Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In the ever-competitive real estate market, creating a consistent flow of real estate buyer leads is strategy for success. But beyond first-timers, we’ll show you how to attract real estate buyers of all kinds through a multi-tiered marketing approach that boosts both your visibility and credibility with potential buyers.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2023

As our financial system evolves, it is critical that we adapt our application of the Fair Housing Act and ECOA to deal with technological change and other developments,” Barr said in his speech. However, there is also the potential for these technologies to exacerbate existing issues related to lending equality, Barr explained.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

HW Media’s audience is very interested in understanding the macroeconomic factors affecting housing. Top-performing articles over the last month include: 5 predictions for the second half of the 2022 housing market , by Selma Hepp, deputy chief economist at CoreLogic.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The provision of abundant information with rules that govern the conduct of all market participants, whether Realtors or non-Realtors, serves all parties well. Here are my thoughts about how this Realtor marketplace may change and how market participants will react. Buyers may begin to go directly to listing agents.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

When individual mortgages are originated by lenders like banks or credit unions , they may bundle groups of these mortgages together into financial vehicles called mortgage-backed securities (MBS) that are then sold to investors on a secondary market. This ensures their bundle retains its credit rating and market value.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Housing Market Update. With continued supply chain disruption, cost increases and fear of inflation , the market has felt tenuous at best. Fortunately, it’s not all bad news.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The evidence for this can be seen here in a series of charts published with the article: Considering all the wild machinations in the market that we lived through from the date of the first infections to the present, I thought it would be useful to recap some of the year’s significant economic milestones. BC Era: Before Coronavirus.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Real estate agents are always looking for vetted, high-quality leads — and especially so during 2023 market conditions. Whether you’re looking for exclusive leads or simply aiming to boost your website traffic, this article will help any real estate agent or broker learn how and where to buy real estate leads in 2023.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

A panel of experts assembled at a recent Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) conference in New York predicted that adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) will become far more popular this year as purchase mortgages increasingly dominate a housing market contending with fast-rising interest rates. Learn more here!

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s an opportunity for everyone to learn more about this important history, and to better understand what this group has overcome. My experience in the financial services industry tells me that there is more trouble for the housing economy on the horizon, for Americans of all ethnicities. I understand these markets very well.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Vicki Brown: When I first started in the mortgage business, I was very young and was learning the business. In simple terms, do your best, own it, learn from your mistakes, and move forward. HW Media : What do you think will be the big themes for the housing market in 2022? Jokes on me!

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2021

With global market uncertainty surrounding the Delta variant of COVID-19, we saw 10-year Treasury yields drift lower and consequently mortgage rates followed suit,” said Khater. Mortgage rates have stayed stubbornly low, barely exceeding 3%, defying predictions that 2021 would bring a return to higher levels.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If there’s anything that lenders and borrowers have learned from the current purchase market it’s that speed and efficiency are key to a smooth closing. Now, the big focus is on operational efficiency and customer experience, and helping lenders reduce overhead costs while maximizing channels to market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The AI can also predict room dimensions and square footage. This new integrated experience will help shoppers better understand the relationship between still photos and the layout of the house, provide a better sense of the space and home features, and improve the overall shopping experience.”.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2021

According to Sam Khater, chief economist at Freddie Mac, while there is some uncertainty about the Covid-19 Delta variant, the housing market is still enjoying record low rates. “As Mortgage rates have rarely exceeded 3% this year, despite predictions that 2021 would bring a return to higher levels. Presented by: Black Knight.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Amid elevated mortgage rates, continued emphasis on regulatory oversight and a worsening 2023 market outlook, many lenders are reassessing their risk tolerance, which can lead to a tightening of their lending standards. In a contracting market, how can lenders gain a competitive advantage? How can lenders expand the credit box?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

A functioning neural network was viewed as the pathway to develop AI capable of learning anything a human could, and perhaps becoming more intelligent than humans. ChatGPT uses neural networks to learn from experience. It is trained on text data and learns to identify patterns from that data to generate human-like text responses.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2023

Here’s the housing market rundown for the last week: Purchase application data showed positive weekly growth again — and the bounce from the bottom is more noticeable now. Housing inventory decreased by 6,468 units, a more pronounced decline from the previous week. That inflation data didn’t move the market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The housing market has been in a recession since mid-year 2022. Most industry experts predict mortgage rates will be back down around 5.25% in 2023 after peaking at 7.25% in 2022. Want to learn a musical instrument? Dustin Owen Waterstone Mortgage Contributor. This will pass. This leads to a greater likelihood of success.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

As mortgage rates rise and home price appreciation continues , employees in the housing industry are hard at work preparing for shifting market conditions. One large deal can swing the industry from loss to a profit for the year and large commercial deals tend to be geographically concentrated in larger urban markets,” Glombicki said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with Mike Darne, vice president of marketing at CreditXpert , about industry performance in the first half of 2023 and how lenders can work with borrowers to improve their credit. This means that there is demand out there, people are testing the market to see what they can afford.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Federal Reserve ‘s effort to temper inflation has cooled the housing market that remains subdued with mortgage rates north of 7%. However, a silver lining in the subdued housing market is the strength in new-home sales. While the central bank left the benchmark rate unchanged in the target range of 5.25%-5.5%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

Our overall model has changed from being a one-stop-shop, where we do everything in-house, to being a one-stop-shop where we do the things in-house that we’re the best at,” Vishal Garg , Better’s CEO, said in an interview. In that time, the market, the industry and the consumer changed dramatically.

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McKissock

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As the end of the year approaches, housing market predictions for 2022 abound. Fortune reviews various 2022 housing forecasts, focusing specifically on home price growth. Redfin predicts a more balanced residential market in 2022. Predictions for the top housing markets of 2022 may surprise you.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2021

This highly accurate score significantly reduces review volume and false positives and uses proprietary predictive modeling to paint a truer picture of where fraud and early payment default risk are likely to occur. HousingWire: You recently announced First American’s Data & Analytics Division. What does this rebrand mean for lenders?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2022

If you’re willing to learn and you’re coachable and trainable, that works too.”. In a recent interview with HousingWire, HomeXpress , a non-QM lender, predicted the sector will double its market share in the coming year, from 5% in 2021 to nearly 10% in 2022. “The riches are in the niches.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Sarah Wheeler: UWM develops all their software in-house. When I build it all in house, I architect it from the start from both the technical aspect and business aspect, specifically for the wholesale channel and the broker model. What are some of the advantages of that? If you’re not failing, you are not doing your job.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2020

The next area is predictive analytics or companies that try to predict who’s going to buy, sell or do “something” at the right point. By far the most popular conversion tools out there are Comparative Market Analysis tools. Predictive analytics. I’ve broken this down into three sub-categories. Listing tools.

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2022

Creditors who use complex algorithms — including artificial intelligence or machine learning technologies — to engage in credit decisions must still provide a notice that discloses the specific, principal reasons for taking adverse actions,” CFPB said in a news release. “The The CFPB did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For the housing economy in particular, tech helped to solve many of the challenges that COVID presented and allowed the industry to not only sustain, but prosper. “In HousingWire reached out to Berkowitz to learn how real estate tech is playing a role in the current housing boom and what homebuyer trends will look like in the new year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

HousingWire recently sat down with Jaro Managing Director Gareth Borcherds to learn what steps housing professionals can take to speed up appraisals. HousingWire: What steps can housing professionals take to ensure a faster appraisal? To learn more about Jaro, visit tryjaro.com. C) Appraisal Quality.

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Valuation Review

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The housing market may not reach the incredible heights of 2021, but Zillow economists predict it will be anything but slow next year. Read on to learn more.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

Scaling lead generation with AI In the fast-paced and competitive market we’re experiencing today, effective lead generation can be the make or break of a brokerage. Predictive agent recruiting Recruiting and retaining top-tier talent is critical for a brokerage to survive.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2021

HousingWire’s newest Marketing Leaders award recognizes marketing executives like David King , CMO of A&D Mortgage who have been leading their teams to pivot marketing strategies to adapt to client needs in recent months. “We HW: What would you say is the key to a successful marketing strategy in this market?

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McKissock

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The 2020 housing market will end the year as the highest performing sector of the U.S. Next year’s 2021 housing market will remain strong as the economy recovers from the COVID-19 recession. 2020 housing market recap: Demographics popped the housing bubble boys. ” Read the full story here.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

With Fannie Mae and other organizations predicting a tough outlook for 2023’s housing market, loan officers should be looking to get their name out in front of as many potential borrowers as possible in order to secure business. What should your content look like? Not into Instagram? Check out tips for LOs on TikTok here.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the predictions for next year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business. share of the market controlled by small, independent title insurance companies.

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