Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

There is power in steady, unchanging predictability, both in life and in real estate. The housing market is in a distinct position where, despite mortgage rates , demand still far outpaces supply and prices remain at record highs. Give your agents a place with people they can rely on no matter what’s going on externally.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A 22-year-old, Chicago-headquartered software company, ShowingTime is what it sounds like: “Our products automate the showing, scheduling and management processes” for real estate agents and agent associations, the company’s website reads, claiming that more than 1 million agents in the U.S.

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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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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A friend of mine is a successful real estate professional in a competitive market. We often discuss changing housing market conditions, and the pressure real estate agents are under to stay relevant in the wake of increased competition. He built his business on an existing strong sphere.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A housing market marked by relatively high interest rates and tight inventory — and punctuated by the practice of home inspection waivers to sweeten offers — are taking a bite out of business for home inspectors, who play a key role in the sales process by ensuring that buyers are not being sold a lemon of a house.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

A digital thief hijacked the transaction, redirected the money, and disappears, leaving the shocked consumers, real estate agent, title insurer, lender and others to pick up the pieces. As the pandemic recovery takes hold, a robust housing market has pulled fraud prevention back on track.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We service our loans and do a lot of unique things to keep our LOs and their referral partners top of mind after the transaction closes, like including the picture and contact information of both the LO and their real estate agent on the mortgage statement. That’s why we started NAF Cash.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

SentriLock , the home lockbox company wholly owned by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), announced Tuesday that they created a computer and smart phone platform to help real estate agents juggle their home showing appointments. Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Instead, lenders should focus on identifying the right tools for the job and setting realistic expectations for each. Along these same lines, lenders should avoid assessing their LOS based on its capacity to deliver a borrower experience for which it was not designed. Patrick O’Brien is co-founder and CEO of LenderLogix.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

HW Media : What is your most useful tech tool? HW Media : What do you think will be the big themes for the housing market in 2022-2023? Many media outlets are fretting about a possible housing crash because panic gets them more clicks than reason. The market is cyclical; we’ve been here before, and we’ll be here again.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

Like every department within housing, marketing teams across the country were forced to re-strategize and tailor their programs to accommodate the changing climate of 2020. The HW Marketing Leaders make up the best and brightest minds in marketing within mortgage lending, servicing and real estate.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2022

Dhingra has over 20 years of experience helping homebuyers and real estate agents and is an expert when it comes to harnessing the power of social media to help educate and inform people on the home-buying process. HousingWire: What is your most useful tech tool?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Despite low inventory, the housing market is expected to remain strong in 2021 due to low mortgage rates. And with this housing boom will come even more questions from homeowners who want to know their housing options. Many real estate professionals discount the seller lead.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

“The market is retracting but it’s the best time to build,” Watanasuparp said. Cliffco’s proprietary CRM platform enables loan officers to break away from being heavily dependent on real estate agents for referrals. “In How many times have they refi’d? Are they a warm lead, hot lead, cold lead?

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Miller Samuel

MARCH 18, 2020

In light of this slowdown, some real estate agents have suggested that market times be modified to cast a better light on listings that will languish due to the virus. In a global pandemic or worldwide catastrophic event, housing market stats will be internally adjusted by consumers to factor the event into the equation.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Most appraisers are experiencing a significant slowdown in mortgage lending work due to rapidly increasing mortgage rates which are slowing down the housing market. Real estate agents also need appraisals for properties that may be more difficult to price. It also offers a lot of other great tool options.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

But what makes Redfin different – what makes it radically, transformatively different – is that it classifies real estate agents as employees. These employee agents are exceedingly more productive than the average independent contractor agent. million real estate agents. A profitable division.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2023

The slower housing market and uncertain economic conditions took their toll on the number of real estate brokerages and firms that were named to Inc. Last year , over 60 real estate brokerage firms or real estate teams made the list, but this number shrank to just 36 in 2023.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

As lenders, we know these things to be true not just within the context of a recent market report — we see it happening every day on the ground, in the weeds with homebuyers, real estate agents and partners. The polarization of the lending market. Poor service and an overreliance on digital tools.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Use the right tools to reach out to your database Consider using Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software such as kvCORE, Happy Grasshopper or Contactually to regularly email your database. At a minimum, making five calls per day is easily doable, so start there and do more if you can. The possibilities are endless.

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McKissock

APRIL 16, 2021

March was the hottest month in housing history. “The housing market set a slew of records for prices, home-selling speed, and competition in March, making it the hottest month for housing since at least 2012,” according to this story from Redfin. Want helpful tools for dealing with the appraisal gap?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

Clearly, we love that the housing market supports so many professionals and households. But ultimately, efficient mortgage lending and real estate sales is what is most important to a healthy housing market. Real estate is a $206 billion industry, according to IBISWorld. Jobs are important.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

APRIL 15, 2021

Although certain things, such as crowded open houses, will be off-limits for the time being, it’s still entirely possible to buy a new home. Check out these resources from Cleveland Appraisal Blog regarding virtual tools for all of your real estate needs! Assess the Financial Picture First. Let the Hunt Begin!

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Williams IV, founder and CEO of Percy.ai, about what housing professionals can do to improve their deal flow despite the turbulence of the current housing market, and how investing in valuable data insights could be the key to success. . Our team brings decades of real estate and technology industry expertise.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The seller, who struggled to find a buyer in a cooled down housing market, agreed to deposit a lump sum payment into an escrow account at closing – ultimately saving Davis $6,900 in monthly payments in the first two years. in the second year.

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Eppraisal

OCTOBER 31, 2023

 Better yet, use a real estate agent to do a comparative market analysis and calculate your home’s value impartially. In addition to comps, they pay attention to current market trends and personally look at the property’s interior and exterior and note defects.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Public health officials note that we have many more tools to address this latest — and likely not the last — challenge. More specifically, that means targeting an unemployment rate close to 4%, inflation close to 2%, and using regulatory tools to prevent unsound lending or other financial imbalances.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

This week’s meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will provide more guidance regarding the Fed’s expected rate cuts. of investors are anticipating the benchmark interest rate to remain the same after Wednesday’s FOMC meeting, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch tool. As of Monday, 97.9%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

However, this rise in first-time buyers helps explain what’s driving demand and keeping upward pressure on prices in a market with mortgage rates currently surpassing 7%. One of the primary reasons for this surge is the strong presence of millennials in the housing market, particularly those at the peak, around ages 33 and 34.

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McKissock

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In recent years, the real estate industry has noticed some significant trends in the commercial and residential housing markets. Moreover, earlier this year a bidding war broke out over a 140,000-square-foot shopping center housed at Office Depot in Port Charlotte, Florida. Free eBook : Is your market hot?

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Eppraisal

JUNE 20, 2023

Now that you've assessed your financial readiness, obtained a pre-approval for a mortgage, and engaged a real estate agent, it's time to dive into the exciting process of researching and finding your dream home. In the first blog of our series, we covered the basics of preparing yourself for buying your first home.

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McKissock

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Are you wondering what the best clients to work with are to advance your real estate career? There are many different career opportunities in real estate. While some real estate agents and brokers prefer to work with homebuyers, others decide to specialize in working with property investors.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

MAY 12, 2022

Enter the next new and cool tool. Before we talk about this new tool, let me share an experience I recently had. After all, at times, I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed. In some complex measures, I have a tool I use to get the proper angle degree of walls. That was a huge game-changer. SOMETHING NEW.

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Raleigh Realty

MARCH 23, 2021

The founder of forsalebyowner.com used a Real Estate Agent to sell his home after trying to sell it himself and failing to do so - imagine that. There are pros and cons to going the for sale by owner route, but it is strongly advised to work with a trusted real estate agent throughout the process.

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Lamacchia Realty

DECEMBER 11, 2023

THE HIDDEN COSTS OF SELLING YOUR HOME WITHOUT A REALTOR® There is no denying it, the housing market has been a rollercoaster over the last several years. From the Covid-19 driven frenzy in 2020 to the significant inventory slowdown this year , buyers , sellers , and agents have all had adapt and grow comfortable with change.

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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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Listing Spark

AUGUST 23, 2023

If you’re a typical home seller offering a 3% commission to your listing agent, that’s a median cost of $11,172 or $14,037, respectively. There are valuable services that real estate agents provide, such as advertising the property, listing it on the MLS, handling the title process, and negotiating deals.

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