Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

The company says the round is the largest Series A for a New England fintech and it plans to use the capital to double or even triple its staff by the first quarter of 2022. “We COVID19 certainly accelerated development and focus on servicing, coming out of 2019 with record low default and foreclosure.”.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2022

With NGC’s acquisition of Inco-Check, the company aims to enhance loan quality and prevent fraud in a competitive mortgage and consumer lending market, Inco-Check said. Lenders, are you prepared for 2022’s challenges? Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Presented by: DataVerify .

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2022

Nominations for HousingWire’s Women of Influence award are now open through Friday, April 29, 2022. Between their expertise and access to tools, they’re the right people for the job and will come out on top on the other side of the purchase market.”. Click here to nominate someone you know — it can even be you!

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2023

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia Fudge and White House Domestic Policy Advisor Ambassador Susan Rice, the PAVE task force revealed its action plan one year ago and claims that its efforts have amounted to “critical progress” in its efforts to make the homebuying process more equitable for people of color.

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McKissock

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The official 2022-2023 Online Update Course for Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) is now available online. The Foundation is pleased to once again partner with McKissock to develop online versions of the real property 2022-2023 7-Hour National USPAP Update Course. “The

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The platform was designed and developed using direct broker feedback, which shaped our workflow and functionality,” said Kim Nichols, senior managing director of Pennymac TPO. The POWER+ platform’s tools also ensure URLA accuracy before submission, the California-based firm said. In all, it laid claim to 2.2%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Higher inflation, post-pandemic economic recovery and a reduction in Federal Reserve stimulus incentives are key economic factors expected to put upward pressure on interest rates as we move into 2022 — increasing the already stiff competition among mortgage lenders. But as rates rise, refinancing is expected to decrease. trillion in 2023.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2022

This week’s HW+ member spotlight features Arjun Dhingra, who serves as sales and business development at All Western Mortgage. Most importantly, it supports our industries of housing, technology, real estate and lending. HousingWire: What is your most useful tech tool? To learn more about HW Annual 2022, click here.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

million investment in eOriginal, a multi-year Tech100 winner that developed a ‘simple closing experience for lenders, borrowers and settlement agents.’ This brings me to a trend in the 2022 Tech100 nominations that was more prominent than any year I can remember — an emphasis on technology enabling headcount efficiency and cost reduction.

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Appraisal Today

JULY 14, 2023

What tool do you prefer to use when measuring a house? No (or Limited) Discrimination Coverage This one is a problem that has only developed recently — within the last two years — as more and more appraisers are facing discrimination complaints and claims. To read click here Short video (2 minutes): Future of Condo Lending.

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Clear Capital

JULY 2, 2024

Erica joined Clear Capital in July 2022 and has since become an integral part of the team. By developing reliable and understandable measures of confidence, she is enabling AVM adoption by demystifying the statistics that have, to date, made AVM adoption and use so complex.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2023

The Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) has decided to pause its rate hikes in June after data that pointed to cooling inflation and the need to assess how much banks have slowed down their lending due to the recent tumult in the sector. Policymakers also want to evaluate the impact of their actions on the economy so far.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It is really a great tool from a seller perspective to say, ‘Look, we don’t control rates, but what I can offer you is something that will offset this shock in interest rates that has happened here in the last nine or 10 months or so,’” Nunziata said. in 2022, the weakest showing since 2014. and 74.5%, respectively. “We

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Most appraisers are experiencing a significant slowdown in mortgage lending work due to rapidly increasing mortgage rates which are slowing down the housing market. I have seen a slowdown in my lending work also. Half my work is non-lending work, and that’s been a blessing. It also offers a lot of other great tool options.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

Mr. Cooper must maintain high retention rates to drive more business, an achievement that requires investment in technology and product development. Analysts note that UWM has performed well in the purchase-oriented market that emerged in the second half of 2022. But acquiring these clients is only part of the strategy.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

As the market shifts, interest in non-QM lending from traditional lenders and brokers has increased. We recently spoke to Bao Huynh, Director of Business Development at LoanScorecard, about these changes and the challenges of originating non-QM loans. HousingWire: How is the shift from refi to purchase affecting the non-QM market?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

trillion in 2022, while refinance origination will dip by 62% to $860 billion from $2.26 Christian Hernandez, vice president of mortgage lending at Guaranteed Rate , has leaned heavily on social media platforms to generate new leads and build relationships with borrowers and real estate agents. trillion in 2021.

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McKissock

MARCH 24, 2022

On March 23, 2022, the Interagency Task Force on Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity (PAVE) released a report entitled “Action Plan to Advance Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity.” Address potential bias in the use of technology-based valuation tools through rulemaking related to Automated Valuation Models (AVMs).

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Listing Spark

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Brandon Smith, who has over 13 years of investing and lending experience, specializes in owner financing and has developed a successful system for sourcing deals and minimizing risk. What tools and services investors should use if they want to get into owner financing. What to expect in the real estate market at the end of 2022.

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Clear Capital

MARCH 17, 2022

Additionally, when an FHA appraisal is used, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires the home appraiser to guarantee that the subject property meets the minimum standards for health and safety. Now, amazing developments in machine learning are reinventing the appraisal review process. or its subsidiaries.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2022

As 2022 proves to be a challenging year for the housing market, lenders are looking to take advantage of potential downtime by improving their internal processes. Think about your lending business model. Can you Automate the task internally using robotics process automation, workflow management or similar automation tool?

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Listing Spark

AUGUST 11, 2022

For those that haven’t been a real estate investor before, hard money lending may be confusing. We’ll dive into hard money lending with Romney Navarro, CEO of Streamline Funding which is a Texas-based private lending company. 4:20 – The hard money lending process and the difference between that and conventional financing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Mr. Cooper and Sagent signed a multiyear agreement in February 2022. Bray also reintroduced Pyro , Mr. Cooper’s patented mortgage-centric AI platform that the company has been developing since 2019 in partnership with Google. “We embraced the cloud much earlier than our peers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

They will try to woo you with promises of free marketing materials, high commission splits, and fancy tech tools. Marketing and Technology: The marketing strategies and technology tools provided for agents. Additionally, they have budgeted nearly $1B in the next 10 years to continue improving tools and support for their agents.

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McKissock

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Appraisers recently contacted by McKissock tend to agree that the profession will go generally well in 2022, with no major changes to the real estate market and no events on the horizon that could seriously upset appraisers’ business. Housing market trends for 2022. Opportunities for appraisers in 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

With interest rates on the rise, refis trending downwards and a significant decrease in purchase volume brought on by low inventory, mortgage lenders are looking for smart solutions to combat margin compressions in 2022 and beyond. HW: Where are areas that most lenders could improve their lending efficiency?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

based firms on percentage revenue growth from 2019 to 2022. The minimum revenues required are $100,000 for 2019 and $2 million for 2022. million in a Series A funding round in 2022. Interestingly, none of the top three companies on the 2023 list made the cut in 2022. The self-reported list ranks U.S. They must be U.S.-based,

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

With over 40 years of mortgage experience, Hale has held C-suite positions for some of the top housing companies in the industry, including ClosingMark Financial Group , Stearns Lending , MetLife Home Loans , MetLife Bank , Countrywide , Wells Fargo and Fleet Mortgage. HousingWire: What has been the most useful tech tool for you?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

There is currently a lack of guardrails to prevent the formation of monopolies in the mortgage lending industry, and this is where regulators have a prominent role to play. Many first-time homebuyers can be barred from the entire lending process due to outdated and antiquated methodologies, including credit reporting.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2022

And it’s still very much a relationship-driven business: borrowers want to speak to local loan officers when starting the process of getting a loan, which is why firms are hiring LOs, recruiters and mortgage lending executives said. Several large mortgage brokerages see the market-wide volatility as a recruiting tool.

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DataMaster

JUNE 15, 2023

Note: This blog post about short-term rentals was originally posted on Class Valuation’s site on May 11, 2022. also known as short-term rentals (STRs) — to claim STR income as part of the borrower qualifications side of the lending decision. This is creating significant friction in the lending environment.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

Nominations for HousingWire’s Women of Influence award are now open through Friday, April 29, 2022. But Carrie Gusmus , President and CEO of Aslan Home Lending Corporation, has a more positive outlook despite the current headwinds. Click here to nominate someone you know — it can even be you! But you have to do the work.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2022

As these hurdles to homebuying collide with more Millennials entering the housing market, a focus on efficient automation and custom solutions could be the key to success in 2022. According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) 2022 Home Buyer and Seller Generational Trends report, Millennials now make up 43% of homebuyers in the US.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Joseph Mayhew, chief credit officer at Evolve Mortgage Services , which provides due-diligence services for private-label RMBS deals, said both Fannie Mae’s AUS platform (Desktop Underwriter) — which was used by UWM and Movement Mortgage — as well as Freddie Mac’s AUS (Loan Prospector) are “good tools” with extensive data sets, however.

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

percent from one week earlier Appraised Value Vs. Sale Price Excerpts: Property sellers often ask professionals who are performing appraisals for mortgage lending, “Why is an appraisal even needed? The buyer and I have already agreed on a sale price.” However, when it comes to appraised value vs. sale price, they are not the same thing.

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DataMaster

JUNE 15, 2023

Note: This blog post about short-term rentals was originally posted on Class Valuation’s site on May 11, 2022. also known as short-term rentals (STRs) — to claim STR income as part of the borrower qualifications side of the lending decision. This is creating significant friction in the lending environment.

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Appraisal Today

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

For starters, any development would have to pass through three levels of bureaucracy, as 4.1 It turns out gratitude is a tool. They say gratitude is one of the most misunderstood free tools for a better life. Quite different than others in the lending business who just want to make as much money as they can. Even better.

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