Thursday, November 7, 2024

Residential Mortgage

Castle & Cooke Mortgage Opens New Location In Tennessee

Castle & Cooke Mortgage reports that it has opened a new branch in the Memphis, Tennessee area. John Brawner, who has 24 years of mortgage...

Report Shows That 68% Of Loan Defects In 2016 Were Related To TRID

More than 68% of loan defects reported in 2016 were related to the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosures (TRID) rule, data from mortgage software firm ACES...

IDS Adds Mortgage Document Preview Feature To LendingQB Integration

Mortgage document preparation vendor International Document Services Inc. (IDS) says it has incorporated a new document preview feature into its integration with LendingQB’s cloud-based...

MBA: Mortgage Credit Availability Decreased In May

Mortgage credit availability fell 1.1% in May compared with April to a score of 181.0 on the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Mortgage Credit Availability...

Appraisal MC Launches Priority Panels

Appraisal management company (AMC) Appraisal MC recently launched Priority Panels, an appraisal service that allows mortgage lenders in key metropolitan areas to get appraisals...

Land Home Rolls Out New Down Payment Assistance Program

Privately owned, nationwide, community-focused mortgage lender Land Home Financial Services Inc. (Land Home) recently introduced House2Home, an exclusive down payment assistance and educational program...

USRES Hires Tiffany Malm-Ruiz To Oversee REO Division

Tiffany Malm-Ruiz has joined USRES, a provider of real estate owned (REO) asset management, default management and valuation solutions to the mortgage industry, to...

MBA: Mortgage Application Volume Jumped 7.1% During Memorial Day Week

Mortgage application volume jumped 7.1% on an adjusted basis during the week ended June 2, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage...

CoreLogic To Purchase Appraisal Software Provider Mercury Network

CoreLogic is acquiring valuation technology and appraisal management platform provider Mercury Network. The global property data and analytics firm reports that it has acquired a...

Kiel Mortgage Using ReverseVision To Originate HECMs

Kiel Mortgage has chosen ReverseVision's RV Exchange (RVX) loan origination software (LOS) to power its home equity conversion mortgage (HECM) division. Founded three decades ago...

Fulton Financial Corp. Upgrades To FirstClose’s Complete New Report System

Fulton Financial Corp., a Lancaster, Penn.-based financial holding company that has 242 banking offices in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and Virginia through its...

ClosingCorp Introduces Proprietary Rate Engine For Title Companies

ClosingCorp, a provider of residential real estate closing cost data and technology for the mortgage industry, recently released SmartEngine, an advanced rate management solution...

MBA: Cost To Originate A Mortgage Hit New Peak In Q1 At $8,887 Per...

Mortgage lenders made a little less profit per loan during the first quarter, due mainly to higher operating expenses. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association's...

California Escrow Company, ValuEscrow, Acquired By ValuAmerica

ValuAmerica, a wholly owned subsidiary of Clayton Holdings and national provider of appraisal, title, closing and settlement services, has acquired ValuEscrow Inc., an independent...

CoreLogic: U.S. Home Prices Increased 1.6% In April

Currently, CoreLogic is forecasting that home prices will increase 5.1% from April 2017 to April 2018.

Will Administration’s Policies Have A Positive Effect On The Mortgage Market?

About 73% of mortgage lenders believe the new administration’s policies will have a positive impact on the lending environment, according to the Lenders One...

Black Knight: Origination Volume Fell 34% In Q1

Mortgage origination volume fell 34% in the first quarter compared with the fourth quarter, driven mainly by a 45% drop in refinances, according to...

Asurity Technologies Delivers New Mortgage Compliance Platform, RegTech

Asurity Technologies - formerly Treliant Solutions - has rolled out a new integrated best-in-class compliance platform for the mortgage industry, dubbed RegTech. The new solution...

Skyline Financial Launching Reverse Mortgage Division, Selects ReverseVision

Skyline Financial Corp. is launching a new reverse mortgage division and will be using ReverseVision as its loan origination system provider for reverse mortgages. Specifically,...

LBA Ware Hires Finn Klemann To Head Business Development

Finn Klemann has joined LBA Ware, a provider of automated compensation software for mortgage loan officers (LOs), as director of business development. Klemann has more...