The real estate industry is experiencing a sea change as technology redefines what real estate is and who can access it. For a very long time, the American Dream meant owning property, specifically, owning a home to call your own. Since the 2008 financial crisis, the dream of homeownership has changed due to a combination [...]
These tips can help you with detection and prevention. There’s no doubt that we all live in a progressively digital world. As such, online financial transactions have become the norm for buying goods and services. And many companies have adopted cryptocurrency as a payment method for purchasing their products and services online. The popularity of [...]
Technology advances will benefit both borrowers and originators. As eMortgages, including eClosings, gain traction and acceptance, the mortgage industry is focused on implementing the latest technology to reduce costs, attract customers and gain efficiencies amid a competitive environment. It’s not an entirely smooth transition, but progress is underway. Fitch Ratings described in a late 2019 [...]
Put the puzzle pieces together. The American Association of Private Lenders has partnered with Wall Street housing research firm Zelman & Associates to launch the private lending industry’s first and only researchfirm-backed benchmark data survey. This quarterly survey—which launches in April—will gather key data on everything from origination volume to loan terms and foreclosure rates. [...]
Ransomware attacks are becoming more common, but most businesses aren’t prepared for the battle. We’re currently living through a digital revolution. Entire businesses and industries are being transformed—or, at the very least, changing—as they adopt new technology that allows them to become more efficient and competitive. This sword has two sides, however. The more you [...]
Our firm takes cybersecurity seriously, but we were still impacted by attacks on our third-party providers. It never occurred to us that a ransomware attack on a third-party provider would affect our business. Cybersecurity has been a big priority for our public accounting firm. Like private lenders, we are responsible for protecting the sensitive data [...]
Technology is ushering in a new generation of private lenders armed with the tools to drive growth and achieve scale. Peer-to-peer lending may have exploded with the advent of the internet, but savvy private investors have long existed as alternatives to traditional bank lenders for borrowers seeking loans, particularly where real estate is concerned. Historically, [...]
Integrating your business with technology is key to avoiding disruption of its future. Today’s Landscape: The Risk of Disruption Unlike other industries turned upside down at the hand of technology, private lenders have yet to see a true disrupting force change their landscape. Disruption is not a matter of if but rather a question of [...]
Technology is disrupting the industry—and there’s no turning back. Worldwide, the real estate industry is valued at more than $210 trillion and more than $30 trillion in the U.S. when it comes to just housing. It is a massive industry but one that for decades has done little to evolve and adopt new technologies. While [...]
A modern industry overhaul The real estate industry has been long overdue for a technological overhaul. This overhaul is taking place right now through the “tokenization” of real estate. Tokenization is the process of representing fractional ownership interest in an asset through a blockchain-based token. Traditionally, the real estate industry has had a reputation for [...]
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