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Mortgage Educators and Compliance acquired by 360training

Housing Wire

360), an online regulated training provider, acquired Mortgage Educators and Compliance (MEC), a mortgage lending training company, both companies announced this week. Approved by the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS) since 2009, MEC specializes in online mortgage and financial services professional development.

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Texas-based independent brokerage joins The Real Brokerage

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Ware, who founded The Property Shop in 2009, will serve as a growth leader at Real and help to build visibility for its brand. By aligning with Real, we get to keep the heart and boost the power of our business by gaining access to state-of-the art technology , training, equity and a culture that meshes perfectly with ours.

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Opinion: The ripple effect on the U.S. housing market from China’s real estate crisis

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Like a slow-motion train wreck at first, it is now definitively off the rails and heading over a cliff. in 2008 and 2009. The real estate market in China, both commercial and residential, have been unwinding over the last few years. Following a pattern eerily similar to the U.S.

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Clear Capital expands its partnership with ValueLink

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Trained, certified, and background-checked Clear Capital data collectors utilize ClearInsight and CubiCasa to ensure the accuracy of the data collection. Founded in 2009, ValueLink Software provides valuation management technology for lenders, appraisal management companies, and appraisers.

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How JVM Lending plans to expand without any loan originators

Housing Wire

After the 2008 mortgage meltdown, JVM let go of all its loan originators and trained its employees to target the jumbo loan market in the San Francisco Bay area instead. Back in the 2007-2009 meltdown, we had loan officers with us at that time.

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Shaun Donovan is named Enterprise Community Partners CEO

Housing Wire

Prior to serving as HUD Secretary from 2009 to 2014, Donovan served as the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development commissioner under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Coming to Enterprise is, in a way, coming home for me,” Donovan said in a statement. Donovan will assume his new position in September.

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Rick Roque and Andrew Maas on what AI can and can’t solve

Housing Wire

CC: You mentioned models are trained off of public data. Are there two different AI marketplaces that are emerging — like models that are trained around proprietary or in-house datasets versus models that are trained around publicly available information on the internet? It’s just that kind of time.

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