Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

Digital tools and technology are only the tip of the spear regarding SitusAMCs solutions. Between residential and commercial market professionals, SitusAMC can guide all financiers toward increased profit, efficiency, and sharper analytics. But what if originators didnt have to rely on traditional staffing models?

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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. For the sake of simplicity, I will keep my comments restricted to residential real estate in the US.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Dark Matter Technologies , formerly Black Knight Origination Technologies, is focused on mainly two things: the smooth transition to new owners, and lowering the cost to originate loans for lenders. Read on to learn more about Dark Matter Technologies’ plan for mortgage. What opportunities did the firm see?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

The real estate technology company will be aided on this journey by additional capital it has secured from its ownership group, which includes private equity partner Vector Capital , and brokerages Howard Hanna Real Estate Services and Windermere Real Estate , according to an announcement on Friday. MoxiWorks is looking to up its game.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

billion deal to acquire the depository bank’s residential mortgage servicing operations. trillion in its servicing portfolio and has made big upgrades in technology to help recapture loans. Cooper won’t be onboarding as many Flagstar Bank employees as initially projected in its $1.4 It now has north of $1.5

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

The American Land Title Association (ALTA) Homeowners Policy available in some states and for certain residential properties may offer some coverage for post-closing issues like forgery or impersonation. Dovidio noted that standard title insurance policies typically only cover issues that arise before a sale is finalized.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Rob Hill Platinum’s director of growth and market development, said in a statement that SunWest is “receiving a lot more than what a typical merger brings,” referring to the shared technology assets and resources through Platinum that will soon be available to SunWest agents. For Platinum, the merger is mutually beneficial.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

In 2024, a year in which single-family residential resale transactions were at a 29-year low , Compass outperformed. Technology is part of the story. Consumers purchase homes, but Compass touts its technology among prospective real estate agents. Technology is the lubricant that increases that flow.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Jimmy Kelly, president and CEO of Lone Wolf Technologies , to discuss the company’s development process and his vision for a connected real estate platform. That is a lot of technology and a lot of wasted effort. That is a lot of technology and a lot of wasted effort.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Roughly 10 months after it first announced the planned deal, CoStar Group said Friday that it has completed its acquisition of 3D digital mapping technology firm Matterport. The firms residential North American network generated $58.9 CoStar paid $1.6 billion for the acquisition. CoStar Group generated $2.74 million in revenue in 2024.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In addition, we expect to evaluate opportunities relating to digital infrastructure, including opportunities at the convergence of infrastructure and technology. Rithm owns multichannel mortgage lender and servicer Newrez. It has made a slew of acquisitions in the credit and mortgage servicing sectors over the past two years.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

The title insurance industry is on track for steady expansion over the next decade, driven by surging real estate activity, advancing technology and tightening regulatory frameworks. As populations continue to grow and urbanization accelerates, demand for residential and commercial properties is on the rise, MRF said in its report.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

growth and an early employee at machine learning fintech Pagaya Technologies , and Collins held former senior engineering roles at leading fintech companies, including Affirm and Zillow , where he specialized in applying artificial intelligence to fraud detection and underwriting systems. Ellis was previously head of U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

The recent Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles have eradicated thousands of residential properties, leaving both physical and financial damage to Southern Californias housing market. What we did is took all of our internal homes, data, inventory, our parcels, and we matched the fire data into that. And in Altadena, it’s like $1.3

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2024

Fintech firms Rocktop Technologies and LiquidFi on Thursday announced a milestone in their business partnership that was formed earlier this year. At the same time, LiquidFi — an asset tokenization platform for mortgage investors — has used its patented technology to create digital assets on more than $7.7 billion in UPB.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Financial services company LERETA appointed Mitch Bledsoe to the position of chief technology officer, the company announced on Tuesday. Bledsoe joined LERETA in 2022 to serve as the senior vice president of enterprise technology. The company also offers flood zone determination services.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

MISMO board members, who represent a cross-section of the residential and commercial real estate finance industries, are responsible for overseeing the organization and serve two-year terms. We are excited to welcome these exceptional executives to the MISMO Board of Directors, said Richard Hill, acting president of MISMO.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

Digital technologies help lenders reduce errors, cut costs, and shorten processing times. In 2023, they reported that overall satisfaction scores are 119 points lower when customers dont choose their servicer. Fortunately, there is a way around this for the well-informed.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Real estate technology company reAlpha Tech Corp. We are excited to introduce Claire to homebuyers as we believe it represents a timely solution while the residential real estate industry is undergoing a significant reset,” Mike Logozzo, president and chief operating officer of reAlpha, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

In his new role, Shuler will focus on Planet’s technological growth and enhancements to its operational efficiency. “My My goal is to execute a technological strategy that not only streamlines business processes but enhances security and customer experience while reducing costs and aligning with industry standards.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2020

ICE’s decision to acquire Ellie Mae follows the company’s actions over the last four years to strengthen its hold in the residential mortgage industry. residential mortgage industry.”. Two years later, ICE purchased the remaining stake in the company for an undisclosed sum. Based in Pleasanton, Calif.,

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

On Tuesday, the residential real estate giant announced the acquisition of Virtual Staging AI (VSAI). We’re excited to bring this technology to real estate professionals as part of Zillow’s broad suite of software and advertising solutions,” Zillow wrote in a blog post on its investor site.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

This cycle of ascent and decline is also evident in the residential brokerage industry. Meanwhile, Compass took a different path, prioritizing high-producing, luxury-market agents and teams while leveraging its proprietary technology platform. Today, eXp faces pressure from a wave of low-cost, virtual brokerage firms.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Timely, cost-effective and more accurate property pricing estimates are an important part of any institution’s strategy to help minimize risk in residential markets. By leveraging selective data and cutting-edge technology, the solutions from homegenius Real Estate help lenders make informed and efficient decisions.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2024

Virginia -based Atlantic Coast Mortgage announced this week that residential and wholesale banking software company CRMNow ’s mortgage-oriented customer relationship management ( CRM ) product, Nextwave CRM , will be used by its loan originators across the 30 states it operates in.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Toorak Capital Partners is a leading provider of business-purpose mortgages backed by residential, multifamily and mixed-used properties. Toorak Capital Partners is a leading provider of business-purpose mortgages backed by residential, multifamily and mixed-used properties. He will report to John Beacham , CEO of Roemanu and Toorak.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2021

residential real estate market is valued at about $40 trillion in aggregate. Still, the residential real estate ecosystem is complex, even opaque to many. Technology plays a big role. The news is filled with talk of real estate. Bubbles have that effect. In the U.S. In the U.S. A lot is at stake. In real estate, data is king.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2023

Through the Touchless Lending technology, an application can reach a clear-to-close decision within a week, 80% faster than the average industry time of 50 days. Tony Grothouse, CEO of Revolution Mortgage, says the technology will help the company expand and deliver quality assets into the secondary market. “We

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The second win, maybe even mightier than the first, the technology tailwind,” Zillow CEO Rich Barton said in the earnings report. Across every industry, there has been a COVID catalyzed and dramatic increase and reliance upon and adoption of technology. This increase in tech usage is now driving up the company’s earnings.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Arrival Home Loans on Tuesday announced a partnership with zavvie a fintech company that specializes in bringing liquidity to residential real estate in an effort to enhance the homebuying experience for its customers. ” Colorado -based zavvie echoed Chen’s excitement and shared a statement about the partnership.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

HW Media, publisher of HousingWire, FinLedger, and producer of Engage Events, today announced it has closed on the strategic acquisition of REAL Trends, the residential real estate industry’s leading report that ranks the performance of the top U.S. brokerage firms. HW Media currently publishes HousingWire and FinLedger.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Let’s face it: joint ventures (JVs) and affiliated business arrangements (ABAs) are all the rage in the residential real estate space right now. Market conditions have certainly trended downward for residential or commercial real estate. And why not? CRE firms are also suffering through the highest interest rates seen in years.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Today, modern technology , including Pretium’s platforms, cut out the middleman by allowing firms to invest directly in assets, decide the kind of leverage they want and determine how Pretium will manage the assets over time. Mullen also clarifies that the term RTL, or residential transition loan, is synonymous with the fix-and-flip mortgage.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

Based in Cary, North Carolina , Fathom Holdings is a national, technology-driven real estate services platform that integrates residential brokerage, mortgage, title, insurance and software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings. He replaces Samantha Giuggio , who held the role since January 2022.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

The team serves coastal California communities such as Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, Corona Del Mar, Newport Coast, Crystal Cove, Dana Point and more. “Compass has the best tools and technology in the industry, allowing us to operate at efficiencies we’ve only been dreaming of for the past three years,” Skenderian said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In an effort to keep homeowners safe while also still providing quality valuations, appraisers have been leaning heavily on technology for the past year and a half. So the most important part of it is being able to do more with less, and technology really gives that kind of gift to our lenders.”.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Meanwhile, Spring EQ will be able enhance its platform through further investments in technology, new commercial opportunities and growth-based operational initiatives, the company said. Before Spring EQ, he founded New Penn Financial , which was sold to Shellpoint Partners and later acquired by New Residential Investment Corp.

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