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How lenders can help borrowers improve their credit score

Housing Wire

At HousingWire’s 2021 Annual Spring Summit, CreditXpert VP of Sales and Client Success Matt Hydrew and T odd Worthington , director of qualification support at Bank of England, discussed top-of-the-funnel strategies lenders can use to help borrowers gain a better understanding of their credit score. Or, give up looking altogether.

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FinLocker raises $17M in Series B funding round

Housing Wire

The company said it will be using generative artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies to provide customers with personalized recommendations, credit management solutions, budgeting assistance and loan qualification tools. million in pre-seed funding in 2016.

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How 2020 exposed a greater need for collaboration between real estate agents and LOs

Housing Wire

Home sales and refinancing have seen large year-over-year increases in an environment where people have not been congregating face-to-face. The loan pre-qualification step is an area that almost all parties need for a successful outcome (consumers, real estate agents, loan officers, insurance agents).

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Overcoming the challenges direct-to-consumer lenders are facing

Housing Wire

Josh Lehr: Pre-pandemic, online home buying existed, but over the last year, shopping online for mortgages became much more popular and convenient as meeting in person with a loan officer was not an option. HousingWire: How have trends around direct-to-consumer lending changed over the past year?

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JPMorgan Chase gets into the DSCR MBS game

Housing Wire

In its pre-sale report, KBRA noted that the average borrower’s FICO score was “moderately strong” at 740, with the current average loan-to-value ratio at 68.4% DSCR) have historically exhibited higher delinquency and default risk relative to loans underwritten using traditional income qualification (i.e.,

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DropOffer wants real estate agents to go off-market

Housing Wire

According to the National Association of Realtors’ existing home sales report in August, inventory was down 13.4% So far, the startup has raised nearly $700,000 from a variety of undisclosed “seasoned real estate and technology investors” and they are currently considering investors for their $3 million “pre-seed” fundraising round.

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How loan originators survived a cutthroat mortgage business in 2023

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I’ve got several pre-approvals out there where people just can’t find what they want and the rates are throwing them off,” Don Monson, branch manager at Sente Mortgage , said of the challenges he faced in 2023. We want to make sure we know what our payments are going to be,” said Jared Sawyer, a sales manager at loanDepot.

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