Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2020

There is so much changing every day in the real estate technology landscape, and whether it’s through our HousingStack or our Real Estate D emo Days , we want to help real estate professionals stay current. On Monday, August 31, HousingWire will welcome three companies to present at our next Real Estate Technology Demo Day.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

” Shared brand values Rocket’s year to date has been marked by a series of changes in the company’s outreach and branding. “We think we can create a stronger overall brand by really optimizing the interaction between these brands.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

1 loan originator in the country by volume for at least five years, is assuming the role of president at Rate Mortgage , the company announced Tuesday. Throughout his 20-year career he has closed more than 40,000 units and $9 billion in funded loans. But my biggest focus initially is going to be the loan officers.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2025

It will operate under the “Powered by Fairway” brand and will be led by Hallmark founder and CEO Deborah Sturges. Hallmark had 45 sponsored loan officers and 19 active branches as of Wednesday, per Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS) data. of its loans being purchase transactions. Fairway originated $4.6

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The company will alert broker partners to potential refinance business and notify them if “a payoff is ordered on one of their loans within the broker network.” We know that brokers who leverage our brand win more loans,” Pistone said. We are working on technology and program development that will help us get there.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2025

Welcome back to Tech Pulse — a new weekly series rounding up the latest in technology , including tools, integrations and trends impacting mortgage and real estate. As debate swirls over job loss and security risks, Bressler urged the industry to embrace AI or risk falling behind, likening resistance to ignoring the internet in the ’90s.

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2025

For subservicers, managing loans can generate stable income through fees, and when agreements allow and align with their strategy, it opens doors for cross-selling activity. including affiliated Rushmore Loan Management Services ) and Flagstar s servicing assets. Theres a lot of consolidation in the [subservicing] industry.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

billion in consumer loans from Goldman Sachs while also closing a deal to purchase Sculptor Capital Management and its $33 billion in assets under management. In total, its funded loan volume jumped from $8.9 Its refinance recapture rate in 2024 when including closed-end second-lien loans was 52%, up from 41% two years earlier.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2021

Five years after introducing the Rocket Mortgage brand for digital lending, Rocket Companies will finally retire the legacy Quicken name on July 31. With this official name change, we will have a consistent brand that is synonymous with innovation and excellence.” as “Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2025

By combining data, technology, and creative strategy, theyre transforming how the industry communicates, competes and grows. Through impressive marketing efforts, this years recipients are driving mortgage origination volume, connecting with homebuyers at critical moments, and supporting real estate brokerages to engage buyers and sellers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

Real credited its technology offerings and business model for the explosive growth in agents. Another factor is Reals private-label program, which launched in 2024 and allows brokerage affiliates to keep their branding. It started 2024 with 18 loan officers and finished the year with about 90.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Technology plays a crucial role in servicers’ ability of servicers to support their borrowers in this challenging time. In all cases, Sagent Account Connect enables servicers to let their borrowers manage these hardship changes to their loans in real time. Borrowers in Hardship. The Sagent Difference.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Cloudvirga’s platform solves for both by creating the best experience for borrowers and loan officers. The Cloudvirga team has been able to dramatically improve the experience of the borrower and the loan officer. For borrowers, a point-of-sale system is typically their first physical interaction with a lender’s brand.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) is rolling out new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools designed to help brokers analyze competitors loan estimates and assist borrowers online. The loan estimate optimizer, dubbed LEO, identifies gaps and opportunities line by line, enabling brokers to offer better deals to borrowers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2025

An invitation for innovation I began my career when loan applications were just four pages long, every loan required a manual underwriting review, and we collected Service Release Premiums (SRPs). Back then, we proudly branded ourselves as one of the first online finance companies with the tagline, “Buy a house with your mouse.”

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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. Sarah Wheeler: The cost to originate a mortgage is higher than ever, while companies have invested more in technology than ever before. What is the disconnect there?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

SPS) has struck a deal to acquire certain assets of Texas-based Rushmore Loan Management Services LLC. “We believe that this combination of two highly rated and well-recognized brands will create a stronger company to better serve our customers, clients, regulators and associates,” Gandhi said in a press statement.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Should the goal of marketing technology be to make it so that a loan officer never needs to log in? Or, should LOs be encouraged to engage with marketing tools as much as possible in order to help them build their own brand and connections? Ordering an appraisal was as easy as pushing a button.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2025

At first glance, the appeal is obvious: an app can live right on a borrowers phone, promise to save their progress, and provide a sleek, branded interface. Every customization a lender might needwhether its new disclosures, branding tweaks, or additional integrationsmeans more development and new rounds of app store submissions.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Nonbank lender Panorama Mortgage Group (PMG) launched a new program that allows first-time homebuyers to take out a loan with a 1% down payment , the company announced on Wednesday. PMG offers platforms for human resources, finance, technology , legal and compliance services to its group of lenders.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

One of the drivers for a pivot to profit is that loans are expensive. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, it costs an average of $7,535 to produce a loan. If your loan officers don’t have the resources to handle the inbound volume, they may not be able to follow up with every lead, which can lead to lost revenue.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

They’ve built great technology on a massive scale. If you think about what Rockets created as the most iconic brand in the industry and the greatest recapture capability in the market, and then you marry that with our 7 million customers, it’s pretty magical, Bray said. That’s going to require technology.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

From leveraging the latest in artificial intelligence (AI) and digital marketing to mastering financial literacy, mortgage and real estate professionals have come together to provide these skills to loan officers in a new book titled, “Rethink Everything: You ‘Know’ About Being A Next-Gen Loan Officer.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech-focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, insurance and real estate. Founded in 1985, Quicken Loans has seen record numbers of refinance and purchase applications in recent months in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2023

Top-producing loan officer Christopher Keelin has taken his 80+person team over to CrossCountry Mortgage to “take advantage” of the lender’s technology while scaling his business. Keelin closed $57 million in volume in the first quarter of 2023. This year, Keelin has a team goal to post $700 million in volume. “If

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On the heels of going public, Rocket Companies’ broker channel, Quicken Loans Mortgage Services (QLMS), made waves throughout the industry when it announced it would be rebranding to Rocket Pro TPO in an effort to closer align itself with the brand that has become ever-present in the lending space.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2023

And as a loan officer (LO), why should I care? A look into GSE appraisal modernization efforts The GSEs have each offered appraisal waivers on eligible loans for several years. While all data collectors are held to similar minimum requirements, some may be equipped with enhanced technology to capture data. Why do we need them?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

San Francisco-based fintech Polly has hired Parvesh Sahi, a former executive from ICE Mortgage Technology , as chief revenue officer to scale the business in a highly competitive mortgage environment. Sahi will be involved in all aspects of the corporate strategy, business development, sales and account management, the firm said Thursday.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Mortgage technology platform provider Dark Matter Technologies announced on Monday that it has added a second loan origination system (LOS) — NOVA — to its product lineup. The company added that this consolidation is designed to benefit all the brands it oversees.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

Donny Kirby, former vice president of national direct-to-consumer sales at Wyndham Capital Mortgage , spent more than 12 years at Charlotte, North Carolina-based company before leaving to start a mortgage broker shop, Cornerstone Home Loans. We all know that home affordability is an issue for everyone right now.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2025

The partnership brings together CrossCountry ‘s 7,000-plus employees across more than 700 branches and Blend ‘s technology platform that powered nearly $1.2 trillion in loan applications in 2024. As part of this collaboration, the two companies are introducing new solutions that enhance the Blend experience for all IMBs.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In 2025, it will begin rolling out new regional and local programs designed to “build our brand profile and drive business in strategic markets,” she said. In the third quarter, we saw an 89% increase in HomeSafe Second loans compared to Q2, and we anticipate further growth as we invest more capital and resources in the product,” she said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

“This acquisition furthers our long-term plan of developing a full-service commission-free homebuying and financing technology platform powered by our proprietary AI technology and dedicated professionals,” Brent Miller, chief financial officer of reAlpha, said in a prepared statement.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

New York-based Simplist Technologies , which has developed a consumer-facing mortgage platform, introduced a new software solution on Thursday for mortgage professionals that combines a loan origination system (LOS) with a point-of-sale system (POS).

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech-focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, insurance and real estate. In addition to applying for loans digitally, consumers should have the ability to take care of everything else they want,” he said. Stay tuned for updates.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

Real has never been in a stronger position to empower agents through its innovative business model, proprietary technology and collaborative, entrepreneurial culture, Srivatsaa said in a statement. A key factor in this growth is its private-label program, which launched last year and allows brokerage affiliates to keep their branding.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

The integration, announced on Wednesday, connects Rocket to a network of approximately 28,000 active users, including 21,000 loan officers who source mortgage offers from multiple wholesale lenders including Rockets chief rival, United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) all within a single system.

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