Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Mortgage technology company Uplist has launched what it says is a killer new tool that will help loan officers automatically generate refinance options for their clients. This includes property ownership checks, automated valuation models ( AVMs ), loan amount amortization and financial benefit calculations.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2023

And, in the mortgage industry, AI will play an instrumental role in helping loan officers to be more efficient, according to Nima Ghamsari , Blend ‘s co-founder and CEO. The most difficult part, however, is building the technology. Ghamsari: I think the technology is extremely difficult to build.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

While new technologies have a reputation for breaking the bank, the average lender only budgets less than 10% of their overall operations costs for technology. Without loan officer adoption, that spend becomes frivolous, making a lender’s decisions on which technologies to include in the tech stack extremely important.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Mortgage tech firm Candor Technology has expanded its Loan Engineering System (LES) to include Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans. The company now fully automates underwriting decisions for FHA loans — minus collateral – and also offers a warranty on income calculations and cleared conditions for funded FHA loans.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

Radian Group announced a strategic investment in FinLocker that will closely connect the technology between Radian’s Homegenius platform and FinLocker’s financial fitness and homeownership platform. Clients of FinLocker include loan officers, mortgage lenders, servicers, banks and credit unions.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The partnership will boost loan officers ’ capacity to deliver personalized, efficient and tech-powered solutions directly to their clients and agents. Meanwhile, LoanPASS’s flagship products and pricing engine (PPE) automates product and pricing decision-making for all loan products.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In this low interest rate environment, lenders are staying busy with high volumes and new clients. Ernie Graham: Once you’ve closed a transaction, there’s this natural halo effect you have with the client that means that they think well of you – until they forget about you. EG: You create balance by focusing on quality.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today, a mortgage lender must have scalability in its operation, an ability to pivot quickly to meet changing market conditions and client needs, a well-designed technology stack and, above all, a keen sense of what its customers and the marketplace truly want from them.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

We recommend investing in three key aspects of your customer acquisition strategy to ensure you have the technology, people and operational workflows needed as rates change and volumes increase. How your technology partner can help Having nimble technology is critical for capitalizing on market dynamics.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Optimal Blue has added an expanded AI assistant suite and a new Scenario Optimizer to its PPE, and has also announced free availability of Investor Pricing Insight to investor clients. Each of these newly announced updates helps our clients address changing market conditions with agility, clarity, and precision.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Optimal Blue on Monday announced three major product releases — the expansion of its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant suite, the introduction of Scenario Optimizer, and the free availability of Investor Pricing Insight to investor clients. ” The announcements were made at MBA Annual in Denver.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Sogorka will ensure the lender’s products and processes align best with the needs of the mortgage broker community and plans to leverage Rocket Mortgage’s significant AI technologies and platform to push well beyond the tools currently available to this important market segment.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

We’ve also implemented project management technologies and streamlined processes to improve workflow and turnaround times for loan officer requests, effectively halving the time it takes to fulfill them. Instead, we invest heavily in empowering our loan officers.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The lender has about 80 loan officers and aims to hire up to 100 in states. Capturing leads with tech Another priority for the lender is procuring leads through its proprietary technology. Cliffco’s proprietary CRM platform enables loan officers to break away from being heavily dependent on real estate agents for referrals.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The solution leverages the power of innovative, integrated technologies to not only simplify the mortgage application and approval process for borrowers, but also to improve the backend process for loan officers. For clients using Empower, all data is stored in Empower and accessed using APIs.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2024

Top mortgage technology executives say their companies are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) in their operations but still relying on human decision-making to sell loans. “There’s one question every CEO, CTO, CIO, loan officer, processor, underwriter, they all ask the same thing: will AI replace my job?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

Real estate technology firm Knock announced Thursday that its bridge loan product is being integrated into the borrower application process at Baltimore -based NFM Lending. The bridge loan estimate is being integrated into the lender’s workflow through an Encompass plugin.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Both borrowers and loan officers face a changed—and changing—landscape. Does it offer the necessary products, technology , and industry experience to thrive in both busy and slow cycles? Today you can easily leverage technology to enhance your market expertise and thus position yourself ahead of the competition.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Matt Van Fossen, CEO of Absolute Home Mortgage and Mortgage Automation Technologies , to talk about his unique view of the housing ecosystem and how it influences how he builds technology. How do all those different roles influence the technology you build?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Her role will focus on technology to drive the company’s growth. Michael Brennan, president of Movement, said Waggoner can empower loan officers with the tools they “need to win.”. “She has a proven track record of leading sales-centric technology teams and delivering with speed to market,” he added.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

Guideline Buddy’s chatbot leverages generative AI technology to simplify the loan qualification process by providing swift and accurate information, freeing professionals from the time-consuming burden of sifting through extensive documentation, the firm said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Because of an apparent error made by staff at ICE Mortgage Technology ‘s Surefire customer relationship management (CRM) platform, more than 600,000 emails and texts were sent without permission to real estate agents, business partners and past clients of loan officers around the country.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 5, 2024

Alex Rayner, a top-producing loan officer, has announced a strategic partnership with Service First Mortgage to create Haymaker Home Loans , a next-generation mortgage company focused on top producers’ success. Service First Mortgage’s exceptional technology and support sets us apart,” Rayner says.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

In an ever-changing real estate market, loan originator retention is a key challenge for lenders. Loan officers need faster product rollouts and fewer barriers to focus on core tasks. Why is loan officer retention a priority for the company? This transcript has been edited for length and clarity.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The platform is intended for housing professionals in various sectors, including 5 million loan officers, appraisers , servicers , underwriters , developers, agents, brokers, attorneys and regulators. Through Araya, CoreLogic will give customers access to the data and analytics of nearly all U.S. properties on one platform.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2021

It’s no secret credit scores can hinder a potential borrower’s ability to qualify for the best loan program, which can ultimately lead to poor borrower satisfaction. Borrowers don’t always know or understand how their credit or debt-to-income ratio (DTI) impacts the type of loan they can qualify for. CreditXpert’s Xpert Credit Process.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2024

Rocket Companies , the parent company of Rocket Mortgage , hired its first chief technology officer this week, bringing former Thomson Reuters and Intel executive Shawn Malhotra into the fold. As a technologist, one of the biggest strategic imperatives that we have is to bet big on technology , and specifically AI technology.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Newrez loan officers, in return, will benefit from predictive analytics that allow them to better manage customers along their home purchase journey, the lender said. More than 15,000 real estate agents — including those with Coldwell Banker , Compass and Keller Williams Realty — are registered with the Newzip network.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Braheem, former co-founder of Loan Toolbox — an online resource for training, tools, support and coaching — launched The Loan Atlas, a mortgage coaching platform, earlier this year with mortgage executives and top loan officers joining as faculty members.

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Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2024

For reverse mortgage clients looking to use their loan proceeds to fund the goal of aging in place, home renovations and other preparations may be requested from the reverse mortgage loan officer due to the high-touch nature of reverse mortgage origination. LOs often occupy a place of trust among their borrower clients.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Today’s unique market requires flexibility and a pricing engine that empowers lenders and their loan officers to put the right loan products in front of borrowers. HousingWire spoke with Parvesh Sahi, chief revenue officer of Polly , about the importance of having the right PPE and strategic pillars that facilitate LO success.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

The product offers insights into loan markups, loan-level pricing adjustments, service-released premiums, concessions, loan officer compensation and more. “We ” The data license product allows lenders to see which loan locks were completed using the dataset and which loan officers locked the loan.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The lender originated approximately $309 million in mortgages in 2022, according to data from mortgage technology platform Modex. The company has 39 active loan officers across its retail branches, according to Modex data. The distributed retailer’s volume slipped to $2.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2022 from $4.4

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

Mortgage capital markets tech firm Polly announced on Tuesday that it has launched “Polly/AI,” which integrates artificial intelligence (AI) technology into the newest version of its product and pricing engine (PPE) and includes a “co-pilot” for loan officers that will “process, interpret, and recommend a range of outcome-driven results.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2024

As a result, we have streamlined areas of our technology team and various other areas to attain operational efficiency. The most recent layoff reported at Radian occurred in November 2022 , when the company cut 166 jobs at its headquarters and Allegheny County office in Pennsylvania. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2023

The goal of the new BPD AI Assistant is to improve customer satisfaction, lead generation, and operational efficiency for Big Purple Dot’s clients using AI-powered technology , the company said. The official release date is set for April 30.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 25, 2024

Atlantic Coast Mortgage is using Nextwave CRM by CRMnow as its enterprise CRM platform for loan officers across all 30 states where it operates. Known for its customer-centric approach, ACM offers a wide array of mortgage options, including conventional loans, FHA, VA, USDA loans, and specialized loan products.

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