Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Mortgage lender and servicer Planet Home Lending also named Kathryn Edelen as regional vice president of its sales division this week. Erickson will be in charge of product management, the procurement and advancement of technology solutions and will oversee the training department and support teams for Motto Mortgage and wemlo.

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McKissock

JANUARY 5, 2021

Real Estate Career Goals For 2021. ” A lot of real estate agents stated that they wanted to “earn more” in the new year than they did in the previous year. “To full-time draftsman to full-time real estate agent/investor by the end of 2021.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Petersburg, Florida, and head of NAR’s Real Property Valuation Committee, pointed specifically to the apprentice training requirement – no comparable requirement exists for real estate agents – as the reason no one is joining a depleted profession in the crosshairs for allegedly racially biased appraisals.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

.” Many of the individual agents in the study had other full-time jobs as “teachers, government workers, restaurant servers, commercial employees, and a large number in associated industries – mortgage lending, real estate appraisal, commercial and residential investment, and the practice of real estate law.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Larry Steinway, former senior vice president of lending and branch manager at Illinois-based Guaranteed Rate , has taken on a new challenge to expand the Ohio-based Revolution Mortgage footprint in the Chicagoland market. It’s a different approach to lending. He was the fourth mortgage loan originator to join Guaranteed Rate in 2000.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

For the new value acceptance plus property data option, third parties are authorized to do that collection at the property site, as long as lenders verify that they have a background check, have been “professionally trained” and are competent to do that collection.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As a refresher, “redlining” means that no matter the features or amenities that a home provides, if the home is in a neighborhood with Black residents (homeowners or renters), traditional (and more affordable) lending and insurance would be denied — although a few sub-prime options tend to circle these communities like sharks.

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Appraisal Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

What Appraisers Wish Real Estate Agents Understood McKissock Survey Question: “What’s one thing you wish real estate agents knew about the appraisal process? I will always remember when, many years ago, a top local real estate agent asked me why I was driving around taking photos of homes.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2021

All told, the Detroit lending powerhouse originated $103.6 “The combination of our technology platform and Rocket Cloud Force of highly trained professionals, continues to deliver scalability and a client experience that is unmatched,” CEO Jay Farner said in a statement Thursday. Rocket also reported net income of $2.77

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The revised plan would appear similar to the scrapped pay reduction in one respect – a focus on repeat business from Knock’s network of real estate agents. Founded in 2014 by Black, a founding member of real estate listings site Trulia , Knock helps consumers bid on a new home by fronting a cash offer.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2023

Other challenges selected by mortgage professionals were relationships with real estate agents at 8.4%; competitiveness of rate sheet and underwriting problems at 5.8%; lender stability at 3.9%; competitiveness of product offerings at 1.9%. Our goal is to strengthen our Realtor partners relative to their competitors.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2023

. “Sometimes 10-20 basis points is all an LO needs to win over a real estate agent or get creative on a borrower’s loan,” the lender said in a statement. LO compensation Regulation Z under the Truth in Lending Act protects Americans when they use consumer credit.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

The no-cost solution allows brokers to submit applications, price out loans, eSign documents and helps make the experience smoother for borrowers and real estate agents. The company also offers both onsite and virtual Success Track training for loan officers, processors and broker owners.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Despite rising housing unaffordability , we in the real estate business know that homeownership is still a fantastic way to build generational wealth. Not surprisingly, affordability is inextricably linked to fair housing , as fair housing (and lending) for all is foundational to affordability for all. But we are not powerless.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Its centralized call center business model, which Rocket relied upon to dominate an unprecedented refi market , isn’t as durable when interest rates are high, there are few refi opportunities and having strong relationships with real estate agents is what brings home the bacon. And Rocket is well aware.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

In its originations business, AmeriFirst kept its business purpose lending (BPL), providing four products, including debt-service coverage ratio (DSCR) loans, bridge financing, investor construction loans and residential transition loans (RTLs). Its BPL business originates about $30 million in volume every month, according to the firm.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 9, 2022

The real issue is that when the appraiser is preforming a pre-construction appraisal, an educated, knowledgeable appraiser can quickly determine if a log home is compliant with the required building codes and most importantly if that “Subject Property” or log home meets Federal Lending Requirements. The answer is quite obvious.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

LOs interviewed by HousingWire say that they have actively ramped up their attempts to connect with prospective borrowers and real estate agents. However, Davis’ relationship with the agent turned sour and she has not yet been able to develop relationships with other agents. TikTok, Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2021

Rocket is training real estate agents to originate loans, and Fairway is trying to poach loan officers, he claims. At stake is the business of about 3,000 brokers who use UWM, Rocket and/or Fairway. And if such moves go unchecked, brokers could find themselves an endangered species in a decade, Ishbia believes.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

However, over the past year, my business has been changing rapidly as I shift away from lending work to non-lender work as my primary business. Without much training, I have started marketing our newly launched floor plan app specifically on social media. Type in “real estate agents in (city/state)” and click join.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

How do you help real estate agents? We help listing agents generate significantly more buyers for their home sales. If a listing agent wants to sell their property, we help them identify whether or not the property they’re selling comes with an assumable mortgage.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s causing us in the industry — title settlement, real estate, mortgage lending, the attorneys — to rethink, can you even trust a voicemail? And they solicit a listing to a brokerage: the real estate agent takes the listing and asks for an ID, which checks out.

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McKissock

JANUARY 6, 2023

There are appraisal jobs available in the lending sector, such as staff appraisers, review appraisers, fee panel managers, and with experience and time on the job, chief appraiser and valuation compliance officer jobs can be found. Non-lending appraisal courses. Who staffs these types of jobs?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2021

Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. .” Fairway, which did about $3.5 “It’s not true.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

” Other popular answers included, ‘implementing buyer representation agreements,” “full disclosure of client options,” and “more training on our value proposition.” “You must train all of your agents as to how you’re going to get compensated,” said Murray.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite. After the 2008 mortgage meltdown, JVM let go of all its loan originators and trained its employees to target the jumbo loan market in the San Francisco Bay area instead.

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Clear Capital

APRIL 30, 2024

In part one of our home equity lending series , we discussed home equity lending and how lenders can use an AVM to market to home equity customers. ClearAVM + PCI: A holistic view of a property ClearAVM is our industry-leading, lending-grade automated valuation model (AVM).

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Realtor

MAY 15, 2023

Lenders have a vested interest in the home appraisal because it protects them from lending more money than they can recoup should you default on your loan and go into foreclosure. “Another appraiser, an appraiser trainee, a real estate agent, or a home inspector can provide this service,” adds Love.

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Appraisal Real Estate Appraisal Process Market Value 107

Birmingham Appraisal

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Appraiser and Agent Collaboration is a Good Thing The importance of collaboration between real estate agents and appraisers can be a touchy subject. On one hand, the real estate agent’s main goal is to advocate for their client while the appraiser must be an impartial and non-biased third party.

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Town & Country Residential Appraisals

JUNE 13, 2022

Other forms of property types and appraisals for private purposes, in house lending and those insured by FHA, USDA and VA have not yet adopted these standards. While appraisers are now required to use these standards, there are other real estate sectors in which there is no reporting standard.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

” Better is partnering with other businesses to offer services such as homeowner’s insurance and to provide access to a network of real estate agents, rather than offering these products and services directly to borrowers. The change resulted in Better’s exit from its real estate business.

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CA Realty Training

AUGUST 23, 2021

Real estate agents should expect their clients to withdraw a home loan to buy a property. Here’s what a pre-approval letter means: a letter that verifies the approval of a specific amount of money that the bank is willing to lend to the home buyer. appeared first on CA Realty Training. No money, no deal.

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Real Estate Agent Buyers Clients Training 41

McKissock

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

About a year before the layoffs Weinrich volunteered to get his real estate license as the company needed a staff member who was an official real estate agent. He had planned to make real estate a side gig, but when he found himself without a job he turned to it full-time.

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CA Realty Training

MAY 18, 2021

How does a real estate agent help their client buy a home? You get the idea of how it all works: agent meets buyer, buyer meets home, dreams are made and you get paid! In California, real estate agents are required to disclose property defects on a property. By Bettina Siochi.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

We’ve all heard the news: over 60,000 real estate agents left the profession in the first half of 2023. Whether you’re newly licensed or an experienced agent who had a productive year — if you’re looking for a change, it’s likely you’ve started receiving emails, letters, and phone calls from all kinds of real estate firms.

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D Fritz Appraisals

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Home appraisers are trained to inspect and measure your property and perform comparisons that result in an accurate valuation for the current housing market. Home appraisals are a vital part of the home buying process as they have a big influence on the amount a lending institution will loan the buyer.

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Realtor

JANUARY 23, 2018

Blackstone and its lender, Deutsche Bank AG, settled on a sort of drive-by valuation done by real-estate agents that are more cursory and cost far less than traditional appraisals. Sometimes the process is outsourced to India, where companies charge real-estate agents a few dollars to come up with U.S.

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