Mortgage technology

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The additional services that North County Property Group is now providing clients include a 10-point property marketing program, REO portfolio services, eviction services, and a referral program for cooperating real estate brokers and agents.

In the post-crisis housing market appraisal reports are becoming as important as credit scores, requiring lenders and servicers to be more inventive with the tools they use to assess real estate value risks.

Industry leaders participated in a roundtable discussing the latest trends in mortgage fraud and what lenders and servicers can do to detect illegal loan applications they receiver from a borrower.

Problems that get fixed later don’t cost you more if you can make sure it’s no longer your problem.

Capsilon has released a new version of its DocVelocity mobile application.

Take it seriously and be ready; it’s not letting up anytime soon.

Appraisal Logistics is now making its Aim-Port proprietary technology available to other users in three different ways.

Ellie Mae said that Vivian Wong has joined the company as senior vice president of software development.

Fannie Mae is testing a default management tool to make it easier for servicers to provide struggling homeowners with accurate and timely assistance.

In the modern world, paper documents are an obstacle between servicers and their own potential competitiveness.

We're hearing that cloud computing may weigh heavily on the future of mobile device management for the financial services industry—in a good way.

The results of the Consumer Financial Protection Board’s rulemaking process add costs and time to the loan origination process.

When you speak to servicers nowadays, the number one concern many companies are battling right now is complying with new industry regulations.

OptifiNow, a maker of mortgage lending software, is rolling out a service to streamline paperwork and ease compliance.

Lorraine Brown, former president of the mortgage document processor DocX LLC, was sentenced to at least 40 months in prison on a racketeering charge in a robo-signing case.

Redfin has created a tool where homeowners can obtain estimates of their property’s value on what it says is a real-time basis.

CoreLogic has integrated compliance and fraud risk mitigation solutions into seven loan origination systems.

If you want to get something out to the industry in a hurry, Twitter is one of the fastest methods to get it done.

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recent held a meeting on “The Future of Global Capital Requirements,” noting that one of the “main themes of industry response” to rulemaking in this area so far has been that generally “the proposals would result in much higher capital requirements” for most positions.