Flueid, a real estate technology company using title data and insights to provide transactions, announced an integration with FirstClose Inc., Austin, Texas, a provider of fintech platforms for home equity lenders nationwide.
Category: News and Trends
Susan Graham of FICS: Retaining Servicing Provides Competitive Advantage to Lenders in Challenging Mortgage Market
Servicing retention generates servicing fee income and helps servicers improve the customer experience. Modern loan servicing software automates investor reporting and compliance and creates a more efficient workflow, allowing servicers to effectively service loans in-house.
MISMO Announces 2023 Board of Directors
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. – MISMO®, the real estate finance industry’s standards organization, announced its Board of Directors for 2023 here at its Winter Summit.
Top National News Jan. 11, 2023
Here’s a summary of Top National News Items from major news sites and industry trade publications. To get started, click on the headline above:
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“Mortgage rates declined last week as markets reacted to data showing a weakening economy and slowing wage growth. All loan types in the survey saw a decline in rates, with the 30-year fixed rate falling to 6.42 percent.”
–Joel Kan, MBA Vice President and Deputy Chief Economist.
December Mortgage Credit Availability Inches Down
Mortgage credit availability fell by just 0.1 percent in December, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported Tuesday.
People in the News Jan. 11, 2023: Shelli Holland joins Sales Boomerang, Mortgage Coach as Chief People Officer
Sales Boomerang, Owings Mills, Md., and Mortgage Coach, Irvine, Calif., appointed Shelli Holland as Chief People Officer. She will help define and connect the mission and values of the merged company and align the people behind them.
Scott Roller: Must-See Home Equity Vendor Solutions
In their cyclical fashion, most lenders are dusting off some antiquated home equity programs, most having spent no energy to prepare for this market opportunity. Given the past few years of overflowing refi pipelines, that is not surprising. Why plant corn if the market price for soybeans is breaking records? Conversely, multiple vendors have set themselves up to help lenders and credit unions successfully market, process, service and trade home equity loans and HELOCs.
MISMO Releases 2022 Annual Report
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.–MISMO®, the real estate finance industry’s standards organization, today released its 2022 Annual Report here at its Winter Summit.
MBA News Jan. 11, 2023
Today in MBA News: CREF23; MBA Education School of Mortgage Banking I; MBA Education Certified Mortgage Bankers Prep Course; MBA State Commercial Mortgage Licensing Resources. To read more, click on today’s MBA News headline.