Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Originally filed in March 2019, the Moehrl lawsuit alleges that real estate industry participants including HomeServices, the National Association of Realtors (NAR), Anywhere , RE/MAX and Keller Williams conspired to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions.

Real Estate Agent 405

Real Estate Agent Realtors Real Estate Sellers 405

Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2023

With the move, Wu returns to where she began her career as junior partner on the Jing Chen Team in 2019. “We have an unwavering commitment to our clients to provide the utmost client service experience,” said Wu. In December 2021, she had left Compass to join the young brokerage SERHANT.

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Brokerage Legal Clients Real Estate 342

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

“Our partnership will enable clients to seamlessly analyze their market position and support effective margin decisions without leaving their pricing engine. Since its launch in 2019, the California fintech company has raised about $57 million in three rounds of funding.

Technology 354

Technology Insurance Mortgage Lending 354

Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

Reizen, his wife Julie, and their four children moved to Sandpoint in 2019 and started selling homes with local brokerage Realm Partners. PureWest agents and clients will have access to global luxury connections through the Christie’s International Real Estate network.

Real Estate 421

Real Estate Brokerage Agents Technology 421

Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2023

“I am eager to serve our clients by delivering on their critical business needs,” Call said. I’m excited to now know that our clients will be in great hands with a seasoned professional who is committed to their success,” Keith Kemph , CEO of BlackFin, said.

Technology 346

Technology Training Clients Development 346

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In a lawsuit filed last week, a mortgage brokerage claimed that one of its former loan officers stole a database containing client names and information and brought it with him to a new job at NEXA Mortgage. 2013 and February 2019. By August 2019, that number had skyrocketed to 272.

Mortgage 397

Mortgage Loan Officers Brokerage Clients 397

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The cybersecurity breach was detected in May 2019, when First American notified the DFS of a vulnerability within its proprietary EaglePro application, which it uses to store consumer data. “We’re pleased that this matter has been resolved,” a First American spokesperson wrote in an email. ”

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Real Estate Government Clients Insurance 397

Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 21, 2022

The 2019 and 2020 President’s Club groups recently returned from their annual trip to Aruba! Due to the pandemic, the 2019 trip had been postponed and was combined with the 2020 winner’s trip in January 2022. REALTOR®, 2019 and 2020 President's Club, 2020 President's Club ELITE. "We Paul Cervone?. Jackie Louh.

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Realtors Development Realty Business 68

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

For the third year in a row, the Tech Trendsetters award program recognizes the people who drive innovation for their mortgage and real estate clients. Honorees include product and technology leaders from across the industry who have played an integral role in bringing innovative solutions to market for housing industry clients.

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Clients Technology Real Estate Mortgage 300

Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

Additionally, Messner will act as a liaison between clients, product development, and technical teams to provide valuable customer insights for the development of impactful features and new functionality. Prior to that, Messner held senior and executive-level roles in client services.

Technology 348

Technology Clients Development Mortgage 348

Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

The first change is that MLS PIN is agreeing to obtain certificates from their seller clients saying that they understand that MLS PIN does not require sellers to offer compensation to buyer brokers and that sellers are not required to compensate the buyer’s broker even when asked to by the buyer.

Sellers 431

Sellers Real Estate Buyers Contracts 431

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

On Friday, it notified clients that it had taken its email system offline and that recipients should be wary of any emails that come through from FirstAm.com. The systems outage has derailed closings across the country over the holidays for homebuyers and sellers using the company’s title services in more than 2,000 locations.

Sellers 496

Sellers Insurance Valuation Clients 496

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Anywhere will prohibit company owned brokerages and their affiliated agents from using any technology (or manual methods) to sort listings by offers of compensation, unless requested by the client. Anywhere will eliminate any minimum client commission requirements that company owned brokerages may have.

Buyers 432

Buyers Brokerage Agents Sellers 432

Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Samson has been the brokerage CEO since 2019 and leads all operations for its sister company, Cardinal Title Group , which provides residential and commercial clients with settlement services in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C.

Brokerage 399

Brokerage Real Estate Realtors Real Estate Agent 399

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Parker joined LoanLogics as the SVP of product management in 2019 and later became the EVP of product. Parker was named a HousingWire Vanguard Award winner in 2019. He was named CEO in 2019. Neville joined the company’s board of directors in 2017 as a mortgage industry veteran and was appointed president and COO in 2018.

Technology 365

Technology Mortgage Lending Business 365

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Cooper was under a cybersecurity attack leaving clients unable to access their accounts for more than a week. First American Title Insurance is still dealing with the aftermath of a data breach in 2019. This week, New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued an additional $1 million penalty on First American.

Insurance 420

Insurance Government Real Estate Clients 420

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

When she joined the company in January 2019, she focused on member engagement, performance, and satisfaction. Prior to joining LeadingRE, Reisinger served as Regional Director for relocation and client development at Coldwell Banker. I am excited to continue working closely with her as we broaden our offerings worldwide,” he added.

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Legal Brokerage Real Estate Modernization 394

Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polly, a software-as-service mortgage-technology firm that operates a loan-trading platform , has raised $37 million through a new funding round, its third since launching in 2019 — bringing the total raised from investors to $57 million. Polly’s press statement announcing the capital infusion also notes that the company is expanding rapidly.

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Modernization Mortgage Lending Investors 363

Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

There were 3,541 respondents to the online survey which ran from May 3-10, 2021, of which 1,731 had a client. Pending sales for the seven-day period ending May 16 were down 10% from four weeks prior, compared to an 8% increase during the same period in 2019. The April 2021 survey was sent to 50,000 Realtors selected from NAR’s over 1.4

Realtors 479

Realtors Buyers Housing Market New Listings 479

Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2022

“Our Warehouse Administration Services address these challenges with a turnkey approach that shifts the responsibility of setting up, managing, and scaling a warehouse facility from the client to our team of experts,” Beshara said in the news release. What are the building blocks of digital lending?

Lending 375

Lending Technology Clients Finance 375

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Florida’s law is relatively new, having passed in 2019, but adoption there has been rapid.”. Now, Notarize reported its volume of real estate notarizations increased 825% over 2019. If the industry can continue to reimagine how they serve their clients and rewire how they work, RON should and will be further implemented.”.

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Law Real Estate Clients Technology 496

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As the company celebrates its 10th anniversary, WFG continues to look for new ways to serve its clients, consumers and industry. Like other lenders, UWM has posted record profits amid a low-rate environment that has driven a huge volume of refinancings through its broker clients. Presented by: WFG. The company originated $54.2

Clients 441

Clients Mortgage Investors Finance 441

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Now, the industry will need to take a step back to figure out which fintech solutions can provide long-term solutions, according to Andy Crisenbery , Black Knight Senior Vice President of eLending Solutions and 2019 HousingWire Tech Trendsetter. HW: Where are you finding opportunity to meet client needs and grow relationships?

Technology 454

Technology Lending Tools Clients 454

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

A 50-year-old former unlicensed mortgage broker from Long Island, New York, pleaded guilty Wednesday to defrauding clients and wholesale lenders out of $4.7 million in mortgage refinancing proceeds that were supposed to pay off existing client mortgages. According to the U.S. ” All told, Kaufman stole more than $4.7

Mortgage 384

Mortgage Clients Brokerage Government 384

Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

Sahi brings to the role more than 10 years across multiple executive positions in sales, strategy, client management and business development teams at companies including ICE Mortgage Technology and Ellie Mae. Ellie Mae was acquired by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) in September 2020.

Technology 287

Technology Mortgage Insurance Clients 287

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Due to how HomeServices and its affiliates handle their client contracts, if a dispute arises, each client is entitled to individual arbitration of their claims. 27, 2019, and the present — 118 different client agreements that are subject to arbitration fall under the laws of 35 different states.

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Realty Real Estate Law Brokerage 413

Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

These figures represent a sharp rise from levels observed in 2019 and 2020, two years in which the average total was 11 million. The CFPB acknowledged that there are eligibility requirements but maintained its concern since the targeted potential clients could have greater levels of financial vulnerability.

Advertising 385

Advertising Mortgage Business Clients 385

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Initially filed in April 2019, the lawsuit takes aim at NAR’s Participation Rule. The firm said it will also eliminate any minimum client commission requirements that company owned brokerages may have. According to the plaintiffs, commission sharing inflates the costs for consumers, in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Brokerage 500

Brokerage Agents Buyers Clients 500

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Thanks to unprecedented market conditions , shifting demographics and historically low interest rates, Rocket posted closing origination volume of $89 billion, up 122% year-over-year, and rate lock volume at nearly $95 billion, an increase of 101% from the third quarter of 2019.

Clients 491

Clients Insurance Mortgage Real Estate 491

Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2023

In the fourth quarter of 2019, the median renter could afford 69% of the homes for sale in Salt Lake City. According to data from Altos Research , the median home price listed in Salt Lake City last week climbed to $785,000, up from about $540,000 in the fourth quarter of 2019. Now, the median renter can only afford 4% of homes.”

Insurance 374

Insurance Clients Marketing Housing Market 374

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Compass also requires their agents to ensure buy-side clients sign buyer-broker agreements. The primary MLS in the area, non-Realtor owned Northwest MLS , in 2019 eliminated a requirement that listing brokers offer buyer brokers a commission to submit a listing to the MLS. Revenue decreased by 10% year over year to $1.34

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Agents Real Estate Agent Realtors Brokerage 395

Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Saghafi has clients who recently decided to pull the trigger and move to a bigger house by selling their home that had a 2.375% mortgage rate. When an agent sees this effort, they will be more likely to send buyers, refer the loan officer to other agents through word of mouth, and even pick up some clients at an open house.

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Loan Officers Mortgage Buyers Inventory 419

Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

In line with its goal to provide clients with digital closing solutions, Stavvy formed a partnership with WFG National Title Insurance Company (WFG) to provide the company and its customers with eClosing technology solutions in May.

Real Estate 363

Real Estate Lending Technology Investing 363

Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2023

based firms on percentage revenue growth from 2019 to 2022. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2019. The minimum revenues required are $100,000 for 2019 and $2 million for 2022. The self-reported list ranks U.S. They must be U.S.-based, Rank Company Growth (3-yr Avg.)

Brokerage 370

Brokerage Real Estate Realty Real Estate Agent 370

Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

“I think you will agree that our primary focus must be on furthering the business of the association which means we are fully engages on the legal, business and advocacy challenges that are top priority to you and the clients that you serve.” Deval Patrick and again in 2019 by Gov. Charlie Baker.

Realtors 414

Realtors Real Estate Legal Law 414

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2020

In his new role, Myers will oversee new client acquisition, emerging market expansion, new product growth with existing clients and sales strategy. Stewart first joined Gateway in 2019 when the company merged with Farmers Exchange to form Gateway First Bank.

Lending 377

Lending Clients Real Estate Development 377

Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2021

The support and resources Sun Capital is capable of providing to companies like ours will enable LoanLogics to continue to ensure quality performance for our clients, enhance our operations and best serve the rapidly modernizing mortgage technology market,” Neville said. It also reported a 40% increase in revenue from 2019 to 2020.

Mortgage 397

Mortgage Technology Modernization Clients 397