Inman

JANUARY 10, 2024

Let us know what real estate agent gave you your start, helped you out of a bind or simply makes every day better.

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Inman

AUGUST 2, 2023

This week, we want to know about your biggest mistake as a real estate newbie. Did you screw up a contract? Lose a client?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

New York-based multichannel lender US Mortgage Corporation is expanding its efforts in the reverse mortgage space, illustrating its focus on growth. US Mortgage recently surpassed 30 years in business. It’s no secret what the statistics say about the population growth and the aging population changes that we’re seeing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

When we talk about growth, we’re talking about [goals for] multiple of growth,” he said. It’s important to have a partner that can operate in both of those channels which are equally important to us.” We’re also looking to implement the system on our wholesale side, but we’re looking to do that later this year.

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Inman

AUGUST 9, 2023

Whether they pretended to be nice or just asked to speak to the manager, we want to hear about your worst Karen (or Ken) encounters.

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Inman

APRIL 26, 2023

Take a look at the latest SCE Housing Survey which offers a detailed look at consumers’ psyche in regard to the housing market.

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Inman

AUGUST 23, 2023

What carried you through those first days as a new real estate agent, and what secrets do you have to share with new agents now?

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Inman

JANUARY 25, 2023

From your first day on the job to your biggest listing, we want to hear about your best day ever in real estate.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

I am excited about the future. I will be doing what I am most passionate about and love. ” “As the market continues to evolve, Keller Williams’ strategic direction is to focus more than ever on the models, systems, and tools that got us to where we are today and will propel us to where we are going.

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Inman

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As we wrap up Leadership Month, we want to know about the worst leader you've ever had. How did you handle their toxic traits?

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Kairos Appraisal Services

OCTOBER 13, 2021

So, now the question is, what have we learned about the appraisal industry… The post What COVID-19 Has Taught Us About Appraisals appeared first on Kairos. With all that’s happened since the COVID-19 pandemic started, we can all safely say that we’ve learned quite a bit.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

This is a change from previous statements where the Fed talked about the rate cuts it expected to make this year — although that timeframe has changed several times. ” Regarding the labor market, we want to keep this simple as we have talked about it since 2022. The labor market breaking means jobless claims rising.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

But a new year brings new opportunities, and the NAF reverse mortgage division is bullish about its own prospects and the prospects of the industry as a whole in 2024. So, this past year has been all about thriving to really grow this division.” I think it’s important for all of us at New American Funding,” she said. “If

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Scott Smith, interim CEO at Optimal Blue , to talk about the right tech investments to make now and how the company plans on keeping its customers for life. You’re talking about many hundreds of investors with their different rules and what they’re willing to underwrite.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

“The intent of the collaboration is to help HomeEquity Bank refresh the conversation about the CHIP Reverse Mortgage by taking into account how consumer preferences about retirement have changed in recent years,” the bank said in an announcement. “In In a new campaign from HomeEquity Bank launching Jan.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

HUD will also hold a specialized stakeholder briefing about extreme heat on May 23. Extreme heat affects all of us. For a long time, I would talk about a changing climate and people would say ‘That’s a problem for the future,’” Fairweather said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

“Based on 2023 numbers, that will give us 94% coverage of all purchase transactions that have happened in the country. She learned about Flyhomes and its products through her broker. It will be a good first step toward being a national provider.”

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Inman

JANUARY 13, 2023

Bernice Ross talks with Rick Sharga of Attom Data about what to expect next. Whether you’re a real estate agent or a homeowner, market conditions in 2023 are going to vary wildly across the country.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

Here’s what he had to say about the future of the MLS. Tell me about your collaborative partnership approach. This approach gives us the insights and connections we need to deliver custom solutions that will contribute to our subscribers’ success. Tell me more about data protection.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

“We think there’s a really big opportunity for [the concept of] home equity being used to help fund retirements to [become] a mainstream concept. Kristen Sieffert When asked about the underlying strategies for such moves, Sieffert said that it ultimately came down to determining a growth opportunity specifically in the reverse space. “It

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

He noted that he has used his college experience as an NCAA Division 1 scholarship diver, as well as a stunt diver at summer amusement park shows, to help him into the right frame of mind to navigate these challenges. “I I used to do high dives from 75 feet; I used to get lit on fire and paid for it,” Sears said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Dan Stewart, founder and CEO of Happy Grasshopper , to talk about the company’s tech strategy in creating content that resonates with consumers. Today we’re nurturing about 37 million contacts on behalf of our members. And this content is not typically about real estate.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

On Tuesday at The Gathering by HousingWire in Scottsdale, Arizona, Guild Mortgage CEO Terry Schmidt sat down with HousingWire editor in chief Sarah Wheeler to talk about the principles guiding much of the lender’s actions in recruiting, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and overall business outlook.

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The Appraiser Coach

MARCH 5, 2024

I talk a lot on this blog about change. Change makes us re-evaluate our mindset, our habits, and sometimes our beliefs about something. For all these reasons and many more, it is common – natural, even – for us to resist change. It sounds cliché, but change presents us with new opportunities.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We are thrilled to have such engaged and helpful investors join us in this round, and are more confident than ever before about our path forward,” James Rogers, co-founder and CEO of RealReports, said in a statement. RealReports is a real estate platform that gathers property data , ranging from climate risk to valuation, in one place.

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Urban

JANUARY 13, 2022

Identifying disparities and their causes can lead to strategies to help people get over financing barriers, address the legacies of racist policies and practices, and tap into the security and wealth-building power of homeownership.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

We are most excited about United leadership’s dedication to staff, agents and families and their focus on helping us achieve our goals,” Eric Gallus, the owner of Premiere Plus Realty, said in a statement. Through this affiliation, United now has nearly 5,000 agents in Florida and more than 23,000 agents nationwide.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Further, the seasoned loan officers are providing an increased level of service to consumers that enable us to improve revenue for loans while remaining market competitive.” About 49% of its Q4 2023 production volume was generated through its direct-to-consumer channel, while 51% came from its business-to-business (B2B) channel.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

“It uses generative AI to analyze those conversations and provides us with automation and feedback that we can implement.” The new tool was built on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform and used Amazon Bedrock , a service for building generative AI. The addressable market in mortgages is $1.5

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

What sets us apart is not just these products, but how we come together, across different channels, to continuously innovate and refine them. America’s top 50 lenders saw an average origination volume decline of about 41% in 2023. Its strategy has focused on acquisitions in both correspondent and retail channels.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Kenon Chen, executive vice president of strategy and growth at Clear Capital , to talk about appraisal modernization and how technology is just part of the solution. We have about 30 Multiple Listing Services who have partnered with us as well. Is that now solved?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

We felt that our independence is what got us to where we are today and what will enable us to continue innovating on behalf of our agents. First Team was with Christie’s for about 10 years. We are a company made by Realtors for Realtors, which is exceedingly rare in our industry today.”

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BiggerPockets

OCTOBER 9, 2023

consumers are spending a lot and taking out a lot of debt. That debt is only getting more expensive. What does that mean for the economy?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with New American Funding CEO and Co-founder Rick Arvielo to talk about the acquisition, the company’s strategy for the rest of 2024, and what differentiates NAF in this market. RA: One thing that most don’t realize about NAF is that we consider ourselves a legacy family business.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 10, 2024

In this episode, we chat about foreclosures, short sales, and more. Pam gives us some of her insight into these various situations, as well as how to handle extraordinary assumptions. The post Should We Be Worried About Pre-foreclosures, Short Sales, and REOs? appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

It was mid-February when clients, family and friends began asking Jason Posnick about strange postcards appearing in their mailboxes. The consumer wanted to know what it meant for them and if they needed to be concerned about anything, so I asked them what they were worried about,” Posnick said. Lisa is super on the pulse.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Our existing reverse servicing insight and valuation expertise helped us to execute a transaction in the second quarter of ’23 that generated significant excess liquidity and pretax income, and we’re expecting to leverage this expertise for more transactions in 2024,” he said.

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