Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

An appraiser’s valuation directly impacts a home’s value, and that valuation stems from elements like keywords, neighborhood history, square footage, etc. Jaro gives every lender the tools to offer fair valuations to all buyers. Worse yet, appraisers often rely on automated reporting tools that can’t flag bias.

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APRIL 15, 2025

Chris Flynn has joined Class Valuation as chief data officer. Before joining Class Valuation, he served as head of product and strategy at First American Data & Analytics, where he led the development of advanced solutions addressing customer needs in the real estate, mortgage and title markets.

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MARCH 10, 2025

Velox Valuations, a leading national real estate appraisal firm, has announced the launch of two new franchise territories, further expanding its innovative, technology-driven business model across the United States. This approach ensures precise, consistent, and accountable appraisals.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

Some examples include predictive analytics and real-time data, to assess market trends , rental income potential, underwriting expenses, and asset valuations. This creates an opportunity to get to know and understand clients’ financing needs. What trends are you seeing now, and how is Arbor helping clients with those shifts?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke to Chris McLain, division president of Valuations for Consolidated Analytics , about the current appraisals market, AI innovation in valuations and valuation products for HELOCs and second-lien mortgages. We also assist clients with repurchase demands on loans we did not provide services.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Appraisal management company Class Valuation , a subsidiary of investment firm Gridiron Capital , acquired Kansas City, Missouri-based Pendo Management for an undisclosed sum. Looking forward, I am excited for the vast opportunities this partnership brings for our team and our clients.”.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) back in June over an allegedly biased valuation of a home in Denver. This business model was not only misleading to the clients, but also to his credentialled appraisers on staff, the release stated.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

Buyside’s new feature enables the millions of homeowners who are currently receiving a Home Valuation Report from Buyside, to now see a personalized Home Equity Dashboard. It’s always great to see R&D investments coming to life and especially so when it has such a large impact for our clients business” added Williams.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The platform combines property data with replacement costs, valuation elements and natural hazard information to build an account of physical risk. These features use GPS data and CoreLogic property tags — called CLIP data — to help users identify sales prospects and uncover deeper insights on demand.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Class Valuation , one of the largest appraisal management companies in America, just made another acquisition. The AMC announced late last week that it has acquired fellow Detroit-based AMC Metro-West and its subsidiary Valuation Link. I am incredibly proud of Valuation Link and Metro-West and all we’ve accomplished.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2024

The OneHome AI Image Search tool lets clients upload photos of any parts of a house and then matches preferences to a listing with similar images. The option is part of OneHome, CoreLogic’s client-facing portal that is designed to help agents better collaborate with prospective buyers. This is the first for OneHome.

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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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APRIL 9, 2025

Offering solutions like automated valuation models, virtual valuations, and traditional appraisals, Valligent meets the evolving needs of the market. Innovative Technology: Blending cutting-edge technology with real estate expertise for fast, accurate valuations. Proven Experience: 20+ years of reliable, high-quality results.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2025

“Our clients appreciate their ability to internalize their core challenges, and apply their comprehensive industry knowledge to solving them.” Before joining Incenter, Rose oversaw national valuation sales at Homegenius. “Its a pleasure to be with a company that can consistently support our clients.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2025

Reach150 integration: Collects client testimonials that can be turned into targeted ads to generate new leads. Automated valuation model (AVM): Boosts client consultations by using its proprietary algorithms to accurately estimate home values. Lead feed: Stay on top of new leads with a real-time stream of potential sellers.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The Tech Trendsetters are made up of the top product and technology leaders who have been essential in bringing innovative tech solutions to market for mortgage and real estate clients. This year, 75 honorees were selected.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2022

As businesses around the globe continue to streamline their processes with the help of tech advancements, residential valuation services are doing their part to keep pace. subsidiary and Radian company, offers 21st-century valuation solutions that take home price estimates to a new level.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

RemoteVal training will help appraisers spend more time on professional analyses while maintaining overall control of the inspection process,” said Renee Altier, President, Valuation and Property Services, Colibri Group, whose businesses include McKissock Learning. Click here to register. About Incenter Appraisal Management.

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APRIL 14, 2025

These appraisers typically: Work for major valuation firms that serve institutional clients across the country Specialize in complex commercial property types (e.g., Notably, several of these appraisers work for large valuation firms that specialize in commercial real estate, with Texas being a common base of operations.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The DOJ alleges that Rocket, along with two appraisal companies — Maverick Appraisal Group and Solidifi — and appraiser Maksym Mykhailyna, issued a biased home valuation that resulted in the denial of a refinance loan to a Black homeowner in Denver. Department of Justice in October.

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

By applying these methods, appraisers can provide reliable, accurate valuations that reflect current market conditions and ensure the appraisal’s credibility and acceptance. Graphical tools also facilitate easier communication with clients and other stakeholders who may not be familiar with the technicalities of real estate appraisal.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

a provider of property data and valuation technology solutions. With the acquisition , Consolidated Analytics expands its valuation solutions, offering clients tools — from data and analytics to appraisals — to predict market value and access a more comprehensive selection of collateral assessment products, the company said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Atlas VMS , the appraisal and valuation company led by Erik Morin , announced this week the appointment of Joe Pravettone as chief appraiser. Joe’s unparalleled expertise and proven leadership will be instrumental in advancing our mission of delivering exceptional valuation management services to our clients.“ “I

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 1, 2022

Furthermore, an appraiser may need to provide additional information in the valuation of a complex property wherein the issues of what is physically possible, legally permissible, financially feasible, and maximally productive are explored in much greater detail, to enable the client and intended users to understand the report properly.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 3, 2025

AssetVal , a valuation company known for delivering high-quality broker price opinions (BPOs), is now integrated with Restb.ai , an innovator in computer vision AI for the mortgage industry a move which will elevate the consistency and accuracy of AssetVals residential BPO offerings. The integration will also help reduce valuation drift.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The 15 th edition of The Appraisal of Real Estate states the following: The term market area may be more relevant to the valuation process than either neighborhood or district for several reasons: Using the umbrella term, market area , avoids the confusing, and possibly negative implication of the other terms.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

First, he has his clients lender call the listing agent. But because inventory remains at record lows, home prices have soared to astonishing highs, and bidding wars still occur in housing market across the country, Pascoe and other real estate agents on the buy-side have had to go the extra mile to fight for their VA clients.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

SitusAMCs solutions help lenders and investors handle originations, secondary markets transactions, MSR and portfolio management, and valuations without compromising marketplace agility. The real estate company has assisted over 1,500 clients for over 30 years , supporting $20 billion in new loan originations in 2023.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Voxtur primarily serves real estate finance providers and specializes in broker-price opinions (BPOs), alternative valuation methods and traditional appraisals. We are excited to welcome Voxtur Appraisal Services’ seasoned team of professionals and Voxtur clients,” said Paul Doman , president and CEO of Accurate Group.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

The integration of digital tools allows insurers to assess risk more precisely, adapt offerings to client needs, and facilitate faster closings. And cybersecurity has become a central focus as companies work to protect sensitive client data in an increasingly digital environment. billion by 2032.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

HousingWire Datas intelligence can be used in forecasting models, valuation tools, analytics, business intelligence, risk modeling, strategy, forecasting, recruiting and marketing. HousingWire Data clients use the data in mortgage lending, appraisals, capital markets, proptech, institutional investments and consulting.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2024

Last April, Erik Morin made a return to the reverse mortgage valuation space by joining appraisal and valuation company Atlas VMS. Morin founded Landmark Network in 2007, a company that quickly became a key player on the valuation side of the reverse mortgage space before being acquired by Class Valuation in 2018.

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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

APRIL 9, 2021

“This strategic acquisition bolsters recurring revenues and accelerates the development of Voxtur’s data ingestion engine, allowing clients to achieve optimal efficiency and cost savings,” Voxtur said in a statement. Canadian real estate technology company Voxtur Analytics Corp. million, the company said this week.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Kennedy landed a job at American Savings Bank , later acquired by Washington Mutual , and he helmed the company’s fledging Alternative Valuation Business Unit. This is not a problem with valuation models,” said Matt Woods, CEO of real estate consulting service Sold.com. This is a Zillow problem.”. What’s different about Zillow?

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In a competitive market, updating appraisal practices with the latest technology helps appraisers meet the changing needs of clients. This shift helps appraisers easily adhere to updated standards and regulations, allowing them to use comprehensive data analytics for more precise valuations.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Real estate brokers need to be able to target these clients effectively, so they can close deals quickly. The company integrates with an existing brokerage website to provide homeowners with three valuations along with insight into the number of real estate buyer leads actively searching for a property just like theirs.

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