Appraisal Buzz

MAY 3, 2024

Patelco Credit Union is now using the Empower LOS from Dark Matter Technologies to streamline and bolster home loan and home-equity origination. Patelco is California’s fourth-largest credit union mortgage lender by number of loans closed annually.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Technology has made many aspects of day-to-day life more seamless than ever, with instant, easy and personalized consumer experiences; however, lending is still difficult. The Origence Mortgage Platform is an end-to-end lending platform that puts the power of modern technology in lenders’ hands, enabling them to close more loans, faster.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Customer engagement platform Total Expert ‘s customer intelligence and mortgage tech firm Polly ‘s product and pricing engine (PPE) will help California-based lender Mountain West Financial identify lending opportunities from its existing database. billion in generated loan application volume, and $6.7

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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. Presented by: Sutherland.

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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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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Talk to any mortgage technologist about the future of the industry and two topics will emerge immediately: big data and smarter automation. Joe Camerieri, EVP Mortgage Cadence. 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.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Don’t be fooled by last week’s mortgage rate collapse. A combination of elevated mortgage rates, sluggish home sales and inflation continue to plague the housing market workforce, with numerous mortgage lenders and real estate startups shedding employees. Presented by: ServiceLink.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Insightful borrower data and enhanced tech solutions are paramount to success in today’s modern mortgage industry. HousingWire recently spoke with Dan Catinella, chief lending officer at Total Expert, about how Customer Intelligence technology is improving deal flow and pushing the customer experience into the 21st century. .

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania , ESSA “failed to provide mortgage lending services and did not serve the credit needs of majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in the Philadelphia metropolitan area” from 2017 to 2021. million consent order with Trident Mortgage Co.,

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

With a deadly combination of low housing inventory, reduction in refis and surging mortgage rates, consolidation in mortgage tech is expected. Businesses and entire industries tanked during the pandemic, but it created an ideal environment for mortgage tech companies, some of which rode the wave to banner years and historic growth.

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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

JUNE 30, 2021

The wholesale channel will continue to grow as more retail originators and borrowers learn the benefits of working with a mortgage broker. United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) is solely focused on growing the wholesale channel and helping independent brokers thrive. “At 1 wholesale mortgage lender in the nation for six years running.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Independent mortgage banks have been “completely blindsided” by the increase in enforcement activity, said Daniella Casseres, who leads the mortgage regulatory practice group at law firm Mitchell Sander. As some independent mortgage banks have found out, a modern-day redlining allegation does not need to prove intentionality.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2022

As market volume dips and pent-up demand builds, 61% of millennials and Gen Zs who intend to buy a home plan to apply for a mortgage this year. As mortgage rates rise, inventory remains low and digital trends accelerate, navigating the changing borrower landscape requires tailored strategies.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

When mortgage lenders are talking about compliance in loan origination or mortgage servicing, the worst case can be pretty bad, so we often see companies investing heavily in the best tools. Mike is an experienced mortgage loan officer. Mike Jameson doesn’t think this, however. Not anymore.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

At the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic, the mortgage industry was preparing for absolute disaster. Mortgage executives held emergency meetings with their creditors over worst-case scenarios. Fratantoni’s organization is forecasting mortgage rates to gradually climb over the course of 2022, ending the year at 4%.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Optimizing the mortgage process means finding fast, efficient solutions for each part of the customer journey. When it comes to origination, modernization is key to enhancing the customer experience, improving overall cycle times and increasing overall profit.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2021

In the last decade, community lenders—those credit unions, community banks, and independent mortgage banks who serve their local markets—have grown to own the market. The community lending segment has experienced impressive growth over the last 10 years. This segment needs a lot more education.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2023

The lawsuit alleges that an appraiser with 20/20 Valuations lowered the valuation of a home because the owners, Nathan Connolly and Shani Motta, were Black — and were also denied the owners’ mortgage refinancing application with loanDepot based on the lower appraisal, which violated the FHA and ECOA.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2023

Today’s low-volume, purchase-focused market is more competitive than ever, as mortgage lenders work to win more market share than their neighbor and aim to be as profitable as possible. How the right tech can help LOs and borrowers The right PPE will help loan officers work more efficiently and effectively.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

With so many people involved – including the appraisal desk, loan operations, loan officers, underwriters, the IT/product team, borrowers and appraisal vendors – there’s room for error that could negatively impact the home buying experience. Brian Zitin, Co-Founder and CEO.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

The three agencies in charge of such reviews — the Federal Reserve , the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency — have not denied a single bank merger in 15 years. Senior administration officials claim that rooting out “modern-day redlining” is a top priority. But there was a catch.

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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. Hey Clayton …” and a link.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2021

Guaranteed Rate, the Chicago-based mortgage lender , and Compass, the New York City-headquartered residential real estate brokerage , “entered into a definitive agreement to form OriginPoint , a new mortgage origination company,” according to a press release Tuesday. billion in mortgages last year. Guaranteed Rate’s $73.9

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2020

For many years, we’ve been developing and investing in technology to deliver an end-to-end digital mortgage experience. We’re the largest centralized mortgage transactional services provider in the country, backed by the country’s largest provider of title insurance services.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

When mass-market loan origination systems emerged on the scene in the early 1990s, they revolutionized the mortgage workplace by allowing originators to save loan files on a personal computer and share them across local networks — a huge step up from typewritten applications and mainframe computing.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Sharing your success lends to your credibility as an agent. Who knows, this might help someone kick start styling their own home, which could result in them reaching out to you because you share a love for mid-century modern or boho minimalist style. These should be posted in addition to testimonials.

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Genworth MI Blog

MAY 28, 2020

Remember when loan officers avoided underwriting loans for manufactured housing for fear of low commissions, foreclosure risks, and the added complexities of underwriting those types of “unreliable” homes? Remember when manufactured housing used to equate to mobile homes? Manufactured Housing Construction Advantages.

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Genworth MI Blog

MAY 28, 2020

Remember when loan officers avoided underwriting loans for manufactured housing for fear of low commissions, foreclosure risks, and the added complexities of underwriting those types of “unreliable” homes? Remember when manufactured housing used to equate to mobile homes? Manufactured Housing Construction Advantages.

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Appraisal Today

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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 (from 35% 10 years ago). NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. Let the story begin.

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Clear Capital

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It’s also, to be clear, somewhat about revolutionizing and modernizing the appraisal process by enabling property data collection to be performed by non-appraisers. ” This has been a very hot and important topic within the lending space for the last year or so, we’ve talked about it on this podcast before Kenon.

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