Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Mortgage tech company Xactus announced that its valuation solution Appraisal Firewall X has met federal requirements and is capable of fulfilling Fannie Mae property data collection orders. ” Fannie Mae’s program is part of its ongoing efforts to modernize the valuation component of the mortgage industry. .”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Kenon Chen, executive vice president of strategy and growth at Clear Capital , to talk about appraisal modernization and how technology is just part of the solution. SW: How are appraisers adapting to some of these challenges, including new rules on valuations from the GSEs?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2023

However, a year after the GSEs announced new appraisal modernization solutions, as they’re more widely adopted, questions arise. A look into GSE appraisal modernization efforts The GSEs have each offered appraisal waivers on eligible loans for several years. How do the solutions work? Why do we need them? But you already know this.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

The variety of modern digital solutions offered by the homegenius family of companies helps add a level of quality and efficiency to nearly every point in the home buying and selling process, all the way from search to close and beyond. homegenius, Inc.,

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2022

With first hand knowledge of how complex and time consuming appraisals can be, Reggora is motivated to streamline and modernize the process, benefiting appraisers, lenders and buyers themselves. While Reggora focuses on the future of appraisal and valuation, the founders understand that the best tech isn’t rushed.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

Here it is: another article about appraisal modernization. The FHFA RFI responses to appraisal modernization are a treasure trove of insight into ideas and options for modernization from a wide variety of respondents. The changes will impact just about everything and everyone in the collateral valuation space.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Through the acquisition, ASG hopes to modernize the appraisal industry by providing innovative valuation products and solutions and complete new property data reports required by government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). According to ASG, the Jaro platform reduced average turn times by 25% when a client is fully onboarded.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2021

Via the Encompass Partner Connect, a cloud-native third-party-service integration platform, CoreLogic will update critical data-driven processes and make these solutions available to thousands of mutual clients on the ICE Mortgage Technology platform , the analytics vendor said. How technology can help underwriters work more productively.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 2, 2025

New ACI Sky Workbench Platform is Designed to Modernize Appraisal Processes SANTA ANA, Calif. Designed by appraisers for appraisers, Workbench modernizes appraisal workflows, enabling valuation professionals to take on additional assignments and complete them faster and with greater accuracy, while reducing the need for revisions.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

TTV Capital , Moderne Ventures , Erez Capital and other venture capital firms led the round of investment. RealReports is a real estate platform that gathers property data , ranging from climate risk to valuation, in one place. Proptech company RealReports , formerly known as BHR , has successfully secured $2 million in seed funding.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Fast Funding: Understanding that timing is critical, create a streamlined process that allows you to provide capital in days not weeks, first-time customers, and even faster for returning clients. His time is running out. Will he be able to <insert hail mary options>?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Singh explains that modern AI tools require increasingly larger amounts of data than ever before. He said that CoreLogic uses data to create sources of truth for clients to make accurate decisions. Next, the conversation shifts to how CoreLogic’s clients can utilize AI solutions in their business processes.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Appraisers must be able to communicate their findings clearly, persuasively, and effectively to the public, clients, attorneys, and other professionals. By listening to feedback from mentors, clients, colleagues, and other professionals, appraisers can identify areas for improvement and continue to develop their skills over time.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 17, 2025

The good news is that theres no pressure from the client to hit a specific number the relocation company genuinely wants to know what the asset is worth. Client Rankings Another unique aspect of relocation assignments is client ratings, a feedback mechanism used to assess the appraiser’s work. After all, time is money.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 19, 2021

It can lead a person to favor his or her own opinion over those of others, especially when those others are suggesting that our industry needs to modernize. There’s a great deal of handholding and back and forth with our clients and the inevitable pushback when the number isn’t what they’d hoped to see. Let’s talk about this.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2022

This will range from the technology used to conduct home appraisals and valuations, as well as the technology that lenders and appraisal vendors use to manage their operational workflows. For lenders who currently utilize a modern appraisal platform, they are looking to enhance the amount of communication between their LOS/POS and their AMS.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

While ChatGPT has become a go-to tool for many of us, predictive analytics tools offer a more efficient, data-driven approach to generating new client leads. Visit Real Geeks AI Chatbots Chatbots and enhanced customer interaction tools offer real estate agents a significant advantage by changing how they connect with clients.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 6, 2021

It had a large, fenced-in yard, modern appliances in an updated kitchen, a “man cave” for her husband, beamed ceilings, a massive master suite and was located in a good school district. How hybrid title and valuations help increase lending efficiency. But the most important thing is educating clients from day one.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 17, 2024

However, with agents’ commissions and roles being questioned, appraisers have the chance to position themselves as indispensable experts in property valuation. By positioning themselves as unbiased third parties who provide impartial, data-driven valuation reports, appraisers can offer invaluable services directly to buyers.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 10, 2021

We specialize in real estate valuations for the mortgage lending and financial services industries. At Clario, we have an underlying philosophy that guides our efforts: Go wherever it leads, and do whatever it takes to help clients find their optimal solution. RENO, Nev. — Clario Appraisal Network, Inc.,

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

Nationwide Appraisal Network (NAN) is an industry-leading appraisal management company providing residential and commercial valuation services in all 50 states. NAN’s valuation solutions give lenders the chance to evaluate, select and manage appraisers based on their quality and performance.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 1, 2022

Sagent , a fintech company modernizing mortgage and consumer loan servicing for banks and lenders, is partnering with Consolidated Analytics to automate valuation offerings for default servicing through an integration into TEMPO , Sagent’s default management platform.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Appraisers are tasked with protecting the public trust, and yet, I have seen appraisers who knowingly and on an ongoing basis disregard facts and truth to provide reports with values or directions in values that advocate the cause of their client. The future of the valuation profession is not certain to me.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

Automated mortgage technology provider Lender Toolkit announced this week that it has integrated with Reggora , an appraisal management software company that focuses on modernizing residential real estate valuations for mortgage lenders. That savings can be passed on to borrowers.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

So much has evolved in the real estate process – agents and brokers no longer flip through the pages of MLS books, thumb through a Rolodex or fill out carbon copy contracts with their clients. geniusprice technology is not a CMA. For more information on geniusprice technology, please visit homegenius.com.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

And in broader financial technology, public company fintech valuations are down 70-80%. These valuation declines hit category-leading software fintechs even though they have huge lender customers – and hit originator servicer fintechs even though they have hundreds of billions in volume and servicing portfolios.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Some of us are old enough to remember Polaroid film, typing appraisals using typewriters and buying stamps to mail the reports to clients. Automated valuation models (AVMs), and more recently artificial intelligence, have started to encroach on the role and need for human appraisers.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 8, 2024

We all have seen the buzz phrases: appraisal modernization, bifurcation, data collectors, desktop and hybrid appraisals, and observation (rather than Inspection). Some of these have been around for many years. Remember: a light bulb shines its brightest just before it burns out!

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Appraisers use three different property valuation methods: (1) Sales Comparison relates the estimated value of our subject property to similar settled, active, and pending market sales. (2) recall that there are six site valuation methods with the most popular and easiest to use being the sales comparison method. Now, we all fondly (?!)

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2021

How hybrid title and valuations help increase lending efficiency. It’s also a selling point to your potential lending clients. Having a modern, streamlined process makes a potential lending client’s decision much easier. How well your processes and workflow fit together and match the needs of your clients and market.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 20, 2022

All the talk and attention given to appraisal modernization, appraisal waivers, desktop and hybrid appraisals contributes to anxiety. Either insist the client provide a copy for your workfile or make copies at your expense. The 5-year record keeping requirement is a USPAP minimum.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2020

According to Crain’s Detroit Business: The reduction came “as investors pushed back on the company’s valuation, believing it should be priced as a consumer or financial company rather than a technology business.”. We are continuing to work on building out a platform based on those modern manufacturing principles.”.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 2, 2024

In her new role, Walker oversees business development and operations for Xactus’ property valuation solutions division that includes Appraisal FirewallX, Appraisal ScorecardX and VerisiteX; and its proprietary appraisal/property valuation technology.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Communication took on many forms, including development of written documents stating client reporting requirements, utilizing technology platforms to increase transparency throughout the appraisal process, and developing feedback to the appraiser on appraisal submissions. Real Estate valuation can be a complex exercise in problem solving.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2021

But DeZarn was an independent contractor business of one, and he lost his clients in 2008 when the housing market imploded. But they did not become key players in the home valuation industry until the recent housing bubble.”. The outcome was a settlement, the Home Valuation Code of Conduct, or, as appraisers swiftly dubbed it, havoc.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 10, 2025

Dallas, TX March 10, 2024 Home Vision , the industry-leading collateral underwriting and appraisal review platform, and Restb.ai , a trusted innovator in computer vision AI for the mortgage industry, today announced a strategic partnership to advance the real estate valuation workflow. About Restb.ai Media contacts: Restb.ai

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

What’s the secret to nurturing leads and turning them into loyal clients? As your real estate business expands, nurturing your growing client base inevitably leads to a need for improved communication. It’s a high-functioning customer relationship management (CRM) tool with robust features, integrations and automation.

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