Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2025

By leveraging behavioral and property data, lenders can spot signals that a homeowner may be ready to act, like tapping equity for renovations. Rather than opening with a product pitch, the focus should be on delivering value first: market insights, ROI-focused upgrade ideas, or equity tracking tools tailored to their journey stage.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2022

Those new investments include venture capital plays, particularly in the financial-technology arena. Abate described technology as being key to “building efficiencies” to accomplish the real estate investment trust’s goals. Vesta Equity , another blockchain-enabled marketplace for tokenized home-equity investments. “As

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Private equity firm Exuma Capital Partners announced that it is the lead investor for a newly launched, AI-powered homeowner management tool called Property.com. Exuma believes that the platform will provide transformative change to every stage of homeownership. “My AI has been top of mind for the real estate industry.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2021

According to a release from Volly, the acquisition of Home Captain’s technology will extend the company’s reach into the real estate realm. This was just one month after Volly announced an $11 million Series B growth equity round led by Camden Partners and backed by existing investor, New Capital Partners.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Real estate technology company Knock has announced the launch of Knock Nest, a standalone sale-leaseback solution that allows homeowners to access the cash they’ve built up in their home while continuing to live in it. Knock will purchase the home and rent it back to the (former) owners.

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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.” ” Ardley can help servicers with retention strategies and find new deals within their portfolio.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2024

On the other hand, the usual hyperbole that accompanies any trend in technology should not be taken at face-value; kicking the tires and assessing previous promises and bets is essential. Also, for the sake of simplicity, I will take a complex supply chain and process and reduce it to five stages/processes: 1. Valuation 3.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

Tim Bowler, the president of ICE Mortgage Technology , appreciates a good analogy. Treasury official says that the mortgage technology giant’s integration of Black Knight isn’t dissimilar to building a rail line. But MSP, the flagship servicing technology engine acquired in the $12 billion Black Knight deal, runs on 2.01-meter

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2022

On Wednesday morning, Rascoff’s 20-plus years of experience will shine on the HW Annual stage. Rascoff lives and breathes a lucrative mix of technology finance, and real estate, three inextricably linked sectors. Join us at HW Annual for the content, connections and technology you need to win in this environment. Register here.

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2023

Flueid , a leading technology company specializing in real estate transactions, announced on Thursday the integration of its patented Flueid Decision platform with Encompass by ICE Mortgage Technology.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Roostify CEO and Co-founder, Rajesh Bhat, told FinLedger that RDI operates as an API microservice, so it can be integrated at any stage in the lending process that works for a lender, regardless of whether Roostify is part of the lender’s tech stack or not. What also sets it apart is that it’s already boosting FI scores,” Bhat said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2023

Most of the 51 entries dedicated to HUD are in the “proposed rule stage,” the second of five stages involved in the process prior to full implementation and actual regulatory authority. An initial notice on this proposal is expected this month.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke to Kevin Wilzbach, director, product management at Wolters Kluwer, about the adoption of digital technology and the future of eNotes. HousingWire: What kind of impact has the overall deceleration of the mortgage market had on the adoption of digital technology over the past few quarters?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

And all of this helps create a more integrated (and more importantly, streamlined) lender-title workflow that empowers the collective to achieve the all-elusive 5-day close for home equity or 10-day close for refinance. Now, it’s not uncommon to find these and other potential issues during the title search and curative process.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2021

Since the independent public offering fell apart, sources have told HousingWire that private equity owner Lone Star has been shopping for a buyer for Caliber. News of late-stage talks between NewRez and Caliber were first reported by HousingWire in the LendingLife newsletter. Caliber originated $80 billion in mortgages in 2020.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

FinLocker and Milestones offer a multitude of useful tools that can benefit homebuyers during the pre and post-transaction stages, the companies said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

million raise in equity funding with participation from affiliates of Starwood Capital Group and Freedom Mortgage , alongside independent investor and Softbank Group International CEO, Marcelo Claure. Putting the homeowner first is the foundation of our technology.” “But it doesn’t have to be that way,” Wang added.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

The only entity to be immediately impacted in the initial rebranding stage is Ocwen itself, but a version of the new name is expected to roll out to both Liberty and PHH at some point in 2024. The company has also established capital-partner relationships and has made a series of technological investments into its platforms, he said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

“Reverse mortgages are an important product within Finance of America’s diverse range of flexible, end-to-end consumer lending solutions spanning the entire home financing and home equity spectrum,” she explains. At the same time the equity in their homes continues to grow. Product education and the necessity to connect.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 22, 2024

Equity Angels, an organization dedicated to advancing diversity in technology startups, has launched with fractional executive solutions and accelerator programs for early-stage fintech and proptech companies.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

The strong foundation at Citadel Servicing is such an ideal situation to build on – growing the people, processes and technology that will fuel the next stage of market leadership. My most recent position was vice president of sales at 5 Arch Funding.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

We share some open house ideas to help you do just that, taking you through the planning, staging, marketing, hosting and follow-up for your open house events. Stage the home (including virtual staging) Staging homes generally helps you sell them faster and at higher prices. Here are two tools to help.

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GeekEstate

OCTOBER 29, 2021

I’m excited to release Thomvest’s real estate technology market map, which includes more than 240 companies operating within the residential real estate segment. This market map real estate technology companies operating across every phase of the home purchase value chain. Expanding access to home financing options.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

The San Francisco company was now “backed by the top three technology initial public offering underwriters,” Side announced at the time , and the money raise “sets the stage for a future IPO.”. Today, though, Side is radio silent on going public. Gal and other company representatives did not return messages for this article. “I

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

Making use of emerging technologies including generative artificial intelligence (AI), NAF has launched a marketing campaign called “Old Wives” that seeks to show how potential borrowers could be empowered by making use of their own resources — namely their home’s equity — to forge a path in retirement.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2023

trillion in origination volume in 2020 and 2021 and posted record profits, it was Blend’s digital technology that powered about a quarter of those mortgages. Blend’s clients could originate a mortgage a week faster with Blend’s technology, and they saved hundreds of dollars per loan in operations costs.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Richard Koss of Recursion will set the stage with data on how capital markets participants are driving channel growth with data specific to retail, correspondent and brokered loan volume. A conversation on mortgage capital markets wouldn’t be complete without data. Watch the full session below. The rest of this content is for HW+ members.

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Realty Biz

JULY 20, 2022

Real estate industry investment platform Fundrise has announced a new, $1 billion fund as part of its bid to expand into the technology space. The new “innovation fund” , as it’s called, aims to make real estate technology investments easier and more affordable for all U.S. Anyone who lives in the U.S. Anyone who lives in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2023

Some investors have noted that a settlement could signal the FTC’s willingness to accept last-minute divestitures, as well as sign off on financial (private equity) buyers, which the FTC has historically viewed as uncompetitive, according to KBW.

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Realty Biz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Fifth Wall, the venture firm focused on real estate technology, has just announced that big real estate is putting $140 million into a climate tech fund to help decarbonize the sector. . A few of the firms Firth Wall mentions are Equity Residential, Hudson Pacific Properties, Invitation Homes, Ivanhoe Cambridge, to name a few.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2025

The study has only been released online at this stage and has yet to be peer reviewed. Despite the lack of peer review at this stage, the Post enlisted perspective from Asaf Bernstein, a finance professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Indirect economic pressure could lead to as much as $1.2

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Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2022

Arrived Home’s seed round in June 2021 raised $37 million in equity and debt-financing, and in December last year it lined up a $100 million credit facility. Arrived Homes is a private company and does not release financial figures.

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GeekEstate

AUGUST 17, 2022

We then moved on to Blueprinting Proptech , which introduced “a structured methodology to analyze early-stage companies paving the future of property technology.”. Part XI: Co-Investment & Home Equity Financial Products. Beyond that, we have another few up our sleeves: Part VII: Pre-Fab, Modular, & 3D Printing.

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Realty Biz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Cecilian Partners, a proptech firm that offers comprehensive digital solutions for home builders and land developers, has successfully raised $11 million in its first institutional equity round led by Resolve Growth Partners. This market has traditionally been underserved by technology. John Cecilian, Jr.,

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Realty Biz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The startups range from virtual staging tools to e-signature platforms, and are all aiming to make a big impact in the real estate technology sector. Second Century Ventures, a global venture fund in real estate technology, has more than 100 portfolio companies worldwide.

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Propmodo

JUNE 20, 2024

CBRE itself sees so much potential in the sector that have decided to buy a data center service provider from a private equity firm Like warehouses and logistics in the pandemic era, the sky’s the limit for data center development. Using nuclear power for large data centers is still in the early stages.

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 24, 2023

That reminds us… Have you checked your home equity lately? So if you have three bedrooms, you’d be wise to stage one of them as a guest room, and another as a home office. In addition, a stylish chair — rather than a standard rolling office chair or ergonomic monstrosity — creates a more inviting space for staging purposes.

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