Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2024

Our existing compliance contract will be in place for another year, but VestaPlus was willing to activate the AI photo compliance functionality while we finish out our other contract, then move seamlessly into the full Checkmate product suite.

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MAY 8, 2023

Fintech software and hardware company Mortgage Automation Technologies, Inc. announced on Monday that it has integrated its next-generation point of sale system, The BIG Point of Sale, on the latest API Platform available through ICE Mortgage Technology , a division of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

Mortgage technology startup Novaprime is making its public debut with the launch of an AI-powered loan platform that it claims allows lenders to sell loans to investors in just days, instead of weeks, all with a high degree of accuracy. Loan details needing attention are routed to a professional for a better borrower experience.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Official Partners — a Side affiliate founded by brothers Tal and Oren Alexander — also faces sexual assault allegations tied to drugging and rape, which led to Side suing the brothers for breach of contract. Frick has experience in executive roles at technology companies such as Oracle, Assent , Responsys and Merkle.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The race is on for brokerages to capture clients in an incredibly difficult housing market, and Compass believes a new technology offering will give it an advantage. Within the platform’s dashboard, clients can view documents like offers, appraisals, listing contracts, open houses and more.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Jimmy Kelly, president and CEO of Lone Wolf Technologies , to discuss the company’s development process and his vision for a connected real estate platform. That is a lot of technology and a lot of wasted effort. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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JANUARY 27, 2025

Home negotiations technology platform Indigo just received a large investment to expand its operations in 2025. The company announced this week that it secured $8 million in funding to offer better insights and cohesiveness to real estate agents. Indigo is a search platform that allows buyers to bid on agent-approved listings.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

These institutions are encouraged to be ready for more scrutiny and, as a result, to deploy tools, technology, controls or processes to protect against these online threats. The post Fraud risk continues to rise even as the market contracts appeared first on HousingWire. Wire and title fraud levels remain high.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2021

ICE Mortgage Technology’s Encompass eClose allows lenders to electronically order documents, collaborate with settlement agents and partners, eSign documents with borrowers, electronically record and will soon deliver electronic notes and vault to eRegister with MERS. Joe Tyrrell, President of ICE Mortgage Technology.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

According to Mike Fratantoni, chief economist and vice president of research and technology at MBA, 2003 was the last time refinance activity was as high as the $1.75 The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($510,400 or less) rose to 3.1% of total applications from 62.8%

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The buyer rents the home as a tenant first, typically paying an up-front fee or down payment under an option contract to preserve the right to purchase the property within a set time period. Under a lease-purchase arrangement, the property seller also acts as the landlord. Market Embraces Wave of Business Players About 2.4 million U.S.

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MARCH 31, 2025

Emphasize brokerage stability and support: Given the subdued mobility environment, brokerages should capitalize on enhancing internal resources, emphasizing stability, support structures, and technological offerings to attract hesitant but interested agents. Rob Keefe is the founder of Relitix.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

They handle property searches, showings, and contract negotiations. This can be attributed to teams providing additional resources that brokerages dont like a consistent flow of leads, technology and administrative support. The team leader then selects other members to join the team to support their overall business objectives.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

Blockchain is technology that was created initially as the record-keeping technology behind the bitcoin network, but over time, its use has expanded. For his part, Ubitquity Founder & CEO Nathan Wosnack believes that blockchain technology will disrupt, not replace, the title industry.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

million to Black Knight Servicing Technologies , concluding a five-year legal battle over allegations of trade secret theft involving two of the biggest companies in the housing industry. million in damages related to a breach of contract claim, plus interest and attorneys fees. PennyMac Financial Services has paid $158.4

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JANUARY 31, 2025

home listing that went under contract stayed on the market for 54 days, which is the longest period since March 2020 and one week longer than it was at this time last year. People are starting to believe that if they want or need to move, and they can afford to, they should do it. Median asking price $407,225 5.2%

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

home listings were up 3% year-over-year as of December 1, according to the technology-powered real estate brokerage. Photo: Irene Rego The post Redfin: Purchase Applications, Listings, Contracts Increased After the Election appeared first on MortgageOrb. In addition, U.S. Whats more, pending home sales increased 6.5%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

Cost of switching from Mr. Cooper Although UWM’s move to cancel its contract with Mr. Cooper was widely expected, it’s unclear how other lenders that have servicing contracts with Mr. Cooper will respond to the $9.4 They’ll be combining call centers and advanced AI technology. billion deal.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2025

According to a report from ICE Mortgage Technology , the average homeowner has $319,000 of equity and $207,000 of that is considered tappable, meaning that it can be accessed while retaining a 20% equity cushion. Splitero also offers its products in California, Colorado, Oregon, Utah and Washington. Collectively, U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

And more importantly, if you haven’t moved on or committed to contracts that are too rooted in the past, chances are your P&L statement isn’t looking so great. Learn more about what’s actually moving the needle for your top players when it comes to technology and more. Nobody’s talking about that anymore.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2024

Developed over the past two years, the newly rebranded Flyhomes portal is proprietary technology that was designed under the guidance of ZeroDown co-founders Laks Srini and Abhijeet Dwivedi, who have joined Flyhomes as chief technology officer and chief growth officer, respectively.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

In August 2022, Polly announced an extension of its API portfolio to better accommodate lenders amid a contracting mortgage environment. Founded in 2019 by technology and mortgage professionals, Polly is a San Francisco-based provider of mortgage capital markets technology for banks, credit unions and mortgage lenders.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Sarah Wheeler: In the past you said that technology isn’t a differentiator, it’s just an equalizer. Rich Weidel: Yes, and even more now that we’re seeing in this down cycle which technologies provide value and which are just an expense. It wasn’t that long ago that technology was going to change everything.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The AUS is built upon FHA’s Catalyst technology platform – a modernization initiative the company says will build trust through “reliable and accurate data, facilitating modern systems for the FHA program participant community.” According to the release, the two-year contract is worth $42 million.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) servicing contract and is a HECM subservicer for several major lenders. Celink assumed control of the HECM servicing contract with HUD in late 2022. It also added Altisource to help manage its HECM portfolio.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Pennymac Financial Services has made changes to its technology leadership, creating a new role focused on digital innovations, the company announced on Tuesday. He had a crucial leadership role in Pennymac’s mortgage fulfillment, production business technology and servicing divisions.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Davis’ original complaint stated that after the franchisees signed a contract, the defendants then required franchisees to adopt KWRI’s present market cap, which is the fee agents pay their market centers. On information and belief, Gary Keller has done nothing but pocket the increase technology fee for quite some time,” the complaint states.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

When CoreLogic acquired Roostify, the digital mortgage technology company I co-founded and led for more than a decade, in February, our mission was to accelerate and simplify the home lending experience. Technology has brought greater transparency and predictability to the industry over the last 10 years.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2024

What began as a legal battle between two companies that previously worked together on a Keller Williams technology platform has recently expanded to include industry veteran Josh Team. In order to do this, Team formed EMC, and a former colleague formed Aika, which subsequently obtained a contract to build the software for KW.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2024

With technology changing faster than new agents answer phone calls, choosing the right real estate brokerage software can sometimes feel like a full-time job. Using Ylopo’s proprietary AI voice technology, agents can roleplay 60 different sales scenarios to practice their scripts and rebuttals to build confidence for live calls.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The mortgage industry has experienced significant contraction over the past two years, adjusting operations to align with the reduced demand for refinance and purchase financing. Involve the technology team and end users as they offer unique insights into the intersection of process and technology.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

ICE Mortgage Technology will be sunsetting legacy integrations for its flagship Encompass platform by Oct. and Mortgage Automation Technologies (which is not SDK-based). “They can get their vendors on record — there’s contracts here. ‘ and ‘Please keep us up to date if it is so we are aware.'”

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2022

The key difference in Blockchain, distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and related crypto-technologies today is we now understand how these technologies must adapt and are adapting to the world as it is. Emerging distributed ledger technologies are forming a consensus-based approaches to the blockchain within business domains.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

An arbitrator conclusion issued last week caps a four-year legal battle over allegations of trade secret theft involving two of the biggest companies in the housing industry, Black Knight Servicing Technologies and PennyMac Financial Services. 28, an arbitrator awarded Black Knight $155.2 In March 2020, the companies entered arbitration.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Tager focused more on the marketing implications, how his company has used generative AI to create marketing initiatives and shared thoughts on what the development of the technology could mean for the space overall. “We That’s certainly not a universal outcome, but it does communicate what the technology can do.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

VanDyk Mortgage Corporation has signed a contract to use Black Knight ‘s MSP system to expand its servicing operations, the company announced Wednesday. ” Staying nimble in a fast-paced market with the right mortgage technology.

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MARCH 19, 2024

In August 2022, Polly announced that it extended its API portfolio to better accommodate lenders amid a contracting mortgage environment. Founded in 2019 by technology and mortgage professionals, Polly is a San Francisco-based provider of mortgage capital markets technology for banks, credit unions and mortgage lenders.

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