Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Friends, appraisers, countrymen, lend me your ears: I’m Jason Covington, Tennessee appraiser, here to share my insider impressions of Valuation Expo XXI. But somehow, Hal — who had a hurt ankle and was walking with a cane — limped onstage for his opening “VET” talk (Valuation, Education, Tech). Suddenly, it didn’t.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2021

Accurately establishing a home’s value is not just an important factor in real estate transactions and mortgage lending, it is integral to household wealth creation, as homeownership continues to be one of the primary pathways for Americans to build wealth. So, what can be done to mitigate bias and inequality in the valuation process?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

Here it is: another article about appraisal modernization. The FHFA RFI responses to appraisal modernization are a treasure trove of insight into ideas and options for modernization from a wide variety of respondents. The changes will impact just about everything and everyone in the collateral valuation space.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2021

This general alignment matters a great deal as the FHFA, through their oversight of the GSEs, who have the vast majority of the market share, plays a key role in the conforming lending market being the de facto regulator. These entities make many other comments about technology, workforce options, modernization and the need for change.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 14, 2024

As all lenders have “skin in the game” on every loan, rigorous quality control across the lending lifecycle is imperative. Meanwhile, incomplete or inaccurate information can lead to faulty lending decisions that put lenders and their AMCs at risk. Here’s where computer vision proves its mettle.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2021

In the 30-minute question-and-answer session with Kristy Fercho, MBA’s chair-elect and executive vice president and head of home lending at Wells Fargo , Calabria said his expectations are that by mid-summer, the FHFA would end the flexibilities on collateral valuations unless circumstances force another extension.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Joan Trice, Founder and President of the CRN states, “gross living area (GLA) is one of the most important inputs in a valuation report. As the appraisal process is undergoing major shifts towards modernization and new levels of automation, this void was ripe for a solution. The adoption of ANSI is a critical step in that direction”.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2022

The legislation would modernize the Department of Veteran Affairs ‘ appraisal requirements by allowing desktop appraisals, and in some circumstances, waving appraisals all together. A piece of legislation introduced in the Senate in mid-May could streamline the appraisal process for VA loans.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 10, 2021

We specialize in real estate valuations for the mortgage lending and financial services industries. Cultivating the highest levels of customer ethics, we serve as a trusted partner for customers across the mortgage and lending industries. RENO, Nev. — Clario Appraisal Network, Inc., About Clario: Clario Appraisal Network, Inc.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

For example, a loan processor may use a modern LOS to order a flood certification, title report, AUS decision or data verifications, but once the order has been placed, what if the data doesn’t arrive? The post Are these factors creating chaos in your mortgage lending ops? appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

Nationwide Appraisal Network (NAN) is an industry-leading appraisal management company providing residential and commercial valuation services in all 50 states. NAN’s valuation solutions give lenders the chance to evaluate, select and manage appraisers based on their quality and performance.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Watch Now The challenge and power of updating your brand Speaker: WeiLing Jang, Chief Marketing Officer, CoreLogic.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 6, 2021

It had a large, fenced-in yard, modern appliances in an updated kitchen, a “man cave” for her husband, beamed ceilings, a massive master suite and was located in a good school district. How hybrid title and valuations help increase lending efficiency. The home checked off every box on Linda’s list. Presented by: Altisource.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 8, 2024

We all have seen the buzz phrases: appraisal modernization, bifurcation, data collectors, desktop and hybrid appraisals, and observation (rather than Inspection). We need to do this starting today to stay relevant and remain a viable option in the lending process! Some of these have been around for many years.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2021

How hybrid title and valuations help increase lending efficiency. It’s also a selling point to your potential lending clients. Having a modern, streamlined process makes a potential lending client’s decision much easier. 2021 could still be a very good year for prepared businesses. Streamline by combining services.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

And in broader financial technology, public company fintech valuations are down 70-80%. These valuation declines hit category-leading software fintechs even though they have huge lender customers – and hit originator servicer fintechs even though they have hundreds of billions in volume and servicing portfolios.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

Modernization will either take root and flourish throughout every branch of the mortgage industry, or our industry could miss a critical window to introduce meaningful reforms. In the traditional appraisal model, we ask appraisers to perform every single component of the valuation process. Delegating onsite data collection.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 9, 2021

There are many facets to the appraisal business: lending, non-lending work, residential, and commercial work. Who even knew about desktop valuations or evaluations? Understanding what drives interest rates should be of utmost importance to an appraiser that is doing predominately lending work.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Lending technology out of focus. However, the back-office efficiencies that were supposed to result from collecting all of the borrower’s financial information into the loan origination system (LOS) electronically – a revolutionary result of the application of big data principles to the mortgage lending lifecycle – never materialized.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This week’s HW+ member spotlight features John Brenan, vice president of Valuation Policy and chief appraiser at Clear Capital. At Clear Capital, Brenan oversees the quality of the company’s appraisal and valuation products and implements changes to continually evolve the program. .

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

—Digital transformation is underway with a modern approach to appraisal management—. Boston, September 14, 2021 – Reggora , an appraisal software company, improving residential real estate valuation, announced today that Envoy Mortgage has adopted its appraisal management system to help process all loans requiring an appraisal.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

It took several years to re-establish effective and meaningful communication between appraisers and their lending partners. Real Estate valuation can be a complex exercise in problem solving. When it comes to lending activity, appraisal revisions have always been a part of the appraisal process. Appraisal Modernization.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2021

Clear Capital’s suite of field valuations, real estate analytics, and platform technology solutions help servicers prevent fraud, check the accuracy of completed appraisals and broker price opinions (BPOs), conduct portfolio valuation analysis and updates, and help with disposition analysis on distressed loans.

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Appraiserblogs

APRIL 18, 2024

Throughout the history of mortgage banking and lending in the United States, underwriting policies have significantly influenced the appraisal process for home purchases and refinances. Related Posts: Is the GSE's "Appraisal Modernization" Really Just… Mass Appraisal tend to exhibit a regressive nature.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2021

But they did not become key players in the home valuation industry until the recent housing bubble.”. The outcome was a settlement, the Home Valuation Code of Conduct, or, as appraisers swiftly dubbed it, havoc. That’s at least what the AMC trade group, the Real Estate Valuation Advocacy Association , contends.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 15, 2024

Using the form structure, GSEs have been ingesting these eclectic abbreviations to develop a large database of residential valuation. We produce appraisal “reports” not appraisal “forms.” Appraisers will want to make sure that their software vendors can accommodate non-lending work in their new platforms.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

Real estate still relies on a “system” unable to integrate production across the silos of media, brokerage, lending, insurance and trading. Geographically aware marketplaces that link listings, lending and liquidity will unlock actionable information. Many industries began to deploy electronic supply chains in the 1980’s.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 3, 2022

According to the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), the rules that all professional appraisers are required to abide by, appraisers must take into consideration all market trends and other influences on property value in their valuation opinions. USPAP Rule 1-3 (d) (v) makes this clear.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

“Appraisal is one of the most time-consuming and inefficient parts of the lending process,” said Brian Zitin, co-founder of Reggora. “In Reggora is driving appraisal innovation with a modern platform for mortgage lenders and appraisal vendors. Brian Zitin, Co-Founder and CEO.

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Clear Capital

JUNE 28, 2022

Reno, NV — June 28, 2022 — Clear Capital , a national real estate valuation technology company, today announced the launch of two Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Property Valuation API and Risk Assessment API.

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McKissock

MARCH 24, 2022

On March 23, 2022, the Interagency Task Force on Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity (PAVE) released a report entitled “Action Plan to Advance Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity.” Pages 5 and 6 of the report set forth 21 recommendations, termed “Agency Actions to Advance Valuation Equity.” Stay tuned.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

Both plans rely heavily on special purpose credit programs , which allow lenders to target lending to protected classes without violating the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. . “A Earlier this year, the Department of Housing and Urban Development pointedly told lenders that the programs do not violate fair lending law.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

Founded in October 2020 by former Zillow executives who envisioned a way to accelerate the mortgage approval process, the Tomo notched a valuation of $640 million after raising $40 million in Series A funding in March. I suspect the ever-rising valuation of fintech companies is over for a while.”. Halbrook said. “I

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 15, 2022

Joan: I am the founder and CEO of Allterra Group, LLC, publisher of Appraisal Buzz, and host of the annual Valuation Expo, the largest conference for the valuation community. Mark: Incenter’s growth in the lending world includes some of the largest military-based and non-bank lenders in the country. We put appraisers in control!

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2020

billion valuation in the fourth quarter. And on the same day that AmeriHome’s S-1 hit the wires, it was reported that Texas-based lender Caliber Home Loans could go public next week at a valuation north of $2 billion. from 2015 to LTM Q2 2020, positioning us as the third largest correspondent producer.”

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 12, 2024

TRID is a set of regulations that combine the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA). As the appraisal process transitions from rigid forms to dynamic reports, the need for software that can efficiently handle both lending and non-lending work is essential.

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Clear Capital

AUGUST 17, 2021

Partnership enables ValueLink users to order Clear Capital’s broad range of valuation products including hybrid and desktop products. The valuation industry is currently undergoing major changes. A declining appraiser population coupled with a surge in origination volumes has accelerated efforts to modernize the valuation process.

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