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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. Revenue can also skyrocket, as well-trained staff with the right servicing software can service 700 or more loans individually.

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

Housing Wire

Evergreen topics might include: how to prepare to list your house, everything your client needs to know about VA loans; or which home improvements yield the best financial return in a home sale. Inman.com Timely real estate news, agent advice and training, tech trends and reviews, market trends, and more.

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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. Well-trained staff using the right mortgage servicing software can service 700 or more loans per employee. Why should lenders retain servicing? In addition to benefiting customers, in-house servicing generates significant revenue.

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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.

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New URAR For Appraisals

Appraisal Today

Think of the new URAR like upgrading from a basic flip phone to a modern smartphone. Built in 1914, the Cape Cod mansion has been thoughtfully modernized over the years to retain its historic integrity. I was trained to be ethical and give my unbiased opinion of value. The whole interior views to the water,” she said.

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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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What to Know About Home Renovations in 2023

Lamacchia Realty

According to the Home Builders Institute, an estimated 2.2 million construction workers will need to be hired and fully trained within the next 3 years to meet the projected home renovation demand. These easy and low-cost changes can give an out-of-the-box and modern look to your room. Spruce up those windows.