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Revolutionized financing: How Zillow empowers home shoppers with innovative tools

Housing Wire

Potential homeowners should be able to handle this confusion in a world where technology and digital tools rule customer service. The lender offers innovative tools and technology to make the home buying process more accessible, transparent, and personalized. Fortunately, home buying doesn’t have to remain confusing for new buyers.

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6 Ways to Make Property Taxes Easier for Homeowners

Appraisal Buzz

Escalating home values have driven up property taxes, leading to homeowner distress, making it more important than ever to help them understand and plan for these increases. With the trust of all the nation’s top 25 residential servicers and over 48 million loans under tax service, we’ve identified six strategies to help.

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Haven partners with Ownwell to streamline property tax monitoring and appeals

Housing Wire

Mortgage technology platform Haven is allowing its users to access property tax monitoring and protesting services. The New Jersey-based company has partnered with property tax service provider Ownwell , according to a recent joint announcement. Mortgage servicers and investors can also benefit from this collaboration.

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Financial planner: Reverse mortgages can help retirees with high property taxes

Housing Wire

A retired public school teacher living in the Pacific Northwest told MarketWatch that he is feeling stressed by high property taxes on a fixed income and asks if he would be a good candidate for a financial adviser. for 49 years, and my property taxes rise quickly. I have lived in Edmonds, Wash.

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Re-thinking property tax reporting can help meet lenders’ need for speed

Housing Wire

As these companies examine critical operational workflows, the property tax reporting process often stands out as an opportunity for re-engineering. Digitizing Property Tax Reporting. Given there are over 22,000 tax agencies in the U.S.,

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How lenders can improve property tax estimation processes to bolster borrower satisfaction

Housing Wire

Plaza Home Mortgage was no exception, as it sought to improve its property tax estimation process. This case study explores how the correspondent lender was able to reduce its property tax estimation time by upwards of 90% per loan by implementing CoreLogic’s Property Tax Estimator (PTE).

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Homebuyers are taking more risks in an obstacle-filled market

Housing Wire

Property insurance premiums and property tax hikes have also added financial strain, particularly in disaster-prone regions like the Southeast and West, where insurance carriers are passing on higher costs to homeowners. But AI-driven lending tools have raised concerns about bias.