Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Are borrower-assisted inspections here to stay? The relaxed lending standards allowed the GSEs to use “appraisal alternatives to reduce the need for appraisers to inspect the interior of a home for eligible mortgages.” HousingWire reached out to the company, and will update this story with any new developments.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

Consider future development Investigate potential developments in the area, as they can significantly impact property values. Check with local planning departments and review zoning regulations to understand the potential for new infrastructure, commercial developments, or zoning changes that may affect the neighborhood.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

Develop your listening skills Negotiation is about understanding the other partys needs, pain points, and overall desired outcome. Later, during the inspection period, the buyer hits the seller harder with a long list of repairs. These techniques will only take you so far. We accomplish this through listening.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) must reverse layoffs and planned closures of offices across New York state to avoid imperiling housing for 800,000 residents. In the wake of severe cuts to staff and its field office footprint, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD), state attorneys general and fair housing organizations to start applying this legal framework to homebuyers FHA loans accounted for 15.6% of the U.S. mortgage market in 2023, up from 14.3% in 2022, according to HUD.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

PunchListUSA , a real estate technology platform digitizing home inspection data, has named Stefan Pampulov as its chief product and data officer. Pampulov will be responsible for the development of PunchListUSA’s proprietary products, data infrastructure, home lifecycle services, and predictive pricing models, according to the firm.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

We’ll also share best practices for developing and sending real estate newsletters and recommend some essential tools to make your email marketing stand out. How about that pest control service you used for your clients termite inspection? So, where do you start? Lets dive in! Summary What is a real estate newsletter?

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Monday published a new version of its Single Family Housing Handbook 4000.1, This explains that damage inspections may be completed by “any FHA Roster Appraiser in good standing with geographic competence in the affected market.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Veev’s business model is innovative: it provides pre-inspected, fully cladded walls directly to homebuilders , ready for installation. Veev said at the time that the funding would be used to scale its operations, accelerate its research and development, and expand construction into new markets.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

NRMLA and MBA also request changes to language in certain forms, including in the Compliance Inspection Report, so that the report can “utilize the documentation from a licensed and bonded person as required by the state to certify without additional costs to the borrower or mortgagee.” Following an announcement that the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In May 2022, the Florida Legislature introduced a new condominium safety law, which mandates more rigorous inspections and stronger financial reserves for HOAs. Meanwhile, homeowners association (HOA) fees multiplied for many condo buildings in the aftermath of the 2021 Surfside condo collapse.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

These include excessive late fees and fees for unnecessary property inspections. The CFPB also described its findings related to unnecessary property inspection fees, stating that mortgage servicers charged consumers between $10 and $50 “for every property inspection visit to addresses that were known to be incorrect.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

The company says it will use the funding to scale its operations, accelerate its research and development and expand construction into new markets. The company accomplishes this through a turnkey panelized approach, providing pre-inspected, fully cladded walls directly to building sites for installation.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The mortgage ecosystem evolves quickly, with different sub-sectors such as lending, loan aggregation as well as loan securitization being impacted, Sean Begley, senior director of business development at CAPE Analytics, told HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2023

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) surveyed them and heard complaints about: Regulatory requirements – including the requirement that housing units be inspected before voucher holders move in, which can extend vacancies between tenants and force landlords to make costly repairs. Why don’t landlords participate?

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AAOA

APRIL 14, 2025

Managing inspections shouldnt feel like juggling paperwork and chasing signatures. Thats why Repolet was builtto digitize and simplify the entire inspection process in one platform. Its a full-stack inspection system built for speed, accuracy, and compliance. The result?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2022

Regarding alternative audit procedures, Ginnie said that it will continue to accept audited financial statements from issuers where the auditor relies on alternative documentation in lieu of doing a physical inspection as required by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2021

With the onset of the pandemic, the GSEs introduced temporary flexibilities to the appraisal process which enabled the path for major advancements in 3D scanning, guided inspection applications and data-driven solutions. AA: The past year saw a rapid evolution in appraisal management technology.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

In the letter , addressed to FHFA Director Sandra Thompson , the associations ask for “reasonable” building inspection requirements for aging infrastructure. In addition, the groups “request transparency in the process of developing final guidelines for condo and housing cooperative lending requirements.” “Any

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2024

“Foreign capital is a major driver for real estate development around the world, but the US is still ill-equipped to deal with foreign investors. Closing tasks such as appraisal , inspection, title insurance and homeowners insurance are done remotely. Buyers can also use Waltz to connect with a property manager or tax adviser.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2022

A Fannie Mae survey published in mid-May found that mortgage lenders see value in appraisal modernization, specifically in the implementation of non-traditional appraisals and inspection-based appraisal waivers. However, they have several more pressing priorities when it comes to what they’re investing in.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Remote inspections have the power to make homeowners and appraisers more comfortable. Incenter Appraisal Management’s new remote appraisal inspection tool streamlines the appraisal process while ensuring appraisers stay in control of the inspection and data collection. The post Are remote appraisals here to stay?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Tom Kriby, Vice President of Client Development and Partnerships at Westwood Insurance, about how insurance issues can hold up a home closing and how lenders can integrate insurance into their process to help their homebuyers avoid delays.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2021

Still, I’m encouraged to see companies using digital tools and platforms — or creating their own — to take little bites out of a gigantic industry, from streamlining financing and inspections, to centralizing communication, to optimizing budgets and reducing project delays. Creating transparency.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This friend, “placed some of her own family photos, depicting her white family” around the house “prior to the inspection.”. Department of Housing and Urban Development on behalf of Cora Robinson, who alleged racial bias against Class Valuation , an appraisal management company, and Thomas Kearney, an individual appraiser.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2021

As part of Davis’ roadmap, advisors worked with her to help her develop a financial plan. Throughout the process, Davis faced common issues, such as being outbid on a property and encountering unexpected defects in homes she toured that wouldn’t have passed inspection.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

So, it’s like you put those things together and it’s like, what is the argument for having a human being go to a house and physically do an inspection.”. Simkoff said Doma will look to enter into these spaces through its own technological developments, as well as mergers and acquisitions.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

A public inspection version of the rule was released on Tuesday prior to its final publication. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in exchange for claim payments, the notice reads.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2022

Clear Capital’s data science team developed the product and built it into the already existing platform, a review system that automates collateral underwriting in compliance with internal credit policies and government-sponsored enterprise guidelines. “One

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2021

Unfortunately, the ability to obtain information on individual property data about these two factors is hard to come by, short of an interior physical inspection. This is why most automated valuation models (AVM) default to assessing “average” quality and condition.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Once the loan is closed, UWM claims it will handle the rest of the process by staying in direct communication with the builder on subsequent draws, as well as subsequent inspections, to confirm the project is on pace. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), according to lawyers. UWM, which originated $33.5

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2024

The goal is to help them develop this territory and use this platform to attract talent – established loan officers, up and coming loan officers,” Steinway said in an interview with HousingWire. People are still buying homes, but we are still seeing multiple offers like crazy, seeing a lot of people waive contingencies such as inspections.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Another example is the LIDAR that’s now available on iPhones, which adds a whole other dynamic to developing point cloud technology to gather measurements and spatial information about anything that you’re scanning. Now, we’re giving a fully transparent data package to the appraiser that they have to use to develop their opinions.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

We continue to see the benefits of using advanced AI and machine learning techniques when developing new mortgage lending solutions,” said Ann Regan, Executive, Product Management at CoreLogic. The benefits of leveraging a state-of-the-art AVM as part of your lending process are more numerous than ever,” Regan continued.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2022

The Federal Housing Finance Agency released voluminous plans last week developed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make the housing market more equitable, in part through changes to the appraisal process. But democratizing the data they have available would benefit policy development.” Non-traditional appraisals to the rescue.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2021

The case studies were developed using data collected by the Appraisal Foundation of all the USPAP-related questions received. The most common questions and issues were then chosen as topics for the test. 31, 2022. “We believe all of these are all critical issues and deserve thoughtful consideration before we issue guidance.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

“We are excited to work with innovative lenders like Sierra Pacific Mortgage to find ways to take time, touch and cost out of their collateral underwriting workflows,” said Sage Nichols, CoreLogic executive of client and business development. Are borrower-assisted inspections here to stay? to two loan files per day. .

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