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Opinion: The time is right for origination modernization

Housing Wire

The industry is buzzing with conversations around appraisal modernization — for good reason. Appraisal modernization reduces origination cycle time, bolsters appraiser capacity and helps lenders deliver a more seamless and transparent borrower experience. Here’s a quick rundown of how this modernization can support your success.

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CMO Coleen Bogle on strategic leadership in a higher rate environment

Housing Wire

One of our key initiatives has been to revitalize The Money Store brand, giving it a fresh, modern appeal. We’ve also implemented project management technologies and streamlined processes to improve workflow and turnaround times for loan officer requests, effectively halving the time it takes to fulfill them.

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First Community Mortgage selects Blue Sage platform to scale business

Housing Wire

The move allows the lender to have “modernized its mortgage operational processes, boosted productivity and delivered an enhanced borrower experience for its customers,” the company said in a news release. The process to select a new technology partner began for First Community Mortgage (FCM) in mid-2023, the company explained.

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Patelco Credit Union Selects Empower LOS

Appraisal Buzz

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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Reggora is on a mission to deliver shorter turn times with its modern appraisal management platform

Housing Wire

With first hand knowledge of how complex and time consuming appraisals can be, Reggora is motivated to streamline and modernize the process, benefiting appraisers, lenders and buyers themselves. As appraisal modernization continues to take shape, Reggora is uniquely positioned to lead its customers through the ever changing landscape.

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Class Valuation’s CIO on solving the appraisal conundrum

Housing Wire

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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The Post-COVID shift: What Amazon and Zillow can’t do

Housing Wire

This tipping point came after several years of rapid technology growth in our industry. The trends we elaborated on two years ago, pre-COVID, are now the standard: Digital is the new normal and technology is now the price of entry rather than a competitive advantage. To them it’s just “a mortgage application.”. MLS reinvented.