Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The industry will see declining interest rates, new capital rules for nonbanks, new open banking rules under Section 1033, huge technology changes, a new tax bill, tens of billions in damage from hurricanes, new loan limits and artificial intelligence “storming into our business,” he said. What keeps McGrath up at night?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Jimmy Kelly, president and CEO of Lone Wolf Technologies , to discuss the company’s development process and his vision for a connected real estate platform. That is a lot of technology and a lot of wasted effort. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Buffalo, New York-based mortgage technology firm LenderLogix , a top provider of point-of-sale (POS) and automation software for independent mortgage banks , commercial banks and third-party brokers, announced Thursday that Ben Head will join the company as an account executive.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2024

Mortgage insurer Radian Group plans to lay off 70 employees in Pennsylvania in September, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) sent to the state’s Department of Labor and Industry. As a result, we have streamlined areas of our technology team and various other areas to attain operational efficiency.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2024

Thompson, recognized as a HousingWire Rising Star in 2018 , will oversee more than 60 loan officers across Texas , Oklahoma and New Mexico. The lender also provides rate-and-term and cash-out refinancing, along with construction and renovation loans.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

ICE Mortgage Technology — part of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) – will be offering lenders access to investment advisory advice in its Encompass loan origination system (LOS) through a partnership with Halcyon , a tech firm specializing in advanced data integration. “In

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 8, 2025

Recognizing the most innovative technology providers in the mortgage industry, MortgagePoints Tech Excellence Awards highlight the companies that have developed cutting-edge solutions, improved operational efficiencies, and have enhanced the mortgage process through technology.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

Here at Finance of America, we look at technology as an ‘and’ with our loan originators not an ‘or,’” Reich said. They should be utilizing this technology to make their job better, easier and more efficient. Outside of referral partnerships, tech plays a large role in helping build borrower relationships.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Publicly traded real estate firm The Real Brokerage has struck an agreement to acquire the mortgage brokerage arm of real estate and mortgage technology company LemonBrew. million to acquire the tech-enabled home loan platform, which does business in 20 U.S. The Real Brokerage, headquartered in Ontario, Canada, will pay $1.25

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 5, 2025

Ciardelli is a student of using technology and streamlining business operations to provide better products, service, and pricing to the consumer. Ciardelli is known for industry innovation and transformation, starting with the release of the first Digital Mortgage, more recently the Same Day Mortgage, and many other industry transformations.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Mortgage tech firm Candor Technology has expanded its Loan Engineering System (LES) to include Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans. The company now fully automates underwriting decisions for FHA loans — minus collateral – and also offers a warranty on income calculations and cleared conditions for funded FHA loans.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

. “Financial institutions can now combine those relationships they’ve already established, while leveraging Rocket Mortgage’s transformational platform powered by Rocket technology.” ” There are nearly 5,000 FDIC-insured banks and more than 5,000 credit unions in the U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 16, 2022

Polly , a provider of SaaS technology for the mortgage capital markets space, has been integrated by six primary mortgage insurance (MI) providers: Arch MI, Enact, Essent, MGIC, National MI and Radian. The post Six Providers Integrate Polly’s Streamlining Mortgage Insurance Technology appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Mortgage Coach, founded in 2009 and based in California, offers an interactive borrower education platform that lets loan officers guide borrowers through a visual presentation of their loan options. Movement Mortgage, First American Financial and FinVC joined existing investors 8VC, Khosla Ventures and Fifth Wall.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

As part of the merger, Jim Black, the founder of All Cal, will become chief lending officer of InstaMortgage. Black, a licensed mortgage loan officer and broker, will also lead product development, tech partnerships and sales growth. Terms of the deal, which was announced on Tuesday, were not disclosed.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 22, 2024

Technology firm Finaya has launched an AI-based homeownership marketplace super-app that integrates home buying and selling, mortgage, insurance, title, closing and other related services supported by a marketplace of on-demand realtors, loan brokers, lenders and service providers.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Candor Technology has expanded its Loan Engineering System (LES) to include Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans. In an industry first, Candor’s LES not only automates underwriting decisions for FHA loans but also offers a warranty on income calculations and cleared conditions for funded FHA loans.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

HousingWire: What role has the increase in technology played for both businesses and consumers in the real estate space? Vance Loiselle: In the 20th century, the primary technology innovations in real estate were the telephone and the MLS. HW: What steps in the real estate transaction could benefit from further digitalization?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The bank has 197 active loan officers and 12 branches across the country. The firm said it often finds positions elsewhere at USAA for those affected and encourages the impacted employees to apply for roles within its bank, property and casualty insurance group, and life insurance company. It has offices in seven U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In my career, I’ve swung between enabling technology and securing it at the same time. SW: At PRMG, do you generally build or buy technology? Well, technology is now the sixth tenet, because you can’t do any part of the other ones without the technology and that’s where the big change has happened.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Configured to give independent mortgage banks, federally insured banks and credit unions the needed tools at an accessible price point, Floify Lender Edition aims to increase lender profitability through its automated processes and efficiency tools, the company said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

has raised $175 million to accelerate growth and fund new technologies , just 16 months after relaunching its operations. Funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management , MFA Financia l, various family offices, and other strategic investors invested through a StoicLane’s special purpose vehicle, StoicLane said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Behind him, the recent financial crisis still cast a cautionary shadow over new business development, but ahead he saw opportunities for a client-centric, tech-focused family of companies in the title insurance and real estate settlement services industry. Now, at WFG’s 10-year anniversary, this vision holds even more relevance.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The DOJ said that all of Lakeland’s branches were located in majority-white neighborhoods and that its loan officers did not serve the credit needs of Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in and around Newark. Lakeland, a community bank, operates 68 branches in northern New Jersey and in New York’s Hudson Valley.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. Successful agents, brokerages and loan officers of the future are going to rely significantly on technology to find, nurture and engage with buyers and sellers while also playing an expanding role as personal advisors. .

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

However, there is an opportunity in the closing process for better integration between platforms to improve communication and sharing of documents between the brokerage, lender and closing company, each of which has its own process and technology, to relieve some of that stress.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

Loan officers and mortgage executives alike continue to click on links in seemingly routine emails, ultimately giving bad actors complete access to lenders’ systems and mortgage transactions. a national title insurance underwriting company, said that a lot of the time the weak link in a phishing scheme is the real estate agent.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

Largely hidden from view and misperceived by some to be on the lower end of the hierarchy of service providers, the position seemingly lacked the luster of the real estate agent or the panache of the loan officer. Technological connectivity The new generation of buyers is going all in on technology.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2022

“Empower is helping lenders reduce, and in some cases, eliminate many pain points in today’s origination process by delivering configurable, dynamic capabilities in one complete system,” said Rich Gagliano, president of origination technologies. Rich Gagliano, President, Origination Technologies.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2020

HousingWire recently spoke with Susan Falsetti, managing director of Origination Title and Close at ServiceLink, about the state of title in 2020 and how the EXOS technology platform allowed ServiceLink clients to take advantage of virtual closing solutions. This technology became essential amid social distancing guidelines.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech-focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, insurance and real estate. Blend’s white label technology is what powers mortgage applications on the site of banks such as Wells Fargo and U.S. Stay tuned for updates.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2021

Homebuyers and sellers contend with a variety of entities — banks, insurance companies, mortgage servicers, appraisal companies, title providers, agents, brokerages, and even real estate marketers— and the process can be labyrinthine to even those who have gone through it before. Technology plays a big role.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Building upon technology-driven efficiencies, community values and leveraging expert loan officers and top eXp agents, we aim to create a unique mortgage solution that provides a better homebuying experience,” Sanford said in a written statement. The brokerage was the fourth-largest in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2023

“A year later, we are proud to continue evolving this transformative technology for more mortgage lenders, including those without access to data scientists, to enable them to compete more effectively in today’s challenging marketplace.” CoreLogic has offices across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2023

Flueid , a leading technology company specializing in real estate transactions, announced on Thursday the integration of its patented Flueid Decision platform with Encompass by ICE Mortgage Technology.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

A passion for technology led her to work in the fintech and blockchain spaces, and she has now turned her attention to the senior finance space by founding a company called Graceful Finance. I came to their offices to speak to their loan officers, processors and customers because they told me, ‘We would love to do more.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2021

ICE Mortgage Technology. Genworth Mortgage Insurance. Alterra Home Loans. Senior Loan Officer. Louis daRosa. VP of Engineering. Madisyn Rhone. Manager, Government & Industry Relations. Malte Kramer. CEO & Founder. Luxury Presence. Marc Hernandez. EVP, Retail Lending. Matt Garcia. Supreme Lending.

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