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The ‘double-edged sword’ of dual licensing

Housing Wire

The company recently launched a mortgage brokerage firm that offers a plug-and-play program for real estate agents to become mortgage loan officers, a practice called dual licensing. of the loan amount, with a $5,000 cap, which adds to the typical buyer-side agent commission of up to 3%.

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‘Find buyers before agents!’ Mortgage industry reacts to the NAR settlement

Housing Wire

Loan officers and mortgage executives expect home sellers and homebuyers to negotiate more aggressively on commission paid to buyer agents, potentially bringing costs down. That’s a problem because mortgage LOs traditionally have not “forged as deep of inroads” with sellers’ agents.

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Buydowns become key for buyers to beat the market

Housing Wire

What helped Erica Davis, a loan originator at Guild Mortgage , in the current high-rate environment is a seller-funded temporary 2-1 rate buydown. In a high-rate environment, lenders call the temporary rate buydown a win-win strategy for both sellers and buyers when used appropriately. in the second year.

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How the buyer commission lawsuits could upend the relationship between agents and LOs

Housing Wire

Probably about 60 to 70% of our business comes from referrals from our previous clients,” Chris Gallo, a top producing LO in New Jersey, said. Attorneys, Realtors and clients are a big part of our repeat business.” Finding reliable lending partners takes time and some trial and error, but once established is often the lifeblood of LOs.

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DataDigest: The pandemic housing frenzy never went away in these markets

Housing Wire

You may have heard the good news: In recent weeks, several mortgage and real estate brokerage execs have exclaimed that we may have already reached the bottom of the market. For prospective home buyers and sellers, that could mean a gradual decline in mortgage rates , which would unlock inventory and—dare I say—sales activity.

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Meet the likely buyers of independent mortgage banks in 2023

Housing Wire

In addition, Hale said he is currently working with three clients who are looking to buy IMBs — two of which are homebuilders and one he described as a “proptech/fintech” company. Hale, of course, could not reveal the names of those clients, although he did define the type of acquisition targets they are seeking to find as buyers.

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Buyside launches a new home valuation pages feature

Housing Wire

After years of aggregating behavioral data from homebuyers and homesellers at the largest real estate brokerages in the country, Buyside is proud to announce the launch of their expansion into core & ancillary services by focusing on the homeowner. For more information, visit getbuyside.com or email sales@getbuyside.com.

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