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Ocwen improves overall reverse mortgage performance despite volume contraction

Housing Wire

and Liberty Reverse Mortgage , reported an overall improvement in its business performance for the first quarter of 2024 — including better reverse mortgage performance attributed to servicing and higher gains on loans held for sale. Ocwen Financial Corp., parent company of PHH Mortgage Corp.

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John Davis files racketeering suit against Gary Keller

Housing Wire

In the filings, which name Keller Williams , Keller, former KW president Josh Team, Business MAPS Ltd. and Business MAPS Management LLC as defendants, Davis alleges that the defendants inflated key profitability metrics including company sales and profits to convince individuals to purchase Keller Williams Regions and Market Centers.

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Fractional home-equity lender Point raises $115 million 

Housing Wire

million in venture capital through three previous funding rounds, according to business-information platform Crunchbase. The venture capital investment is in addition to $1 billion in separate capital commitments from investors that Point has lined up to help fund what it calls home-equity investment (HEI) contracts. “We

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Zillow to kill its iBuying program

Housing Wire

Zillow CEO Rich Barton announced Tuesday that his company is exiting the iBuying business , a mind-boggling about face that completely changes Zillow’s business model and will result in the loss of about 1,605 jobs. By close of the market Tuesday, the company’s stock price had tumbled 12% during the day, trading at $87.20

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Unanswered Questions – Part 1

Appraisal Buzz

Like many busy appraisers, I can spend a lot of time in my own little world just trying to keep my head above water. Trying to meet deadlines, keep my clients informed, and put out a quality product in this busy market is enough to make my head spin. Let me summarize the theory of a normal distribution.

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What’s The Leaven Causing Home Prices to Rise Today?

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

On many of my appraisals at that time, my opinion of value would not support the contract price. Perhaps they were drinking the Kool-Aid that some are drinking today, that market value is whatever the purchase price is. Don’t drink the Kool-Aid that any contract price is reflective of market value.

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28,000 Reasons to Have Your Home Measured Before You List It

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

If you’re not an appraiser, if you are trying to figure out the value of a home, chances are good that you use a price per square foot metric. That way of measuring the market can lead to an opinion of value that is in the ballpark of a home’s market value. However, oftentimes, it does not. .

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