Assessing the State of Real Estate Innovation in a Rising Mortgage Rate Era
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Paul Hurst on August 31, 2023
Alongside a panel of venture capital investors at Inman Connect Las Vegas in August, First American Chief Innovation Officer Paul Hurst discussed proptech funding and the state of innovation in the real estate economy. He shares his key takeaways from the discussion below, and how First American continues to push the innovation envelope during the ...
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Tokenizing Real Estate Assets Introduces New Consumer Risks for Unproven Benefits
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Justin Earley on July 12, 2023
Cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and tokenization may have lost some of the luster they enjoyed not too long ago due to the high-profile fall from grace of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and ongoing turbulence in the valuation of cryptocurrencies. However, many are watching where, and if, the tokenizing of non-fungible assets should be ...
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Transforming the Notary Signing Agent Experience and Accelerating the Closing Process
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Jaclyn Fox on May 31, 2023
Emerging from the throes of the pandemic, notary signing agents have seen the landscape for their services shift substantially. During the pandemic, demand for notary signing agents exploded and the opportunities for notaries often exceeded the number of notaries available. While notary demand within real estate has softened as the housing market ...
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Why Data Extraction is Critical to the Digital Transformation of Real Estate Transactions
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Calvin Powell on January 31, 2023
Modern businesses and the digital technologies that power them rely on the rapid analysis of large amounts of data to drive decisions, automation, reporting and, ultimately, the customer experience. In real estate, mortgage finance and title and settlement, data fuels everything from web-based home listing searches, mortgage loan application and ...
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Technology, data and customer service combine to fuel innovation and growth in mortgage subservicing
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Bob Caruso on December 7, 2022
Mortgage servicing and subservicing are critical components of the mortgage lifecycle, perhaps even more so as the housing market decelerates. Like many other aspects of the mortgage finance industry, technology has created new opportunities to enhance the servicing industry and improve the borrower experience, while adding value to investors and ...
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Equipping Title Agents with Digital Platforms and Tools for a Changing Landscape
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Trey Dirks on November 17, 2022
While the housing market adjusts to higher mortgage rates and affordability challenges, many title agents are eager to adopt digital technologies and tools that can help them compete. With this in mind, First American Title recently launched its PRISM™ digital platform, allowing First American policy-issuing title agents to offer time-saving ...
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