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From Industrial to Retail: A Deep Dive into Evaluating Commercial Real Estate

The Robert Weiler Company

Planes, Trains, Automobiles, and More: Transportation links are essential for any industrial space or commercial properties for lease. Ideally, you want your property to be at or very near an intermodal transit point where planes, trains, trucks, and seagoing vessels easily interchange. Swimming in Success: Restaurant and Retail Space.

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Rocket goes local: Testing the waters or shifting its strategy? 

Housing Wire

Coming off multiple quarters of financial losses , Rocket has accelerated those efforts in 2023, embarking on a remote local loan officer hiring spree designed to capture purchase market business from real estate agent connections, sources told HousingWire. “I was told by the recruiter this division – Rocket retail started a year ago.

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As the housing market bottoms out, educating the future mortgage pro becomes paramount

Housing Wire

In 2021, Gigliotti created Axis 360 Lift , an online academy designed to educate aspiring mortgage and title professionals. Many Axis trainees come from sales-based careers in hospitality, retail or insurance, which makes it easier to adapt to the mortgage business. But some are completely fresh to the field.

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The best real estate coaching programs for 2024

Housing Wire

Tom Ferry International Key Facts For good reason, Ferry International refers to itself as the real estate industry’s leading coaching and training company. It involves independent work pulled from training videos and downloadable resources. Known as the “Real Life Realtor,” she’s the brain behind Real Life Real Estate Training.

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2020 HW Tech Trendsetter: Paul Akinmade

Housing Wire

Within four years, Akinmade and his team have built a robust, automated marketing platform, which is driven by investment in technology, to give retail loan officers a competitive edge. Paul Akinmade joined CMG Financial in 2016 to lead the expansion of the company’s marketing department ahead of a major staffing initiative.

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Fairway breaks silence on UWM’s ultimatum

Housing Wire

billion in the wholesale channel in 2020 (compared to about $62 billion in retail), lost roughly 5% of its broker clients to UWM, according to company executives. Then you might as well just go work for UWM retail. “My business is not designed to make my competitors like me, especially retail competitors,” he said.

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Collateral Risk Network Names Jeremy Staudenmaier 2022 Valuation Visionary

Appraisal Buzz

In his current role for ACI, he is focused on the design, development and execution of innovative software solutions to drive the digital transformation of the industry. Earlier in his career, Staudenmaier was a credit risk manager and collateral policy and strategy analyst at Fannie Mae.

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