Innovation

HarborOne Mortgage, a mortgage provider serving the Northeast since 1983, has partnered with Calque to offer its borrowers cost-effective ‘buy before you sell’ solutions like The Trade-In Mortgage and the Contingency Buster. These innovative loan options allow homeowners to purchase a new property without needing to sell their existing property first.

In a high-interest rate environment, mortgage lenders must find new ways to differentiate to be successful. How do they do that? The only answer is to innovate by improving the overall mortgage process by adopting new technologies, but what is mortgage technology innovation, really?

Rapidio, a provider of mortgage underwriting technology, announced availability of its data platform to safely transform mortgage lending with speed, accuracy and security.

Nationwide Property & Appraisal Services (NPAS) has launched Credit Union Edge, a product line designed to give credit unions a competitive edge in the world of valuation services.

SingleSource Property Solutions, a provider of property services supporting the U.S. housing industry, now offers data collection suites and a proprietary mobile app, SingleVue for the Fannie Mae Value Acceptance + Property Data Initiative.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, has selected the Cloudvirga Horizon Wholesale platform to optimize efficiency within its wholesale mortgage division.

Clarifire, a provider of workflow automation, announced that Evergreen Home Loans has selected CLARIFIRE as its servicing workflow application. Evergreen, which has a servicing portfolio of $10 billion, plans to leverage CLARIFIRE to scale and increase competitive market share.

Valligent, a Veros Software company providing real estate valuation solutions, has enhanced their traditional appraisal quality control process with BiasCHECK, a technology-based risk analysis solution integrated into Valligent’s appraisal review to quickly detect if an appraisal may be at risk for potential valuation bias or quality issues that need deeper analysis.

Fintech provider Forta Solutions has launched Agility, a warehouse lending platform that offers warehouse lenders transparency, efficiency and a faster, more secure path to liquidity. Designed by warehouse lenders and built with modern technology, Agility features APIs that enable seamless integrations with both internal and third-party vendors’ systems, a first in the warehouse lending industry.

Blue Sage Solutions, LLC, developers of a browser-based, end-to-end cloud-based platform, reported that Service Credit Union, a $5 billion credit union serving members around the world, went live on the Blue Sage Digital Lending Platform, including a full-functional point of sale (POS), loan origination system (LOS), and document management solutions. Service CU expects to improve their members’ experience, streamline mortgage origination processes, and create significant cost savings.