To help limited English proficiency borrowers who are experiencing mortgage-related difficulties due to the coronavirus national emergency, the Federal Housing Finance Agency added new translations to the Mortgage Translations website. Site visitors can now choose English, Spanish, traditional Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, or Tagalog when accessing scripts that servicers use when discussing COVID-19 forbearance with borrowers.
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Industry Briefs June 10, 2020
HUD issued a news release this month marking National Homeownership Month, recognizing the importance of homeownership and its impact upon the lives of American families, local neighborhoods and the national economy.
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Essent Guaranty Inc., Radnor, Pa., and Cloudvirga, Irvine, Calif., announced an integration in which Cloudvirga will offer Essent’s products and services.
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NewDay USA, Fulton, Md., said veterans and servicemembers can now sign mortgage closing documents without having a notary signing agent enter their home.
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Appraisal Logistics, Annapolis, Md., launched Property Vision, an appraisal inspection tool to provide appraisers with consumer-provided photographic data.
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Black Knight, Jacksonville, Fla., released a white paper that provides an in-depth evaluation of the impact the extended disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic may have on the housing and mortgage industries.
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CoreLogic, Irvine, Calif., launched its COVID-19 Housing Market Resource Center. This publicly accessible insights hub that shares data and insights from CoreLogic economists, scientists and other senior management executives related to the spread of the coronavirus and impact on the housing economy.
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Evolve Mortgage Services, Frisco, Texas, a provider of outsourced mortgage services, and Pavaso, Plano, Texas, a provider of digital mortgage closing technology, announced the ability to deliver a digital mortgage experience that includes a library of electronic- or e-enabled documents built entirely of Category One SMARTDocs and an eClosing platform that seamlessly supports Remote Online Notarization.
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Evolve Mortgage Services, Frisco, Texas, a provider of outsourced mortgage services, and Pavaso, Plano, Texas, a provider of digital mortgage closing technology, announced the ability to deliver a digital mortgage experience that includes a library of electronic- or e-enabled documents built entirely of Category One SMARTDocs and an eClosing platform that seamlessly supports Remote Online Notarization.
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Computershare Loan Services’ Specialized Loan Servicing, New York, in partnership with UMB Bank, now offers clients a customer access card tied directly to home equity lines of credit serviced by SLS.