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. Both firms will maintain their existing brands and teams.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Cliffco Mortgage Bankers is among the rare independent mortgage banks doing more business than last year. To get there, Cliffco, which has been in business since 1987, is going after the non-qualified mortgage ( non-QM ) market and investing in tech to get in front of buyers and non-agent referral partners.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2022

San Francisco-based startup Vesta, which provides a software-as-a-service platform for mortgage loan originators, announced on Thursday that it raised $30 million through a Series A funding round. The new capital will be invested in an “aggressive” hiring plan and technology expansion. The company targets the $2.6

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Today’s unique market requires flexibility and a pricing engine that empowers lenders and their loan officers to put the right loan products in front of borrowers. HousingWire spoke with Parvesh Sahi, chief revenue officer of Polly , about the importance of having the right PPE and strategic pillars that facilitate LO success.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

California-headquartered LoanSnap was hit with a temporary order to cease and desist from Connecticut’s Department of Banking for “systemic” unlicensed mortgage loan origination activity. These individuals also received inbound calls from individuals interested in obtaining mortgage loans, the order stated.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

If it finds “a good company,” the lender is willing to pay a premium to the owners, according to Dan Snyder, the fintech’s founder and investor. Founded in Denver in 1981, Universal added 60 loan officers to Lower. That deal was followed by the acquisition of Texas-based Thrive Mortgage in December.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Amanda Phillips, EVP of Compliance, ACES Quality Management In the current mortgage landscape, ensuring the highest standards of loan quality is paramount not only during the origination process but also over the life of the loan. AP: QC is crucial for lenders to ensure loan quality and mitigate risk.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Chicago-based mortgage originator Interfirst Mortgage Co. has raised $175 million to accelerate growth and fund new technologies , just 16 months after relaunching its operations. Last year, Interfirst relaunched its services with a new proprietary loan origination technology platform. and former U.S.

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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 28, 2023

HousingWire: Like most industries, the mortgage industry has historically had key, dominant players that lenders must work with in order to remain operational. Specifically, when it comes to a core component in the mortgage tech stack like the PPE. It’s technology gridlock. HW: How has this technology gridlock hurt lenders?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Amid the expectation of a wave of mergers and acquisitions in 2023, nonbank mortgage lenders American Portfolio Mortgage Corporation and Town Square Mortgage announced on Wednesday that the companies are merging their operations. This week, Guild announced it has acquired Legacy Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Mortgage tech firms Mortgage Coach and Polly have teamed up on a new application programming interface (API) integration that guides borrowers through a visual representation 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

MARCH 25, 2021

Digital mortgage and fulfillment platform Maxwell has raised $16.3 Other investors included Rotor Capital , The Mortgage Collaborative Emerging Technology Fund , Prudence Holdings and existing investors including Anthemis Group , Route 66 Ventures , and Sovereign’s Capital. mortgage market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Chicago-based Interfirst Mortgage Co. will lay off 77 employees in its Charlotte, North Carolina office come January 2022, a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) notice filed by the company reveals. In returning from its three-year hiatus, Interfirst said it had reinvented itself as a tech-forward mortgage lender.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. Justin Woodward has experienced the best and the worst of the mortgage industry in only 18 months. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

mortgage lender United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) is the target of a class-action-seeking lawsuit alleging it orchestrated a scheme with mortgage brokers to apply excess fees and costs to borrowers. The lawsuit follows Monday’s report from Hunterbrook Media indicating that UWM pressures brokers to send loans its way.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

When the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to zero on March 15, 2020 and set off an extraordinary real estate boom, Rocket Mortgage was ready. But more than 80% of Rocket’s volume during those years came from refinancings, data from Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) showed. Its parent Rocket Companies rode the wave to a stunning $9.4

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Acra Lending , a private mortgage lender, announced its integration with Tavant ’s Touchless Lending Collateral Analysis. It is also turning Acra’s business into a technology-first one, the statement said. The private mortgage lender will feature the implementation of a non-QM AUS platform soon, the statement noted.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2021

The same can be said about the mortgage industry as an ecosystem, and its technology as the coral reef. In order for brokers and lenders to work together in symbiosis as organisms of this ecosystem, the technology must also allow for it. Right now, the mortgage ecosystem is fractured. Fractured mortgage ecosystem.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2021

Venture capital-backed mortgage lender Better.com is going international. The company, which is expected to go public later this year, has agreed to acquire United Kingdom-based digital mortgage brokerage Trussle. Trussle’s investors include American bank Goldman Sachs and Amsterdam-based venture capital fund Finch Capital.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

We have already seen evidence that mortgage servicing is forever changed and purchase money lending will suffer, at least in the short term. Low interest rates have kept refinance loan volumes robust, but no one knows for how long. It’s time for lenders to finally prepare themselves for mortgage lending in a fully digital world.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

Tech-fueled retail mortgage lender InstaMortgage has merged with mortgage broker shop All Cal Financial , a rare example of a top-performing brokerage switching channels. As part of the merger, Jim Black, the founder of All Cal, will become chief lending officer of InstaMortgage.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2022

The title insurance space isn’t generally known for placing outsized bets on technology. We caught up with Hurst to talk about his new role and why the firm is looking to invest in commercial real estate tech startups and mortgage tech firms. As of Sept. Here is how Hurst, via email, responded to our questions.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

LoanLogics, a mortgage loan quality automation provider, announced the integration of two of its document processing tools with Finastra ‘s MortgagebotLOS solution on Wednesday. It automatically extracts all income data, checks for missing documents and calculates borrower’s qualifying income according to Investor guidelines.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

And it’s led to several sleepless nights for mortgage loan originators and mortgage executives. Such volatility has triggered turbulence in the mortgage market. The mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market went “no-bid” on Friday. Consequently, mortgage rates leapt like they hadn’t in decades.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

Digital mortgage platform Roostify announced on Tuesday it has raised another $32 million in a Series C funding round amid a booming real estate market, bringing the tech startup’s total capital to $65 million. Many loan officers who may not have in the past sought to engage with customers digitally.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

Non-QM, like any mortgage product, is affected by interest rate fluctuations. That’s because non-QM rates are generally 2 to 3 points higher than QM loans, and candidates for non-QM refinances probably aren’t being bombarded with refinance offers every time rates drop a quarter of a point.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The current market downturn for mortgage lenders may be shorter than the previous cycles, mainly due to the recent rounds of workforce layoffs imposed by nonbanks. Nonbanks have more than 60% market share of mortgage industry production — and they are more likely than banks to move quickly to reduce capacity.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Instant homebuyer Opendoor has acquired “tech”-focused mortgage brokerage RedDoor , the companies announced Friday. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Sacramento, RedDoor calls itself a “digital first mortgage brokerage” that can preapprove a loan applicant “within 60 seconds,” likely what was appealing to the iBuyer.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Scot Rose , CIO at Class Valuation , to talk about innovation in the appraisal space and how the technology being deployed for appraisal modernization can actually protect appraisers. SW: How do you think about technology and prioritizing what to do next? What’s changing there?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Federal Reserve ‘s effort to temper inflation has cooled the housing market that remains subdued with mortgage rates north of 7%. this week, Fannie Mae Chief Economist Doug Duncan believes that mortgage rates will stay elevated before the Fed makes further rate cuts. “We’ve Kim: Spreads in the mortgage space are wide.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

And despite fierce bidding wars, competition from institutional investors and sore wrists from writing dozens of heartfelt letters to home sellers, even buyers are growing in courage these days. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. points to 81.7.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2020

It makes for exciting – and uneasy – times for lenders, investors and policy makers, panelists said at HousingWire Annual on Thursday. “This is where the rubber hits the road between the lender, the investor and the policy maker.” “As an investor, you’re looking at all this trying to figure it out,” he said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

In January I received a text message from Dave Savage, CEO of Mortgage Coach. 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 ). Tech100 Mortgage Winners.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2021

However, as Ishbia had just announced that UWM would no longer partner with mortgage brokers who also work with Rocket Mortgage or Fairway , the discussion became a broader conversation about the lenders’ overall strategy to grow broker share. You’ve got to be fast and efficient and UWM wins on that with our technology.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As a premier provider of innovative, high-performance software, data and analytics for mortgage and home equity lending and servicing, Black Knight is transforming the housing finance industry. Black Knight is a proven mortgage industry leader in servicing technology.

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