Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

1 city in population growth for the last eight years and it was the hottest job market in 2019 and 2020, according to the Wall Street Journal. Garrett said aside from cash buyers, he also has clients who have money to offset any appraisal gap. Austin has ranked as the No. In fact, Austin has just about 1.2

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

Buyside helps real estate agents and loan officers engage homeowners with not just home value tools but also branded wealth optimization tips on their home’s equity so homeowners can now truly view their home as an asset. In 2020, Buyside clients closed close to $20 Billion in sales through Buyside, averaging over a 3000% ROI.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Temporary rate buydowns have become a popular concession, especially among homebuilders, in which one out of 10 loans feature a seller-paid buydown, said Peter Idziak, senior associate at Polunsky Beitel Green. Those trends are likely to continue in 2023. Or will soon.

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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

MARCH 6, 2023

The combination of an economic uncertainty, high mortgage rates and persisting affordability challenges will further reduce purchase demand, which keeps Monson and thousands of loan officers up at night. Wax said about 50 to 60% of his clients are first-time homebuyers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Literally, we’re right back to being a seller’s market again.” But of course, we have a lot of clients that move out of condos once they have kids and get married. Kim : What did you do differently from the refi boom years of 2020 and 2021? We’ve been advising them how to use it with the sellers.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2022

During the second-quarter earnings season, executives from publicly traded mortgage lenders detailed their forays into jumbo loans, non-qualified mortgages, reverse mortgages, home equity products and even personal loans. It comes at a time in which the housing market favors buyers and seller concessions become more frequent.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2021

billion in the wholesale channel in 2020 (compared to about $62 billion in retail), lost roughly 5% of its broker clients to UWM, according to company executives. “However, there’s a clause in those 19 pages that says if you lock a loan with UWM…let’s say we lock it at 3.5% .” Fairway, which did about $3.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In his 20 years in mortgage banking, no year has compared to 2023 in terms of difficulty, said Ben Cohen, Guaranteed Rate ’s managing director and a top-producing loan officer. It was another brutal year, pushing loan originators to work longer hours, close loans faster while diversifying their mortgage product offerings.

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Eppraisal

APRIL 20, 2021

It's a sizzling, fast-paced seller's real estate market right now. According to a homebuyinginstitute.com article, in February of 2021, there were fewer home for sale than in February 2020. Your loan officer may even put your file through an initial underwriting. Closing Date Give the sellers their preferred closing date.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Recently, some of my well-intentioned clients have asked if it is possible to appraise a home, based upon a “normal market”. I remember loan officers telling me that I needed to be “creative” with my appraisals. Who would have predicted the events of 2020-2021? Pretty cool! I kid you not! We’ll never know.

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McKissock

APRIL 20, 2021

Despite your chosen work schedule, you’ll have to juggle clients who generally want their agents to be available around the clock. Meet with/learn from service providers such as loan officers, title companies, attorneys, home warranty, and insurance companies. Finding time for part-time real estate. Create a referral network.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In addition, Hale said he is currently working with three clients who are looking to buy IMBs — two of which are homebuilders and one he described as a “proptech/fintech” company. Hale, of course, could not reveal the names of those clients, although he did define the type of acquisition targets they are seeking to find as buyers.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2023

For prospective home buyers and sellers, that could mean a gradual decline in mortgage rates , which would unlock inventory and—dare I say—sales activity. In May 2020, it was $425,000. This has serious consequences for real estate agents and loan officers alike, since it’s usually a zero sum game.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2023

The pace of M&A deals in the IMB market in 2022 and projected for 2023 combined is expected to be more than double the mark set during the unicorn lending years of 2020 and 2021, according to one recent industry analysis. Normally you’re trying to keep it out [of the public eye],” he explained. “It

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2023

And as a loan officer (LO), why should I care? A look into GSE appraisal modernization efforts The GSEs have each offered appraisal waivers on eligible loans for several years. When the whole industry was drinking from a fire hose from 2020 through early 2022, LOs were doing their best to keep from drowning in volume.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 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. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process.

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Appraisal Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

I always made them and never had any complaints from my lender clients. I worked for an assessor’s office in the late 1970s where we were making 2% per month time adjustments upward. Ignoring market conditions adjustments makes us look incompetent to buyers, sellers, lenders, Realtors, and the general public.

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Appraisal Today

AUGUST 13, 2023

Dear Sellers, the housing market misses you It’s tough to value properties today! To read more, click here My comments: I remember the easy days before 2020, with enough sales, listings and pendings to figure out the market. To read more, click here My comments: Good comments. I had never looked at appraisal downturns this way.

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