Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

The uptick in home sales during the second quarter of 2023 helped Anywhere Real Estate get back in the black. After posting a net loss of $138 million in Q1 2023 , the real estate conglomerate rebounded to report $19 million in net income for the second quarter.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

Home sellers are chomping at the bit. As the economy reopens, vaccinations continue to roll out and stimulus checks reach bank accounts across America, home sellers are increasingly optimistic. Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Our way of honoring first responders is by educating our podcast listeners, readers and coaching clients in the real estate industry about how to help those who helped all of us and are still being of service every day. One of the best ways to help first responders is to be of service yourself, as a professional real estate advisor.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Bay Area-based HomeLight , a proptech platform aimed at expediting and simplifying the real estate process, announced it has raised a combined total of $363 million in new funding. Zeev was also an initial investor in the proptech’s 2017 Series B. Since its 2019 Series B, HomeLight has seen quite the upwards projection.

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BiggerPockets

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Using an iBuyer can remove a lot of headaches and frustrations from a real estate transaction. Investors, now more than ever, can use iBuyers to get the best deals and make life easier. Here's how.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Real estate is an attractive field for experienced and aspiring entrepreneurs alike. The urge to innovate in real estate is only natural — any homebuyer or seller who is a creative problem-solver will notice glaring inefficiencies in the process. Both sellers and buyers have a lot to lose. Emotions run high.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

On Wednesday evening, during the firm’s Q1 2024 earnings call with investor and analysts, CEO Rich Barton took a contrary view: Zillow is just beginning to unlock its revenue generating potential. “In million real estate license holders, many handle only one or two transactions a year. Of the approximately 1.5

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“This collaboration reflects our dedication to equipping NAR members with innovative solutions that cater to the evolving needs of their clients, ensuring a smooth experience for sellers and buyers alike,” said Rhonny Barragan, NAR vice president of strategic alliances in an announcement of the deal.

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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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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2022

According to Fowler, “As a premier partner, we’re being really thoughtful in deploying capital to look for solutions, capabilities, and products and services that really maximize and enhance the customer experience, whether that be for lenders, servicers, investors, power buyers, or others. Providing an end-to-end experience.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

FundingShield and TCS aim to protect more lenders, homebuyers, sellers from wire and title fraud, both companies said. The safest way to verify information is through automated, real-time, source-data verification, which is FundingShield’s expertise. Business email compromise scams related to real estate were $446.1

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

We do see this as a new asset class in the real estate ecosystem and we see it as complementary to traditional debt options that exist today,” Burnett said. Affordability has always been a challenge,” said Ashkán Zandieh, managing partner and industry chair at the Center for Real Estate Technology and Innovation. “In

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

Real estate listing giants Zillow and CoStar are currently embattled in a fight for listing portal supremacy. The battle began heating up in September 2023 when CoStar’s residential real estate platform Homes.com surpassed 100 million unique monthly visitors, becoming the second most popular listing portal behind Zillow.

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BiggerPockets

JANUARY 31, 2023

The “Rookie to Real Estate Investor in 90 Days” series is back, and we’re checking in with three mentees as they go from newbies to high-net-worth through real estate! Our […]

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

The current bank crisis hit California-based Pacific Western Bank , a community bank owned by PacWest Bancorp that has a focus on real estate and commercial loans. Pacific Western Bank also explored a capital raise with potential investors. In addition, it has drawn $3.7 billion from the Federal Home Loan Banks , $10.5

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BiggerPockets

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As a rookie real estate investor, it can be anxiety-inducing to hear that a seller accepts your house offer. Offer accepted! You’ve been working so hard to get […]

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

Volatility in the Treasury market, which trades at a shifting spread below that of mortgage rates, also translates into uncertainty among housing market investors. Market observers say this normally leads to investor hesitancy and a tendency to keep more money parked on the sidelines. That was a problem for sellers of loans.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Residential real estate marketplace Sundae has announced it closed $36 million in Series B funding on Tuesday, led by QED Investors and with additional participation from Founders Fund , Susa Ventures , Navitas Capital , Prudence Holdings and General Global Capital. million in Series A funding this June. “Our

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Mashvisor

JANUARY 13, 2022

If you’re a buyer, and you want to buy a property but you don’t have enough credit score to qualify for a traditional mortgage, then seller financing might be for…

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

RE/MAX executives were not shy about acknowledging the uncertainty that is currently plaguing the real estate industry during the firm’s first-quarter 2024 earnings call with analysts and investors Friday morning. Carlson cited RealTrends Verified data to illustrate how productive RE/MAX agents are. “We

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

The monthly Realtors Confidence Index is an essential measure of what real estate professionals are seeing in their local markets and how the market is evolving on a monthly basis. The National Association of Realtors Research Group has produced the index since 2008, a time of turbulence in the real estate market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

This allows title underwriters, mortgage investors and county recorders to trust that online notarizations are valid and enforceable in California. NotaryCam is not the only RON platform looking at expansion in California. So far, 45 states have passed RON legislation, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

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Mashvisor

DECEMBER 14, 2021

There are two main real estate market cycles: the buyers market and the sellers market. Learn how investors can take advantage of either cycle. Timing is important in the real…

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McKissock

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Successful investors tend to buy and sell multiple properties in a short period of time—and work with the same agent to do so—meaning this could be a steady stream of income for you. 1) Learn the language of real estate investors. Buy at wholesale and sell to another investor? Want to become their go-to agent?

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

On Friday afternoon, my real estate agent called with good news. I had sought out the agent because she had the best track record in the area, worked with a lot of investors on the buy side, and had a history of closing quickly. Relatedly, discount brokerages have promised big savings to sellers for decades.

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The Robert Weiler Company

AUGUST 30, 2023

However, March through August is also prime time to find amazing deals on commercial real estate in Central Ohio! For commercial real estate investors, it may seem like a no-brainer. Why not start by discovering the best commercial real estate Central Ohio has to offer, and adding to your pool of investments?

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 1, 2024

Homebuyers are doing whatever they can to pull together a large down payment in order to lower their monthly payments moving forward,” says Rachel Riva, a Redfin real estate agent in Miami. Many all-cash offers come from investors, who were buying up more than one-quarter of the country’s low-priced homes as of the end of last year.

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Mashvisor

MAY 30, 2021

While many property sellers, buyers, and real estate professionals act professionally and keep the law for the most part, illegal real estate practices still occur every day. As a real…

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Listing Spark

JULY 5, 2023

Real estate investors who want to stay nimble in this market (especially as inventory stays low and prices stay meteorically high) need to adopt every tool at their disposal to stay informed and to quickly assess homes just entering the marketplace. But the importance of this practice cannot be overstated.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Eventually the real estate market will get to more levels of transactions in the mid-cycle.” While Reffkin was happy to discuss Compass’ performance in 2023, he told investors and analysts during his prepared remarks that he would not be answering any questions about the commission lawsuits during this call or any calls in the future.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

While mortgage rates will likely fall this year, conversations about how to increase accessibility to homeownership are still top of mind — and should be top of mind — across the real estate industry. However, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to homeownership affordability.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

If it finds “a good company,” the lender is willing to pay a premium to the owners, according to Dan Snyder, the fintech’s founder and investor. The company is looking for geographic expansion and companies that are “technically sound,” he added.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Networking can be intimidating for some real estate agents. Yet real estate networking doesn’t have to be scary. We’ll dive into strategies for both online and IRL networking, expert tips for networking successfully, secrets specifically for introverts, and where to find new potential real estate clients.

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McKissock

JULY 10, 2022

When estimating a property’s investment value, there are a variety of real estate valuation methods you can use. Successful real estate professionals should understand each system, so they’re able to communicate with many different buyers and many different sellers in many different situations.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

Latinos are twice as likely to use Federal Housing Administration financing than non-Hispanic white borrowers, but most of the real estate agents the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals surveyed felt FHA borrowers were at a competitive disadvantage. last year, respectively.

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Mashvisor

AUGUST 7, 2021

As a real estate investor, it is important that you go through each one in the most efficient way possible. The process of buying investment properties involves several steps. As…

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Listing Spark

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Real estate investing can be a profitable industry. MLS access for investors plays a pivotal role in every stage of buying, improving, and selling a property, but access often comes at a high price. Investors who have deeper knowledge of what the MLS is and different strategies for accessing it can operate more efficiently.

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