Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

According to Sawan Tivakaran, SVP, titlegenius Product Owner, “Homebuyers continue to cite the closing process as one of the most stressful events in their lives. Radian has developed titlegenius to help improve the closing process for homebuyers, sellers and lenders alike.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2022

This was up from $9,140 per loan in the third quarter as the market transitioned from a rate-term refinancing market to a purchase and cash-out refinancing market. One avenue to reduce cost and streamline the closing process is to offer digital closings.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2022

Guaranteed Rate will continue to thrive and win market share by having a laser focus on leveraging our industry-leading purchase platform augmented by the best loan officers in the business,” Guaranteed Rate CEO Victor Ciardelli wrote in an email to brokers that HousingWire reviewed.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

But as lenders scrambled to keep up with demand, closing errors naturally crept in. In the wake of this unparalleled volume, companies across the housing industry have been working to increase the efficiencies of the entire lending process – including getting closings correct the first time around. But Snapdocs isn’t stopping there.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2022

Texas lender Mid America Mortgage rebranded as Click n’ Close to expand into the mortgage technology industry following the sale of the majority of its retail lending operations. Click n’ Close will retain retail operations related to its reverse mortgage and lending business for Native Americans, the company said Monday.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2022

For well over a decade, the industry has made steady progress in digitizing mortgage closings. As a result, closings today fall on a spectrum of digitization, with benefits that increase with each component that is digitized and each document that is electronically signed (eSigned). Snapdocs eMortgage Quick Start Program.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

I closed 28 H4P transactions last year, over 1% of the national total. My market share in this area continues to grow steadily even though on a national level it is stagnant or even declining.”. I subsequently have developed two more CE classes that only deal with HECM loans. Curtis Mangus.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2022

Each year, this award spotlights the individuals who have a huge impact behind-the-scenes within their organizations — through operations, product development, hiring, marketing campaigns, or improving efficiency. The post Nominations for HW Insiders Close Today! appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In a video discussing its marketing strategy, also released this week, CoStar tells real estate agents that it plans to run the Homes.com ads on streaming platforms, broadcast TV and digital radio, as well as during major events. No other competitor comes close to our investment to drive leads to all agents,” the video states.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

Executives at both Stewart Information Services and First American Financial bemoaned the challenging housing market environment as they discussed their respective firms’ first quarter 2023 earnings with investors Thursday morning. Given the success of our early testing, we expect to deploy it in two markets within the next year.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Title insurance upstart States Title announced this week $150 million in debt financing from HSCM Bermuda , which will go towards developing a more modern home closing experience. The debt financing will go towards product development, investment in go-to-market growth, and the refinance of debt to Lennar Corp.,

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2023

California-based lender loanDepot has promoted Alec Hanson , the company’s senior vice president of production for the West division, to the role of chief marketing officer. Hanson will also be responsible for the company’s originator-led field-level marketing capabilities.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. That offering, Unlock HEA Trust 2023-1, is slated to close this week.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

FHA will move forward with its proposal that permits contributions by the property seller, real estate agent, builder, or developer to HECM for Purchase borrowers’ closing costs,” the update said. Historically, mortgage lenders and originators have been prohibited from contributing to closing costs to protect borrowers.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The virtual notary services industry has become increasingly popular amid the COVID-19 pandemic as businesses have adopted remote signatures to adhere to social distancing protocols while closing on mortgages and other loans. Electronic closings supported by remote online notarization (RON) offer advantages to notaries, borrowers and lenders.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2023

Columbus, Ohio-based Go Mortgage has announced the appointment of Jessica Manna as its chief marketing officer. In her new role, Manna will be responsible for overseeing all marketing initiatives and strategies to promote Go Mortgage’s brand further and drive business growth.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell maintained a hawkish tone during his speech at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon — but it wasn’t hawkish enough to keep optimism from spreading across the markets as mortgage rates dropped closer to 6%. Is the market overreacting? In turn, mortgage rates started a free fall.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Read on to learn more about what Doug Duncan – Fannie Mae’s senior vice president and chief economist — and Mark Palim – Fannie Mae’s vice president and deputy chief economist – had to say about the housing market, the Fed’s interest rate cut timeline and their views on overcapacity in the industry. How close are we from being done?

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Jon Irvine, Chief Production Officer at Change Lending, about how brokers can gain a new competitive advantage in the current tight market. As a result, brokers will be forced to look to the purchase market to fill their volume needs. ” How do we help brokers close more loans?

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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. Prior to the pandemic, ALTA and MBA saw a need to develop model RON legislation. History of ‘e’.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The honey badger labor market is still going strong as we got another solid jobs report Friday, which pushed bond yields higher at first. This will be important to think about going into 2023, especially if the labor market does what the Federal Reserve wants it to do, which is slow down enough to create a job loss recession.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Dan Catinella : Lenders should lean into the power of their tech stack as they try to cut costs in the current market situation. HW: What role does Customer Intelligence play in today’s challenging housing market? HW: How is Total Expert’s Customer Intelligence helping lenders close more deals?

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2023

Whether you believe the worst market conditions are now behind us or that the coming months will remain turbulent, there’s no doubt that title related businesses will need a combination of thrift, ingenuity, innovation and persistence to be successful for the foreseeable future. This can be a profitable strategy.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

The firm is primarily focused on creating an application programming interface (API) marketplace where Dark Matter Technologies can collaborate with developers on automation and cutting expenses for third-party vendors and lenders. “We’re We’re very focused on automation and getting the expense out.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Fitch Group , the parent of bond-rating firm Fitch Ratings , is acquiring a majority ownership stake in capital-markets fintech company dv01 — which provides data and analytics services to the structured-finance market. The post Fitch Group adding capital-markets fintech dv01 to its fold appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2022

3-5, make the most out of your trip by also joining us for the Marketing Leaders Success Summit. Kicking off HW Annual, this summit will be packed with the marketing insider tips and tricks you need to take your business to the next level. Gather tips and tricks from marketing leaders. Meet marketers just like you!

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

And now, with the COVID-19 vaccine circulating and the economy slowly regaining strength, Zillow researchers say millions of additional households could enter the housing market in 2021. Specifically, housing markets like Portland, Maine , Bay City, Mich. markets; by December 2020, prices were already up 23.6% Pueblo, Colo. ,

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

“Lorraine is a powerhouse in the Manhattan luxury scene, boasting almost two decades of expertise and Kathy is synonymous with excellence and her extensive knowledge of Manhattan luxury and new developments across the city makes her an unstoppable force,” Kevelyn Guzman, regional vice president of Coldwell Banker Warburg, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Lenders and mortgage tech companies have been cutting costs in the down market , but some firms have hired new executives who they hope will provide better strategies to navigate the shrinking loan origination market. for Planet Home Lending, will focus on increasing market share by adding branches and loan originators.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

Its plan takes aim at liquidity, budget authority, pay scales and other potential flexibilities to more closely align with the value it brings to the government and the broader mortgage market. This undermines Ginnie Mae’s ability to run a market-driven program.” This recommendation is based on two other ideas.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

The right mortgage services provider is essential to helping wholesale lenders and their brokers thrive in this constantly evolving market. ServiceLink, which is backed by Fidelity National Financial, meets the unique needs of wholesale lenders by providing title insurance, appraisals, flood certificates and closing services.

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RIS Media

MAY 22, 2023

Over the past few years, closing a real estate deal was easy for many real estate agents. Homes flew off the market almost as soon as they were listed. The actual closing seemed like just a formality.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Since 2015, ALTA has provided education through Home Closing 101, a consumer-focused website that provides information about the closing process, how they can protect their property rights, how to file a claim, and how to find a title company. Closing on a loan can vary from state to state, and even within the same county or city.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2022

In the midst of the current market volatility, many lenders are looking for ways to grow their broker channels in an effort to initiate and build relationships with borrowers. Between their expertise and access to tools, they’re the right people for the job and will come out on top on the other side of the purchase market.”.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Interfirst purchased refinance leads and sent them to Woodward to close. Then, the mortgage industry showed why it is called a cyclical business: in the second half of 2021, the Federal Reserve signaled an increase in interest rates and an easing of the purchase of mortgage-backed securities, choking the refi market.

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RIS Media

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Closing on a house culminates weeks or months of house hunting, negotiations, and paperwork. You will learn what is required to close a house and the items needed for a home closing. Closing on a house isn’t rocket science,… The post What is Needed to Close on a House appeared first on RISMedia.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2021

The severe lack of inventory in today’s housing market has been a source of stress for home buyers and real estate agents alike. For buyers in today’s market, the severe lack of inventory adds another layer of frustration, FOMO (fear of missing out) and a sense of urgency. Instead, embrace change, and make it work for you. .

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