Nomis Reports Strong Adoption of its nSight for Mortgage Platform
Fintech firm Nomis reports that it is seeing widespread adoption of its nSight for Mortgage lending platform.Since its...
Rates Rise But 30-Year Remains Well Below Three Percent
Mortgage rates increased slightly this week, with the average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rising to 2.90%, up from 2.87% last...
New Home Sales Jumped Again in August But Supply is Dwindling
Sales of newly built single-family homes jumped 4.8% on an adjusted basis in July compared with August, reaching an annual rate of...
FHFA: Two-Month Home-Price Increase Was Largest in Almost 30 Years
According to the latest Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (FHFA HPI), house prices rose 1.0 percent from June to July,...
Customers Now Have Self-Service E-Recording Capability on FirstClose ONE
Mortgage technology provider FirstClose has integrated with Simplifile and CSC to offer its clients full-service and self-service e-recording on the FirstClose ONE...
Mortgage Applications Jump 6.8 Percent
After decreasing the previous week, mortgage application volume bounced back during the week ended Sept. 18, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s...
Existing-Home Sales Increased For Third Straight Month in August
Existing-home sales increased for a third consecutive month in August, rising 2.4% compared with July to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 6...
First American Adds Credit-Monitoring Module to Fraud Guard
First American Mortgage Solutions LLC has rolled out a new monitoring solution, Mortgage Forbearance Indicator (MFI), that is available through First American’s...
Altisource Adds SPOC Reps to El Paso Operations Center
Altisource Portfolio Solutions says it has expanded its Texas-based operations center to better service financial institutions in the wake of an unprecedented...
LERETA Signs Up New American Funding for Tax Services
National mortgage lender and servicer New American Funding, based in Southern California, has selected LERETA for tax services.New...
Midwestern Bank Deploys Black Knight Servicing Technology
Fidelity Bank, a lender with 21 offices across Kansas and Oklahoma, has implemented Black Knight Inc.'s suite of mortgage servicing solutions, including...
Quicken Loans Unit to Be Rebranded Rocket Pro TPO
Quicken Loans Mortgage Services (QLMS) says it will soon undergo a full rebrand, with QLMS becoming Rocket Pro TPO (for “third party...
CoreLogic: U.S. Homeowners Continued to Gain Equity in Q2, Despite COVID-19 Crisis
Due mainly to rising home prices - and in spite of the COVID-19 crisis - U.S. homeowners collectively gained more than $620...
SLK Global Solutions Taps Casey Hughes-Wade as VP of Mortgage Relationship Management
Casey Hughes-Wade recently joined SLK Global Solutions, a provider of digital platforms and business process management solutions to the banking, mortgage and...
Total Expert Hires Allison Netzer as Chief Marketing Officer
Allison Netzer recently joined Total Expert, a provider of automated enterprise marketing, compliance and customer relationship management software to the mortgage industry,...
FormFree Hires Tyler Brantley as Director of Implementation
FormFree, a provider of automated employment, income and asset verification solutions to the mortgage industry, has hired SaaS sales executive Tyler Brantley as...
Share of Mortgages in Forbearance Falls Below 7%
The share of mortgages in COVID-19-related forbearance plans continued to fall during the week ended Sept. 13, dropping nine basis points to...
Carissa Robb: Complexity of Borrower Relief Options is Set to Increase
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Millions of borrowers in the U.S. have received COVID-19 related payment extensions, deferrals or forbearances. Back offices are...
August Data Show Continued Upward Push in Home Prices
According to a new report from Redfin, the national median home price rose 11% year over year to $328,400 in August -...
Black Knight Rolls Out Digital Tools for Origination Process
Black Knight Inc. has launched two new solutions - Borrower Digital and LO Digital – that are designed to improve the loan...
