Mortgage technology

The number of U.S. jurisdictions that are electronically recording land and mortgage documents saw a major increase in the past 11 months jumping to 900 counties.

Ongoing efforts to modernize Federal Housing Administration technology will pave the way for property valuations and electronic mortgages.

The demand for homeownership has always been a primary indicator of the state of the national economy.

ClosingCorp has released a product designed to offer more accurate pricing for real estate services.

We're hearing that a funny thing happened on the way to a radiant world of paperless lending: a lot of people decided they liked using paper.

Three industry groups are urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to extend the implementation period for the QM and other mortgage rules by at least six months.

The Stratmor Group has launched MortgageSAT, a customer survey and analytics application that captures consumer feedback and allows lenders to measure and respond to borrower satisfaction.

Lenders are not deploying mobile technology because doing so would magnify inefficiency and increase risk in their operations, to paraphrase Bill Gates.

The release of the Consumer Financial Bureau’s federal consumer financial complaints database is little more than the regulator stroking its ego.

Through this partnership, lenders and AMCs will now have an all-in-one solution that helps them manage workflow, ensure compliance and mitigate risk in the appraisal review process.

Mortgage Builder is seeing a large spike in the number of people utilizing their work groups talking about key industry issues.

CoesterVMS has launched a self-serve online platform that allows lenders to verify compliance with all third-party regulations set forth by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau every time an appraisal is completed.

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Rhode Island Supreme Court justices in a ruling held that naming Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems as mortgagee is consistent with Rhode Island law.

Median closing costs went up 0.4% between December 2012 and March of this year.

The Benedict Group has added Web access to its loan servicing software to help clients manage their financial transactions.

I love the MBA tech show. This year it is at a hotel that was refinanced by a plumbers’ trade group. Let’s keep the cracks to a minimum, please.

The return to a purchase market will not be easy for many lenders.

Fiserv has integrated its Common Origination Platform and LoanServ systems to provide real-time, full-circle loan boarding processes for mortgage, home equity lines of credit and installment loans.

QuestSoft's fifth annual compliance survey reaffirms compliance requirements that have kept lenders up at night for three years in a row will continue to be a high concern at least until January 2014.