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. In July, DocuSign acquired Austin-based startup Liveoak Technologies for $38 million in an all-stock transaction.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Foxfire cited RE/MAX’s technology offerings as a major draw to the brand. “We We were completely blown away by the tools and technology and the culture of RE/MAX,” Owen Boone, RE/MAX Foxfire’s vice president and director of operations, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

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. Our EXOS Title technology offers accelerated title decisioning and a definitive clear-to-close timeline in seconds.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Maxwell , a Wells Fargo -backed mortgage fintech, announced Wednesday that it has struck a deal to acquire the digital lending platform Revvin ( formerly known as MortgageHippo ) to enhance its point-of-sale technology. The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

California-based ICE Mortgage Technology announced this week two enterprise agreements to integrate its eClose solution to Maxwell and Roostify platforms, enabling a more streamlined closing process for lenders and borrowers. Encompass eClose will be part of the mortgage fintech Maxwell’s point-of-sale platform.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

So, from origination to processing, closing, sales and servicing — we don’t have the servicing piece, but we connect the dots into servicing for valuation and analytics, and so on. From a technology perspective, we’re cloud native with our infrastructure and very focused on being scalable and a reliable platform.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

Real estate technology has changed rapidly over the last few years, and property valuation is no exception. Efficient data collection with aggregation and next-generation market analytics can drastically impact the closing process. Today, borrowers and lenders alike expect an easy and expedited home loan experience.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Starting strong is less important for a deal that takes a long time to close. This was a crisis for many large Independent mortgage banks that had created fine-tuned systems for refinancing loans and had virtually no trained sales force to prospect for new purchase money business. Two things I will say about technology.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

FTC sued ICE earlier this year alleging the two top mortgage technology providers would drive up costs, reduce innovation and limit lenders’ choices for mortgage origination tools. Under the agreement between the FTC and the two mortgage tech providers, ICE completed the sale of Black Knight’s Optimal Blue and Empower in September.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

The report defines a critical defect as one that “would result in the loan being uninsurable or ineligible for sale.” The overarching goal of prefunding QC is to ward off problems before they become issues on closed loans. The problem obviously is bad loans that lead to repurchase and indemnification.”

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RIS Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

A year ago, in March 2020, on the heels of an active January/February that set the year up as a strong one for home sales, the reality of COVID-19 hit the U.S. “Our advice was for them to reach out to people with kindness and a helping hand—not a sales pitch. They developed new shows for Facebook Live. total of 5.64

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

While brokers frequently prioritize sophisticated recruitment tactics and having the best technology stack, it’s vital to revisit the fundamental elements of human interaction and organizational retention underpinning a successful brokerage. For a newer agent, discussions may focus more on training and basic sales techniques.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

By focusing on its clients and their processes, WFG helps compress the time required to close a loan and/or transfer real property ownership. WFG develops solutions in direct response to industry concerns solicited through regular engagement with its Executive Roundtable (ERT) of C-suite lending executives. .”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2023

Buyers, sellers and lenders all have a stake in the sale, and title and escrow ensure that everyone’s interests are protected. They also help to prevent fraud and ensure that the sale is conducted legally and ethically. They ensure that all conditions of the sale have been met and manage the disbursement of funds at closing.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

nCino, a publicly traded financial tech company that specializes in cloud banking, said that its decision to purchase Utah-based SimpleNexus is a natural expansion of the company into the point-of-sale mortgage market. The sum entails a $240 million cash payment and approximately 13.2 million shares of nCino common stock, nCino said.

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Realty Biz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

While there are many reasons as to why that is, technology in real estate certainly played a major part. Real estate technology has come a long way in a short time. Today, real estate technology has evolved to include smart phones, real estate robotics, and a host of other innovative technologies.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2021

SimpleNexus will now serve 425 distinct lender customers and dozens of mortgage technology integration partners, the company said in a release. Prior to that, she served as the executive vice president of sales and marketing at Ellie Mae , now ICE Mortgage Technology. Terms of the deal were not released.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2023

In 2023, the W Team closed an impressive $102,683,254 in sales volume, earning her team the #21 rank in New York City and #36 position in New York State by RealTrends for small teams. With the move, Wu returns to where she began her career as junior partner on the Jing Chen Team in 2019. where she launched her own team.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Too many real estate agents are watching artificial intelligence (AI) from the sidelines, assuming technology will never replace them. The history of AI and where it is going The Turing Test was developed by Alan Turing in 1950. However, it was deemed as too challenging technologically so it languished. What is next?

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Easy Agent Pro

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As technology is revolutionizing many industries , the real estate market has also been profoundly altered by these advancements. This post will explore how technology is playing an integral part in helping navigate its complex dynamics while simultaneously responding and shaping them accordingly.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

“A key differentiator of ours (and something missing from the market at large) is a focus on the loan officer’s experience,” said Jason Smith, SVP Sales and Marketing. “We For borrowers, a point-of-sale system is typically their first physical interaction with a lender’s brand. Jason Smith, SVP Sales and Marketing.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2023

And while all fraud is worrisome, Carol Bullion-Mincy, the business development specialist at Liberty Title Agency , said that mortgage payoff fraud is the scariest. “Can you afford to lose a million dollars? Can you afford to lose you reputation?” Lakhani-Bhatt asked. This is my 40 th year in the title industry,” Bullion-Mincy said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

People who invest in technology often ask the question: is this a “nice to have,” or a “need to have?” Few have the resources to invest in technologies they don’t need. What’s the worst that can happen if we don’t invest in this technology?”. This new technology gave him the time to teach his injured brain to talk again.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Any person involved in selling a home knows that you cannot increase the price of your home randomly to cover the cost of commissions and other closing costs. The market sets the price of the home, and it cares little for closing costs — or what the homeowner invested in it — when determining the price for which it will sell.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Digital mortgage automation solution provider Floify launched a mortgage point-of-sale (POS) platform for lenders. ” Floify plans to roll out new integrations with popular borrower verification report providers and an e-closing vendor, as well as enhanced functionality with existing integration partners in the coming months.

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GeekEstate

JUNE 18, 2023

We have a job opportunity to share from a member of the GEM, Collabra Technology , data analytics and automated digital marketing solutions for the real estate industry: Chief Marketing Officer. Develop a winning culture that supports high-energy interaction, responsiveness, attentiveness, and high integrity.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2021

New entrants continue to join the market with better technology and digital processes to simplify the loan process and provide fast closing experiences to meet consumer needs. In 2019, for example, one national lender reportedly spent $100 million to develop a digital platform that could originate and close transactions in eight days.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Dan Catinella, chief lending officer at Total Expert, about how Customer Intelligence technology is improving deal flow and pushing the customer experience into the 21st century. . HW: How is Total Expert’s Customer Intelligence helping lenders close more deals?

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2022

As of January 2022, 92% of all eNotes registered with MERS were created and registered with Wolters Kluwer technology. This market-leading solution will make hybrid closings and eVaulting easier for real estate assets, including home equity loans. Mark Mackey – Director of Technology Product Management, IDS.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

” loanDepot’s stock closed at $1.47 ” Martell said loanDepot is investing in fundamental, underlying systems and looking at the point-of-sale technology. on Wednesday. “Investors have a view of this sector in general; every company has a low valuation, and certainly in mortgages,” Martell said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2022

The title insurance space isn’t generally known for placing outsized bets on technology. Since we now have good coverage across those segments, our more recent investments have primarily focused in two areas – mortgage technology and commercial real estate. As of Sept.

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Realty Biz

MAY 11, 2022

Smart home technologies are revolutionizing real estate. Homeowners are not the only people benefiting from smart home technologies. Realtors are also trying to capitalize on the emergence and development of this technology. Realtors are also trying to capitalize on the emergence and development of this technology.

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Realty Biz

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

All of these stories and more have been in the news today as new developments in automation and artificial intelligence seek to revolutionize the way we work and live. Automated technology now impacts nearly every industry today, and the world of real estate is no different. Academic papers that write themselves.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2021

Cloudstar , a technology and compliance partner for the title and mortgage origination industry, has shaken up its current executive team with the recent promotion of Christopher Cury to president. Cury previously served as executive vice president of sales and customer service.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

This has led many lenders to feel overwhelmed by options and lack understanding of how, when and where to best implement new technology. Many of these goals lead to adding technologies that can both speed up cycle times and drive down costs. Looking Inward. Looking Forward. billion dollars in annual losses.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2023

More often than not, the small firms that become big, or the mid-cap businesses that eventually make a public offering, can explain their growth by using a new technology , business model or even product in a way that not only differentiates them during market turbulence, but positions them for sustainable success when the tide turns.

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