Better mortgage spreads are still keeping home sales positive

In a sign of the competition for financial advisor talent and the application of AI web developer tools, new compensation and business valuation calculators are popping up all over. Processing Content When asked how and why recruiting firm Bridgemark Strategies has launched five different “financial advisor transition calculators” since last month, CEO Jeff Nash said…

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As part of the Invisible Differences series, this month’s Diversity and Inclusivity Finance Forum (DIFF) podcast focused on economic abuse. Host Bharat Sagar was joined by Andrew Calder, strategic partnership and propositions manager at Accord Mortgages, and Claire Towe, co-founder of Meet Margo.   Trigger warning: this article discusses economic and other forms of…

EliseAI, a leading artificial intelligence company automating housing and health care facilities and one of the first proptech firms to be valued at $1 billion, announced Thursday that it has launched Apollo, its first cross-platform agentic AI tool. A single AI agent capable of performing any task on the Elise platform, Apollo is designed as…

Educating homeowners Matt Schulz, chief consumer finance analyst at LendingTree, said even states with limited income have a lot of tappable equity. “Even at the bottom of the list, you’re still talking about median home equity of $130,000,” Schulz told Mortgage Professional America. “And that’s real money for anybody. The places at the bottom —…

When Open Banking was first introduced, there was understandable scepticism. Why would banks make it easier for customers to share their financial data? Could organisations that had spent decades competing with one another really work together in a way that benefited everyone? The answer, as we’ve seen over recent years, is that they could. Banks…