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The FICS advantage: Leveraging automation for smarter mortgage servicing in 2025

Housing Wire

Furthermore, servicers can leverage these relationships to approach consumers with value-added services including asset protection, insurance products, home improvement loans, and maintenance options. Effective loan servicing positions servicers as reliable advisors for the homeowner.

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Real estate newsletters: The ultimate playbook (+ 49 topic ideas & subject lines)

Housing Wire

For example, you can send messaging to buyers versus sellers, recipients in specific zip codes, clients looking for high-rise condos, clients looking for single-family homes, families with school-age kids concerned about school zones, or first-time homebuyers. Its good practice to update your evergreen content from time to time.

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How to gain a competitive edge through in-house servicing

Housing Wire

Maintaining MSRs generates servicing fee income and helps servicers improve the customer experience. By utilizing APIs, lenders and servicers can automate their processes and eliminate much manual labor, allowing them to deliver loan information to borrowers and reporting to investors more quickly and accurately.

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Sagent technology puts servicers in the driver’s seat

Housing Wire

Since forbearances spiked in March, Sagent’s smart loan servicing software has helped servicers comply with federal requirements for scaling mortgage forbearances with minimal documentation, track and report investor and liquidity obligations, care for customers who needed help immediately, and prepare customers for protracted hardship scenarios.

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How retaining servicing provides a competitive advantage

Housing Wire

Servicing retention generates servicing fee income and helps servicers improve the customer experience. Modern software automates investor reporting and compliance and creates a more efficient workflow, allowing servicers to effectively service loans in-house. Servicers also need software that can automate investor reporting.

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Modern House Flipping Software: 8 Innovative Tools You Need

Listing Spark

House flipping isn’t just an opportunity for big real estate companies or home improvement television channels—it’s becoming a reliable source of income for Americans running a solo business or small real estate investment venture. of US home sales in 2017, that number grew to 8.4%

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The Hybrid Appraisal: It’s Cheaper, but Does It Protect Homebuyers?

Realtor

In a traditional appraisal, an appraiser goes to a home and does a thorough walk-through, recording details like square footage, acreage, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, home improvements, and additions. But the hybrid appraisal really took off when the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020.

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