Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 21, 2024

After launching the FHFA’s Office of Financial Technology in 2022, he introduced its first annual Velocity tech sprint in 2023. After 30 years in government, I’m investing my experience and energy in the fintechs that are working to solve the many entrenched challenges within banking and mortgage,” says Cave.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

Stavvy, a Boston-based fintech, announced Monday that it landed a $40 million Series A funding round led by Morningside Technology Ventures. How modernized servicing creates customers for life. Presented by: Sagent Lending Technologies. The funding caps a period of intense growth period for Stavvy.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

ConsumerDirect Mortgage rebranded itself to Real Genius and announced the launch of a modern mortgage application platform to simplify a borrower’s experience. Since 2016, we’ve helped more than 51,000 families with their mortgage needs, lending more than $15 billion,” said Thornton. Learn here! Presented by: Maxwell.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2023

For those in the mortgage space, there are a myriad of technology solutions claiming to help streamline lending operations and improve efficiency. When investing in a technology that someone else designed to automate workflows, it’s important to ask — how do I make this workflow work for me?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The message was clear: if you weren’t already invested in new digital mortgage experience, then your competition already beat you to the sale. New investment money began to flow into start-up fintech companies like Blend, Roostify and more than a dozen other new brands. Lenders immediately began to race to catch up.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

People who invest in technology often ask the question: is this a “nice to have,” or a “need to have?” Few have the resources to invest in technologies they don’t need. What’s the worst that can happen if we don’t invest in this technology?”. Just look at modern graphic arts software.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

By writing and maintaining all of the code along with investing heavily in putting together a world class modern IT infrastructure that efficiently leverages a mix of modern technologies like the public cloud and API based software architectures, UWM has been able to turn on a dime and stay well ahead of shifts in the market utilizing technology.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2021

One way to do that is by offering a digital lending process’ that attracts borrowers across all generations, regardless of their credit score and finances. Joel Rickman: One of the most significant and transformational trends in lending is the call for the modernization and digitization of the mortgage loan process.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 15, 2024

Lenders, Lender Technology Providers, Appraisal Management Companies (AMCs), Appraisal Software Providers, and Appraisers will need to devote time and resources to this evolution. This necessitates innovation and adaptation, potentially narrowing the technological and market advantage that existing providers might have had.

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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. In 2016 LLR led a $26.5 In 2016 LLR led a $26.5

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

HW: How have you seen technology impacted by COVID-19? It’s more important than ever for your bank to invest in solutions to reach new consumers and meet their expectations of convenient, modern banking and lending. HW: What is Allied Solutions doing differently than the rest of the mortgage lending market?

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

NAN provides them with the confidence they deserve by offering a combination of technological innovation and common-sense efficiencies, which add up to a true competitive advantage for its lender/broker partners. . What differentiates us can differentiate our lending partners too. We listen to our clients, and we pivot quickly.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2021

Clear Capital’s suite of field valuations, real estate analytics, and platform technology solutions help servicers prevent fraud, check the accuracy of completed appraisals and broker price opinions (BPOs), conduct portfolio valuation analysis and updates, and help with disposition analysis on distressed loans.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2020

HousingWire recently spoke with Susan Falsetti, managing director of Origination Title and Close at ServiceLink, about the state of title in 2020 and how the EXOS technology platform allowed ServiceLink clients to take advantage of virtual closing solutions. This technology became essential amid social distancing guidelines.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Through this acquisition we’ve not only gained an amazing brand and business, but also an incredibly talented group of team members that bring additional editorial, technology and product expertise to our team.”. “In mortgage and housing markets and serves an audience of lending, servicing, investment and real estate market participants.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Later that decade, the introduction of mortgage point of sale (POS) platforms again transformed the industry, ushering in the term ‘digital mortgage’ and modernizing the loan application and origination experience for borrowers. Thus, adapting the customer intelligence platform for lending has been a relatively recent endeavor.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

Seventy million dollars in seed funding is a colossal investment for an unproven tech startup, even one that promises to fully disrupt a relatively low-margin, traditional industry like mortgage lending. They’re used to modern experiences with great service and digital experience. But this is no ordinary mortgage startup.

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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. These professionals can utilize Commercial AVMs to conduct thorough analyses of potential investments.

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Clear Capital

MAY 24, 2022

Each year, technology plays more of a role in valuing homes for property appraisals , loan originations, secondary market investments, and even portfolio monitoring. As a leading real estate technology company, Clear Capital pioneers new advances in AVMs for mortgage lending.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2021

So far his venture-backed title company has launched platforms that have sped up title clearance and title insurance acquisition, and they have their sights on expanding into the lending and appraisal space. I think it used to be an industry that was behind in terms of investment in software,” Baker said.

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Birmingham Appraisal

AUGUST 2, 2023

A Guide to Selecting the Right Appraiser Selecting a real estate appraiser is a crucial decision that can significantly impact your financial transactions and investments. Technology Adoption In the fast-paced world of real estate, technology plays an increasingly significant role in streamlining appraisal processes and enhancing accuracy.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

Here it is: another article about appraisal modernization. The FHFA RFI responses to appraisal modernization are a treasure trove of insight into ideas and options for modernization from a wide variety of respondents. No doubt, investment in modernization is needed in the appraisal process.

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Listing Spark

JANUARY 22, 2024

In the real estate investment market overall, activity remains high and profitable—even reaching measurably above pre-pandemic levels. Evaluate where there’s room in your business processes for more apps and technology so you can work faster and have all the information you need to make sound investments.

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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 Halbrook said. “I

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The study’s recommendations: focus relentlessly on cost and leverage digital technology to scale and drive customer experience. In recent Wolters Kluwer surveys, most lender respondents said in the future they will rely more on technology rather than adding “bodies” to deal with up cycles. No, sometimes less is more.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The complaint filed in federal court on Wednesday alleges that from at least 2015 to 2021, Lakeland failed to provide mortgage lending services to Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Newark. Federal officials said similar banks generated five times as many loan applications from prospective Black and Latino home buyers as Lakeland.

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 20, 2021

Consumers want to enjoy the home-buying and -selling experience in a modern, tech-friendly, transparent way. By some accounts, about $30 billion has been invested in real estate tech in the last five years, helping to improve many aspects of our industry. Partnering with Priority Home Lending , John L. and “Was it fair?”.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Mortgage Cadence has recently launched their new platform offering the industry’s most complete, modern LOS that delivers cloud-based, automated loan origination capabilities designed to enable an exceptional user experience throughout the entire mortgage lending life cycle, across all channels and products.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The announcement comes after more than a year’s worth of efforts by the FHA to streamline and modernize their FHA loan origination and claims process. Growing and investing in relationships and communities in the long term is one of the many opportunities presented by stricter fair lending regulations. Learn more here!

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2021

How hybrid title and valuations help increase lending efficiency. We don’t have a true “cradle-to-grave” technology, but we can still think at a more strategic level when it comes to opening up established chokepoints in the traditional title flow. It’s also a selling point to your potential lending clients.

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Will Springer Realtor

JANUARY 9, 2024

The Federal Reserve recently updated its forecast, hinting at a potential decrease of about 75 basis points (0.75%) in its short-term lending rate by the year’s end – promising news for borrowers in 2024. The Fed’s revised lending forecast sparked a celebratory mood among investors, particularly those tracking U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2021

Kristy Fercho , executive vice president and head of Wells Fargo Home Lending, currently serves as vice chair of the board of the MBA, vice chair of the MBA’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committee, co-chair of the Affordable Housing Council, and a member of its Residential Board of Governors. to lobby for the industry and homeowners.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In recent months, Mortgage Cadence clients have been able to quickly pivot to a remote-work model without missing a beat using its end-to-end digital lending solution, the Mortgage Cadence Platform (MCP). THE EXECUTIVES: Joe Camerieri, Executive Vice President. Pete Espinosa, Chief Executive Officer.

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 13, 2023

Data courtesy global services and investment company Colliers.] Data from the Federal Reserve indicates Goldman Sachs has the highest exposure to commercial loan losses at 16% of its lending total due within the next two years, followed by Morgan Stanley (14%) and Citizens (12%). I refer to these challenges as the 5 L’s.

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

So they are paying investment value, not market value. Excerpt: Today, while there still remains some stickiness to the QC revision process, a recent survey completed by The STRATMOR Group commissioned by appraisal management technology company Reggora, indicates 25% of appraisal reports require some form of revision.

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Clear Capital

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It makes sense why there’s so many different companies now, you know, looking to provide alternative ways to tap into that equity, not through just a traditional cash out refi or HELOC, but be able to tap into it through home equity investment, you know, other types of Proptech-like offerings. Jeff Allen . Carey Armstrong .

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