Loan Officers, Real Estate Agent and Technology

Rocket to Purchase Redfin for $1.75B

Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 10, 2025

Together, we will improve the experience by connecting traditionally disparate steps of the search and financing process with leading technology that removes friction, reduces costs and increases value to American homebuyers. Rocket and Redfin have a unified vision of a better way to buy and sell homes, said Krishna.

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How lenders can build valuable referral relationships with real estate agents

Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

The ideal real estate agent-lender relationship is symbiotic: the agent earns trust with their borrowers by connecting them with a great lending resource, while the lender receives a steady stream of business from the agent. Still, lenders are wise to cultivate rapport with real estate agents.

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10 essential skills real estate agents should possess

Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2023

Achieving success as a real estate agent requires more than simply understanding the mechanics of the job. Here are 10 essential skills every real estate agent should possess. Here are 10 essential skills every real estate agent should possess. Another hat to place on your head?

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Floify rolls out income/employment verification technology

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Digital mortgage automation solution provider Floify launched verification of income (VOI) and verification of employment (VOE) waterfall technology that aims to save lenders and mortgage brokers time and reduce costs during the loan origination process.

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No. 1 originator Shant Banosian named president of Rate

Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

I’m going to start by making Rate the absolutely best place for every single loan officer to work at figuring out ways in which we can develop them, give them all the skills, the coaching , the mentoring and the tools, so they can have an amazing business, but also better serve all their clients and all their partners.

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How 2020 exposed a greater need for collaboration between real estate agents and LOs

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

HousingWire recently spoke with Propertybase CEO Vance Loiselle about real estate tech and how the past year has accelerated the need for digital collaboration tools across the entire customer journey. HousingWire: What role has the increase in technology played for both businesses and consumers in the real estate space?

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zavvie launches HomeFAI, an AI-powered alternative financing system

Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

Our new platform brings unprecedented speed and certainty to home financing, helping loan officers and their clients win more deals. zavvie said that HomeFAI adoption has surged 155% year over year, with 83% of loan officers switching to the new app that’s available in all 50 states.

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3 steps real estate agents can take to make a big difference in housing affordability

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

According to the CFPB, hundreds of loan officers at BofA failed to ask mortgage applicants demographic questions and falsely reported that they had chosen not to respond.” Lee Davenport, PhD, is a real estate coach/trainer and blogger who trains real estate agents and brokerages on how to work smarter with technology.

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Uplist’s Jeff Bell on finding efficiencies for loan officers

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Jeff Bell, president of both UpWell Mortgage and software company Uplist , to talk about how he thinks about technology, and the good news that the industry is turning a corner after two rough years. Sarah Wheeler: How does being an originator inform how you think about technology?

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Real Brokerage leverages agent count growth for soaring revenue

Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

On its earnings call for the fourth quarter of 2024, the company disclosed that its agent count was 24,140 at the end of the year. Real credited its technology offerings and business model for the explosive growth in agents. Real also added head count to its nascent mortgage business.

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HomeLight raises $20M to expand Buy Before You Sell product

Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

Proptech HomeLight has raised $20 million to expand the offering of its Buy Before You Sell product to mortgage lenders and real estate agents across 40 new states, the company announced on Monday. HomeLight has offices in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Dallas and Chicago. according to HomeLight. according to HomeLight.

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HousingWire Annual Demo: Evocalize

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Evocalize’s technology makes it simple for corporate teams and technology platforms to unlock the power of sophisticated digital marketing for loan officers, brokers and real estate agents. Control, flexibility, compliance, and reporting for corporate teams and technology platforms.

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Newrez partners with Newzip to court more homebuyers

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Top 10 mortgage lender and servicer Newrez is partnering with Newzip , a tech-enabled real estate platform, to roll out a program aimed to save buyers and sellers on credit costs. Dubbed Newrez Home Rewards, buyers will be matched with a real estate agent who works with Newzip and provided booking services.

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The Post-COVID shift: What Amazon and Zillow can’t do

Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2021

This tipping point came after several years of rapid technology growth in our industry. The trends we elaborated on two years ago, pre-COVID, are now the standard: Digital is the new normal and technology is now the price of entry rather than a competitive advantage. This could become a real disruption in the future.

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Polly integrates with nCino’s Mortgage Suite

Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

In today’s competitive purchase market, loan officers need to capitalize on every opportunity to engage with real estate agents, title agents, and other referral partners,” Ben Miller, nCino’s executive vice president of U.S. mortgage, said in a statement. “By

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Matt Van Fossen on farm-to-table programming

Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Matt Van Fossen, CEO of Absolute Home Mortgage and Mortgage Automation Technologies , to talk about his unique view of the housing ecosystem and how it influences how he builds technology. How do all those different roles influence the technology you build?

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This growing IMB aims to capture leads through its proprietary tech, not agent referrals

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The lender has about 80 loan officers and aims to hire up to 100 in states. Capturing leads with tech Another priority for the lender is procuring leads through its proprietary technology. Cliffco’s proprietary CRM platform enables loan officers to break away from being heavily dependent on real estate agents for referrals.

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Rocket Homes could be real estate’s sleeping giant

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Find the right mortgage with a local broker and Rocket technology,” intoned the narrator on the commercials, which premiered during the Super Bowl. The ads are mostly set not in a loan office, but a home showing. Rocket rocketed to being the highest volume mortgage lender in the country by late 2017.

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Bridging the gaps in the home buying process

Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

Largely hidden from view and misperceived by some to be on the lower end of the hierarchy of service providers, the position seemingly lacked the luster of the real estate agent or the panache of the loan officer. Running the table in a real estate transaction is not for the faint of heart, nor for the passive.

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The growing threat of phishing attacks on the mortgage industry

Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

Phishing remains the go-to attack for hackers targeting the mortgage and real estate industries. Loan officers and mortgage executives alike continue to click on links in seemingly routine emails, ultimately giving bad actors complete access to lenders’ systems and mortgage transactions.

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NAR schedules proxy war with Zillow

Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

SentriLock , the home lockbox company wholly owned by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), announced Tuesday that they created a computer and smart phone platform to help real estate agents juggle their home showing appointments. Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration.

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2020 HW Tech Trendsetter: Paul Anastos

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Paul Anastos has been on the forefront of innovation within the housing industry for over a decade, specializing in developing technology solutions and transforming businesses into industry powerhouses. The post 2020 HW Tech Trendsetter: Paul Anastos appeared first on HousingWire.

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Agents, Don’t Skip the Appraisal

The Appraiser Coach

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

We frustrate buyers, sellers, loan officers and, sometimes, real estate agents. Appraisers have been accused of being “speed bumps” in the lending process. In some ways, I can understand their. Read More.

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NFM Lending integrates Knock bridge loan into its application process

Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

Real estate technology firm Knock announced Thursday that its bridge loan product is being integrated into the borrower application process at Baltimore -based NFM Lending. The bridge loan estimate is being integrated into the lender’s workflow through an Encompass plugin.

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Lower names former Redfin exec Adam Wiener as its new president

Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

Wiener, who previously served as president of real estate services at Redfin , will lead Lowers technology, marketing, data science and direct-to-consumer sales organizations. As president, he eventually led a nationwide sales organization with 3,000-plus real estate agents and sales support professionals.

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Why lenders should build a referral-based business

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Stevens, President at SRE.com, about the challenges mortgage loan officers and brokers face as the market continues to shift toward purchase money business and how human-assisted eCommerce can help them win more business. HousingWire recently spoke with John G. HousingWire: Why should referrals be a key part of originators’ strategies?

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SimpleNexus integrates with Empower, Black Knight’s LOS

Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2023

SimpleNexus , a homeownership platform developer for loan officers, borrowers, real estate agents, and settlement agents, announced this week a new integration with Empower, the loan origination system (LOS) from Black Knight.

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Millions will enter housing market in 2021: Zillow

Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

” Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. . “The pandemic has catalyzed purchases by millennial first-time buyers, many of whom can now work from anywhere.”

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Spencer Rascoff SPAC to take iBuyer Offerpad public

Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2021

Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. The seven-year-old Offerpad – founded by the company’s present CEO Brian Bair – describes itself as a lean operation looking to accelerate growth.

Real Estate

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FinLocker, FirstHome IQ join forces to rescue Gen Z from housing disaster

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Financial readiness technology firm FinLocker has partnered with FirstHome IQ , a nonprofit organization that is “committed to providing the next generation of homebuyers with financial education.”

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Surefire CRM error results in 600K errant, unsolicited messages: sources

Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Because of an apparent error made by staff at ICE Mortgage Technology ‘s Surefire customer relationship management (CRM) platform, more than 600,000 emails and texts were sent without permission to real estate agents, business partners and past clients of loan officers around the country.

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Threat of climate change looms large for some home buyers

Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

” Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. “I had one client in St.

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Polly adds Total Expert to its API integration roster

Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

San Francisco-based SaaS technology provider Polly on Monday announced its API integration with Total Expert, a customer engagement platform purpose-built for financial institutions. Total Expert provides customer engagement solutions for more than 175 modern financial institutions, unifying data, marketing, sales, and compliance solutions.

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Big Purple Dot integrates with ChatGPT for AI-powered customer support

Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2023

. “We are excited to be one of the first CRM’s in the mortgage and real estate industry to integrate with ChatGPT,” Roxana Davidoff, CEO and founder of Big Purple Dot, said in a statement.

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Rocket goes local: Testing the waters or shifting its strategy?

Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

When the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to zero on March 15, 2020 and set off an extraordinary real estate boom, Rocket Mortgage was ready. The lender made focused efforts to target the purchase market in 2021 and set up dedicated teams to cultivate relationships with real estate agents. billion in 2021.

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How InstaMortgage convinced top broker shop to jump to retail

Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

As part of the merger, Jim Black, the founder of All Cal, will become chief lending officer of InstaMortgage. Black, a licensed mortgage loan officer and broker, will also lead product development, tech partnerships and sales growth. Terms of the deal, which was announced on Tuesday, were not disclosed.

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Floify’s new platform aims to provide flexible pricing for mortgage lenders

Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Solutions within Floify Lender Edition allow lenders to improve recruitment and retention of top-producing loan officers and to navigate regulatory landscapes, according to the company’s website. Floify Lender Edition is a counterpart to Broker Edition , which was rolled out in December.

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How mortgage lenders are qualifying the value of fintech solutions

Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

Smart lenders are leaning into the technologies that will solve on multiple fronts, helping drive more leads and real estate agent relationships, higher pull through to closed transactions, increased efficiency and time saved. Does it add value to the real estate agent partnership?

Mortgage

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Zestimate to double as Zillow’s iBuying offer

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

How 2020 exposed a greater need for collaboration between real estate agents and LOs. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process.

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Class Valuation’s CIO on solving the appraisal conundrum

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. SW: How do you think about technology and prioritizing what to do next? What’s changing there?

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ICE integrates Maxwell and Roostify to eClose solution

Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

California-based ICE Mortgage Technology announced this week two enterprise agreements to integrate its eClose solution to Maxwell and Roostify platforms, enabling a more streamlined closing process for lenders and borrowers. Roostify, a mortgage technology provider, will integrate the solution to its digital home lending platform.

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MMI names Brian McKray as director of product development

Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

“Brian has a passion for developing and optimizing technologies to provide the best user experience, and we are incredibly confident in his ability to craft a best-in-class platform that not only makes an impact for MMI clients but the mortgage industry as a whole,” said Teerlink.

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United Wholesale Mortgage’s program Boost helps independent mortgage brokers connect with borrowers

Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

Intuitive technologies developed and built by experts in both mortgages and technology can drive efficiency, reliability and profitability when paired with exceptional customer service. At UWM, we’re always looking for ways our brokers can grow their business,” said Justin Glass, Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at UWM.

Mortgage

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SimpleNexus secures $108 million in Series B funding round

Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Utah-based software developer offers a private-label digital mortgage platform and mobile app designed to connect lenders with borrowers and real estate agents. The fund raise comes as the company attempts to increase its marketshare within the eClosing and mobile mortgage segments.

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Rocket to Purchase Redfin for $1.75B

How lenders can build valuable referral relationships with real estate agents

Trending Sources

10 essential skills real estate agents should possess

Floify rolls out income/employment verification technology

No. 1 originator Shant Banosian named president of Rate

How 2020 exposed a greater need for collaboration between real estate agents and LOs

zavvie launches HomeFAI, an AI-powered alternative financing system

3 steps real estate agents can take to make a big difference in housing affordability

Uplist’s Jeff Bell on finding efficiencies for loan officers

Real Brokerage leverages agent count growth for soaring revenue

HomeLight raises $20M to expand Buy Before You Sell product

HousingWire Annual Demo: Evocalize

Newrez partners with Newzip to court more homebuyers

The Post-COVID shift: What Amazon and Zillow can’t do

Polly integrates with nCino’s Mortgage Suite

Matt Van Fossen on farm-to-table programming

This growing IMB aims to capture leads through its proprietary tech, not agent referrals

Rocket Homes could be real estate’s sleeping giant

Bridging the gaps in the home buying process

The growing threat of phishing attacks on the mortgage industry

NAR schedules proxy war with Zillow

2020 HW Tech Trendsetter: Paul Anastos

Agents, Don’t Skip the Appraisal

NFM Lending integrates Knock bridge loan into its application process

Lower names former Redfin exec Adam Wiener as its new president

Why lenders should build a referral-based business

SimpleNexus integrates with Empower, Black Knight’s LOS

Millions will enter housing market in 2021: Zillow

Spencer Rascoff SPAC to take iBuyer Offerpad public

FinLocker, FirstHome IQ join forces to rescue Gen Z from housing disaster

Surefire CRM error results in 600K errant, unsolicited messages: sources

Threat of climate change looms large for some home buyers

Polly adds Total Expert to its API integration roster

Big Purple Dot integrates with ChatGPT for AI-powered customer support

Rocket goes local: Testing the waters or shifting its strategy?

How InstaMortgage convinced top broker shop to jump to retail

Floify’s new platform aims to provide flexible pricing for mortgage lenders

How mortgage lenders are qualifying the value of fintech solutions

Zestimate to double as Zillow’s iBuying offer

Class Valuation’s CIO on solving the appraisal conundrum

ICE integrates Maxwell and Roostify to eClose solution

MMI names Brian McKray as director of product development

United Wholesale Mortgage’s program Boost helps independent mortgage brokers connect with borrowers

SimpleNexus secures $108 million in Series B funding round

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