Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Based in Madison, Wisconsin, the team of eight had been affiliated with Keller Williams Realty Madison East since its debut in 2020. “We The team specializes in buyer and seller representation as well as new construction. We are thrilled to be among the first teams to join Compass in Wisconsin,” Crim said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

Successful agents, brokerages and loan officers of the future are going to rely significantly on technology to find, nurture and engage with buyers and sellers while also playing an expanding role as personal advisors. “I had one client in St. Presented by: Propertybase. She relocated to New York.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

An assumable mortgage enables a qualified buyer to take over a seller’s mortgage terms, including the existing balance and interest rate. trillion in mortgages were originated in 2020 and 2021, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported. We help listing agents generate significantly more buyers for their home sales.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Successful agents, brokerages and loan officers of the future are going to rely significantly on technology to find, nurture and engage with buyers and sellers while also playing an expanding role as personal advisors in all things related to mortgage, insurance, moving, renovating and new home transitioning.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic has opened the possibilities of working remotely, more and more people are looking to buy a house in Vermont’s largest city, causing a huge swell in demand in an area that was already flush with prospective buyers. Buyers from across the country have set their sights on Burlington. “We

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

He testified that, in most cases, homebuyers would be unable to include buyer agent commission costs into their financing. “My concern is buyers who are cash-constrained,” Stevens said. ” But buyers are not the only ones who benefit from the current system, according to Stevens. .” The D.A.N.G.E.R.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2021

Homebuyers who offer all-cash improve their chances of winning a bidding war by 290%, per Redfin’s study of clients buying homes between June 2020 and February 2021. “All-cash buyers used to be able to go in a little below list price, but now I’m seeing a lot of cash offers that are at list price or higher.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — The second week of the Sitzer/Burnett class-action buyer broker commission antitrust lawsuit kicked off with a bang. During her testimony, Warner stated that Realtors should cooperate and share their commission when it’s in the client’s best interest but there’s not necessarily an obligation to do so.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Industry players who spoke with HousingWire agree that the level of repurchase demands has increased this year and that is having an impact on some buyers and sellers of MSRs. And if you’re an asset-based investor [an MSR buyer], one of these buybacks can absolutely destroy your return.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals’ three-judge panel concurred with a lower district court’s decision that HomeServices is not permitted to enforce arbitration agreements signed by seller clients of franchisees under its authority. billion in commissions they paid to buyers’ agents in the past eight years.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

According to Martell , the mortgage market’s origination volume totaled $4 trillion in both 2020 and 2021, and “unfortunately” the decline in loan production “is not going to be cured by a 50-basis-point reduction” in mortgage rates. Martell believes there will not be “a zero commission” market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2021

The severe lack of inventory in today’s housing market has been a source of stress for home buyers and real estate agents alike. HousingWire sat down with Realtor.com CEO David Doctorow to learn how agents and brokers can alleviate some of the frustrations their clients are facing.

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McKissock

MAY 4, 2021

It’s no secret that 2020 was a crazy year for real estate. Just about every market across the United States saw a huge influx of first-time homebuyers and sellers as a result of record-low mortgage rates and the desire for more space. Urge your buyers to set a spending limit and to stay focused on their long-term financial goals.

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

ARE YOU A "WANT-TO-BE" SELLER IN 2024? From low inventory levels to increasing mortgage rates , the real estate landscape has experienced a multitude of changes and challenges over the last several years, leaving many sellers wondering when the “right” time to list would be given current market conditions.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The big difference One big difference, of course, is that valuations are down from where they were in 2020 to midyear 2022. This does mean that the value of nearly all of our clients is down from where they were 15 months or more ago.

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Simonson Real Estate

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Simonson Appraisals had a unique opportunity to do a deep dive in 2020 to develop an understanding of the impact of multiple factors affecting the Minneapolis apartment market. Our firm appraised a portfolio of apartment buildings in the Loring Park neighborhood in March 2020 two weeks after COVID-19 was announced as a global health pandemic.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 17, 2021

Prices were escalating quickly, and buyers were purchasing in a frenzy for fear of being left behind and not being able to get their foot on the property ladder. Although 2020-21 is not the same as the run-up before the housing crash, there are some similarities with what appraiser’s face that bears addressing and reiterating.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2021

“May marked the likely peak of the blazing hot pandemic housing market, as many buyers and sellers are vaccinated and returning to pre-pandemic spending patterns,” Marr said. “Sellers are still squarely in the drivers’ seat, but buyers have hit a limit on their willingness to pay. from April. .”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

Maintaining a consistent pipeline of potential buyers and sellers ensures the business’s sustainability and growth, but it requires an immense amount of work and marketing expertise, which is often outside an agent’s core competencies. Since 2020, Addressable has facilitated nearly $2 Billion in home sales across 44 states.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

To get a better idea of the dynamics driving this data, RMD spoke with Jon McCue, RMI’s director of client relations, for additional perspective and a breakdown of why business moved this way. It’s because of the hard work of all the professionals in this space working very hard to help their clients.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2021

The winning buyer also waived appraisal and financing contingencies and dropped off cupcakes that matched the interior colors of the house, which was a nice touch because the seller is an artist and the home is unique and colorful.” . . “We received about a dozen offers, which is actually a low number by today’s standards.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

.” Houses were selling at a fever pitch in a matter of days, with multiple offers, waived contingencies and buyers paying $100,000(!) The number of home listings dried up , contracts were canceled , the few buyers still out there demanded concessions , mortgage rates spiked to 7% and homebuilder sentiment hit rock bottom.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

In eOriginal’s 2020 Tech100 nomination, the company boasted about the efficiency their ClosingCenter product brought to mortgage lending clients; Fairway achieved 80% faster mortgage acceptance by secondary market investors and also realized a 90% reduction in interest expenses to warehouse lenders for mortgages closed using ClosingCenter.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2021

That kind of drawn-out timetable is typical for the majority of western nations that use the auctioneer system where a seller works with one, perhaps two, auctioneers. fee to the seller. They also had to pay for the brokerage sign outside their home, newspaper advertising, online ads and the brochures for potential buyers.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

According to NAR over 69% of buyers have a home to sell, so really homeowners represent the earliest buyer. Many existing Buyside clients have already begun to roll out this new enhancement and have also brought in their mortgage partners into the partnership to drive retention, referrals, and efficient lead generation.

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Cervone is the winner of the 2021 Most Acquired Clients Award! The award, renamed in 2021, recognizes the REALTOR® who signed up the most buyers and / or sellers in the company in 202 1. Paul exceeded expectations and signed up an impressive 9 5 clients! . “It The post Paul J.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Learn how brokers and agents are growing listing visibility among rental properties, attracting more clients in the new year. “Based on data collected in May 2020, buyers saved listings with 3D Home tours 32% more often than listings without.” How to gain more listing visibility in a shifting housing market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

There were 3,541 respondents to the online survey which ran from May 3-10, 2021, of which 1,731 had a client. “With little supply in the market, homes typically sold within 17 days — down from 27 days one year ago, as buyer competition heats up,” NAR said in a statement. 25% of all sales were cash sales, per the report.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2021

But there are definitely a few main things to looks out for — many of which are carrying over from a turbulent 2020 and early 2021 — when it comes to the upcoming landscape for the rest of 2021: Lack of inventory Fluctuating interest rates Increased adoption of technology. Eric Levin is EVP of Client Development at Model Match.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2021

states from 2013 to 2020, correlated with rates of sales tax, income tax and property tax in 2020. Florida, specifically, has the seventh-lowest tax rate in the country and gained more residents than all but four other states from 2013 to 2020. The trend is reversed in high-tax states, where an average of 2.5

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When it comes to common pain points lenders are seeing in the second half of 2020, handling high loan volumes continues to loom large. This is a huge value for our clients when it is crunch time.”. Xome works with its clients to provide what they need, when they need it.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2020

year over year, largely on the back of pent-up demand from buyers who were unable to strike deals during the spring, said Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors. “We Home sellers are seeing their homes go under contract in record time, with nine new contracts for every 10 new listings.”. million, a 1.1%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Buyers seem like they can’t get a break,” Kechian said. “I I really think they had about three months last year where it was a buyers market in the fourth quarter. Literally, we’re right back to being a seller’s market again.” Kim : What did you do differently from the refi boom years of 2020 and 2021?

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Lamacchia Realty

MARCH 17, 2022

ARE YOU A "WANT-TO-BE" SELLER IN 2022? Inventory started low in 2020, and then dropped even lower in March 2020 during the stay-at-home mandates. Ask for testimonials of other sell/buy clients so you know they have handled these situations before. Worried about selling and buying at the same time?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I have four more that I’m in negotiations on representing buyers, and in some cases, buyers who might be interested in multiple transactions, and I think I’ll know the results of those [talks] in the next couple of weeks.” These are the folks who are buying right now, and I you know because some of them are my clients.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2021

Residential brokerage and mortgage lender William Raveis is buying its clients’ homes across New England, the tri-state area and Florida. billion in closed sales volume in 2020. But don’t confuse its new program with iBuying – they’re looking to solve the sell-before-you-buy dilemma in a different manner.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2022

When the restaurant Tom Hunt worked at as a server temporarily shut down during the spring of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he decided it was the right time to pursue his longtime desire of becoming a real estate agent. By the end of 2020 the organization’s membership had soared to 1.48 million members.

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