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Bring your borrowers home: How speed and simplicity will win the next refinance wave

Housing Wire

A shifting market demands a faster response Many borrowers who locked in loans over the past few years are sitting on tappable equity and watching the market closely. When rates dipped, applications jumped but the window closed just as quickly. Lenders must be ready to engage borrowers instantly, or risk losing them for good.

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The surprising future of mortgage technology

Housing Wire

Today, while the mortgage industry has the technology to support this, we’re still in the early stages of determining how it should be used. With the advances we’re seeing in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Robotic Process Automation, we have become experts at configuring our technology to meet the changing needs of lenders.

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How lenders can help borrowers improve their credit score

Housing Wire

At HousingWire’s 2021 Annual Spring Summit, CreditXpert VP of Sales and Client Success Matt Hydrew and T odd Worthington , director of qualification support at Bank of England, discussed top-of-the-funnel strategies lenders can use to help borrowers gain a better understanding of their credit score. Or, give up looking altogether.

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How 2020 exposed a greater need for collaboration between real estate agents and LOs

Housing Wire

HousingWire: What role has the increase in technology played for both businesses and consumers in the real estate space? Vance Loiselle: In the 20th century, the primary technology innovations in real estate were the telephone and the MLS. The post-close nurturing process is woefully lacking and can be digitized.

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Overcoming the challenges direct-to-consumer lenders are facing

Housing Wire

HousingWire recently sat down with Total Expert Director of Technology Alliances Josh Lehr to learn more about recent trends around direct-to-consumer lending. During the last year, lenders brought on more staff and implemented technology to originate historically high volumes of refinances due to record-breaking low rates.

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Opinion: Is the lending market overcorrecting toward tech? Maybe

Housing Wire

Technology has been the focal point of that evolution more out of necessity than some consensus that homebuyers don’t want to interact with their lenders at all. Customer-facing technologies, particularly loan origination and decisioning software, are now standard in mortgage lending’s tech stack. We’re not cavepeople.

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DropOffer wants real estate agents to go off-market

Housing Wire

There’s a lot of data and technology that is already out there, and I knew that if I could consolidate this data then we would have something that an agent can really use to create that inventory for their clients.”. “As an agent I would go through extensive efforts to increase the inventory for my clients.

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