Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

As she reflects on her role in steering Anywhere through a challenging housing market , Simonelli shares insights into financial strategy, technological innovation, and her optimism for the future of real estate. HousingWire: What are you most excited for in the industry in 2025?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Insightful borrower data and enhanced tech solutions are paramount to success in today’s modern mortgage industry. HousingWire recently spoke with Dan Catinella, chief lending officer at Total Expert, about how Customer Intelligence technology is improving deal flow and pushing the customer experience into the 21st century. .

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

Real estate professionals are faced with many challenges as the housing market responds to a period of uncertainty. By working with more precise tools, industry professionals will gain important insights to both maintain a competitive edge in the current market and position themselves for future success. homegenius, Inc.,

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 8, 2024

The Dawn of a New Appraisal Era In the ever-evolving realm of technology, few innovations have garnered as much attention and promise as blockchain. This article delves deep into how blockchain is set to revolutionize appraisals, offering a fresh perspective to technology professionals keen on staying ahead of the curve.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Technology platform Figure , which powers a liquid, blockchain-based marketplace for financial products, and global investment firm Sixth Street today announced the formation of a new joint venture vehicle in which Sixth Streets asset-based finance platform has committed to invest $200M of equity.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

And nobody understands the modern day law officer better than I do, because I’m one of them. SB: Some of the challenges are affordability, lack of housing inventory and slow sales. There are multiple offers in a lot of the markets, with competitive bidding wars and people willing to close quick and waive contingency.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2021

Home price indices are valuable tools to help lenders understand trends and changes in the housing market. Last year, the industry relied on data more than ever before, and learned a lot about how data and analytics can quickly, safely and securely ensure consistency in markets.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

Real estate valuation technology company Clear Capital has conducted a new round of layoffs as part of a company restructuring plan. The firm announced on Wednesday that it was eliminating about 24% of its workforce, or over 250 jobs, as it restructures departments and consolidates teams amid a tough housing market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

“Elevated interest rates have been a challenge across financial markets, and the housing market is no exception.” “Elevated interest rates have been a challenge across financial markets, and the housing market is no exception.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Real estate valuation technology company Clear Capital will cut 27% of its workforce across its offices in the U.S. due to the slowdown in the housing market, according to the firm. The APIs connect directly to existing systems through a single integration for lenders, investors and system providers.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 10, 2024

However, the advent of new digital technologies is creating change by seamlessly connecting these disparate elements, offering a smoother, more integrated experience for both lenders and homeowners. At the core of this transformation is the ability of mortgage bankers to adopt a modern, digital lending platform built within the cloud.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

HousingWire connected with Soderstrom as he shared the key moments that shaped his career, advice for industry newcomers, and his vision for the future of real estate technology. Im especially excited about advancements in agent productivity and market intelligence.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

As everything continues to accelerate and the FHFA considers making widespread changes to the appraisal process, lenders need to make sure they’re working with technology vendors who are ready to respond to changing market conditions and are prepared for new approaches to valuation. The first is legacy technology.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

CertifID is addressing a growing problem in an industry looking for modern solutions,” Patrick Meenan, the general partner at Arthur Ventures, said in a statement. Despite the challenges posed by a decelerating housing market, CertifID stands out as a technology leader with a mission of utmost importance to the U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 8, 2024

We have seen new ways of creating the same product, new technologies, new consumer preferences – the demands of time and money have hastened these changes. We all have seen the buzz phrases: appraisal modernization, bifurcation, data collectors, desktop and hybrid appraisals, and observation (rather than Inspection).

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 6, 2021

With the current red hot housing market, demand for appraisers is outstripping the reduced supply, which is pushing up fees and pushing out appraisal completion times. A number of them have made strategic acquisitions of related technology platforms over the last few years. AMCs Driving Tech Innovation .

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 9, 2024

But it’s when the housing market stagnates and originations dry up that the software really pays off. Because traditional mortgage CRM systems are used as data warehouses and not for marketing, there’s a stigma that all CRM systems are the same because lenders don’t see any results from them.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2022

Below, Hill answers questions about the housing industry: HousingWire: What is your current favorite HW+ article and why? Amanda Hill: Lenders see appraisal modernization as a top priority by Maria Volkova. It truly is time for lenders to consider how technology can improve this part of the mortgage process and reduce turn time.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2021

But there are definitely a few main things to looks out for — many of which are carrying over from a turbulent 2020 and early 2021 — when it comes to the upcoming landscape for the rest of 2021: Lack of inventory Fluctuating interest rates Increased adoption of technology. Inventory issues.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 18, 2024

Few factors dictate the housing market more than mortgage rates. They are not focused on things they cannot control, like rates, yet focus on the things they can control, like using technology to identify and maximize opportunities that might be hiding right under their noses. elementor – v3.21.0 – 26-05-2024 */.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading.elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;fo

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Specifically mid-century modern designs with clean lines that serve a simple function have been a favorite of mine well before they became popular again in recent years. HW Media: What do you think the big themes for the housing market will be in 2023? 2023 is a reset for housing and for lenders.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

Gloudeman’s career in mortgages and financial services will help “modernize compliance strategies for the quickly evolving mortgage landscape” as traditional approaches are falling behind, said Perry Steiner, chairman and CEO of Xactus said. In a tight housing market, Xactus said it aims to help customers close loans more quickly. .

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

With the acquisition, Xactus will offer flood zone determinations to its clients by using its proprietary flood data and technology products, the firm said Wednesday. MassiveCert will be rebranded as Xactus Flood Solutions. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Servicers, are you prepared for hurricane season?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The forecast for the housing market in 2023 gets worse by the month, with the latest report predicting a million-plus decline in existing home sales. The slowing effect on the housing market of the higher mortgage rate environment has been largely predictable, and home prices appear to have already begun trending downward.”.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

Its proprietary AI technology can also remove furniture, declutter listing photos and create realistic renderings of landscaping and exterior renovations. Styldods AI virtual staging technology powers apps such as REimagineHome, among others. Or, you can stage a home with traditional decor to look more modern or vice versa.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

2020 was a year that forced a number of industries to modernize and adopt technologies that had been otherwise underutilized. For the housing economy in particular, tech helped to solve many of the challenges that COVID presented and allowed the industry to not only sustain, but prosper. “In

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A friend of mine is a successful real estate professional in a competitive market. We often discuss changing housing market conditions, and the pressure real estate agents are under to stay relevant in the wake of increased competition. Will they invest in technology and do they have the right systems in place?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Today, modern technology , including Pretium’s platforms, cut out the middleman by allowing firms to invest directly in assets, decide the kind of leverage they want and determine how Pretium will manage the assets over time.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

Venture capital investors including Zillow founder Spencer Rascoff and Trulia co-founder Pete Flint, believe that Tomo has the potential to topple the legion of lenders that have increased market share, invested heavily in technology and lapped up record profits in recent years.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2021

In today’s housing market, lenders need to make sure they’re staying competitive. Joel Rickman: One of the most significant and transformational trends in lending is the call for the modernization and digitization of the mortgage loan process. These are a lot of layers for lenders to take on.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

TurboTenants property management technology solutions can prevent that. In a modern world, these old-school methods are time consuming, risky, and turn tenants away. As the housing market evolves, independent landlords turn to software to stay competitive. Among those 10.6 Managing tenants is hard.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2021

And while the housing market continued to surge amid these changes, some people were still hesitant to do business in a digital landscape and unsure how to navigate the litany of rules related to compliance and processes. Notaries use this technology to remotely obtain evidence of identity and communicate in real-time with signers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

News just broke that private equity investor LLR Partners announced strategic investments in two mortgage technology companies — Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang ( click here for article ). LLR is not a newcomer to mortgage technology or the overall fintech market. “Hey Clayton …” and a link. In 2016 LLR led a $26.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2023

Arden says the new tool will change the way people shop for homes online “because it helps shorten the sometimes long and stressful house-hunting process by creating an easy, more modern way to search, and it delivers relevant search results in a simple, uncluttered way.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Sarah Wheeler: What differentiates Polly’s technology? Adam Carmel: The technology is only as good as the people building it, and their propensity to really push the envelope and think through all of the pain points that have existed through 20-plus years of legacy, antiquated systems and approaches. No — we want to execute.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Through this acquisition we’ve not only gained an amazing brand and business, but also an incredibly talented group of team members that bring additional editorial, technology and product expertise to our team.”. “In mortgage and housing markets and serves an audience of lending, servicing, investment and real estate market participants.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

Modernization will either take root and flourish throughout every branch of the mortgage industry, or our industry could miss a critical window to introduce meaningful reforms. Navigating appraisal challenges in today’s housing market. Appraisal costs have also soared 24% since 2016, according to the Freddie Mac data.

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