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Leveraging Smart Home Equity – Options for More Profitable Lending 

Rather than refinancing out of low mortgage rates, many homeowners are turning to home equity loans or lines of credit…

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SVI’s VALIDITY Pro Updated to Deliver the GSEs’ Uniform Property Dataset

To improve the quality and consistency in property data collection, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac collaborated to develop…

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Appraisal Risk Review (ARR): Confidently Move your Whole Loan or Securitization Deals Forward

Need a product for mortgages being purchased into conduits or packaged into securitizations? SVI’s Appraisal Risk Review (ARR)…

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Stewart In The Studio: Appraisal Modernization and Diversity for Improved Quality and Turn-times

In this week’s Stewart In The Studio episode, Teri Zarate and Richard Garrie share the latest on industry…

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Working Smarter: How Productivity Tools Are Helping SVI Deliver Top Quality Reports

Real estate appraisers and brokers are incredibly busy — and rightfully so, the effort it takes to accurately…

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7 Days to Transform Your Appraisal Management with VI Direct

SVI understands that some lending institutions prefer to manage their own appraisal panel, that’s why we developed Valuation…

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SVI Offering Valuation Modernization Consultations

Stewart Valuation Intelligence (SVI) has been approved to support Fannie Mae’s new Value Acceptance + Property Data through…

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Stewart in the Studio Podcast with Aaron Fowler, CEO of SVI

Fannie Mae’s recent announcement continues to bring questions from mortgage lenders trying to understand potential impacts.

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Summary of Fannie Mae Policies and Initiatives Update

This is a summary of key takeaways from Fannie’s most recent update: Value Acceptance is the new name…

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