Technology

CoreLogic is acquiring appraisal technology company Mercury Network from Serent Capital just two years after the San Francisco-based private equity firm purchased it.

Optimal Blue, a mortgage technology provider owned by private equity firm GTCR, has acquired Comergence Compliance Monitoring.

Real estate site Zillow is launching a $1 million competition among data scientists to improve its "Zestimate" home valuations, but said the crowdsourcing initiative is unrelated to recent lawsuits filed in Chicago against the company.

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Homeowners insurance agencies are embedding their policy-underwriting technology into mortgage companies' origination and servicing systems in a bid to chase the same customers together.

Incenter Mortgage Advisors is brokering a $2 billion portfolio of mortgage servicing rights on agency loans with imaged files on behalf of an undisclosed seller.

Maine's residential mortgage lending industry bears little resemblance to its prerecession version as changing conditions have shuffled the deck of top lenders and created new choices for borrowers.

Privately held nonbank Movement Mortgage plans to add to the operational resources it has based at a new Norfolk, Va., facility it is leasing from the city.

The majority of mortgage lenders don't expect to use chatbots to communicate with clients anytime soon, the results of a Fannie Mae survey said.

The time needed to close a mortgage improved nine days since the start of the year as the market has shifted to doing more purchase loans.