Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2021

Appraisal-management tech provider AppraisalWorks is now available through the ICE Mortgage Technology Platform , the company announced Tuesday. ICE Mortgage Technology, formerly known as Ellie Mae , is a cloud-based loan origination platform provider for the mortgage industry. ICE also acquired Simplifile in 2019 for $335 million.

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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. Since 2016, we’ve helped more than 51,000 families with their mortgage needs, lending more than $15 billion,” said Thornton.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We believe this technology will significantly drive down our costs further, resulting in lowered rates and superior service for our customers,” Ryan said. Gains in productivity mean fewer additions to operations staff per LO in this lending cycle, he added. Better claims it has funded more than $100 billion in mortgages since 2016.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The company says it will use the funding to “aggressively” build new products for mortgage lending and banking industries, expand its US operations and scale its staff with a focus on machine learning and data science teams.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2021

Five years after introducing the Rocket Mortgage brand for digital lending, Rocket Companies will finally retire the legacy Quicken name on July 31. “More than 20 years ago, Dan Gilbert, our founder and chairman, had a vision of putting the entire mortgage process online to simplify the lending experience and add more transparency.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

has raised $175 million to accelerate growth and fund new technologies , just 16 months after relaunching its operations. billion in 2012 to $2 billion in 2016. Last year, Interfirst relaunched its services with a new proprietary loan origination technology platform. Chicago-based mortgage originator Interfirst Mortgage Co.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The CRM company launched in 2016 to provide third-party origination (TPO) mortgage lenders with account management, sales and email marketing through its software-focused approach. The platform offers a new broker scoring system designed for better account management and a tagging system to improve email marketing campaigns.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Mortgage lender and servicer Planet Home Lending also named Kathryn Edelen as regional vice president of its sales division this week. Erickson will be in charge of product management, the procurement and advancement of technology solutions and will oversee the training department and support teams for Motto Mortgage and wemlo.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Technological Advancements in Real Estate: A look at emerging technologies with the potential to reshape real estate transactions and property management. Housing Market Supply and Demand: An analysis of housing inventory trends and construction pressures affecting pricing and availability.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

” Incenter has businesses focused on capital markets, loan diligence, student lending, insurance, property tax, accounting and marketing. Parrish joined the Incenter group in 2016 through its business CampusDoor, a third-party student and specialty loan origination platform.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The lawsuit, brought initially in 2016, alleged that Guild knowingly originated and underwrote mortgages that didn’t meet the program requirements of the FHA. Explore three steps that enable technology to work more efficiently, which helps drive profitability. It did not admit to any wrongdoing. Presented by: Total Expert.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

LoanStar Technologies , which connects lenders with borrowers who are traditionally underbanked or unbanked, also made the list again. 469 LoanStar Technologies 1,241% 2016 Enabling lenders to connect and lend to customers who are traditionally underbanked or unbanked. The company was ranked 351 last year.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In my career, I’ve swung between enabling technology and securing it at the same time. SW: At PRMG, do you generally build or buy technology? JA: I was going back through some old PRMG stuff and they had “the five tenets of mortgage lending success” and it was: product, pricing, compensation, marketing, and fulfillment.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2021

The community lending segment has experienced impressive growth over the last 10 years. From 2010 to 2016, for instance, the top five depositories saw mortgage origination fall from 64% to 25% , a loss of ~$500 billion in originations.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Data, artificial intelligence and analytics are all way beyond what we had in 2016 or even in 2019. Technology is growing at an accelerated pace. HW: With higher rates, the market for home equity lending continues to grow. Then the incentive to “stay-and-play” will be gone, and that home will be liquid again.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2022

The company’s job cuts include human resources, technology, talent acquisition, and executive assistant positions. Presented by: Acra Lending. The company reduced its origination to $2 billion in 2016 before shutting down altogether in 2017. The workforce reduction is also focused on mortgage loan production.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2022

As the industry pioneer and leading eClosing provider, DocMagic continues to lead with innovation to help lenders streamline their operations through technology solutions that can increase efficiency, lower operating costs and provide a competitive advantage by delivering the best possible borrower experience.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Growing and investing in relationships and communities in the long term is one of the many opportunities presented by stricter fair lending regulations. Founded in 2016, Maxwell looks to digitize the entire mortgage transaction with fulfillment, payments, and due diligence solutions. Learn more here! Presented by: iEmergent.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

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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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

million investment in eOriginal in 2016, said both companies offer solutions that make a difference for lenders facing stiff competition and low margins in a purchase environment. The investment comes at a pivotal time for the mortgage industry, which has seen record refi volume give way to a market dominated by purchase loans.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2024

In fact, the critical defect rate for the fourth quarter of 2023 was 1.53%, which ranks amongst the lowest rates we’ve observed since the report’s inception in 2016. Once lenders moved past that period of volatility, the overall critical defect rate began trending downward and has continued to do so over the past five quarters.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Through this acquisition we’ve not only gained an amazing brand and business, but also an incredibly talented group of team members that bring additional editorial, technology and product expertise to our team.”. “In mortgage and housing markets and serves an audience of lending, servicing, investment and real estate market participants.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Equifax is currently being sued by mortgage lenders First Financial Lending and Greystone Mortgage , which argue they’ve maintained a monopoly on the market. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra said the product rose from $20 per pull in 2016 to $90 per pull in 2023.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

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 ). LLR is not a newcomer to mortgage technology or the overall fintech market. In 2016 LLR led a $26.5 In 2016 LLR led a $26.5

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 8, 2024

We have seen new ways of creating the same product, new technologies, new consumer preferences – the demands of time and money have hastened these changes. Emerging technologies Everyone needs to accept that technology can help us do our jobs better. Some of these have been around for many years.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2021

In 2016, Brad Sullivan’s Mortgage Financial Services ruled the roost in housing with a rank of 733. Lending Heights ( 592% growth) President Jason Cecco said his focus was on “empowering our team members to thrive, which leads to the best customer experience.”. Top Verticals. Real Estate. Tech & Solutions. rankings for many years.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

The go-to market strategy of the company’s retail lending division was revised and includes stepping away from “strategies that have been less fruitful over time,” she explained. “We We continue to invest in digital technologies that capitalize on growth opportunities and create tailored experiences for our customers,” Sieffert said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Cook joined FOA in March 2016 as senior managing director, became president after one year and, in October 2020, was announced as CEO. I am so proud to have played a role in building this purposefully different consumer lending platform with the broadest range of products and services designed to help a diverse consumer base,” Cook said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2022

Every business model is defined by mission, process and technology. The two days at Southwest illustrated the connection of mission, process and technology to their business model. Integrated technology speeds the flight and improves safety. Think about your lending business model. Southwest flies the Boeing 737 platform.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Over the last year, it has also sold off large chunks of the business – including sub-servicing with ServiceMac and delegated correspondent to Planet Home Lending – which accounts for several thousand workers transitioning to new firms. After origination volume plummeted nearly 86% to $2 billion in 2016 from $14.1

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

Appraisal costs have also soared 24% since 2016, according to the Freddie Mac data. Leveraging mobile technology, there is also no reason why real estate professionals today cannot perform the basic duties of onsite data collection. Appraiser shortage. Real estate agents in particular understand local properties extremely well.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The lender originated $10 billion in mortgages in 2013, $5 billion in 2014, $3 billion in 2015 and just $2 billion in 2016 before shutting down altogether in 2017. A $175 million investment from private holding company StoicLane in October would be used to grow operations and refine and develop new technologies. 375% below the market.”

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Presented by Lead Sponsor Property Masters , and Partner Sponsors Black Dome Services , Inspectify , and Sphere Rocket VA , the Single-Family Rental Roundtable covered topics from lending strategies to property management, tech tools, build-for-rent demand, and much more throughout the afternoon.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Merle Whitehead, who in 2016 sold his brokerage RealtyUSA to Howard Hanna Real Estate Services , “years ago, worked diligently to increase the share of buyers who were under contract to work with his agents,” says Murray. ” This concept of buyer representation agreements isn’t new. in California.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

Leveraging technology can help. billion negative impact on the FHA fund in fiscal year 2016 despite the program’s termination in September 2008, according to an independent actuarial review. Presented by: DataVerify. As such, the total cost to FHA is unknown at this time and might not be clear for a few years.

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Clear Capital

MARCH 27, 2024

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. Cherre launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City.

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Lamacchia Realty

AUGUST 16, 2022

He has held a variety of roles on the GBAR Board of Directors including Director (2016), Vice President (2017), President Elect (2018), and Immediate Past President (2020). He is always there to lend a helping hand, offering advice and support to fellow agents. Anthony Lamacchia. Broker/Owner. Jim joined Lamacchia Realty in 2020.

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