The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Builder Application Survey (BAS) data for September 2025 shows mortgage applications for new home purchases increased 2.0 percent compared from a year ago. Compared to August 2025, applications decreased by 5 percent. This change does not include any adjustment for typical seasonal patterns.
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LoanCare, a national mortgage subservicer, announced two new enhancements to its suite of digital retention tools that will give clients additional customer refinance signals and help them gain critical intelligence on loan payoffs.
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Cloudvirga, a Stewart-owned provider of digital point-of-sale platforms for lenders, announced the integration of its Horizon POS with Stewart Valuation Intelligence, LLC (SVI), a national provider of appraisal management and residential real estate valuation services. Borrowers applying on a self-serve basis can request an appraisal directly, while loan officers can initiate and manage orders when completing an application on a borrower’s behalf.
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Dark Matter Technologies (Dark Matter) has expanded its Empower loan origination system (LOS) to include comprehensive eClosing capabilities by integrating Wolters Kluwer’s eOriginal ClosingCenter and eOriginal eAsset Management Platform.
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Verus Mortgage Capital (VMC), a correspondent investor specializing in non‑agency and non‑QM products, has selected the LoanPASS product‑and‑pricing engine (PPE) to power pricing and eligibility across its wholesale and correspondent channels. The selection of LoanPASS, a rules‑based decisioning platform, underscores VMC’s commitment to automation, transparency and efficient decisioning in the growing non‑QM market.
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Benutech, a real estate technology solutions provider, has launched PortfolioShield, a lien monitoring system designed to help mortgage lenders and servicers mitigate risk.
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BlackFin Group, a trusted consulting and advisory firm, has promoted Luana Slettedahl to Partner. Since 2021, Luana has played a key role in the continued bottom-line growth at BlackFin during a challenging high-interest rate environment. Luana’s promotion provides her with an expanded platform beyond her HFA, agency, capital markets, MSR, and hedging expertise to further leverage her 40 years of industry expertise in assisting lenders with all aspects of lending operations.
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NotaryCam®, a Stewart-owned company and a provider of remote online notarization (RON) and identity verification/authentication technology for real estate and legal transactions, announced that its eClose360® platform is fully compatible with the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization’s (MISMO) newly published SMART Doc® V3 standard for electronic home equity lines of credit (eHELOCs).
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Sagent, a provider of mortgage servicing technology, announced the launch of Dara Invoice, a real-time solution to eliminate the error-prone manual process currently used by servicers to manage invoices related to mortgages in default.
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