Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with Desmond Smith , chief growth officer at United Wholesale Mortgage , about the role that wholesale lending plays in the mortgage ecosystem and common myths and misconceptions about becoming an independent mortgage broker. HW: How has wholesale changed over the past 2–3 years?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2023

SimpleNexus , a homeownership platform developer for loan officers, borrowers, real estate agents, and settlement agents, announced this week a new integration with Empower, the loan origination system (LOS) from Black Knight.

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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. billion in profit in 2020 and $6.1

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

An increasingly digitized world has given way to new solutions that are making business easier for everyone, mortgage lenders included. But with the market moving, it has always been extremely hard in the mortgage industry to tie exact cause and effect to production. Does it add value to the real estate agent partnership?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

Intuitive technologies developed and built by experts in both mortgages and technology can drive efficiency, reliability and profitability when paired with exceptional customer service. UWM recently launched an exclusive new marketplace called Boost.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

San Francisco-based SaaS technology provider Polly on Monday announced its API integration with Total Expert, a customer engagement platform purpose-built for financial institutions. Last August, Polly enhanced its existing APIs, including its PPE Initial Lock, “to better accommodate lenders amid a contracting mortgage environment.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2021

This tipping point came after several years of rapid technology growth in our industry. In February 2019, we wrote an article predicting this seismic shift, detailing how mortgage lenders could and should prepare to not only survive the shift but thrive in the future digital age. To them it’s just “a mortgage application.”.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

The National Association of Mortgage Brokers (NAMB) announced a partnership with artificial intelligence (AI)-based video marketing platform Roomvu to provide mortgage brokers with marketing tools. Their innovative marketing technology is easy to use and is proven to move the needle in our industry.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2022

As mortgage origination volume continues to fall from the heights of the pandemic-spurred boom, many lenders see cost-cutting as their top priority this year. With mortgage origination volume expected to drop by about 40% to $2.4 billion in loan origination volume in 2021. “In

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

Pontiac, Michigan-based lender United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) Wednesday launched a new platform for independent mortgage brokers to access purchase leads, past clients and real estate agents — a move to entice and retain loan officers in a shrinking mortgage market. decline year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2023

Big Purple Dot (BPD), a mortgage and real estate customer relationship management (CRM) and recruiting solutions company in Irvine, California, announced this week the integration of ChatGPT into its CRM ecosystem. The use-cases for AI-powered chatbots just keep growing.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2023

on Monday announced that Frontwave Credit Union will now implement Empower, Black Knight’s cloud-based loan origination system, and its integrated solutions, for the expansion of its mortgage lending operations. It will also cut down on recurring hosting costs by reducing technology-based work. Black Knight, Inc.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

Mobility Market Intelligence (MMI), a data intelligence and market insight tool provider for the mortgage and real estate industries, has appointed Brian McKray as the director of product development. The platform offers granular insights into lenders, loan officers, and real estate agents by region or individual transactions.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Paul Anastos has been on the forefront of innovation within the housing industry for over a decade, specializing in developing technology solutions and transforming businesses into industry powerhouses. The post 2020 HW Tech Trendsetter: Paul Anastos appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

In the mortgage industry, we saw a significant number of loan officers and real estate agents join the platform to share educational home-buying tips targeted toward a younger audience and first-time homebuyers. Sarah DeCiantis is the Chief Marketing Officer at United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM).

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

During breaks in nearly every televised basketball game, it’s there: Tracy Morgan imploring pensive homebuyers “pretty sure” is not enough, and that they can only be certain about their giant life choice with Rocket Mortgage. The ads are mostly set not in a loan office, but a home showing.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

For most of its history, New American Funding (NAF) has focused on organic growth, but earlier this month, the company acquired Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp. We recognize that loan officers have a choice, and when they choose to join a company on their own, it just seems to work better. That’s why we started NAF Cash.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

California-based ICE Mortgage Technology announced this week two enterprise agreements to integrate its eClose solution to Maxwell and Roostify platforms, enabling a more streamlined closing process for lenders and borrowers. Encompass eClose will be part of the mortgage fintech Maxwell’s point-of-sale platform.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 18, 2021

SimpleNexus , a homeownership platform developer for loan officers, borrowers, real estate agents and settlement agents, has acquired Georgia-based software firm LBA Ware. The post SimpleNexus Adds Business Intelligence Tools with LBA Ware Acquisition appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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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. That means that they get more product options.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

It also holds great promise in attracting a new generation of bright, talented appraisers who may have otherwise not given the mortgage valuations industry a second look. Streamlining operations Once a borrower is approved for a mortgage loan, the process should run like clockwork. This isn’t just a theory.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the world of mortgage lending, there’s an all-too-common sentiment that echoes through the industry: “My loan origination system (LOS) sucks.” In reality, the LOS is not the problem; the technology is doing exactly what it was designed to do. The LOS is a foundational piece of technology for every lender.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Stevens, President at SRE.com, about the challenges mortgage loan officers and brokers face as the market continues to shift toward purchase money business and how human-assisted eCommerce can help them win more business. HousingWire: Why should referrals be a key part of originators’ strategies?

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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

JUNE 10, 2022

Lenders and mortgage tech companies have been cutting costs in the down market , but some firms have hired new executives who they hope will provide better strategies to navigate the shrinking loan origination market. For wemlo, his primary focus is to enhance the existing loan processing platform to improve user experience.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2021

As more and more mortgage tech companies enter the scene, competition for accessibility and personalization gained speed this week as proptech touched down in more niche submarkets. The tech will assess the completeness of the loan package when sellers upload required documents and set conditions when information is missing.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

SimpleNexus , a digital mortgage startup, announced on Tuesday that it picked up $108 million in a Series B funding around. The fund raise comes as the company attempts to increase its marketshare within the eClosing and mobile mortgage segments.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Rocket Pro TPO , the wholesale arm of Rocket Mortgage , hopes to woo brokers with a slew of product enhancements and services. Rocket Pro TPO affirmed that it will continue to provide credit reports at no cost for brokers when closing loans through Rocket recognizing that credit report fees are going to get more expensive this year. “The

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On the heels of going public, Rocket Companies’ broker channel, Quicken Loans Mortgage Services (QLMS), made waves throughout the industry when it announced it would be rebranding to Rocket Pro TPO in an effort to closer align itself with the brand that has become ever-present in the lending space.

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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. The second area we have been focused on is commercial real estate.

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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. No surprise here.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

And even with fast-rising home prices and an uptick in mortgage rates , 30% of those surveyed said they wouldn’t move to an area with natural disasters or rising sea levels even if home prices were affordable. ” Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration. . “I had one client in St.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2022

However, when mortgage rates started rising in the spring, Summers encouraged her clients to take advantage of the bank’s mortgage rate lock product. range, versus closing on their mortgage now when their homes are finally finished being built and rates are around 7.0%,” said Summers, a Keller Williams agent in Provo, Utah.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

The mortgage rate outlook component experienced the only decline in March’s HPSI, with the latest results indicating that only 6% of consumers believe that mortgage rates will decrease over the next 12 months. Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with Dustin Gray, CEO of Milestones Labs , about the importance of the borrower relationship and how Milestones Labs helps mortgage providers build lasting relationships with their borrowers. Dustin Gray: You don’t have to be an economist to know it’s a challenging time to buy a home or get a loan.

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