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

DECEMBER 6, 2024

We’ll also share best practices for developing and sending real estate newsletters and recommend some essential tools to make your email marketing stand out. You can also create messaging for your investor clients to inform them of possible investment opportunities. Lets dive in! Summary What is a real estate newsletter?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Landlords can do that themselves with the right tools. 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. How can landlords simplify operations and still turn a profit?

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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. Yet many lenders still struggle with a critical challenge: getting their various technology systems to work together seamlessly.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

It’s time for modernization, Krishna said. Rocket plans to transfer its MSR portfolio to Sagent, according to an investor note from Keefe Bruyette Woods. If you look at where we’ve invested the most, where our AI tools are making the biggest impact, it is in the servicing platform, Bray added.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Servicing teams must manage shifting delinquency rates, regulatory demands that may pivot with each new administration, and ever-increasing operational costs while keeping their fingers on the pulse of the modern consumer and advancing technology. Q: How are you and your organization working to meet those challenges?

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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. For brokers who work with non-QM borrowers, success depends on working with the right lender one that can provide the tools and flexibility to meet borrower needs.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Why use LinkedIn for real estate Lets move past the misconception that LinkedIn is only for job-seekers and embrace it as an underutilized tool for real estate professionals. Be sure whatever you choose is on brand for you – is your brand more quirky and fun or more high-end and modern?

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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

MAY 9, 2023

The technology integration enables lenders to obtain price quotes and order National MI’s real-time, risk-based mortgage insurance through its Rate GPS tool instantly without leaving the Vesta LOS platform. Its investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures, Conversion Capital, Index Ventures, and Zigg Capital.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Scot Rose , CIO at Class Valuation , to talk about innovation in the appraisal space and how the technology being deployed for appraisal modernization can actually protect appraisers. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Everybody is affected by the appraisal process.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Sean Soderstrom: Recognition like this validates the work were doing at Courted and amplifies the importance of modernizing real estates recruiting, retention, and market intelligence capabilities. Now, we have the tools to not only aggregate information but to deliver it in a way that enhances decision-making in real-time.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

How modernized servicing creates customers for life. Servicers must be powered by nimble technology to be heroes to borrowers, stalwarts to investors, and stewards of consumer protection to regulators. The company was recognized as one of the 2021 HW Tech100 winners for its native eSign and hybrid transaction tools.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

The first is the ongoing impact of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, which if deployed effectively provide an opportunity for property managers to increase operational efficiency and unlock business intelligence. The rental real estate space is built on human relationships between owners, investors, vendors and residents.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

By providing easy, self-service access to the API catalog and all necessary tooling, the Developer Portal allows clients to innovate further by rapidly integrating their applications and data to help achieve desired business outcomes,” the firm said in a release. Its new tools also allow lenders to cut costs in a higher-rate environment.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Mortgage servicers must use all the tools at their disposal to expand borrower relationships and keep their borrowers in their overall portfolio. Modern software automates investor reporting and compliance and creates a more efficient workflow, allowing servicers to effectively service loans in-house.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In the modern mortgage landscape, quality control (QC) stands as a critical pillar supporting the industry’s integrity and stability. Regulatory Technology (RegTech) : Specialized tools will help lenders stay compliant with ever-changing regulations.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

And if the past two years are an indication, ICE will invest billions more in 2025 to seamlessly integrate origination and servicing into one ecosystem, while modernizing some of its own software products like SureFire CRM. So that is one of the bigger growing pains around, like, do you want to continue to have those tools?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2024

The best way to do this is to understand your environment and assess the tools you have at the ready. The pandemic fast-tracked customer self-serve modernization so lenders could empower the homeowner while also managing compliance and investor risk. So, as we approach mid-year, let’s refresh by answering 4 questions.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Purveyors of very complex financial instruments, sold to risk-averse investors under the careful oversight of government regulators, have given us a process that must conform to investor and regulatory compliance requirements. Many were pleasantly surprised that today’s modern web-based LOS platforms were designed to accommodate this.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

From upgrading your real estate website with eye-catching and functional marketing tools, to harnessing AI and a few other unconventional tactics, this guide explains the best lead generation ideas for real estate agents. Learn more Use this tool: SmartZip SmartZip uses predictive analytics to identify potential sellers in your area.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Now is the time for lenders to decide: Do I want to remain in a closed ecosystem of antiquated technology, or do I investigate the new, most modern provider that is finally doing things differently? It’s unfortunate that lenders will likely, over time, see this scenario play out as an increased price tag on an outdated, lackluster PPE.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2023

These policy leaders highlighted innovative solutions being pursued across the country to combat homelessness, house low-income families, and use affordable housing as a tool to improve the lives of those who need a hand up, not a handout. There is no shortage of ideas for meeting the modern-day challenges of affordable housing.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The acquisition includes the components of ReverseVision’s full product suite including its core platform, ReverseVision Exchange (RVX), RVDOC Composer (RVDOC) that provides customized compliant reverse mortgage documents, and ReverseVision Sales Accelerator (RVSA) which includes advanced loan modeling and comparison tools.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Fewer loan prepayments via refinancing ensures that MSR assets — which represent a slice of the interest on a mortgage — will have a longer cash-flow life for investors. “I That’s because loan prepayment speeds slow when refinancing ebbs. As rising interest rates cool the re?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2021

ClearLabs has brought innovative solutions to the market, including OwnerInsight , a first-to-market homeowner-enabled appraisal inspection tool, available free to all lenders, appraisers, and AMCs. lenders and nearly every mortgage investor, including the GSEs. Kenon Chen, Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2024

In this executive conversation, Laura O’Connor, President and COO of JPAR Real Estate Affiliated Network shares her insights on the role of the modern real estate professional. As with any technology, putting good information or prompts into the tool means you get valuable information and resources out.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Lenders are utilizing more technology for their appraisal processes, with increased usage of modern order management platforms improving communications between lender appraisal desks and appraisers and incorporating both automated and manual processes in their underwriting of appraisals. Appraisal Modernization.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

For instance, in the conversation at the ASC hearing on using automated valuation models (AVMs) as a viable, non-subjective tool for understanding value accuracy during underwriting , concerns were brought up about bias being present in the data itself.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Many of them are determined to make an impact in industries that have yet to be significantly modernized by technology. The hurdles are high but so are the potential rewards, and it’s for this reason we’ve seen such a proliferation of investors backing real estate technology startups and forward-thinking entrepreneurs.

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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 ). With efficiency metrics and client outcomes like these it’s no surprise that the company continued to attract capital and investor interest.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

It will also create economic stress for servicers and investors in dealing with advances and extended payment spreads. LERETA is developing tools and resources to make it easier for servicers to create a plan to support this approach. Will all the worst-case scenarios happen all at once?

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The lender/appraiser ecosystem over time has adapted processes and technologies to achieve appraisal development and reporting that meets regulatory, agency, and investor requirements, as well as meeting the needs of individualized lender risk appetites. Lenders rely on regulation and policy.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 10, 2024

With the housing market shifting once again, these challenges underscore the need for a more modern approach to blending both loan origination and servicing functions while enhancing the ability to build customers for life. The question is, how?

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Property preservation remains a critical tool in helping prevent blight and ensuring that properties are returned to the market for future home buyers. This panel explored ideas about modernizing the practices and processes involved in inspections, hazard claims and disaster response, and rural and urban necessities.

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