HouseCanary has partnered with RE/MAX to provide its agents with powerful pricing insights. As a part of the partnership, RE/MAX agents can now access HouseCanary Value Reports through the organization’s Approved Suppliers portal. The reports offers accurate home valuations and three-year pricing forecasts.
Read More »Mortgage Cadence Introduces Collaboration Center
Earlier this month, Mortgage Cadence acquired BeesPath Inc.’s ClosingBridge platform, now branded as Collaboration Center. Currently the platform will be offered as a standalone product, but in the future will be fully incorporate into Mortgage Cadence’s platform.
Read More »Dart Appraisal Announces Collaboration with HouseCanary
Dart Appraisal, an independent appraisal management company, recently announced its collaboration with HouseCanary, a San Francisco-based real estate data analytics company. Through this collaboration, Dart Appraisal will offer a new valuation product to its lender clients.
Read More »FinTech’s Shifting Landscape
Change happens fast, especially in technology. We spoke with Dom Marchetti, CTO of loanDepot about the future of tech in the mortgage industry. Marchetti not only discussed the changing face of tech in terms of mortgage originations, but what roadblocks are preventing the industry from truly advancing technologically.
Read More »Optimal Blue Debuts Application Programming Interface
At the MBA Tech Conference, Optimal Blue unveiled its new Application Programming Interface (API) initiative. The first deliverables available through Optimal Blue’s new API platform allow secure access to pricing for eligible products for both consumer direct and loan officer implementations.
Read More »Digitization Will Put Big Banks Ahead
Non-bank lenders won’t lead the mortgage space for long, according to Fitch Ratings. As the mortgage process gets more digital, the agency says its big banks who will take over, thanks to their greater resources and ability to tie in additional financial products. Investment in digital processes will be key as millennials buyers make up the larger market share.
Read More »DocMagic Grows By 42 Percent
Recently, DocMagic, Inc., reported a 42 percent increase in volume for 2016. The company credits its growth to the mortgage industry’s demand for products that enable TRID compliance, eSignatures and eClosings. This is the second consecutive year that DocMagic’s volume has increased by roughly 40 percent.
Read More »Serving a New Kind of Buyer
We sat down with industry veteran Joseph Melendez to learn how changing buyer demographics, technology, and the new administration are shaking things up. Melendez is the CEO of ValueInsured, a down payment protection provider based in Dallas. He has more than three decades in the insurance and financial services industry.
Read More »Mortgage Cadence Announces Third generation of Borrower Center
According to Mortgage Cadence, this new release of Mortgage Cadence’s cloud-based technology should provide a superior experience for borrowers and a more-efficient, cost effective process for lenders.
Read More »VirPack Lanches Preconfigured Document Management and Delivery System
While traditional LOS-provided document management implementation have placed the burden of creating and managing electronic loan delivery profiles on the lender, VirPack's preconfigured implementation technology removes that problem.
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