Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2025

Reston, Virginia -based mortgage software company RETR announced this week that it has hired two new senior leaders to guide the company’s growth efforts. Before joining RETR, she founded PlacedE, a boutique mortgage recruiting and coaching firm. RETR was founded in 2022 by Wynands and chief technology officer Steven Mincemoyer.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Federally registered broker and correspondent lender Milestone Mortgage Solutions has acquired Willow Home Loans and is looking to join the $1 billion origination club this year. “With this technology , we’re going to be able to flip the script. Willow will fold into Milestone as part of the deal. ”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Fluctuating interest rates and a fast-changing market Last month, we saw the Federal Reserve deliver their long-awaited decision to lower interest rates with a 50 basis points cut, and 30-year mortgage rates reached as low as 6.08% according to ICE’s 30-year fixed conforming rate index.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

What drives the secondary market and mortgage industrys top innovators? This series unveils the personal and professional moments shaping Pollys executive team and their vision for a better mortgage future. Jon Foys journey from Montana to Polly is driving innovation in the mortgage industry.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI), predictive underwriting , and blockchain technology are becoming more common in todays real estate industry. Fortunately, information technology company Mortiles brings comprehensive solutions to the ever-changing title insurance, escrow and settlement arena. million into these technologies in 2024.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Tomo Mortgage on Tuesday announced the closure of $20 million in Series B funding that was led by three existing investors and a new participant. While other mortgage lenders tout automation, facilitated by way of call centers or outsourced service providers, Tomo is the real deal, said Pete Flint, general partner at NFX.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

NEXA Mortgage , the largest mortgage brokerage firm in the U.S., will pay its loan officers 100% of the commission splits “without any per-file fees or other hidden fees,” according to co-founder and CEO Mike Kortas. NEXA usually pays loan officers 220 basis points (bps) out of 275 bps on most loans.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Top 10 mortgage lender Rate — previously known as Guaranteed Rate — announced a new promotion on Wednesday. The company named veteran mortgage professional Connie Lindsay as its senior vice president of mortgage lending in Washington state. Most recently, Lindsay served as a mortgage loan officer at U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

26 in Dallas, provided valuable insights into the forces shaping the mortgage and housing markets in 2025. With economists, analysts and industry leaders in the room, discussions revolved around key economic indicators, inventory shifts, technology advancements and what lenders should be doing right now to prepare for the next cycle.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2025

Better ‘s fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 earnings call showcased the company’s growing revenue and its plans to further integrate artificial intelligence into the mortgage process. And that’s pretty groundbreaking for the mortgage industry. I see us being 40 times more productive for our loan officers.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

Polly/ AI: AI-powered copilot for loan officers Fueled by Polly’s proprietary technology and data, Polly/ AI leverages powerful, state-of-the-art AI/ML and natural language processing (NLP) to transform the way loan officers conduct business and provide consumers with superior mortgage products and prices.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

CreditXpert , a leading mortgage technology company, announced on Wednesday the launch date for its new credit optimization platform. The new credit optimization platform will combine the best parts of the What-if Simulator and Wayfinder tools, giving mortgage professionals the power to reach more clients and close more loans.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Better said its new tool communicates with potential and current customers by answering mortgage application questions, verifying outstanding application data and connecting with Tinman in real time. Kevin Ryan, Better’s chief financial officer, said that the average cost to sell and process a mortgage in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

1 loan originator in the country by volume for at least five years, is assuming the role of president at Rate Mortgage , the company announced Tuesday. 8 on the Inside Mortgage Finance ranking of top originators at just under $40 billion. 1 mortgage company in America. SB: Our technology is amazing.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2022

Do loan officers need more technology than they currently have? Will new technology change anything? Most loan officers do not believe they need more tech than they have now. Most loan officers do not believe they need more tech than they have now. They do not need more technology.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

In a fiercely competitive market , mortgage originators need to rethink everything to gain market share and become savvy. Adopting an educator-first mindset, coupled with a willingness to reach, assist, engage and nurture early-journey first-time homebuyers, are the defining attributes of a next-gen loan officer.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Customer intelligence and mortgage tech firm Polly named Troy Coggiola as its chief operating officer amid the company’s effort to scale. He has more than 25 years of mortgage technology and enterprise software experience with his latest stint being chief product officer at Accela , a government tech provider.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2025

The HECM Tool a software platform designed to serve as a reverse mortgage sales conversion tool announced this week that it has integrated the proprietary reverse mortgage offering from Smartfi Home Loans into the platforms existing visualization and comparison capabilities.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Should the goal of marketing technology be to make it so that a loan officer never needs to log in? I started in the mortgage industry in 2015, working for large banks that were heavily invested in using technology to simplify the loan process for everyone involved.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The platform is intended for housing professionals in various sectors, including 5 million loan officers, appraisers , servicers , underwriters , developers, agents, brokers, attorneys and regulators. Through Araya, CoreLogic will give customers access to the data and analytics of nearly all U.S. properties on one platform.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

Optimal Blue ’s newly launched mobile app for the Optimal Blue PPE – one of the industry’s most widely used product, pricing and eligibility engine – gives loan officers full product and search capabilities from their mobile phones. All eligible products and rates are presented – including any adjustments, notes, and advisories.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2023

Fintech software and hardware company Mortgage Automation Technologies, Inc. announced on Monday that it has integrated its next-generation point of sale system, The BIG Point of Sale, on the latest API Platform available through ICE Mortgage Technology , a division of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

ICE Mortgage Technology on Monday announced several enhancements to the Encompass loan origination platform , including a rate lock comparison tool that enables lenders to automatically detect and adjust for changes to a loan that may affect pricing and eligibility.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2023

Top-producing loan officer Christopher Keelin has taken his 80+person team over to CrossCountry Mortgage to “take advantage” of the lender’s technology while scaling his business. Keeling also previously held the role of branch manager at Advisors Mortgage Group.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) completed its acquisition of Black Knight Tuesday, making the combined company the biggest player in the mortgage tech space. I sat down with Tim Bowler, president of ICE Mortgage Technology, a business unit of ICE, to talk about the company’s mortgage automation strategy — and what keeps him up at night.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Denver-based loan originator Chris Franquemont announced on Wednesday his return to Guaranteed Rate as producing branch manager. His return follows a brief stint with CrossCountry Mortgage. The top-producing loan officer brings a proven track record of high-volume production and financing solutions for borrowers.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

LenderLogix , a provider of mortgage point-of-sale and automation software for lenders, said that borrowers generated 49,392 preapproval letters through its QuickQual preapproval program in third-quarter 2024, a 15% decrease from the second quarter. The average number of preapproved borrowers per loan officer decreased slightly to 28.5

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Digital mortgage automation solution provider Floify launched verification of income (VOI) and verification of employment (VOE) waterfall technology that aims to save lenders and mortgage brokers time and reduce costs during the loan origination process. Founded in 2013, Floify — a subsidiary of Porch Group Inc. —

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2023

And, in the mortgage industry, AI will play an instrumental role in helping loan officers to be more efficient, according to Nima Ghamsari , Blend ‘s co-founder and CEO. The most difficult part, however, is building the technology. Blend’s mortgage banking software processed 23.2% in the second half of 2021.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

Rocket Companies made a major move this week by integrating Rocket Pro TPO with ARIVE , a leading software platform used by mortgage brokers. Its another path for them to come to us ARIVE offers a platform that includes a loan origination system, a consumer point-of-sale interface, a pricing engine and a marketplace of wholesale lenders.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

“From loan officers to secondary marketing teams and investors, we empower mortgage professionals with tools designed to maximize their profitability on every loan transaction.” ” The announcements were made at MBA Annual in Denver.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

Real credited its technology offerings and business model for the explosive growth in agents. Real also added head count to its nascent mortgage business. It started 2024 with 18 loan officers and finished the year with about 90. This allowed the company to grow its mortgage revenue from $1.2

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

It seems that everyone in mortgage and real estate has an opinion about Rocket Mortgage ‘s pending $1.75 After the deal was announced, CEO Varun Krishna told investors that he expects a lift in purchase mortgage growth after the deal closes. Essentially, it’s the holy grail of mortgage and real estate tech.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2024

Top mortgage technology executives say their companies are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) in their operations but still relying on human decision-making to sell loans. “There’s one question every CEO, CTO, CIO, loan officer, processor, underwriter, they all ask the same thing: will AI replace my job?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

Florida-based Theoris Software has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform, AI agent, it says could transform how mortgage companies handle operations. The platform introduces a digital agent named Alpha7x that automates key processes across the mortgage lifecycle.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

Union Home Mortgage (UHM) on Friday announced two changes to its executive leadership team, just days after the company grew its footprint through the acquisition of NRL Mortgage. Ohio -based UHM promoted Brian Smith to chief operating officer of retail lending and hired David Alonzo as its chief technology officer.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Writing about digital mortgage in 2021, I am reminded of a cartoon in the New Yorker, in which two cavemen were starting a fire and one said “Stop saying everything is ‘unprecedented.’” I can set filters for my partner search on Bumble, so why can’t I filter results for a mortgage broker? 1 Personalization. 3 Self-driving banks.

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