When shopping for a lender, 61 percent of recent borrowers asked their friends family members, their REALTOR® or other personal acquaintances for recommendations on choosing a mortgage company, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2005 Primary Mortgage Origination Study. Additionally, more than 40 percent of borrowers indicate they utilize the Internet as a resource […]
Tim Vining, the Washington state appraiser who won a $50,000 settlement from a client for copyright infringement, was cheered when introduced as the first appraiser to successfully defend his intellectual property rights at a panel discussion of appraisal advocacy issues at our second annual Winter Convention. His story riveted the hundreds gathered at lunch to […]
XSite Order Manager/Mercury Desktop users who have installed Aurora form filling software have been using the Tracking PowerView to see and update everything about the status of an assignment and a report. In the coming weeks, the Tracking PowerView will be merged into a new Files PowerView.
Our second annual Winter Convention in Las Vegas January 16-18 was an incredible success. Click here for a roundup. We want to thank all attendees, all the exhibitors, VIPs like former HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, 2005 National Association of REALTORS® President Al Mansell, "visiting professors" like Henry Harrison, who taught an acclaimed seminar on the […]
If you’re like many website owners, you’re constantly making changes and updating the pages of your site so search engines index them – thereby allowing you to generate more traffic. The problem is most search engines keep methods of indexing web pages a secret, so you don’t always know how or when anyone will find […]
If you're like many website owners, you're constantly making changes and updating the pages of your site so search engines index them – thereby allowing you to generate more traffic. The problem is most search engines keep methods of indexing web pages a secret, so you don't always know how or when anyone will find […]
Generation X – those born roughly between 1965 and 1979 – have become the most prominent home buyer group today. In fact, National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) research on consumer preferences indicates that 37 percent of Gen-Xers and 27 percent of echo boomers (those born after 1979) intend to buy homes in the next […]
A “loose network of crooked real estate appraisers” is systematically stealing the identities of legitimate appraisers in the Chicago area and nationwide and using them to engage in multimillion dollar mortgage fraud, the Chicago Tribune reported last week. The paper reported that Illinois’ Department of Financial and Professional Regulation can’t keep up with complaints from […]
A "loose network of crooked real estate appraisers" is systematically stealing the identities of legitimate appraisers in the Chicago area and nationwide and using them to engage in multimillion dollar mortgage fraud, the Chicago Tribune reported last week.
A bill that would pay displaced Louisiana homeowners 60 percent of their equity to help them stave off foreclosure in the wake of Hurricane Katrina was approved by a House committee last week.
