Propmodo

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

A number of cities and states are looking to streamline affordable housing development on land owned by religious institutions, which often have sizable portfolios of real estate in prime areas. This ongoing trend has led to many churches across the country closing their doors for good.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One area in the mortgage and real estate industry that has been evolving for nearly two decades is digital closings. Much like efforts to achieve full self-driving vehicles, the road to achieve full digital closings has been bumpy. In Japan, the word for “improvement” is kaizen. E-mortgage volume spikes. Find out what those are here.

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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. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Several of MAXEX’s existing investors, including J.P.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

Maxwell claims the loans on the platform close 50% faster than the national average. The post Digital mortgage startup Maxwell lands $16M in Series B appeared first on HousingWire. It’s a big market they’re targeting, too: community lenders represent 50% of $4 trillion U.S. mortgage market. Presented by: Sutherland.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2021

SoFi co-founder Mike Cagney’s latest digital mortgage operation Figure Lending closed on a $100 million funding facility from JPMorgan Chase this week. This is the fifth financing facility for the online lender, having closed nearly $1.5 How 2020 continues to impact mortgage closings. billion across these deals.

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HomeLight

JANUARY 12, 2024

Tennessee attorneys are not considered essential for closing in Tennessee Real estate transfer taxes? Are you curious about selling a house “as is” in Tennessee? Whether you’ve got a fixer-upper or recently inherited a relative’s home, sometimes the goal is to skip repairs, get a fair offer, and move on.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

Of note, Notarize closed a $35 million Series D funding in March 2020 , and partnered with payments platform Stripe in July in order to be able to pay its notaries faster. ” The post Notarize lands $130 million funding round appeared first on HousingWire. Total revenue grew 600% in 2020, he said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The American Land Title Association, alongside our real estate industry partners, are committed to making transactions easier for everyone through consumer education efforts. Using Home Closing 101, consumers can contact local title agencies to compare rates and find a company that feels like the best fit for them.

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Keeping Current Matters

MAY 17, 2021

Saving for a down payment is the main cost that comes to mind for many, but budgeting for the closing costs required to get a mortgage is just as important. What Are Closing Costs? According to Trulia : “ When you close on a home, a number of fees are due. Bottom Line.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lack of inventory is an issue builders and mortgage loan originators alike are dealing with across the nation. It’s also what keeps Andrew Marquis, regional vice president at CrossCountry Mortgage and Scotsman Guide ’s seventh top LO, up at night, especially as he sees more buyers entering the market. That’s our biggest issue in Boston.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

There has been a great deal of innovation around purchasing homes, making credit available, and closing real estate transactions. Low claims ratios are a testament to the work our agents do to eliminate items prior to closing. Discounts also may be available if using the same lender that issued the original loan.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

Buoyed by robust performance, homebuilders are leveraging their strong financial positions to pursue various strategic initiatives, including stock buybacks, land acquisitions and active participation in the M&A arena, the report said. The acquisition is set to close in the first half of 2024.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2023

When it comes to close on the sale of the property the scammer will request a remote notary signing. The scammer then impersonates the notary and returns falsified documents to the title firm or closing attorney involved in the transaction. The title firm then transfers the closing proceeds to the scammer.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Fitch also noted that other similar efforts by the federal government to lower closing costs, including Fannie Mae’s announcement in April 2022 that it would accept AOLs in lieu of title insurance policies, has had no material impact on the title industry. Soham Bhonsle, an analyst at BTIG, shares a similar outlook.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2023

Pioneer allows donations to be made to the fund at the close of all transactions and matches all donations. ALTA has a website dedicated to informing consumers about the closing process and the benefits of title insurance. Fees add up in transaction While the cost of title insurance is less than.5%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The American Land Title Association saw a 32.5% Today, borrowers expect to close fast. A small issue within the title process can have an impact on the length of the closing process, impacting mortgage lenders and borrowers. Learn about the tools lenders should leverage to streamline home equity title and closing.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Expanding acess to digital closings At the beginning of the pandemic , as our industry was deemed essential, we saw a need to increase access to digital home closings. Tina Smith’s Mapping Housing Discrimination Act , which would help fund research regarding discriminatory covenants in land records.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Land the plane, folks, land the plane! A close above that and follow-through bond market selling could lead to higher mortgage rates. If they cared about a soft landing, which I have been skeptical about from the start, as I talked about here on CNBC , the Fed would be more mindful of what they say and do.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The American Land Title Association has been a vocal critic of AOLs since Fannie Mae’s announcement nearly two years ago. In an emailed statement, a Fannie Mae spokesperson wrote that the GSE is continuing to explore ways to improve housing affordability by reducing closing costs.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

The program provides direct loans to Native American veterans and veterans who are married to Native American non-veterans to help with the purchase, construction or renovation of a home on trust land. The new rate will apply to NADL loans closed on or after March 13, which will lock in the 2.5% interest rate for the life of the loan.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Luddy and the core members at Norcom will stay aboard long enough to close out their current loan pipeline, he explained. So, regardless of what rates do, we have mortgage solutions for our borrowers, and we are so excited to land in a new company and help them grow.” But he reiterated that CMG did not seem to be the right fit. “So,

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2022

The American Land Title Association (ALTA) and its members worked closely with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to help develop regulations for TRID, which went into effect in 2015. Research released in 2020 by the CFPB showed TRID has helped consumers better understand their costs when closing on a home.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Modern manufactured homes are an unusual feature of today’s housing market, the rare homeownership opportunity that is both lower-cost and high-quality. The result is that safe and affordable financing is out of reach for tens of thousands of credit-ready homebuyers looking to purchase a manufactured home. Yet help might be on the way.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As a result, Grid151, which is owned by the holding company of Westcor Land Title Insurance Company , will integrate Simply Secure Sign into GridBase, its universal API for lender and title collaboration. The new product, Simply Secure Sign, is a digital closing platform with digital signature and remote online notarization services.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

Closing software provider Qualia is accusing a former employee and startup title production software firm Settlor of stealing trade secrets. Myers joined Qualia in 2021 through the firm’s acquisition of Resware from Adeptive Software , which closed in December 2020. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in U.S.

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Broke Agent Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As a real estate professional, you need to know exactly how land scammers operate, what red flags to look for, and how to protect the people in your community from devastating losses. How land scammers operate The FBI first issued a warning about “house stealing” back in 2008. It starts with vacant land.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

The title company or closing attorney transfers the closing proceeds to the scammer. With real estate inventory at a near-record low, buyers seeking a place to call home are facing stiff competition as bidding wars continue to be commonplace. These often include vacant lots or rental properties.

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Realty Biz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The rewards for land owners depend on the amount of effort and time invested in the land. So take your time and explore your possibilities for making money from your land. To help you make your decision, we’ve listed some quick and easy ways to profit from your land. Sell the Land for Cash Money.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2023

Boston-based Notarize will soon finally be able to execute a digital real estate closing in its home state of Massachusetts. With Healey’s signature, Massachusetts is now the 43rd state to legalize digital real estate closings, which started with Virginia in 2012. .

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Realty Biz

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Finding that location and buying land to build a house is the first step in fulfilling this dream. . The loan you use for buying land to build a house on is very different than the traditional home mortgage loan. The loan you use for buying land to build a house on is very different than the traditional home mortgage loan.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

“As we head into a period of historically seasonal lows, for protection, with no end in sight for the margin compression or realistic prospects of lower rates, I have decided not to incur further financial risk over the coming months.” “If you currently have a loan in process that will close by the end of the year, your loan is safe!

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

With the headwinds facing the real estate industry, Wright and Murray believe smaller brokerage firms will be looking for a place to land, making acquisitions a possibility for even one-office, 25 agent firms. My advice is to start simple. When you get right down to it, it is a matter of risk and who is going to take what risk.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Even with a sharp rise in interest rates toward the end of the second quarter, the title insurance industry still recorded a relatively strong fiscal quarter, according to the American Land Title Association’s Market Share Analysis. Rounding out the top 10 for Q2 2022 was Westcor Land Title Insurance Co. billion recorded a year ago.

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Marco Santarelli

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Introduction Investing in land is a significant financial decision that can yield substantial returns if approached with careful consideration and strategic planning. One crucial aspect to address is determining “How Much Over Assessed Value Should You Pay for Land?”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

However, most Americans don’t learn about title insurance until they buy their first home and amid the often stressful, frenetic activity of the closing process, homebuyers can be confused about many of the settlement costs and why they need to purchase a title insurance policy. Title insurance is different than most other insurance products.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

What it means is there is a higher percentage of potential fraud per file,” Elizabeth Berg, the vice president for education and training at FNF Family of Companies , told attendees of the American Land Title Association’s ALTA One conference on Thursday. Or as Berg also put it: “Fraudsters gotta eat too.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2023

The department believes the proposed rule will close a loophole that allows corrupt oligarchs, terrorists and criminals to hide illegally obtained funds in U.S. real estate. According to a state from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in March, as much as $2.3 billion was laundered through U.S. billion was laundered through U.S.

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