Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2022

By some estimates, origination volume will fall in 2022 to about $2 trillion, about half the volume from the record-breaking years of 2021 and 2020. Wells Fargo , one of the nation’s largest banks, had at least 114 layoffs in its home lending business following a drop in revenue in that division in the first quarter of 2022.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

2022 is slated to be? Your agents are trained on market activity and are seen as trusted sources. . So, keep reading the 2022 market predictions, sure. The post Here’s the key to being an empowered real estate professional in 2022 appeared first on HousingWire. their predictions.?Home Home prices?are another 16%.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 2, 2022

The Collateral Risk Network (CRN) announced today that Jeremy Staudenmaier, director of product management at ACI , a leading provider of workflow solutions for the valuation industry for nearly 40 years and a member of the First American family of companies, has been chosen as the CRN 2022 Valuation Visionary.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

In the NAR’s $418 million settlement in the Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit, the trade group agreed to protect all brokerages with sales volume at $2 billion or less in 2022. billion in sales in 2022 and will have to pay the Umpa settlement out of its own coffers. The Real Brokerage closed $14.4

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

million in 2022. Compass’ other financial results also showed improvements over 2022. million was an improvement over the $158 million net loss in Q4 2022. million) was nearly half of what it was in 2022, at $601.5 million) was nearly half of what it was in 2022, at $601.5 billion, its net loss of $83.8

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In addition to moving his Southern California -based firm, which he founded in 2022, over to eXp, Palmquist has also been named director of growth in California for eXp Realty. With the training, the support network, eXp is very centered on, as a company, agent growth and development and I think that is what agents really need right now.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

In 2022, the Suarez Team had a total of 150 transaction sides, leading to $210,350,336 in sales volume, according to the 2023 America’s Best list. Real president Sharran Srivatsaa expressed his enthusiasm in welcoming the Suarez Team to his brokerage. “I The California -based team ranked No. 25 for sides and No. 14 for volume.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Smith joined loanDepot in 2022 as a branch production manager. Throughout his career, Smith had the opportunity to train over 228,000 real estate agents and consumers on the benefits of VA mortgage products. Smith’s promotion follows the departure of Patton Gade , the nation’s top VA loan originator in 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2023

In a 2022 survey by the American Land Title Association , 46% of respondents said their employees receive a minimum of one fraudulent email each month. Doma Academy also provides resources like webinars and training to prevent wire fraud. In 2022, both companies featured in HousingWire’s Tech100 Awards, with paymints.io

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

In March 2022, reverse mortgage lender and servicer Longbridge Financial announced the launch of its national field sales (NFS) division , appointing reverse mortgage industry veteran Melanie Parks to lead the channel as vice president and national field sales leader. Two years later, the UPB has diminished right.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

billion during the second quarter of 2022. billion in the second quarter of 2022. Companies that are not prepared for those events react late, hire late, train late and miss most of the opportunity,” Ishbia said. Originations in Q2 2023 came higher than the $22.3 billion in the previous quarter and $29.1

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

From providing top-notch video trainings to ensuring everyone is equipped with reliable devices, we understand that embracing innovation guarantees productive outcomes. Lamacchia Realty’s Unsung Hero for 2022 is Adam Richard. The post Adam Richard Awarded 2022 Unsung Hero appeared first on Lamacchia Realty.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

“It’s very difficult to be an unaffiliated brokerage right now and compete with franchises who offer technology and training. RE/MAX Foxfire has 165 agents , who collectively closed nearly $400 million in sales volume in 2022, according to the brokerage.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke to Donna Gibson, COO and president of QC Ally, about fraud prevention and loan quality outlook for the rest of 2022. HousingWire: In this time of market change and as we head towards the last quarter of 2022, what are the hot topics in risk, fraud prevention and loan quality? increase) and property (22.6%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In mid-November, the Federal Bureau of Investigations released its 2022 Congressional report on business email compromise (BEC) and real estate wire fraud. According to the report, in 2021, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received BEC-related complaints with claimed losses exceeding $2.4

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2023

After being available as part of the REcenterhub ecosystem since 2022, it has now become the default dashboard for CRMLS’ user base of more than 110,000 real estate professionals. Developed internally by CRMLS, the REcenterhub dashboard introduces a range of new features designed to streamline productivity for real estate professionals.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

Support and Training: The level of training, mentoring, administrative, and marketing support provided to agents. KW is known industry-wide as having some of the most comprehensive training programs for new agents. Marketing and Technology: The marketing strategies and technology tools provided for agents.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

The changes include communicating to applicants that they have the right to request a reconsideration of value (ROV); explaining why an ROV is denied or the valuation is unchanged; and training its credit, valuation and customer service staff on the topic. But the company hasn’t admitted any fault.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 25, 2022

HOUSTON, TX (May 25, 2022) – Before opening its doors in January of 2020, Accurity Consolidated laid out very specific goals to create a large wave of revival in the appraisal industry. McKeever described the process of finding someone to train him as “extremely difficult.” It has been the first job that I have loved,” he added.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2023

ACE+ PDR: An enhanced option One of Freddie Mac’s newer valuation options, which has been in effect since July 2022, is ACE+ PDR , or automated collateral evaluation plus property data report. The PDR can be completed by a trained property data collector, as long as lenders meet the requirements outlined in Freddie Mac’s Guide.

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In her first full year with the company, Julia Connolly closed an impressive 16 properties, officially earning her the 2022 Fast Tracker award! In addition, the  trainings  and  marketing   that Lamacchia Realty offers are second to none. Julia first joined Lamacchia Realty nearly halfway through 2021.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We run one of the largest brokerage websites in America, as well as a national network of contractors trained and licensed to provide low cost on demand property access. Those plans can be deferred from 2022 to 2023, but not forever.” million in Q3 2022. I feel a twinge of optimism.

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In 2022, the award went to Cyndi Deshaies ! Cyndi achieved this feat by signing up an astounding 83 clients in 2022! In 2022, Cyndi qualified for Lamacchia Realty’s President’s Club for the second year in a row and achieved President’s Club ELITE status for the first time. I wish we had hundreds of others just like her.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2023

The White House also says that it is aiming to change the nature of the appraisal profession itself, “taking steps to remove unnecessary educational and experience requirements that make it difficult for underrepresented groups to access the profession and to strengthen anti-bias, fair housing, and fair lending training of existing appraisers.”

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 11, 2023

Lamacchia Realty achieved multiple Number One Rankings for Market Share in 2022 in Worcester County, Hudson, Woburn, & Leominster. Lamacchia provides industry-leading training , support , systems , and technology to its agents so they can reach their fullest potential and best serve their clients.

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GoForrmz

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Thanks to the Service Council’s 2022 Voice of the Field Service Engineer (VoFSE) survey, we can dive into the latest trends emerging for field service technicians. A much smaller group noted that training, upgrades, and software or firmware-related work took up a significant portion of their time.

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

February 9, 2023 – The Lamacchia Realty Performance awards for 2022 were announced by Anthony Lamacchia, owner of Lamacchia Realty, at the company-wide 2023 Kick-Off Event. These awards are reflective of the impact that the weekly company-wide training and coaching sessions in which Lamacchia Realty REALTORS® participate.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Even as the housing market slowed in 2022 and 2023, the fraudulent activity of bad actors did not let up. According to a report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation , business email compromise in real estate, which is how most wire fraud is conducted, impacted a total of 2,284 victims in 2022, resulting in $446 million in losses.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Notable increase from mid-2022 The NOFO amount of over $40 million reverses course on what had been falling disbursements for housing counseling. HUD awarded over $41 million in counseling grants to agencies across the country in mid-2022. HUD awarded $51.4

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

billion in production volume in 2022, down 46.9% The lender said the move was to right-size areas of the business that were impacted the most by volatile markets, including refis, operating training and recruiting. Lower originated $4.19 from the previous year’s origination of $7.89 billion, mortgage data platform Modex showed.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

From 2022 through 2024, this total represents a need for an additional 2.2 So outreach for training construction workers should start when people are considering career paths, as early as grade school, Brady said. million new hires for construction. That’s a staggering number.”. It takes time to gain expertise in the sector.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 11, 2023

This office is home to some incredible REALTORS® that have shown the value of working with REALTORS® who are constantly training and learning to provide the very best service possible.   The  training ,  systems ,  technology , and  marketing  that Lamacchia Realty offers its REALTORS® are second to none, and the word is spreading.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2023

It is also training machine learning models to get better at responding to users’ queries in “human-like sentences.” “Beyond easy-to-filter criteria like bedrooms and bathrooms, buyers are considering many other specific features that match their unique lifestyle,” Jenny Arden, Zillow’s chief design officer, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The housing market has been in a recession since mid-year 2022. Most industry experts predict mortgage rates will be back down around 5.25% in 2023 after peaking at 7.25% in 2022. Want to train for a marathon? As we bid farewell to 2022 (like peace the heck out!) Dustin Owen Waterstone Mortgage Contributor.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

FCM) reduced the company’s size through 2022 amid a tough mortgage market. At the start of 2023, the company is investing in training the sales team on tactics to start growing the business again. “So, you can see some crazy moves in the MBA index that had a waterfall dive in 2022,” Mohtashami said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

district court in Colorado, UMortgage “unlawfully solicited” and “induced” Price and his team to join the company in the latter half of 2022, despite knowing the franchisee was subject to an agreement with Motto Mortgage. According to a lawsuit filed in March in a U.S He was set to hold the role until 2024, the lawsuit says.

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We are thrilled to announce that Kyle Denlinger has been named the 2022 Rookie of the Year! This also earned him the award for Most Transactions in the Fort Lauderdale office in 2022. Towards the end of 2022, he appeared on Lamacchia Realty’s Top Producing REALTORS® list for November. Congratulations Kyle!

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