Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This webinar will delve into the latest technology trends, from advanced data integration to automated workflows, designed to streamline your processes and improve accuracy. My expertise lies in developing strategies that integrate the latest technology and tools with the appraisers who use them.

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Modernization Appraisal Technology Tools 300

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Users now have access to upgraded listing accuracy, better transaction efficiency, training programs for agents and community tools. These upgrades are available through Hive Solutions, a suite of real estate technology products designed for widespread use across several sectors of the industry.

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Housing Wire

JULY 10, 2024

Acra Lending has positioned itself at the forefront of this sector by investing in its workforce, optimizing processes, leveraging cutting-edge technology, and building a robust infrastructure. What training and development initiatives have proven most effective? Technology is at the core of Acra Lending’s strategy for Non-QM lending.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2024

By focusing on these technological advancements, Opteon not only improves the appraisal process but also offers significant competitive advantages to its lender customers. Opteon’s approach to data collection addresses these challenges by integrating cutting-edge technology with professional expertise.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This is also precisely when technology can play a crucial role in helping agents, teams and brokerages transcend short-term hurdles and a top of funnel focus. One of the biggest challenges I continue to hear from brokers regarding technology is poor user and feature adoption.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

We’ve focused on a layered approach to security in our internal culture and in our products, encouraging improvements to personnel training, more secure processes, and stronger technology tools. Technology should enhance operations without disrupting them, empowering people to do what they do best—build relationships and close deals.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This AI Agent is trained on and powered by the current “FHA 4001.1 This AI Agent is trained on and powered by the latest version of the “Fannie Mae Selling Guide.” This AI Agent is trained on and powered by the latest version of the “Fannie Mae Selling Guide.”

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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. The right real estate brokerage software will help you gain market share, train, recruit, and retain more (and better) agents, and make more profits.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) introduced MSP Digital Experience (MSP DX), a conversational user interface designed to interact with the company’s leading mortgage servicing system, MSP. The new interface is poised to streamline workflows, enhance efficiencies and simplify the training process for servicing team members.

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2024

The Chicago -based mortgage lender announced Tuesday that it’s bringing on Daniel Manginelli to lead its sales coaching program, which is designed to help mortgage professionals implement best practices and improve performance. “I believe the best coaches and mentors have lived what they coach,” Manginelli said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Training for refinance preparedness : With potential market shifts on the horizon, organizations are investing in training loan officers to handle refinances effectively. Fannie Mae now requires that at least 10% of production undergo pre-funding QC, a mandate designed to catch potential issues early.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Servicing teams must manage shifting delinquency rates, regulatory demands that may pivot with each new administration, and ever-increasing operational costs while keeping their fingers on the pulse of the modern consumer and advancing technology. Providing guidance and support during this process will be crucial for servicers in 2025.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 23, 2024

Capital markets technology firm Optimal Blue has launched generative AI capabilities centered on helping mortgage lenders maximize profitability on every loan transaction. Our engineering team has been trained on utilizing AI tools internally to enhance productivity.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Also added is AgentNet Knowledge, a one-stop destination for First American Title’s underwriting guidance, education, and CE/CLE training courses. AgentNet Services also includes solutions to support time-sensitive and complex transactions and instant access to back-office services and title experts whenever they’re needed.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Nearly 50 interviews from staff members in the federal government, financial technology companies, mortgage lenders and consumer advocates found that the ability of AI to improve racial equity can be undermined by the data used to train the algorithm, not just by the algorithm itself.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today, a mortgage lender must have scalability in its operation, an ability to pivot quickly to meet changing market conditions and client needs, a well-designed technology stack and, above all, a keen sense of what its customers and the marketplace truly want from them.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2024

Clearer guidelines and training programs emerged in the early 2000s for property inspectors, and the following decade saw additional technology regularly employed by inspectors to accomplish their tasks. In 2020, NSPIRE was launched by REAC as a pilot program designed to address known challenges in the inspection process.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

While there will always be a need for the next innovative idea that keeps housing finance moving forward, our industry’s real problem is not an inability to devise technological advances that save lenders and consumers money—it’s our inability to adopt and execute at scale. Drastic times call for drastic measures.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Appraisal Firewall X connects mortgage lenders with vetted and trained property data collectors to deliver the value acceptance + property data and hybrid appraisal solutions, the company said in a release. Xactus Appraisal Firewall X provides data for both processes.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

This requires lenders to conduct thorough training for their staff, update loan processing systems and carry out frequent audits to stay in line with the latest rules. Embracing technology: Several software solutions can simplify compliance by automating the handling of documents and keeping systems updated with the latest laws.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2022

CompassEdge is designed to support every originator – regardless of range, size or type – and provide pipeline risk management tools and analytics with dynamic loan sale and mortgage servicing rights (MSR) valuation functionality, Black Knight said in announcing the launch on Wednesday. Black Knight reported net earnings of $40.3

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2022

Its signing solutions are delivered by TCX’s proprietary and integrated CXChoice platform, along with more than 80,000 vetted and trained notaries across the country with specialties in areas such as RON, HELOCs, loan modification, high net worth and reverse mortgage.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Today, new technology can assist appraisers, AMCs and lenders with visual inspection, analysis, and intelligence to validate information, detect issues, and derive data-backed insights on every loan. The ratings were so significantly different that Fannie Mae now uses computer vision technology to improve its conditions ratings process.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We looked at pricing, design quality, ease of use, lead generation features, and then combed online reviews to get feedback from other working Realtors. Real Geeks’ CRM and marketing tools are much more advanced and AgentFire offers superior design and more compelling CTAs. Here our our picks.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Real estate coach Tom Ferry is launching a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot that is specifically designed for real estate professionals. It’s a partner that gives you the data and info that consumers care about.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 18, 2022

ProxyPics partnered with technology innovators CubiCasa, a global Floor Plan provider, and FoxyAI, B2B PropTech leader in real estate visualization and property intelligence, to equip their trained data collectors, or Proxies, with powerful tools to complete the Property Data Report. About ProxyPics. About ProxyPics.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

1️ Build your life by design, not by circumstance Rather than simply reacting to circumstances, successful real estate agents should have a clear vision and a well-thought-out plan. Those who design their lives tend to be more strategic in their property investments , market analysis, and their operational and networking efforts.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

With two decades of marketing experience both on the agency and the brand side, as well as a personal passion for rehabbing homes, Wooden’s know-how, grit, and fresh perspective has continued to propel the Anywhere portfolio of well-known and well-loved brands forward in an ever-evolving technological landscape.

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Marketing Loan Officers Real Estate Training 365

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The UX of this platform has a specifically designed loss mitigation module that keeps the customer engaged and fully educated on how to use the platform and expedites the signing process. JK: I would say technology continues to be an increased part of the process. HW: How else is Mortgage Connect evolving to meet industry needs?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2021

Computershare Loan Services , a global mortgage services provider, delivers complete end-to-end fulfillment services that help lenders manage overhead with highly trained processors, underwriters and closers. The right partnership starts with technology that is designed to play well with others. The housing market is cyclical.

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Marketing Training Clients Technology 393

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

JULY 29, 2024

But technology — particularly leveraging generative AI — can help solve these challenges in new ways. The sprint culminated with a demo day on Thursday where 12 teams presented their solutions to a panel of technology, regulation and housing experts. Those updates have to be baked into the process from the beginning.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2024

It does have great potential when strategically considered, implemented, trained and monitored — for whatever benchmarks or ROI — and those principles incorporated at the outset. BAT: My response comes from the training that I received from the Mila AI Institute in Montreal. It has an opportunity for far better results.

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Design Training Business Real Estate 392

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

It makes accessible information that used to be hard to obtain, such as the condition of the backyard, the proximity of a property to a loud road, train tracks, or a body of water as well as the occupancy status of a property. The solution renders an array of nationwide property information available in one PDF report.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

Sarah Wheeler: What differentiates Lofty’s technology? The other thing about being a platform is that when we design the product, we think the product should be generic — we’re not just building a product for the real estate industry. Because technology is evolving so fast, we have to evolve with the technology.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

While ChatGPT might be making headlines, the true killer apps of the AI revolution will add the technology to software that agents already know and love. Called RAIA, Offrs AI chat tool uses conversational AI trained by licensed agents to qualify leads for you.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 23, 2024

He spent over a decade in various executive and managerial positions, where he led a highly successful team that included analytics, risk management, training, communications and vendor management while managing two of the top five lending institutions and the firm’s GSE relationships.

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