The 2021 Lending Luminary Award Winners Are …
A luminary is defined as “a person who inspires or influences others.” And that type of person is exactly who we are honoring. The 2021 Winners Are …
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Author: PROGRESS In Lending
New Tech Helps Lenders Weed Out Fraudulent And Manipulated Photos Provided By Third Parties
ClearValue Consulting, a provider of enterprise-class vendor management technology for the mortgage industry, has launched Property VeriPix, a photographic validation and chain of custody technology that verifies the location, date and time of subject property photos provided by third parties.
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Presenting The 11th Annual ENGAGE Event
This one-of-a-kind virtual event features insights into the mortgage and lending business that quite frankly you can’t get anywhere else. Dynamic industry speakers discuss the top issues facing our space today and PROGRESS in Lending announces the 3rd Annual Lending Luminary Award Winners.
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WFG Simplifies And Accelerates Loan Funding And Disbursement
WFG Enterprise Solutions, part of the Williston Financial Group family of companies, has announced availability of its WFG MyHome® Funder Dashboard to regional and national mortgage lenders.
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Mortgage Credit Availability Increased In September
Mortgage credit availability increased in September according to the Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI), a report from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) that analyzes data from Ellie Mae’s AllRegs® Market Clarity® business information tool.
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Average Closing Costs, Excluding Taxes, Up By 10.5 Percent Year-Over-Year
ClosingCorp, a provider of residential real estate closing cost data and technology for the mortgage and real estate services industries, released its most recent closing cost data, which showed that in the first half of 2021 national average closing costs for a single-family property were $6,837 including taxes, and $3,836 excluding taxes. These were 12.3% and 10.5% year-over-year increases, respectively; whereas refinance closings costs increased marginally to $2,398, a 4.87% change from the reported 2020 average of $2,287.
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New MISMO Workgroup Plans To Standardize The Data Transmission Process To Automate HOI Requests
MISMO, the real estate finance industry’s standards organization, announced that it is seeking participants for a new initiative focused on automating homeowner insurance (HOI) requests.
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Advancing Your Proptech Strategy With AI
Today, no matter the industry, tech-enabled innovations are needed throughout. We must allow for vertical integration and ensure that real estate software is competitive and ready-to-market. The USA, alone, has one of the largest and most flourishing PropTech markets worldwide. While PropTech focuses on construction, buying, selling, renting, moving, and managing real estate assets, it is not limited to these areas.
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DocMagic Unveils Enhanced Remote Notary And eClosing Capabilities
DocMagic, Inc. has launched its eSign 3.0 platform. The enhancements to the mortgage industry’s preeminent eSigning platform introduce new tools and features designed to enable lenders to easily facilitate remote online notarization (RON) for paperless eClosings.
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Interfirst Mortgage Gets New VP Regional Wholesale Production
Interfirst Mortgage Company (Interfirst), a private equity-backed mortgage originator, announced that Tony Santangelo has joined the Company as Vice President, Regional Wholesale Production for the East Coast.
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WFG Launches Webinar To Present Economic Outlook
WFG National Title Insurance Company, a Portland-based, full-service provider of title insurance and real estate settlement services for commercial and residential transactions nationwide, will host its fourth quarter 2021 “Economic Outlook & Title Insurance” webinar on Thursday, October 21, beginning at 7 am PT / 10 am ET.
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