McKissock

APRIL 20, 2021

Becoming a real estate agent requires a giant leap of faith and an investment of time and money. That’s why some agents may choose to test the waters with a part-time real estate position while hanging onto a steady income from another job. Finding time for part-time real estate.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2023

. “Sometimes 10-20 basis points is all an LO needs to win over a real estate agent or get creative on a borrower’s loan,” the lender said in a statement. “It’s a risk management issue: some clients would say, ‘I understand there are some gray areas, but I’m willing to take the risk.’

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

How do you help real estate agents? We help listing agents generate significantly more buyers for their home sales. If a listing agent wants to sell their property, we help them identify whether or not the property they’re selling comes with an assumable mortgage.

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Appraisal Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

What Appraisers Wish Real Estate Agents Understood McKissock Survey Question: “What’s one thing you wish real estate agents knew about the appraisal process? I will always remember when, many years ago, a top local real estate agent asked me why I was driving around taking photos of homes.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Its centralized call center business model, which Rocket relied upon to dominate an unprecedented refi market , isn’t as durable when interest rates are high, there are few refi opportunities and having strong relationships with real estate agents is what brings home the bacon. And Rocket is well aware.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

LOs interviewed by HousingWire say that they have actively ramped up their attempts to connect with prospective borrowers and real estate agents. Some LOs are making inroads with potential clients through use of social media, leaning on their multilingual skills and doing old fashioned cold calling.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

However, over the past year, my business has been changing rapidly as I shift away from lending work to non-lender work as my primary business. Without much training, I have started marketing our newly launched floor plan app specifically on social media. Type in “real estate agents in (city/state)” and click join.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s causing us in the industry — title settlement, real estate, mortgage lending, the attorneys — to rethink, can you even trust a voicemail? So you have a client that appears to have left a voicemail: ‘Hey, I’m traveling. So, let’s pull this string one layer deeper.

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CA Realty Training

MAY 18, 2021

How does a real estate agent help their client buy a home? You get the idea of how it all works: agent meets buyer, buyer meets home, dreams are made and you get paid! The second qualification is that it is a property that your clients might be interested in. You’re the real estate expert!

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2021

billion in the wholesale channel in 2020 (compared to about $62 billion in retail), lost roughly 5% of its broker clients to UWM, according to company executives. Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process.

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McKissock

JANUARY 6, 2023

There are appraisal jobs available in the lending sector, such as staff appraisers, review appraisers, fee panel managers, and with experience and time on the job, chief appraiser and valuation compliance officer jobs can be found. Non-lending appraisal courses. Non-lending appraisal courses. Who staffs these types of jobs?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

” Other popular answers included, ‘implementing buyer representation agreements,” “full disclosure of client options,” and “more training on our value proposition.” “You must train all of your agents as to how you’re going to get compensated,” said Murray.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite. After the 2008 mortgage meltdown, JVM let go of all its loan originators and trained its employees to target the jumbo loan market in the San Francisco Bay area instead.

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Birmingham Appraisal

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Appraiser and Agent Collaboration is a Good Thing The importance of collaboration between real estate agents and appraisers can be a touchy subject. On one hand, the real estate agent’s main goal is to advocate for their client while the appraiser must be an impartial and non-biased third party.

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CA Realty Training

AUGUST 23, 2021

Real estate agents should expect their clients to withdraw a home loan to buy a property. Here’s what a pre-approval letter means: a letter that verifies the approval of a specific amount of money that the bank is willing to lend to the home buyer. appeared first on CA Realty Training. No money, no deal.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

With its potential to reach new clients and gain tremendous ROI, social media has become one of the most effective marketing tools for businesses big and small. We’ve compiled this list of savvy real estate social media post ideas to inspire your social strategy and keep your Instagram feed fresh and fun.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

We’ve all heard the news: over 60,000 real estate agents left the profession in the first half of 2023. Whether you’re newly licensed or an experienced agent who had a productive year — if you’re looking for a change, it’s likely you’ve started receiving emails, letters, and phone calls from all kinds of real estate firms.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

” Better is partnering with other businesses to offer services such as homeowner’s insurance and to provide access to a network of real estate agents, rather than offering these products and services directly to borrowers. The change resulted in Better’s exit from its real estate business.

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Lamacchia Realty

APRIL 8, 2024

Her reason for becoming a real estate agent is to continue her desire to work with people and have clients be as happy with their lifestyle as she is providing it to them. Her desire to help her clients earned Shauna the title of Rising Star in the September 2021 issue of the South Shore Real Producers Magazine !

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

billion in damages to residential home sellers who successfully proved that the organization – which represents real estate agents at most of the top brokerages in the United States – colluded with other defendants to inflate agent commissions. Unless the decision is appealed, NAR will have to pay at least $1.8

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

“Another loan closing today is for a real estate agent who is an investor and has done many mortgages in the past. Mike did not hesitate: “I did more pricing exceptions for the real estate agent,” he said in an interview on the day of the loan closings. She’s well educated. It’s not without risk.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2021

. “Our market centers are able to offer new growth opportunities that weren’t available before and can partner with expansion teams which will bring agent growth,” he adds. How lenders can build valuable referral relationships with real estate agents.

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Appraisal Today

MARCH 31, 2023

But how do you contact potential clients and referral sources? One easy way is networking at meetings, such as the Chamber of Commerce, local bar associations, real estate agent meetings, appraiser meetings, etc. Then forward that answer on to the client/AMC. How did I accomplish getting so many referrals?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Behind him, the recent financial crisis still cast a cautionary shadow over new business development, but ahead he saw opportunities for a client-centric, tech-focused family of companies in the title insurance and real estate settlement services industry. Now, at WFG’s 10-year anniversary, this vision holds even more relevance.

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Appraisal Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Even the larger appraisal firms (with deep pockets) who’ve spent the last few years aggressively training and recruiting appraisers, acquiring small appraisal firms, and rolling up their competitors have rapidly changed their tone. AMCs had taken over the mortgage-lending work. Budget cuts. Retraction.

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Appraisal Today

APRIL 12, 2024

Insurance purposes: Lenders or other clients may order desktop appraisals for insurance purposes to determine the property’s replacement cost or insurable value. But if for lending, it might be rejected on review by GSE computers or humans. It is written for real estate agents and has general information on appraisal at the beginning.

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Appraisal Today

APRIL 28, 2023

Call the client and have them re-assign the order? Setting client expectations is a critical first step in any real estate appraisal assignment. Make sure you’re fully aligned with your client every step of the way in order to set the tone and help prevent potential dissatisfaction… 2. What to do?

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Clear Capital

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Clear cCapital just announced that we have acquired a Finnish proptech startup called CubiCasa and CubiCasa is incredibly exciting technology that enables anyone with a smartphone and no training to do a 10-minute walkthrough a property and get a fully detailed, accurate floorplan with gross living area. You’ve opened the door.

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