18Dec
Hurriquakes. Are you prepared?
December 18, 2023
Residential
California is no stranger to earthquakes. It is, however, extremely rare for a 5.1 magnitude earthquake to occur in Southern...
06Aug
Amp Up Your Loan Quality Checks
August 6, 2023
Residential
Blog post originally posted on the b-Logics blog As we’ve written about before, on March 1st Fannie Mae announced two changes to their...
16Jul
Top MERS QA Findings for 2022
July 16, 2023
Residential
Blog post originally posted on the MetaSource Mortgage Blog Meeting the reconciliation and reporting requirements of MERS® is never effortless, but...
03Jul
How AI Brings Trust to Loan Portfolios
July 3, 2023
Residential
Blog post originally posted on the TRUE blog post Imagine an alternate reality where trust does not exist… In this world,...
18Mar
The Continuously Improving ROI of Trusted Data
March 18, 2023
Residential
Blog post originally posted on the TRUE blog post What is the return (ROI) on your technology investments, and what role...
01Mar
Top 15 Mortgage QC Findings for 2022
March 1, 2023
Residential
Blog post originally posted on the MetaSource Mortgage Blog For the mortgage industry, 2022 must have felt a bit like whiplash:...
31Oct
How To Drive Even More Value into Agent-Originator Relationships
October 31, 2022
Residential
For two tumultuous years, the housing market has twisted and turned through rate environments, sellers’ markets, and equity booms. Now,...
28Sep
You Can Have Success With Non-QM In Five Easy Steps
September 28, 2022
Residential
Learning and utilizing non-QM is not difficult, especially when you partner with the leader in non-QM, Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions....
18Sep
Top 10 Servicing QC Findings for 2021
September 18, 2022
Residential
Document challenges continued to be a leading cause of QC trouble for mortgage servicers in 2021, a year in which...
29Jul
Constellation Mortgage Solutions Appoints Technology Innovator Kendrew Peacey as CTO
July 29, 2022
Residential
Constellation Mortgage Solutions (CMS), provider of enterprise mortgage loan origination and servicing technology, recently appointed Tech Industry Veteran Kendrew Peacey...
29Jun
Where is eClosing with Remote Online Notarization Available?
June 29, 2022
Residential
Blog originally posted on Spruce’s Blog A classic real estate closing can have upwards of 100 pages of documents...
29Jun
2021 MERS QA Findings Report
June 29, 2022
Residential
Staff shortages, office closings, and high volumes created ongoing disruption for the mortgage industry in 2021. And, based on MetaSource’s...
20May
3 Ways for Lenders to Boost Efficiency in Appraisal Operations
May 20, 2022
Residential
As the mortgage industry shifts more of its traditional workflows to digital operations – such as with eSigning, eNotes, eVaults,...
20May
5 Things to Know About Desktop Appraisals
May 20, 2022
Residential
Beginning in March 2022, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will begin to accept desktop appraisals. This means that a licensed appraiser...
19May
Constellation Mortgage Solutions and Entrinsik Announce Partnership to Drive Data Insights
May 19, 2022
Residential
The partnership between Constellation Mortgage Solutions and Entrinsik enables CMS users to maximize the value of their data through visualizations...
26Mar
MyEVO: The Industry’s First Voice Activated Appraisal Management Tool
March 26, 2022
Commercial
Efficiency is key in today’s ultra-competitive mortgage market, especially when it comes to real estate appraisals, where drawn out turn-times...
26Mar
How Commercial Lenders Can Reduce Turn-Times
March 26, 2022
Commercial
Waiting for a commercial appraisal to come can feel watching grass grow. While most appraisals can take one to two...
23Mar
Mortgage Underwriting: What You Need to Know | Redfin
March 23, 2022
Residential
Check out the recent Redfin article we were featured in: Mortgage Underwriting: What You Need to Know | Redfin Mortgage underwriting...
02Mar
Top 15 Mortgage QC Findings for 2021
March 2, 2022
Residential
In a year in which record mortgage volumes collided with staffing shortages and ongoing economic volatility, mortgage quality control difficulties remained mostly...
17Feb
Are Hispanic Homebuyers Part of Your Originations Strategy?
February 17, 2022
Residential
Over the past decade, Hispanics accounted for more than 50% of homeownership growth, according to “The 2020 State of Hispanic...
14Feb
Celebrating Black History Month
February 14, 2022
Residential
PCV Murcor As perhaps the only nationwide black-owned Appraisal Management Company (AMC), PCV Murcor history is Black History. To celebrate...
08Feb
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PSRS!
February 8, 2022
Commercial
A milestone has been reached for Pacific Southwest Realty Services (PSRS), as it celebrates its 50th anniversary this month. PSRS,...
08Feb
Is Building a Home Right for You?
February 8, 2022
Residential
Let’s face it: Looking for a home isn’t always as fun as it sounds. Cruising Zillow may have become a national pastime,...
26Jan
PCV Murcor Commemorates 40 Years in Appraisal and Valuation Management
January 26, 2022
Residential
PCV Murcor This year, PCV Murcor, a leading nationwide real estate valuations management company, celebrates 40 years of providing exemplary...
02Aug
While Foreclosure Moratorium Ended, FHFA, HUD, VA and USDA Extend Eviction Moratoria
August 2, 2021
Residential
Ballard Spahr LLP The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) eviction moratorium expired on July 31, 2021. Meanwhile, at President...
29Jul
How Biden’s Neighborhood Homes Proposal Could Help Real Estate Investors
July 29, 2021
Residential
Courtesy: CMG Financial At the end of May, HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge introduced details of President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure...
15Jun
How to Prevent the Dangers of Mortgage Wire Fraud
June 15, 2021
Residential
Wire Fraud Risks and Home Buying As technology advances, more and more transactions such as down payments, earnest money deposits,...
09Jun
Top 10 Servicing QC Findings in a Turbulent Year
June 9, 2021
Residential
From the unforeseen effects of the pandemic to an 11-year-mortgage volume high, the past year has been ground-shifting for mortgage...
24May
Top Three Remaining Compliance Issues of 2021
May 24, 2021
Residential
We are a little over a third of the way through 2021 and massive shifts within the mortgage industry have...
05May
Technology Innovations in Private Lending
May 5, 2021
Residential
One of the greatest benefits of private money loans is speed. However, with that faster processing window comes the increased...
17Mar
Top 15 Mortgage QC Findings for 2020
March 17, 2021
Residential
While very little about 2020 was predictable, it was a year in which mortgage quality control issues fell into a...
06Mar
Access to Capital is Key to Real Estate Investment Success
March 6, 2021
Commercial, Residential
By William J. Tessar, President and CEO of Civic Financial Services, a premier institutional private money lender for real estate...
02Mar
Active Forbearances Rise Above 2.7M Once Again; Recovery Remains Slow and Steady
March 2, 2021
Residential
New data from our McDash Flash Forbearance Tracker shows that the last full week of February saw the number of...
10Feb
What’s the Difference? Mortgage Application Versus Mortgage POS
February 10, 2021
Residential
BeSmartee examines the difference between a mortgage application and a mortgage point-of-sale (POS) platform, and uncovers how a POS platform...
15Jan
CFPB issues statement on providing financial products and services to LEP consumers
January 15, 2021
Residential
In a development welcomed by industry members, the CFPB published today a “Statement Regarding the Provision of Financial Products and...
08Jan
Grow Your Business with a Real Estate Investor Channel
January 8, 2021
Residential
The mortgage world is a feast or famine business. And with today’s refi boom most originators’ bellies are full. But...
22Dec
10 Proven Ways Banks Can Deliver More With a Mortgage POS
December 22, 2020
Residential
Analyzing the proven benefits a Mortgage POS can bring to your bank. Technology is constantly changing the mortgage industry, making...
02Dec
Insellerate Launches DATA IE™ Solution
December 2, 2020
Residential
Newport Beach, CA – December 2nd, 2020 – Insellerate, the leading mortgage Customer Experience Platform featuring Lead Management, CRM &...
19Nov
The Three Biggest Factors Standing Between You and Lifelong Customers
November 19, 2020
Residential
When Top of Mind made it our mission to help lenders keep clients for life — almost two decades ago! — the...
17Nov
3 Reasons Why Omnichannel Contact Centers are Critical for Modern Lenders
November 17, 2020
Residential
Today’s borrowers expect the same speed, convenience and personalization from their lenders and servicers as they are used to with...
12Nov
What Data Insights Do Mortgage Lenders Need Right Now?
November 12, 2020
Residential
The novel coronavirus outbreak has tested lenders’ ability to adapt to sudden, monumental change. Branch managers are grappling with an...
10Nov
Blooma’s AI is Automating Commercial Real Estate Underwriting
November 10, 2020
Commercial
The days of manually pulling comps and wasting hours trudging through borrower documents is over. The Blooma platform serves as...
30Oct
TRID Turns 5: What We’ve Learned About Successfully Managing Mortgage Origination Compliance
October 30, 2020
Residential
MetaSource Five years ago, big changes to federal requirements for the mortgage loan disclosure processes produced great anxiety in the...
10Sep
Financial Statement Reporting for Proceeds from PPP Loans
September 10, 2020
Commercial, Residential, Uncategorized
Spiegel Accountancy Corp. History of the Paycheck Protection Program The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act provided an...
28Aug
CFPB Readiness, Audit Preparedness
August 28, 2020
Residential
The Content of an Audit The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau conducts regular audits to ensure that financial institutions come into...
25Aug
4 Key Points to Consider When Transitioning from Best Efforts to Mandatory Delivery
August 25, 2020
Residential
Making the decision to transition from Best Efforts to Mandatory delivery is a process that begins well before an organization...
18Aug
California MBA Statement on New FHFA Fee
August 18, 2020
Commercial, Residential, Uncategorized
Today, the California MBA released the following statement regarding the FHFA’s announced new 0.5% fee on GSE refinances: Last week...
11Aug
Ransomware with Terms of Service
August 11, 2020
Commercial, Residential
Mitch Tanenbaum, Partner & CISO, CyberCecurity So you thought only companies like Microsoft and Google had terms of service. Apparently...
04Aug
Cloud Coverage: Its Always Sunny in the Cloud – Common Myths (Part 2)
August 4, 2020
Residential
David Gitlin, Director of Technology, LoanLogics I’m back with my second post myth busting common beliefs about the cloud. Part 1...
03Jun
Most Employers in CBRE Study Favor Phased Return to Workplace, Adding Touchless Tech, Restricting Visitors
June 3, 2020
Commercial
Most companies included in an analysis by CBRE plan to take a gradual, cautious approach to bringing employees back to...
03Jun
What is an Independent Engineering Report?
June 3, 2020
Residential
by Gage Kellogg , Director Renewable Energy Services, Partner Engineering & Science, Inc. The Independent Engineer provides the critical technical...
03Jun
Cost Versus Benefit: Mortgage Education and Training with Debra Killian
June 3, 2020
Residential
by Sabrina Park, Marketing Manager, BeSmartee Debra Killian, CRMS, founder and president of Charter Oak Lending Group and CLOES.online, shares...
16Mar
SB 1447 Seeks to Expand California’s HOBR to Include Non-Owner Occupied Rental Properties
March 16, 2018
Residential
In 2013, California’s Legislature enacted groundbreaking support for borrowers on owner-occupied properties who could not afford their mortgage payments. The...