Guideline Buddy launches AI-powered chatbot

Guideline Buddy launches AI-powered chatbot

Add mortgage tech firm Guideline Buddy to the list of companies with an artificial intelligence-powered chat tool. Guideline Buddy’s chatbot leverages generative AI technology to simplify the loan qualification process by providing... Read more »
Opendoor officially launches partnership with eXp

Opendoor officially launches partnership with eXp

Opendoor and eXp Realty officially launched their new partnership on Thursday, Inman first reported. This integration is making Opendoor cash-offer solutions available to eXp Realty’s nearly 90,000 agents. Last October, the iBuyer... Read more »
Landmark Properties Launches Student Housing Near USC

Landmark Properties Launches Student Housing Near USC

Landmark Properties has begun construction on The Standard at Los Angeles, located at 3900 S Figueroa St. a few blocks south of the University of Southern California (USC) campus in Los Angeles. The... Read more »
Better launches fully digital VA loan with no minimum down payment

Better launches fully digital VA loan with no minimum down payment

Better.com announced Thursday that it’s launching fully digital U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) loans through its Tinman platform. The product, which has no minimum down payment requirement, is expected to reach about 10% of... Read more »
Former HUD deputy secretary’s consultancy launches new compliance wing

Former HUD deputy secretary’s consultancy launches new compliance wing

Gate House Strategies, a compliance firm formed in 2021 by former U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) deputy secretary Brian Montgomery and his partners, announced this week the launch of... Read more »
Redfin launches new homebuyer refund program

Redfin launches new homebuyer refund program

Redfin is back to offering refunds to homebuyers but this time under a new name. Launched on Thursday, the brokerage’s Sign & Save program provides buyers who sign up to work with... Read more »
FHLBank San Francisco Launches  Million Tribal Nations Program to Spur Affordable Housing Development for Native American Communities

FHLBank San Francisco Launches $1 Million Tribal Nations Program to Spur Affordable Housing Development for Native American Communities

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLBank San Francisco) today announced the launch of a new $1 million Tribal Nations Program that provides critically necessary infrastructure funding grants... Read more »
Fix-and-flip lender Anchor Loans launches TPO channel

Fix-and-flip lender Anchor Loans launches TPO channel

California-based fix-and-flip lender Anchor Loans launched a third-party originator (TPO) channel to serve mortgage brokers, banks, private and non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) lenders and other referral partners whose clients are home builders, developers... Read more »
Equity Angels Launches To Diversify Proptech Innovation

Equity Angels Launches To Diversify Proptech Innovation

Kenya Burrell-VanWormer, chief growth officer at NEO, and Katherine Winston, founding member and head of marketing at Plunk, have teamed up to build a program that will provide professional mentorship for minority... Read more »
Fintech Upright launches DSCR rental loan

Fintech Upright launches DSCR rental loan

Cleveland, Ohio-based fintech Upright has launched a debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) rental loan to investors, the company announced on Monday.  DSCR rental loans are non-qualifying mortgages (non-QMs) used by real estate investors to... Read more »