Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Our profession has been abuzz the last year or two with regards to the GSEs being mandated to modernize the appraisal profession. Why are appraisers essentially being excluded from the conversation about modernizing the profession? Collaborative valuation is a natural step in modern appraisal firms. Can it be abused?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

What sets ICE apart is how they’ve united different tools into a single platform. By doing so, ICE helps its clients cut down on mistakes, speed up workflows, and offer a modern lending experience that works better for both borrowers and industry professionals.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2023

However, a year after the GSEs announced new appraisal modernization solutions, as they’re more widely adopted, questions arise. A look into GSE appraisal modernization efforts The GSEs have each offered appraisal waivers on eligible loans for several years. How do the solutions work? Why do we need them? But you already know this.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

By working with more precise tools, industry professionals will gain important insights to both maintain a competitive edge in the current market and position themselves for future success. The post The homegenius family of companies offers a variety of modern digital solutions for real estate professionals appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2021

At the end of the day, real estate is incredibly local and you have to be able to build tools that are able to handle that. The post In the race to modernize title, firms double down on software appeared first on HousingWire. We’re position well to do that because building that software is our primary business.”.

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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. No doubt, investment in modernization is needed in the appraisal process.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

The company plans to use the $37 million raised from the latest funding round to advance technology innovation, invest in artificial intelligence and machine learning tools, and to expand its client base. The post Tech firm Polly bulks up to help modernize mortgage industry appeared first on HousingWire.

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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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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Appraisal modernization is vital. Gareth Borcherds , managing director Ascent Software Group outlines the three categories to be aware of, how appraisal modernization can help scale new initiatives and more in this executive conversation. Many reasons given for appraisal modernization stem from appraisal turnaround times.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

By writing and maintaining all of the code along with investing heavily in putting together a world class modern IT infrastructure that efficiently leverages a mix of modern technologies like the public cloud and API based software architectures, UWM has been able to turn on a dime and stay well ahead of shifts in the market utilizing technology.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2021

Consumer-First Servicing Modernization: Servicing comprises the vast majority of a customer’s borrowing lifecycle, and Sagent CARE brings the same modern experience borrowers get in the origination space to servicing, where lifetime customer relationships are managed and grown. They can also act fast and resolve hardships.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

The key to appraisal modernization is wide-spread adoption, and alongside CoreLogic, we are expanding access to modern appraisal tools with the aim of pushing the mortgage industry closer to this new standard,” Kenon Chen , Clear Capital’s executive vice president of strategy and growth, said in a statement. “The

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Jaro’s products are designed to offer new and improved solutions to help lenders tackle modern-day appraisals with pinpoint accuracy designed to eliminate bias and urban pricing discrepancies as homebuyers migrate between the suburbs and major cities. In fact, almost 20% of modern companies are fully remote as of 2024 , according to the U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The emergence of more advanced data tools and analytics has been a game-changer for the industry. Modern tools can now compile and analyze vast datasets, providing appraisers with more accurate and comprehensive information than ever before. AMCs are moving to the forefront of technological advancements within the industry.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

“Our goal has always been to provide clients with the most advanced, efficient and reliable tools available,” ClearValue CEO Don Juhl said in a statement. “By By integrating Restb.ai’s technology into Certainty, we are taking a leap forward in appraisal modernization. general manager of valuations, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2021

Home price indices are valuable tools to help lenders understand trends and changes in the housing market. Data and analytics can also enhance a lender’s arsenal of tools in identifying risk and opportunity. Existing home price indices are released months after the market activity occurs, making it difficult for them to add true value.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

At Sonar, we are proud to be at the forefront of this transformation, streamlining workflows and relationships with AI-powered tools and bringing mortgage loan origination into the modern age.” The technology is designed to promote real-time collaboration as multiple users can work on a single loan at the same time.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2021

Most loan officers lose 70% of their past customers because they don’t have the process or tools to manage the relationship forward. By utilizing automation and digital tools, modern mortgage lenders are freed up to deliver the most value to their customers. Focus on liking and loving the person you’re talking to.”.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

With these tools, lenders are poised to see “shorter loan cycle times, lower consumer costs, and an improved borrower experience,” the company said in a statement. Fannie Mae’s program, which began earlier this year, is part of its ongoing efforts to modernize the valuation component of the mortgage industry.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 12, 2024

As the mortgage industry increasingly embraces technology to streamline the homebuying process, a recent survey reveals a significant opportunity for broader adoption of digital verification tools. Homebuyers particularly value the speed and simplicity that digital tools bring to the mortgage process.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2023

Real estate valuation technology company Clear Capital announced on Wednesday that it has expanded its partnership with ValueLink , a valuation management platform, to offer better support for appraisal modernization policy changes. Clear Capital is a national real-estate valuation technology company.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2024

Modern Realty Modern Realty shares similarities with reAlpha in that it is currently operational in only one state — California — and those who work with the firm must sign a buyer representation agreement, giving them access to both an AI and a human real estate professional. The company has two service tiers. “So,

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Through the platform, Shaker offers a suite of tools to streamline client communication and collaboration, including transaction management, client communication, predictive insights and a built-in referral engine. Indianapolis-based High Alpha has launched Shaker , a collaborative CRM and real estate transaction management platform.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The system centralizes all analytical tools and data required to review an appraisal and leverages machine learning to eliminate manual tasks, improving review quality and reducing the review effort by 50%. ClearCollateral Review is a modern, customizable, and cloud-based architecture that runs over a million transactions per month.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Insellerate Modern CRM, Engagement & Customer Intelligence Platform Insellerate helps loan officers close more loans with our award-winning modern CRM, Lead Management, and Engagement platform, which handles all your lending channels, retail, wholesale, TPO, Consumer Direct, and Reverse.

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Inman

JULY 18, 2024

Launched in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis to weed out bad actors, the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System & Registry (NMLS) is scheduled to be updated this weekend as part of a long-term modernization project.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

CARE is Sagent’s consumer platform that links a modern, bank-on-your-phone experience for borrowers with seamless human care from servicers. Through our CARE Admin tool, the entire CARE website branding can be updated in less than a minute. #3. They can also quickly apply for and resolve forbearances and loan mods during hardships.

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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. SW: What keeps you up at night?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

To improve production, SimpleNexus launched Nexus Origination — a solution that provides lenders with a robust mobile-first tool they can use anywhere to keep their pipeline progressing. Nexus Origination also features collaborative tools for enhanced referral partnerships.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Through the acquisition, ASG hopes to modernize the appraisal industry by providing innovative valuation products and solutions and complete new property data reports required by government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). Proptech solutions provider Ascent Software Group (ASG) has acquired property data collection platform Value Acceptance.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Agents, teams and brokerages are now seriously reconsidering the technology platform, tools and services needed to effectively do business today. But to truly modernize and automate the time-consuming, manually intense processes that have plagued our industry for years, we need to look beyond trendy apps and siloed point solutions.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Singh explains that modern AI tools require increasingly larger amounts of data than ever before. He follows up by explaining that the size of the dataset is only half the battle when it comes to developing AI tools. The conversation concludes with a point on the diversity of CoreLogic’s data across multiple industries.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Sagent’s incorporation of modern data and AI tools also enables AI-enhanced predictable customer inquiry handling with high rates of one-call resolutions – allowing servicers to help even more borrowers. Dara’s compliance and change management framework allows for agile adjustments to any new rules or requirements.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Atlantic Bay, guided by forward-thinking leadership, empowers its LO’s with an open-architecture platform that delivers the marketing and sales tools they need today, while also providing a flexible framework to quickly adapt to the future technologies of tomorrow.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2023

The dashboard presents a modernized user interface and offers customization options for both users and associations. “We are confident that fully transitioning to this new dashboard, custom-built by CRMLS, is a major step towards modernizing how users interact with their MLS.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2022

Amanda Hill: Lenders see appraisal modernization as a top priority by Maria Volkova. HousingWire: What is your most useful tech tool? I wish I could offer something more exciting, but it is just the most versatile, handy tool in my arsenal! Amanda Hill: My cell phone! HousingWire: What has been your biggest learning opportunity?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2023

We originally launched Qualia almost 10 years ago with the belief that a modern technology infrastructure could fundamentally transform homebuying into a simple, secure, and enjoyable experience for everyone involved,” Nate Baker , Qualia’s co-founder and CEO, said in a statement.

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