Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

Xactus will add flood services to its list of verification solutions with the acquisition of MassiveCert , a software company that provides flood zone determinations for insurance, lending and real estate. MassiveCert will be rebranded as Xactus Flood Solutions. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Their collective expertise spans the entire spectrum of the sector, encompassing areas such as lending, tech, real estate, appraisal, compliance, operations, sales and so much more. The following list of honorees comprises many more examples of exceptional leadership from some of the industry’s most accomplished women.

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and the trust model Real estate is too vital to our economy to be so financially concentrated and functionally outdated.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

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

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In the mortgage industry, the time between when a hopeful borrower submits their loan application and the loan actually closing is 50 days on average, according to the Origination Insight Report by ICE Mortgage Technology. to recover that money, while non-depository originators, such as mortgage lending companies, spend an average of $4.66

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This acquisition expands our footprint in the digital mortgage ecosystem, and we are thrilled to have them join us as we continue to develop innovative and streamlined technology solutions in the lending space.”. The company also serves “100%” of reverse mortgage investors, according to the sale announcement.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

While it is true that many nonbanks entered this downturn with a large war chest of cash and capital, this is more than offset by the impact of warehouse and investor covenants, which are causing lenders to move expeditiously to cut costs,” Jim Cameron, Stratmor Group ’s senior partner, wrote in a report published this week. “In

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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

JULY 13, 2021

Compass has called itself a tech company, Wong noted, and as recently as this May its CEO Robert Reffkin said that Compass’s goal was to modernize an archaic industry. Guaranteed Rate, on the other hand, is among the few top-15 lenders that’s not publicly traded, despite having well-heeled institutional investors like Blackstone Group.

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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. It’s early.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2021

The modernization of mortgage originations in recent years has made customers expect a smart, push-button experience. Borrowers are exiting via deferral and modifications (see Figure 3), handled, of course, by smart technology solutions. We all know technology shortcomings in the post-2008 years led to weak servicer practices.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

It took several years to re-establish effective and meaningful communication between appraisers and their lending partners. When it comes to lending activity, appraisal revisions have always been a part of the appraisal process. Appraisal Modernization.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

The end-to-end, real-time capabilities of Dara improve every point of the servicing industry for every stakeholder, including operators, consumers, investors, and regulators. Sagent has shifted the servicing paradigm with its launch of Dara. With deep roots in servicing, Dara is ready for everything.

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Clear Capital

JUNE 28, 2022

Self-Serve APIs Will Enable Faster Adoption, More Control for Lenders, Investors and System Providers. Reno, NV — June 28, 2022 — Clear Capital , a national real estate valuation technology company, today announced the launch of two Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Property Valuation API and Risk Assessment API.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2022

As the industry pioneer and leading eClosing provider, DocMagic continues to lead with innovation to help lenders streamline their operations through technology solutions that can increase efficiency, lower operating costs and provide a competitive advantage by delivering the best possible borrower experience.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As the appraisal process is undergoing major shifts towards modernization and new levels of automation, this void was ripe for a solution. By endorsing this standard, the CRN is encouraging emerging technologies to develop applications for gross living area calculations in a more uniform protocol. Technology impacts.

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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.

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Mortgage Technology Loan Officers Investing 384

Listing Spark

JANUARY 22, 2024

In the first quarter of 2023 alone, real estate investors flipped 72,960 homes. For both new and experienced real estate investors, this bodes well for the 2024 market. Investors are thriving by finding properties with a lot of potential as both rentals and flips—and then being able to sell them quickly at the right price.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

Modernization will either take root and flourish throughout every branch of the mortgage industry, or our industry could miss a critical window to introduce meaningful reforms. Under this framework, mortgage investors like the GSEs would secure valuable data to inform their critical risk models that keep our housing ecosystem safeguarded.

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Realtor

MAY 15, 2023

Lenders have a vested interest in the home appraisal because it protects them from lending more money than they can recoup should you default on your loan and go into foreclosure. And in 2018, Fannie Mae began testing its hybrid appraisal, a method it had worked on for years to speed up and modernize the traditional appraisal process.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 26, 2023

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on appraisal “modernization”, bias hearing, bad appraiser, USPAP, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. == Appraiser pleads guilty in $1.3B Added Kan, “Investors remained attuned to the uncertainty around the U.S. billion tax fraud scheme.

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Clear Capital

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Clear cCapital just announced that we have acquired a Finnish proptech startup called CubiCasa and CubiCasa is incredibly exciting technology that enables anyone with a smartphone and no training to do a 10-minute walkthrough a property and get a fully detailed, accurate floorplan with gross living area. Kenon Chen. Jeff Allen. Kenon Chen.

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Luckily, advancements in evaluating consumers’ ability to repay have arrived and can enable lenders to adopt responsible and more inclusive lending practices. Fortunately, modern advancements in data intelligence offer lenders a way to reincorporate that process without all of the hassle.

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Clear Capital

DECEMBER 14, 2021

But then she now is part of a pretty amazing startup, focusing on revolutionizing the lending experience — being a digital lender — called Tomo. Technology only gets you so far, there certainly has to be a human touch to bring it all home. Maybe it’s the same technology — we’ll see. Jeff Allen .

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 13, 2023

Moody’s Investors Service noted that banks hold approximately half of the $6T in commercial real estate debt, with the largest share maturing within the next three years, according to Reuters. It is lack of labor, land/lots, lumber/materials, lending for builders and land developers and ever-costly legal/regulatory costs,” he said.

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Because of the housing shortage, investors are buying single-family residences. Those investors are buying in bulk. While that number may seem high to some, in the context of lending and property complexities, that is a 54% improvement in performance cited earlier in this article (10 years ago). For example, i-buyers.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While investors of mortgaged securities help dictate their interest rates, the Federal Reserve is behind the scenes influencing the overall lending environment. If you don’t mind seeing the neighbor’s house nearby , there are peek-a-boo Lake Washington views and stunning, modern designs inside and out. bath , 4550 sq.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2021

How modernized servicing creates customers for life. Servicers must be powered by nimble technology to be heroes to borrowers, stalwarts to investors, and stewards of consumer protection to regulators. Presented by: Sagent Lending Technologies.

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