Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

In the past few weeks, 12 agents formerly affiliated with Keller Williams — Jerri Moulder, David Bueker, Robert Hill, Kevin Ortiz, Edward Fordyce, Paul Davis, Penny Alper, Jana and Dennis Caudill, Eric Mendoza, Jack Levine and John Exnicios — took legal action against the real estate brokerage by filing a host of class-action lawsuits.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

The CFPB claims that Freedom entered into marketing services agreements with more than 40 real estate brokerages, with monthly payments to brokerages totaling approximately $90,000. Agents and brokers with access to subscription services made more than 1,000 mortgage referrals to Freedom since 2017, according to the CFPB.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2022

The 2022 RealTrends 500 brokerage companies are gaining market share an historic rates. This ranking shows the firms that had the largest increase in closed transaction sides between 2017 and 2021. This ranking shows the firms that had the largest increase in closed transaction sides between 2017 and 2021.

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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. She joined Realty ONE in 2019 and was later named as a 2022 HousingWire Marketing Leader. Before this promotion, Vasquez served as the company’s vice president of global communications.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

The market for home equity investment is still small, with the estimated investment volume from players in the market to be around $2 billion and $3 billion. With continued demand for home equity investment from homeowners, Burnett is confident that the market is poised for growth in the decade ahead.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

The top agents were previously at brokerage @properties. “We She ranked among the top 1% of Chicago Realtors in 2017 and is also a past president of the Women’s Council of Realtors. Compass joined the Chicago market in 2017 and has since grown to 22 offices and over 1,600 licensed agents, the company said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Eventually, in 2017, he heard back from the husband. I mean, you have to fake it until you make it,” Goldentayer said about agents looking to break into the ultra-luxury market. I have one agent in my brokerage that does nothing but play golf all day and he makes millions of dollars selling real estate.” You know what he said?”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Makinney made the leap with his two agents, Jill Giorno and Jen Goodale.The top team was previously at brokerage @properties. The Makinney Group, recognized for their community involvement and referral transactions, brings 35 years of combined experience in the Chicagoland real estate market to Compass.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2022

I’m sure you’ve all heard ad nauseam about the low housing inventory impacting the market. Despite that, the 2022 RealTrends top real estate brokerage firms did a record number of transaction sides in 2021 (our 2022 rankings are based on 2021 data). And, the top firms grew market share at record rates.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

GLG is a Keller Williams Realty franchise group of residential real estate brokerages located in Georgia, servicing Alpharetta as Keller Williams Realty North Atlanta , Roswell as Keller Williams Realty Consultants , Peachtree Corners as Keller Williams Realty Chattahoochee North and surrounding metropolitan Atlanta areas.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Ruehrwein, who became a licensed agent in 2017 after working in the new construction industry for 28 years, serves clients in Rehoboth and surrounding Massachusetts towns, as well as East Providence and the Narraganset area of Rhode Island. The independent brokerage, which now has over 50 agents was founded in 2010 by Claude Blackman.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Most brokerages are only a loose affiliation of independent agents, and none of us wants to impose a policy that could alienate any of the people who generate our revenue.” In leaving NAR, the brokerage said it will explore other ways to achieve those goals. Despite this decision, Redfin said that in roughly half of the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Brokerage and franchise conglomerate Realogy reported its yearly financials Thursday, and the Madison, New Jersey-headquartered company tallied $343 million in net income for 2021. Ryan Schneider crowed on an earnings call about the company’s best financial year since Schneider became CEO in 2017. We have gained market share.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2021

With Propertybase , they gain a platform that integrates sales support and marketing operations to complement their suite of products. For brokerage-owners, the race to finding an end-to-end technology platform has been filled with frustration. One brokerage firm intent on building its own real estate technology platform is Compass.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

For the non-QM lenders serving the single-family investment-property space who have managed interest-rates well to stay ahead of the market, however, there’s still plenty of opportunity to pick up market share, industry observers argue. . by the end of 2023,” the MBA’s December market-forecast report states.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

The chief executive officer for real estate brokerage Side announced a fresh $50 million in venture capital money spearheaded by ultra-prolific financier Tiger Global Management. For many years, everyone thought brokerage was ripe for major disruption,” said Gilles Duranton, real estate professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Fathom Holdings is the latest brokerage to make a significant C-Suite change. Prior to this, Fregenal also served as Fathom’s chief operating officer from 2012 to 2017. We remain steadfast in our belief that there is a substantial opportunity ahead of us to capture market share and position Fathom for accelerated growth.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The company is working with commercial brokerage Eastdil Secured to find a partner for a $1 billion joint venture, according to Bloomberg’s sources. The single-family rental market boomed during the pandemic as households sought more space in the suburbs and investors capitalized on low interest rates.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Abby Lee and Susie Winders also received promotions, with Lee being named executive vice president of marketing, communications and events, while Winders is the company’s new executive vice president of general counsel. In 2012, Bailey left the firm to take on a position at Market Leader , which was acquired by Zillow in 2014.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2021

To stay up to data on real estate brokerage news, please check out RealTrends’ BrokerSource newsletter. He was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in October 2016 and named President in 2017. Durkin will continue to lead the brokerage , its operations, technology initiatives, and strategic growth efforts across the United States.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

126 Transactly 3,852% 2017 Real estate transaction platform providing automation, integrations and tech-enabled services that significantly reduce process time. 193 CertifID 2,807% 2017 A company dedicated to fighting wire fraud for the real estate industry. 4,105 FirstCloseFirstclose. 4,105 FirstCloseFirstclose.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In 1983 Jim Campbell launched what is believed to be the first joint venture experiment between a real estate brokerage and a title and settlement firm. The authors also claim that the profit dividends received by the title company and the real estate brokerage are “wildly disproportionate” to their respective investments.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Redfin’s Homebuyer Demand Index hit a new all-time high since at least 2017, according to a new report from Redfin , a real estate brokerage. This is a sign of strong ongoing housing demand during a time of year when the market typically slows.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2021

Griffin Funding was the fastest housing sector grower in 2017. These 180 firms grabbed market share, created new business models and recruited talent without ever looking back. 5000 winners took a close look at all recognized companies in the single-family housing sector with a focus on mortgage and real estate sales markets.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

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. “It When we looked at the industry, every brokerage that existed served the 1.3 Guy Gal CEO at Side. “It

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Guaranteed Rate Affinity is a joint venture established in 2017 by Guaranteed Rate and Anywhere Real Estate (former Realogy ). The company originates and markets its mortgage lending services to Anywhere’s real estate brokerage and relocation subsidiaries. market share, IMF data showed. The lender originated $10.6

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

And in 2017, I decided to go on full-time as a lead agent.”. Redfin is a publicly traded company, a nationally recognized listings website and one of the biggest brokerages in the country. Way back in the drab plaid of the 1970s, brokerages often classified agents as employees and offered them health care and pension plans.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2021

Syndicated columnist Lew Sichelman reported Sunday that Dmitry Shkipin of HomeOpenly.com alleged that Rocket Homes was receiving what amounted to illegal kickbacks while violating consumer protection laws, market allocation practices, and antitrust laws.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

NEXA’s businesses America’s largest mortgage brokerage, NEXA originated $6.29 Grella told HousingWire that the mortgage business is profitable despite a challenging market. billion in mortgage loans in 2023, according to Kortas. But that’s not the case for the aviation business.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2021

The buy is Compass’s first since the residential brokerage started publicly trading shares earlier this month. Glide, which was founded in 2017, provides tools like eSignature and the digitization of sales processing forms. Compass closed trading Monday at $18 per share, good for a market capitalization of $7 billion.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2021

Guaranteed Rate, the Chicago-based mortgage lender , and Compass, the New York City-headquartered residential real estate brokerage , “entered into a definitive agreement to form OriginPoint , a new mortgage origination company,” according to a press release Tuesday. 2 brokerages in residential sales volume nationally – and bitter rivals.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

And the market has gotten much darker over the last few years. After six years of no enforcement actions and a rapidly declining housing market, RESPA attorneys believe some in the industry may be more willing to test the boundaries. “I For lenders and brokerages, the risks of LOs or agents overstepping are high.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2021

Between April 2020 and the end of March this year, Opendoor , an iBuyer but also a residential brokerage, sold 1,613 homes listed on First Multiple Listings Service , the greater Atlanta region’s National Association of Realtors’ endorsed spot for home listings. Led by CEO Eric Wu , Opendoor is arguably normalizing iBuyers in real estate.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

When Hometap launched in 2017, the Boston-based fintech offered an unorthodox answer to this question for homeowners looking for an alternative to a loan. The home equity investment is a new concept for many homeowners and is still small compared to the size of the traditional mortgage market. The annual investment volume in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

The public is demanding a broker that offers the same cost savings and efficiencies in the real estate market that they receive everywhere else. Many economists are predicting low mortgage rates for an extended period of time which will keep the red-hot seller’s market intact indefinitely.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Medina, who had been at Fairway since April 2017, said his team’s production is about $100 million annually. “My new responsibilities involve my production, growing and managing our branch location in Temecula and the goal of building additional market centers or branches throughout the country,” Medina said. .

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2020

Boston Logic acquired Propertybase in 2017, Propertybase acquired BackAgent in late 2018 and then Propertybase acquired BoldLeads in early 2019. Lone Wolf is also building a single real estate technology solution, from “lead to close,” according to James Carvalho, product marketing manager.

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