Google is partnering with mortgage tech vendor Roostify as it launches Lending DocAI, a digital front-end product. Mortgage tech watchers wonder just how big the search engine giant might become in mortgages.
Two major investors in Front Yard Residential have called for liquidation of the real estate investment trust due to its less than satisfactory performance during a robust housing market.
The mortgage data provider said the sweetened offer of $66 a share is still significantly low. The vendor also refused a request for due diligence from the investor group.
Is Bill Foley, the 75-year-old non-executive chairman of title insurance giant Fidelity National, pondering retirement? Don't bet on it. He's shaking the mortgage vendor M&A tree big time.
One of the challenges with borrowers getting forbearance in this category is a lack of clarity regarding which entity holds legal authority to decide terms of loss mitigation.
In its first cybersecurity-related enforcement action, the New York regulator charged First American Financial with inadvertently disclosing more than 850 million personal title insurance documents.
Until mid-month, many nonbanks were writing loans hand-over-fist, but warehouse capacity in the COVID-19 era is running low. Also, there’s a snafu at BNY Mellon.