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Plunk launches AI-powered home analysis tool

Housing Wire

Plunk , an AI-powered home analytics platform, has introduced a new tool called Plunk Pro that aims to transform the real estate market by offering real-time insights into home valuation, risk assessment, and remodeling possibilities. Users can receive real-time valuation data, predictive investment analysis, and thorough risk assessment.

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Investors from 3 Asian nations have heartiest appetite for U.S. MBS

Housing Wire

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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Reevaluating your origination tools? Here’s where to start

Housing Wire

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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Ginnie Mae president introduces social bond program to investors

Housing Wire

Rates and Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) Conference in Tokyo, Japan , addressing Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities (MBS) potential value for investors and the company’s recently expanded social impact and sustainability work. “As and that the new program updates provide investors with an opportunity they have long sought.

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CAPE Analytics launches new AI-powered, automated property condition report tool 

Housing Wire

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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NAF subsidiary launches map tool for intel on cash homebuying trends

Housing Wire

NAF Cash , a subsidiary of multichannel mortgage lender New American Funding (NAF), announced on Tuesday the availability of a tool called NAF Cash Maps that aims to offer data on trends related to all-cash home purchases.

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Lenders, don’t overlook real estate investors

Housing Wire

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.