Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Last spring, the housing industry was forced to pivot its traditionally in-person processes and harness available technology resources amid the spread of COVID-19. HousingWire reached out to Crisenbery to discuss how COVID-19 has driven technology resources into the housing industry and what’s to come as we enter 2021.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2020

eXp said it expects to continue to add agents, saying its cloud-based remote model is appealing to agents and independent brokerages, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. eXp acquired Showcase IDX in July, bringing a technology company focused on agent website and consumer real estate portal technology to the company.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We do this with a talented team of professionals that we support with superior technology and continuing education to keep abreast of how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted real estate markets across the country. KM: We have seen a reduction in our REO-related services due to CARES Act directives.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As the generation that graduated with record amounts of student loan debt and a poor job market, it’s no surprise that they have also been hit the hardest financially by the pandemic. Yet, despite the economic downturn, millennials have continued to be a driving force in the housing market. How COVID-19 impacted homebuying plans.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Texas border town of El Paso, the state’s westernmost city with a population of less than 1 million, has experienced an enormous uptick in home purchases since March – the month that COVID-19 began shutting down businesses, forcing people to stay indoors, and eliminating jobs. Interest rates were so low, at 2.5%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For the housing economy in particular, tech helped to solve many of the challenges that COVID presented and allowed the industry to not only sustain, but prosper. “In OJO Labs, a real estate artificial intelligence platform, is a 2020 Tech100 Real Estate award recipient. Nominations close this Friday, December 18.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

With housing demand already high, the Federal Reserve introduced a new quantitative easing program in response to the COVID-19 crisis that pushed mortgage rates to historical lows and the housing market reacted in a way that no one saw coming – it flourished. . To see all HousingWire Magazine issues, click here.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2021

The platform benefits lenders, real estate professionals, title agents, and homeowners, and has become even more crucial as the impacts of COVID-19 and record-low interest rates have created a huge tailwind behind home purchase and refinance,” Simkoff said. but projects to be at 5% by 2023. million in 2021.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

billion, according to the market share analysis released at the end of last year from the American Land Title Association. The company said that while COVID-19 and the response to the pandemic resulted in lower earned premiums for its general insurance segment, title insurance remained strong.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

This week, the 30-year fixed rate rebounded due to recent data indicating a still-resilient economy, the potential continuity of the Federal Reserve ’s tightening monetary policy, and pressures in the secondary market. Combined with the fact that there’s so much mortgage debt being sold onto the market, that’s just pushed rates up.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

The strong foundation at Citadel Servicing is such an ideal situation to build on – growing the people, processes and technology that will fuel the next stage of market leadership. Things move quickly in the mortgage business and that is especially true now as we navigate the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The decision was expected by most Fed observers , and comes as mortgage lenders and real estate brokerages struggle to adjust to a Fed-driven slowdown of the housing market. . “Russia’s war against Ukraine is causing tremendous human and economic hardship. Consequently, inflation in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

In the competitive world of real estate recruitment, brokerages fight for the attention and loyalty of talented agents who can drive their success. For real estate firms, recruiting a high number of agents as well as recruiting the best-fit agents for your firm is the key to long-term success.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

Climate change and the rising threat of natural disasters is likely to significantly impact migration plans of American families, potentially changing the landscape of American real estate. ” Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration. Out of 2,000 people surveyed between Feb.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 17, 2022

The housing market boomed in 2021 like few could have expected. While new home construction will remain greatly impacted by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is hope for improvement in the year ahead. At the same time that thousands of buyers are entering the market, remote work is settling in for good.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the way we live and work. Economic implications of mass worker migration While it is too early to say what the long-term impact of pandemic migration will be, the migration of workers has important implications for economic outcomes of U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

. “[HSCM] sees immense value in how we are overhauling the system and, together, we now have greater capacity to tackle this enormous market, with significant tailwind behind what we’re doing.” The debt financing will go towards product development, investment in go-to-market growth, and the refinance of debt to Lennar Corp.,

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2022

This was up from $9,140 per loan in the third quarter as the market transitioned from a rate-term refinancing market to a purchase and cash-out refinancing market. The e-Eligibility Exchange serves as a central source of information on the criteria that impact digital closings.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Urban housing markets in the Midwest are generally more affordable than urban areas in other areas of the country. With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing millions to work from home, Zillow reported that demand is supercharging home values in those kinds of affordable areas as buyers look for homes that offer more room to spread out.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2022

Leslie Rouda Smith, president of the NAR, used her own letter to the FHA to explain the trade group has been “concerned” about the pandemic’s impact on the housing market. A few weeks after the administration published its proposed rule, the FHA added the 40-year loan modification to its COVID-19 loss mitigation waterfall.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2021

In the past year, among the many challenges and difficulties brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the real estate and mortgage industries enjoyed a wave of success with low interest rates, refinance opportunities and etc. Like many, I’m not saying this is the end of digital marketing as we know it.

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Miller Samuel

JUNE 28, 2020

Keeping Housing Market Results From The Public Is Never Justified: An Expansive View. When the Covid-19 crisis began halfway through March, the Manhattan housing market was placed on “pause,” as were many housing markets around the country. Days on market during Covid-19. Lesson learned.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2021

But the Raleigh, North Carolina-based company is not just tapping public markets for a cash infusion. Bayview Asset Management , a Blackstone Group -backed real estate investment trust which invests in mortgage-backed securities, will purchase 4 million shares of Enact in a private sale, giving it approximately an 18% stake.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2021

” “Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, FHFA has actively monitored the pandemic’s impact on mortgage market participants’ use of the temporary selling policies,” the FHFA said in a release. The regulator is also advancing permanent changes to be made in the appraisal space.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

HousingWire sat down with Radian CEO Rick Thornberry to learn more about the state of the housing market and how Radian is helping further homeownership. HousingWire: What is the current state of the housing market for first-time homebuyers and communities of color? According to the Radian Home Price Index , home prices rose 9.2%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2020

In spite of the fragility of the national economic recovery, the mortgage market has been able to withstand many of the most severe effects of the COVID-19 pandemic,” the group continued. Today, the National Association of Mortgage Brokers announced growing support behind its campaign to reverse the newly announced GSE fee.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2021

When COVID-19 hit, the non-QM market disappeared. Liquidity had dried up and bond investors, which underpin the non-QM market, were running for the hills. Today, the non-QM market as a whole is returning to strength. Citadel pressed pause on new originations. Citadel resumed non-QM lending in the summer.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 9, 2021

There are things happening around appraisers that can impact the trajectory of their businesses. A sudden rise in rates, triggered by the bond market, can leave an appraiser shaking their head and saying, “What the heck happened?” A result of the passage of Proposition 19 is financial planners and attorneys ordering appraisals.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Fresh off the acquisitions of Homesnap , Emporis and Ten-X , real estate data behemoth CoStar Group beat Wall Street’s estimates in the fourth quarter. How to gain more listing visibility in a shifting housing market. Just as interesting was what CoStar’s executives had to say about the $6.9 million, or $5.93

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Tai Christensen, CBC Mortgage Agency’ s director of government affairs, will join other housing luminaries to discuss how lenders can increase their diversity to impact minority homeownership at HousingWire’s Spring Summit on March 4. The focus of the Spring Summit is The Year-Round Purchase Market.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

In a few months, the loss mitigation measures that have kept close to 100,000 veterans from foreclosure during COVID-19 will end. The perception of VA loans as risky and logistically complicated — even if an outdated view — continues to impact the competitiveness of the borrowers it serves. But the VA is hoping to change that.

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Simonson Real Estate

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As the impact of COVID continues to unfold and the real estate market grapples with rapidly changing information and market conditions – commercial appraisers have had to quickly adapt to a new way of gathering reliable and credible data to base their appraisal analysis from. Regional Analysis is Relevant.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech-focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, insurance and real estate. mortgage market by origination volume, according to HMDA data. Stay tuned for updates. billion, making it officially a unicorn. trillion U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2021

Buying and selling a home can be challenging, and the real estate process is often time-consuming and stressful. One of the most challenging aspects in a real estate transaction is the valuation process. And, the impact of the pandemic has complicated this process even further. But, it doesn’t have to be that way.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Most took these challenges in stride and adopted innovative strategies to keep everyone safe during COVID-19. But in the face of the ongoing epidemic and increasing volume impacting turn times, the industry will need to use technology to remediate these issues. However, some remote solutions put an added burden on the homeowner.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2021

Mortgage professionals never know what the industry will throw at them, so staying on top of market shifts can help originators prepare for what’s to come. De-risking efforts by GSEs, migration shifts, demographic changes and more are pushing the market to adapt to meet the needs of today’s borrowers. Changing Borrower Activity.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

This newest award recognizes the top finance executives in mortgage origination and real estate who are driving financial performance, expanding margins, improving liquidity and helping their businesses access the capital markets. . in March 2019. Later in the year, Realogy delivered its biggest third quarter on record.

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