Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Kenon Chen, executive vice president of strategy and growth at Clear Capital , to talk about appraisal modernization and how technology is just part of the solution. SW: Is the end goal of appraisal modernization to replace appraisers? SW: What keeps you up at night?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

As recently as a year ago, the New York-based firm closed a $28 million Series D funding round from new and existing investors, including Gaingels, Moderne Ventures, QED Investors and Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff. The platform shut down its operations in early December 2024. In 2018, the company raised $3.5

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The partnership is expected to securitize Figure loans, forward-sell its bonds to investors and buy loans from originators, therefore opening up a liquid marketplace, the release stated. It will start with Figure HELOCs with future plans to buy other non-agency credit assets.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

a Radian company, is paving the way for lenders, brokers, agents and investors looking to bring their businesses into the 21st century. Lenders and investors can use the Pyramid Platform to assist with their rental property inventory, from acquisition and rehab to rental management and resale all in one place. homegenius, Inc.,

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polly, a software-as-service mortgage-technology firm that operates a loan-trading platform , has raised $37 million through a new funding round, its third since launching in 2019 — bringing the total raised from investors to $57 million. The post Tech firm Polly bulks up to help modernize mortgage industry appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

Servicing software improves efficiency and customer satisfaction Modern mortgage servicing software gives lenders an edge thats so efficient, it almost seems unfair. Servicers can automate critical tasks, such as investor reporting and compliance, to streamline workflows and position in-house servicers to win with speed.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Additional savings were linked to lower shipping and custodian fees, fewer lost or damaged notes, reduced delays in investor delivery, and decreased warehouse line costs. Eric McCall, VP at First Home Mortgage , emphasized the impact of Snapdocs’ eClosing technology on operational efficiency.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2024

“Given the acceleration of our business and growing interest from investors in Pretium’s unique residential real estate ecosystem, we are focused on enhancing operational and strategic opportunities across the enterprise,” Pruzan said. Pretium confirmed that it also invested more than $2.5

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Describing the modern-day mortgage market as challenging would be an understatement, to say the least. Key non-QM products for 2025 Before 2025 continues, lenders should arm themselves with the right tools for tackling the market: Investor loans Investing is the vehicle to success for homeowners in the market. These loans go up to $2.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2025

Modern challenges meet modern technology In 2024, the mortgage industry was rife with challenges, from resource constraints to regulatory changes and the complexities of mergers and acquisitions. Building trust with partners, investors, and agencies requires proactive communication about risks and corrective actions, she said.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 17, 2025

The reality is that modern mortgage operations run on multiple platforms loan origination systems, servicing software, payment processing tools, and customer relationship management systems. Digital loan applications, automated underwriting, and electronic closings have become standard practice.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 18, 2024

These initiatives promote investor confidence both domestically and internationally while ensuring that more Americans have significant opportunity to obtain a home. Effective financial management, operational effectiveness, and strategic expansion are Ginnie Maes top priorities. This years $1.3

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2024

Initially, the platform used AI technology to help investors decide whether a property would be a good short-term rental property through platforms like Airbnb , and it acquired roughly 20 properties on its own. But unlike reAlpha, Modern Realty is much newer, having officially launched only three months ago.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2024

It covers structural repairs (such as foundations and new roofs), modernization of kitchens and bathrooms, and energy-efficiency and climate-resiliency projects. Increased use of 203(k) mortgages will help modernize and revitalize homes, which supports affordable housing supply and strengthens neighborhoods.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Investors included Blumberg Capital , Gaingels , Moderne Ventures , QED Investors , Viola FinTech , and Zillow founder, Spencer Rascoff’s venture firm 75 & Sunny. EasyKnock received $57 million in venture capital in February 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2021

Appraisal software company Reggora today announced the completion of a $30 million Series B funding round, led by returning investor Spark Capital. Other investors included Shine Capital , Greenpoint Partners , Boston Seed and 1984. ” The post Reggora gets Series B funding, eyes 2-day appraisals appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

To help overcome these obstacles, Sagent has created its Dara Loss Mitigation platform as a solution that modernizes how homeowners and mortgage servicers address financial hardship. Unexpected financial hardships are an unfortunate but not uncommon challenge facing many homeowners.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Investors included Blumberg Capital , Gaingels , Moderne Ventures , QED Investors , Viola FinTech , and Zillow founder, Spencer Rascoff’s venture firm 75 & Sunny. Kreiger and Onder’s employees (numbering fewer than 10) will join EasyKnock, and Kreiger will serve as EasyKnock’s chief product strategy officer.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

TTV Capital , Moderne Ventures , Erez Capital and other venture capital firms led the round of investment. We are thrilled to have such engaged and helpful investors join us in this round, and are more confident than ever before about our path forward,” James Rogers, co-founder and CEO of RealReports, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

The end-to-end, real-time capabilities of Dara improve every point of the servicing industry for every stakeholder, including operators, consumers, investors, and regulators. Sagent has shifted the servicing paradigm with its launch of Dara. With deep roots in servicing, Dara is ready for everything.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In the modern mortgage market , mortgage rates are close to 7%, and the gig economy has pushed some borrowers away from trying to qualify for conventional mortgages. Or, perhaps a real estate investor is looking to finance a rental property using the rental income as proof of their ability to repay.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

area, according to the Attorney General for the District of Columbia Allied Title & Escrow, LLC (Allied), KVS Title, LLC (KVS), Modern Settlements, LLC (Modern), and Union Settlements, LLC (Union) will pay $1.9 As investors, the real estate agents then received profit payments distributed based on their ownership interest.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To this end, Sagent believes servicing fintech must address three areas to set a modern data standard in 2023 and beyond: First, homeowners should be able to access their data easily and securely from any device to manage every aspect of their home-owning lives.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2024

As investors with an explicit public purpose, the GSEs should put the highest priority on preservation of housing affordability for the longest possible time period,” the letter said. Enterprise also advocated for modernized applications of energy efficiency standards.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Mortgage-backed securities have cheapened to some of the widest levels in modern history in the past few weeks as global investors sell off government bonds and central bankers in Europe and the U.S. double-down on stiff monetary policy, according to Bloomberg.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Established in 2001, the Nevada-headquartered company delivers solutions to modernize the appraisal process, which may take days to weeks to complete, or even longer during booming markets. The APIs connect directly to existing systems through a single integration for lenders, investors and system providers.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

You can also create messaging for your investor clients to inform them of possible investment opportunities. For example, your investor clients probably wont be interested in a first-time home buyers checklist, and you most likely wouldnt want to send information about 1031 exchanges to the first-time home buyers in your database.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Additionally, modern mortgage servicing software and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) automate investor reporting and compliance and create a more efficient workflow, effectively allowing servicers to service loans in-house to maximize their advantages. Why should lenders retain servicing?

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2023

that helps low down payment borrowers realize homeownership while protecting lenders and investors against losses related to a borrower’s default. Its investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures, Conversion Capital, Index Ventures, and Zigg Capital.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Thankfully, online tools are built specifically to help new investors determine how much to charge for rent, find and screen tenants, and perform all the other tasks of owning rentals. In a modern world, these old-school methods are time consuming, risky, and turn tenants away. Among those 10.6 Managing tenants is hard.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2024

million seed funding round in 2018 that included $100 million in new debt funding from investors including Montage Ventures , Crestar Partners and Blumberg Capital. The platform closed a $3.5

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Investor activity : Institutional investors purchasing single-family homes for rentals have reduced inventory for individual buyers. A modern solution for an evolving market The American Dream of homeownership is at risk but adopting longer mortgage terms could restore that dream for millions of middle-class Americans.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

Other investors included Rotor Capital , The Mortgage Collaborative Emerging Technology Fund , Prudence Holdings and existing investors including Anthemis Group , Route 66 Ventures , and Sovereign’s Capital. Digital mortgage and fulfillment platform Maxwell has raised $16.3 The round was led by Fin VC and TTV Capital.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The Series C was led by Addition , venture capitalist and investor Lee Fixel’s new fund. Additional investors joining the round include Jordan Park , Renegade Partners , Green Point Partners and the Witkoff Group , along with some notable individuals such as Jackie Reses, Zander Lurie, Dan Goldsmith and Lowell Putnam. “The

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2021

Pacaso is a website that has home listings available for purchase on a timeshare basis, “modernizing the decades-old practice of co-ownership.” VC investor , and she has financed other L.A. Rascoff in October started the company with Austin Allison, the founder of dotloop, which Zillow bought in 2015. Settle is a prominent L.A.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

California-based Anchor Loans, founded in 1998, provides capital for professional residential real-estate investors through bridge and construction products. “We are seeing a significant increase in the investments required to upgrade today’s aging homes and modernize our infrastructure,” said Mullen in a statement.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The massive popularity of services like Zelle challenges many lenders’ entrenched belief that consumers aren’t “ready” for aggressive modernization of their financial transactions. Direct-source data holds the key to limiting lenders’ and investors’ risk exposure. If consumers aren’t holding us back, then who or what is?

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