Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

With AI’s capacity to perform complex reasoning and manage autonomous operations, it is critical to explore how this technology can reshape industry standards, enhance operational efficiency, and how we as an industry manage its inherent risks. To learn more about Jaro, visit tryjaro.com

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Vetted by HousingWire | Our editors independently review the products we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Here’s a list of our favorites ( so far! ), and we’ll keep updating this guide as helpful new AI tools get on our radar.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The call for smart home technology is coming from inside the house, as it were — but during times of economic pressure, how can investors and property managers justify the effort and expense of upgrading their communities? It’s a much more cost-efficient way to show properties when we’re in a recession.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with Michael Chew, SVP of Fulfillment, Asset/Rental Management at Consolidated Analytics , about REO assets, the economic factors influencing the increase in REO acquisitions and how technology can help with REO asset management. These technologies extend to our vendors in the field.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Vetted by HousingWire | Our editors independently review the products we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. With a customized market report, you can send your client list real-time information on just listed properties and price reduction alerts. Wondering how?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2023

beating its competitor Terra Property Trust, Inc. and owner of mortgage lender ARC Home , made a stock-and-cash offer for its peer Western Asset, managed by Franklin Resources, Inc. As a result, Western Asset terminated its previously-announced acquisition agreement with Terra Property. AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2023

entered into a dispute with Terra Property Trust, Inc. and owner of mortgage lender ARC Home , made a stock-and-cash offer for its peer Western Asset, managed by Franklin Resources, Inc. million in management fees in the first year after closing. The deal represents a private-to-public transaction for Terra Property.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

For iBuyer Opendoor , 2023 was all about moderation. “We We are excited about how we are set up for 2024 and beyond,” CEO Carrie Wheeler told investors and analysts listening to the firm’s Q4 2023 earnings call on Thursday evening. billion in inventory. “We

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

. “For many Americans, their house is their largest asset, but it can also be your largest liability in the sense of cash outflow each month,” Jamie Hopkins, CEO of Bryn Mawr Capital Management , said in the release. This compared to 17% who said they “were not knowledgeable about reverse mortgages,” the results explained.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

As people across the country celebrated MLK day on January 16th, Greg Bradbard, president of Hope Through Housing, sat down with HousingWire to talk about the impact the grant will have on his organization and the affordable housing community at large. HousingWire: What can you tell us about the mission of Hope Through Housing?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

HousingWire recently sat down with Jaro Managing Director Gareth Borcherds to learn what steps housing professionals can take to speed up appraisals. Both types of initiatives are important, but no one seems to be talking about how we can get more production out of our current set of appraisers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

The new paradigm brings into question many closely held assertions about who we serve, the type of homes we should be building, and the best way to pay for a home in retirement. The Great Disruption Demographics will be our destiny. Paul Donohue is a reverse area sales manager for Mutual of Omaha Reverse Mortgage.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 15, 2024

UAD originated in 2010 and since then we appraisers are accustomed to using codes like “C4,” “N;Res,” and “1200sf0sfin” in our mortgage appraisal reports to communicate the results of our analysis. These codes, or language, make sense to appraisers but confuse uninitiated readers of our reports. How did we get here?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2022

After putting in the property address, CubiCasa’s 2D Floor Plans app enables a scan through a phone collecting raw scan imagery. By offering a free version of our mobile scanning technology in the U.S., By offering a free version of our mobile scanning technology in the U.S., said Allen. caught up,” he said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2022

Take advantage of staying on the property and being close to all the conference sessions and networking events by locking in the HW Annual room price of $395/night before the block closes on Sept. The property includes six pools, a spa, five restaurants and bars and two golf courses.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2023

HomeZada , a cloud-based platform for digital home management, announced on Monday that it has added Zada, an AI chat assistant, to the suite of apps on its platform. “HomeZada’s mission is to allow homeowners to access all the data about their largest financial asset in one place,” HomeZada co-founder John Bodrozic said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Rather than a multi-year average of EBITDA or Gross Margin as the basis for the value of a brokerage firm (or their related counterparts in mortgage, title, escrow, and property management), valuations now are based Trailing Twelve Months (TTM or LTM) results.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

Well into January, we are already seeing properties go under contract in the first weekend with multiple offers. While it is not to the level of our markets with 2% and 3% interest rates, it is a huge turnaround for those who were looking while the interest rates were hovering on or near 8%.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

That’s why we’re super excited about this pilot,” he said. Other topics Stork touched on with HousingWire Managing Editor James Kleimann during the session included increased fee transparency for the consumer.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the meantime, I had a chance to interview Anastasia Corjan, who is the Senior Marketing Manager at CubiCasa. In the following interview, she shares with us a little about CubiCasa, her journey there, and some tips on how appraisers can attract more non-lender work. Congrats on your Senior Marketing Manager promotion!

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The lawsuit, which was originally filed in 2019 and won class-action status in April, alleges that some NAR rules, including one that requires listing brokers to offer buyer brokers a commission to list a property in a Realtor-affiliated MLS, violate the Sherman Antitrust Act by inflating seller costs.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The nonprofit Housing Forward acts as the lead agency of the coalition, overseeing a data-driven homeless-management information system; coordinating access to services within the network; and facilitating training for service providers, among other programs. they’re all in suburbia; they’re not living in our city,” Brown said. “So,

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2021

Now, more than ever, lenders need a solution that creates more efficiencies so they can better manage high volumes. RA: Our company has been an established leader in fraud detection for more than 15 years. RA: Our company has been an established leader in fraud detection for more than 15 years.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

Automation can lead to some serious ROI for property managers and operators, but it’s important to automate the right processes — otherwise, it may feel like you’re throwing money and technology at a problem without solving anything. It’s been shown that strong energy management in a unit can reduce the cost by up to 20%,” he said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

Michael Warden , managing principal and CEO of Invictus Capital Partners — one of the largest players in the nonqualified mortgage (or private-label) securitization space via Verus Securitization Trust — is also quite bullish on the future of private capital in the mortgage market. “My guess is we’ll do 10 or 11 deals this year in the $5.5

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2022

based real estate firms — DARO Management Services, DARO Realty and Infinity Real Estate — and company executive Carissa Barry, have been handed a hefty $10 million civil penalty as part of a settlement for illegally discriminating against low-income renters using Section 8 vouchers for housing. Three Washington, D.C.-based

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

SPS) has struck a deal to acquire certain assets of Texas-based Rushmore Loan Management Services LLC. “We believe that this combination of two highly rated and well-recognized brands will create a stronger company to better serve our customers, clients, regulators and associates,” Gandhi said in a press statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

Job’s done – the rest can be handled by the property and casualty folks. These losses – both insured and uninsured – have traditionally been borne by homeowners, renters, landlords, builders, and property & casualty insurance companies. You build the home to code. You use the right comps to appraise it.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke to Chris McLain, division president of Valuations for Consolidated Analytics , about the current appraisals market, AI innovation in valuations and valuation products for HELOCs and second-lien mortgages. HW: How is artificial intelligence being integrated into the property valuation and appraisal process?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2022

With the recent news about desktop appraisals, appraisal technology is top of mind for many. HousingWire recently spoke with Reggora co-founder and CTO Will Denslow about the role of technology in appraisal innovation. HW: Last year, we began talking about a growing shortage of appraisers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

Who decides what our neighborhoods look like? The answer is a combination of real estate developers, brokers, investors, agents and property owners — the overwhelming majority of whom are white. population — own more than $30 trillion in residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural property.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Black Knight Servicing Digital is a powerful, white-labeled solution that allows servicers to provide consumers with information about their home value and how to grow and leverage wealth from their property. Black Knight strives to lead our industry in providing clients with tools that facilitate homeownership,” Madigan said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2023

Today, I want to unpack a growth hacking approach I employed on a real estate website I manage. Here’s what I set in motion: For each property page on the website, I introduced a dynamic link somewhere on the page. Setting this all up took about 3-4 hours. The outcome? It adjusts to “… for rent under…”.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2020

“We believe this transaction will provide immediate and substantial value to RealPage stockholders, reflecting the tremendous work that our employees have done to build this company,” Winn said. “I about the organization’s past and current legislative efforts. Here’s what NAMB does for brokers.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

“With our recent office expansion to Nebraska, this was the next logical step for us,” said Unison founder and CEO Thomas Sponholtz. Unison, through an REA contract, advances the homeowner a portion of the equity in the property in exchange for a lien position and a share of the home’s future appreciation.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2021

HousingWire recently spoke with Jim Albeertelli, CEO of Voxtur, about the company’s r ecent acquisition and launch of an automated workflow management platform for the global market. Jim Albertelli: When it comes to appraisers, the industry often focuses on better management of the referral process. This is misguided.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Kenon Chen, Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Clear Capital, about desktop appraisal adoption and appraisal modernization. HW: What are the concerns about new products impacting deals in a low-volume environment? How willing are appraisers to adopt desktop and hybrid appraisals?

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