Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Your path to real estate licensure begins with 120 hours of classes in an approved Ohio real estate license education program. From completing your required coursework to taking the licensing exam, keep reading to learn how to become a real estate agent in Ohio. Ready to find a real estate brokerage?

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The Appraiser Coach

JULY 25, 2023

When the pandemic hit us full force in 2020, business skyrocketed. We had never been busier! If I had tried to do everything the same way I. Read More

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 13, 2022

. — Clearbox®, LLC, the most comprehensive credentials database of appraisers, trainees, real estate agents, and property data collectors, announced today a new integration of its vendor panel management solution suite with the Voxtur Analytics Corp. valuation technology, Anow. For more information, visit [link].

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Texas residents interested in becoming a real estate agent must first complete 180 hours of approved coursework to be eligible to sit the state licensure exam. We estimate that it’ll take three to six months to get up and running as a licensed real estate agent in the Lone Star State.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

Pontiac, Michigan-based lender United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) Wednesday launched a new platform for independent mortgage brokers to access purchase leads, past clients and real estate agents — a move to entice and retain loan officers in a shrinking mortgage market. UWM also is pressuring competitors via prices.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

News just broke that private equity investor LLR Partners announced strategic investments in two mortgage technology companies — Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang ( click here for article ). LLR is not a newcomer to mortgage technology or the overall fintech market. “Hey Clayton …” and a link. In 2016 LLR led a $26.5 No surprise here.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2023

Among those targets were a Memphis-based real estate company and a title company in Washington state that combined were swindled out of more than $200,000 through the scam. The victims targeted can be lenders, real estate agents, title companies and other escrow agents, attorneys as well as homebuyers and sellers.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The short answer: circle prospecting is a strategy for generating real estate leads within a specific geographic area or around a particular listing or sale through outreach — usually cold calling, but it can include other methods. That is something we all should be doing in an effort to show value to clients and potential clients.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

One of the advancements this year has been the adoption of new technology platforms like chatGPT, using AI to mimic somebody’s voice to spoof phone numbers. It’s causing us in the industry — title settlement, real estate, mortgage lending, the attorneys — to rethink, can you even trust a voicemail?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It seems we are headed toward a future where each agent will be paid by their own client. Compensation for the buyer agent will survive, it just won’t be required and, most certainly, it won’t be guaranteed. The MLSs are technology companies, period. It’s doubtful that amount will be what it is today, though.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Realtors, 88% of whom are single offices, typically with two full-time real estate licensees, are working hard every day to best serve their clients and make a living. Real estate agents serve a critical role in providing equitable opportunities for those consumers. NAR has forged ahead.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Tens of thousands of workers were hired, new technologies were piloted and operational processes implemented to capitalize on what was a historic moment for the industry. However, they are hampered by comparatively poor technology and the slow speed at which they can close a loan, analysts said. Origination volumes eclipsed $4.3

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

Is now a good time to invest in real estate automation technologies? HousingWire recently spoke with Michael Valdes, president and founder of Axis Technical Group, about investing in automation technologies as a way to prepare for the next boom cycle. Presented by: Axis Technical Group.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Are you looking to get licensed as a real estate agent in Arizona? We’ve reviewed all the key information to determine the best Arizona real estate schools to help you get licensed quickly and efficiently with a state-approved, online program at an Arizona real estate school. out of 5 stars Rating: 4.5

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The Appraiser Coach

OCTOBER 17, 2023

There are a lot of things you have to juggle, and clients and lenders have their own ideas of how it should be. Isn’t technology these days pretty good for getting most information from the desktop? What about in regards to comp photos? If we don’t need original photos for hybrids, do we need them at all?

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The Appraiser Coach

OCTOBER 24, 2023

There may be a great need to want to please your clients. You will probably run into situations, if you haven’t already, where your client wants you to do one thing and you are insisting that it is not something that you can or will do. Don’t defer to your client, although it can be tempting. What do you do? Yes, indeed.

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The Appraiser Coach

MARCH 19, 2024

We try to set up appointments while we’re stumbling around getting specs on a property and we play phone tag with potential clients because we’re not always able to pick up. Your clients need to feel important enough to have a live person to talk to so they can walk away having had a stellar experience.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Chief among these is how to operationalize the advanceable feature of the credit, which is akin to asking the IRS to deliver individual tax refund checks to tax filers on a date of their choosing, relying on obsolete technology and inadequate staff resources. Now is the time to double down on diversity and inclusion efforts.

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The Appraiser Coach

MARCH 5, 2024

I had the opportunity to talk with a coaching client about an opportunity that came up for her to act as a staff appraiser. Change makes us re-evaluate our mindset, our habits, and sometimes our beliefs about something. For all these reasons and many more, it is common – natural, even – for us to resist change.

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The Appraiser Coach

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

When I work with clients, I usually send them home with some homework. There are many people out there who know the principles to success, but many of them don’t do the one thing that will make those principles actually helpful: acting on them. This guy actually did the homework he got!

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The Appraiser Coach

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Over the years, I’ve had to learn how to not be afraid of my clients. Fear might be a good motivator, but it is a poor problem solver. That is, Read More.

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The Appraiser Coach

JULY 6, 2021

All day, every day, we are asking things of our friends, family, clients and coworkers. We are constantly negotiating with people in our lives. We’ve been taught to try and. Read More.

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The Appraiser Coach

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

They don’t want to disappoint their clients, but they also don’t have time to fit the rush order in. They’re scheduled out 4, 5, 8 weeks, and then they get a call from someone they’ve done business for for years with a rush order that needs to be done as soon as possible.

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McKissock

JANUARY 16, 2022

. “Josh Harley, founder and CEO of Fathom Holdings, is on a mission to modernize the real estate transaction for agents and clients alike.” “Our goal is to provide a frictionless transaction from end to end, with the agent at the hub of the extended service team,” says Harley. Policy News.

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

One-quarter (26 percent) cite technology fees (not an option in 2022). Appraisers are less likely this year to cite expanding regulations/interpretations of regulations, lender requirements, pressure from real estate agents/brokers, and liability concerns. This is up sharply from 27 percent last year. UPDATED No.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2022

Real estate agents and their clients also received no advance warning and multiple deals fell through as a result, sources told HousingWire. Non-QM mortgages include loans that cannot command a government, or “agency,” stamp through Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. The same cannot necessarily be said for non-QM.”.

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Raleigh Realty

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

We recently helped a client buy a home in the Holly Springs area that was new construction and it came with the actual survey as well as the lot being marked with wood stakes. Contact your real estate agent or friends and family to find a trustworthy surveyor in your area. Is there an app that shows property lines?

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The Appraiser Coach

OCTOBER 11, 2022

This might seem counterintuitive, but when your business is growing and you are finding new clients, that’s the best time to start dabbling in a new side hustle apart from. Read More.

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Clear Capital

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

So there’s this real estate agent, right? So what we’ve done is we’ve essentially built a lot of technology to streamline the entire process. And building, basically, building technology to make it efficient. It’s just something we had to build technology to solve. Kenon Chen .

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