November 2025

November Demo Day: Intelligent Quality Control by Blend

Intelligent Quality Control Blend’s AI-powered Intelligent Quality Control product enhances loan quality control, helping QC analysts detect issues more efficiently. It applies digitized underwriting guidelines to loan data and documents and provides step-by-step validation and reasoning, enabling the QC analyst to focus on areas of high judgment. This ensures a comprehensive, accurate, and efficient pre-funding […]

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November Demo Day: Dara Invoice by Sagent

[embedded content] Dara Invoice Dara Invoice streamlines invoice management between servicers and their default servicing partners. It automates the invoice-review process by applying investor guidelines and servicer-specific business rules, helping organizations improve efficiency, minimize errors, and accelerate payments. Product Fast Facts #1 Over 30 invoice types available; covers end to end default processing #2 Investor

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November Demo Day: OneHomeowner by Cotality

[embedded content] OneHomeowner OneHomeowner makes long-term client connections easy. It’s an intuitive, branded platform that helps you be your client’s trusted home management resource before and after the sale. Deliver timely content, gain insights, and stay top of mind for years, strengthening your professional sphere. Product Fast Facts #1 Provide ongoing value to homeowners: Clients

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November Demo Day: DocMagic One

[embedded content] DocMagic One DocMagic One is a unified mortgage production platform that streamlines document preparation, automated compliance, and eSignature management in one place. Powered by AI and machine learning, it enhances seamless collaboration between lenders, notaries, settlement providers, and borrowers—delivering faster, more accurate workflows with advanced pipeline analytics and business intelligence capabilities. Product Fast

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Finance of America reports 3Q loss, nine-month profit

Reverse mortgage company Finance of America’s continuing operations took a net loss on a one-time adjustment in the third quarter, but it was profitable on that basis for the year-to-date, unaudited interim results show. The company reported a $29 million in net loss from continuing operations during the third quarter due to home price model

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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac housing goals need revisions: MBA

The Mortgage Bankers Association largely supports the Federal Housing Finance Agency reduction of certain low-income single-family finance goals for the government-sponsored enterprises. But the one goal that was not changed in the proposal from the agency called U.S. Housing Finance by its director, the single-family low-income refinance goal, might not be attainable due to market

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Newrez faces another zombie-seconds class action filing

Newrez subsidiary Shellpoint Servicing finds itself at the center of another class action lawsuit surrounding the attempted collection of a second “zombie” mortgage originated prior to the Great Financial Crisis.  In documents filed in a Virginia federal court in late October, attorneys for former homeowner and plaintiff Mariel Castellon claimed the company made attempts this

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How servicers can control costs in a tough market: Livegage

Innovative technology could be a key determinant of whether servicers have competitive expense controls that are crucial in the current market, according to executives at mortgage fintech Livegage. “Mortgage servicing is hard. There’s a lot of focus on the cost and the margins. It’s not an easy business to be in,” said CEO Anupam Sarwaikar.

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US median first-time homebuyer age now at record-high of 40

The median age of first-time homebuyers in the US has climbed to a record of 40 as soaring prices and mortgage rates over the last few years delay homeownership for millions of Americans. The age at which people purchase their first home has climbed rapidly since 2021, when the median was 33, according to a

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