Mortgage technology

To deal with the crunch, servicers should combine cloud and digital workflow automation technologies.

Now is the time for mortgage servicers to prioritize customer care for the homeowners they serve.

Previously, mortgage firms concentrated on borrower-facing systems at the expense of internal experience.

From what it takes to accommodate remote notarization to figuring out how to process an influx of forbearance requests through limited communication channels, here are five takeaways from coronavirus-related work restrictions.

The other parts of the Day 1 Certainty program regarding income and asset verifications remain in effect.

But Black Knight and Arch Capital's mortgage insurance business aren't as affected, at least so far.

Net income grew by nearly 1,990% year-over-year as its core mortgage services businesses gained scale.

Almost 10 years after it became the business world's biggest buzzword, cloud technology is everywhere, but few mortgage companies have fully capitalized on its efficiency and flexibility advantages.

As lenders scale up on their remote capabilities in response to the pandemic, the software companies that service them see exponential growth.

Phone calls have remerged as a powerful lead generation tool that loan officers shouldn't overlook.

The nonprofit that distributed a loss mitigation platform built during the last crisis recently closed, but the technology's creator sees interest in its use for COVID-19-related deferrals.

To keep up with demand during the coronavirus pandemic, the mortgage industry must push other initiatives to the side in favor of ramping up the use of tech tools, according to Planet Home Lending.

While home showings in the Twin Cities have plummeted in recent weeks and sales of upper-bracket houses are sputtering, first-time buyers are still in the market.

As the mortgage and real estate industries traverse the challenges of the increasingly digital coronavirus landscape, title agents and their integral part of the process can get overlooked.

Williston Financial Group accounted for a pandemic in business continuity plans, and it helped some, but COVID-19 was a much larger scale than it anticipated.

Joe Welu, CEO and founder of Total Expert, provides his perspectives on how the coronavirus pandemic impacts the mortgage industry and ways lenders can push forward.

Consumer needs are in flux and Top Producers were looking at technology and risks associated with unexpected financial challenges as areas where they weren't yet meeting those needs. The coronavirus only intensified the urgency.

As delving further into digitization becomes more the standard, loan officers across the country know artificial intelligence is the next evolution in mortgage technology.

As social distancing related to the coronavirus complicates work for appraisers, real estate agents and construction lenders, professionals turn to technology and, in some cases, ask consumers to pitch in.