Written by:  Nathan Thomas

Fannie Mae funds and guarantees mortgages. If a servicer of a mortgage Fannie has guaranteed has a foreclosure dropped in its lap, Fannie Mae will do most of the legwork when it comes to reselling the property. Now, it will use the XSites Network, and its appraisers will use Appraiser XSites Order Manager, to more quickly and efficiently obtain valuations on repossessed, or Real Estate Owned (REO), properties.   Read more...

ORLANDO, FL -- a la mode, the nation's leading mortgage and appraisal technology company, announced today that it has completed a custom plug-in for its XSites Order Manager (XOM) allowing appraisers contracted by Fannie Mae to deliver Real Estate Owned (REO) appraisal reports to the government-sponsored enterprise.   Read more...

ORLANDO, FL -- MortgageFlex Systems, Inc., a provider of integrated mortgage automation software, and a la mode, which has developed and deployed an XSites Network of thousands of originators, vendors and other participants in the mortgage transaction, announced they would pursue a working relationship whereby MortgageFlex LoanQuest users would have custom access to the thousands of mortgage services vendors comprising the XSites Network.   Read more...

Real estate agents can have a strong influence on who the homebuyer chooses for a mortgage broker, especially first-time buyers who may have little knowledge of the home buying process and ask their agent for advice.   Read more...

Back in November we announced a partnership with Wave Systems that would bring digital signature technology to our customers. Many of you may be thinking that digital signatures - or e-signatures as they're often called - are something that only the "big guys" like WaMu or Countrywide use and it will take years for the concept to trickle down to small businesses like yours.   Read more...

Dave Biggers - you know him - e-mailed you last week to let you know how much our first a la mode Annual Convention rocked. Even if he didn't say it in just that way. See his message here. You can visit our post-convention page complete with pictures, video of some of the key panel sessions and events, testimonials and much more here.   Read more...

Your residential clients use Loan Origination Systems (LOSs) the way you use WinTOTAL form filling software - it's their mission critical application they use to manage almost everything they do day to day. They keep track of borrowers' files and paperwork. They order credit scores and get preliminary underwriting decisions. They order appraisals.   Read more...

2005 has been a tough year already for mortgage funding giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.   Read more...

Under a new agreement, Ellie Mae, the award-winning provider of innovative software and services for the mortgage industry, will provide direct integration from their three Loan Origination Systems (LOS) - Encompass(R), Genesis 2000(R) and Contour(TM) - into the actual desktop applications that appraisers use. By building a custom Ellie Mae plugin for a la mode's XSite Order Manager, and by building new custom facilities within Ellie Mae's suite of LOS products, many more orders are just a few clicks away on an originator's LOS.   Read more...

On Monday, Feb. 21 we kicked off our first annual convention in Las Vegas, and for three days, hosted some 700 of our closest friends. While this first-of-its-kind event was quite an undertaking, we tapped into the wealth of exeprience we've accumulated from our popular seminar events - plus the efforts of over 70 employees - to put on the kind of convention that appraisers want and deserve.   Read more...