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Opinion: More can be done to shorten the average time to close

Housing Wire

It doesn’t lend itself to a 24-hour cycle. One would be hard-pressed to find many title agencies that aren’t using some level of technology in that regard. The good news is that this trend towards a general adoption of technology seems to be accelerating. Take the wide-ranging requirement for addressing clouds on the title.

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Opinion: More should be done to shorten the average time to close

Housing Wire

It doesn’t lend itself to a 24-hour cycle. One would be hard-pressed to find many title agencies that aren’t using some level of technology in that regard. The good news is that this trend towards a general adoption of technology seems to be accelerating. Take the wide-ranging requirement for addressing clouds on the title.

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Here are the 2022 HousingWire Vanguards!

Housing Wire

Head of Neighborhood and Community Lending. Managing Director and Global Head of Mortgage Services. Built Technologies. Chief Technology Officer. Senior Executive Vice President, President of Residential Servicing and Correspondent Lending. SRE Technologies. Supreme Lending. Head of Home Lending.

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Opinion: To redress racial bias in mortgage underwriting, scrap the credit score

Housing Wire

With civil rights bills like the Fair Housing Act (FHAct) and Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) now the law of the land, most lenders will note that they rely on supposedly objective borrower screening algorithms to make lending decisions. But the results tell a different story.

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MBA nominates Lennar Mortgage’s Escobar as vice chair

Housing Wire

Escobar’s background will ensure members’ “commitment to advancing homeownership and affordable rental housing opportunities nationwide,” said Kristy Fercho, 2022 MBA chair and executive vice president and head of home lending at Wells Fargo. How smart home technology can benefit renters and property managers.

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How lenders can accelerate access to credit for marginalized communities

Housing Wire

By using lending technologies like The Work Number from Equifax, the industry can help forge a pathway for greater populations to build generational wealth through homeownership. It’s a means of creating inclusion in the mortgage lending process so all people can enjoy the merits of homeownership.

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Clear Capital and Cherre Expand Partnership to Strengthen Investor Confidence in Investment, Management and Underwriting Decisions

Clear Capital

ClearAVM is often leveraged in mortgage underwriting and servicing to make lending decisions, but single-family residential (SFR) investors, asset managers and property managers need to assess many of the same elements and potential risks. Our goal is to provide customers with a complete understanding of nearly every U.S.