Technology

HLP, which was the model technology platform in the National Mortgage Settlement and has long been a real estate industry industry technology leader, has partnered with IndiSoft, a technology provider for healthcare, legal, and real estate industries based in Columbia, Maryland, to launch the National Homeownership Solutions Platform (NHP). The goal of NHP is to bring all the parties in the home purchase process together into one central location, allowing them to communicate with each other online and in real time.

Rhode Island-based automated national title agency Linear Title and Closing has announced the formation of a title services division which will offer products and services to help title insurance agencies serve clients better and grow their businesses.

Mortgage Returns, a database management system and provider of automated marketing solutions for the mortgage industry based in St. Louis, Missouri, has announced a partnership with the Missouri chapter of the Make-a-Wish Foundation heading into the holiday season.

Not only is eRecording faster, NTC says, but it also provides a safer, more reliable way to process documents, minimizing risk of losing documents in transit and cutting down on the time and effort it takes to find public records. Though eRecording is catching on in most states, a few have been more receptive than most—including Colorado and Nevada, where 90 percent or more of NTC documents have been recorded electronically.

The program's launch marks a big step in the agency's "Know Before You Owe" mortgage initiative, which is aimed at improving the homebuying experience for consumers through simpler disclosure forms as proposed in a rule first issued in November last year. In Thursday's release, CFPB announced it is in the process of preparing for that rule to be implemented in August 2015.

The private mortgage insurance company National Mortgage Insurance (National MI) announced that its software tools have been integrated with MortgagebotLOS, produced by D+H. The merging of technological platforms now allows originators to purchase National MI policies from within MortgagebotLOS, with the intent of ...

Auction.com has launched a new portion of its website designed to promote an online community among real estate professionals.

Axios Valuation Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of eMortgage Logic and is based in Fort Worth, Texas, is increasing its standing in the mortgage banking and capital markets industries with its Desktop Appraisal, released earlier this year.

Quandis, Inc., a California-based mortgage servicing software provider, announced its new military search name permutation technology is now being used by Scott Law Firm, one of South Carolina's premier law firms serving the default servicing industry.

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) set out to answer a very simple question—how much are realtors spending on new technology for their businesses? NAR conducted the 2013-2014 Realtor Technology Survey, which found that realtors continued to invest in technology for their business in 2013 and spent more than they had in previous years.