Analytics

First American Financial Corp. has acquired post-closing services and document management technology provider TD Service Financial Corp.

Automated underwriting and compliance services provider LoanScorecard has released a new product and pricing engine for portfolio lenders and originators.

With the myriad home price indices available to the mortgage industry, it's difficult to determine which offers the most cost-effective insights about a particular market. Granularity is a key selling point, but not a one-size-fits-all solution.

The jury is still out on whether new sports stadiums are economic engines for their communities. But when it comes to housing alone, new stadiums are a boon for local home sales, but don't always contribute to home price appreciation.

Sperlonga Data & Analytics has begun reporting homeowner and condominium association payments and account statuses to Equifax.

Now that Fannie Mae requires trended data credit reports for its automated underwriting system, will other secondary market players follow suit? If so, how soon?

The granular data and quick decisions that can help field a winning fantasy football team have a lot in common with the analytics tools that mortgage lenders use to monitor and evaluate their operations.

First American Financial Services has reached an agreement to acquire RedVision Systems, one of the largest independent providers of title and property research nationwide.

Appraisal management software company Mercury Network has entered into an agreement to acquire valuation data and analytics services provider Platinum Data Solutions.

Mortgage portfolio retention strategies typically focus on proactively approaching borrowers who can benefit from refinancing. But companies are increasingly using enhanced analytics to further segment their customer base and identify borrowers on the cusp of buying a new home.

Looking to provide its technology from start to finish in a real estate transaction, e-signature company DocuSign has created a new "lead to close" strategy.

CoreLogic has expanded its collaboration with data visualization company Graphiq.

Mortgage servicing has a reputation for being cold and impersonal, but companies have the opportunity to put more of a personal touch on their interactions with borrowers by analyzing the wealth of data available to them.

Technology developed by SmartZip analyzes 2,000 variables about a housing market and its homeowners to help real estate agents and lenders identify consumers most likely to sell their house or need a new mortgage.

Mergers and acquisitions are important, but simply buying out the competition is no longer the road to success.

RealtyTrac is renaming its parent company Attom Data Solutions as it rolls out a new property database that links different data sources into a centralized resource.

Good intentions won't lower costs, improve workflow or maintain compliance. Decision-makers need to put their money where their mouths are when it comes to implementing technology to keep costs down, improving workflow and maintaining compliance.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently dressed down the mortgage industry for failing to innovate. Here are 10 tech ideas from the National Mortgage News team that could improve efficiency, margins and the industry's image among growing demographics. Some might sound farfetched, but so do most great inventions at first. Dream big.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is keeping lenders in the dark about how it will ensure borrower data is secure and private under the expanded Home Mortgage Disclosure Act reporting requirements.

The deadline has arrived for mandatory submissions to the Federal Housing Administration's Electronic Appraisal Delivery portal, but as many as one-third of lenders that originate FHA-insured mortgages have yet to use the new system.