RIS Media

JANUARY 21, 2022

Technology evolution in home inspection now enables a number of advances that benefit clients and agents alike. Agents that take advantage of these developments will help improve their clients’ home-buying and -selling process and will save themselves time as well.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2024

The goal is to help them develop this territory and use this platform to attract talent – established loan officers, up and coming loan officers,” Steinway said in an interview with HousingWire. People are still buying homes, but we are still seeing multiple offers like crazy, seeing a lot of people waive contingencies such as inspections.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

The company says it will use the funding to scale its operations, accelerate its research and development and expand construction into new markets. The company accomplishes this through a turnkey panelized approach, providing pre-inspected, fully cladded walls directly to building sites for installation.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2023

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced this week that it has established a new Office of Manufactured Housing Programs , which will report to Assistant Secretary for Housing and Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Commissioner Julia Gordon.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2022

A Fannie Mae survey published in mid-May found that mortgage lenders see value in appraisal modernization, specifically in the implementation of non-traditional appraisals and inspection-based appraisal waivers. Currently, the appraisal process is the biggest issue facing the mortgage industry,” the mid-sized lender said. “It

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

But in the face of the ongoing epidemic and increasing volume impacting turn times, the industry will need to use technology to remediate these issues. Remote inspections have the power to make homeowners and appraisers more comfortable. They want to know what they’re inspecting and they want to be able to take the photos.”.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

I have been perhaps the harshest critic of the pre-construction condominium industry in Ontario over the past two decades. Developers know all the loopholes. Over the last few years, there have been attempts at consumer protection in real estate, but mandatory home inspections in B.C., I have no doubt about that.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2021

The real estate industry is in a serious time crunch to get new housing stock together. I talked to a lot of industry professionals along the way and no one could explain the roadblocks to me. Construction has traditionally been slow to pick up new technology compared to other industries. Creating transparency.

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RIS Media

DECEMBER 1, 2020

” Headquartered in both Tampa and Toronto, Pillar To Post celebrated its 25th year in 2019, adding 65 new home inspection franchisees to its roster—designated once again by Entrepreneur Magazine as the gold standard in the industry. “Our franchisees are the best trained in the industry,” says Steward.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2022

The Federal Housing Finance Agency released voluminous plans last week developed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make the housing market more equitable, in part through changes to the appraisal process. Non-traditional appraisals to the rescue. Appraisers have, in the past, fretted over liability and data reliability.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Aerial drone inspection of Lennar’s Westview housing development Miami, Florida. Peak production At around 30% now, the homebuilding industry is likely near the peak level of new-home sales as a share of the entire housing market, according to industry experts who spoke with HousingWire. Taken by Felix Mizioznikov.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2021

Fortunately for the housing industry, the record-low rates fueled a surge in origination volumes and a record-breaking year for the industry overall. The surge also highlighted the biggest challenge that the appraisal industry is facing is of capacity constraints due to ever declining number of professional appraisers.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

The fastest-growing housing tech firm in 2023 was OptiFunder , which claims to produce the mortgage industry’s only optimization software built to systematically decision warehouse funding allocations and automate the complicated process of funding through loan sale. Based in Missouri, OptiFunder had a three-year growth rate of 4,767%.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2021

Black Knight’s REvolution suite provides appraisers and other valuation professionals with a seamless appraisal process from property inspection to report delivery. SCOUT enables remote property inspections, which has been critical during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Black Knight CEO Anthony Jabbour said. Anthony Jabbour, CEO.

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Redfin

AUGUST 25, 2023

From the annual dance of hurricane season to the nuances of local architecture and environmental factors, being well-informed through an indispensable home inspection is paramount before buying a home. Unfortunately, some of these issues remain hidden until much later,” shares Inspection Services of Florida LLC. “We

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

With some additional pressure we could use it to move the industry forward faster and in a more positive direction. So, it’s like you put those things together and it’s like, what is the argument for having a human being go to a house and physically do an inspection.”.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2023

As a professional in the industry with over twenty years of experience, I know that two of the most crucial aspects of any real estate transaction are title and escrow. How has technology impacted the industry? Technology has disrupted the title and escrow industry in a positive way, making the process smoother and quicker.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Tom Kriby, Vice President of Client Development and Partnerships at Westwood Insurance, about how insurance issues can hold up a home closing and how lenders can integrate insurance into their process to help their homebuyers avoid delays.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2022

With an appraiser shortage that’s causing delays across the country, it’s time to apply more intelligence to the way we get the right appraiser to the right property at the right time – very similar to what Uber has done for the transportation and freight industries. HW: What innovations should the industry be looking out for in 2022?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

The history of AI and where it is going The Turing Test was developed by Alan Turing in 1950. A functioning neural network was viewed as the pathway to develop AI capable of learning anything a human could, and perhaps becoming more intelligent than humans. It re-emerged in the AI scene in October 2012. What is next?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Now is the time for the industry to work quickly and better coordinate efforts, particularly in the following areas: Enforcement and compliance. Our industry must support and adopt solutions like the Practical Applications of Real Estate Appraisal (PAREA) and allow students to engage in simulated/virtual training programs in every state.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2021

The company recently launched ClearLabs, an in-house research and development group that works alongside industry leaders and government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to continually build on what’s possible in compliant real estate valuation and analytics. Duane Andrews, CEO. Jeff Allen, Executive Vice President, Innovation Labs.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

QVM Insights combines virtual inspection technology with industry-leading automated valuation services for professionals in the real estate ecosystem. It also factors in the effects of foreclosures, recent sales and other data inputs from virtual inspection to room-by-room condition.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2022

Clear Capital’s data science team developed the product and built it into the already existing platform, a review system that automates collateral underwriting in compliance with internal credit policies and government-sponsored enterprise guidelines. “One

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

In addition, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will award $20 million for the Eviction Protection Grant Program to fund the provision of legal assistance by non-profit and government organizations to low-income evicted tenants or those at risk of eviction.

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2021

Unfortunately, the ability to obtain information on individual property data about these two factors is hard to come by, short of an interior physical inspection. This is why most automated valuation models (AVM) default to assessing “average” quality and condition.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

The need to physically inspect each property will be replaced with data or other inspection options in many cases. On an industry leader level, that is where we need to be. Tavant has subject matter expertise to make sure that everything we’re developing related to mortgage is relevant to the people who are going to be using it.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2021

The seven-hour course will be released later this year and will focus on “timely appraisal topics,” as well as giving test takers resource materials to better answer questions that may come up during an appointment, the industry group, which sets uniform standards for appraisers. 31, 2022.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

“We are excited to work with innovative lenders like Sierra Pacific Mortgage to find ways to take time, touch and cost out of their collateral underwriting workflows,” said Sage Nichols, CoreLogic executive of client and business development. Are borrower-assisted inspections here to stay? Presented by: CoreLogic.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Further, Fannie notes, “Leveraging the wealth of big data, the power of advanced analytics, and the speed of technology, appraisers can perform desktop appraisals without physically inspecting the property.” ” Amazing, right? What about AVMs? James Dawkins is a certified residential underwriter at Cardinal Financial.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2022

The FHA gave the mortgage industry 30 days to provide feedback. To mitigate risk, the MBA called on the Department of Housing and Urban Development to reimburse vendors for accompanying prospective purchases during the inspection. The announced changes must be implemented by Aug.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

Regardless of the lenders’ size, ServiceLink’s exclusive EXOS technology, comprehensive industry experience, and stability help lenders get to closing quickly while providing a better borrower experience. More than 50 years of title industry expertise gives ServiceLink unique insight into the needs of our wholesale clients.

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Realty Biz

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

As a leading real estate developer and construction manager, Crow Holdings is excited to partner with the INGENIOUS team on designing and growing their platform, which we believe fills an area of need and opportunity in the industry's workflow. It exemplifies their trust in us and fuels our relentless pursuit of industry disruption.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2022

Last week, Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation announced the hiring of Tane Cabe as its new reverse business development manager with a focus on Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) for Purchase (H4P) business. As with many aspects of the reverse mortgage industry, it also comes down to general awareness, Hultquist adds.

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RIS Media

APRIL 14, 2022

“We’ve signed on 15 new franchisees since January of this year,” said Harpal Kalsi, the company’s vice president of Franchise Development, “and we are expecting to have a total of 80 new franchisees come aboard by the end of 2022.”. building inspector industry, measured by revenue, is estimated to have a market size of $4.9

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Propmodo

APRIL 9, 2024

These are some of the most stringent building standards that exist in the world at the moment, and they are increasingly being eyed by the real estate industry as a way to meet both carbon emissions rules and ESG goals. But some in the industry believe there needs to be a lot more improvement in this area. But what about afterward?

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