Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

First, he has his clients lender call the listing agent. This is an absolute must, especially in the market right now as it gives the lender an opportunity to fill the listing agent in on the buyer’s background and how the VA loan process works,” Pascoe explained. That never happens when a VA loan is involved.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Housing Market Update. With continued supply chain disruption, cost increases and fear of inflation , the market has felt tenuous at best. 2022 marked a unique time for homebuilders.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2024

The market is their playing field—unpredictable and full of challenges. It’s all about practice, skill, and perseverance, ensuring you’re ready to score big for your clients—and yourself. The more clients you help achieve their goals, the faster you’ll achieve your own. Know what’s driving sales in your market.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

It’s a difficult lending market right now — one in which lenders and servicers can’t afford to lose customers. And in a market where margins are razor-thin, acquiring new leads may not be in your operating budget. Precision Marketing from CoreLogic is a revolutionary way to approach lead generation.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

In his new role, Hutchens will oversee a top-ranked book of business in North Carolina. Everything at Guaranteed Rate is geared towards delivering a world-class client experience; the website and app are easy to navigate and built to drive business our way.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

But Varun Krishna, CEO and director of Rocket Companies, noted its growth in market share during a difficult year for mortgage lenders. “We We once again made strides in market share, as our purchase and refinance share grew by double-digits in 2023. … million clients and generates $1.4 billion in in Q3 2023. Rocket has 2.5

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

per share at market open on Friday, up from $10.98 per share at market close the day before. New client and market share acquisitions In a rare move, Rocket shared specific numbers of its market share growth. These innovative solutions helped us attract new clients into the Rocket ecosystem.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

This momentous shift dismantled the barriers that once confined inventory to cumbersome books where practitioners were no longer at the mercy of brokers who held real estate data hostage for their own advantage. The era of AI Now, enter the era of AI, which holds the promise of delivering the next breakthrough akin to the impact of Docusign.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

But when it comes to marketing a real estate or mortgage lending business, people who have made a sale in the past often consider marketing automation a “nice to have.”. He knew it would be really tough to maintain the relationships with his partners and clients from a hospital bed. How marketing saved my business.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2023

The 5% market’s a healthy market,” said Anna Ruotolo, branch manager and senior loan officer at Synergy One Lending. “A A 5% market will be good. I think that brings enough people back into the market, [though] I do think there’s still a lot more demand than supply.”. Continue to educate.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

We’re bringing the resources of Fifth Third’s commercial bank to the mortgage industry to help our clients achieve their long-term strategic objectives,” Martin said. Warehouse lending offers short-term financing to mortgage bankers that provides interim liquidity until loans are sold or securitized in the secondary market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

The new initiative, dubbed Refi 100, “aims to help independent mortgage brokers who work with UWM create their own refinance boom and grow their book of business,” the company said in a news release. It also struck a deal with Mobility Market Intelligence (MMI) to slash the price of the data service.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with John Keratsis, President and CEO of Deephaven Mortgage, about the potential benefits of non-QM lending in today’s tight housing market. HousingWire: In today’s tight market, margin compression is impacting countless mortgage companies. You also have a mortgage market shrinking from $4.1

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2023

The rollercoaster ride the housing market has been on for the last three years has ended. Instead of twists and turns, we believe the market will surprise us this year… simply by being boring. In a boring market, it’s more important than ever to stand out from the crowd. We all know nothing is based on an exact rule book.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Apart from selling produce that is popular in former Soviet countries, these stores represent a marketing opportunity for Alex Naumovych, a loan officer at Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corporation. Additionally, he said that he helps his LOs clean up their social media pages and sets up plans for them to be more active in marketing themselves.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Lenders and search companies alike need to look for trusted agent partners to provide the client with the experience they deserve. All our agents have an incredible amount of accountability to each of our partners to make sure all clients have a world-class real estate experience.”. Technology plays a vital role in this.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This acquisition is part of the company’s continued plan to grow both in existing markets and by entering new ones with selective acquisitions of like-minded lenders,” Guild CEO Mary Ann McGarry said in a statement. This should enable companies to be more successful in the purchase market.” Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

This dip can be partly attributed to the recent acquisition of 3D scanning company Matterport , as well as the costs associated with the Homes.com marketing campaign during the Super Bowl LVIII broadcast in February. In the first quarter, the sales team for Homes.com generated nearly $40 million in net new bookings.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2023

Rocket has been cutting expenses and targeting purchase business, but the firm was unable to achieve profitability in Q1 in a shrinking mortgage market. Adjusted revenue exceeded the top end of our guidance, driven by healthy client demand and strong execution,” Jay Farner, CEO of Rocket Companies, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Long known for its salaried compensation for agents, Redfin is trying a new pay model in two of the nation’s largest housing markets to help boost its market share. Aleem said this desire led Redfin to restructure its compensation plan in these two markets.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2021

Brian Hommel, owner of Saugerties-based Brian Hommel Home Improvement , said his company is booked until September 2022 — and most clients are fine taking the appointments that late. “Honestly, everyone out here should be booked up for at least six to eight weeks with how much demand there is.”

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McKissock

JULY 6, 2022

The reality, however, is many agents struggle to properly set and manage the client’s expectations of how the chaos is going to work and how the process is going to play out. Managing client expectations is critical, and sadly, often overlooked as part of the agent/client relationship. As agents, we know better.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Opportunity in the current mortgage market may be challenging to find — and that could arguably be truer for those who offer reverse mortgage products for clients. That leaves a reverse mortgage option, which would then eliminate the existing forward mortgage payment, and such clients remain key for Cullen’s business, he said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

If so (and even if you haven’t been doing this long enough to feel a market shift coming long before it does) I’d encourage you to do a few things now to prepare for what will likely be a hectic and fast-moving Q1. Declare email amnesty. Yes, you heard that right.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

But they acknowledge that they keep a vast amount of customer data and some players may be vulnerable amid a shrinking market. Cyberattacks are what keeps me up at night,” an executive responsible for the servicing book at a top lender told HousingWire under the condition of anonymity for fear of his company becoming a target.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2023

And now, thanks to our acquisitions from Signature, we also can offer cash and treasury management services that focus on mortgage clients and businesses.” Now, with the three companies under one Flagstar-branded umbrella, the bank can offer its clients an even larger array of products and services.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Your real estate website should serve multiple functions, almost like a digital business card with an MLS listing storefront, a booking platform, a home valuation page, and even your background story and biography. Remember — your prospective clients are glancing through dozens of agents’ websites.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

From working as a high-profile real estate agent and founding my company The Agency to writing my book “The Dealmaker” and having my own show “Buying Beverly Hills” — as well as having my personal life in the headlines — I’ve had the unique experience of embracing life’s great stage. The discomfort zone is the growth zone.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In the ever-competitive real estate market, creating a consistent flow of real estate buyer leads is strategy for success. Snatching up first-time homebuyers is akin to striking gold — since developing a relationship with them can mean a loyal client for life. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission.

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McKissock

MAY 16, 2021

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

A potential pause on the Federal Reserve’s federal funds rate hikes may bring borrowers on the sidelines back to the market, as mortgage rates could fall even further. “While lower rates should buoy housing demand, the financial market volatility may cause buyers to pause their decisions.” ”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

Market speculation that Wells Fargo is contemplating a huge bulk sale of mortgage servicing rights (MSRs) may well be a case of a rumor that is all hat and no cattle. Or it could signal a future MSR-market stampede. To date, no Wells Fargo bulk MSR public offering has surfaced, market observers say. of the entire $8.4

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2023

I just signed with a booking agency, so that is really big for me to continue doing great content. Vice President of Marketing and Communication at EscrowTab. “In To support and enable growth for the people around me — my friends, clients, colleagues and community. “I really want to pick up my speaking engagements.

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McKissock

JUNE 30, 2021

While good, old-fashioned customer service certainly goes a long way in impressing your real estate clients, the best agents in the business use several strategies to “wow” clients that set them apart from the rest of the competition. Follow these useful tips: What the best real estate agents know about wowing their clients.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Rocket Companies , the parent of Rocket Mortgage , returned to profitability in the second quarter of 2023 driven by an increase in the purchase mortgage market share and expense cuts in business lines that aren’t profitable. The lender generated $343 million of cash revenue from its servicing book, which represents approximately $1.4

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

At a time when “housing affordability is at a 30-year low and weakening consumer sentiment is leading to a rapidly deteriorating home purchase market,” Jay Farner, CEO of Rocket Companies, said further consolidation is expected in the industry. million clients in the servicing portfolio and generates an annual $1.4 Rocket has 2.5

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