Partnership

MetroList, Northern California’s largest multiple listing service, reports that its recent partnership with Home Value Lock has resulted in an uptick in interest in the innovative insurance product from real estate and mortgage companies.

Home Value Lock, a market value insurance product for homebuyers, has partnered with Stanford Mortgage to protect more Sacramento-area buyers from a home price drop.

Matador Lending, a Texas-based mortgage company, has partnered with Calque to offer The Trade-In Mortgage™ to California, Florida, Georgia, and Texas borrowers. This innovative loan option allows homeowners to utilize the equity in their existing property to buy a new home without selling their current one first.

MetroList, Northern California’s largest multiple listing service, has partnered with StreetWire, a real estate data and products developer, to launch an innovative insurance product, Home Value Lock.

Atlas Merchant Capital LLC (“Atlas”), a global alternative investment firm based in New York and London, A&D Mortgage, LLC (“A&D”), a nationwide wholesale lender, and Imperial Fund Asset Management (“Imperial”), a residential mortgage investment manager and a capital markets advisor, announced a joint venture partnership (“JV”) between A&D Mortgage and Atlas Merchant Capital that will support the expansion of A&D’s $7 billion mortgage securitization platform.

Redefining Business Intelligence (RBI), a data science company that uses AI and experienced business analysts to pull actionable insights from very large data sets, announced a new partnership with Middleton Advisory Group, LLC (MAG) that will see the consultancy use RBI Playbooks to enhance the results its advisors deliver clients. Middleton is the first mortgage industry consultancy to embrace the concept of engaging an outsourced data science department.

Orlando-based Celebration Title Group (CTG) has joined the Florida Agency Network’s (FAN) statewide network of title agencies.  Celebration Title Group is a full-service Orlando-based title agency with 15 offices throughout the state of Florida.

BlackFin Group has named Finastra, a provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, a Preferred Partner. This designation underscores Finastra’s commitment to delivering cutting-edge technology solutions that drive innovation, efficiency, and growth in the financial services industry.

BlackFin Group, a management consulting firm serving the banking and mortgage industries, has added Argyle to its exclusive Preferred Partners program. Vetted by an independent team of industry experts with more than 150 years of experience in financial services, Preferred Partners are peer-recommended by BlackFin Group for their proven ability to help banks, lenders and mortgage servicers achieve their business goals.

First Federal Bank, based in Twin Falls, Idaho, has engaged Calque, a company that enables traditional lenders to offer buy-before-you-sell programs, to launch The Trade-In Mortgage in Idaho. With The Trade-In Mortgage, First Federal Bank will give individuals the opportunity to leverage the equity in their home to purchase a new one, prior to selling their current home.