Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Lux joins the mortgage tech company from Cenlar FSB , the nation’s largest subservicer, where he served as executive vice president and chief operating officer for the past six years leading their entire servicing and technology operation.

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MARCH 6, 2024

Pennymac Financial Services has made changes to its technology leadership, creating a new role focused on digital innovations, the company announced on Tuesday. He had a crucial leadership role in Pennymac’s mortgage fulfillment, production business technology and servicing divisions.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Buffalo, New York-based mortgage technology firm LenderLogix , a top provider of point-of-sale (POS) and automation software for independent mortgage banks , commercial banks and third-party brokers, announced Thursday that Ben Head will join the company as an account executive.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2024

It is our team’s job to understand how LeadingRE can best support them, which may mean recommending specific courses from our Institute learning platform, introducing technologies from a Solutions Group provider, engaging them in our commercial real estate program, or helping them build new development business through Destinations by LeadingRE.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

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. The Marcus Skenderian Real Estate Group works across commercial real estate , architecture, construction , development and residential sales.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

million to Black Knight Servicing Technologies , concluding a five-year legal battle over allegations of trade secret theft involving two of the biggest companies in the housing industry. PennyMac Financial Services has paid $158.4 An arbitrator issued the final award on Jan. 12, reducing Black Knight’s monetary damages from $155.2

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Technologies like encryption help deliver certainty that content has not been tampered with. Improving the ability of MERS to verify and transfer ownership required capital, time and technology. As every consumer facing commercial platform will attest — payments are the prize.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

In its earnings release, Old Republic noted that some of the title segment’s decline can be tied to a 21% pullback in commercial premiums in the fourth quarter and a 22% drop in commercial premiums for the year as a whole. “As compared to 2022, and a pretax income of $133.5 million, a drop of 56.7%. from 2022, and a net income of $598.6

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

Stavvy, a Boston-based fintech, announced Monday that it landed a $40 million Series A funding round led by Morningside Technology Ventures. Servicers must be powered by nimble technology to be heroes to borrowers, stalwarts to investors, and stewards of consumer protection to regulators. Presented by: Sagent Lending Technologies.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Carolyn Monroe, the president of Old Republic’s title insurance segment, attributed the relatively small yearly drop in 2022 to a strong performance by the firm’s commercial title insurance sector. Commercial premiums reported for full year 2022 represented an all-time high for the title group.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Agency title premiums and commercial title revenue also increased 23% and 70%, respectively during the fourth quarter. Commercial orders also increased, with the number of commercial orders opened increasing 13% and the number of commercial orders closed increasing 17% year over year. billion, with $1.0 in Q4 and 21.7%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2024

As the firm looks to the future, executives said they are continuing to focus technological developments. Our investments include internally developed solutions and the deployment of technology through strategic partnerships and alliances. However, despite this uptick the title firm’s pre-tax income fell 6% annual to $33.4 million. “

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The company said this change is the result of increasing transaction sizes being processed by both residential and commercial real estate companies, and that it “is backed by the largest insurance marketplace in the world.” “As

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

TaskEasy offers API and digital tools for property management to residential and commercial property portfolio owners. Its mobile application also allows single-family rental and commercial property owners to connect with contractors. Currently, it operates in more than 12,000 cities in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2021

Lereta, formerly known as Lenders’ Real Estate Taxes, also offers life-of-loan, basic, and commercial determinations, as well as portfolio reviews. It has over 4,000 clients, generally smaller lenders from across the U.S. It competes directly with CoreLogic. Walsh said the acquisition by Flexpoint and Vestar is “ideal” for Lereta.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Finding an appraisal management software for real estate and commercial that works the way each individual lender does is difficult – usually resulting in time-consuming configurations, development work and training. In fact, Global DMS has onboarded a lender that uses both commercial and residential in just under 30 days.

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Inman

AUGUST 7, 2024

The seven startups that are part of REACH Commercial's latest class each promise to advance the way commercial brokerages service the industry, ranging from a green building resource solution to a pro-small business engine to help entrepreneurs own their real estate.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

The company also said it plans to aggressively expand its presence in commercial real estate in the next 12 months, expand in five more countries, and said affiliated services businesses in mortgage, title and iBuying will complement its growth. VirBELA , owned by eXp, also saw increases in Q2.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

Stavvy , a fintech company specializing in digital and remote collaboration for lending and real estate companies, announced on Wednesday a new partnership with WFG National Title Insurance Company (WFG) to provide the company and its customers with eClosing technology solutions.

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Inman

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

commercial real estate commissions could show the way forward for residential buyer commissions. Joe Rath from Redfin, Russ Cofano of Collabra Technology, Ed Zorn from CRMLS and moderator James Dwiggins discuss how at Inman Connect New York.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Find the right mortgage with a local broker and Rocket technology,” intoned the narrator on the commercials, which premiered during the Super Bowl. The ads are mostly set not in a loan office, but a home showing.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Maxwell , a Wells Fargo -backed mortgage fintech, announced Wednesday that it has struck a deal to acquire the digital lending platform Revvin ( formerly known as MortgageHippo ) to enhance its point-of-sale technology. Marvin Chang, Revvin’s chief commercial officer, has stepped down to pursue an opportunity in academia.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2022

SitusAMC on Monday announced the launch of its Warehouse Administration Services, “a comprehensive suite of technology-enabled turnkey services” that it says will help warehouse lenders reduce costs by as much as 30%, according to a company-issued news release. What are the building blocks of digital lending? Presented by: Wolters Kluwer.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

Adding in reverse allows all those reverse companies to pull from a commercial business, from our single-family rental business and from our forward mortgage business. That ultimately means we have more vendors, better technology and tools — we believe — than our competitors. Technology needs to unlock this.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

The Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS) shows that Norcom — as well as Third Party Origination Go and TPO Go — is listed as a trade name under Norwich Commercial Group Inc. Homebridge was set to merge with Mike Cagney ‘s Figure Technologies , but the deal fell apart just 10 months after the announcement was made.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2022

The title insurance space isn’t generally known for placing outsized bets on technology. We caught up with Hurst to talk about his new role and why the firm is looking to invest in commercial real estate tech startups and mortgage tech firms. The second area we have been focused on is commercial real estate. As of Sept.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Over the next few years, dramatic home price appreciation and the downturn in commercial real estate have the potential to significantly increase residential real estate taxes. At the same time, many observers are predicting a downturn in commercial real estate values.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Clear Capital , a real estate valuation technology company, has broadened its collaboration with data management platform Cherre , the companies announced on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Through the development of improved and sophisticated systems, protocols and technology, these operations leaders are driving their companies to growth and success. In its 8th year, the HW Insiders program is spotlighting the talented operations professionals who are laying the foundation of success for their organizations.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Bill Dallas, President of Finance of America Mortgage, to discuss how brokers can leverage technology to accommodate today’s average homebuyer. billion in mortgages, up 9% compared to 2020, which executives attributed partly due to successes with its reverse and commercial businesses.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2022

Texas lender Mid America Mortgage rebranded as Click n’ Close to expand into the mortgage technology industry following the sale of the majority of its retail lending operations. Those savings will be used for additional technology improvements and produce specialized products to address “today’s housing market challenges,” he said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

has been in business for more than 50 years and offers regulatory compliant default, rental and real estate-owned (REO) residential and commercial property preservation services. Five Brothers, headquartered in Warren, Mich., These include services for the reverse mortgage industry, marking MCS’ initial entry into the sector.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Founded in 2016, it connects small-balance residential and commercial mortgage originators with institutional capital. Toorak Capital Partners is a leading provider of business-purpose mortgages backed by residential, multifamily and mixed-used properties.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Non-commercial domestic title revenue was responsible for $282.3 Commercial domestic revenue came in at $93.1 million due to improved commercial transaction size and volume compared to the prior year quarter. Total direct title revenue grew 24% from a year prior to $423.1 in Q4 of 2020 to 23.3% in Q4 2021.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

While ChatGPT might be making headlines, the true killer apps of the AI revolution will add the technology to software that agents already know and love. Visit CoreLogic Commercial real estate market trends AI tools that specialize in market trends and data analytics are invaluable for real estate agents. Visit Reonomy 14.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

A mortgage industry veteran, Vas has served since October 2023 as the president of tech company Pagaya Technologies Ltd., He oversees the strategy and growth of Pagaya’s commercial business – including its single-family rental business and its subsidiary Darwin Homes. Before joining Pagaya, Vas was CEO of Caliber Home Loans.

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