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 19, 2024

Redfin defined luxury homes as those estimated to be in the top 5% of their metro area based on market value, while non-luxury homes are those with estimated values in the 35th to 65th percentile. That’s about seven times more than the 2.7% About 10.7% In comparison, prices for non-luxury homes rose by 4.6%

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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

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. Its sales volume of $3.346 billion was good for No. 51 among independent firms.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

He then asked Tager and Lickstein about their first forays into the AI space, and Tager talked about using it first through SMS text messaging around 2019, years before OpenAI ’s ChatGPT product came into the fold and set off the current run on the tech and debate about its use. “No Team asked.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Sheila Reddy, CEO at Mosaik, to talk about how the company is leveraging their experience building technology solutions for healthcare to benefit real estate agents and homebuyers. Sheila Reddy: There are two things that set us apart. Property search, for example.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 3, 2024

Marty tell us about his unique history in the industry, why his first class with AeL is on Supporting Land Value, and why this class is so valuable to appraisers. In this week’s episode, host Hal Humphreys interviews our guest Marty Wagar, President of Wagar & Associates and Instructor at Appraiser eLearning.

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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 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

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

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The same dynamics that are questioning the value [and costs] of a Realtor, regardless of which side of the transaction they are on, are going to lead to questions for all other things associated with buying a home.” It is on us to be educated about why title insurance is important,” Braga said. “We

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Also, greater reliance is placed on the appraisal of the property to ensure that the value is sound. Because of this, it is important to set expectations about the process and what it entails early in the process so that there are no surprises. HW: What can you tell us about the future of Acra’s Glide Portal?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

“Mortgage rates persistently over 7% appear to be deepening the malaise consumers feel about the home purchase market,” said Doug Duncan, Fannie Mae’s senior vice president and chief economist. About 63% said it was a good time to sell a home, down 3 percentage points compared to the prior month.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 3, 2022

What should appraisers know before they sign the appraisal report and deliver their professional opinion of value? Many appraisers working in today’s marketplaces are about to find out how important this is. The first thing I would say about this is that the longstanding rule that the best defense is a strong offense applies.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

HousingWire spoke with Parvesh Sahi, chief revenue officer of Polly , about the importance of having the right PPE and strategic pillars that facilitate LO success. Lenders that prioritize agility have the unique opportunity to create value in an instant, and that is only bolstered by the flexibility and stability of the right pricing engine.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

During a virtual open house hosted by Keller Williams to answer agent and broker questions about the settlements in the commission lawsuits , the overwhelming message was for real estate professionals to focus on what they can control. We’ll learn how to navigate the new rules and we have time to get clarity about that.” Don’t panic.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It enables us to level up skills and support, ensuring our associates and clients are prepared for the future.” “This isn’t just about joining forces, it’s a commitment to bring more value to our clients and agents alike,” Harvey Blankfeld, senior partner for The Mullin Blankfeld Group, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

It’s our unique value proposition: we are a brokerage, but we’re also invested in the property with the homeowner, we’re not your typical agent. He also added: “We have the same interest as the homeowner in maximizing the value of that property when they go to sell it since we’re invested alongside them.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Scot Rose , CIO at Class Valuation , to talk about innovation in the appraisal space and how the technology being deployed for appraisal modernization can actually protect appraisers. SW: How do you think about technology and prioritizing what to do next? SR: We’ve leveraged AI for years.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Sellers would continue to see the value in buyer agents — bringing more potential agents to the table and making properties more competitive — while also compensating buyer agents accordingly. The true value of a buyer agent lies in their negotiating skills and existing relationships with listing agents.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

grown and diminish in value.” ” Castellano was honored as a 2022 Emerging Leader — which is now a part of HousingWire’s Rising Stars award — for her work solidifying and articulating the value of the global luxury brand. HW : What are you most excited about in 2023? Katelyn Castellano: The people around me.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

Because the end game for us is to provide the mortgage and we want to provide it well. So, for us, there’s this mutually beneficial reality that takes place when we have products like Rocket Money. We primarily purchase Rocket Money to introduce us to clients further up the funnel. They’re pursuing deposits.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Our way of honoring first responders is by educating our podcast listeners, readers and coaching clients in the real estate industry about how to help those who helped all of us and are still being of service every day. Listen to all of these really great mortgage programs (most agents and buyers don’t know about these!)

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Lax lending standards and cheap credit, plus a popular belief that real estate values never decline, created a massive bubble. Despite the risks, there are multiple ways events in China could end up benefitting residential real estate in the US. Following a pattern eerily similar to the U.S. in 2008 and 2009.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

The value of all residential real estate worldwide is approximately $200 trillion. I’ve been involved in this area for about eight years and have the pleasure of advising several leading companies. 1 job is to optimize shareholder value. But they all lead us into economic myopia and societal spirals. Of this, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2022

million premium over Bay Equity’s tangible book value” as of Feb. As lenders adapt to a purchase-centered market, HousingWire spoke to Brian Boero, CEO of 1000watt, about opportunities to grow lenders’ effectiveness in the real estate agent and broker market. The purchase price “represents a $72.5 Presented by: 1000watt.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The Detroit-headquartered UWM will merge with businessman Alec Gores’ special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Gores Holdings IV Inc in a deal that will value the new UWM at $16.1 As part of the deal, UWM will receive about $425 million in cash held in Gores’s trust account, plus $500 million from a private placement.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Adam Carmel , founder and CEO at Polly , to talk about the ways technology should be delivering ROI for lenders. And for about two decades, the industry has been using the same kind of technology. SW: Let’s talk about margins. What is the disconnect there?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Ketchmark asked Peltier if the comments Dalton made on the podcast reflect HomeServices’ values and if Dalton should have been fired. He’s not speaking for us. If you think I’m going to cut my bleeping bleeping commission, you can take this home and shove it up your bleeping bleeping and I know that it will fit.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2023

Volume fell to $2 billion in 2022, with the company dropping from about $300 million per month in the early part of the year to below $50 million a month in the fourth quarter. Like most mortgage companies, Wyndham’s origination volume has been falling since 2021, when it notched $6.45

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The California-based retail lender has set a target of becoming a top-10 lender in the markets in which it has a presence, which would give it about 2% in overall market share. We really feel like this [M&As] is an opportunity for us,” Schmidt said in an interview. “The Homepoint acquisition worked really well for us.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

We are optimistic and hopeful that the value of the MLS and the role of the agent will prevail so that we can continue to provide an efficient and transparent marketplace for consumers.” With great change on the horizon, MLS executives said they are focusing on showing their value to agents and their clients. “I

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

HousingWire reached out to Baldwin to learn about how she stays ahead of the curve as a marketer and what she’s excited about in 2024. By understanding our customers’ evolving needs and values, we can tailor our messaging and channels to meet them where they are, enhancing engagement and loyalty.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Jim Butler, chief technology officer at Stavvy , to talk about moving real estate from paper to a digital transaction, how the company is using AI, and the vibe you get working with industry experts. SW: How do you think about build versus buy?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

The reason being that if we waited until after the class was noticed to change the rules, then there was potentially a time period where there could still be liability, as the crux of the case were the rules that they said led to what the jury found us liable for. With the rule changes we are talking about, some of their concerns go away.

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Appraiserblogs

APRIL 9, 2024

Based on the local market appraisal fee, Valuation Connect values the “appraisal expertise” component of a hybrid appraisal at 18% of what the consumer pays for an appraisal. This firm hasn’t awarded us work in about two years, and they only hire us when they are in a jam, and we require the local market rate.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2022

Below, Dhingra answers questions about the housing industry: HousingWire: What were some of your biggest takeaways from last year’s HW Annual event? Arjun Dhingra: Technology is not replacing us in the mortgage industry, it is enhancing and empowering us. HousingWire: What is your most useful tech tool?

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