Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Closing fee-related compliance tool provider LodeStar is integrating with title insurance provider Stewart , the companies said Monday. This integration makes accurate fees available instantly from a sizable population of the title agent community,” Jim Paolino, the CEO of LodeStar, said in a statement. “As

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

According to the CFPB, Freedom provided real estate agents and brokers with incentives, including cash payments, paid subscription services, and catered parties in exchange for agent and broker referrals for mortgage loan offerings. A few months later, the CFPB fined Meridian Title Corporation $1.5 million fine.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Setting your sights on the future is important for any business owner, agent or loan officer looking to find success in the ever-changing housing market. The Future of Title panel on Oct. She owns one of the largest boutique title firms in the country and blazes the trail for future female leaders in the industry. .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

From the real estate agent to the title agent, the real estate transaction is one of the largest money transactions that also has the highest number of people involved. Historically there has been so much focus on choosing the right real estate agent and loan officer.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

According to data by mortgage technology platform Modex , LemonBrew loan officers produced $347 million over the last 12 months. The vast majority of loans – more than 80% – are originated by Rocket Mortgage , the data shows. LemonBrew Technologies also has divisions for title insurance and homeowners insurance.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

These tools streamline title services and allow both lenders and their agents to manage the closing date, receive updates, securely access documents and understand what is needed for closing day. Plus, loan officers can access their entire transaction pipeline at a glance for purchase transactions using titlegenius.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

After completing countless Veterans Administration (VA) mortgage loan transactions over the years, Chris Pascoe, a Marine veteran turned RE/MAX agent, has developed something of a system. First, he has his clients lender call the listing agent. Somebody has a problem once and then that story just spread.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

They own the home with their name on the title, as with any mortgage, traditional or reverse. But unlike financing with a traditional mortgage, monthly principal and interest payments are not required on the loan, so long as the homeowner keeps up to date with real estate taxes, homeowners’ insurance and property maintenance. “The

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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. Simple, right?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In these 20-minute sessions, attendees will walk away with tangible and actionable information from leaders at mortgage, valuation, real estate and title companies. In a call to all mortgage executives and loan officers, these two speakers are looking to address the way most lenders and loan officers do business.

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RIS Media

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Realogy Title Group LLC recently announced the release of a new version of its Title!Snap Snap mobile application, offering real-time title transaction information to real estate agents. With the new release, the app has been upgraded to give real estate agents access to real-time transaction status and documents.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

NAF is looking for a 50/50 joint venture between the California-headquartered lender for virtually any size real estate brokerage, a larger agent team, a new home builder and a wholly-owned mortgage business. The two lenders will each own 50% stake in the JV.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2022

Vesta has a system of record for loan origination data and documentation; a workflow engine to orchestrate process among borrowers, loan officers, underwriters; and open APIs (application programming interface) for partners to build their own solutions.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2023

ChatGPT for lenders Several use cases exist for mortgage companies and loan officers to use ChatGPT and AI. As for the “limitations,” it’s not always correct, and much data has not been updated after 2021. AI can be used to provide a more personalized experience for mortgage customers.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Year-over-year the number of agents and brokers increased 82% in Q3 2021 to 65,269. Jeff Whitside, the CFO and chief collaboration officer of eXp World Holdings, added that the company’s cloud-based model is continuing to attract a large number of top performing agents. Gross profit for the quarter came in at $79.5

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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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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Lenders who are modernizing across the entire scope of the origination journey — digitizing processes from application and title through close and post-close — are building unprecedented momentum for their businesses. Technology makes this possible as it builds new efficiencies.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2022

The title insurance space isn’t generally known for placing outsized bets on technology. By investing in and partnering with companies like these, we can understand what the mortgage infrastructure of the future may look like and how title and settlement services will interact with that infrastructure. As of Sept.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 17, 2022

The proptech firm is the first to offer franchises that allow real estate service providers in brokerage, title and mortgage to purchase franchises. Oakley says the platform is designed to increase agents’ transaction volume all while promoting the ancillary services within each brokerage, creating more revenue for that brokerage.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

households that provides visibility into everything that went into a transaction — real estate agents, loan officers, lenders, title agencies and borrower details, according to MMI’s website. “If MMI’s data covers information on mortgage transactions covering more than 95% of U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2022

To get into an agent’s circle, an LO has to see problems before they manifest they need to communicate whether the news is good, bad or ugly, agents said. range, versus closing on their mortgage now when their homes are finally finished being built and rates are around 7.0%,” said Summers, a Keller Williams agent in Provo, Utah.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

Pontiac, Michigan-based lender United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) Wednesday launched a new platform for independent mortgage brokers to access purchase leads, past clients and real estate agents — a move to entice and retain loan officers in a shrinking mortgage market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The companies say together they will drive digitization and enable relationships across the mortgage ecosystem, “from title and settlement agents to real estate professionals.”.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2022

The founder of the eight-year-old company and Trulia co-founder devotes an intro and eight sections to other subjects before a penultimate section titled, “People first.”. It was in December that Knock floated a pay cut for its loan officers, before rolling back the plan. His next section, titled “World War III?”,

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

Buyside helps real estate agents and loan officers engage homeowners with not just home value tools but also branded wealth optimization tips on their home’s equity so homeowners can now truly view their home as an asset. “According to NAR over 69% of buyers have a home to sell, so really homeowners represent the earliest buyer.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2020

With many lenders seeing closings pushed out past 30, 45 and even 120 days, setting the expectation early gives lenders the opportunity to foster relationships with their clients and prepare for possible file extensions, said Mark Canale, senior loan officer and producing branch manager at Movement Mortgage. “As

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2021

Like it or not, the most nerve-wracking part of buying or selling a home comes when the “file” heads out to the title and escrow company. It’s much more efficient to reach a loan officer and input an application into the pipeline than ever before. How long until the title search is complete?”) The wait seems tedious.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It’s not a point of pride or badge of honor for any mortgage, title, real estate or valuation firm. Much of that average time to close tends to pile up in the title and settlement stage of the process. More than a few real estate agents have come to dread calling the closing company to find out when they can close.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

At First American, we focus on building internally where we think we have the right to win: digitizing and automating settlement, the search and examination process, and title decisions. For everything else, you should partner with other people. Everything else we look to partner. If we build it, we can only monetize it across that 15-20%.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2020

This means a completely updated, white-labeled and broker-branded origination hub that is not only beneficial for loan officers, but also their clients who will experience a more streamlined process with heightened transparency. That is just one of the many ways we are looking to innovate in the near future.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

Title agents historically have felt like they played second fiddle to other players in the buying and selling of real estate. During the housing crisis of 2008, the title industry suddenly emerged from obscurity into full view. During the housing crisis of 2008, the title industry suddenly emerged from obscurity into full view.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

Rapidly accelerating home prices come with a variety of challenges for lenders and real estate agents, including one of the biggest pain points right now — the appraisal gap. Real estate agents and lenders are working together to try to get buyers into houses. In fact, Austin has just about 1.2 months of supply, and has seen a 19.7%

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Real Trends

DECEMBER 5, 2022

To get into an agent’s circle, an LO has to be a good communicator, see problems before they manifest and communicate whether the news is good, bad or ugly, agents said. In turn, real estate agents are doing everything they can to ensure they get their clients into their home of choice. Trouble in partnership paradise.

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Realty Biz

JULY 19, 2021

Compass, which is best known for its technology tools that assist real estate agents in marketing themselves and their listings online, wants to expand its business by bringing tech tools to the mortgage application process. Guaranteed Rate has closed more than $60 billion in loan volume since the beginning of 2021.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

However, while the title space has made tremendous strides in recent years, there is still a tremendous amount of “button mashing” being done. Increasingly, manual processes in title workflows are being eliminated with customized bots and AI. The first example is a well-known headache for title firms. The result?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2021

For the title industry, artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer just a futuristic concept to be discussed wistfully in conference breakout sessions. Until now, most title agencies have attacked those problem areas with staffing. Until now, most title agencies have attacked those problem areas with staffing.

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McKissock

APRIL 20, 2021

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