Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

billion in equity. Together, we will improve the experience by connecting traditionally disparate steps of the search and financing process with leading technology that removes friction, reduces costs and increases value to American homebuyers.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

Between lack of inventory, record high prices, rising interest rates and significant affordability issues, challenges for the purchase and refi markets are leading to a time of opportunity for home equity lending. In the last five years alone, homeowners have gained, on average, $125,000 in equity on their properties.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Figure Lending LLC is now operating under the umbrella of Figure Technology Solutions , independent of CEO Mike Cagney ’s Figure Technologies. to take its lending division, LendCo , public. JP Morgan Chase & Co. and Jefferies Financial Group Inc. —

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Keller Williams has entered into a strategic partnership with private equity firm Stone Point Capital , according to an announcement on Monday. Stone Point is no stranger to the real estate industry, as it also holds strategic investments in Lone Wolf Technologies , Homepoint , CoreLogic and Meridian.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2025

announced the incorporation of hybrid e-closings for reverse mortgages on Tuesday, aiming to incorporate its experience with the technology on the forward side of the mortgage business into its reverse mortgage division for the first time. This is according to Tom Evans, EVP of marketing and technology for reverse at Fairway.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

Evernest already offers services including brokerage , maintenance, renovation, insurance and lending. The $15 million investment announced Wednesday from private equity firm LL Funds will help Evernest build a home services platform focused on rental property owners. This isn’t the only recent acquisition for Evernest.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2024

trillion in mortgage debt, pushing mortgage holder equity to a new high of $17.6 On top of that, tappable home equity reached a new high of $11.5 year-over-year increase, according to new data from ICE Mortgage Technology. million mortgage holders who have access to $500,000 or more in tappable equity, while nearly 1.2

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

Real estate technology firm Knock announced Thursday that its bridge loan product is being integrated into the borrower application process at Baltimore -based NFM Lending. NFM loan officers will be automatically notified when a homeowner can tap into the equity of their current home to buy a new one before selling.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Mike Cagney’s financial technology firm Figure Technologies has taken another step to go public with its lending division, LendCo , hiring investment banks to coordinate the initial public offering (IPO), per a Bloomberg report. The profitable lending business has more than a 50% contribution margin, he said in a meeting.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Rising home prices have pushed the third quarter’s tappable home equity amount near its 2022 peak, but interest rates are making homeowners reluctant to extract that wealth. Indeed, in recent quarters, equity withdrawal rates have been running at less than half their long-run averages.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

The dismal 2024 mortgage market has one very silver lining: $32 trillion in home equity. Compare that with $30 trillion in financeable equity — it dwarfs it. You have to think about how you monetize that equity,” Deitch said. You have to think about how you monetize that equity,” Deitch said. “So,

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Figure Technology Solutions (FTS), the parent company of Figure Lending LLC , took another step this week to become a public company, just one week after announcing a reorganization of its enterprise structure. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding the proposed initial public offering of its equity securities.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It also wants to widely deploy refreshed marketing strategies that are designed to both educate and appeal to older homeowners about the use of home equity in retirement. The potential for building on HomeSafe Second’s numbers also comes from broader trends in the home equity lending space, she said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Digital mortgage exchange platform and loan aggregator MAXEX announced on Tuesday the hiring of mortgage technology veteran Daniel Wallace as its new chief operating officer. Bill Decker, MAXEX president and co-founder, highlighted Wallace’s expertise in mortgage technology as a valuable asset for the company. “The U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

Fifth Third Bank, an Ohio-based regional bank, moved its origination and servicing operations to Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Mortgage Technology ’s end-to-end mortgage technology ecosystem, the companies announced on Tuesday. That is a common goal we share.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Stavvy , a fintech firm specializing in digital and remote collaboration for lending and real estate companies, acquired SigniaDocuments, a technology suite from Texas-based lender Evolve Mortgage Services. The acquisition also facilitates the adoption of digital second-lien products like home equity lines of credit (HELOCs).

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Banks reported having tightened lending standards across almost all categories of residential real estate loans over the fourth quarter of 2023 amid an elevated interest rate environment. Rising home prices have pushed tappable home equity near its 2022 peak, but high interest rates have made homeowners reluctant to extract that wealth.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

While retaining existing customers should remain a key priority, as interest rates fluctuate, lenders should be prepared to support an increase in new business for refinances, purchases and home equity lending. How your technology partner can help Having nimble technology is critical for capitalizing on market dynamics.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. billion, according to offering documents. billion.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

HighTechLending , a California -based top-10 reverse mortgage lender, announced on Friday that it is rebranding its wholesale lending division to American Senior Lending Wholesale Division in an effort to better align its identity with key business lines designed to serve older borrowers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

Figure Technology Solutions (FTS), the parent company of Figure Lending LLC , announced on Thursday that it will begin making its Digital Asset Registration Technologies (DART) platform — which it describes as “a combined lien and eNote registry service” — available to private and wholesale lending partners.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

San Diego-based reverse mortgage wholesale lender Smartfi Home Loans has forged a partnership with LoanPASS to use the technology company’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) product and pricing engine in its reverse lending operations. Their innovative solution supports our commitment to streamlining the lending process for our partners.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As a premier provider of innovative, high-performance software, data and analytics for mortgage and home equity lending and servicing, Black Knight is transforming the housing finance industry. Black Knight is a proven mortgage industry leader in servicing technology.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

“Along with a desire for more space and smart home technology, individuals are looking for a sense of connectedness and belonging when it comes to where they live,” said AJ Barkley, senior vice president of neighborhood lending at Bank of America. They recognize that homeownership is a way to build long-term stability.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Citis previous use of the URL was to redirect to learning center content within the home lending pages on the Citi domain, according to Head of Mortgage Marketing at Citi, Chip Burgard. The company owned the domain for several years but didnt have a direct purpose with it until Q4 2023. We’ve got good purchase products.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

More than just an accolade, this award highlights organizations that are transforming the housing sectorenhancing efficiency, transparency, and accessibility in ways that reshape the future of mortgage lending. These companies are at the forefront of solving the biggest challenges mortgage professionals face every day.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

Nashville, Tennessee-headquartered Defy Mortgage is the latest player to join the non-QM (non-qualified mortgage) lending space, which targets entrepreneurs and gig workers who have various forms of collateral, including cryptocurrency. “The effective use of technology allows us to accomplish this.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2021

ICE Mortgage Technology will now deploy an “eVault” solution as part of its mortgage closing platform to ensure the secure storage of digital mortgages and notes, it announced late last week. The post ICE, DocMagic team up to offer closing technology appeared first on HousingWire. Digital mortgage platform DocMagic Inc.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

The demand for home-equity loans, particularly home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs) as well as shared-equity investment products, is now stronger than at any time since before the global financial crisis some 15 years ago. Those 17 deals were backed by home-equity collateral valued in total at $3.9

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2021

Lovell Minnick Partners , a private equity firm that acquired ATTOM Data Solutions in 2019, announced Wednesday morning that it’s diving further in to the housing space with the acquisition of UniversalCIS. UniversalCIS also moved into the appraisal space in January after it acquired mortgage tech provider Sharper Lending.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2023

Encompass by ICE Mortgage Technology is the industry’s most complete end-to-end solution that provides the flexibility and configurability needed to deliver a next-generation lending experience for every channel, all from a single system of record.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

New York-based Unlock Technologies , a fintech operating in the shared-equity market, and real estate investment firm Saluda Grade , have closed a $180 million private-label securitization (PLS) backed entirely by Unlock-originated residential home-equity agreements (HEAs). 21, according to Mortgage News Daily.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Encompass by ICE Mortgage Technology is designed to enable users to manage their entire lending workflow in one place, from the customer’s initial point of thought through investor delivery. All of these features come together to help lenders achieve operational efficiencies across their entire business for every lending channel.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

ICE Mortgage Technology presents their solution that also serves as an overhaul of the home financing process. By doing so, ICE helps its clients cut down on mistakes, speed up workflows, and offer a modern lending experience that works better for both borrowers and industry professionals.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Encompass by ICE Mortgage Technology is the industry’s most complete end-to-end solution that provides the flexibility and configurability needed to deliver a next-generation lending experience for every channel, all from a single system of record.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2025

. “PennyMac maintained its dominant position in correspondent lending in the fourth quarter, with total acquisitions of $28 billion, up from $26 billion in the prior quarter, he said. This was] driven by a nearly 70% increase in originations from the direct lending channels,” he said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

The refi boom is in our rearview mirrors and the road ahead looks promising for home equity volume. Who knows how high that volume could go, considering tappable equity is at a historic high of $11 trillion and total home equity at a record $27.8 How do you identify the right home equity partner? Excellent turn times.

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