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Feds seek to enlist real estate agents in anti-corruption push

Housing Wire

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network , or FinCEN, is floating a proposed anti-money laundering rule that could impose reporting mandates on a broad swath of professionals in the residential real estate market, including real estate agents, brokers, attorneys, title insurance companies and settlement agents.

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Real estate teams beat brokerage firms in profitability

Housing Wire

Podcast: Comparing real estate team and brokerage profitability. Study: It’s true, real estate teams outperform brokerage firms. However, these super-sized teams aren’t the only ones turning a profit — a profit that dwarfs most real estate brokerage’s profit. Real estate team profitability is stunning.

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Real Estate Appraiser: What They Do and How to Become One

Appraisal Hub

The number of businesses in Canada’s real estate appraisal industry has expanded by 2.1% annually over the five years between 2017-2022. If you are interested in becoming a real estate appraiser in Toronto, here are the basics you need to know. How Do I Become a Real Estate Appraiser?

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How boutique lender Revolution Mortgage plans its expansion

Housing Wire

Revolution, founded by Tony Grothouse in 2017, is a direct retail lender licensed in 45 states, with 316 active loan officers and 79 branches across the country, according to mortgage tech platform Modex. Training and hiring top talent who can penetrate local markets with their own database and network are roles that Covey will take on.

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Inside Redfin’s unique, brave and vulnerable business model

Housing Wire

And in 2017, I decided to go on full-time as a lead agent.”. Alipour gushed about Redfin’s training program, and she accessed maternity leave benefits other agents lack. But what makes Redfin different – what makes it radically, transformatively different – is that it classifies real estate agents as employees.

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People movers: Home Point Financial, Zumper, Total Expert and NAR

Housing Wire

Before he joined Home Point Financial, Hilzendeger was at Wells Fargo for 30 years, most recently with Wells Fargo Home Lending , where he led as head of Retail Operations, head of Servicing Operations, senior vice president of Default Services, and senior vice president of Real Estate Servicing.

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Lamacchia Realty Announces Top Producing REALTORS® for April 2024

Lamacchia Realty

Her reason for becoming a real estate agent is to continue her desire to work with people and have clients be as happy with their lifestyle as she is providing it to them. Her desire to help her clients earned Shauna the title of Rising Star in the September 2021 issue of the South Shore Real Producers Magazine !