Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) sued the developer and lender Colony Ridge on Wednesday, alleging the company operated an illegal land sales scheme and made false statements targeting tens of thousands of Hispanic borrowers in Texas. We look forward to telling the true story of Colony Ridge.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2023

Texas continues to outpace other states in attracting new residents, according to migration data from John Burns , with Houston, San Antonio and Fort Worth showing strong housing demand. The median sale price for a home in the Austin metro area reached a peak of $675,000 in April 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

In a working paper published in late February by Borys Grochulski and Zhu Wang of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond , the Fed concluded that the current real estate agent compensation structure “may lead to elevated home prices, overused agent services, and prolonged home searches.” million houses were listed for sale, with 95.6%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2021

If you’re considering purchasing a home, you probably have a lot of questions. Since home prices vary state-by-state, the salary you need to qualify for a mortgage in the U.S. For example, the median price of a home in New York is typically more expensive than a home in Wisconsin. Affording a home in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Chronically distressed properties lost more than $7,000 in total home equity on average while cycling in and out of foreclosure, according to an Auction.com analysis of more than 80,000 properties scheduled for foreclosure auction multiple times in the last three years. They were scheduled for foreclosure auction nearly four times (3.8)

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

Despite yet another increase in homebuilder sentiment , the sales pace of new homes declined month over month in June, according to data published on Wednesday by the U.S. In June, the sales pace of new homes fell 2.5% On a year-over-year basis, however, new home sales were up 23.8%. compared to June 2022.

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Houston Properties

JULY 25, 2022

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

billion in sales volume while completing 15,919.3 PorchLight Realty Group with eXp Realty in San Diego, CA, led by Mark Pattison , led the team sales volume list for the first time producing $431.6 million in sales volume in 2022. million in sales volume. This was up from last year’s 251, an increase of 51% more honorees.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A copycat commission lawsuit filed on Thursday by home sellers in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, accuses 47 real estate industry defendants of allegedly conspiring to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. 13, 2019, and the present and the plaintiffs are demanding a jury trial.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2021

Home sales on properties labeled as “expensive” or “high-end” have skyrocketed in California’s Bay Area, Miami and Las Vegas in 2021, and overall purchases of high-end homes in the country jumped 26% year over year during the three months ending April 30, according to a recent study from Redfin.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2022

First Community Mortgage ‘s wholesale division named a new regional sales manager in hopes to continue growth for the firm’s mortgage boutique division. ” In a statement, Raich said he is focusing on filling Texas positions in Austin, Dallas Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. billion in home loans last year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2022

So-called iBuyers purchased a total of 70,402 homes in 2021, more than doubling the number purchased in 2019, according to a report from Zillow released on Tuesday. Beyond just a record number of purchases by the iBuying companies, the number of completed home sales (44,933) also exceed the previous high from 2019 (28,265).

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Houston Properties

AUGUST 12, 2022

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It’s impossible to be an agent if you can’t see which homes are for sale, or unlock the door to those homes, or even write an offer.” It is a sales business,” Stella said. “If In about half the U.S., In about half the U.S., But by itself… it’s not going to have much of an impact,” Hahn wrote in the Oct.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The brokerage said it made this move due to the fact that NAR policies blocks sellers from listing homes that don’t pay a commission to the buyer’s agent, and it blocks websites like Redfin.com from showing for-sale-by-owner listings alongside agent-listed homes.

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Houston Properties

AUGUST 12, 2022

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2021

Record-low interest rates have driven home sales to a 14-year high and spurred a 200% annual increase in refinancing. It’s been a complicated year for the mortgage industry,” said Jim Houston, managing director of consumer lending and automotive finance intelligence at J.D. Josh Friend – guest columnist March HW Magazine.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The iBuyer also said that homebuyers in Tucson, Arizona; Charlotte, North Carolina; Houston; San Antonio; and Austin, Texas, can tour and purchase any home on the market, via Opendoor. This means that for homes that aren’t owned by Opendoor, a tour assistant can meet the buyer to let them in to tour the home in-person.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2021

California-based loanDepot has formed a JV partnership with LGI Homes , called LGI Mortgage Solutions , the companies announced on Thursday. Headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, LGI Homes offers entry-level homes and move-up homes under the LGI Homes brand name, and luxury series homes under the Terrata Homes brand.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The “Zestimate,” Zillow’s catchy ( and soapy ) name for estimated home values, will sometimes be used as the initial offer Zillow plans to pay to purchase a home, the company said on Thursday. Zillow’s own estimated home value is to guide the company on a “limited subset of homes” in 20 markets.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Northern Virginia and Maryland (DMV) area, Baltimore, Fairfield County Connecticut and Seattle, title insurance companies are now required by law to file reports identifying individuals who made all-cash real estate purchases exceeding $300,000 through shell companies in the Texas cities of Houston and Laredo.

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Houston Properties

MARCH 14, 2024

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MARCH 14, 2024

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2021

“Moving is stressful enough, without having to worry about your home selling before you’ve found a home to buy,” said John Monen, RedfinNow regional manager. “We let homeowners choose their closing date and stay in the home after the closing through a rent back, so that they only have to move once.”

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Houston Properties

AUGUST 1, 2023

Houston Neighborhoods - Updated 2023: Houston zip code map, neighborhood maps, homes for sale pictures & overview of the best Houston neighborhoods.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2023

The key with purchase application data is that this data line looks out 30-90 days, so the growth we see here takes about 30-90 days at minimum to hit the sales data. It will take until February or March to see it in sales data for January and February. And, so far, it’s been a good start to the year.

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Houston Properties

MARCH 7, 2024

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Houston Properties

AUGUST 29, 2022

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Houston Properties

JULY 10, 2023

Turning an old home into a marketable property needs careful thought. This guide provides insights for your first venture in a Houston Fixer Upper.

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Houston Properties

JULY 28, 2022

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Houston Properties

AUGUST 1, 2022

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

But when it comes to marketing a real estate or mortgage lending business, people who have made a sale in the past often consider marketing automation a “nice to have.”. Like Houston, and Southern California, Denver was experiencing an oil bubble that was making everyone in the real estate business a great deal of money. Not anymore.

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Houston Properties

JULY 28, 2023

Finding homes for sale in Houston is easy. Picking the right one can be challenging. We use data and experience to tell you which houses and areas you need to avoid.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

So what about the relatively recent cultural trend of working from home? Even before COVID-19, there was a rise in people working from home. From early in the crisis, we had a we had a significant increase in working from home early in the crisis, as seen in this chart from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2021

Approximately 60% of 1,200 surveyed homeowners said they have invested in making their homes more resilient to at least one weather-related risk, with more than 36% spending $5,000 or more. These costs are in addition to what used to be considered the regular maintenance costs of owning a home, like replacing a roof or water heater.

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Houston Properties

JULY 25, 2022

Find out the current Houston real estate scene and why its best to sell your Houston Home For Sale now.

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Houston Properties

JULY 25, 2022

Navigate EaDo Houston with two new EaDo neighborhood maps. Check out East Downtown homes for sale.

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