The LPS Auction Solutions division of Lender Processing Services will conduct an online auction of 26 bank-foreclosed homes located nationwide with a bid deadline of Oct. 18.

There’s a famous saying that “to do two things at once is to do neither.” The problem is that lenders in our industry absolutely must do more than two things at once, like originating profitable loans, maintaining compliance and keeping their customers and business partners happy.

How the industry inadvertently prepared itself for today's market over the past decadeTen years ago, there was no such thing as an iPhone, a Prius, or Facebook.Ten years ago, loan files were made of paper and prices were distributed on rate sheets.

Prior to the introduction of personal computers, cell phones and a variety of additional technology that we currently take for granted, an appraiser’s job was considerably more labor intensive than it is today. The nature of the job has always been hands-on as well as extremely analytical, requiring that the appraiser do as much research and investigation as possible in order to provide the most accurate results.

Dorado Corp. has received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the method it created for processing a loan application (including mortgages). The notice means the government is likely to issue a patent.

Online auction house Countdown To Buy, Bethel, Conn., has entered into its first private label deal, signing on Diamante Cabo San Lucas, a high-end golf resort.

Technology provider DataVerify has enhanced its enterprise-wide fraud management platform, DRIVE, to help mortgage lenders identify and avoid potential short sale and property flipping losses.

MERSCORP, Inc. has added a new certified vendor of digital certificates for identification and signatures to its website.

In order to deal with ever-changing regulations at the local, state and federal levels, it is important that lenders be able to stay on top of the changes and, if necessary, to update their systems quickly and accurately to comply with applicable law on their effective dates.

During the height of the mortgage boom, generating origination business all but took care of itself. Rates were low, volumes were high and the greatest challenge lenders faced was simply trying to keep their heads above water amidst a flood of new business.

CoreLogic subsidiary Teletrack Inc., Norcross, Ga., introduced LendOptix, a risk valuation tool that offers borrower payment risk scoring based on credit performance data from Teletrack and other credit reporting databases.

The number of people who believe paperless mortgages could be just a few years away from a 50% penetration of the market has grown in the last two years, according to a survey on the topic that is done roughly every other year.

Big banks are showing more interest in outsourcing, according to Fidelity National Information Services Inc., Jacksonville, Fla.

First American Title Insurance Co., Santa Ana, Calif., is merging its National Lenders Advantage and Equity Loan Services units into a new Mortgage Services division.

•Staying in Compliance: DocMagic’s Dominic Iannitti details what you need to stay ahead of an avalanche of regulations.

Veros Real Estate Solutions has integrated its VeroSelect and Valuation Risk Management products with a la mode's Mercury Network appraiser vendor management platform, enabling observance of government-sponsored enterprise secondary market loan quality initiatives.

CoreLogic and Blueberry Systems have formed a partnership to offer fraud prevention technology to lenders and servicers.

A visit to New American Mortgage's Facebook page reveals, among other things, a video of staffers dancing to the song "Thriller" by Michael Jackson, labeled "when the boss is gone," pictures of one of the company's new offices, birthday cake photos and pictures of families standing in front of their homes.

Will FHA’s overhaul of its technology and infrastructure help the agency be all it can be for lenders and brokers?If the real estate market remains flat for the foreseeable future, one thing is absolutely clear for mortgage technology vendors and service providers: Their primary mission will be to help lenders and servicers lower their costs.

Efforts to reduce paper in the mortgage lending process hit a snag after the foreclosure crisis, with investors and government agencies imposing stricter documentation requirements for home loans. But while the Dunder Mifflins of the world aren’t going out of business yet, recent indications suggest that e-mortgages and other paper elimination initiatives are once again gaining traction.