Partnership to provide visitors tools to research, shop for and compare mortgages SEATTLE, Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Zillow® (NASDAQ: Z), the leading real estate information marketplace, today announced a partnership with AOL to bring the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace shopping experience to AOL Real Estate and DailyFinance™ users, providing tools to research, shop for and [...]
App for iPhone and Android Gives Loan Originators Ability to Better Serve Clients ROSEVILLE, Calif. (October 31, 2011) — As mortgage bankers continue to do more of their job outside the confines of their office, American Pacific Mortgage (APM) is launching APMConnect, a new marketing platform which includes a web based marketing engine and [...]
This article may also be read in our digital mag posted online. “What’s HVCC?” I believe those were the exact words I used in response to being asked by the editor of this magazine to write a July cover story on the Home Valuation Code of Conduct. “But I don’t know anything about appraisals, much [...]
While Most Home Buyers Understand How to Buy a Home, Expectations for Homeownership are Out of Line with Reality, According to Zillow® Survey of Home Buyers SEATTLE, /PRNewswire/ — Despite widespread volatility within the housing market and five consecutive years of home value declines, more than two in five (42 percent) of polled prospective home [...]
Would mortgage fraud be less of an issue if we were more personally engaged? I love technology. Can you imagine not having your computer, your smart phone, or not checking your Facebook every minute? I can not and will not. Technology makes life better, more informed, and connected. It is a tool to create [...]
You’re a business professional with limited time and technical resources. Practically speaking, you can’t follow every new technology, gadget, or social network out there. So let’s consider what Google+ is and how you can benefit. - If you don’t already have an optimized Facebook page and LinkedIn profile, forget about Google+ for now. Focus [...]
The title to this article is punctuated with a question mark, because the current regulatory environment is filled with uncertainty. Certain rules and regulations already promulgated and implemented by other federal agencies, are now part of the CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau). The new consumer protection bureau has the authority to change [...]
Hopefully common sense will prevail. Imagine for a moment you are a businessman. I know, but go with me here. You have a small crop of beans that you want to sell at a local market. You set off toward it, but as you go a fellow in a blue uniform with a nightstick stops [...]
The bubble burst and the fallout became the bargains for the survivors Arguably, it can be said the Housing Industry initiated the economic breakdown. More specifically, the exercise of lending money to the unqualified to purchase or refinance homes began the slide in the early part of this decade. The aggressive parameters of the no [...]
Marketing? Where did it go? It seems to me that it’s disappeared for the vast majority of originators. Now when I say disappeared, it’s not as if folks have just pulled up stakes, packed up their marketing and left. No, that’s not the case at all. It’s quite the contrary. Originators, by in [...]
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