Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

With the recent downturn in volume of new originations, many lenders are using this time to take inventory of the available tools geared toward risk mitigation and workflow optimization. This does not even include the exacting requirements of regulators and investors. The post Reevaluating your origination tools?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

CAPE Analytics has unveiled a new, AI-powered , automated property condition report (aPCR) tool crafted for institutional lenders, whole loan investors, and real estate investors. The tool can be paired up with other types of valuation metrics. The real competition for us is the status quo,” added Begley.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Of these eight companies, CoStar and Zillow are by far the largest by market capitalization. The opposite trajectories of their stock prices seem to reflect investor appetites for their different business models. That revenue concentration seems to be what had investors heading for the exits on Friday.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

In a changing real estate market , mortgage lenders face increasing demand. The primary and secondary mortgage markets may be separate business components, but mortgage originators must understand both businesses intimately. Originators can bring new products to market when their underwriters can avoid the associated learning curve.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2021

Thankfully, there’s a tool that allows servicers to do just that. Freddie Mac’s Servicing Gateway offers one platform, one login and one doorway to Freddie Mac servicing tools. We’re doing that by creating future tools within Servicing Gateway to improve servicers’ speed to market for mortgage resolution.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In this HousingWire executive conversation, Chris Kennedy , Director of Sales and Business Development at RiskSpan , explores the key recapture strategies that lenders can follow to maximize profit in the 2025 real estate market. He stresses the importance of optimizing recapture workflows in the new market with new tools and strategies.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The call for smart home technology is coming from inside the house, as it were — but during times of economic pressure, how can investors and property managers justify the effort and expense of upgrading their communities? How does smart home technology benefit investors? Why smart home technology now?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

Two complex factors are set to transform the rental market in 2024, creating new challenges and opportunities for property managers. The second is a more competitive rental market, driven by record-high construction of multifamily rental properties. At the same time, the data suggests several benefits for early adopters.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Hometap, as an investor, provides cash in exchange for a share of their home’s future value. We do see this as a new asset class in the real estate ecosystem and we see it as complementary to traditional debt options that exist today,” Dan Burnett, head of investor product at Hometap, said in an interview with HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

As the market shifts, interest in non-QM lending from traditional lenders and brokers has increased. HousingWire: How is the shift from refi to purchase affecting the non-QM market? But it may not be as sensitive as the more traditional refinance market. And investor guidelines are continually evolving. annual increase.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

Creating a real estate marketing plan can be harder than it sounds. If your marketing isn’t aligned with your niche, personal brand, and skills, you’ll waste time, money and effort pursuing it. Finally, I’ll wrap up with the three marketing tools every agent needs to hit the ground running in 2024.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

The collaboration will allow Capital Fundings’ borrowers to receive personalized investor insights. Together, we will equip our borrowers with the tools and knowledge needed to thrive in today’s competitive market.” Privy’s real estate investment platform features different services tailored to assist investors.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In this HousingWire Executive Conversation, Tom Davis, Chief Sales Officer at Deephaven , discusses the opportunities in the non-QM investor loan space as we head into the new year. Davis also highlights Deephaven’s edge in products like their Ground-Up Construction and Fix-and-Flip products, offering originators essential tools and training.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Mortgage Technology introduced two new tools, Validate ROV and Validate Selector, to its growing suite of property valuation solutions, the company announced on Monday. Regulators are paying close attention to valuations for many valid reasons.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2024

Although mortgage rates remain high and the overall real estate market is slow, we’re pleased to see revenue growth in the quarter in both the direct and agency channels,” Carolyn Monroe, the president and CEO of Old Republic’s title segment, said during the firm’s Q2 2024 earnings call. “We’re million and a 50.8% million. “

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Optimal Blue on Monday announced three major product releases — the expansion of its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant suite, the introduction of Scenario Optimizer, and the free availability of Investor Pricing Insight to investor clients. ” The announcements were made at MBA Annual in Denver. .

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) is a detailed report that helps real estate agents evaluate and determine the market value of a property. It is an essential tool that allows agents to clearly communicate a pricing benchmark for a property. It’s imperative that agents invest their time to properly prepare comps!

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Projecting the outlook for the housing market in the coming year, including prospects for the secondary market for mortgage-backed securities, can be an exercise in crystal-ball gazing, but one indicator key to bringing clarity to that crystal ball is the direction of interest rates. nance market and toward purchase loans.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

They discuss the latest developments in the mortgage market, along with key dynamics and growth strategies for lenders as interest rates continue to fall. The conversation also covers cost-to-completion metrics, new technology and tactics strategies for making customers happy in today’s market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2022

Lenders can leverage the most sophisticated PPE technology to extend workflow efficiencies and accurate secondary marketing content to borrowers – anytime, anywhere. Lenders must be able to access calculations from hundreds of leading investors in seconds to deliver the most up-to-date guidelines and real-time pricing.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2023

It’s been a brutal 15-month period for the housing market since the Federal Reserve began escalating its benchmark interest rate in March 2022 to combat rising inflation. Since then, the Fed has bumped rates 10 times, effectively putting the brakes on what had been a hot housing market. in 2023, according to Fed staff.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This strong performance was not unexpected, but makes the upcoming 50 basis point adverse market refinance fee more puzzling. These draw investors globally. So one has to ask, why are they piling on to their earnings with a new 50bps adverse market refinance fee? The implications for the adverse market fee starting Dec.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Working through the new Market Conditions policy and advisory from Fannie Mae Did Fannie Mae just throw a wrench into how residential appraisal reports for mortgage transactions are completed with their recent announcement on Market Conditions? Does Fannie Mae want to see this specific graph in all appraisals? What does USPAP say?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

Real estate investors in nine states just gained a new option for finding homes and agents. Easy Street Offers announced Friday that it’s expanding its operations to include states with increasingly hot housing markets — and geographically, these are all over the country. said in a statement. Easy Street Offers is still in its infancy.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Miami-based fintech provider LoanPASS integrated Uplist ’s suite of home-shopping tools into its pricing engine, the company announced in November. The addition of some of Uplist’s tools such as SmartView, Quick Quotes or SmartBuyers will allow lenders to enhance the homebuying experience.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

What sets ICE apart is how they’ve united different tools into a single platform. ICE also helps clients reach bigger markets through its large network of connected business partners. The platform’s clear view of workflow data helps companies prepare for and execute on any changing regulations.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

Add mortgage tech firm Guideline Buddy to the list of companies with an artificial intelligence -powered chat tool. The new tool is designed to help loan officers, processors and underwriters instantly find the relevant mortgage guidelines they need.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

In today’s competitive landscape, the secondary market provides a prime opportunity to pursue better margins, more competitive rates and increased profitability. mortgage market, they often lack the scale and access they need to execute to their full potential in the secondary market. New solutions in the secondary market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Tomo Networks , a Connecticut-based digital mortgage startup, just picked up $40 million in a seed round as it mobilizes to build a compelling product in an increasingly crowded market. . The pandemic has dramatically increased the adoption of digital mortgage tools.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The housing market faced a lot of uncertainty when COVID-19 caused the real estate industry to pause under shut-downs, but low interest rates and the desire for more space has turned this year into a boom time for real estate agents. For the last five to 10 years, Weisser said her market has been growing at a positive pace.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

CompassEdge Optimal Blue’s CompassEdge hedging and loan trading platform helps lenders maximize profitability with unmatched pipeline risk management tools, and dynamic loan sale and MSR valuation functionality.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Brian Webster, President of NotaryCam, about how RON can provide a competitive advantage for lenders both in terms of being a digital capstone for customers and a means for attracting and retaining top talent in the current market. .

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Williams IV, founder and CEO of Percy.ai, about what housing professionals can do to improve their deal flow despite the turbulence of the current housing market, and how investing in valuable data insights could be the key to success. . utilizing data to help improve deal flow in today’s market? What do I mean by that? CW: Percy.ai

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2021

Aditya Udas: From Iron Mountain’s perspective, mortgage custody directly impacts liquidity in the housing market. Custodians are responsible for storing mortgage collateral documents on behalf of the investor for the life of the loan – 30 years, plus ~4 years after the mortgage is paid in full.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

30, according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. The modest uptick in demand over the last month signals that there will likely be more competition in a market that remains starved for inventory.” The CME FedWatch Tool showed a 95.6% for the first time since September, according to new data from Freddie Mac.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2024

The platform provides tools for both landlords and renters, which the company said is designed to automate and streamline the management process. “As Working alongside NAR opens the door to many collaborative initiatives, including positioning RentRedi as the go-to property management tool for real estate agents and their clients.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

Issuance of agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) is projected to contract significantly over the next two years in the face of a housing-market contraction, but the actual supply of MBS available for purchase in the private market is expected to swell to record levels over that period. to 4.75% range, up from 0.25% a year ago.

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