Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2021

The 2021 Women of Influence winners represent 100 of the most influential women in leadership in the housing economy. More than just breaking records in the housing finance space, the HousingWire 2021 Women of Influence are shattering glass ceilings and leaving a legacy for years to come. Freedom Mortgage. Mortgage Connect.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The National Association of Realtors reported existing home sales for August came in at a very tiny beat of estimates at 5,880,000. Now that we are a few days away from October, we can again say that the housing bubble boys and the forbearance crash bros have whiffed just as severely in 2021 as they did in 2020. Become a member today.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The news over the weekend that former Vice President Joe Biden is now president-elect elicited positive reactions from several real estate leaders who saw the upside for the housing market. Presented by: Quicken Loans Mortgage Solutions. He is also likely to appoint a new head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

Bonnie Williamson never intended to be a real estate agent. As more and more people enter the real estate industry – membership at the National Association of Realtors has ballooned to a record 1.6 Gault and Wexler both came from real estate families and have been in the industry for over 20 years.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Although high mortgage rates, elevated home prices and limited housing inventory have crippled the 2023 housing market, the outlook for 2024 is brighter, according to Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Consumers are happy with real estate service.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

Residential real estate brokerages will not do as well in 2022 as they did in 2021, but let’s not get carried away. billion in quarterly revenue, but the vast majority of that is from home sale commissions, which largely are returned to the company’s independent contractor real estate agents. Realogy generated $1.6

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2023

Chantilly, Virginia-headquartered mortgage bank Prosperity Home Mortgage saw mortgage origination volume plummet by 40% last year — at a time when mortgage rates had more than doubled, home prices remained elevated and the market suffered from a shortage of inventory. . Justin Messer, CEO at Prosperity Home Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The demand for real estate has grown to a frenzy in some areas of the country over the last year and succeeding in those competitive markets requires skill, experience and finding innovative ways to get deals done. That’s why we’ve invited Xio Sandoval, a top Century 21 Realtor, to speak at our Spring Summit on March 4.

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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 added that about 5,000 approved insurance agents can also originate a mortgage with Rocket, Lazerson wrote.

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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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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The 2021 Five Star Conference and Expo kicked off Sunday with the FORCE Rally and reception for members of Five Star’s Federation of REO Certified Experts group. The session was hosted by Continental Realtors and co-hosted by RealtyTrac, whose EVP Rick Sharga delivered the keynote address.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates, now around 6.5%, are cooling down the housing market and triggering mass layoffs in the mortgage and real estate industries. Mortgage rates have nearly doubled to around 6.5% million units last month from July, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Plaintiffs in Florida and Pennsylvania filed lawsuits on Monday, accusing real estate industry players of allegedly colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. In an email, Marla Martin, a spokesperson for Florida Realtors, said the trade group was working on a statement about the allegations.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2020

year-over-year, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors. As 2021 approaches, Yun predicts that there will be a slight uptick in mortgage rates to around 3%, existing-home sales to increase by roughly 10% and new home sales to increase by 20%. Year-over-year, contract signings increased by 16.4%.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. Justin Woodward has experienced the best and the worst of the mortgage industry in only 18 months. “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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Realtors can usually count on their biggest season being spring, followed by summer, but nothing about 2020 has been normal, including home-buying patterns. 20, the National Association of Realtors said that contract signings were up 23% year over year. Now, believe it or not, fall home-buying season is in full swing.

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Lamacchia Realty

APRIL 8, 2024

has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for March 2024! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® by company and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month! Earlier last year, Shauna was ranked on the 2023 RealTrends America’s Best Real Estate Professionals list.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2022

Mortgage demand remained relatively flat last week amid volatility in mortgage rates in recent weeks. The market composite index , a measure of mortgage loan application volume, rose a marginal 0.2% for the week ending August 5, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Presented by: 1000watt.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

according to data released Wednesday by the National Association of Realtors. The direction of mortgage rates – upward or downward – is the prime mover for home buying, and decade-high rates have deeply cut into contract signings,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. “The In July , the index fell 1.0%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

And with Fed rates expected to rise even further, industry experts and economists don’t expect mortgage rates to stabilize for at least another year. Mortgage rates , which are currently near a 22-year high, declined slightly from last week ahead of the Fed’s sixth rate hike announcement. million in September 2021.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

CubiCasa , a Finland-based proptech company, partnered with OneKey MLS – a major mortgage licensing system (MLS) serving the New York Metropolitan area – to provide user-friendly floor plan creation tools. Other notable MLSs in the program include Bright MLS , the Houston Association of Realtors and Georgia MLS.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The National Association of Realtors has rolled out a new, free interactive training platform designed to help combat discrimination in the real estate industry called Fairhaven. Fairhaven is a fair housing simulation exercise that will be offered directly to NAR members, brokerage firms and Realtor associations, NAR said.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

However, the lenders and loan officers who will be most successful in the second half of 2022 will be those who pivot quickly, understanding both the nuances of the market and the best strategies to help solve problems for today’s homeowners, homebuyers, homesellers, Realtors and financial advisors. Generational nuances.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

Purchase mortgage rates dropped after climbing for two consecutive weeks, reflecting declining consumer confidence and an emerging “technical recession,” amid a higher interest rate environment. While interest rates do not dictate mortgage rates, higher rates make a range of lending more expensive.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2021

The HW Insiders program is for the operational all-stars within the housing economy who do the leg work and make the mortgage industry tick, but rarely get the credit. The post The 2021 HW Insiders Nominations are now open! Last year’s list of nominees was nothing short of impressive. Nominate someone today!

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

While the industry has yet to find out what Judge Stephen Bough’s injunction will say and the three defendants, the National Association of Realtors , Keller Williams and HomeServices of America , have vowed to appeal the decision, Barton believes his firm will thrive regardless the outcome.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Because of an apparent error made by staff at ICE Mortgage Technology ‘s Surefire customer relationship management (CRM) platform, more than 600,000 emails and texts were sent without permission to real estate agents, business partners and past clients of loan officers around the country.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Within mortgage companies, even those that have huge scale versus small scale, they’re offering really the same borrower experience and the same loan officer experience. SW: How does that impact you as a mortgage lender CEO? You’re signing a contract in 2020-2021 when the industry is doing $3.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

The majority of lenders easily lost half of the volume last year that they originated in 2021, and LOs who have their own databases to tap into are highly sought after. After the 2008 mortgage meltdown, JVM let go of all its loan originators and trained its employees to target the jumbo loan market in the San Francisco Bay area instead.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Mortgage professionals are no exception – whether you find yourself tweeting for work or in your free time, you may also want to follow accounts for people and organizations that are relevant to the industry in order to stay up-to-date on the latest news about the housing market. She was also named a 2021 HousingWire Woman of Influence.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2021

Amerant Bank , one of the largest community banks in Florida, announced that it is venturing into the mortgage industry with the formation of Amerant Mortgage. The company said this expansion was a direct response to the state’s growing demand for residential mortgages. The bank will retain the majority ownership of the JV.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates in the 6% range have frozen the housing market, forcing loan officers to find business outside their wheelhouses. With mortgage rates nearly doubling from the start of 2022, the LO, who has more than 20 years of experience in the industry, says it’s painful to see deals simply disappear. higher than last year.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2023

The threat posed by wire fraud has commanded quite a bit of attention from the real estate ecosystem. In a vacant lot or seller impersonation scam, public records are searched to identify real estate that is free of mortgage or other liens, as well as the identity of the property owner. billion in 2021.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

By the fall, real estate agents in Boise, Idaho were passing around a video they didn’t like but couldn’t resist watching. real estate in 2022 may see challenges to its biggest enterprises, including the National Association of Realtors and Zillow , and shifting adjustments to how work is done amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2022

Black Knight’s Optimal Blue is looking to court mortgage brokers with its new pricing feature that provides up-to-date rates on its cloud-based loan servicing platform. Cracking the code on marketing to the realtor channel. Presented by: 1000watt. Black Knight acquired Optimal Blue in July 2020 in a $1.8 and Thomas H.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

Latinos are twice as likely to use Federal Housing Administration financing than non-Hispanic white borrowers, but most of the real estate agents the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals surveyed felt FHA borrowers were at a competitive disadvantage. last year, respectively.

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