Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

The home was appraised for $750,000, almost 60% higher than the initial appraisal performed. A spokesperson for loanDepot told HousingWire that the company “strongly opposes bias in the home finance process.” ” The settlement agreement does not resolve or release any claims against 20/20 Valuations and Lanham.

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Broke Agent Media

MARCH 24, 2023

BAM Key Details: Black Knight is one of only six vendors approved by Fannie Mae to support their new valuation option: value acceptance plus property data. The value acceptance plus property data valuation option allows for properly trained and vetted third parties to collect interior and exterior data on a property under consideration.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke to Chris McLain, division president of Valuations for Consolidated Analytics , about the current appraisals market, AI innovation in valuations and valuation products for HELOCs and second-lien mortgages. HW: With higher rates, the market for home equity lending continues to grow.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2024

Valuation in the residential brokerage industry has some characteristics that are unique when compared to other industries and businesses. Given these characteristics and others, brokerage valuations are subject to what I call a, “What have you done for me lately?” Like selling a home, comps are heavily considered.

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Real Trends

JANUARY 18, 2023

The post Analytics firm Plunk expands home valuation tools appeared first on RealTrends. We’ve been able to easily incorporate Plunk’s real-time analytics into our agent websites through developer APIs,” said James Call, RealtyCandy Founder and IDX Broker developer.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Plunk , an AI-powered home analytics platform, has partnered with two real estate industry marketing companies, Union Street Media and Realforce , to scale its real-time data and analytics across multiple digital channels. Plunk’s platform offers real-time insights into home valuation , risk assessment, and remodeling possibilities.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Plunk , an AI-powered home analytics platform, announced a proptech partnership with BHR , a housing data aggregator. Property research, comprehensive valuation and remodeling insights will all be available in one place. RealReports pulls information from over 30 data providers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

RealReports is a real estate platform that gathers property data , ranging from climate risk to valuation, in one place. RealReports also announced a partnership with Plunk , an AI-powered home analytics platform, last November.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

In January, the company announced a strategic partnership with Radian subsidiary Homegenius , connecting its AI-powered home search platform with FinLocker’s financial readiness platform. ” FinLocker raised roughly $20 million in 2020 in its Series A round ( TransUnion was one of its early backers ) and $2.25

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2023

Plunk , an AI-powered home analytics platform, has introduced a new tool called Plunk Pro that aims to transform the real estate market by offering real-time insights into home valuation, risk assessment, and remodeling possibilities. This content was generated using AI and was edited by HousingWire’s editors.

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RIS Media

MAY 9, 2021

Buyside recently announced its second National Home Valuation Week. According to the company, the first National Home Valuation Week generated 6,510 unique homeowners checking the value of their home, equaling $2.9B By the close of Q1 2021, 257 of those homeowners listed and sold their homes, generating $90.9M

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

He continued: “The RealScout platform works seamlessly with existing tools and data sources our affiliated agents use today, and the platform is proven to help agents reach and expand their sphere of influence and get more people into the homes they want with less effort.” How does it work ?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2023

Because of rules put in place following the Great Financial Crisis, lenders subcontract the appraisal to third-party valuation companies, which are independent and provide a valuation that often determines whether the loan is funded. Lanham listed technical arguments for providing a valuation of $475,000. ”

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

RealReports is a real estate platform that gathers property data — including construction permits, climate risk, rental rates, flood insurance costs, remodel potential and valuation — in one place. It pulls information from more than 30 data providers.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2023

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and the Consumer Bankers Association (CBA) sent a letter to regulators on Monday warning of the “unintended consequences” of new quality control standards for automated valuation models (AVMs). ” Another trade group weighed in on the newly proposed rule.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2023

Validate Validate is an innovative, digital, borrower-driven mobile app that provides fast, easy, reliable and objective property valuations for home equity lending.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

Their groundbreaking technologies and visionary ideas are transforming the way we buy, sell and finance homes. The 2023 Tech100 Mortgage winners are continuing to bring innovation to the mortgage process – from origination to closing, and servicing to secondary markets. The following table shows the 2023 winners.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Rent-to-own startup Divvy Homes issued pink slips to nearly 100 U.S. This is the third round of layoffs Divvy Homes had in 12 months as rising interest rates have made it challenging for the proptech startup that offers a path to homeownership via a rent-to-own program.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Class Valuation , one of the largest appraisal management companies in the U.S., To partner with an industry leader like Class Valuation will benefit both our lending and appraisal partners,” Robert Strong, CEO of PropertyVal, said in a statement. It’s at least the third acquisition Class Valuation has made this year alone.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

Between lack of inventory, record high prices, rising interest rates and significant affordability issues, challenges for the purchase and refi markets are leading to a time of opportunity for home equity lending. It may even be enough to dissuade some from initiating the home equity loan process.

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REM Online

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The original post can be found at the following URL: Qube Realty offers online home valuation, sold prices in Quebec. Qube Realty, a Montreal real estate start-up, is offering instant home valuation technology and a map of sold-prices in the province of Quebec.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2023

Real estate valuation technology company Clear Capital unveiled an automated underwriting risk analyzer solution called AURA on Tuesday. “AURA is an automated tool that automatically reviews appraisals and delivers accurate property analysis, speeding the process for lenders and helping homebuyers get into their dream homes faster.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

However, the report states there’s no final decision on the timing and valuation. billion valuation in a venture-backed funding round in 2021. In June, it rolled out a wholesale lending platform that gives loan originators access to the company’s home equity line of credit offering. Figure had a $3.2

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2022

National appraisal management company Class Valuation is extending its reach, with the acquisition of yet another appraisal management company. Class Valuation said it would bring on AppraisalTek’s 75 full-time employees. The acquisition is Class Valuation’s fifth in recent years.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Revive has released a new tool named “Revive Vision AI” designed to assist real estate professionals in property valuation. “Revive Vision AI” aims to provide a more precise value assessment than traditional automated valuation models (AVM) by analyzing property photos.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Similarly, data-driven marketing can be more cost effective, helping you focus your marketing budget on homeowners who are most likely to sell, and on buyers who are actively looking for their next home. By leveraging large datasets, these tools offer precise, data-driven valuations and insightful analysis. Need more examples?

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HomeLight

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Maybe selling your home is part of your five-year plan. It’s natural for homeowners to be curious about their property’s value and how home prices in their area are performing. But getting an accurate valuation is a complex process with a lot of little details impacting how much your house is worth over the years.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The process of finding, buying and owning a home today is disjointed, antiquated and messy. That’s why they’ve introduced the homegenius Platform, an integrated solution consisting of advanced technology , data science, machine learning and AI designed to drive value and bring ease to consumers through the home buying and selling journey.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2023

Thursday, March 23 marks the one-year anniversary since the Interagency Task Force on Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity (PAVE) released its action plan to curb instances of bias in the housing appraisal process. Led by U.S. FHFA, along with HUD, [the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

Fannie Mae updated its Selling Guide on Wednesday to include more options for property valuations, saying that they are “moving away from implying that an appraisal is a default requirement.” We are on a journey of continuous improvement to make the home valuation process more efficient and accurate.

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RIS Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Buyside , a provider of homebuyer insights, worked with its broker clients to launch the first-ever National Home Valuation Week (#NHVW), which begins Monday, Sept. “National Home Valuation Week gives consumers an opportunity to work with agents to understand of how many days it will take to sell their home and at what price.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Class Valuation , one of the largest appraisal management companies in America, just made another acquisition. The AMC announced late last week that it has acquired fellow Detroit-based AMC Metro-West and its subsidiary Valuation Link. I am incredibly proud of Valuation Link and Metro-West and all we’ve accomplished.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Features of the new RealScout Pro+ include Auto Nurture, Home Value Alerts and market activity alerts. The two seller or future seller nurture features in the RealScout Pro+ launch include Home Value Alerts and market activity.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Appraisal management company Class Valuation , a subsidiary of investment firm Gridiron Capital , acquired Kansas City, Missouri-based Pendo Management for an undisclosed sum. John Fraas, CEO of Class Valuation, said that combining the two firms “tech-enabled workflows and complementary areas of expertise” would help the consumer. “We

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Drive leads to home valuation landing pages It’s the 21st century. To drive sellers to your website, create custom landing pages that offer free home valuations and describe the services and expertise you provide to home sellers. You’ll impress potential home sellers with your polished property marketing.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

As a licensed brokerage , it operates in all 50 states, and its real estate database is powered mostly by MLS-listed homes in the U.S. As a real estate hub, Xome offers services such as asset management, property disposition, title, close and valuation through an integrated, technology-driven platform.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Local Logic , a location intelligence platform that digitizes the built world, has teamed up with Plunk , an AI-driven analytics company, to empower end-users with the technology and insights they need to accelerate and improve home purchase decisions, the company announced on Tuesday.

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