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American Mortgage Consultants Inc. Acquires String Real Estate Information Services, LLC
American Mortgage Consultants, Inc., a leading nationwide residential and consumer loan due diligence, quality control, securitization review, MSR review, advance assessment, servicing oversight, consulting, and technology provider, has acquired String Real Estate Information Services, LLC (“String”), a leading provider of title search outsourcing services. This Strategic expansion adds title search capabilities and a variety… Read more...
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CoreLogic Reports January Home Prices Increased by 4.4 Percent Year Over Year
CoreLogic released the CoreLogic Home Price Index and HPI Forecast for January 2019, which shows home prices rose both year over year and month over month. Home prices increased nationally by 4.4 percent year over year from January 2018. This represents the slowest twelve-month home price growth rate since August 2012. On a month-over-month basis,… Read more...
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ComplianceEase names Michael Jackman as CEO, John Vong to become Executive Chairman
ComplianceEase, a provider of automated compliance solutions to the financial services industry, announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Michael Jackman as chief executive officer. Jackman replaces Anita Kwan, co-founder and chief executive officer, who is retiring. John Vong, ComplianceEase’s other co-founder, has been named executive chairman of the board. In this role,… Read more...
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Fidelity National Completes its First Digital Closing in Texas
Fidelity National Financial completed its first digital real estate closing in Texas using a remote online notarization and digital-signature process. State law allows escrow officers commissioned as online notary publics to perform fully digital closings using a combination of video technology and digital signatures. A Texas FNF affiliate used secure, remote notarization technology to connect… Read more...
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Four Problems AMCs Need to Solve
By Michael Detwiler (This is the first column in a monthly series covering the business strategy of Class Valuation from the point of view of the chief executive officer, Michael Detwiler. He is the former managing director of Accenture and the founder of Mortgage Cadence.) I believe that being a leader involves solving problems by… Read more...
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Goldman Sachs Moves Forward with Mortgage Settlements
Goldman Sachs has successfully completed 71% of the $1.8 billion in consumer-relief it is obligated to provide under its two mortgage-backed-securities settlements with the Department of Justice and three states, according to the latest report from Eric D. Green, Independent Monitor. Green, a professional mediator and retired Boston University law professor, was named independent monitor… Read more...
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Mortgage Rates Unchanged
Mortgage rates held steady after declining for three consecutive weeks, according to the “Primary Mortgage market Survey” from Freddie Mac. “Mortgage rates remained mostly unchanged this week, while mortgage applications rose 5.3 percent from the previous week,” said Sam Khater, chief economist for Freddie Mac. “The general decline in rates we have seen recently, combined… Read more...
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Fewer First Time Homebuyers in Q4: Genworth
There were fewer first-time homebuyers amid housing slowdown in the fourth quarter of 2018. Fully 480,000 single-family homes were purchased—a decline of three percent from a year ago, compared to a one percent increase in the third quarter, according to the First-Time Homebuyer Market Report from Genworth Mortgage Insurance. "The first-time homebuyer market once again… Read more...
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Exclusive: Class Valuation Invests in InsideMaps, Looks Drive Appraisal Innovation
Class Valuation has made an equity investment in and is partnering with InsideMaps, a technology company using computer vision to digitize the home. This partnership allows Class Valuation to develop solutions designed to meet the needs of the evolving mortgage industry. [caption id="attachment_8871" align="alignleft" width="300"] Detwiler: InsideMap investment is latest step to modernize the appraisal… Read more...
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MBA: Apps Up 5.3%
Mortgage applications increased 5.3 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending Feb. 22, 2019. This week’s results include an adjustment for the Washington's Birthday (Presidents’ Day) holiday. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 5.3 percent… Read more...
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