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Marc King out, Mark Willis in at KW

Housing Wire

According to the annoucment, King, who has been with Keller Williams since 2001, will continue as a training and coaching leader for Keller Williams’ Franchise Systems Orientation and will continue his work updating the Team Leader and Keller Williams experiences.

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Interfirst to lay off 140 employees

Housing Wire

The company’s job cuts include human resources, technology, talent acquisition, and executive assistant positions. Interfirst is a mortgage business founded in 2001 by Dmitry Godin that has been harmed before by market downturns. The workforce reduction is also focused on mortgage loan production. Presented by: Acra Lending.

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Interfirst Mortgage to lay off nearly 50 LOs

Housing Wire

At the time, Mark Freedle, executive vice president of production at Interfirst, said in a statement that the company’s “broker-centric approach offers the technology, competitive products, pricing and service to help our broker partners build and grow successful.”. Interfirst, which claimed to have originated $1.65

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One-third of real estate CEO comp is variable, up from 2016

Housing Wire

When we started publishing this report in 2001, we found that variable compensation for sales managers, who are focused on recruiting, was about 15% to 20% of their salary,” says Murray. “So, One area where variable compensation hasn’t changed, however, is that of chief marketing officers (CMO) and chief technology officers (CTO).

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Interfirst, the phoenix of mortgage, lays off hundreds

Housing Wire

Interfirst Mortgage , the retail mortgage business he founded in 2001, had grown to $14.5 They were trying to capitalize on the refinance boom,” said Cullen Gandy, a classically trained opera singer who had been hired as an LO at Interfirst and left in July. “I In 2012, Dmitry Godin was seemingly on top of the world.

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Clear Capital and ValueLink Expand Partnership to Support Recent Appraisal Modernization Policy Changes

Clear Capital

Utilizing a combination of automation, AI, powerful functionality and mobile technology, ValueLink is transforming valuations across the mortgage ecosystem by offering support for appraisals, hybrids, BPOs and inspections. Our goal is to provide customers with a complete understanding of every U.S.

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Clear Capital Announces Universal Data Collection in Support of Fannie Mae Appraisal Modernization Policy Changes

Clear Capital

March 2, 2023 – Clear Capital , a national real estate valuation technology company, today announced the launch of Universal Data Collection (UDC) , the latest in the Company’s suite of products designed to support appraisal modernization. Clear Capital is a leading provider of hybrid appraisals for mortgage origination.