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Risks of nonbank mortgage sellers and servicers revisited

Housing Wire

I applied a multivariate statistical analysis consistent with the one I used to develop the industry’s first FHA automated underwriting scorecard (known now as TOTAL), and the industry’s first VA scorecard during my tenure at Freddie Mac. These were 2000-2003, 2004-2008Q2, 2008Q3-2011, and 2012-2015. Specifically, the 1.9

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CEO Matt Widdows pushes HomeSmart toward IPO

Housing Wire

Founded in 2000, Scottsdale, Arizona-based HomeSmart is the seventh largest brokerage in the country by transaction sides, or how many times a HomeSmart agent represented the buyer or seller in a deal, according to RealTrends.

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What’s The Leaven Causing Home Prices to Rise Today?

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

30-Year Fixed Mortgage Rates from 2000 to today. Unlike the years leading up to 2008, this time, buyers and sellers are renegotiating prices, or buyers are bringing money to make up the difference between what the home’s market value is and what they are willing to pay to buy the home they want.

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Lamacchia Realty Announces Top Producing REALTORS® for December 2023

Lamacchia Realty

Growing up in Shrewsbury and residing in Worcester with her husband and son for the past 20 years, she is able to assist her buyers and sellers in Worcester County with complete confidence. He has developed a niche role in the Boston market, particularly in assisting first-time homebuyers and military veterans.

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Lamacchia Realty Announces Top Producing REALTORS® for June 2023

Lamacchia Realty

Since then, she has taken off running and has helped her buyers and sellers reach their goals. Cyndi thrives to make her buyers and sellers her top priority. Click here to learn more about Cyndi: Cyndi Deshaies Laurie Howe Bourgeois has been a licensed REALTOR® since 2000 and in the customer service industry for 34 years.

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Lamacchia Realty Announces Top Producing REALTORS® for March 2024

Lamacchia Realty

To learn more about Jason, click here Laurie Howe Bourgeois , a licensed REALTOR® since 2000 with 34 years of customer service experience, joined Lamacchia Realty Leominster in 2019. Joselin Malkhasian is a REALTOR® working with both buyers and sellers in the Greater Boston Area. To learn more about Paul Dubuque, click here.

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Higher rates flip the homebuilders’ fortunes (again)

Housing Wire

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. As we can see in the chart below, we are still below the recession levels of 2000 and really trending at 1996 levels. percent (±20.4 percent)* above the revised December rate of 625,000, but is 19.4 percent (±13.1 percent) below the January 2022 estimate of 831,000.

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