Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

The opposite trajectories of their stock prices seem to reflect investor appetites for their different business models. Last December, Zillow netted 105 million unique visitors, according to Comscore data cited in Zillow’s investor materials. Zillow For years, Zillow has dominated online home listings.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Mortgage tech startup Staircase says it has launched a tool that enables mortgage insurers to automate the underwriting of non-delegated mortgage insurance (MI) policies for lenders at about half of the typical cost. The post Staircase debuts tool to automate non-delegated mortgage insurance underwriting appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

The Federal Reserve ’s (Fed) efforts to beat back inflation with its monetary tools have already shifted the winds in the secondary market for mortgage-backed securities (MBS). trillion MBS portfolio helps fuel widening interest-rate spreads in the MBS market by creating additional MBS supply to be absorbed by investors.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

HousingWire recently spoke with William Tessar, president of Civic Financial Services , about the private lending space and how LOs can benefit from serving real estate investors. . Right now, however, there is an often-overlooked source of business that has the potential for brokers and originators: the real estate investor channel.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The credit risk analytics will combine ICE’s physical climate risk data and DeltaTerra’s climate analytics, financial risk models, and market data to deliver risk impact estimates for investors in the residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities markets. municipalities, MBS pools, and related fixed income securities.

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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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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 6, 2022

Staircase has launched three tools to facilitate the transfer of mortgage servicing rights (MSR) between mortgage lenders, servicers and investors. These tools are part of Staircase’s low-code marketplace, which automates complex technologies and makes them self-service for the U.S. residential mortgage industry.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

PIMCO, founded in 1971, has a long history of aggregating residential mortgage loans as well as managing assets for corporations, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and other investors. Learn about the tools lenders should leverage to streamline home equity title and closing. As of the end of September, it had some $2.2

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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 16, 2021

HousingWire recently sat down with Scott Happ, president of Secondary Marketing Technologies for Black Knight, to discuss the impact this has on mortgage originators and investors. HW: How does this, in turn, impact mortgage originators and investors? After months of low rates, there have recently been shocks to the bond market.

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Inman

OCTOBER 2, 2024

That's why an effective retention strategy is essential for multifamily investors, Michael Zaransky writes. It's much easier to keep great tenants than to find them in the first place.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

million in 15 funding rounds with 25 investors since its inception in 2012. The following year, it acquired Disclosures.io , an innovative provider of listing management tools. Its other investors include Group 11 , Crosslink Capital , Bullpen Capital , Montage Ventures , Citi Ventures and Google Ventures.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

was acquired by Presidio Investors in 2018. “It has been an exciting six-year journey to see Alliant National dramatically increase its footprint and develop tools to scale and to assist its customers,” Chris Puscasiu, the managing partner of Presidio Investors, said in a statement. .

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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

JULY 22, 2024

That’s relevant when considering that Guild “partners with more than 25 different investors and offers more than 500 distinct loan programs,” according to Gemma Currier, senior vice president of corporate strategic initiatives for Guild. Other mortgage lenders have also launched AI tools to improve their operations.

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Inman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Intercontinental Exchange Inc. teams up with DeltaTerra Capital to translate physical climate risk estimates into financial risk assessments factoring in default risk, asset price depreciation and insurance costs.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to dramatically change every aspect of daily life, and it’s starting to bring tools to homeowners as well. Private equity firm Exuma Capital Partners announced that it is the lead investor for a newly launched, AI-powered homeowner management tool called Property.com.

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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

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.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2024

Product Fast Facts #1 We deliver insights into property portfolios for investors, lenders, and mortgage servicers including various liens, valuations, equity, ownership confirmation, and more. #2

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Mashvisor

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the past, investors faced several challenges when taking on these tasks.The lack of specialized tools meant that… Real estate investing involves a significant amount of number crunching and analysis.

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Mashvisor

MARCH 11, 2022

Several real estate investors are leaning towards online real estate investment tools such as Zillow. They rely on such tools to find the best investment property. How reliable are Zillow…

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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. Investors and agents in these states won’t have to wait to take advantage of the platform as the expansion is effective June 30. The states added are Utah, Pennsylvania , Oklahoma , Missouri , Kansas, Indiana, Florida, Georgia and Colorado.

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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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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In the competitive landscape of real estate, leveraging advanced tools and services can significantly impact an agent’s ability to maximize revenue opportunities for themselves and their clients. These educational tools cover various aspects of real estate transactions, compliance, and RES.NET’s technology solutions.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Optimal Blue has added an expanded AI assistant suite and a new Scenario Optimizer to its PPE, and has also announced free availability of Investor Pricing Insight to investor clients. In addition, Optimal Blue’s Investor Pricing The post Optimal Blue Adds New Features to its Platform appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Cleveland, Ohio-based fintech Upright has launched a debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) rental loan to investors, the company announced on Monday. DSCR rental loans are non-qualifying mortgages (non-QMs) used by real estate investors to qualify for a loan based on their property’s cash flow without personal income verification.

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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 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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Listing Spark

JANUARY 22, 2024

In the first quarter of 2023 alone, real estate investors flipped 72,960 homes. For both new and experienced real estate investors, this bodes well for the 2024 market. Investors are thriving by finding properties with a lot of potential as both rentals and flips—and then being able to sell them quickly at the right price.

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Mashvisor

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s no secret that successful real estate investors use a number of tools to help them get where they are. Airbnb hosts, have you heard of the Airbnb rental calculator? If…

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2024

Quality control also ensures that mortgage loans meet investor and regulatory standards, which minimize the risk of defaults and foreclosures adversely impacting local markets. ’ Can you explain its key functionalities and how it helps lenders ensure compliance with investor requirements and enhance their QC processes?

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Mashvisor

MAY 14, 2024

For hosts and property investors, staying competitive means leveraging the right tools for dynamic pricing and… The short-term rental market is booming, thanks to platforms like Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking.com.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Wall Street investors and analysts forecast that mortgage credit-score costs will rise in 2025 as lower interest rates may drive an increase in home loan applications. FICO scores first entered the market in 1989 and became a standard tool for major credit reporting agencies two years later. Fair Isaac Corp.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2024

Radius Agent is creating the tools real estate entrepreneurs need now. “With the recent changes in our industry and NAR , the time to create transparency and ease with auditing has never been more important,” Sam Kasle, chief operating officer and co-founder at Radius Agent, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As far as we know, Kiavi is now the only major, fully digitized, end-to-end platform for real estate investors to finance new construction projects.” We are adding enhancements to tools where they make sense, make an impact, and ultimately remove friction from our agents’ day-to-day.”—

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