Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

As title companies adopt more digital business processes and re-design their workflows accordingly, opportunities exist to vastly improve operational efficiency. Case in point: How title companies source property tax status information. Some title companies use tax vendors to source this information.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Meanwhile, a customer relationship management system, along with experts in marketing, sales and other areas, are designed to support these teams, he said. “If Power of a title company Samson Properties , a rapidly growing brokerage based in Northern Virginia, has taken a different approach.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2021

Title and settlement can be particularly challenging in servicing. The difficulty lies in identifying, accurately assessing and proactively resolving title issues— especially when servicers are dealing with large volumes of assets. The company’s products make it easier for servicers to navigate the title process and eliminate errors.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Unlike site-built homes, which are always titled as real estate, over 40% of manufactured housing is titled as personal property (the same way a car is titled). Modern manufactured homes are an unusual feature of today’s housing market, the rare homeownership opportunity that is both lower-cost and high-quality.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As an organization dedicated to protecting property rights, the American Land Title Association (ALTA) wants to help ensure laws do not discriminate against or prevent people from legally purchasing real estate. Laws should also be clear on the role title insurance professionals play in facilitating transactions with foreign owners.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In 2021, Gigliotti created Axis 360 Lift , an online academy designed to educate aspiring mortgage and title professionals. Axis has lending and title academies, with an origination academy set to launch in the spring of 2024. Gigliotti noted that Axis recently secured three student internships on the title side.

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2023

This integration allows lenders to access Flueid’s title data and insights during the loan application process, resulting in time savings and a simplified consumer experience. Loan officers and underwriters can now easily check title information and review critical insights to understand the status of a property and consumer.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Department of Homeland Security and title insurance company Charter Title. It is designed to streamline the loan manufacturing process while eliminating the need for employee adoption. Mortgage tech firm TRAiNED Inc. hired two executives as it looks to take the company to its next phase of development.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

Ranson has been a key player in the expansion of the company’s market share and relating the product’s potential, co-authoring a book titled “Home Run: The Reverse Mortgage Advantage,” with fellow company executive Yvonne Ziomecki in 2021 and overseeing milestones including surpassing $1 billion CAD in originations in 2022.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The statement is designed to clarify standards by which entities under the purview of individual regulators violate applicable rules and regulations. FFIEC is a federal interagency coalition consisting of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (FRB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2023

These workflows help title and settlement companies track how data and decisions flow from initiation to outcome. When investing in a technology that someone else designed to automate workflows, it’s important to ask — how do I make this workflow work for me?

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

CHLA commends FHA for its work on its “Mythbusters” initiative, designed to blow up the myths around FHA loans by educating lenders and home sellers. With the Fed gone AWOL on purchasing mortgage loans, mortgage rates have doubled and spreads over 10-year Treasuries are at historical highs. The American homebuyer needs help.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

CoreLogic has debuted a new security solution for multiple listing services designed to reduce the risk of cybersecurity threats. In late 2023, title insurance companies First American and Fidelity National Financial suffered cyberattacks. This week alone, loanDepot disclosed a ransomware attack that took its systems down. million.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

CHLA commends FHA for its work on its “Mythbusters” initiative, designed to blow up the myths around FHA loans by educating lenders and home sellers. With the Federal Reserve gone AWOL on purchasing mortgage loans, mortgage rates have doubled and spreads over 10-year Treasuries are at historical highs. The American homebuyer needs help.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2023

SoftPro , the nation’s top provider of title , closing, and escrow software, announced on Thursday that it has launched ClosingsLIVE, a cutting-edge communication portal for real estate settlements. SoftPro is a leading provider of title, closing, and escrow software in the United States.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The GTOs require title companies to identify the people behind shell companies used in all-cash purchases of residential real estate. Treasury Department, announced last week that it will again be expanding its Geographic Targeting Orders (GTOs). The new requirements are effective through mid-April 2024. real estate market to launder money.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The Los Angeles-based startup was designed and developed in a collaboration with BCG Digital Ventures , a global corporate venture, investment and incubation arm of the Boston Consulting Group. Since officially launching in November 2019, Endpoint claims to have helped real estate professionals close more than $2.5

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

NTC offers a paid-in-full suite of services, including lien release, borrower mailings, collateral file management and title curative, plus a self-service platform, PerfectDocs. These requirements constantly change throughout the thousands of recording jurisdictions and require updating regularly.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Most digital solutions in the lending industry are designed to solve one problem and built for one audience in mind. And since Stavvy is designed for the title agent workflow, closing agents can easily integrate the platform into the way they already work. For lenders, Stavvy features full vendor title compliance.

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HomeLight

AUGUST 16, 2021

There are a few different types of as-is designations, and what as-is really means varies by designation. There are a few different types of as-is designations, and what as-is really means varies by designation. You’ll see the term as-is when shopping for a house, but what exactly does as-is mean?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

We see this benefiting Endpoint as well as proptech companies who are looking to build their own title companies. We see this benefiting Endpoint as well as proptech companies who are looking to build their own title companies. HW: You’ve had a 20-year career as a title and escrow pro. What drew you to the industry?

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Realty Biz

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Open Title Texas is proud to announce its entry into the Texas real estate market. Backed by a legacy of service excellence, Open Title Texas offers a comprehensive suite of solutions tailored to meet the unique needs of real estate brokers, sales professionals, and consumers alike.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Its platform offers eClosing functionality, including eSign, digital notarization and video conferencing, designed for real estate and mortgage professionals. The acquisition also facilitates the adoption of digital second-lien products like home equity lines of credit (HELOCs).

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

Accurate Group is one of the two companies under the approved service providers for Fannie Mae’s Value Acceptance + Property Data that also offers title and closing solutions along with valuation services , said Paul Doman, president and CEO of Accurate Group. Accurate Group and Black Knight ‘s Collateral Analytics LLC. .”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The American Land Title Association announced the promotion of Vice President Kelly Romeo to senior vice president and the newly created role of chief information officer. Romeo also will continue to oversee the education department, NTP Designation program, legal publications and the ALTA Registry.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

Serhant’s new brokerage is designed to break the traditional model, with divisions focused on media, branding and technology to reach consumers in a new way. 4 will kick off two days of expert insight and networking around All Things Housing for professionals in mortgage, real estate, appraisals, title and more.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2022

The CXChoice platform leverages integrations with title production software platforms, loan/transaction management platforms and other API to provide clients with the seamless ability to work within their native environment to provide borrowers with their choice of how to close a loan or complete a loan modification. Alan Frelix, CEO.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2023

The firm’s automated underwriting tech is designed to augment human underwriters’ capabilities, allowing underwriters to handle more loans. The company had plans to develop automated appraisals as well as title insurance processes. Candor Technology Inc. , In August 2021, Candor raised $12.5

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

During his testimony, Alford said that NAR’s Participation Rule “is not designed to benefit home sellers.” Schulman had previously testified on Thursday and was questioned by Michael Ketchmark, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs. Roger Alford, a law professor from Notre Dame, was also called to testify on Friday.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2024

For this kind of agreement to work, it’s advisable to work with an attorney so terms and conditions are clear within a written contract that includes repayment schedules and title agreements. Consider home loan programs There are a number of home loan programs you may qualify for, even if you carry student loan debt.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Below are a few lessons title agents can take from previous down cycles that could help them adapt to current market conditions. The fact that we will be in a primarily purchase market for the first time in years means that title business owners will need to have a specific mindset and a carefully crafted strategy.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2022

Stewart is one of the largest global title insurance companies and underwriters in the industry. Our vision is to be the premier title services company ,” said Beth Fowler, EVP of Lender Services at Stewart. Our vision is to be the premier title services company ,” said Beth Fowler, EVP of Lender Services at Stewart. “To

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

Founded by Jillian White , an SRA-designated appraiser with over two decades of leadership experience, the firm offers expertise to non-appraiser stakeholders, including regulators, lenders, and appraisal management companies (AMCs). This shared understanding fosters collaboration, transparency, and ultimately benefits the entire industry.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2021

Title is the key to unlocking the transaction slowdown. While much innovation has been focused on the upstream, consumer-facing processes, one of the industry’s largest transactional quagmires – title – remains largely untouched. Title has the job of finding all the chapters of that story and unraveling them with accuracy.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Any future exit from conservatorship will confront issues beyond capitalization such as data monetization, risk parameters, secondary market design, FHA execution and the pricing of mortgage guarantees. New competitive pressures on long-protected positions will force many to rethink delivery systems and reinvent organizations.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

Volatile mortgage rates and economic uncertainty have rocked the housing market this year, challenging mortgage lenders, real estate agents, title companies and appraisal firms to adapt quickly to changing conditions. That’s why we’ve designed our HW Annual event Oct.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2023

Blend Builder — a cloud banking platform designed to help businesses in the financial services industry streamline processes for mortgages, loans, deposits and accounts – is a “key driver of the company’s growth strategy,” Ghamsari noted. The Title 365 segment revenue posted $12.5 million in the second quarter, compared to $35.6

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