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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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

MAY 8, 2025

Getting ten offers was so 2021. Today, you might only get one. Or maybe two. But then again, zero if you’re overpriced. I have some brief stats today, and I hope they resonate and help build expectations for today’s housing market. UPCOMING SPEAKING GIGS: 5/8/25 Empire Home Loans (register here for today’s event) 5/13/25 PCAR […] The post Gone are the days of getting a gazillion offers first appeared on Sacramento Appraisal Blog.

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Real Estate News

MAY 8, 2025

New brokerage brand looks to take on established luxury players and attract agents who want cohesiveness across different states and global cities.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 6, 2025

Blend Labs , which offers a loan origination platform that enhances the customer experience and streamlines operations, is newly integrated with Glia , which offers unified human and AI interactions. The integration will give lenders the ability to guide borrowers inside mortgage and other consumer loan applications wherever they are using the channels they prefer.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2025

In 2025, despite a lot of negative economic headlines, mortgage purchase application data has shown positive year-over-year growth for 14 consecutive weeks. In todays MBA purchase application survey , this data reflected an 11% increase week over week and a 13% increase year over year, indicating resilient market performance. But how is this happening with terrible housing affordability and all these negative confidence sentiment index reports we’ve seen?

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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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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 5, 2025

First-time homebuyers accounted for a record share of agency purchase lending in the first quarter, as higher interest rates continued to dampen repeat buyer participation in the market, ICE Mortgage Technology reports. At the same time, Gen Z buyers made substantial gains in more affordable states, while FHA loans regained popularity as a critical tool for affordability-minded homebuyers, the mortgage technology firm says in its latest Mortgage Monitor report.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2025

Tamir Poleg, chairman and CEO of The Real Brokerage , closed out the prepared remarks section of his firms first-quarter 2025 earnings call by addressing the transformative technological era the industry is currently operating in. The catch was, listeners thought it was Poleg, but it wasn’t. The rise of AI is not just another tool but a fundamental shift that, in our view, will reshape industries, professions and entire business models.

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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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Real Estate News

MAY 7, 2025

A draft bill in Illinois would require licensed agents to add listings to a platform or website accessible to the general public within a calendar day.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 8, 2025

Mortgage credit availability was flat in April, thus the Mortgage Bankers Associations (MBA) Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) remained unchanged at a score of 102.9. A decline in the MCAI indicates that lending standards are tightening, while increases are indicative of loosening credit. The index was benchmarked to 100 in March 2012. Credit availability for conventional and government loans remained unchanged.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2025

Home prices rose in more than 80% of U.S. metro areas in the first quarter of 2025 even as affordability remained stretched and fewer markets posted double-digit gains. According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), 189 of 228 metro areas (83%) saw year-over-year increases in the median price for existing single-family homes. Thats a slight decline from 89% in the fourth quarter of 2024.

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Inman

MAY 3, 2025

Instagram launches a native Reels editor, Meta drops a chatbot app, TikTok says live-streaming is the next gold rush and two fast-food chains remind us that brand voice matters. Jessi Healey unpacks the shifts and what they mean for agents.

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Real Estate News

MAY 7, 2025

More than half of the technology products highlighted in T3 Sixty's newly released Tech 200 incorporate AI. This years list also includes 20 startups.

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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

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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Inman

MAY 5, 2025

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

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Real Estate News

MAY 9, 2025

In response to Zillows ban on publicly marketed but off-MLS properties, Homes.com will provide affected agents with free premium marketing for those listings.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 8, 2025

About 46.2% of mortgaged residential properties in the U.S. were considered equity-rich in the first quarter, meaning the combined estimated amount of loan balances secured by those properties was no more than half of their estimated market value, according to ATTOM. Thats down from 47.7% in the fourth quarter of 2024. Despite the dip, the rate is nearly double what it was in the first quarter of 2020.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2025

During Wednesdays FOMC press conference, Jerome Powell discussed how the economy was performing well before the trade war began and acknowledged that the tariffs were much larger than anticipated. As a result, the Fed has increased its projections for the risk of higher unemployment and inflation. This development isn’t surprising, as the impact of significant tariffs can lead to shortages in the short term.

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Inman

MAY 6, 2025

Find out what Connecticut Realtor Libby McKinney-Tritschler has learned during her two-decade career and what advice she'd offer new agents just starting out.

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Real Estate News

MAY 8, 2025

A compelling AI version of CEO Tamir Poleg touted tech innovation during the companys earnings call, and the real Poleg endorsed listings transparency.

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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 9, 2025

Older homeowners living on a fixed income have a higher chance of seeing their finances destabilized by rising costs, and that can be particularly true of something like property taxes. For homeowners who have either a forward or reverse mortgage on their home, these costs also must be paid in order to keep the loan in good standing. But some states are embracing programs that allow for property tax refunds if a homeowner meets specific requirements.

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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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Real Estate News

MAY 7, 2025

The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged at its May 7 meeting amid an uncertain economic environment. We don't feel like we need to be in a hurry.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 8, 2025

Mortgage rates were basically flat this week, with the average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 6.76%, according to Freddie Macs Primary Mortgage Market Survey. A year ago at this time, the average rate for a 30-year was 7.09%. Mortgage rates stayed flat this week, says Sam Khater, chief economist for Freddie Mac, in a statement. At this time last year, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was 30 basis points higher and purchase applications were declining.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2025

Todays best loan officers operate differently and expect more. If you believe you can originate mortgages today in the same way they were done in 2018, youve probably been on a very remote island since then. Things like AI, well-integrated technology, consumer expectations and the rise of a number of innovative new business models have turned the industry on its head, and for the better in many cases.

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Inman

MAY 7, 2025

From market changes to regulatory shifts and more, what are the biggest changes you've seen over the past five years?

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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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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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