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Top mega team joins The Real Brokerage

Housing Wire

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

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Opinion: Agencies are key to fixing housing affordability

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In the 2017 tax bill, caps on state and local tax (SALT) deductions and a boost in the standard deduction eviscerated the mortgage interest deduction, ending its use for all but the wealthiest homebuyers. Congress is gridlocked, so enactment of these initiatives is highly unlikely. But now a new threat is emerging on this front.

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Side’s Guy Gal on championing the high-volume real estate agent

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“It became very obvious that you had this segment of real estate professionals that was unlike most others,” said Gal, who launched San Francisco-based Side in 2017 with Edward Wu and Hilary Saunders. When we looked at the industry, every brokerage that existed served the 1.3 Across the country today, there are roughly 1.4

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How this real estate brokerage’s unique model generates more profit for agents

Housing Wire

For the well-prepared real estate brokerages, this holds a promising future. The fusion of technology, quick sales and incredible demand from the public have created a tsunami of discount-based brokerages trying to fill that public demand. Today, both sellers and buyers expect to handle a majority of the process online.

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Fannie Mae and NAR at odds over flood-risk disclosures

Housing Wire

NFIP provides over five million policies, according to CRS, in jurisdictions that meet federal criteria on building, design standards, and risk index. billion, despite Congress having canceled $16 billion in debt in October 2017. Two of the most powerful U.S. As of December, NFIP’s borrowing authority had dwindled to $9.9

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HousingStack Phase 5: Don’t underestimate the power of your real estate back-office systems

Housing Wire

But these are the lifeblood of the brokerage and certainly can’t be ignored or underwhelming. Ideally these systems integrate seamlessly with your brokerage CRM and recruiting systems as well for seamless transition into productivity. The HousingStack is exclusively for HW+ members. To join the HW+ community, go here.

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Redfin: Former redlined neighborhoods at massive flood risk

Housing Wire

of households in current neighborhoods that were once designated undesirable for mortgage lending are non-white, compared with 40.4% And after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas in 2017, Black and Hispanic Americans were about twice as likely as white Americans to report falling behind on their mortgage payments as a result of the storm.