Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

E-signature company DocuSign laid off 6% of its workforce, or about 400 employees, following reports that the fintech company’s talks in exploring a sale have stalled. A majority of the impacted positions came from the company’s sales and marketing organizations, the company said. DocuSign had 7,336 employees at the end of 2023.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Mortgage Machine Services , a digital origination technology provider, has appointed Dan McGrew as director of sales. In this role, McGrew will shoulder the responsibility of marketing the company’s digital products, including the flagship loan origination system (LOS) Mortgage Machine. based boutique SAP consulting firm.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

She was nominated as a 2022 HW Insider for her work in building the company’s digital closing platform from the ground up. Be it new experimental technology, legislation or regulation to respond to, disruptive proptech models, shifting market dynamics and so on,” said Price.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2021

The closing process, that time between underwriting approval and the actual closing, is the mortgage industry’s not-so-secret Achilles’ heel. That’s not a knock on the good professionals who enact minor miracles choreographing the multi-faceted ballet that is a typical closing. Let’s admit it.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Nominations for the 2022 HousingWire Tech100 Mortgage and Tech100 Real estate are closing today. The Tech100 Mortgage Award recognizes the companies and solutions that are revolutionizing the mortgage process – from origination to closing, and servicing to secondary markets. The post 2022 Tech100 nominations are closing soon!

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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. The post Mid America Mortgage rebrands to Click n’ Close appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

“The largest, undisrupted market in the U.S.,” ” reads an Opendoor Technology Inc. The Opendoor presentation projected sales of more than 37,500 homes in 2023. Zillow Offers’ last full year of home sales netted a loss of $881 million. Opendoor lost about $1.4 billion last year.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Chime’s all-in-one CRM and sales acceleration platform is designed to help real estate agents, teams, and brokerages close more deals faster. The platform combines IDX websites, lead generation, marketing automation, advanced lead management, and powerful AI to cost-effectively capture and convert leads into new business.

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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). eMortgage challenges.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

Problems with the current state of appraisals One of the current problems with appraisal is the barrier to entry, said Dawn Svedberg, vice president of sales for Tavant. Tara Dugan, who works in marketing and real estate for Tavant, said that technology should focus on integrations and aggregations.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In today’s purchase-heavy market, lenders must shift their priorities to increasing sales volume and standing out among the competition. The two companies featured in this section offer tools to support lenders in their marketing efforts. Black Knight ICE Mortgage Technology.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2022

Top mortgage lending software and analytics provider Black Knight is exploring a sale following takeover interest from several private equity firms, according to a report from Bloomberg. But on the news of a potential sale, it surged 12% on Tuesday, closing the day with a market cap of $10.3 million, down from $264.1

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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?”. Without marketing automation, he probably would have been right. Not anymore.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

And due to today’s booming housing market, they’re having to do even more. CF Wholesale provides brokers with the resources and technology to drive their business and serve their clients. Closing prep control: Brokers can quickly generate their own closing docs, which means they can close their purchase loans on time.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If there’s anything that lenders and borrowers have learned from the current purchase market it’s that speed and efficiency are key to a smooth closing. HousingWire sat down with Zitin to discuss how technology is impacting the future of the appraisal process and what’s to come for appraisal fulfillment in 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Mortgage Technology introduced two new tools, Validate ROV and Validate Selector, to its growing suite of property valuation solutions, the company announced on Monday. Regulators are paying close attention to valuations for many valid reasons.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Despite slower housing market conditions , Big Four title firms Stewart , First American and Fidelity National Financial all managed to earn profits in 2023. Mortgage rates and rate volatility continue to impact transaction volumes, and we find ourselves at historic lows for sale of existing homes.

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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. . Dan Catinella : Lenders should lean into the power of their tech stack as they try to cut costs in the current market situation.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

Wells Fargo -backed mortgage fintech Maxwell rolled out a point-of-sale (POS) feature that offers tailored workflows and integrations. Lenders can choose to integrate and configure many third-party services such as verification of asset, verification of employment/ verification of income , e-signing and e-closing.

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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 11, 2023

The early entrants into the market — including Milo and Figure Technologies — made loans equal to 100% of the borrower’s cryptocurrency value with no down payment required. “The effective use of technology allows us to accomplish this. . “The effective use of technology allows us to accomplish this.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Mortgage professionals need a solution that gives them total insight across the customer life cycle and that can offer multiple functionalities that keep them top of mind with customers – even after the loan closes. Using Surefire, marketing and messaging is fast, simple and always available.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2021

Have you budgeted for closing costs? Before you get overwhelmed, take comfort that critical milestones of home inspection, appraisal and closing processes are all great ways to get more acquainted with your prospective new home. Should the appraisal come in lower than the contract price, the closing process may be impacted.

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

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Easy Agent Pro

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The real estate market has always been a highly competitive arena. As technology is revolutionizing many industries , the real estate market has also been profoundly altered by these advancements. Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR): VR and AR technologies have brought a new dimension to the real estate industry.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

“Most technologies are not architected to do a million loans every five minutes.” “Most technologies are not architected to do a million loans every five minutes.” “We accomplish that by participating when one loan closes, so we want to find more loans and help close them more quickly. .”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

homegenius Real Estate understands the need to deliver differentiated value in a very congested market. Through this offering, consumers may also be eligible to receive a rebate* at closing. Loan must close to be eligible for reimbursement of credit toward closing costs at closing. Explore possible cost savings.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Lenders have seen it all this year: high volumes, volatility, market uncertainty… the list goes on and on. Amid evolving market conditions, today’s mortgage lenders continue to seek new and innovative ways to leverage advanced automation—the great accelerator. Leverage a PPE both broad in reach and deep in functionality.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Nearly three months after filing an initial complaint accusing Gary Keller and Keller Williams of inflating key profitability metrics including company sales and profits to convince individuals to purchase Keller Williams Regions and Market Centers, John Davis has made tweaks to his lawsuit.

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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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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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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with Michael Chew, SVP of Fulfillment, Asset/Rental Management at Consolidated Analytics , about REO assets, the economic factors influencing the increase in REO acquisitions and how technology can help with REO asset management. HW: What does the current market and demand for REO assets look like?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The trough for the mortgage origination market is nearing an end point and 2024 is shaping up to be a better year for the industry, economists of the the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said at the 2023 Annual Convention & Expo in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In terms of units, the MBA expects about 5.2

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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

JULY 28, 2022

Marketers are often the most creative and influential marketing minds in the housing economy. Over the last few years, they’ve proved over and over again just how important and strategic their role is when it comes to being agile in times of uncertainty, filling the sales funnel, leading strategic brand executions and more.

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