Technology

Countdown To Buy, a next-generation online real estate marketplace, announced Monday that it has entered into a new pilot program with a leading lending institution of offer a sampling of foreclosed properties located in Arizona, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin. In addition the company has received additional properties in both Connecticut and Texas from existing clients after successfully generating accepted offers is 25 days or less on all properties placed on the platform.

San Diego-based MDA DataQuick, a division of MDA Lending Solutions and an independent provider of property data to real estate and mortgage professionals, recently announced that it has secured more than $2.6 million in contracts with four of the top 10 financial institutions in the United States.

Earlier this month, the online real estate auction house RealtyBid.com launched a Web site redesign and upgrade. According to the company's CEO Tony Isbell, the revamp is just another step in RealtyBid.com's ongoing quest to ""continually enhance the user experience while providing exceptional customer service and great deals on real estate.""

West Palm Beach, Florida-based Ocwen Loan Servicing, a provider of residential and commercial loan servicing, special servicing, and asset management services, announced Friday that it has seen marked success in its fight against foreclosure after just three months of using MKDirect, a MortgageKeeper Referral Services product that connects homeowners to high-quality nonprofit government services.

The administration's Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives (HAFA) program was officially implemented on Monday, but many real estate professionals still have questions about the logistics of this new initiative. In an effort to answer these questions and provide Realtors with the latest HAFA information, Springboard Nonprofit Consumer Credit Management, a HUD-approved housing counseling agency headquartered in Riverside, California, has launched an online HAFA resource center.

Retreat Capital Management Group, a Lake Forest, California-based provider of loss mitigation and portfolio management products for the mortgage industry, announced Thursday that it has deployed AnswerMine Group's analytic software to power its predictive modeling services for mortgage lenders and servicers.

In a move that will make the application process for Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance easier for borrowers and faster for lenders, FHA announced Thursday that it will begin accepting electronic signatures on third party documents originated and signed outside a lender's control.

PCV Murcor Real Estate Services announced this week that it is fully integrated with Veros Real Estate Solutions as part of the Fannie Mae Collateral Data Delivery (CDD) initiative, which will require all lenders to submit full appraisal reports to the GSE in an electronic data format.

AppraiserLoft, a nationwide appraisal management company, has announced an addition to its executive team. Eric Carmichael has been named chief technology officer.

First American CoreLogic, a Santa Ana, California-based provider of advanced property and ownership information, analytics, and services, announced Tuesday that its LoanSafe Fraud Manager is being implemented by San Francisco-based Wells Fargo, one of the industry's top mortgage originators.