Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today, as we face what appears to be the beginning of a modest recovery in the marketplace, we can see the effect of those events in the way mortgage lending has changed forever. Once charged with hitting the phones and churning refinance product, LOs are now asked to serve in much more of a financial advisory role.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Like every phase of the Boomer Wave, this represents the most predictable and potent marketplace shift since the beginning of the age of consumerism in 1946. Shift and change Everything we think we know about the marketplace and the future will demand reconsideration. Boomers are driving the retirement transformation.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Lenders using MeridianLink Consumer loan origination software (LOS) will be able to leverage Blend’s unified platform and consumer banking origination software for a fast onboarding and application process for banking, credit card and loan products, Blend said in a news release on Tuesday. million in Q1 and non-GAAP net loss of $45.1

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Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2023

It’s one more opportunity to shine and showcase our diverse products and services, especially in the non-QM space, and reconfirm for our many partners that by working with us, they can offer their clients an exceptional array of comprehensive mortgage solutions not available anywhere else in the market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

California Regional MLS (CRMLS), the largest MLS in the country, has teamed up with technology provider Immobel to roll out two new products, MLS Match and Xomio, the company announced on Wednesday. MLS Match will be available to the more than 110,000 members of CRMLS for free, while Xomio will be sold at a discount via the CRMLS Marketplace.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The partnership enables lenders to access Polly’s products directly from the MeridianLink environment. Loan officers will be able to add MeridianLink Mortgage loan pipeline data directly into Polly’s product and pricing engine in real time, and vice versa.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

The firm is primarily focused on creating an application programming interface (API) marketplace where Dark Matter Technologies can collaborate with developers on automation and cutting expenses for third-party vendors and lenders. “We’re But correspondent has been in production and has that capability for the last year and a half.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Sure, but it goes back to whether or not the average RE/MAX agent is an agent that is going to be more inclined to leave the industry versus an agent that is a more productive full-time agent.” Every big brokerage has some of them, but if you think about some of the most productive agents, a lot of them sit on Compass’ platform.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

The Encompass platform by Ice Mortgage Technology offers innovative solutions for the mortgage industry and provides seamless integration capabilities and a marketplace for various mortgage-related products and services. Together, we can expand our products and services to meet the demands of the digital mortgage industry.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Class Valuation acquired the company to bolster its position in the appraisal marketplace further, according to an announcement of the deal. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “We We are beyond excited to be partnering with Valuation Connect,” Class Valuation CEO John Fraas said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2021

Qualia announced Monday a new integration with title automation company DataTrace , giving Qualia Marketplace users direct access to DataTrace products and services without leaving the platform. Qualia Marketplace is Qualia’s property transfer platform that integrates vendors with title professionals.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

market transitions to one where one or two large listing portals offer pay-to-play inclusion on a digital listings marketplace. “In However, if buyer’s agency does disappear, Zillow is considering models where the U.S. Despite what Barton believes would be an advantage for his firm, he said Zillow is not advocating for this to happen.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The cost and benefits of migrating to network centric production will be substantial. New methods, metrics and marketplaces will emerge from the non-QM segment that challenge conforming orthodoxy. Advisory services based on relationships and unique insights will command price premiums in every metro, submarket and product niche.

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2022

BeSmartee Mortgage Marketplace. Lenders can leverage BeSmartee’s Mortgage Marketplace to solve for automation challenges by providing anonymous rate search tools for their loan officers, increasing online application conversion rates and offering borrowers an easier, faster and more transparent mortgage experience.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2023

In an interview with HousingWire , Garg said the company has shifted its strategy ahead of its IPO—Better plans to be a mortgage marketplace that sells its technology platform to other companies. “Our For things like homeowner’s insurance , title insurance, and realtors, we’ve now just become a marketplace.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Once again CoStar Group delivered exceptional results in our commercial information and marketplace businesses for the full year 2023, while at the same time devoting major time and resources towards launching the new Homes.com,” Andy Florance, founder and CEO of CoStar Group, said in a statement. “Our billion for the year ending Dec.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In Q2, Better’s origination volume was $900 million across 2,421 loans, compared to production of $800 million across 2,347 loans funded in Q1. For things like homeowner’s insurance, title insurance, and Realtors, we’ve now just become a marketplace. We match the consumer with a partner capable of delivering the best product to them.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Fintechs involved in homeownership investments have been around for nearly two decades, but it wasn’t until recently that a handful of them have been backed by big investors seeking to take the HEI product mainstream. Potential partnerships Home equity investments are likely to become essential to the home finance product marketplace.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Whether it’s more niche products like bank statement loans, construction-to-permanent loans or down payment assistance programs, LOs have been forced to sharpen their swords and master the products to get buyers into homes in a brutal marketplace.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The New York-based independent bank exceeded its 2022 production volume of $400 million in August, but the end goal is far more ambitious: The company is aiming to produce between $3 billion to $5 billion in origination volume annually. Cliffco Mortgage Bankers is among the rare independent mortgage banks doing more business than last year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2022

Lenders One Cooperative announced on Monday that it has struck a deal to lease retail space in Walmart stores to sell mortgage products and services. ” Lenders One will be selling purchase, refinance and home equity products at its “store-in-store” branch locations.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Online real estate market provider CoStar Group has sued former Homesnap founder Guy Wolcott and three others for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to its online information platform feeding its various marketplace products, including Homes.com and Apartments.com , according to court documents obtained by HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) this week launched temporary rate buydowns, a product that allows borrowers to receive lower mortgage rates at the beginning of their loan terms by using seller concessions as part of the payment. The post UWM turns to seller concessions with new mortgage product launch appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

The opportunity became clearer with the AAG acquisition, and the corporate consolidation of that team, the legacy FAR wholesale team as well as the company’s product development specialists. 2008 changed everything, and the industry was really just living off of the HECM product at the time.” “We had some in the market, pre-2008.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

We are optimistic and hopeful that the value of the MLS and the role of the agent will prevail so that we can continue to provide an efficient and transparent marketplace for consumers.” It is MLS data that powers the marketplace.” It is just something that you can’t get anywhere else.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2022

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Total HMBS issuance Ginnie Mae is currently determining its next steps in the HMBS marketplace, including a recent announcement that it will explore an entirely new HMBS product that would be introduced to the market alongside its existing HMBS program.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Despite the loss, Nima Ghamsari, Blend’s co-founder, highlighted its increasing mortgage banking market share and product diversification, which brought in revenue for the California tech firm. . The consumer banking and marketplace revenue was $15.3 The loss also reflects a $57.9 Blend platform’s revenue posted $36.1

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

Real estate still relies on a “system” unable to integrate production across the silos of media, brokerage, lending, insurance and trading. The result is higher costs, lower productivity, unmeasured quality, and systemic exposure as government monopolies take most of the risk and make most of the money.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2022

The companies are canceling their proposed merger just 10 months after the announcement, as regulatory approval on the deal hasn’t occurred, and the demand for new technologies and products is too strong to wait. . They will also work together to develop new products, such as a home equity line of credit (HELOC) and piggyback products. “We

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2023

We’re thrilled to offer our clients the efficiencies and conveniences that this partnership brings,” MaryKay Theriault , director of product management at Finastra, said. The company develops software, mobile apps, and web-based systems for the production and delivery of compliant loan document packages.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2022

Start building your brand in your local marketplace, so that customers know that you’re in a specific marketplace,” Medellin noted. Another piece of advice is for LOs to educate themselves on certain products and become experts in them. “I’m really good at conventional loans, I’m just OK with jumbo products.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

That started with Qualia Core, a cloud-based workflow, accounting and reporting product that leading title and escrow companies around the country now use for automating their title production, as well as managing closings all the way through signing. Qualia Connect is another part of the Qualia product suite.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We have diversified our revenue across counter-cyclical marketplaces, such as Loop Net and Apartments.com , while diversifying CoStar product revenue into broader verticals,” Andy Florance, CoStar’s founder and CEO, said during the firm’s Q3 2023 earnings call with investors and analysts Tuesday evening.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Name Job Title Company Name Agnes Standowicz Senior Vice President and Head of Underwriting United Wholesale Mortgage Alayna Gardner Director of Sales and Marketing LodeStar Software Solutions Ali Haralson President Auction.com Amanda Tucker Chief Risk and Compliance Officer Atlantic Bay Mortgage Company Amy Gromowski Executive of Science and Analytics (..)

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2021

Either of those products can help non-bank mortgage lenders stay relevant with their customers after their initial product. Lenders using CampusDoor’s platform can join the marketplace in as little as 30-45 days. . There’s a lot of seasoning behind student loans, and the loans perform extremely well.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

This is a significant achievement to protect consumers, lenders and the housing finance system, and showcases the benefits of our products, industry and your business. The success of challenging this pilot underscores the value of advocacy and making your voice heard,” Tomb wrote in the email.

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