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FOA closes on sale of Incenter’s title businesses

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Finance of America (FOA) announced Thursday that its indirect subsidiary Incenter closed the sale of its title insurance businesses. The company previously announced that it would be selling its title insurance businesses in early February.

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Mortgage tech firm TRAiNED hires two executives from Sales Boomerang

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TRAiNED named Mark Cunningham, a co-founder of Sales Boomerang , as its new CEO. It also hired Arend de Jong , co-founder and former chief financial officer of Sales Boomerang, as CFO, the company announced. He was named a 2021 HW Insider after Sales Boomerang debuted in the top 5% of the Inc. Mortgage tech firm TRAiNED Inc.

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Master planned communities post strong new home sales numbers in 2023

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According to a survey released Tuesday by John Burns Research & Consulting , the top 50 MPCs sold more than 34,600 new homes in 2023, up 24% from the nearly 28,000 sales in 2022. And in 2023, each of the top 50 communities sold at least 368 homes, although that’s fewer than the 2021 record of 460 sales per community.

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Reverse mortgage originator: real estate CE helps close more purchase loans

Housing Wire

Mangus then worked to build the dedicated reverse mortgage department at his new company from scratch and has found a notable degree of success by building Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) for Purchase (H4P) business through the use of continuing education (CE) classes designed for licensed real estate agents. Curtis Mangus.

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Mortgage Tech Demo Day: Sales Boomerang

Housing Wire

To date, Sales Boomerang alerts have enabled lenders to close more than $30 billion in additional loan volume that would have otherwise been overlooked and achieve customer retention rates that outperform industry norms by an average of 3-5X. The post Mortgage Tech Demo Day: Sales Boomerang appeared first on HousingWire.

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Virtual notary adoption surges as businesses rush to close transactions remotely

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This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, payments, insurance and proptech. A signer such as a customer closing on a loan appears before a notary on a video call and they complete, sign and notarize the document, he said.

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Mr. Cooper exits reverse servicing space with sale to MAM

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Mortgage servicing, origination and transaction-based services company Mr. Cooper Group announced on Tuesday the sale of its reverse mortgage servicing portfolio – operating under the Champion Mortgage brand – to Mortgage Assets Management (MAM). The sale of Champion. in a deal valued at $500 million in cash and retained interest.

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