Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

As a financial technologist specializing in mortgage since long before “fintech” was a thing, I appreciate how tough market cycles force us to focus. But one thing is certain for all of us: without technical expertise, fintech is just a buzzword, and markets like this are when we earn our place serving America’s consumers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

I’m sharing a transformative announcement with you today, one that marks a new era for RealTrends and propels forward the vision of bringing transparency to what it means to be a top-performing real estate brokerage, team or agent. Your brand stands for something you are proud of and passionate about.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Mortgage and real estate pros consume HousingWire content through newsletters, articles, and podcasts, making us a constant companion during workouts or commutes. Our vision is a world in which housing leaders have a complete view of the housing market, and a broad community of peers with whom they can connect.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Paul Hurst , chief innovation officer at First American , to talk about the challenge of attracting and retaining tech talent and how to know if a project has a big enough vision. Sarah Wheeler: How do you think about buy versus build? And how do you protect it?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

The new paradigm brings into question many closely held assertions about who we serve, the type of homes we should be building, and the best way to pay for a home in retirement. The Great Disruption Demographics will be our destiny. We are living in a watershed moment in history. Nothing is as it was.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

On Tuesday, executives from the San Francisco, California-headquartered mortgage tech firm, which has yet to post a profit since going public in July 2021, shared the firm’s vision for growth during its first investor day. “[Our goal is ] Having a unified platform that can serve all the products that a bank can offer.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

. “Securing additional capital during the third quarter gives us the confidence to continue investing in our technology and innovative products, such as digital HELOC and One-Day Mortgage,” Vishal Garg , CEO and founder of Better, said in a statement. Better’s stock was down about 8%, trading at $0.42

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Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with American Pacific Mortgage President Ned Payant about how to build a culture that attracts and retains mortgage talent. At APM, it starts with our strategic plan. Embedded in those goals are strategies and intentions, specifically around our people. Growth was a high priority for us.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In a statement, Broadley said she learned about the impact and security provided by a risk program. After speaking to the leadership team and understanding their vision for improving loan quality and fraud detection in the mortgage industry, I was thrilled to join the QC Ally family,” she said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Our third quarter results represent execution on both our revenue and operating loss targets for the third consecutive quarter. million, which was about half of the $50.9 The company’s GAAP net loss in Q3 was $41.8 million, slightly up from a GAAP net loss of $41.5 million compared to $58.7

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Kenon Chen, executive vice president of strategy and growth at Clear Capital , to talk about appraisal modernization and how technology is just part of the solution. We’re using computer vision, AI, to capture the whole property into the space. Is that now solved?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Shayan Hamidi, CEO of Rechat , to talk about how he picks the right problems to solve, the incredible pace of AI innovation, and finding the joy in work. Sarah Wheeler: Let’s talk about your background, because you have both technology and real estate experience.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Sheila Reddy, CEO at Mosaik, to talk about how the company is leveraging their experience building technology solutions for healthcare to benefit real estate agents and homebuyers. Sheila Reddy: There are two things that set us apart. Property search, for example.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

It’s not specific or exclusive to one or the other and we’re actually happy about the growth in both,” Emerson said. So that indicates to us that realtors are interested in what we have to offer and passing that on to their clients (…) We have been excited to see that increase. We’ve seen growth in both channels.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

But, saying yes to everything removes us from the equation and renders our point of view immaterial. It makes our judgement about the effectiveness or outcomes moot. The boundaries of time It becomes clearer where to set boundaries when we carefully consider our entire vision.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Adam Carmel , founder and CEO at Polly , to talk about the ways technology should be delivering ROI for lenders. And for about two decades, the industry has been using the same kind of technology. SW: Let’s talk about margins. What is the disconnect there?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Rocket is “very pleased to see our purchase market share grow on both a year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter basis. Our focus on servicing clients through innovation in this challenging market is working,” Bill Emerson, interim CEO of Rocket Companies, told analysts in its earnings call. Rocket generated $22.3

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2020

. “We are excited to be joining the Intercontinental Exchange family and having the opportunity to work closely with Simplifile and MERS in helping our industry to realize the true digital mortgage,” said Jonathan Corr, president and CEO of Ellie Mae. “We Sprecher, founder, chairman and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2020

We sat down with Nancy Alley, vice president of strategic planning at Simplifile and one of HousingWire’s 2020 Women of Influence, to talk about the rapid changes in the closing process as a result of the pandemic. Overnight, our industry had to automate age-old processes, or the manufacturing chain was going to grind to a halt.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Tom Cronkright, co-founder and executive chairman of CertifID and CEO of Sun Title , to talk about battling the latest frauds and scams as bad actors leverage a new arsenal of tech tools to wreak havoc on buyers and sellers of real estate. So, let’s pull this string one layer deeper.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Layoffs and job reductions had a personal impact and took a toll on thousands of people within our industry. In short, most of us had to manage with less in one way or another. I can sit here and cry about it or I can go make another one.” Less volume, fewer resources, less capacity and less budget. Perhaps I am.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

President Joe Biden will be in Las Vegas on Tuesday, where he will offer additional remarks about the policies and priorities of his administration’s push to address housing issues for renters and buyers alike. These investments, Brainard said, are estimated to total about $185 billion.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Below, he spoke with HousingWire about his career in real estate and as a professional football player. HousingWire: Before we discuss your current career in real estate, tell us a bit more about your past experience as an athlete. 5000, and realized that I knew something about being an entrepreneur.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

The firm announced on Wednesday that it was eliminating about 24% of its workforce, or over 250 jobs, as it restructures departments and consolidates teams amid a tough housing market. So, we did that in a way that really makes sense for our business.” Employees were notified on Wednesday morning about the workforce reductions.

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

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Jim Butler, chief technology officer at Stavvy , to talk about moving real estate from paper to a digital transaction, how the company is using AI, and the vibe you get working with industry experts. SW: How do you think about build versus buy?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2021

We reached out to Tucker to learn more about the role that the operations team has played at Waterstone over the past year and see where he’s setting his sights in the near future. Rich Tucker: Our Loan Operations team is pivotal to our success as a company.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Jim Albertelli: When we talk about AI, what we’re really talking about is applying algorithms based on our knowledge and understanding of the industry to ingest information more consistently to help make better decisions. A practical example is us working with Capacity in our call center.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Rick Arvielo, co-founder and CEO of New American Funding (NAF), to talk about AI, why he chose to start NAF Technology India and how to keep NAF innovative. So we decided to open our own company in India: NAF Tech India. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2022

One of our responsibilities as a company is to provide our team members a fulfilling career, and we have been able to do that for tens of thousands in the last 36 years,” Mike Malloy, chief administrative officer at Rocket Central , Rocket’s human resources arm, said in a statement Monday.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2021

At approximately $10 per share, the payouts from the redemption cut the merger proceeds by about $295 million. “Our vision is to ultimately make many of the most important home buying experiences instant and digital. But Doma waived the failure to satisfy the “minimum cash condition,” and the merger was closed.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2021

“Our work with our clients fundamentally changes the way partners and consumers experience real estate transactions,” said Patrick Burns, CEO and co-founder of Spruce. Spruce currently works with clients including Better.com, Hometap, and US Wide.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

If you read our SPAC filings,” Opendoor co-founder Keith Rabois, who is no longer part of company leadership, tweeted in November , “We explained how our algorithms actually work vs. Zillow’s which are horrible.”. No one is working as hard as us to build a digital, integrated, seamless consumer experience,” Wu said.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2023

“We have long sought a partner with the stable capital structure, culture and vision to help unlock the potential for our platform to deliver more and greater value to our fund investors,” Levin said in a statement. Sculptor formed on November 17 a special committee of independent directors to explore potential transactions.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

In December, HousingWire spoke to Flueid about the concept of instant title and why it is a misnomer for mortgage lenders. HousingWire: HousingWire recently spoke to Flueid about the concept of instant title and why it’s a misnomer for mortgage lenders. We’ve seen this shorten the transaction timeline by only about a day.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2022

We caught up with Hurst to talk about his new role and why the firm is looking to invest in commercial real estate tech startups and mortgage tech firms. Here is how Hurst, via email, responded to our questions. Can you tell me a little bit about some of these new investments and why they stood out to you?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

” We can sometimes get tunnel vision in this industry thinking about affordability as it impacts our own personal bottom lines. Events like this one encourage us to explore what’s keeping that leadership gap in place and push for ways to change the status quo. HW Media : What is your most useful tech tool?

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