Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2021

For better or worse, trends in the mortgage industry tend to mirror corresponding trends in the overall real estate market. Emerging out of the pandemic, the first half of 2021 showed that there is a historically low housing inventory across multiple markets in the U.S. Inventory issues. Push for tech.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The HW Tech100 identifies and recognizes the most innovative technology companies serving the mortgage and real estate industries. The 2021 Tech100 Mortgage winners are revolutionizing the mortgage process – from origination to closing, and servicing to secondary markets. ICE Mortgage Technology.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As a real estate agent, you may think clients should care more about their next home than your life story. And while that may be true, well-crafted real estate agent bios can build trust and credibility and serve as a powerful tool in an agent’s marketing arsenal — giving prospective clients.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2021

Low-fee, team brokerage and alternative models lead the 2021 Inc. 5000 rankings, mirroring the 2021 RealTrends 500 rankings. Some 69 fast growing real estate brokerage firms, teams and alternative models made the list. At the top of the real estate/alternative model category, at No. Top Verticals.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2021

In the past year, among the many challenges and difficulties brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the real estate and mortgage industries enjoyed a wave of success with low interest rates, refinance opportunities and etc. In real estate, data is king. Needless to say, the digital world took notice.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2021

For many middle-aged and older homeowners with several years of equity on their homes, 2021 could be a prime time to refinance from a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage into a 15-year mortgage. Why head into retirement with a mortgage? 5 reasons to refinance your mortgage right now.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2021

Rocket Homes has plans to start iBuying – and discount real estate. 1 mortgage lender in the U.S. Such are the ambitions of an array of companies today including Zillow and real estate brokerage Compass. Such are the ambitions of an array of companies today including Zillow and real estate brokerage Compass.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The Mortgage Bankers Association on Tuesday released revised estimates for the third and fourth quarter of 2020 as well as predicting record purchase volume for 2021. The rebounding economy is also likely to mean higher mortgage rates , with the MBA forecasting 2.9% by Q4 2021. by the end of 2020, rising to 3.3%

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

This is an excerpt of a HousingWire Research report titled: What Everyone Needs to Know about Mortgage Rate Lock-in, by Altos President Mike Simonsen. housing market saw dramatic changes in affordability as mortgage rates skyrocketed 500 basis points. million in January 2021 (when mortgage rates were 2.7%) fell to 3.9

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2022

Anthony Hsieh, the CEO of loanDepot , has been buying some pricey real estate in Florida, pushing his portfolio of properties to over $150 million. As was first reported by the The Real Deal , Hsieh has dropped approximately $50 million dollars on two properties located in Miami since the start of this year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

As we look ahead to 2021, we remember that this year, the housing market has continued to remain a bright spot in the economy, even as other areas continue to struggle amid stay-at-home orders and economic shutdowns. Now, economists are focusing their sights on 2021, and forecasts are more difficult than ever to create.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2021

For many of us, the start of a new year is usually synonymous with a renewed sense of professional self, focusing on new goals, new prospects for the year and, of course, the excitement for the upcoming spring real estate market. Even some of the most seasoned real estate agents have had to slow down in their current business model.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2022

However, when mortgage rates started rising in the spring, Summers encouraged her clients to take advantage of the bank’s mortgage rate lock product. range, versus closing on their mortgage now when their homes are finally finished being built and rates are around 7.0%,” said Summers, a Keller Williams agent in Provo, Utah.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In today’s red-hot market, you need a real estate agent who can get creative, play hardball in negotiations, and help you stand out from the pack in a bidding war. Want to make sure you’re getting the best real estate agent possible for your home purchase? More for Real Estate Enthusiasts.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

And now, with the COVID-19 vaccine circulating and the economy slowly regaining strength, Zillow researchers say millions of additional households could enter the housing market in 2021. ” Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration. . ” Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Nonbank mortgage lender and servicer Pennymac Financial Services scrapped its plans to hire more than 300 staff in North Carolina due to prolonged periods of elevated interest rates. In 2021, Pennymac vowed to create 322 jobs in Wake County, North Carolina and invest $4.3 million over the course of 12 years.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2021

Will 2021 be more of the same? A buyer’s market in 2021? It’s not likely we’ll see a buyer’s housing market in 2021, at least according to experts. For example, home prices are still expected to rise in 2021, but at a smaller pace than we’ve seen this year. More for Real Estate Enthusiasts. projected clip.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

The chief executive officer for real estate brokerage Side announced a fresh $50 million in venture capital money spearheaded by ultra-prolific financier Tiger Global Management. For many years, everyone thought brokerage was ripe for major disruption,” said Gilles Duranton, real estate professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Fast forward to Thursday, and Opendoor reported losing $662 million in 2021. Opendoor’s losses came after iBuyer Offerpad announced it made $6 million in net income for 2021. Opendoor resold 21,725 of the homes it bought in 2021, up 119% from 2020. billion in unsold real estate inventory. The company tallied $8.0

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2021

When mortgage and acquisition activity picked up, marketers created new brand unity between companies. They were there, in the middle of everything, to make sure that brand loyalty would last well beyond 2021. Veros Real Estate Solutions. First Guaranty Mortgage Corporation. Princeton Mortgage. Brian Fluhr.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Referrals from past and repeat customers still generated the greatest number of inquiries for real estate firms in 2020 with 30% of brokerage business coming from this source, the same amount as in 2018, when the survey was last completed. In 2018, 1% of surveyed brokerages said their business came from open houses. million in 2018.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Many analysts who cover the mortgage industry believe that the worst of the current cycle may be in the rearview mirror. In 2022 and 2023, quickly rising mortgage rates and shrinking volumes sent shockwaves through the industry and prompted massive job cutbacks. According to data from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2023

The pandemic definitely changed the real estate market ,” Todd Alperin, a Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate The Masiello Group agent based in Southern New Hampshire, said. The way that inventory will grow is if mortgage rates stay high enough for long enough and homes take longer to sell.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2021

Real estate investors buy to flip a home for a profit or get rental income, but they’re not the majority of buyers in America each year. For the majority of mortgage holders, the loan is the cost of shelter. Last year and this year have been crazy for real estate. People were still buying homes during the pandemic.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

billion in new mortgages for apartment buildings with five or more units in 2022, a reduction of around 1% when compared to 2021 levels. This is according to an annual report of the multifamily lending market compiled and released by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Digital mortgage automation solution provider Floify launched a lending platform for mortgage brokers built on the foundation of the Floify point-of-sale (POS) platform. is a software development company that offers a digital loan origination and POS system for the mortgage industry. in an $87 million deal in 2021.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

real estate?market will slow down from what we’ve seen in 2021.? Mortgage rates? business as a real?estate?professional. Finding out that Chicago’s real estate market could still skyrocket a double-digit percentage?is a stellar real estate team. coming to the?end end of the year,?and?real

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Compass lost $494 million in 2021, a historically robust year for U.S. real estate, as the New York City brokerage continues to burn through money amid its rapid expansion. Compass’s agent count has shot up to 26,000 agents, who produced $254 billion in sales transaction volume in 2021 – a 68% leap from 2020.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The consolidation of real estate brokerage and mortgage services continues as both seek out ways to combine services to offer more to consumers. Real estate brokerages have long added core services to increase profitability. Now, mortgage firms such as Rocket and Better are adding real estate brokerage services.

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DW Slater Company

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Love in Real Estate I’m I wrote this blog – 4 Things I Love About Being a Real Estate Appraiser- 10 years ago! Mortgage interest rates dipped to historic lows around 3% in 2020 and 2021 then made big jumps in 2022, peaking at close to 8% in November of 2023. So much has changed since that time!

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Digital mortgage automation solution provider Floify launched a mortgage point-of-sale (POS) platform for lenders. is a software development company that offers a digital loan origination system and POS for the mortgage industry.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Mutual of Omaha Mortgage (MOM) has acquired the assets of Keller Mortgage – the lending arm of real estate holding company kwx – for an undisclosed amount. Keller Williams has retained a stake in the Keller Mortgage division, the company said in an e-mailed response. billion in 2021, according to Modex.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

loanDepot CEO Frank Martell expects the current mortgage market cycle to be “longer and tougher than anybody expected.” That’s kind of evaporated,” Martell said on Tuesday morning in a session during The Gathering , HousingWire’s real estate and mortgage conference held in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 20, 2022

Quickly rising mortgage rates are compounding affordability challenges that have been brought on by record home value growth. The cost of a 30-year mortgage on the typical U.S. higher than it was just three months ago, according to Zillow ’s March Real Estate Market Report. home is now 19.5%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2023

Among those targets were a Memphis-based real estate company and a title company in Washington state that combined were swindled out of more than $200,000 through the scam. The victims targeted can be lenders, real estate agents, title companies and other escrow agents, attorneys as well as homebuyers and sellers. “Now,

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2022

Milo , a Miami-based digital lender, will soon offer a crypto mortgage to clients with digital assets. The company notes that this way, homebuyers can continue to own their Bitcoin and diversify into real estate, while potentially pocketing the price appreciation of both.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

The mortgage rate outlook component experienced the only decline in March’s HPSI, with the latest results indicating that only 6% of consumers believe that mortgage rates will decrease over the next 12 months. Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration.

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