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Northpointe Bank to shutter its correspondent lending business

Housing Wire

Northpointe Bank , a regional bank headquartered in Michigan, will walk away from its correspondent lending business to focus on its retail lending, mortgage warehouse financing division and specialty loan servicing business. Production declined 25% to $5.49 billion in 2022 from the previous year’s volume of $7.29

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Top Producer Review: Features, pricing & alternatives

Housing Wire

While the real estate industry is forever in flux, one constant is that it’s a relationship business. One of the biggest challenges for agents is finding new clients and staying top-of-mind until they are ready to buy or sell. Wondering how?

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8 best places to buy real estate leads in 2023

Housing Wire

Market Leader’s unique approach focuses on nurturing leads for long-term client relationships, so it’s great for a solo agent who’s just starting to build their email list. The program is designed to help agents connect with buyers, improve their brand recognition and convert leads into clients.

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4 Must-Have Tech Tools Every Agent Should Have

McKissock

Technology is an essential part of any successfully run business, which remains valid for the real estate industry. In this article, we will cover some of the most useful and innovative solutions out there to help any agent run their business ethically and efficiently as possible. #1: 1: Client Relationship Management System.

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4 Ways to Help Manage Client Expectations

McKissock

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. Expectation 2: Property Access.

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Working with Millennials: Q&A with Mike McElroy

McKissock

Mike McElroy has been in the real estate business for seven years. He says he found a business afraid of change, afraid of technology, afraid of loosening up and having fun every now and then. “Our business is almost exclusively millennial,” he says, “we work with them when they rent, buy, and sell.”

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NAR: Appraisal License Equivalency Credit for RE Agents?

Appraisal Today

Appraisal Business Tips . NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on George Harrison passed, Appraisal business, marketingunusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. For example, there are different business mileage rates for the first 6 months and last 6 months of 2022. before year-end.