Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Founded in 2013, Floify — a subsidiary of Porch Group Inc. — is a software development company that offers a digital loan origination system and POS for the mortgage industry. The Colorado-headquartered firm was acquired by publicly traded proptech company Porch Group in an $87 million deal in 2021.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Founded in 2013, Floify — a subsidiary of Porch Group Inc. — is a software development company that offers a digital loan origination and POS system for the mortgage industry. The Colorado-headquartered firm was acquired by publicly traded proptech company Porch Group, Inc. in an $87 million deal in 2021.

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Inman

JANUARY 25, 2024

Since 2013, the team has sold more than $800 million in transactions. They were drawn to Douglas Elliman for its company culture and opportunities in new development.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 11, 2024

He began his career at FHLB in 2013 as an enterprise architect and worked his way up to his most recent role of VP/Director of Information Technology. Treasury as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), a designation earned by approximately 100 banks nationwide. With locations in Minneapolis/St.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2022

South Carolina-based Movement Mortgage has hired two executives away from rival Fairway Independent Mortgage to boost the growth and development of its distributed retail sales team. The nonbank lender named the 34-year veteran Sarah Middleton to the new position of chief growth officer to attract, onboard and develop sales leaders.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan when the president signed the Reverse Mortgage Stabilization Act of 2013 into law. And I’ve had great mentors and developed great friendships. He was in the Oval Office with President Barack Obama and then- U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This initiative extends the regulatory framework developed in response to the foreclosure crisis between 2006 and 2014, during which the CFPB enacted the 2013 Mortgage Servicing Rules under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) and Regulation X.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Founded in 2013, Floify — a subsidiary of Porch Group Inc. — is a software development company that offers a digital loan origination and point-of-sale system for the mortgage industry. The Colorado-headquartered firm was acquired by publicly traded proptech company Porch Group, Inc. in an $87 million deal in 2021.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 27, 2024

Still , Vice Chair, Pulte Financial Services Sheri Thompson , EVP, Head of Affordable Housing, Walker & Dunlop Eileen Tu , VP, Mortgage Policy and Credit Development, Rocket Mortgage John Wiechmann , President/CEO, Midwest Housing Equity Group Inc.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2013 to 2023. However, with supply chain issues piling up and loan rates for builders continuing to rise, developers’ confidence is going in the opposite direction. The findings are based on historic data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 20, 2022

He was previously executive vice president of data solutions at Xactus and served as executive vice president of product development at Credit Plus, prior to Xactus’ acquisition of the company in September 2021. Crockett joined Credit Plus in 2013 to create its QA/QC division.

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The Robert Weiler Company

MARCH 4, 2021

Mixed-use development in 2021 may not resemble Orbit City, but commercial builders, architects, and real estate investors are undoubtedly re-engineering the proximity of your personal and professional orbit. This type of development provides the “live, work, play, gather” atmosphere in a convenient manner.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

When Standowicz started at UWM in 2013 she was on a team of about 100 underwriters. Fast forward to 2013, I joined UWM as an FHA Senior Underwriter and quickly rose through the ranks to become an underwriting leader, guiding a group of underwriters to ensure loans are processed accurately, quickly and consistently.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 21, 2024

From that point forward, she has been a key player in the mortgage and real estate industries, consistently performing exceptionally well as a top producer, except for 2013 and 2014 when she fully committed herself to coaching. In 2007, she launched her first coaching and training company.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Responsible for market analysis, strategic planning, and sales process development reporting directly to the CRO and CEO. He joined the Covius team in March of 2013 as SVP of Operations.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2021

Mortgage industry groups on Tuesday made their voices heard in response to the Department of Housing and Urban Development ’s proposed reinstatement of its 2013 disparate impact rule. Numerous industry stakeholders asked HUD to make some changes to the regulation to raise and further explain the threshold for disparate impact claims.

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2024

The HMAC lawsuit alleges that Turturro, restricted from using confidential company information for his benefit, directed $800,000 to a marketing agency to develop the Jet Mortgage brand. The document adds that Turturro joined HMAC in late 2022, becoming a “high-ranking employee” and divisional president for Jet Mortgage. dba In-House Lender.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 5, 2024

Rowe Price as an Equity Research Intern in 2013, and in 2014, joined Wells Fargo Securities as an Asset-Backed Finance Analyst for a few months before transitioning to Fitch Ratings. Orenstein has a diverse work experience that spans several roles and companies. He began his career at T.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2022

Founded in 2000, Guaranteed Rate sought to boost retail loan originations, scale its JV platform, and develop new multichannel capabilities by acquiring Stearns. After the deal, HousingWire reported that Stearns’ retail operations was folded into Guaranteed Rate.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Since the initial SFR securitization in 2013 through August of this year, according to a separate KBRA market-sector report, 16 sponsors have undertaken 113 SFR securitizations involving notes with a total principal balance of $69.6 The securitization, IH 2013-SFR1, was collateralized by a single $479.1 billion. “The

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The appraisals, compiled between 2013 and 2021, show that the home appraisal industry gives higher values to homes whose owners are white, and less if the owners are people of color. In late October, the Federal Housing Finance Agency released 47 million appraisal reports to the public for the first time.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In 2013, Thuan Nguyen was working out of his chaotic office in the heart of Silicon Valley. Though plenty of loan originators and brokerage executives are stuffing their pockets with cash, his approach is rare – he personally develops his own software and sells it to other brokerages. . You’d find him there from 5 a.m.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Utah-based software developer offers a private-label digital mortgage platform and mobile app designed to connect lenders with borrowers and real estate agents. Most recently, the private-equity firm invested in Real , a technology-powered real estate brokerage in 2020, and perhaps most notably, e-recording provider Simplifile in 2013.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2024

In a final rule titled “Strengthening the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Program,” FHA codified several significant changes to the HECM program that were previously issued by HUD under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA) of 2008 and the Reverse Mortgage Stabilization Act of 2013. But the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2024

And so, in 2013, 2015, 2017, we saw a lot of changes. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-certified counselor to gain full understanding of the loan prior to closing. One was to create protections for eligible non-borrowing spouses (NBS).

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 14, 2024

Herbert serves as Managing Director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, and has experience conducting research related to housing policy and urban development, both in the U.S. Palmer serves as Chairman and CEO of Taylor Morrison, a national homebuilder and developer based in Scottsdale, Arizona. and abroad.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Jamie Thornton, director of online mortgage lending at Real Genius, said in a statement that the company has “invested a significant amount of time and resources” into developing technology for customers. Thornton founded Real Genius in 2012 as ConsumerDirect Mortgage, and the company was acquired by FirstBank in 2013.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2023

Founded in 2013 by Brew Johnson, Brett Crosby and Alex Perelman, Peer Street developed a marketplace connecting lenders and borrowers seeking capital to investors looking for real estate-related debt. The business attracted investor Michael Burry, one of the featured players in “The Big Short.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) in 2022 aimed to assess the state of the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program over a 20-year period. A study commissioned by the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

The VantageScore dataset that is scheduled to be made available includes information going back to 2013, which is not far enough, the groups assert. FHFA was comfortable approving VantageScore 4.0 for use by the GSEs based on limited historical data,” the letter reads.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Responsible for market analysis, strategic planning and sales process development reporting directly to the CRO and CEO. He joined the Covius team in March of 2013 as SVP of Operations.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2021

to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 775,000 in February — the sharpest month-over-month decline since 2013, according to estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. After a near decade high in January, new home sales for single-family houses plummeted 18.2% year-over-year jump.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2022

Stearns had a sizable partnership business, led by Steve Stein, a more limited retail operation, and a wholesale channel that was the largest in the industry as recently as 2013, but had lost market share to UWM. Founded in 2000 and known for its robust retail operations, Guaranteed Rate has been growing in stature in recent years.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of the Inspector General (OIG), the New York City Department of Investigations (DOI), the U.S. The earliest alleged conduct goes back to 2013 and continued until as recently as 2023, he added. Department of Labor OIG and others, Williams said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2021

The DOJ alleged that between 2013 to 2017, the bank violated the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act “by avoiding predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods [in the Houston, metro area] because of the race, color and national origin of the people living in those neighborhoods.”. Specifically, Cadence will provide $4.17

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2022

According to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice submitted to the Employment Development Department (EDD) in California, the company cut 108 jobs in three rounds from February to April but intends to add 81 to the list. “A California-based Owning Corp.,

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2020

Berg joined Planet Home Lending in September 2013. For the last 16 years, the brokerage ranked as Northern Nevada’s highest-producing real estate office by agent activity. Reames started as a processor with Planet Home Lending in July 2017. The post People movers: Notarize, RE/MAX and Planet Home Lending appeared first on HousingWire.

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