Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

On the flip side, transferring servicing removes direct access to these borrowers and closes the window into their mortgage activity. Digital technologies help lenders reduce errors, cut costs, and shorten processing times. They also manage Principal and Interest (P&I) and Taxes and Insurance (T&I) advances and recoveries.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

Name Job Title Company Name Aaron Heidorn Director of Software Engineering & Infrastructure Cloudvirga Aaron Smith Director, Sales CubiCasa Adrian Provost Chief Executive Officer Realty ONE Group Terminus Ana LeBlanc Human Resources Director InterLinc Mortgage Annie Lemon Producing Branch Manager Gold Star Mortgage Financial Anthony Russo Diamond (..)

Lending

Real Estate News

JULY 12, 2025

Maryanne Moyers, Principal Broker, Serhant Maryanne Moyers, a veteran broker with more than $5 billion in career sales, will lead the expansion as principal broker. She transitioned to real estate after working in PR and marketing at Bay Area technology firms and was recently recognized by RealTrends as one of the top 1.5%

Brokerage

Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2025

Agent count up by quarter, down by year At the close of the second quarter, RE/MAX’s total agent count topped out at 147,073 agents, up 2.5% Now this demand is showing up in our M&A efforts as well, and we’ve closed several deals this year and are increasingly excited about the pipeline our new leaders are building.”

Agents

Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2025

Rami Hasani , UWM CFO since April, said that UWM continues to invest in growing their operations underwriting and technology teams to support increased production volume. In its servicing portfolio , which is undergoing adjustments following the Rocket – Mr. Cooper deal, the MSR unpaid principal balance reached $214.6

Principal

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The deal leaves room for reinvestment via a two-year window, allowing investors to reuse principal payoffs to purchase newlyoriginated loans. “Kiavi’s data advantage and differentiated, technology-led approach drives our consistent track record of performance and risk-adjusted returns.

Land

Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2025

To further complicate things, these loans are sold to the GSEs and GNMA with various types of remittances which dictate how cash flows are treated for scheduled or actual principal and interest handling. But its certainly time to reach out to these innovators and explore how their technologies could be used to help your business get ahead.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2025

To help brokers stay top of mind, UWM launched technologies like the Loan Estimate Optimizer (LEO) and Mia, an artificial intelligence -powered assistant for loan officers. as of Thursday morning, up roughly 8% from the previous day’s close. million profit in Q2 2024. First, we don’t refinance any borrowers — our brokers do.

Seattle Times Real Estate

JULY 5, 2025

The prices are kind of defying gravity,” said Windermere principal economist Jeff Tucker. Sale price data reflects deals that closed in June, which likely took place about a month earlier.) million in April and a 7% increase from June of last year. Snohomish County was a bit of an outlier.

Technology

The Close

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

While The Close likes to keep our articles short, this topic needs a bit more explanation, but trust us, it will be worth your while. You also want to add overhead expenses like filing your business entity, advertising costs, real estate commissions and finder’s fees, taxes, and mortgage principal and interest.

Hard money loan

The Close

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

After you close on a property, you’ll start racking up monthly carrying costs, which can really add to your planned expenses. Depending on your financing, closing on the property can take 15 to 45 days. The post How to Start a House Flipping Business in 7 Steps appeared first on The Close.

House Flipping

The Residential Specialist

JULY 21, 2025

According to the National Association of REALTORS® 2024 Technology Survey, 65% of real estate professionals are very or somewhat familiar with AI, and 56% use AI tools at least once or twice a month. From Click to Close: Where AI Fits In AI tools can support nearly every stage of a real estate agent’s workflow.

Staging

AAOA

JANUARY 23, 2025

in July 2024 Just about every multifamily project that BartonPartners has designed in recent years has marketed itself as a luxury property, says Bill Warwick, AIA, a Principal with the Philadelphia-based architecture and urban design firm. That same pattern occurred in other Sunbelt markets like Tampa and Raleigh, N.C.

Marketing

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Ready to capitalize on refis, UWM structured a program that transforms individuals with no experience into loan officers in just five weeks and implemented an artificial intelligence (AI) technology, dubbed Keep, to send pre-validated opportunities as soon as borrowers can save in their monthly payments. billion in Q3 2023.

Loan Officer

The Close

JULY 1, 2025

As a real estate agent, understanding FHA loan requirements can allow you to guide your clients towards homeownership, close more deals, and earn the trust of first-time homebuyers. The Close has compiled a list of the best mortgage lenders that I recommend you check out, all of which offer FHA loans. This limit will generally be 31%.

FHA loan

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Large MSR owners are getting a lot of benefits through their skills and investment in technology, and they’re able to pass that through to the MSR economics, including things like retention,” said Chris King, senior vice president at Texas-based Mr. Cooper , the largest primary servicer in the U.S., which manages a $1.34 trillion portfolio.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

Kiavi , one of the nation’s largest private lenders for residential real estate investors , closed a $350 million unrated securitization of residential transition loans (RTLs), the company announced on Monday. The loans bundled in the securitization were mostly investment property loans used for fix-and-flip transactions.

Closing

Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2021

In December, Rocket Mortgage became the first lender to use eNotes in closing a Ginnie Mae -backed loan as part of a pilot program. Eventually, I think what you’re going to see is the entire industry adopts this as a method of closing, because it’s really a better consumer experience.”. Presented by: SimpleNexus.

Closing

Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB). servicing business, expected to close in the first quarter of 2025, benefits the bank by reducing costs and lowering risk for its balance sheet. According to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF), SPS was the 20th-largest U.S. primary mortgage servicer at the end of June, handling $166.7

Banks

Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2024

Kiavi , one of the nation’s largest private lenders for residential real estate investors , closed a $300 million unrated securitization of residential transition loans (RTLs), the company announced on Friday. The loans bundled in the securitization were mostly investment property loans used for fix-and-flip transactions.

Closing

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The MBS were loans closed by Rocket Mortgage in December, are issued as of Jan. The total principal value of the digital pools came to about $24 million. In December, Rocket Mortgage became the first lender to use eNotes in closing a Ginnie Mae-backed loan as part of a pilot program. . Presented by: CoreLogic.

Principal

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Rocket Companies , the parent of Rocket Mortgage , has set ambitious goals to increase market share by 2027 using its multichannel reach, its origination and servicing flywheel, and its advanced technology platform. We are unique in the sense that we’re building what we consider to be an elastic technology platform,” Krishna said.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2021

This year, eClosings surged as remote online notarization became more popular and consumers looked for alternative ways to close on a home. Moving forward, the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization , a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Mortgage Bankers Association , will continue to focus on digital closings.

Technology

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Connecticut-based Beinfield Team returned to Compass , the company announced on Tuesday. “This transition is all about securing the future success of my team,” Liz Beinfield, the team’s principal agent, said in a statement. They made the leap back to Compass in October.

Principal

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

“As RON transactions become more commonplace in the mortgage industry, NotaryCam is proud to have earned its MISMO RON Software Compliance Certification, which serves as a signal to all industry participants that they can confidently rely on the NotaryCam platform to securely and compliantly execute mortgage closings remotely,” Triola said.

Technology

Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

Closing software provider Qualia has launched Qualia Application Programing Interface (API), according to an announcement on Wednesday. As part of that, we continue to develop technology that helps businesses engineer full end-to-end purchase and refinance experiences.

Title

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Lenders that may have been holding out on embracing automation and technology were forced to adapt at breakneck speed to continue to serve customers. Technology that had long been available, but never saw the level of adoption the industry would have hoped for, was now in high demand. Technology as the new table stakes.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

So why aren’t more commercial real estate (CRE) entities – investors , principals, banks, law firms or developers – seeking the same? A significant opportunity To be sure, there are title agencies eager to partner with CRE principals and funds. Market conditions have certainly trended downward for residential or commercial real estate.

Commercial

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Through the development of improved and sophisticated systems, protocols and technology, these operations leaders are driving their companies to growth and success. In its 8th year, the HW Insiders program is spotlighting the talented operations professionals who are laying the foundation of success for their organizations.

Technology

Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2022

Fannie Mae has launched its fourth reperforming-loan sale of the year — an offering of 6,130 loans with an unpaid principal balance of $997 million. million in unpaid principal balance; pool 2 is at $342.5 The reperforming-loan sale is slated to close by late October 2022, after due-diligence period. million; and pool 3, $312.9

Loans

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The acquisition was made for $250 million in cash and is expected to close by the end of this year, pending closing conditions and review, according to a release. PROJETO uses virtual reality technology which allows clients to be put in a virtual representation of a property that hasn’t been built yet. starting in January.

Principal

Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2022

The most wonderful time of the year, as the song would have us believe, comes to a close with Epiphany, the 12 th day of Christmas, Jan. Think technology and service providers, too — a smaller mortgage market affects everyone. Only people, NOT TECHNOLOGY — can fill the knowledge gap. The holiday season is winding down.

Industrial

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This was the first earnings delivered by Rocket’s new CEO, Varun Krishna , who focused his conversation with analysts on the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies to transform the business. The Detroit-based lender closed the third quarter with $1 billion cash on hand. billion from $8.6 The company had 2.4

Principal

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

LauraMac, a provider of mortgage loan review SaaS technology, has appointed Rick Seehausen as its chief strategy officer. I look forward to working closely with Rick to leverage the success of our Loan Review System, prepare the launch of our Loan Acquisition System, and guide us in the development of new product lines.”

Loans

Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2021

Our ability to handle multi-jurisdictional complexity and distribution diversity are our principal strengths, and Qualia fortifies our ability to manage these attributes and positions us to scale our business more rapidly,” said Susan Kenney Cotter, Passport Title chief officer.

Title

Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

15, 2022, for the purchase of 51 loans, with a total principal value of $32,864,270. Learn how updating your mortgage technology stack can help you get ahead in today’s unpredictable lending environment. Sprout’s executives did not immediately return a request for comment, nor did executives at New Wave. 20, 2022, to Feb.

Due diligence

Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

15, 2022, for the purchase of 51 loans, with a total principal value of $32,864,270. Learn how updating your mortgage technology stack can help you get ahead in today’s unpredictable lending environment. Sprout’s executives did not immediately return a request for comment, nor did executives at New Wave. 20, 2022, to Feb.

Due diligence