The group’s financial services business unit acquired Titlexchange for 1 per cent of equity in Ezidox, Lakeba’s document collection and validation service.
Titlexchange offers to Lakeba a service that directly connects property buyers and sellers to conveyancers via a secure online platform.
The acquisition will incorporate Titlexchange’s technology with Ezidox, complementing existing integrations and eliminate the need for multiple exchanges.
Brokers will benefit from the platforms ability to collect and curate the volumes of documents involved in property related transactions and ensure all parties have access to the necessary data and information.
Lakeba Group chief executive Giuseppe Porcelli said the acquisition made perfect sense in what the mortgage sector needed.
“The industry is under stress – a clear front runner for automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Not to supplant people, but to free brokers and others from work made for computers to process,” he said.
All information will appear correctly and uniformly, said Mr Porcelli, and the integration would be complete within the first quarter of the 2019-20 financial year.
“Enter name, birthdate, address and shoe size, if you must, once; and it’ll appear correctly and uniformly across all documents required when buying, selling or transferring property. It’s so obvious that I’m surprised nobody’s built it before,” said Mr Porcelli.
