Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

In a prior All Participants Memorandum (APM) issued in December 2017 , Ginnie Mae described how it monitors prepayments in its MBS programs. Ginnie Mae is able to identify issuers with unusually fast prepayment rates through operational performance metrics,” the APM said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

Primarily allocated to the city following Hurricane Harvey in 2017 through a recovery program administered by the state via federal funds , the city aimed to use the money to purchase three lots on which to construct affordable housing. This is according to local reporting by a Houston ABC News affiliate.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2022

In a lawsuit, the CFPB claims that TransUnion and subsidiary TransUnion Interactive, as well as John Danaher, executive vice president for the division until February 2022, misled consumers and flouted a 2017 consent order with the CFPB for the same practices “the day it went into effect.”. Presented by: Black Knight.

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Inman

APRIL 4, 2024

The 9-acre island off the coast of Tampa, Florida, colloquially known as "Beer Can Island," is now on the market seven years after Cole Weaver, James Wester and Russell Loomis first bought it in 2017.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Leung was a finalist of Realtor Magazine ‘s prestigious 30 under 30 2017 class. “Wilson is one of the brightest minds in real estate and has an exemplary reputation in the local and national real estate market,” Bradley said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Cory Vasquez was promoted to the position of co-president, alongside Vinnie Tracey, who has been the company’s president since 2017. Realty ONE Group International , a global real estate franchise, recently promoted five women to drive the company’s global growth.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2022

This ranking shows the firms that had the largest increase in closed transaction sides between 2017 and 2021. eXp Realty had the highest five-year increase in sides, growing from 24,655 sides in 2017 to 355,627 sides in 2021, an increase of 330,972 transaction sides in five years.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

The company also said it “continues to evaluate new products to reach additional segments of the population facing a retirement gap,” and describes recent reverse mortgage industry consolidation following influential industry changes in 2017 and the 2022 bankruptcy of Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF). “As

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

The ALTA Registry was launched in 2017 and includes the contact information, branch locations and ALTA identification numbers of participants. The data will be provided to Qualia under a licensing agreement with the ALTA Registry, which is a national database of title and settlement agents.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Founded in 2017, Curbio is based in Potomac, Md. “Today’s sellers want to work with real estate agents who offer added value, including the ability to get their home market-ready and spruced up without having to pay upfront,” said Olivia Mariani, CMO at Curbio. “We

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

The case goes back to between August 2015 and March 2017, when Bohm, Edward Sypher, Jr., According to a criminal complaint, unsealed in August 2017, Bohm and Sypher were both recorded discussing their roles in the scheme. Sypher was also recorded during a meeting in the Vanguard offices in 2017.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

Agents and brokers with access to subscription services made more than 1,000 mortgage referrals to Freedom since 2017, according to the CFPB. This is the CFPB’s first RESPA enforcement action since 2017, when the agency reached a consent order with Sherman Oaks, California-based Prospect Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Launched in New York City in 2017, Prevu offers buyers up to 2% cash back of the purchase price thanks to its commission rebate. Real estate tech firm Prevu announced a Series A financing round Thursday of $6 million.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

The PLS.com was founded in 2017 by Mauricio Umansky, David Barnes, James Harris and Christopher Dyson. The original lawsuit was dismissed in Feb. In 2021, the site, which showcases listings nationwide, rebranded to The NLS.com.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2022

Keller Williams Realty in Portland, Maine grew 751% in sales volume percentage over the last five years — 2017-2021, ranking No. This ranking shows the firms that had the largest increase in sales volume percentage between 2017 and 2021. 3 of the Top 5-Year Movers by Sales Volume Percentage. eXp Realty was No.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The bank will pay a $200,000 fine for reporting inaccurate HMDA data in 2016 and 2017 — with error rates up to 40% in some cases, according to the CFPB. Washington Federal reported HMDA data for over 7,000 mortgage applications in each of 2016 and 2017, many of which contained data error rates reaching nearly 40%.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In 2017, Cunningham, de Jong and three others founded Sales Boomerang, an automated borrower intelligence and retention system for the mortgage industry. It also hired Arend de Jong , co-founder and former chief financial officer of Sales Boomerang, as CFO, the company announced.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2022

This ranking shows the firms that had the largest percentage increase in closed transaction sides between 2017 and 2021. Compass (2,025% growth in sides from 2017 to 2021), eXp Realty (1,342%) and RE/MAX Precision in Ankeny, Iowa (498%) take the top three spots in the RealTrends Top Five-Year Movers by Transaction Side Percentage.

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Inman

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

FNB's 2017 acquisition of Yadkin Bank for $1.8 billion expanded its footprint into North Carolina, where the DOJ alleges it avoided providing mortgages to majority-Black and Hispanic communities.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2023

between 2017 and 2021, per the lawsuit. Records show that Colony Ridge accounted for more than 92% of all foreclosures recorded in Liberty Count between 2017 and 2022. However, the loan offered had exorbitant interest rates, ranging from 10.9% To illustrate, a standard 20-year fixed rate was 2.35% to 4.05% during the same period.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Sears, a broker/partner of Sears Real Estate in Springfield, Massachusetts , was NAR’s vice president of government affairs in 2017 and president of the Massachusetts Association of Realtors in 2010. NAR also officially appointed Kevin Sears as its 2024 president-elect. Lastly, Kevin Brown is NAR’s 2024 first vice president.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Since September 2017, NFIP has been reauthorized without dedicated legislation 28 times. In addition, Canada doesn’t have a national flood insurance program. In the U.S., Congress still has to vote on the extension of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which is set to expire on March 22.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The NFIP’s last multi-year reauthorization sunsetted on September 30, 2017. An extended lapse in NFIP authority could affect 1,300 real estate transactions per day., the NAR said. Since then, the program was extended 22 times (23 times as of today) and lapsed thrice.

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Eyes on Housing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

since 2017. NAHB analysis of the 2022 American Community Survey data shows that New Jersey leads the nation with the highest average annual real estate tax (RET) bill ($9,285)—$8,425 more than yearly property taxes paid by Alabama’s homeowners ($860). The size of this disparity grew 1.1% in 2022 and has increased 9.3% Read More ›

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2017, MRIS merged with TREND to form Bright MLS. Charron will work alongside Collabra’s other board members, which include Microsoft CIO Jim DuBois, investor and startup leader Tom Simpson, investment banker Patrick Ringland and president and CEO of Collabra, Russ Cofano.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

It was the first annual decline ever recorded since 2017. The share dropped to 23.9%, the lowest level seen in a year-and-a-half, according to Redfi n. Compared to November 2022, the share of homebuyers trying to relocate fell 20 basis points from 24.1%. It is also down from this summer’s peak of 26%.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The position of GNMA president has notably sat vacant for close to five years, with Ted Tozer, the last permanent president, resigning in 2017. Michael Bright, interim president at Ginnie Mae from 2017 to 2019, said that McCargo is a great pick. Since then, the industry has been waiting with bated breath for someone to fill the role.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Founded in 2017 in Greensboro, North Carolina by David Keener, the PREMIERE Group operates as a teamerage , providing agents with marketing and operations resources. Top-producing mega team PREMIERE Group is joining fast-growing firm The Real Brokerage , according to an announcement on Monday.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Compass joined the Chicago market in 2017 and has since grown to 22 offices and over 1,600 licensed agents. The Makinney Group is the most recent team to join Compass in Chicago, following Anne Hodge and Debra Dobbs who joined in August also from @properties.

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Inman

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Tian is a broker-owner in LA and was selected as a NAR '30 under 30' honoree in 2017. At 32, the RealiFi Realty co-founder and CEO is the youngest president in the organization's history.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 21, 2021

Homes within a 10-minute commute of a metro’s downtown job center are among the most expensive in 18 of the 35 metros included in the analysis, yet these areas had the fastest-growing home values in nine of those metros as of 2017. Now, homes.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 9, 2024

Prior to joining Optimal Blue in 2017 as vice president of business strategy, Allen built his decades of experience across both the lending and vendor sides of the housing industry. Rick Allen has been promoted to chief operating officer (COO) at Optimal Blue , a provider a secondary marketing software.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2021

Wells Fargo “failed to pay plaintiff and class members for all hours worked, including but not limited to, mandatory meetings, loan processing, training and coaching sessions, loan tracking, customer surveys, attending open houses, attending events and galas, and working on certain nights or weekends,” Kang’s complaint, filed in 2017, said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Mansbridge served as the lead anchor for CBC News’ “The National,” its flagship broadcast, from 1988 to 1992, and then from 1995 until his retirement in 2017. His hiring is designed to refresh communications related to the bank’s reverse mortgage offering, available to Canadians at or over the age of 55.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

She was among HousingWire’s Women of Influence in 2017 and in 2020. Throughout her career, she held other executive roles at Guaranteed Rate , Mid America Mortgage , CMG Financial , Prime Lending , First Command Bank and Alaska USA Federal Credit Union.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

According to 2017 data compiled by the Pew Research Center , the rates of gray divorce have doubled since 1990. This kept the dispute out of court and highlights the emotional weight that can come from a longer marriage. Gray divorce has become increasingly common over the past 30 years.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a case brought by a payday lending group against the CFPB’s 2017 payday lending rule, resulting in the court’s decision to deem their funding structures unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S.

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