Panorama Mortgage Group Launches Prosperity Capital Mortgage
Panorama Mortgage Group (PMG) has launched a new brand, Prosperity Capital Mortgage, a full-service mortgage lender serving Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Las Vegas,...
Reggora Adds ICE Appraisal Platform to Increase Mortgage Automation Capabilities
Reggora, an appraisal software company for lenders, appraisers and borrowers, has signed a new enterprise agreement with ICE Mortgage Technology, part of Intercontinental Exchange...
Compliance Basics for New Mortgage Professionals
Over the last decade, many professionals have left the mortgage industry. Between the housing crash, rising rates, low inventory, forbearances and all the resulting...
CoreLogic Reports Decrease in Mortgage Delinquencies to 3.3 Percent
CoreLogic’s monthly Loan Performance Insights Report for January 2022 shows that 3.3% of all mortgages in the U.S. were in some stage of delinquency...
Jim Voth: Digital Transformation Will Continue Despite Slowdown
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Will a slowdown in the mortgage market result in lenders cutting back on technology investments?
Not necessarily, says Jim Voth, managing...
Staircase Debuts New Technology to Aid Companies with Mortgage Data
Staircase has launched Staircase Persistence, a fully managed, cloud-based data lake and immutable ledger that leverages AWS blockchain technology to help lenders store and...
March Report Shows Swiftly Rising Rates, Purchase Lock Volume Increase
Black Knight Inc. has released its latest Originations Market Monitor report, looking at mortgage origination data through the end of March by leveraging daily...
Wolters Kluwer Finalizes IDS Acquisition
Wolters Kluwer Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) has completed its acquisition of International Document Services Inc. (IDS).
On March 9, Wolters Kluwer GRC signed an...
Consumers Increaingly Pessimistic About Home-Buying As Mortgage Rates Rise
Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) decreased by 2.1 points to 73.2 in March, as consumers continue to express pessimism regarding the trajectory...
Average 30-Year Mortgage Rate Jumps Again
Freddie Mac has released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), showing that the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 4.72% with an...
March Figures Show Mortgage Credit Availability Decrease of 0.7 Percent
Mortgage credit availability decreased in March, according to the Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI), a report from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) that analyzes...
Clear Capital Introduces Two New Desktop Appraisal Solutions
Clear Capital, a national real estate valuation technology company, has introduced two new desktop appraisal solutions - Desktop Appraisal and Desktop Data Collection.
Desktop Appraisal...
Mortgage Application Volume Dropped 6.3 Percent Week over Week
The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 6.3% on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier, according to...
Insurance Office of America Unveils SimplyIOA Platform for Mortgage Industry
Insurance Office of America (IOA) has debuted SimplyIOA, an insurtech offering with a fully integrated digital platform for comparing, quoting and purchasing homeowners insurance...
CoreLogic: Home Prices Continued to Rise Rapidly in February, Smashing Records
U.S. home prices jumped 2.2% in February compared with January and were up 20% compared with February 2021, according to CoreLogic’s home price index...
Roxana Davidoff: CRM is All About Good Communication
PERSON OF THE WEEK: When it comes to home transactions, fast and efficient communication between the various parties involved is critical.
The challenge to achieving...
PPDocs, Full Skope Integrate Loan Origination Platform Capabilities
PPDocs, a document service provider to the real estate industry, and loan origination platform creator Full Skope have integrated their two platforms, PPDocs and...
Pinnacle Bank Implements SimpleNexus Mortgage Operations Solution
Georgia-based Pinnacle Bank has implemented nCino company SimpleNexus’ Nexus Vision to support optimization of the bank’s mortgage operations with turnkey business intelligence (BI).
Founded in...
Black Knight: Home Price Growth Was Nearly 20 Percent in February
The Data & Analytics division of Black Knight Inc. has released its latest Mortgage Monitor Report, based upon the company's mortgage, real estate and...
Strong Job Gains in March Pushed Unemployment Rate Down to 3.6 Percent
The U.S. economy added 431,000 jobs in March - slightly below expectations - while the unemployment rate dipped to 3.6%, according to the U.S....