Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Ongoing supply and affordability challenges in the housing market have frustrated many homeowners who have looked to trade up or relocate for various reasons. Data from ICE Mortgage Technology found that tappable home equity — the amount that a homeowner can draw from while keeping a 20% equity stake — rose to a record $17.6

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2024

The HousingWire Pulse Survey for Q3 2024 provides a detailed snapshot of current housing market sentiments and challenges faced by real estate agents, brokers, and mortgage professionals. The survey reveals a generally cautious optimism among these sectors, despite varied expectations regarding market trends over the next three months.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As a result, lenders aim to include reliable mortgages in their securities and have technology to assess credit risk, detect fraud, and monitor performance — in order to avoid forced buybacks or losses for investors that diminish market confidence.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Encompass by ICE Mortgage Technology aims to provide a flexible end-to-end solution for lenders in a modern market. “We’re always looking for ways to make the loan process smoother,” an ICE Mortgage Technology representative explained. Today’s housing market presents unique challenges.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Last year saw the softest home-price growth in more than 10 years, according to an analysis by ICE Mortgage Technology. Despite that and other positives, the LA wildfires are still making an impact on the housing market at the local and national levels. home-price growth, according to Walden.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Federal Reserve ‘s effort to temper inflation has cooled the housing market that remains subdued with mortgage rates north of 7%. However, a silver lining in the subdued housing market is the strength in new-home sales. It’s a bifurcated market in that sense. I would expect more.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Housing Market Supply and Demand: An analysis of housing inventory trends and construction pressures affecting pricing and availability. Housing Market Supply and Demand: An analysis of housing inventory trends and construction pressures affecting pricing and availability.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

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. . Dan Catinella : Lenders should lean into the power of their tech stack as they try to cut costs in the current market situation.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 14, 2024

With lower housing costs and more homes for sale, these second cities clustered in the South, Midwest, and Northeast, are likely to continue to attract movers from all over.” Ranking the Top Hot Spots Earning the top spot, Columbus, Ohio consistently ranked high among Realtor.com hottest housing markets and top emerging housing markets.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I sat down with Tim Bowler, president of ICE Mortgage Technology, a business unit of ICE, to talk about the company’s mortgage automation strategy — and what keeps him up at night. SW: ICE Mortgage Technology is known for its focus on automation. What’s the role of tech as lenders play the long game in this market?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In honor of the 2025 Tech100 nomination season, HousingWire asked leaders from last year’s Tech100-winning companies including Flueid , Vesta , Gridbase and MyHome, a Williston Financial Group Company to share some examples of how their technology has helped transform a traditional real estate and mortgage process.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Homes are still evolving in terms of technology and energy consumption, raising the need for accurate and efficient appraisals to help lenders approve mortgage loans with greater accuracy and efficiency. Only automation and technology can tackle this new demand effectively, and that’s where Jaro comes into play. Career Institute.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

Those who leverage technology, data insights, and streamlined leasing processes will be best positioned to thrive in this increasingly competitive space. Moreover, as homeownership affordability continues to decline, rental market expertise is no longer optionalits essential.

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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

JANUARY 6, 2023

Despite several rate hikes throughout the second half of 2022, the labor market finished the year strong. And that could spell trouble for the housing market in 2023 as the Federal Reserve looks to bring inflation down through aggressive interest rate hikes. Very strong, according to the latest jobs report.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is considering employing cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to monitor the employment of agency grants, which some staffers believe could be a trial run for wider deployment of the technology across the federal government. Blockchain technology has been around for 15 years.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As an industry, we observed first-hand during the pandemic the transformative power technology has over the mortgage origination process, especially with the borrower’s experience at closing. With compelling data such as this, there shouldn’t be anything stopping lenders from implementing RON technology and reaping the benefits.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

The stagnant housing market has brokerages across the country on their knees, but The Real Brokerage isnt waiting for market conditions to improve to grow its business. Real credited its technology offerings and business model for the explosive growth in agents. Instead, its continuing to add agents at an explosive rate.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 23, 2025

has experienced two decades of slow but steady housing market growth, paired with inventory growth that has suffered through both the Great Recession and the pandemic. In 2023, total inventory hit 144 million housing units, a 16.7% But even with continued building, housing supply still falls short and prices keep rising.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Additionally, rental and/or mortgage assistance will be made available to 270 veterans, along with home adaptations and critical home repairs — including the implementation of smart-home technology — for 400 veterans. Smart-home technology is becoming an increasingly important component of aging in place.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Read on to learn more about what Doug Duncan – Fannie Mae’s senior vice president and chief economist — and Mark Palim – Fannie Mae’s vice president and deputy chief economist – had to say about the housing market, the Fed’s interest rate cut timeline and their views on overcapacity in the industry. labor force are not vigorous.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

But despite this trend, some buyers are willing to adjust their loan term expectations to achieve homeownership, according to a recent report by real estate technology company REsimpli. The goal of the survey was to highlight how market trends can reshape the mortgage market in 2025.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. Jim Riccitelli, CEO of Unlock Technologies, said there is about $1.5

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The race is on for brokerages to capture clients in an incredibly difficult housing market, and Compass believes a new technology offering will give it an advantage. The brokerage on Monday launched Compass One, a client-facing portal that provides a guide through the process of both home buying and selling.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

Together, we will improve the experience by connecting traditionally disparate steps of the search and financing process with leading technology that removes friction, reduces costs and increases value to American homebuyers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2025

For the past 13 years, the Tech100 program has provided housing professionals with a definitive list of the most forward-thinking organizations in the industry. This list serves as a valuable resource for mortgage lenders and real estate professionals seeking trusted partners and technology solutions to address industry challenges.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 20, 2025

The annual survey analyzes generational trends among recent and prospective homebuyers, revealing their sentiment about the current housing market and their intentions to purchase, refinance or leverage home equity this year. Lenders also should focus on education and increasing transparency to meet the current needs of todays buyers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

The recent Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles have eradicated thousands of residential properties, leaving both physical and financial damage to Southern Californias housing market. Mike Hardy, a Los Angeles-based managing partner for Churchill Mortgage , is concerned about the preexisting housing shortage in LA.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

The Finance Leaders award honors executives who are not only advancing financial performance but strengthening liquidity, expanding margins, and enhancing access to capital markets. This years honorees represent the top talent in corporate finance, ensuring their companies remain competitive in a dynamic housing market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The rule applies existing protections for residential mortgages to borrowers who seek PACE loans to upgrade or renovate their homes through clean energy technology. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Tuesday announced a final rule governing the Property Assessed Clean Energy ( PACE ) loan program.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

ServiceLink’s annual survey analyzes generational trends among recent and prospective homebuyers, tracking housing market sentiment and their intentions to purchase, refinance or leverage home equity this year. Many respondents (62%) cited eSigning technology as something they utilized during the home process.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

There are multiple offers in a lot of the markets, with competitive bidding wars and people willing to close quick and waive contingency. So you have to give your clients everything you have and we focus here on is certainty and speed, utilizing our tools like Same-Day Mortgage and all the different technologies that go into our platform.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Others allocated resources into digital marketing (31.1%), automation technology (26.7%) and market data (19.3%). LenderPulse requests surveys from 24,000 mortgage professionals across the country on market trends and lender opportunities and challenges. in events to garner business.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

Over the past 40 years, we have seen the rise of Century 21 , Coldwell Banker , RE/MAX , Keller Williams , and, most recently, eXp Realty each achieving a period of market dominance before being either overtaken by new players or losing their sizzle via subdued growth or accelerated declines relative to the housing market.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This shift requires not only technological adjustments, but also a top-to-bottom cultural transformation within lending institutions and their missions. Updating verification workflows is not merely an understandable reaction to new technologies, but a necessity driven by market conditions, regulatory requirements, and customer expectations.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Graduates of the program commonly find job placements with lenders, technology companies, fintech and proptech firms, or title companies. Led by dean of education Jerri Herrera, the 90-day program is divided into three segments. The initial 30 days establish a foundational understanding of mortgage lending concepts.

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