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