05.24.16

Get Rid of the Forms! Data Driven Events Smooth User’s Loan Experience

In the early days of mortgage lending, the only way to ensure that the transaction would meet all of the state, federal and investor requirements was to use the right forms. Each type of loan came with a pre-defined stack of documents that would have to be completed in order to correctly process the transaction. As government regulators worked to make the process safer and more understandable to consumers, additional disclosure forms were added to the stack. Today, a typical loan file, containing all of the required forms, could be many inches thick.

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04.26.16

Preparing for Millennials Entering the Mortgage Market

We cannot ignore the transformation that is occurring in the residential housing market today. Relatively unchanged since the 1950s, the housing market will soon (and in some markets is already) be catering to a new breed of American homeowners, Millennials. Young professionals, who have never lived in a world without a global, online information network, are the future of the mortgage industry. They have widely different concerns from their predecessors. The mortgage industry needs to be prepared to address all of these concerns at every level of the mortgage process.

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03.23.16

Kris Perez: Some Mortgage Tech Firms Didn't Start on TRID Early Enough

Person of the week: Kris Perez is customer success manager for Idaho Falls, Idaho-based Docutech, which provides compliance services and documentation technology for the mortgage industry. MortgageOrb recently caught up with Perez to get her views on why certain technology vendors were singled out for not adequately meeting the Oct. 3 deadline for implementation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) new TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rules, as well as how vendors should prepare for the upcoming expansion of reporting requirements under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA).

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