Appraisal Buzz

JULY 25, 2022

BLOG VIEW: Homebuyers have been dealing with a difficult market for some time. However, 2022’s market will only be a fraction of that, according to the latest estimates. However, 2022’s market will only be a fraction of that, according to the latest estimates.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

Though its overall mortgage strategy has apparently not changed, Rocket Mortgage is undoubtedly ramping up its initiative to hire local loan officers to win purchase business. Kostegian’s comments offer insight into the scope of Rocket’s remote local loan officer program. I know Rocket Homes has been happy to see it.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Apart from selling produce that is popular in former Soviet countries, these stores represent a marketing opportunity for Alex Naumovych, a loan officer at Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corporation. trillion in 2021. trillion in 2022, while refinance origination will dip by 62% to $860 billion from $2.26

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI), a composite index designed to track the housing market and consumer confidence to sell or buy a home, increased in March by 5.2 Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration. The post Home sellers are feeling good about 2021 appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. But the housing market in the second half of 2022? By September, a full-fledged housing market recession had set in. The 2002 housing market has been a tale of two halves,” said Green. A mortgage rate lockdown freezes the housing market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

With the deal, Movement adds the brokerage’s more than $400 million in annual sales volume and 48 employees, including loans officers, support staff and executive members, to serve homebuyers and real estate agents in the Greater Boston Area. . billion in the area, the company said. . Movement originated $13.7

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Lenders and mortgage tech companies have been cutting costs in the down market , but some firms have hired new executives who they hope will provide better strategies to navigate the shrinking loan origination market. for Planet Home Lending, will focus on increasing market share by adding branches and loan originators.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

A seasoned retail and commercial banking salesman in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the 39-year-old Woodward joined Interfirst Mortgage as a loan officer in October 2020 after a recommendation from an old college friend. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2022

Local markets spotlights 5 different areas across the country, showcasing what is uniquely happening in those housing markets. Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. San Diego, California. Augusta, Georgia.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2022

Local markets spotlights 5 different areas across the country, showcasing what is uniquely happening in those housing markets. Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. in 2021 to $330,745. “It

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Local markets spotlights 5 different areas across the country, showcasing what is uniquely happening in those housing markets. Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. Annapolis, Maryland. Provo, Utah.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2022

The key to winning purchase business in 2022 remains as it was in 2021, the year before that, and the year before that – building and maintaining relationships with real estate agents. But in the most competitive purchase market in years, they’ll have to scrap, leverage social media and add a personal touch.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2021

What UWM is attempting to do is really manipulate the market and have brokers swear allegiance to one company and literally give them financial penalties if they don’t listen to them. The company, which originated $320 billion in mortgages last year, says it is investing $100 million into the broker channel alone in 2021.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

On Friday afternoon, my real estate agent called with good news. The agent wished me well and said that she would appreciate a review on her website. What’s especially interesting is that unlike average or low-performing agents, top-performing agents simply don’t lower their commission rates very often. “I

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

Pontiac, Michigan-based lender United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) Wednesday launched a new platform for independent mortgage brokers to access purchase leads, past clients and real estate agents — a move to entice and retain loan officers in a shrinking mortgage market. Purchase loans grew from 24.9%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Borrowers, loan officers, and the corresponding processors and underwriters are often working on entirely different systems. The platform is loan origination system-agnostic and is designed to deliver value to both borrowers and lenders–”from the point of thought of buying a house to the point of owning a home.” .

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2022

Local markets spotlights 5 different areas across the country, showcasing what is uniquely happening in those housing markets. Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. Conway, Arkansas. Rochester, New York.

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McKissock

APRIL 20, 2021

Becoming a real estate agent requires a giant leap of faith and an investment of time and money. That’s why some agents may choose to test the waters with a part-time real estate position while hanging onto a steady income from another job. How much is a part-time real estate agent salary?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2022

In relation other top 10 reverse mortgage lenders, Fairway stands out by making a concerted effort to cultivate more H4P business in an environment where many other reverse mortgage companies have spent much of the past 12-18 months focused on HECM-to-HECM (H2H) refinances, according to data compiled by Reverse Market Insight ( RMI ).

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2022

Cuts were being made in back-office staff (71%), general and administrative expenses (66%) and loan officers (19%), according to the survey. billion in loan origination volume in 2021. billion in loan origination volume in 2021. Direct to consumer lending can lower variable costs significantly.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

Mortgage brokers emerged as key players in the industry in the 1980s because they offered access to multiple lenders and loan products. Up until the financial crisis in 2008, mortgage brokers held nearly 50% market share. Now, they are sitting at 22% and climbing, because they offer the most loan options to borrowers.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The builder’s real estate agent swapped in the middle of the transaction, so things got a bit mixed up and no one updated the clients’ files to reflect the change in lender,” Summers explained. “So, In turn, real estate agents are doing everything they can to ensure they get their clients into their home of choice.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

As part of the merger, Jim Black, the founder of All Cal, will become chief lending officer of InstaMortgage. Black, a licensed mortgage loan officer and broker, will also lead product development, tech partnerships and sales growth. Magazine’s list of the 5,000 fastest growing companies in America in 2021.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2021

While home-buying has been historically seen as difficult, the process is getting a rebrand as loan officers, real estate agents and industry experts answer the questions that Gen Z (and any generation that won’t willingly admit to using the app) have on TikTok’s platform.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

It’s also what keeps Andrew Marquis, regional vice president at CrossCountry Mortgage and Scotsman Guide ’s seventh top LO, up at night, especially as he sees more buyers entering the market. How has business been in the Boston market? Andrew Marquis : Markets are very different from city to city and state to state.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2021, Floify’s software, which streamlines the loan origination process by allowing document sharing, and communication between LOs and real estate agents, has helped over 77,000 mortgage applications close each month, according to Porch. The acquisition cost Porch about $76.5

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

. “Over the years, we’ve been more focused on organic growth, one loan officer at a time,” said Mike Brennan, who became Movement’s president in January 2021. The shrinking mortgage market is the primary reason why. billion in annual mortgage loan volume to its platform. . It added $1.5

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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. While mortgage rates are high, rent in the Tampa Bay, Florida market has also been rising. It’s starting to even out.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

A new report from Redfin shows that homes listed midweek sell for an average of $1,700 more than homes listed on the weekend, based on homes sold above their list price from July 2020 through February 2021. Meaning, if a home listed for sale gets 100 views its first day on the market, it would get 61 views the day after a price drop.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

LLR is not a newcomer to mortgage technology or the overall fintech market. million investment in eOriginal, a multi-year Tech100 winner that developed a ‘simple closing experience for lenders, borrowers and settlement agents.’ This isn’t a new story in mortgage lending or real estate brokerage. In 2016 LLR led a $26.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

According to the CFPB, hundreds of loan officers at BofA failed to ask mortgage applicants demographic questions and falsely reported that they had chosen not to respond.” of its home purchase loans for the year to low- and moderate-income (LMI) borrowers, down from 19.7% But we are not powerless.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Historically, that has represented a solid market, albeit not spectacular. For many firms, those efforts will include increased sales and marketing efforts and new products or services to tap into new markets. When TRID requirements were introduced in 2015, title agents quickly realized that this was not a form change.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2021

At HousingWire’s Spring Summit on Thursday, UWM CEO Mat Ishbia sat down for a one-on-one interview with HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins to discuss UWM’s strategy for this purchase market. ” In the wide-ranging interview, Ishbia said UWM is well-positioned for the purchase market and to grow their market share. .

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

At least not in the foreseeable future, unless another pandemic would create favorable conditions for the housing market. Whether it be through social media, connecting with real estate agents or going back to old-fashioned ways of knocking on people’s doors, they’ll have to focus on the purchase market going into the new year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

His corner of the Atlanta mortgage market – high-value home loans that wouldn’t be bought by the GSEs – was booming. At that point, Dodson was actively working on a jumbo loan for friends of his from church. Mark Dodson was having a promising start to the year. ” “I lost $6 million in April,” the broker added.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

I can’t believe that we are at the end of 2021. What an incredible housing market we have been in. While that is the case, there are things that we can do to help increase our home’s market appeal, and potentially sell our home more quickly. Marketing is key too. And it doesn’t appear to be over!

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McKissock

APRIL 16, 2021

The President of The Appraisal Foundation discusses the foundation’s outlook for 2021. “The housing market set a slew of records for prices, home-selling speed, and competition in March, making it the hottest month for housing since at least 2012,” according to this story from Redfin.

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