CHICAGO (Sept. 29, 2011) — The nation’s largest professional association of real estate appraisers today released a form intended to help analyze values of energy-efficient home features. It is the first of its kind intended for appraisers’ use. The industry leader in green valuation, the Appraisal Institute issued the form as an optional addendum [...]
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. September 21, 2011 – “It’s up to the banks…,” according to Gil Priel, managing director and principal of Peak Corporate Network (www.peakcorp.com), the one-stop shop and leading authority on everything real estate. “The only way for the real estate market in the U.S. to recover is for the banks to return to [...]
September 28th — Oklahoma City, OK — a la mode announced today that Streetlinks Lender Solutions has chosen to launch a MercuryDirect plugin to receive the Native XML appraisal data needed for streamlined compliance with the GSEs’ new mandatory UMDP initiative. Streetlinks’ MercuryDirect plugin is a custom application that provides direct access to the largest [...]
M. Patrick Carroll: The New Investment Landscape – Pent-Up Demand, the “Scarcity Premium” and the Rise of Institutional Capital Atlanta – Carroll Organization CEO Patrick Carroll recently served as a moderator at the National Apartment Summit in Vienna, Virginia. Carroll’s panel, The New Investment Landscape: Pent-Up Demand, The “Scarcity Premium” and the Rise of [...]
This is a tale of two markets. If you work in the mortgage business, you’ve been living in a parallel universe where on one side – let’s call that the Broker/Mortgage Lender universe, your world has quickly come to an end or at a minimum has been reshaped dramatically. While if you’ve been operating on [...]
The road to electronic should be taken one step at a time Ever since Congress established a legal framework for the validity of electronic signatures in 2000, the mortgage industry has dreamed of the day when borrowers would embrace a fully electronic process for mortgages. The benefits are obvious – less paper, quicker [...]
Loan originators will continue to take stock of what various companies offer On April 1, 2011, the mortgage industry ushered in a new era of compensation reform. Since then, the landscape has been one of change and adjustment. Industry leaders and loan originators are all learning where to go from here. With these [...]
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Use technology to reach into markets Technology is cool. Let’s face it. We all grew up with Star Wars and Star Trek, old and new, and we had the space shuttles, and even though the grand old birds are gone now, we all have a pocket full of enough computing power to launch one of [...]
Pete Johnston is the co-founder of Lead Gen Concepts which owns Should I Refi.com (www.shouldirefi.com), Should I Reverse Mortgage.com (www.shouldireversemortgage.com), Should I Buy or Sell.com (www.shouldibuyorsell.com) and Free Mortgage Advice.com (www.freemortgageadvice.com). Pete is a 10 year plus veteran of the mortgage industry and owns a mortgage company in St. Paul, MN with his brother, Paul, [...]
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