Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The Boston 25 News article quotes a real estate attorney not connected with the firm, Richard Vetstein, a principal of Vetstein Law Group in Framingham, who speculated that the shutdown could be due to embezzlement of escrow funds. As the article notes, no one has been accused of a crime at this time.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2024

Code of ethics changes In addition to voting on membership dues, NAR’s board of directors also voted to amend Article 4 of the trade group’s code of ethics, in an attempt to clarify Realtors’ obligations when they have ownership interest in a property. represent themselves 2. represent a member of their immediate family 3.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2024

This rising chorus includes The New York Times, which recently published an article titled, “ The $25 Trillion System of Retirement Savings Needs Fixing. ” The first path to creating a more accessible and equitable system, the article argues, is to expand 401(k) coverage. of deferrals went to the bottom 40% of earners.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This is according to a recent article at the Boston Globe that took a closer look at the kinds of homes that those currently in their mid-to-late 50s may want to prioritize as they look to the future.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Check out The CE Shop Related articles The CE Shop Review: Features, pricing and pros & cons The best online real estate school for every learning style & budget The next official step is to take the exam, but don’t forget to complete some practice exams first! After agents have partnered with a brokerage, it’s time to get to work.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2024

.” One of the reasons that boomers may be having these challenges could come down to restrictive land-use policies, according to the article.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

Product Fast Facts #1 ChatUWM uses generative AI technology to comprehend user prompts, process their meanings and generate accurate responses to their needs #2 ChatUWM utilizes UWM’s knowledge base, The Source, giving it the ability to provide users with full articles or pages where information was pulled from #3 Over the last 6 months, ChatUWM (..)

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

This is according to Sandra Block, a personal finance editor at Kiplinger , in an article about navigating retirement hurdles and the considerations that go into later-life spending. Seniors often use proceeds from the sale of their homes to pay for care in an assisted-living facility or nursing home,” the article reads. “If

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

To help, we curated a list of the best real estate coaches for 2025: Related article The best real estate coaching programs for 2025 Find riches in the niches Choosing the right niche early is another key decision that can mean the difference between struggling and thriving in real estate. Want to avoid the cringe on your first few calls?

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2024

Increases in inflation and the cost of living can overwhelm those living on a fixed income, according to an article published this week in USA Today. “Retirement researchers warn that mortgage debt in retirement can be a trap,” the article explained.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This article was reposted with permission from Ramsey Solutions. The article originally appeared on the Ramsey Solutions Articles page. See original article here. Its full of super helpful articles, guides and calculatorsbasically everything you need to make confident decisions and reach your home goals.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This article introduces a three-part series that will highlight some of the risks associated these market movements and explore how legal counsel can add value by creating safeguards, mitigating risk, yet still move the deal forward creating a balance where counsel is a “deal maker”, not a “deal breaker” except when absolutely necessary.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

On Monday, Ocwen filed articles of amendment to its articles of incorporation in Florida, which is the first step to formally change the name, effective June 10. Starting that day, the company will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under its new ticker symbol, “ONIT.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In this article, we’ve gathered 30 real estate text message scripts designed to help you connect with leads, nurture relationships, and get more deals to the closing table this coming year. Script 13: Send an article or resource Hi [Name], I just came across this article about [Topic] and thought it might be helpful for you.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2024

An article written by an Atlanta -based certified financial planner and published Tuesday by Forbes indicates that retirement may not be as difficult as many Americans think. The Forbes article included a chart that shows the required annual savings needed to achieve the $1.25

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The article noted that the growing senior population in the U.S. Seniors often use proceeds from the sale of their homes to pay for care in an assisted-living facility or nursing home,” the article stated. “If A personal finance editor at Kiplinger made the same argument this week, noting the ample levels of U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

One of the first articles HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami wrote this year was titled, “The savagely unhealthy housing market is over.” Open the door to the most powerful room in housing. Join us at The Gathering 2025 in Denver, CO, June 8-11. Go here to lock in special pricing with your registration. That was back in February.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

Mohtashami’s latest articles and podcasts on HousingWire include: New listings take a hit, possibly due to higher mortgage rates Should we expect more Fed rate hikes? Using weekly data from Altos Research , Mohtashami showed that new listings have been trending at their lowest levels in history for the past 12 months.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2024

In my last article, I touched on three of the challenges we had to overcome to achieve our growth goals. In the next article, I will outline the specific actions we took and how I was able to leverage resources like RealTrends , HousingWire, and The Gathering to learn needed skills and network with some of the best people in the industry.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

It’s been a while since I’ve written an article. So, first of all, thank you for being here to read articles from my blog! As I mentioned at the start of this article, many times, the price per square foot for below-ground finished square footage is different from what above-grade finished square footage can demand from the market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Our tracker articles have a lot more details about the current weekly market and we publish those each Saturday. However, the main point of this article is to make sure we all know we are working from the lowest sales levels ever when adjusting to the workforce, and we have good demographics in 2024. from December 2022 ($366,500).

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Prioritize the inclusion of engaging and informative articles related to luxury real estate. This can include articles on interior design trends, tips for hosting lavish events or showcasing stunning architectural designs. Create — or share links to — content that educates and inspires potential buyers.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2023

That day, I wrote an article about how bad the home sales data was getting due to the affordability hit and that existing home sales should get down toward 4 million and below. This article shows the historical change in one of the craziest housing periods ever recorded. That is the next step of this process.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

A prolific writer who frequently advocated for policies that would remove homeownership barriers for low- and moderate income, Stevens penned dozens of opinion articles for industry publications, including HousingWire. More recently, he was the chief executive officer of Mountain Lake Consulting, Inc., This is a breaking new story.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2024

Daily, my inbox contains another article regurgitating the same tired rhetoric about the real estate lawsuits and the (proposed) settlements. Invariably, these same articles classify all real estate brokerages and models as identical. As I discussed in detail in an article published in April , this method of analysis is deeply flawed.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In this article, well cover the five simple steps you’ll need to follow and recommend the best courses to complete the 77-hour course that New York State requires. Check out our FAQs section for how long the process takes, and tips for speeding the process up, as well as the helpful links section at the bottom of this article.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I also wrote an article on this topic today, The Federal Reserve’s housing recession dilemma, and the timing couldn’t be more perfect. The Fed has a small margin of error in its unemployment rate forecast for 2025. The Fed is now playing with the Krampus Fire with elevated mortgage rates and the housing starts data.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2024

In this article, we’ll review Offrs’ suite of products designed to help agents laser-focus their marketing efforts on leads with the most potential and automate processes. Offrs does the bulk of the work for you and as an agent, you get to jump in when leads have been pinpointed and then qualified, saving you time, energy, and money.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 12, 2024

This is the final article in Ernie Durbin’s three-part series on the new UAD. The first article on April 15, 2024, was “ From Forms to Reports: A Look at the UAD Overhaul. ” The second article on July 15, 2024, was “ The New UAD: Don’t Borrow Trouble. How will lenders order appraisals without standard form numbers?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Check out Curb Hero Check out the article below for a list of more real estate apps and digital tools that’ll sync with your database and help with open house lead follow- Related articles Best real estate apps for agents in 2024 2. Related articles 30 inspiring curb appeal ideas to make a lasting first impression 3.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

UWM claims that the Hunterbrook Media article, with “obvious connections” to Rocket Mortgage, has an author “pretending to be a ‘journalist’” who worked at a Rocket Mortgage-affiliated broker for the last five years—including while working on the report—, leaving only two months ago. He left in February.

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

In that article, NAR said its April membership figures “allayed fears that membership would decline more than expected as a result of organizational changes or the pending class-action litigation settlement. “NAR will continue to report its membership rates directly to our members on a regular basis,“ a spokesman told HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

I talked a lot about mortgage rates in the most recent tracker article , and I discussed what can take us even lower after the massive move we have seen. And this has all happened before the Fed has even cut rates — the bond market got ahead of the Fed and has priced in a lot of Fed easing on the 10-year and 2-year yields as well.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

In 2021, HousingWire published an article spotlighting Austin as one of the hottest housing markets in the country. As noted in that article, Austin had ranked No. The Texas capital was a COVID-era darling, but the city had been attracting employers and homebuyers well before the pandemic.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

However, available inventory of homes for sale is on the rise in late September, a very unusual trend for the season, Altos Research’s Mike Simonsen noted in a HousingWire article this week. It is giving buyers a little more leeway and allow them to chose from a larger selection of homes.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Sixty percent of veterans who are 45 and older “are unaware that VA provides grant funding for home modifications , and almost a quarter of veterans say they need financial assistance to modify their homes to continue living there,” according to an article published by the VA.

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