Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

First Team Real Estate , the largest independent brokerage in California , left Christie’s International Real Estate , the company first told Inman on Wednesday. Christie’s will be a great franchise, but First Team is something different from that,” First Team founder Cameron Merage said in a statement. “We

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

But a new year brings new opportunities, and the NAF reverse mortgage division is bullish about its own prospects and the prospects of the industry as a whole in 2024. So, this past year has been all about thriving to really grow this division.” I think it’s important for all of us at New American Funding,” she said. “If

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

The battle among big brokerages for top agents continues in Texas, where eXp Realty added two top teams last week. The team boasts 12 members, including Mike Seder’s wife Ally, and their two sons Patrick and Brett. They did about $265 million in volume across 333 transactions in 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Josh Team, Howard Tager, and Jonathan Lickstein at HousingWire’s The Gathering 2024. Photo Credit: AJ Canaria) In the real estate industry, the use of generative artificial intelligence has grown beyond just the composition of marketing copy, leading some to question other potential applications.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

“We think there’s a really big opportunity for [the concept of] home equity being used to help fund retirements to [become] a mainstream concept. It already is in other countries, so that’s our reason for being.” Those avenues weren’t really available for us in the forward industry.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Salt Lake City-based agent and team leader Dustin Brohm announced Monday that he and his teamerage , the Massive Agent Team , are leaving eXp Realty to join Real. Brohm and his team have been with eXp since 2018. When The New York Times is writing about it , it is not good,” Brohm said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

New York-based multichannel lender US Mortgage Corporation is expanding its efforts in the reverse mortgage space, illustrating its focus on growth. US Mortgage recently surpassed 30 years in business. It’s no secret what the statistics say about the population growth and the aging population changes that we’re seeing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Rocket Mortgage launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool on Tuesday that allows its client experience teams to analyze sentiment, record behavior patterns, transcribe conversations and create tailored experiences during customer interactions. Rocket estimates that Synopses will save the servicing team nearly 40,000 hours annually.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Additionally, no analysts asked questions about the changes the firm made to its C-suite. These are well-deserved positive changes that I believe will help us navigate the road ahead and realize our full potential,” Carlson said. Carlson said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

Those who have followed us for a long time know how aggressive and innovative we have been, methodically converting our sticky audience into revenue. We have built a substantial, growing, diverse, EBITDA profitable business, yet we still monetize only a small share of our audience. Of the approximately 1.5

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

We did transfer our branches and loan officers to ML Mortgage. We felt that ML was a good culture fit and would provide the least amount of disruption to the origination team,” Mountain West CEO Michael Delehanty said in an email to HousingWire. There are many reasons that caused us to make this difficult decision.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

Glen Messina “We are very excited about rebranding to Onity as it demonstrates our extensive transformation into a balanced and diversified mortgage company and the confidence we have in our business, our capabilities and our team,” Glen Messina, the chair, president and CEO of Ocwen, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

I’m sharing a transformative announcement with you today, one that marks a new era for RealTrends and propels forward the vision of bringing transparency to what it means to be a top-performing real estate brokerage, team or agent. Your brand stands for something you are proud of and passionate about. This isn’t pay to play.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

With this capital infusion, the company aims to accelerate its product development, grow its team and pursue market penetration with real estate brokerages, MLS associations and other proptech companies nationwide. “We RealReports is a real estate platform that gathers property data , ranging from climate risk to valuation, in one place.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

A spokesperson for ICE did not answer detailed questions asked by HousingWire , but they did say in a statement that the issue itself was “resolved in short order that same day” and that the company has “multiple teams investigating root causes and will be sending an official communication to all impacted stakeholders.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Dan Stewart, founder and CEO of Happy Grasshopper , to talk about the company’s tech strategy in creating content that resonates with consumers. Today we’re nurturing about 37 million contacts on behalf of our members. And this content is not typically about real estate.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

“With a deep knowledge of our company and our culture, Mark is well-suited to lead us through our next growth phase,” said Gary Keller, co-founder and executive chairman of KW in a statement. In 2002, he joined the firm’s executive team, serving as president, before a nine-year stint as CEO from 2005 to 2014.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 7, 2024

“Through the integration of the Empower LOS, Monterra Credit Union is enhancing the mortgage experience for our members, increasing efficiency and priming ourselves for future growth,” says Wade Painter, president and CEO of Monterra Credit Union, in a release. We’re confident that Dark Matter is the right partner for us.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Two of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Nevada Properties ’ top teams, The Mullin Group and The Blankfeld Group, have merged to create The Mullin Blankfeld Group. It enables us to level up skills and support, ensuring our associates and clients are prepared for the future.” 3 rank in Nevada by that measure.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Jason Bressler , CTO at United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) to talk about how the lender is developing a smart, innovative IT team by giving them a safety net to fail. JB: Even with volume down, we’re so committed to technology that my team continues to grow.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

With the acquisition of Academy, Guild will be onboarding nearly 200 branches and 1,000 new employees, about 600 of which are loan officers. Schmidt said that during M&A transactions, Guild generally hires the sales teams and their operational support staff. Guild Mortgage ’s acquisition of Academy Mortgage Corp.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Paul Hurst , chief innovation officer at First American , to talk about the challenge of attracting and retaining tech talent and how to know if a project has a big enough vision. Sarah Wheeler: How do you think about buy versus build? As a company, “people first” is our mantra.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

HousingWire reached out to Shifman to hear more about how she stays on top of the latest tech capabilities and how she maintains curiosity in her role at Fannie Mae. Stacey Shifman: As new tech capabilities emerge, we initially don’t know how they are going to impact or improve how we do our jobs today.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 2, 2024

There, he built and led multiple teams, including payment operations, tax operations, customer success and support. While managing these departments, he also oversaw the product, engineering, finance and accounting teams, with a focus on expanding the company’s innovative product offering and managing its growth. Ecoscraps, Inc.,

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

“Despite this backdrop, we continued to grow our market share,” Schmidt said. Today, more than ever, we are confident in our model and the platform that we have established. About 93% of its closed volume in Q4 came from purchase business, higher than the industry average of 81% for the same period, according to Guild.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

Zebulon Lowe: Keith, thank you for speaking with us. I think one is, when you’re talking about managing liquidity in a period when interest rates go up as fast as they did, we weren’t hedging our pipeline. We took our rates up simply because that’s what we had to do. I said, “This is where we have to be.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Adam Carmel , founder and CEO at Polly , to talk about the ways technology should be delivering ROI for lenders. And for about two decades, the industry has been using the same kind of technology. SW: Let’s talk about margins. What is the disconnect there?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

About 25 people from loanDepot ’s top producing team have joined boutique lender Revolution Mortgage to reunite with their former team lead. About 80% are expected to make their way over to Revolution, Chevalier said. It will be acquiring talent that joins us to grab market share that comes from other companies.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2023

Despite the rebalancing market, our presence continues to grow north of the border.” We believe the enduring global appeal of the RE/MAX brand and the impact of our recruiting campaigns are the primary drivers of our success.” On a positive note, the pace of our U.S. Agent count outside of the U.S. million to $83.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Tom Cronkright, co-founder and executive chairman of CertifID and CEO of Sun Title , to talk about battling the latest frauds and scams as bad actors leverage a new arsenal of tech tools to wreak havoc on buyers and sellers of real estate. So, let’s pull this string one layer deeper.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with David Bernard, senior managing director of Specialized Mortgage Services at Western Alliance Bank , Member FDIC, about warehouse lending and how the warehouse sector and mortgage finance have progressed and continue to evolve. HW: How has mortgage finance changed in the last few years?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2021

As Chief Operating Officer at Waterstone Mortgage , Rich Tucker is no stranger to the challenges of last year as he led his team through a record-shattering few months. HousingWire: At Waterstone, what roles do the operations teams play in achieving the company’s mission?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

“What I love about this industry is that you never quite know what opportunities are just around the corner. ” HousingWire reached out to Price to learn more about her career trajectory and what upcoming projects she’s most excited about. .” HousingWire: When you think about operational excellence?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

I think we have about 70 partners that use our application programming interfaces (APIs) as well.” “We The Paceline team focuses on private equity, corporate debt and real asset investment opportunities across the country. The firm says it has more than $1 billion of commitments currently under management.

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Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with American Pacific Mortgage President Ned Payant about how to build a culture that attracts and retains mortgage talent. At APM, it starts with our strategic plan. Embedded in those goals are strategies and intentions, specifically around our people. Growth was a high priority for us.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In 2008, Broadley switched to risk, leading teams in QC and fraud. In a statement, Broadley said she learned about the impact and security provided by a risk program. In her role at Quicken Loans, Broadley worked across the various stages of origination, from underwriting to closing.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The HousingWire award spotlight series highlights the individuals and organizations that have been recognized through our Editors’ Choice Awards. Explaining the ‘why’ behind our brand guidelines is important to ensure that the brand continues to grow and strengthen v.s. Click here to nominate someone from your organization today.

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