Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

17 to replace three of the 12 current directors with the investment groups’ nominees, but the two investor group have said they need a “safeguard” to make sure the process moves forward. The investors dropped their takeover bid on Nov. The investors dropped their takeover bid on Nov. Prior to the Nov.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Key non-QM products for 2025 Before 2025 continues, lenders should arm themselves with the right tools for tackling the market: Investor loans Investing is the vehicle to success for homeowners in the market. million, so its primed and ready to meet the needs of most property investors. How are real estate investors responding?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

To tackle increased origination demand without over-prioritizing one market, mortgage originators must rely on solutions designed to cut primary market expenses and create more secondary market mobility. Originators dont consider the secondary market, even though those loans will most likely shift into the market down the line.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Many real estate investors were serendipitously ahead of this shift even before the pandemic started, driven by both affordability and an affinity for overlooked markets. Those markets I’m able to put a little bit less money in but also make a comfortable amount of return,” said Bijan Green, a Denver-based real estate investor. “A

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

Auction.com has long been a leading platform for bank-owned (REO) and foreclosure sales to real estate investors and others seeking a discount. SmartSale is designed as an alternative for sellers who are navigating financial challenges or simply seeking greater control, Auction.com explained.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

Dubbed “Investors Flex,” the non-QM product for real estate investors, offered purchase and refinance loans up to $2 million that could be used to finance up to 20 properties by using each property’s monthly rental income to qualify.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

After rock-solid careers of their own, they decided to combine their skills and their shared passion to help Chinese home buyers, sellers and investors navigate Southern Californias competitive real estate market, Real President Sharran Srivatsaa said in a statement. Theyve set the gold standard for service to the Chinese community.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

Karime Benaissa, appointed as FOAs new chief customer officer, previously served as the companys chief digital officer for six months beginning this past October, having served in digitally-focused VP roles in prior positions at companies including Designer Shoe Warehouse , Neiman Marcus and Petco.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

You can also create messaging for your investor clients to inform them of possible investment opportunities. For example, your investor clients probably wont be interested in a first-time home buyers checklist, and you most likely wouldnt want to send information about 1031 exchanges to the first-time home buyers in your database.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

MISMO standards help reduce friction between trading partners including lenders, servicers, investors and others. Obtaining the MISMO eVault Certification provides the industry confidence that Snapdocs meets the MISMO standards, which can be utilized when companies are selecting solutions for their business needs.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2025

It is designed to make it easier for payers to offer these essential services directly into the home addressing critical needs such as in-home caregiving, home modifications , groceries and meals, pest control, housekeeping, and transportation. The company secured a Series C funding round, according to an announcement this week.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

Policies designed to cover living expenses during a disaster might not cover prolonged displacement either. The soaring price of insurance , the costs associated with reconstruction, and resiliency upgrades related to climate change costs are straining households beyond California.

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Real Estate News

MARCH 3, 2025

Keller Williams says strategic investment by CoreLogic owner Stone Point Capital is designed to fuel growth, as Christopher Czarnecki takes the helm.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 29, 2024

USRES and RES.NET provide a range of products and services designed to streamline processes, enhance efficiency, and drive profitability for all participants in the real estate disposition and liquidation life cycle.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Paperback Audiobook Best books for finding your purpose Living Forward by Michael Hyatt MAPS coach and referral agent Anna Krueger recommends this motivational book about creating a life you love, by design. She says, This book prevents climbing the ladder of success and realizing its leaning on the wrong wall.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2023

AOT transactions involve three counterparties — a mortgage originator, a mortgage investor, and a broker dealer — and are designed to transfer loan collateral and hedge positions to a mortgage investor. Dealer-to-dealer assignments are also electronically executed on Agile’s platform. “As

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 25, 2025

The specialized HELOC subservicing solution is designed to address critical inefficiencies in the HELOC servicing market, the firm says in a release. BSI ASSET360 provides lenders and investors with real-time visibility into asset status and performance.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

The rule is designed to “protect the millions of workers who are saving for retirement diligently and rely on advice from trusted professionals on how to invest their savings,” DOL said in its announcement. Retirement investors are best protected by a uniform and protective framework.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

Government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced this week the release of their “Mission Index,” updating or expanding their single-family social bond framework to better communicate the goals of the index to stakeholders and investors. The GSEs issued separate announcements and a joint statement.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Blue Sage Solutions’s primary product offering is a cloud-based digital lending platform designed to operate in the retail, wholesale, and correspondent lending channels while ensuring compliance. Additionally, the platform is accessible to all users, regardless of their current loan origination software.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2024

Both firms guide real estate investors in buying, selling and managing single-family rental (SFR) homes across the country. The unified platform will offer real estate investors robust technology, deep data insights and a property management system specifically designed for SFRs.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

Name Job Title Company Name Aaron Heidorn Director of Software Engineering & Infrastructure Cloudvirga Aaron Smith Director, Sales CubiCasa Adrian Provost Chief Executive Officer Realty ONE Group Terminus Ana LeBlanc Human Resources Director InterLinc Mortgage Annie Lemon Producing Branch Manager Gold Star Mortgage Financial Anthony Russo Diamond (..)

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The platform’s intelligent design is showcased by its ability to pre-populate borrower data, substantially reducing application completion time. Sagent has trimmed the fat off of this process with Dara and its user-friendly approach. Transparency and efficiency A key feature of Dara is its real-time tracking functionality.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2022

Digital-mortgage exchange and loan aggregator MAXEX is launching a new loan-purchasing program for originators looking to tap into the growing mortgage demand from individual and small-business real estate investors. Institutional investors now balk at buying homes in this market niche.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

helping real estate professionals, investors, financial institutions, and their clients make better-informed decisions. Product Fast Facts #1 Altos tracks over 100M listings every week to deliver real-time market insights in beautifully designed, interactive market reports. #2

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

The end-to-end, real-time capabilities of Dara improve every point of the servicing industry for every stakeholder, including operators, consumers, investors, and regulators. Dara is designed to be proactive when it comes to real-time policymaking. Sagent has shifted the servicing paradigm with its launch of Dara.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

To help homeowners explore their home equity options, lenders, investors and others in the industry should consider leveraging tech-backed services. The technology is designed to analyze images as well as predict objects of value and room conditions within a house.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

But recently a new factor is accelerating the problem — massive purchases of single-family homes by larger investors. In Texas, for example, major institutional investors bought 28% of the single-family homes sold in 2021. Nationally, institutional investors are buying over 13% of homes, and that share is increasing.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

8VC led the latest equity investment with participation from existing investors Menlo Ventures , Meritech , Khosla Ventures and Fifth Wall. The new platform is designed to allow lenders to track their volume trends, see how their loan pricing compares to competitors, and gain insights into loan origination profit margins.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

We also anticipate new regulations and investor guidelines involving loss mitigation procedures, especially those involving loan modifications and borrower communications. A prime example of our strategic evolution is our recent launch of Portfolio Guardian, a predictive model designed to identify when a borrower is likely to refinance.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

The AutomatIQ Borrower Income Analysis tool is designed to work across a wide spectrum of borrowers. It also performs all the calculations per specified investor guidelines, with transparency in calculations. Income underwriting makes up about 80% of the total time and complexity it takes to underwrite a borrower.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

reverse mortgage lender, has received shareholder approval upon recommendation of its board to perform a reverse stock split at a 10-to-1 ratio in a move designed to boost the company’s stock price. Finance of America (FOA), the leading U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2024

The platform provides tools for both landlords and renters, which the company said is designed to automate and streamline the management process. “As RentRedi’s biggest investors include K1 Investment Management, RiverPark Ventures, TIA Ventures and Tribeca Early Stage Partners.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2022

First American Financial Corporation ’s digital closing platform firm Endpoint is now offering a suite of integrated title tools specifically designed for proptech companies, investors and tech-forward real estate organizations looking for a scalable digital closing platform. Why proptech intergration is more important than ever. “The

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Its designed to resemble A-paper loan processes to help brokers familiarize themselves. Or, perhaps a real estate investor is looking to finance a rental property using the rental income as proof of their ability to repay. It eliminates the manual component of evaluation and reduces turnaround times.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

DOGE Service that are ostensibly designed to limit or dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), its former director appeared Friday morning on CNBC to discuss the upheaval while warning consumers about the risks of a diminished bureau. So I think this is not a good situation.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

Change Wholesale is at the forefront of wholesale lending, with the widest variety of products on the market, ranging from traditional lending products to non-traditional products (Alt Doc, Investor/DSCR, Foreign National). As a CDFI (Community Development Financial Institution) — a designation given by the U.S.

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