Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Customer intelligence and mortgage tech firm Polly named Troy Coggiola as its chief operating officer amid the company’s effort to scale. Coggiola will be responsible for Polly’s product, implementation, support and design teams, working toward seamless cross-organization collaboration. before it was acquired by ICE in 2020.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

Debbie launched the marketing campaign for “A Seat at the Closing Table,” designed to train loan officers on the nuances of working with underserved borrowers and to offer toolkits and templates that will help them close more loans in minority communities.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

The operating model change involved Better pivoting to hiring experienced loan officers on commission-based compensation plans. Previously, the lender had higher fixed-cost components and no commissions for its loan officers.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2023

The goal was to create a configurable and robust Point of Sale to Loan Origination System integration, according to a press release from the company. “Built by the people that use it every day, The Big Point of Sale was designed with the consumer in mind and the mortgage professional at heart.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Software development company Blue Sage Solutions has launched a new servicing platform that merges loan origination and servicing functions using API-based technology.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Borrowers, loan officers, and the corresponding processors and underwriters are often working on entirely different systems. The platform is loan origination system-agnostic and is designed to deliver value to both borrowers and lenders–”from the point of thought of buying a house to the point of owning a home.” .

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Christos Bettios, chief information officer at NFM Lending , to talk about the company’s private, proprietary GPT that is making his whole team more efficient. He started his career as a developer and spent 10 years as a senior product manager at Fannie Mae.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

While running employment and income verification reports can be an expensive step in the mortgage process, it’s designed to reduce loan risk during underwriting. is a software development company that offers a digital loan origination and point-of-sale system for the mortgage industry. in an $87 million deal in 2021.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Utah-based software developer offers a private-label digital mortgage platform and mobile app designed to connect lenders with borrowers and real estate agents. In fact, prior to founding SimpleNexus in 2011, CEO Matt Hansen worked on the Simplifile development architecture team for nearly five years.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2023

Artificial intelligence refers to computer systems designed to perform tasks that usually require human intelligence, such as recognizing speech, identifying patterns or making decisions. By its own description, ChatGPT is “an AI-powered chatbot developed by OpenAI, based on the GPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) language model.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

That’s where reverse purchase financing comes into play, the funding option specifically designed for older Americans. The bottom line The reverse mortgage (HECM) for purchase program was designed to help older Americans buy a more suitable home in retirement, while still conserving cash and assets for future expenses.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

If you’re a mortgage loan officer with a decade of experience in the industry, you have likely spent over 80 hours taking continuing education courses. We would welcome the opportunity to approve courses with a creative take on how they design and develop content.”. How can they be sure? Did they interview every borrower?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

The company recently launched a mortgage brokerage firm that offers a plug-and-play program for real estate agents to become mortgage loan officers, a practice called dual licensing. of the loan amount, with a $5,000 cap, which adds to the typical buyer-side agent commission of up to 3%. For example, Realfinity pays LOs 1.4%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

loanDepot’s focus is on the sales side, attracting experienced loan officers (LOs) and people who want to join the industry via its accelerated career in effective sales (ACES) program. We’ve been hiring, training and developing our people. We’re overstaffed by design, and we never let sales get ahead of operations.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

Everyone in mortgage knows that fintech adoption remains stubbornly low, despite years of innovation and concerted efforts by software developers, trade associations, consumer-interest groups and the GSEs to spread the gospel of cost-saving technologies. To combat this, loan officers must be incentivized to embrace innovation.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech-focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, insurance and real estate. To that end, Blend plans to use the new capital to invest in product development such as speeding up the release of its digital closing solution.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It is critical to also digitize the front-end processes, which enable you to give borrowers a better experience, while also making it easier for your loan officers and other staff members to do their job. This really comes down to designing products and experiences around the customer journey and mapping it from that point of view.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

Intuitive technologies developed and built by experts in both mortgages and technology can drive efficiency, reliability and profitability when paired with exceptional customer service. We keep our ears to the ground and are always ready to pivot, find a solution and develop technologies our clients need to have a competitive edge.”.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

s generative AI capabilities, Rate Intelligence enhances enterprise efficiency and improves customer support, especially in areas like loan servicing. Throughout the development process, we worked hand in hand with our staff to develop and perfect it. billion across more than 40,000 loans using this technology.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2021

This move comes after Cason spent 27 years at Fannie Mae, where he was instrumental in the design, development and launch of a digital suite of products and services, including playing a key role in the creation of Desktop Underwriter. So why change direction now?

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Sogorka will collaborate with Rocket’s technology and product development teams to ensure the experience Mortgage Brokers have in Rocket’s suite of comprehensive tools is unlike anything they’ve experienced before–bringing value to them and the clients they serve. His leadership helped drive a period of intense growth for the company.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2024

We also brought in Salesforce , and we call it our Guild 360, where we developed a semi-proprietary connection with Salesforce. So, we’ve built a lot of integration with our LOS and our servicing platform to bring it all together for a loan officer. The other thing that’s important is our coaching program.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2021

Hansen told HousingWire that he stepped down to lead a team of software developers and sales staff for upcoming research and development tactics within SimpleNexus. This new role will give him more time to focus on his passion for product and development, he said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Even in a digital-first shopping landscape, loan officers are still a valuable resource for borrowers. For instance, if you choose to build your platform, you’ll have plenty of freedom in its design. This route could help you save on development time. Creating that platform, though, is often easier said than done.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The company’s powerful, end-to-end eMortgage technology is available via an intuitive interface that can be deployed quickly, and the company prides itself on its highly consultative approach designed to make the transition as easy as possible. The company quickly grew to offering custom form design and software.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Coming off multiple quarters of financial losses , Rocket has accelerated those efforts in 2023, embarking on a remote local loan officer hiring spree designed to capture purchase market business from real estate agent connections, sources told HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

With Fannie Mae and other organizations predicting a tough outlook for 2023’s housing market, loan officers should be looking to get their name out in front of as many potential borrowers as possible in order to secure business. Parker is a HousingWire 2022 Mortgage Marketing Leader with a focus on business development and marketing.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

Constellation Software ’s Dark Matter Technologies rolled out an automated workflow in the Empower loan origination system (LOS) that makes it easier for lenders to identify and qualify loan applicants who could benefit from evaluation of their positive rent payment history.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 6, 2022

This end-to-end digital tool is designed to act as a mobile pipeline, empowering loan officers to accomplish anything from issuing a pre-approval letter to locking in a rate, all in real time and all fully remote using just their smart phone.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

The opportunity to re-design the future of home lending through technology cannot be overstated, as the mortgage lending industry has been relatively slow to embrace digital technologies,” said Kittredge. And software and platform developers Qualia and Blend both achieved unicorn status by the end of the year. “I

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 24, 2024

Based in Timonium, Maryland, Dalgarno will focus on growing Embrace’s new construction home lending business throughout the East Coast by forming partnerships with homebuilders and recruiting loan officers who specialize in new home construction. Dalgarno expects to hire 15 to 20 new loan officers over the next year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

If cooperative compensation is banned, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the VA must weigh in to develop or accept a mechanism for FHA and VA borrowers and how to pay the buyer’s agent’s commission. “This is going to be a massive needle mover,” Grant said. “I

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

SimpleNexus, developer of the platform for loan officers, borrowers, real estate agents, and settlement agents, is now a Fannie Mae- and Freddie Mac-reviewed eClosing solution provider, the company announced in a press release.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

All of the above categories of automation solutions are built on a foundation of machine learning solution which has been developed by Indecomm specifically for the mortgage industry over the past several years. Despite any automation effort, there will always be exceptions and fallouts that a human being needs to oversee,” Bharadwaj said.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

SimpleNexus , developer of the homeownership platform for loan officers, borrowers, real estate agents and settlement agents, is now a Fannie Mae- and Freddie Mac-reviewed eClosing solution provider. eMortages are faster, offer improved data quality and can be cheaper to execute than.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Bureau of Labor Statistics does not have a job category set up solely for mortgage underwriters, but it does track job growth, or lack of it, in a category it calls “loan officers,” which includes underwriters as a subset. Charlotte-based Canopy is a relative newcomer to the TPR market. “The

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Worse, because we are not yet leveraging the power of big data in our industry, for reasons we will discuss in this article, most of the technology deployed on the front end is not being well adopted and utilized and its effects on the back-office have been negligible. In other cases, the loan officers didn’t trust the technology.

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