Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued orders against Freedom Mortgage Corporation and Realty Connect USA Long Island for illegal kickbacks on Thursday, the first enforcement action associated with the 1974 Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act in six years.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Real estate agents gathered at the Palladium Theater in New York City’s Times Square on Thursday to learn networking and lead generation strategies from some of the nation’s top luxury real estate agents at the Goldbar Live conference. Eventually, in 2017, he heard back from the husband.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Prior to becoming the president of DISH in 2017, Carlson held several leadership roles at the firm, including president and chief operating officer. Joyce was named interim CEO in January 2022, after former CEO Adam Contos announced that he would be leaving RE/MAX in March 2022. Earlier in his career.

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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. Partnerships with real estate agents or mortgage originators to educate homeowners and buyers on HEI products will be key, the companies interviewed by HousingWire said.

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Inman

MARCH 14, 2023

EXp Canada has appointed veteran real estate agents John Tsai, Nadia Habib and Nathalie Goodyer to three C-suite positions, according to the company. Tsai joined the brokerage in 2017.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

As recently as five years ago, homeowners insurance was certainly not top of mind for most homebuyers and their real estate agents , but the rapidly rising cost of insurance premiums is changing that. On nearby Chincoteague Island, Virginia, Long & Foster Real Estate agent Meghan O.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

That raises a question of perhaps little interest to National Basketball Association fans but a great deal of interest to National Association of Realtors members – where is the real estate agent in this picture? Rocket rocketed to being the highest volume mortgage lender in the country by late 2017.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

The company’s electronic signature software became a go-to product for millions of real estate agents , mortgage professionals and title agents who couldn’t attend closings during the pandemic. Since taking on the role of chief executive in 2017, Springer took the company public in 2018.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Revolution, founded by Tony Grothouse in 2017, is a direct retail lender licensed in 45 states, with 316 active loan officers and 79 branches across the country, according to mortgage tech platform Modex. We hire locals, so they can work with the local real estate agents, CPAs, financial planners, and attorneys,” he said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2021

After a review of Atlanta area property records, it would appear Kim Klir is the most successful real estate agent in world history. Led by CEO Eric Wu , Opendoor is arguably normalizing iBuyers in real estate. The rest of this content is for HW+ members.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2021

The two-story farmhouse in a rural corner of Milford Center, Ohio, was one of at least two homes that Elliott, who had been a real estate agent for 30 years, owned with his wife, Golan, who was also a Realtor. By early 2017, Elliott defaulted on his mortgage. Elliott went on the offensive.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

Abra Borrow users can seek “ Propy-certified” real estate agents to help them buy or sell property, including making down payments on mortgages. . LoanSnap launched a crypto-mortgage program that relies on AI technology, cryptocurrency, and linking a real-world mortgage lien to a digital NFT.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Since its creation in 2017, the company has raised $13.5 Clever’s platform connects consumers with over 12,000 vetted real estate agents. The company negotiates discounted rates, making it easier to compare and interview agents. million, including the new capital raising and a $3.5

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

ICE expects to have its second-best year for MSP sales since 2017. ICE said it doesn’t anticipate any negative impact to its Encompass business from the recent commission lawsuits if homebuyers use fewer real estate agents which, in turn, could result in loan officers losing their largest referral pipeline. “We

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2022

Barber had been working for the Harrelson Group on a contract basis since March of 2017. According to Barber’s contract , his responsibilities included selling and listing approved properties in association with the real estate agency. Harrelson stated that he believes Barber possible used a “credit card to break the lock.”.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2021

Rocket Homes Real Estate , a real estate affiliate of Rocket Companies , is being investigated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for possibly violating the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) when it charged fees for referring Quicken’s mortgage clients to real estate agents, according to officials.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

” Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. “I had one client in St.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2021

In the announcement, UWM said that the decision came in response to Rocket Mortgage and Fairway participating in actions including soliciting loan officers away from brokers and working directly with real estate agents to cut brokers out of the entire process, a narrative that is far from new.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

How 2020 exposed a greater need for collaboration between real estate agents and LOs. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. home last year at $7 million more than its Zestimated price.). Presented by: Propertybase. of the time, within 10% 75.6%

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2022

CertifID, founded in 2017 by Adams, Thomas Cronkright II and Lawrence Duthler, is a secure platform that validates parties involved in a real estate transaction, thereby reducing the risk of wire fraud.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2021

One brokerage firm intent on building its own real estate technology platform is Compass. In a second-quarter earnings call, CEO Robert Reffkin announced that they are creating an end-to-end technology platform for real estate agents. Propertybase was acquired by Boston Logic in 2017.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2021

Compass announced Monday that it has reached an agreement to buy San Francisco-based real estate transaction platform Glide , a deal that some California real estate agents may feel uneasy about. Glide, which was founded in 2017, provides tools like eSignature and the digitization of sales processing forms.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

That revenue figure includes the full commissions on home sales, which mostly are returned to the real estate agent on the deal. billion in revenue after deducting agent’s cut of the commissions. billion in revenue after deducting agent’s cut of the commissions. Once the $4.8 We have gained market share.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2022

billion, despite Congress having canceled $16 billion in debt in October 2017. Both NAR and Fannie Mae seek a policy that requires more disclosure – especially amid a real estate or mortgage transaction – about a home’s flood history and future risk assessment. Two of the most powerful U.S.

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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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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2022

About 39% of 210 senior mortgage executives representing 189 lending institutions said cost-cutting was the most important agenda item, the first time that has happened since 2017, according to Fannie Mae ‘s mortgage lender sentiment survey.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2021

Mortgage lenders and real estate agents who do not provide customers with a digital experience are being left behind. The digital shift era in mortgage began in 2017, but COVID exponentially escalated the speed at which digital applications were introduced and adopted. The COVID shift. Following the trends is not enough.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In 2017, the company revived plans for an IPO but didn’t take the plunge. In its prospectus, loanDepot talks at length about its partner business , which includes third-party-originations via mortgage brokers and real estate agents, as well as joint-ventures with builders and other referral partners. billion to $2.6

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2022

Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. Peoria was hit hard by the departure of the Caterpillar machinery plant in 2017, but its August 2021 unemployment rate of 6.1% San Diego, California. 2% to $129,000, according to NAR numbers.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Inflation and a sharp spike in mortgage rates has rapidly cooled down demand for the lender’s bread-and-butter mortgage products , and several of its chief rivals have performed better in originating purchase business due to their stronger ties to real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Be Kind’ mindset attracting top producers to their team who distinguish themselves through their professionalism and commitment to giving back to their community,” Sharran Srivatsaa, the president of Real, said in a statement. Théard and Hettich joined forces in 2017 to create District South.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

And in 2017, I decided to go on full-time as a lead agent.”. But what makes Redfin different – what makes it radically, transformatively different – is that it classifies real estate agents as employees. These employee agents are exceedingly more productive than the average independent contractor agent.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In its prospectus, loanDepot spoke of its partner business , which includes third-party-originations via mortgage brokers and real estate agents, as well as joint-ventures with builders and other referral partners. In 2017, the company revived plans for an IPO but didn’t take the plunge. billion to $2.6

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2021

Redfin’s Christopher Anderson, a California-based real estate agent, said earlier this month that some insurance plans don’t cover enough of the home’s damage, leaving victims strapped for cash after making weather repairs on their own.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

The recent brokerage IPO wave started with Redfin in 2017. With a popular listings web site, salaried employees as agents , and eventually iBuying, the Seattle-based company fit to a t the notion of a tech-forward outfit that could shake things up. “New ventures have tried to disrupt it in all sorts of ways. Seeing red.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Prior to this, Fregenal also served as Fathom’s chief operating officer from 2012 to 2017. .” In addition to his new role as CEO, Fregenal will continue to serve as Fathom’s CFO until a replacement is found. Fregenal has served as Fathom’s CFO since 2012 and as president since 2018.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

“Many believe that teams were the foundation of real estate brokerage firms some 60 years ago,” says Steve Murray, senior advisor for RealTrends. Back then, principal brokers who formed a company recruited agents to help them take care of referrals.”.

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