Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

New York-based Unlock Technologies , a fintech operating in the shared-equity market, and real estate investment firm Saluda Grade , have closed a $180 million private-label securitization (PLS) backed entirely by Unlock-originated residential home-equity agreements (HEAs). 21, according to Mortgage News Daily.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

The refi boom is in our rearview mirrors and the road ahead looks promising for home equity volume. Who knows how high that volume could go, considering tappable equity is at a historic high of $11 trillion and total home equity at a record $27.8 How do you identify the right home equity partner? Excellent turn times.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Barry Coffin, managing director of home equity title/close at ServiceLink , about the ways lenders can capitalize on these trends by revving up their home equity solutions. Barry Coffin : It’s a good time to prioritize home equity transactions for a couple of reasons.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

An affiliate of Paceline Equity Partners LLC , a private equity manager based in Texas, completed a debt investment in a subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc. Optimal Blue integrates with all the loan origination systems (LOSs). “We billion megadeal announced in May 2022. I think integration is key.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2023

American homeowners currently have more tappable home equity than ever — a net $30 trillion in home equity that can be tapped right now, according to HousingWire lead analyst Logan Mohtashami. There’s more tappable equity here than any other time in history, maybe.” It’s an exciting time for home equity, for sure.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2023

Flueid , a leading technology company specializing in real estate transactions, announced on Thursday the integration of its patented Flueid Decision platform with Encompass by ICE Mortgage Technology.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) loans through its Tinman platform. We were focused on being able to take a consumer all the way through on our technology platform for just the conventional loans, and we achieved that milestone back in the summer of 2023. VA loans are 12% of the mortgage market,” Garg said. “VA

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I sat down with Tim Bowler, president of ICE Mortgage Technology, a business unit of ICE, to talk about the company’s mortgage automation strategy — and what keeps him up at night. Sarah Wheeler: ICE’s acquisition of Black Knight just closed today. SW: ICE Mortgage Technology is known for its focus on automation.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

Stubborn inflation and high interest rates continue to wreak havoc on the mortgage-origination market, but there is one asset class in the housing market that is arguably flourishing in these hard times – home equity. They are saying, ‘Tell me what’s working, how can I stand a program up so I can capture some of this [home-equity] business.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2021

The average time to close on a mortgage has decreased for a fourth consecutive month to 51 days, according to a new study from ICE Mortgage Technology. The percentage of purchase mortgages increased to 43% of total closed loans. The percentage of purchase mortgages increased to 43% of total closed loans.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Rising home prices continue to fuel the growth of the nation’s multi-trillion dollar home-equity market, a fact not lost on behemoth investment-management firm PIMCO. The loans are serviced by Rushmore Loan Management Services.”. Today, borrowers expect to close fast. As of the end of September, it had some $2.2

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

San Francisco-based Unison is extending its reach in the heartland by expanding its shared-equity loan program to homeowners in Nebraska. billion in equity-sharing agreements with some 9,000 homeowners across 29 states and the District of Columbia. Prioritizing home equity solutions in a rising rate environment.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

As a follow-up, HousingWire sat down with Peter Richter, co-founder and president at Flueid, to discuss why mortgage lenders should be asking for a quick, data-driven title check at loan application, rather than an instant title commitment, to understand and verify what’s going on with a property and consumer from the start.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Dark Matter Technologies , formerly Black Knight Origination Technologies, is focused on mainly two things: the smooth transition to new owners, and lowering the cost to originate loans for lenders. Read on to learn more about Dark Matter Technologies’ plan for mortgage. Gagliano : We believe strongly in technology.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2021

Private equity firms Flexpoint Ford and Vestar Capital Partners have bought Lereta LLC , a provider of real estate tax and flood solutions for mortgage servicers, the companies announced this week. The transaction is expected to close within a month. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2023

Digital mortgage exchange and loan aggregator MAXEX announced on Monday it closed an equity investment round and partnerships to expand liquidity amid the recent market volatility. ” The deal with MAXEX expands access to a broad range of non-agency and agency-eligible mortgage loan programs.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Early this month, California fintech Achieve announced the closing of its first AAA-rated securitization backed by $175 million in home equity lines of credit. A HELOC allows homeowners to access the equity in their homes without refinancing their primary mortgage. Prioritizing home equity solutions in a rising rate environment.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

Between lack of inventory, record high prices, rising interest rates and significant affordability issues, challenges for the purchase and refi markets are leading to a time of opportunity for home equity lending. In the last five years alone, homeowners have gained, on average, $125,000 in equity on their properties.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

California-based mortgage tech firm Blend Labs , which has pursued non-GAAP profitability since it went public in 2021 , announced a $150 million investment on Monday from private equity firm Haveli Investments. Its total outstanding debt was at $140 million in the form of Blend’s term loan.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

New York-based digital lender Better.com announced Wednesday the closing of its business combination with the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Aurora Acquisition Corp , , ending a two-year journey to make the business public. Better plans to be a mortgage marketplace that sells its technology platform to other companies. “Our

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

Lenders can choose to integrate and configure many third-party services such as verification of asset, verification of employment/ verification of income , e-signing and e-closing. Unlike off-the-shelf POS solutions, Blueprint Builder allows lenders to customize technology that is designed to help improve operations, Maxwell noted.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

“Most technologies are not architected to do a million loans every five minutes.” “Most technologies are not architected to do a million loans every five minutes.” ” Ardley can help servicers with retention strategies and find new deals within their portfolio.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

Nonbank California lender loanDepot will start moving some of its backend operations to Black Knight ‘s cloud-based version of the Empower loan origination system this year as the firm continues its efforts to cut costs. Loan origination volume dropped to $9.8 billion in the third quarter of 2021.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2023

Mike Cagney’s Figure Technologies announced a collaboration with CMG Financial , CrossCountry Mortgage , Fairway Independent Mortgage and The Loan Store as private-label partners. A five business day funding timeline assumes closing the loan with Figure’s remote online notary.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

New York-based investment firm Cerberus Capital Management has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire home equity lender Spring EQ , the companies announced on Friday. The transaction will allow Cerberus executives to realize new opportunities as demand for home equity solutions in the U.S. accelerates.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2022

Amanda Cherry : While I can’t go into specifics, I can tell you that we are working on technology enhancements to help put the customer at the center of the business and by extension the center or the products and service we provide. Amanda Cherry : Macro trends continue to point to the need for people 55+ to have access to their home equity.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2022

Mortgage and home equity fintech FirstClose received a $35 million investment from Lateral Investment Management on Tuesday. This is FirstClose’s first institutional equity investment round: The company has been self-funded since its founding in 2000. home equity and mortgage markets. home equity and mortgage markets.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

By doing a cash-out refi, she landed a $340,000 FHA loan and locked in a 6.9% At closing, my client will get $10,000 of cash up-front. We are paying off her current mortgage balance of $280,000 while maintaining more than $200,000 in home equity,” said Anderson, who runs the mortgage broker shop Rancho Capital Home Loans.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2021

To generate buzz for its upcoming independent public offering , United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) is offering a special deal on conventional mortgage loans to select borrowers for the next two months. The deal on conventional loans, effective Wednesday, applies to purchase and refinances, as well as FHA streamlines and VA IRRRLS.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today, a mortgage lender must have scalability in its operation, an ability to pivot quickly to meet changing market conditions and client needs, a well-designed technology stack and, above all, a keen sense of what its customers and the marketplace truly want from them.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

per share at market close the day before. Its pilot AI virtual assistant enabled mortgage bankers to do the most important work when working with clients, with technology taking care of tedious tasks such as filling out applications and remembering regulatory requirements — things that bankers had to do before AI was implemented.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2022

Renovation financing startup RenoFi now offers a fixed-rate home renovation loan, which allows homeowners to borrow as much as 90% of their home’s after-renovation value — a move to target homeowners who don’t qualify for a home equity line of credit (HELOCs). Presented by: Auction.com.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Marshall will work closely with Sagent’s executive team to achieve that goal as well as oversee the firm’s long-term strategy, according to the firm’s release. Sagent’s appointment of Marshall comes amid the company’s goals to deliver the mortgage servicing industry’s first cloud-native software platform this year.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2023

The Loan Store , based in Arizona and accustomed to originating about $20 million a month, was picking up the pieces of the third-largest wholesale lender in the country? To that extent, the owners of TLS, two of them are close friends of mine, are looking to build a successful mortgage bank that is sustainable and profitable with time.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

Dustin Gray: You don’t have to be an economist to know it’s a challenging time to buy a home or get a loan. HW: What types of technology can lenders use to improve the borrower experience? DG: For the past few years, homeowner engagement has been pretty basic — mostly apps focused on home value, home equity and market reports.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2022

Karl Jacob, CEO and co-founder of LoanSnap , said the cyrpto-mortgage system his company has developed can originate more than just loans that LoanSnap mints. Our system I think is good enough that it can do not just the loans that we originate, but [loans originated by] other people,” Jacob said. It’s an open platform.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

“Combining the strengths of our organizations is great for the industry as we further enable our customers to deliver fast, frictionless mortgage lending experiences, from application through closing,” Nicolaas Vlok, CEO of MeridianLink, said in a statement. The company earned $71.8

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