Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2022

Two Myrtle Beach Century 21 franchises have filed a lawsuit against eXp Realty , alleging that eXp Realty agent Joel Barber stole profits and private real estate data during secretive, “unauthorized” late night office visits. Barber had been working for the Harrelson Group on a contract basis since March of 2017. and 5:30 a.m.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Bay Area-based HomeLight , a proptech platform aimed at expediting and simplifying the real estate process, announced it has raised a combined total of $363 million in new funding. Zeev was also an initial investor in the proptech’s 2017 Series B. Today, HomeLight has delivered on that promise and more.”

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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. Guy Gal CEO at Side. “It

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Realty ONE Group International , a global real estate franchise, recently promoted five women to drive the company’s global growth. Cory Vasquez was promoted to the position of co-president, alongside Vinnie Tracey, who has been the company’s president since 2017. states and 20 countries and territories. The company ranked No.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

Technology has rapidly changed the process for listing and buying homes, and the general public is taking note and adjusting their expectations of what a real estate broker should be. The public is demanding a broker that offers the same cost savings and efficiencies in the real estate market that they receive everywhere else.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2022

First joining Realogy in 2017 under the company’s chief strategy officer, Salama, who now serves as the head of growth and partnerships her strengths in strategy and critical thinking to build partnerships and drive growth in the company. Strategy is the foundational element in building the future of the housing sector.

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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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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

According to court documents filed on Wednesday, The PLS.com (the “P” stands for property and not pocket), has reached a settlement agreement with Bright MLS , Midwest Real Estate Data and California Regional Multiple Listing Service. The PLS.com was founded in 2017 by Mauricio Umansky, David Barnes, James Harris and Christopher Dyson.

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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. Freedom must pay $1.75

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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. Lastly, Kevin Brown is NAR’s 2024 first vice president.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

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. This latest addition underscores Compass efforts to provide support for real estate professionals in Elmhurst and surrounding communities. “We

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Anchor Real Estate of Long Island, Inc. The Patchogue, New York -based firm announced Wednesday that it was affiliating with Century 21 Real Estate LLC. Founded in 2017 by the mother-daughter team of Gina and Cristina Ferraro, Anchor Real Estate serves clients in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. “The

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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

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. You know what he said?”

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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. With 10,000 locations listed in the ALTA Registry and 2,800 of them showing a state of ‘RON readiness,’ now is the time for all title insurance companies and real estate attorneys to register.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“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 Founded in 2017, Curbio is based in Potomac, Md.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

District Court in Los Angeles decided to place the suit in “inactive status” due to the settlement agreements reached with Bright MLS , California Regional MLS and Midwest Real Estate Data last Wednesday. The PLS.com was founded in 2017 by Mauricio Umansky, David Barnes, James Harris and Christopher Dyson.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2022

Compass once again comes out on top in the 2022 RealTrends 500 brokerage rankings , with a $237 billion increase in sales volume over the last five years — 2017-2021, ranking No. This ranking shows the firms that had the largest increase in sales volume between 2017 and 2021. 1 of the Top 5-Year Movers by Sales Volume.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

“I’m excited to be working alongside the top real estate agents in Chicago and look forward to tapping into the Compass tools that are proven to scale agent business,” Hodge said in a statement. She ranked among the top 1% of Chicago Realtors in 2017 and is also a past president of the Women’s Council of Realtors.

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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. 5 with an increase of 29,950 transaction sides.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

“Since being appointed CEO of Rocket Mortgage in 2017, and subsequently CEO of Rocket Companies in connection with the August 2020 IPO, Jay has overseen the most rapid period of growth and profitability in our 37-year history,” Dan Gilbert, founder and chairman of Rocket, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Real Brokerage continues to add to its agent count. Lafayette, Louisiana-based District South Real Estate Co. has joined Real, according to an announcement on Tuesday. All 40 of Théard and Hettich’s agents will be joining Real, bringing the firm’s agent count to over 12,000.

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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

MARCH 8, 2024

We do see this as a new asset class in the real estate ecosystem and we see it as complementary to traditional debt options that exist today,” Dan Burnett, head of investor product at Hometap, said in an interview with HousingWire. Burnett: After being founded in 2017, we made our first investments in 2018 and 2019.

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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 1, 2023

Stavvy , a fintech company specializing in digital and remote collaboration for lending and real estate companies, acquired Brace , a digital mortgage servicing platform. Founded in 2018 , Stavvy works to increase efficiency and transparency in real estate and mortgage lending. Terms of the deal were not announced.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Boston-based fintech company Hometap has deployed more than $1 billion in home equity investment (HEI) products since its launch in 2017, the company announced on Tuesday. homeowners with outstanding mortgages, or some 63% of all homes, equity tied up in real estate jumped by 6.8%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

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

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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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Eyes on Housing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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). since 2017. The size of this disparity grew 1.1% in 2022 and has increased 9.3%

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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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Appraisal Hub

JANUARY 3, 2023

The number of businesses in Canada’s real estate appraisal industry has expanded by 2.1% annually over the five years between 2017-2022. If you are interested in becoming a real estate appraiser in Toronto, here are the basics you need to know. How Do I Become a Real Estate Appraiser?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Online real estate platform Clever has raised $8 million in a Series B funding round to expand its team and accelerate its mortgage efforts, the company said on Wednesday. Since its creation in 2017, the company has raised $13.5 Since its creation in 2017, the company has raised $13.5 It also works with buy-side agents.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2022

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). The RealTrends 500, now in its 35th year, remains the undisputed leader in ranking the performance of residential real estate services firms.

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McKissock

JULY 19, 2022

Getting involved in real estate can be both rewarding and lucrative. Whether you’re a novice home flipper, a licensed professional or fall somewhere in the middle, real estate done right can be financially life-changing. Beware of these 6 real estate scams. Here are six real estate scams not to fall for.

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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. Already a member?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

Homebuyers can secure a home mortgage using cryptocurrency as collateral through a new partnership between blockchain real estate platform Propy and crypto wallet service Abra. Propy uses NFTs to close the entire real estate deal digitally. . Founded in 2017, LoanSnap originated about $7.3

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