and investor Lee Fixel’s new fund. and Canada. and Canada.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

ICE) and investment research firm Delta Terra Capital announced a partnership to offer climate-adjusted credit risk analytics for residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities (MBS). Our climate risk data can help inform investment decisions of U.S. Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

Kiavi , one of the nation’s largest private lenders for residential real estate investors , closed a $350 million unrated securitization of residential transition loans (RTLs), the company announced on Monday. The loans bundled in the securitization were mostly investment property loans used for fix-and-flip transactions.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Philadelphia-based private equity firm LLR Partners announced Tuesday its investment in Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach , two fintechs focused on attracting and retaining mortgage borrowers and making loan originators more efficient. This vision is a big part of why we wanted to put gas on the fire with this investment.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Residential sale-leaseback platform EasyKnock has acquired home equity investment platform Balance Homes , the company announced on Tuesday. We are thrilled to bring Balance Homes’ unique co-ownership product, technology and team into EasyKnock,” Schoenholtz said. EasyKnock received $57 million in venture capital in February 2022.

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APRIL 19, 2022

At an investor conference last fall, Redwood Trust Inc. CEO Christopher Abate outlined the company’s strategy to expand its reach in existing markets while also seeking out strategic investments in new markets. Those new investments include venture capital plays, particularly in the financial-technology arena.

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Inman

APRIL 29, 2024

Backflip, a company that built an application to help investors analyze and finance properties to flip, has secured a $15 million Series A round of funding.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Repurchases have been a hot topic for lenders, and to some degree, the agencies and investors have gotten a bad rap in these discussions,” said Nick Volpe , executive vice president of ACES Quality Management. “ Non-QM loans are those that cannot be purchased by the GSEs.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2023

The company’s new offering, Plunk Pro, provides real estate investors, advisors, and analysts with access to over 104 million homes nationwide. Users can receive real-time valuation data, predictive investment analysis, and thorough risk assessment.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Citi , RiverPark Ventures , Metropolis Ventures , Simplex Ventures , Winklevoss Capital and Liebenthal Ventures invested in the round. In October 2022, Prev u acquired mortgage technology assets from shuttered real estate startup Reali. Real estate tech firm Prevu announced a Series A financing round Thursday of $6 million.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 29, 2024

Dovenmuehle Mortgage reports that Moody’s Investors Service has affirmed its servicer quality (SQ) assessment as a servicer of prime residential mortgage loans at SQ2-. Our sustained performance reflects the dedication of our experienced team and our ongoing investment in technology and process enhancements.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2023

California-based real estate investing platform Peer Street, Inc. Founded in 2013 by Brew Johnson, Brett Crosby and Alex Perelman, Peer Street developed a marketplace connecting lenders and borrowers seeking capital to investors looking for real estate-related debt. Burry was one of PeerStreet’s first investors in 2015.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2022

has agreed to buy mortgage servicing rights trading platform Blue Water Financial Technologies for a cool $101 million. The integration of Blue Water into the Voxtur product suite strengthens our technology foothold and places us squarely in the capital markets arena,” said Voxtur CEO Jim Albertelli in a statement.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Mike Cagney’s financial technology firm Figure Technologies has taken another step to go public with its lending division, LendCo , hiring investment banks to coordinate the initial public offering (IPO), per a Bloomberg report. JP Morgan Chase & Co. and Jefferies Financial Group Inc. for the IPO.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Moon Mortgage’s CryptoMortgages will allow investors to take out loans against their digital assets. The product also takes the investors’ digital assets as collateral and gives 100% financing for investment properties. With CryptoMortgage, the company aims to connect crypto and TradFi to make leveraging digital assets easier.

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McKissock

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

From mobile apps that can help you rent out your space to finding a new home just by scrolling through your social media feed, technology is quickly changing the way we do real estate. Now, real estate investors (or those who want to be) are reaping the benefits of technology, too. Are Real Estate Investing Apps Reliable?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2022

The new capital will be invested in an “aggressive” hiring plan and technology expansion. The round is led by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz , with participation from new investor Zigg Capital and seed investors Conversion Capital and Bain Capital Ventures.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

While digital asset investment has skyrocketed, many investors are still unable to use their cryptocurrency holdings to directly fund the most important purchases in life, like property,” Bill Barhydt, Abra’s CEO, said in a statement. . The Abra Borrow platform allows customers to use crypto as collateral to borrow U.S.

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Inman

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Investors pushed shares in the Dallas-based mortgage loan servicer to a new high on Friday as executives in a Q4 earnings call said they'll keep investing in technology that boosts efficiency.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

has raised $175 million to accelerate growth and fund new technologies , just 16 months after relaunching its operations. Funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management , MFA Financia l, various family offices, and other strategic investors invested through a StoicLane’s special purpose vehicle, StoicLane said.

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Inman

APRIL 10, 2023

Fractional and its users find investment properties, create public proposals for like-minded group members and assemble a team of investors to purchase them.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

The rental real estate space is built on human relationships between owners, investors, vendors and residents. To do this well, they will need to thoroughly understand resident preferences and invest in the right amenities, services and experiences to meet their expectations. Smart-home technology is another differentiator to explore.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Collabra Technology , a real estate marketing and analytics firm, has appointed former Bright MLS executive David Charron to its board of directors, the company announced on Monday.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2022

Figure , a blockchain-focused financial service company and Apollo , a global alternative asset manager, announced today completing a transaction involving the origination of digital mortgage loans and transfer of ownership via blockchain technology, according to a press release shared with FinLedger.

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Inman

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We know that technology has disrupted the homebuying and selling process, but it's also heavily influenced how we invest in real estate.

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Inman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As Re-convene returns to Santa Monica this week, investors nationwide will be following along on Twitter, where an enthusiastic community of investors has leaned into social media in a big way.

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