Zillow, a mobile real estate information marketplace provider, has recently launched the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace iPhone App, allowing those shopping for a home to get loan quotes directly to their iPhones. The company says its Mortgage Marketplace App combines personalized loan quotes with advanced calculators and tools to help borrowers understand how much home they can [...]

Mortgage Cadence, LLC, is spinning off its compliance, content, and document preparation service, Mortgage Cadence Finale, into a separate entity called Finale Document Services, originally a part of the company’s Enterprise Lending Solutions Orchestrator program. The company’s CEO says the service prepares lenders to be fully compliant, thus reducing risk of loan buy-back requests. Mortgage [...]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) took its first step into the mortgage business when it launched a comparison ads program in 2009 and initial results suggest it was a success for advertisers. An independent study from Leads360 showed consumers using Google’s comparison ads converted better than any other lead provider.  As a result of its success, the search giant is [...]

Reverse Fortunes, a customer relationship manager (CRM), released new features to help streamline the lead-to-client process last week. Designed specifically for reverse mortgage originators, customers now have the ability submit loans to MetLife’s wholesale division seamlessly from within the system using “easy buttons.” “Using our CRM originators can eliminate double data entry and simplify the [...]

Security One Lending (S1L) announced it has introduced QR Codes to its print and online advertising platforms. QR, or “Quick Response,” Codes (see image) are images that can be scanned by smart phones, much the way bar codes can be scanned by bar code scanners. The QR code is scanned to instantly direct the user [...]

Software provider Mortgage Cadence is set to release a new loan origination system (LOS) on Monday. The new, Cloud-based system, called Symphony, aims to work for lenders of any size, including companies that offer reverse mortgages. “All but the nation’s largest lenders have had to settle for substandard loan origination automation for far too long,” said Chuck [...]