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The Catcliffe 'caravan site' of flooded families waiting to go home
Anyone passing California Drive in Catcliffe could be forgiven for mistaking this corner of South Yorkshire as caravan holiday haven. Drive after neat drive is filled with the homes on wheels from companies boasting names like Pageant and Europa. But rather than residents plotting a getaway, those living here are trapped in the aftermath of flooding. Cousins Dorothy Wood and Michael Bowler are one such family, living two lives every day.
Doncaster cannabis club owner aims to break drug's 'stigma'
The owner of a new "cannabis club" where members would be free to smoke marijuana has said he wanted to break the "stigma" around the drug. Dan Taylor said he had received a "good response" to plans to open the venue in a former hair salon in Doncaster. He said he believed the premises would operate lawfully because it would not be supplying or growing marijuana. South Yorkshire Police said it would "work closely" with the premises to tackle drug incidents in the city.
engage.marketing 2021
ALL EYES ON PURCHASE In 2021, all housing professionals must be focused on the 3 P’s: Process, Profitability and Purchase. PPP may have meant something different in 2020, but this year the 3 P’s are the guiding light to long-term mortgage success and domination. The ratios flipped last year. Strong purchase lenders that historically did 70% purchase business, originated 70% refinance.
FinLedger Mini-Con: May 25
Panel: Current Proptech Landscape This panel brought together a host of innovators and experts who told us about where proptech is today and where it should be tomorrow. AI is here, and it’s now table stakes for proptech companies to succeed. Regulation in real estate is the next big hurdle for founders to overcome and for investors to fund. There are still numerous opportunities to turn manual processes into large businesses that streamline operations for all stakeholders in real estate.
FinLedger Mini-Con Series: May 25
Keynote: The Great Proptech Acceleration In an executive interview, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins sat down with Gary Beasley, the founder of Roofstock, to discuss the future of data in real estate, and how leveraging it makes the real estate environment more cost-efficient and consumer-friendly. Panelist: Clayton Collins, CEO, HW Media Gary Beasley, CEO, Roofstock Latest Articles
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: ACES Quality Management
ACES CONNECT™ By providing secure access to reporting, audits, defects, and supporting documentation, ACES CONNECT™ streamlines collaboration between the quality control department and internal stakeholders or external business partners. Get access to key reporting data, self-remediate audit findings and create/manage corrective action plans in coordination with your Risk Department.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: Sagent
CARE Sagent CARE allows borrowers to easily manage performing and non-performing loans. They can self-serve for payments and escrows, go paperless, plus monitor home equity, new offers, and tax matters. They can also quickly apply for and resolve forbearances and loan mods during hardships and access human help real-time, anytime. Product Fast Facts #1 CARE powers customer self-serve on performing loans, anytime, anywhere.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: ICE Mortgage Technology
Encompass Investor Connect Encompass Investor Connect is a built-in, no additional cost feature within the Encompass Loan Origination System which enables lenders to seamlessly deliver loans to investors from Encompass – resulting in 40% fewer conditions, 1 day faster purchases and $49/loan savings. A “win-win” for both lenders and correspondent investors.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: Qualia
Qualia Post Qualia Post pairs automation and a dedicated service team for mortgage lenders to take the hassle out of document fulfillment from real estate partners. Qualia Post automatically collects documents from your title company partners and stores them in the documents folder of your LOS. Product Fast Facts #1 Eliminates countless follow-up phone calls and emails every month. Automatically collect digital and physical trailing documents.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: Nationwide Title Clearing
PerfectDocs® PerfectDocs®, is the first complete web-based solution that provides both NTC and users a “share the work” solution. This solution enables the creation and tracking necessary to complete lien release and assignment documents, review, execute, notarize those documents, and send those documents to counties for recordation. Product Fast Facts #1 Innovative Solution – The first complete web-based solution that provides both NTC and users a “share the work” solution.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: Xome
Logix™ by Xome® Logix™ by Xome® is a new portfolio management platform that integrates servicing data from across the entire property lifecycle into a single location, making it easier to scale and streamline servicing operations. With Logix, it’s easy to start tracking default servicing activities all in one place, and create efficiencies across vendor management.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: Altisource
Vendorly Vendorly, a proprietary SAAS product developed by Altisource, is a comprehensive vendor management solution that manages vendor due diligence, document maintenance, monitoring and audits. Our clients not only gain an intuitive SAAS based platform but enjoy the additional support of an internal operations team that understands all facets of the mortgage lifecycle.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: Aspen Grove Solutions
Aspen Property Servicing Platform Aspens Property Servicing Platform simplifies & automates processes, removing unnecessary cost and providing transparency on every servicing dollar spent, providing dashboards and analytics to drive operations and aid decision making while connecting servicers to their network.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: ICE
eClose eClose is a true digital closing process that’s more than getting documents electronically signed. Digital “lift” can continue past the closing table through automated quality control, electronic recording and registration as well as streamlined trailing document return, creating ROI on all loans – from all ink to full eClose.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: eOriginal
ClosingCenter ClosingCenter is a complete eClosing solution for lenders, borrowers and settlement agents. ClosingCenter delivers a simple, efficient and secure eClosing process – from pre-closing to secondary market delivery.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: SimpleNexus Original
SimpleNexus eClose With single-sign-on convenience for borrowers, full LOS integration preserving lender workflows, and closing portal tools for title agents, SimpleNexus eClose delivers a streamlined solution improving customer satisfaction and enhancing collaboration between all closing participants. One platform providing a seamless homeownership journey.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: Sourcepoint
Title Closing COBOT Mortgage automation solution for title closing that is pre-built and tested and quick to deploy. Product Fast Facts #1 Pre-built and tested mortgage title closing automation solution. #2 Quick to deploy on any application or software being used for title closing. #3 Can be customized and delivered on premises or at a vendor location with relatively limited resources.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: WFG
WFG’s MyHome® WFG MyHome® brings resale transaction participants together within a single, easy-to-use ecosystem, enhancing communication, transparency and the consumer experience. MyHome streamlines the resale process and enhances consumer satisfaction by eliminating duplicate touchpoints, providing real-time status updates, enabling pro-active communication, and facilitating data and document collection, storage and sharing.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: DocMagic
Total eClose™ with RON capabilities Total eClose™ is a single-source platform with everything you need for a 100% paperless eMortgage in a single, comprehensive, eClosing solution. Now, this single integration point includes DocMagic’s new Remote Online Notary technology, allowing eligible borrowers to electronically review, sign and notarize documents inside an efficient, end-to-end eClosing workflow.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: First American Docutech
Solex® eClosing Trusted by the nation’s leading lenders, Solex eClosing has enabled over 350,000 digital loan closings. Providing borrowers the contactless closing they seek, this solution has delivered on the promise of digitization streamlining complex, paper-intensive processes and optimizing operations. Faster closings and reduced costs per loan, Solex eClosing does it all.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: FundingShield
Skip to content The Key to Reducing Post-Refi Boom Borrower Churn In this webinar, PRMG Chief Lending Officer Kevin Peranio will help attendees sort through the right technologies as he shares the tech investments that have had the biggest impact on his business.
Boosting Mortgage Profits in a Remote Environment - Sponsored by Capacity
Discover how mortgage companies are boosting profits by adopting a mortgage automation platform. David Karandish, CEO of Capacity, will explain how a mortgage automation platform can automate borrower education, lead routing, guideline access, loan status updates, and servicing. He will also review the benefits of intelligent document processing. Watch the full session below. To go back to the full HousingWire Spring Summit 2021 on-demand summit, go here.
Mortgage Disruption Outlook
Even in the midst of a banner year, originators have to keep one eye on the technologies and competitors that could upend even the most carefully crafted business strategy. This panel will explore blockchain, where automation could be most disruptive (in good and bad ways) and the big consumer players adopting mortgage in a serious way. Watch the full session below. To go back to the full HousingWire Spring Summit 2021 on-demand summit, go here.
The Brave New World of Valuations - Sponsored by Reggora
Skip to content Strategies for MSR Management in 2021 Join expert panelists to review current MSR market trends and strategies to optimize your portfolio. Several lenders will also join the conversation to discuss their experiences, challenges and strategies. Over the past decade, the mortgage industry has benefited from a revolution of digital experiences. Despite this, not all aspects of the real estate industry have progressed equally into the digital age — including the appraisal process.
What Mortgage Tech is Solving Now
Pandemic conditions have provided fertile ground for mortgage tech innovation. Find out which technology is now considered table stakes to keep your business efficient and growing, and what’s coming next. Watch full session below. To go back to the full HousingWire Spring Summit 2021 on-demand summit, go here.
Put the ROI in HEROIC lead management - Sponsored by CreditXpert
The presenters will discuss the importance of early lead management, with the emphasis on converting these leads into your loan pipeline. Matt Hydrew of CreditXpert and Todd Worthington of Bank of England will discuss the main causes of early lead fall-out and the impact credit scores have during this phase.
A New Regulatory Regime
The regulatory landscape has shifted quickly under President Biden. To discuss just what that means for those in the housing economy, along with the upcoming regulatory regime, Kris Kully, a partner at Mayer Brown, and David Stevens, the former CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association, join this session.
Servicing Challenges in a Pandemic Period
With millions of homeowners taking advantage of mortgage forbearance options over the last year, servicers have stepped up to make sure borrowers are being served the complexities of servicers have scaled staff and operations to make sure borrowers are being served appropriately. This panel examines where we are in workouts and what to expect for the rest of 2021. Watch the full session below. To go back to the full HousingWire Spring Summit on demand summit, go here.
Operational Strategies in the Current Market
The roller-coaster of 2020 required lenders to be extremely adaptable to changing conditions, and this year is proving no different. This panel features strategy leaders who share what they’re doing to proactively set their business up for success in a rapidly changing environment. Watch the full session below. To go back to the full HousingWire Spring Summit 2021 on-demand summit, go here.
What a 2-year study reveals about what borrower retention really means to your business - Sponsored by Sales Boomerang
For every 5 customers you acquire, 4 will get their next loan with another lender. To protect your book of business, you need a 360-degree, real-time view of your customers’ changing circumstances, so you can identify opportunities the moment they arise. This can’t-miss session will equip you with a borrower retention game plan designed to ensure every borrower has the right loan, right now.
Economic Outlook
Bringing together some of the top economists in the housing finance industry, this economic outlook panel shares the trends attendees need to be paying attention to. During the session, they breakdown their economic forecasts for the rest of this year. Watch the full session below. To go back to the full HousingWire Spring Summit 2021 on-demand summit, go here.
Headliner: One on One with Mat Ishbia
During this Spring Summit session, UWM CEO Mat Ishbia sits down for a one-on-one interview with HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins to discuss UWM’s strategy for this purchase market. However, as Ishbia had just announced that UWM would no longer partner with mortgage brokers who also work with Rocket Mortgage or Fairway, this discussion became a broader conversation about the lenders’ overall strategy to grow broker share.
What’s next for eClosings/RON? - Sponsored by DocMagic
Skip to content Non-QM: New Market + New Rules = New Opportunities With the new rules of Non-QM 2.0 now in play and an oncoming wave of potential new customers, do you have the tools to help you keep up? Join industry experts for a discussion on the market, challenges and opportunities. The pandemic spiked overwhelming interest in RON/eClosing technology. As more states make RON technology a legal option, the industry embarks on widespread efforts to implement technology.
HousingWire Spring Summit 2021
THE YEAR-ROUND PURCHASE MARKET Spring 2020 was ravaged by a pandemic. The housing industry made the best of it – figured out remote work, adopted technology and charged forward with a resilient mindset. This perseverance was rewarded with a robust Summer, Fall and Winter purchase AND refi market. But what does this seasonal anomaly mean for Spring and Summer 2021? A demographic tsunami and new technologies may forever change seasonal buying patterns.
Lessons from Local Markets: Dallas, LA and Seattle
Skip to content Strategies for MSR Management in 2021 Join expert panelists to review current MSR market trends and strategies to optimize your portfolio. Several lenders will also join the conversation to discuss their experiences, challenges and strategies. The demand for real estate has grown to a frenzy in some areas of the country over the last year and succeeding in those competitive markets requires skill, experience and finding innovative ways to get deals done.
Real Estate Demo Day: Keeping Current Matters
KCM Membership Keeping Current Matters is the go-to source for real estate agents looking to simplify the market and maximize their marketing. Our robust suite of personalized content, powered by the latest housing data, helps you stand out as the market expert and saves you time to focus on what matters most: your clients. #1 Marketing Made Easy – stay connected and increase your sphere of influence with daily content that’s easy-to-share for social media and marketing campaigns.
Real Estate Demo Day: BoomTown
BoomTown BoomTown has all the tools, technology, and teams you need for real estate success. It’s the only solution that generates and manages your leads, with 300+ experts at your back. Our lead generation, consumer websites, CRM, lead qualification services, and more, come in flexible packages that scale with your success. #2 Rated #1 CRM on G2 Crowd #3 BoomTown clients dominate the Real Trends Top 250 year over year
Real Estate Demo Day: Century21
www.century21.com Century21.com attracts nearly 3 million users each month and generates about 500K leads for our franchisees. Our proprietary program tabulates views and the number of leads per listing and creates a report that agents and brokers can leverage win more online business and close more deals. #1 In 2020, the CENTURY 21® brand continued to maintain the ”highest brand awareness” level among consumers presented with a list of real estate agencies; a trend we have upheld since 1999.
Real Estate Demo Day: Chime
Chime Technologies’ AI Assistant The AI Assistant is the industry’s first AI Chatbot built on Google’s machine learning technology. The AI Assistant is saving agents time and effort while simultaneously carrying on hundreds of conversations with leads. Agents using the AI Assistant are only handed leads who have been warmed up and ready to have a conversation.
Mortgage rates hold steady at 2.77%
The average mortgage rate for a 30-year fixed loan fell two basis points last week to 2.77%, according to Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. Now 12 basis points above the record low set Jan. 7, rates more closely resemble those seen over two months ago. The 15-year fixed mortgage rate also shifted downward to 2.21 from 2.23 the week prior.
Fannie Mae's Henry Cason becomes CEO of FinLocker
Following other recent moves from the government-sponsored enterprises to the private sector, former Fannie Mae Head of Digital Products Henry Cason announced his move to FinLocker, a consumer-permissioned personal financial assistance tool. FinLocker CEO Henry Cason Cason will serve as CEO and succeed the company’s cofounder and CEO Peter Esparrago, who will become FinLocker’s executive chairman and will continue to lead key strategic business relationships.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: Finance of America Mortgage
Finance of America Mortgage Finance of America Mortgage has served the rigorous demands and long-term needs of our customers for more than a quarter-century. We’re dedicated to helping our clients achieve the dream of homeownership. And with the support of a leading global asset manager, we’ll continue to serve our customers with the foundation and stability of a national financial institution.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: Nomis
Nomis Mortgage Helping pricing from start to finish, Nomis Mortgage is a comprehensive, powerful analytics suite for banks and lenders. Nomis Mortgage expands the efficiency frontier by increasing both margins and volume, giving teams real-time competitive and pricing analytics and margin management abilities to turbocharge their business.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: iEmergent
iEmergent iEmergent’s Mortgage MarketSmart and DIVERSIFi solutions provide accurate market opportunity forecasts, current listing/agent data, and critical competitor data that drill down from national to local levels of detail. With powerful analytical and visualization tools, our insight enables lenders to grow originations, market share and profitability – by revealing the opportunities they are missing and helping them take action today for capturing more loans tomorrow.
Reggora gets Series B funding, eyes 2-day appraisals
Appraisal software company Reggora today announced the completion of a $30 million Series B funding round, led by returning investor Spark Capital. Other investors included Shine Capital, Greenpoint Partners, Boston Seed and 1984. The company snagged $10 million in a February Series A funding round, bringing the company’s total capital to $45 billion.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: Sales Boomerang
Borrower Intelligence System Sales Boomerang notifies a Lender when their borrower needs a loan. This demo will present a new suite of alert products. Prescriptive Scenarios enable loan officers to connect a borrower with the right type of loan at the right time based on the borrower’s needs and qualifications.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: Capacity
Capacity Capacity is a mortgage automation platform, powered by AI, that empowers mortgage professionals with instant knowledge and automated workflows. Thanks to 24/7 service, clients receive a superior experience throughout the entire loan process. Capacity connects apps, mines documents, captures tacit knowledge, and automates processes through a mobile-friendly chat interface.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: Insellerate
Insellerate Customer Experience Platform Experience Insellerate’s award-winning Customer Experience Platform featuring lead management, CRM, call routing, sales enablement, marketing automation, borrower engagement, and data intelligence through innovative use of Multi-channel Marketing: text, social media, email, Direct mail, phone, ringless voicemail, retargeting and so much more. Helping lenders close more loans through better borrower engagement.
NEXA Mortgage sued over broker's alleged data theft
In a lawsuit filed last week, a mortgage brokerage claimed that one of its former loan officers stole a database containing client names and information and brought it with him to a new job at NEXA Mortgage. Smart Mortgage, which operates in Illinois, Indiana, Colorado and Florida, filed suit against former senior loan processor Brian Noe and NEXA Mortgage earlier this month in federal court in Illinois. The suit mirrors an earlier, parallel legal action filed in Illinois state court.
Mortgage Tech Demo Day: Insellerate
Insellerate Customer Experience Platform Manage more loan applications, and close them faster with automated document collection. Insellerate helps lenders close more loans through better borrower engagement. The mortgage industry’s most innovative Customer Experience platform. We deliver dynamic technology, strategy, and content for every channel of your business to ensure engagement throughout the borrower’s journey. For more information, visit www.insellerate.com.
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