Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

Preferences for aging in place are well-documented among older Americans, but there are some factors that should be considered carefully. This is according to Pamela Redwine, a family, health and wellness agent with the Mississippi State University Extension Service. The service is an educational arm of the university that provides research-based information, programs and services to people and communities across Mississippi.

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Real Estate News

MAY 5, 2025

A new report from ATTOM analyzing the past 10 years of transactions suggests that sellers are more likely to score the highest premiums in late May.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

As a real estate professional, its fair to say that youll have plenty of opinions regarding the properties you show buyers. Depending on your time in the industry, you may have seen hundreds, even thousands of listings at a wide variety of price points. Over time, youll cultivate a personal opinion about properties, sometimes within seconds of stepping over the threshold.

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Real Estate News

MAY 5, 2025

Real estate doesn't stop at the border. Sharing a common set of rules improves the transparency and efficiency of transactions in the U.S. and beyond.

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Advertiser: Trellis

Finance teams find Trellis to be particularly effective in conducting comprehensive due diligence on both individuals and businesses. With our court data solution, financial experts can access critical litigation insights, making it an invaluable resource for informed decision-making in the financial sector.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

Prudent AI on Monday announced the launch of Prudent AI Upfront, a one-touch pre-qualification platform designed to improve lender sales funnels. The company claims the product is the mortgage industry’s first of its kind and allows lenders to process more applications, reduce fallout and capture more business. Executives at Prudent AI said Upfront boosts sales funnel efficiency through three outcomes designed to eliminate manual intervention: 24/7 document submissions, real-time insights

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

With the numbers showing a slight dip in commission percentages, one might assume the impact of the NAR settlement is minor. However, agents are discovering that the challenges are about more than just the amount of commission they are earning. HousingWire surveyed a select group of real estate professionals and their responses tell a more nuanced story of evolving consumer expectations, internal strain among agents, and growing education burdens.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 5, 2025

U.S. home prices barely budged in February, rising 0.5% compared with March and rising only 1.8% compared with February 2024, according to First Americans home price index. It was the slowest pace for home price growth in more than 13 years, the firm says. In fact, homer price appreciation is now so slow, its now pacing behind household income growth.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

Intercontinental Exchange ‘s May 2025 Mortgage Monitor Report, released Monday, found that first-time homebuyers accounted for a record share of agency purchase lending (58%) in the first quarter 2025. While repeat buyer activity has softened markedly from pre-pandemic levels with originations among this group down 31% compared to 2018 and 2019 first-time homebuyer volume has seen less compression, declining only 19%.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 5, 2025

Prudent AI , which offers AI-powered lending software for capturing broader lending markets including non-agency, has launched Prudent AI Upfront, a one-touch pre-qualification platform for lender sales funnels. The solution empowers lenders to process more applications, reduce fallout and capture more business, the company says in a release. Prudent AI Upfront boosts sales funnel efficiency by allowing brokers and third party originators to submit borrower documents round the clock, with instan

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

Reverse mortgage industry performance metrics have been soft so far in 2025, but two key data points involving Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) volume and HECM-backed Securities ( HMBS ) issuance saw promising increases in April. HECM endorsements rose by 9% to reach 2,320 loans in April which followed an expected dip in March due to higher interest rates.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 5, 2025

Lokesh Pathak has joined Mortgage Cadence , an Accenture Company, as chief information officer (CIO). Lokesh has more than 27 years of experience in engineering, product development, and IT strategy. He joins the organization with a proven track record of building high-performing technology teams, driving innovation, and delivering enterprise-scale digital solutions across global markets.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

AppraisalVision has restructured its platform into what it describes as the mortgage industrys first fully autonomous appraisal execution system. This comes on the heels of a new partnership with Alpha7X , an artificial intelligence (AI) firm with a focus on automating mortgage operations. The shift eliminates the need for traditional software-based appraisal order management systems.

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George Dell

MAY 5, 2025

RStudio is an open-source user interface, designed for data analysis. It is not R. It does interactively access base R and other software such as Python, and many packages which specialize on data collection, analysis, maps (GIS), graphs (ggplot2), and are used for managing appraisal assignments. [Click here to access the 21 part series on […] The post Why RStudio?

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Advertiser: Trellis

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

One of the most successful real estate teams in Texas is making a major brokerage move. The Neal & Neal Team , led by twin brothers Shane and Clint Neal, has left Keller Williams after 15 years to join eXp Realty. Based in San Antonio , the Neal & Neal Team finished 2024 with $338 million in sales volume and 914 homes sold. That performance ranked them second in closed units and third in gross commission income across all Keller Williams teams nationwide.

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Real Estate News

MAY 5, 2025

Watch the conversation with branding expert Scott Vancea as he reveals agents biggest mistake and the key to showing up online (hint: its not social media).

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

Stewart Title Insurance Co. has merged with its affiliate Stewart Title Guaranty Co. and will now operate in New York under the latters name. Company leaders said the internal consolidation is intended to unify Stewart s operations under a single underwriting entity in New York with the goal of enhancing underwriting capacity and financial backing for transactions in the state.

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George Dell

MAY 5, 2025

RStudio is an open-source user interface, designed for data analysis. It is not R. It does interactively access base R and other software such as Python, and has many packages which specialize on data collection, analysis, maps (GIS), graphs (ggplot2), and are used for managing appraisal assignments. Time Adjustments: Click here to access the 21 […] The post Why RStudio?

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

Realtor.com has launched a new national advertising campaign featuring country music artist and actress Reba McEntire as the company aims to offer reassurance to prospective homebuyers who are navigating a historically difficult real estate market. The campaign, titled “Nearly Home,” incorporates sitcom-style ads that draw on real buyer experiences and attempt to ease the emotional toll of the homebuying process.

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Inman

MAY 5, 2025

Top performers blend smart tech with human connection to stand out and serve clients better.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

Weekly pending home sales disappointed in the last week of April, with 10% fewer than the same week in 2024. To be specific, single-family home sales came in 8% fewer than the same week last year, and condo sales came in 19% fewer. Nationally, weekly pending home sales saw only a small rebound after the Easter holiday from two weeks ago. Its not only in the transaction count.

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Inman

MAY 5, 2025

The campaign features McEntire advising would-be homebuyers in sitcom-like scenarios. It's also the largest such campaign in the portal's history.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

San Francisco-based home equity solutions provider Unison announced Monday that it’s lowering the annual percentage rate (APR) on its Equity Sharing Home Loan, an alternative funding vehicle aimed at helping U.S. homeowners tap into record levels of equity. Unison said in a press release that the move is coming at a time when Americans face growing economic uncertainty , volatile markets, and mounting household debt.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 5, 2025

National Real Estate Appraisal Firm Celebrates Five-Year Anniversary, Nationwide Expansion, and the Introduction of its Veterans & First Responders Franchising Program INDIANAPOLIS Velox Valuations, a leading national real estate appraisal firm, is off to an impressive start in 2025, celebrating several major achievements in the first quarter and growing momentum in Q2.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

Compass Real Estate has launched a new business unit aimed at catering to ultra-high-net-worth clients and family offices. The new division called Compass Family Office is led by Agent Cindy Scholz and will focus on providing strategic, long-term real estate services to individuals and entities managing significant wealth. For high-net-worth clients, real estate decisions are never just transactions theyre strategic, said Scholz.

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Inman

MAY 5, 2025

By diving deeper into these strategies, Amy Chorew and Maeda Palius write, you safeguard your finances and build a more informed, agile approach that could serve you for decades.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

Digital earnest money solutions company Earnnest is the latest tool available to California Regional MLS (CRMLS) subscribers via the MLS s REcore dashboard. The firms announced their strategic partnership late last month. Beginning in June, CRMLS subscribers will have access to Earnnest at no cost, as it will be a core product within the REcore dashboard.

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GoForrmz

MAY 5, 2025

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Eyes on Housing

MAY 5, 2025

Private fixed investment in student dormitories increased by 2.3% in the first quarter of 2025, reaching a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of $4.04 billion. This gain followed a 1.0% increase in the previous quarter. However, private fixed investment in dorms was 2% lower than a year ago, as elevated interest rates place a damper.

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Mortgagebroker News

MAY 5, 2025

Prime minister unveils proposal as housing crisis continues to grip Canada

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Eyes on Housing

MAY 5, 2025

Wage growth for residential building workers continued to slow in March 2025, reflecting softening in the construction labor market, according to the latest report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). On a nominal basis, average hourly earnings (AHE) for residential building workers reached $38.76 in March 2025, up 4.5% from $37.10 a year.

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Inman

MAY 5, 2025

Many brokerage professionals say they're concerned about the economy. They're just not expecting it to hit their client pools quite yet, the latest Inman Intel Index survey results suggest.

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