FirstClose Integrates With Optimal Blue PPE
FirstClose, a provider of data and workflow solutions for mortgage and home equity lenders nationwide, has announced a new integration with Optimal Blue that...
Pending Home Sales Increased 4 Percent in August But Affordability Challenges Remain
Pending home sales increased 4% in August compared with July and were up 3.8% compared with August 2024, according to the National Association of...
Atlas VMS Promotes Anneta Pope to Chief Brand Officer
Anneta Pope has been promoted to chief brand officer at Atlas VMS, a valuation management company.
Pope joined Atlas in 2023. She was previously chief growth...
Rate Increases Conforming Loan Limit Ahead of Official FHFA Announcement
Rate reports that it is increasing in its conforming loan limit to $819,000 for select loan products across the contiguous 48 states ahead of...
Planet Home Lending Taps John Adams as Retail Renovation Leader
John Adams has joined Planet Home Lending as retail renovation leader.
Adams will expand Planet's renovation expertise at a time when borrowers, MLOs and real...
Mortgage Rates Inched Back Up
Mortgage rates inched back up this week, with the average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rising to 6.30%, up from 6.26% last week,...
Mortgage Applications Continued to Rise Last Week
Mortgage application volume inched up 0.6% during the week ended September 19, as the average rate for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage dropped to 6.34%,...
Fusion Home Loans Launches in Florida
Fusion Home Loans, a retail direct mortgage bank headquartered in Orlando, Fla., has officially launched operations.
The Acrisure partner company is on a mission to...
New Home Sales Surged More Than 20 Percent in August
New home sales in August were at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of about 800,000, an increase of 20.5% compared with July and up 15.4%...
Verifications Provider Argyle Secures Funding to Accelerate Open Finance Infrastructure
Argyle, a provider of income and employment data, has announced a strategic investment round with new participation from Mastercard alongside continued support from current...
Choice Mortgage Partners With Mortgage Coaching Veteran Tammy Schneider
Choice Mortgage Group reports that it is partnering with mortgage coaching veteran Tammy Schneider to recruit and mentor top loan originators.
Schneider, who began her...
MBA: Applications for New Home Purchases Sank 6 Percent in August
Applications for mortgages for new home purchases decreased 6% in August compared with July but were up 1% compared with August 2024, according to...
Compass to Merge With Anywhere
Compass, a tech-enabled real estate services company that includes the largest residential real estate brokerage in the U.S. by sales volume, is merging with...
Rate Launches Mobile App that Delivers an All-Spanish Mortgage Experience, End-to-End
Mortgage lender Rate reports that it has launched a mobile app that delivers an end-to-end Spanish experience.
The development of this mobile, all-Spanish experience marks...
Ardley OneLink Enables Real-Time, Customized Mortgage Offers for Any Qualified Borrower
Ardley, a provider of borrower-level mortgage intelligence, has launched Ardley OneLink, a universal entry point to the Ardley Intelligence Platform that enables lenders and...
Closinglock Introduces Automated, Insured Payoff Retrieval
Closinglock, providing secure digital payments and wire fraud prevention for real estate transactions, has acquired the payoff retrieval tool from Viking Sasquatch and is...
MISMO Taps Brian Vieaux as President
Mortgage industry veteran, author and thought leader Brian Vieaux, CMB, has joined MISMO, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, as its new president,...
Merchants Bank of Indiana Using Blue Sage to Power its Jumbo Correspondent Lending Program
Merchants Bank of Indiana, a full-service bank with more than $18 billion in assets, is now using Blue Sage’s Digital Lending Platform to power...
Home Prices Decreased Nationally in August But the Luxury Market Continues to See Gains
U.S. home prices decreased -0.2% in August compared with July but were up 1.2% compared with August 2024, according to the latest First American...
FirstClose Builds Out its Sales Team With Four New Hires
Austin Wilcox has joined mortgage software provider FirstClose as a regional vice president.
In addition, Darcy Hall has joined the company as a business development...