Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

For many real estate agents, a logical step on their path of professional development is becoming a real estate broker, then working as either a managing broker or a broker-owner. Perhaps you’ve developed specialized expertise that would allow your brokerage to dominate a specific niche or market segment.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

However, with the introduction of these new commission standards, what I really want to touch on today isn’t whether it’s a “blatant admission of guilt” or not, but rather if it’s really addressing the underlying issues in the real estate profession. I’d argue it’s not.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Established in 1997, 360 specializes in comprehensive online training solutions for individuals and businesses across industries – including financial services, real estate, healthcare and environmental health and safety. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Through the development of improved and sophisticated systems, protocols and technology, these operations leaders are driving their companies to growth and success. In its 8th year, the HW Insiders program is spotlighting the talented operations professionals who are laying the foundation of success for their organizations.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The American Land Title Association, alongside our real estate industry partners, are committed to making transactions easier for everyone through consumer education efforts. Often the buyer asks the real estate agent or lender for a recommendation, but we always encourage buyers to explore their options.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

PunchListUSA , a real estate technology platform digitizing home inspection data, has named Stefan Pampulov as its chief product and data officer. Pampulov comes to PunchList USA with two decades of experience in real estate data strategy and product development.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

The HousingWire Marketing Leaders award recognizes outstanding professionals who have demonstrated excellence in marketing within mortgage and real estate. Whitney Curry , has propelled Pacaso to become the pioneer of co-ownership of luxury real estate. Click here to nominate someone.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

In this role, Mulkey will lead the corporate product development team, which is responsible for building and enhancing enterprise products across multiple First American divisions. “With its industry-leading data assets and proprietary technologies, First American is at the forefront of real estate innovation,” said Mulkey.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

banks to fail in the coming months because of declining values and defaults in their commercial real estate loan portfolios. We have identified the banks that have high commercial real estate concentrations, particularly office and retail and other [property types] that have been affected a lot,” Powell said. in Q2 2023.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

With home sales still at historically low levels and uncertainty over the commission lawsuits , real estate brokerage executives prize good leads more than ever. Anthony Djon, CEO of Anthony Djon Luxury Real Estate , said his company gets 90% of its leads from listing portals Zillow and Realtor.com.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Real Brokerage has appointed Christian Wallace as chief of integrated home services, the company announced on Thursday. In this newly created role, Wallace will report to Real Chairman and CEO Tamir Poleg and will oversee Real’s consumer-facing products. At Rocket Homes where Wallace worked from Feb. 2022 to Oct.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) to expedite regulatory change that would allow veterans and active-duty service members to fund buyer’s broker commissions when purchasing a home with a VA mortgage. The VA has been monitoring various cases involving real estate broker commissions, including the NAR case, an official told HousingWire. “VA

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Chris Lim is stepping down as president of Christie’s International Real Estate , according to an announcement on Tuesday. The brokerage noted that Lim will remain at Christie’s as a senior advisor and global brand ambassador, working to expand the relationship between the real estate business and the auction house, among other duties.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Together, they will boast a total of 42 real estate agents , serving clients across different neighborhoods and price points throughout the Las Vegas Valley. “Working together as one group combines a vast range of industry backgrounds that contribute to expertise in every category of real estate.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Yet as surrounding neighborhoods appreciated in value with increased amenities and services, rising costs pushed out the mostly Black, longtime residents — excluding them from the benefits of development.” The city/county services, schools, grocers and medical facilities face disinvestment and divestiture.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2023

Mobility Market Intelligence (MMI), a data intelligence and market insight tool provider for the mortgage and real estate industries, has acquired Bonzo – a relationship management and mortgage marketing platform. The company in April named Brian McKray as its director of product development.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

(Photo Credit: AJ Canaria) In the real estate industry, the use of generative artificial intelligence has grown beyond just the composition of marketing copy, leading some to question other potential applications. Lickstein helped craft an AI-powered tool designed to educate brokers and is currently developing a compliance framework.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

Change is a community development financial institution (CDFI) that is certified by the U.S. Treasury Department , given to specialized organizations that provide financial services to low-income communities and others who lack financing options. “We are excited to expand our impact and better serve our target market borrowers.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As a real estate agent, you may think clients should care more about their next home than your life story. And while that may be true, well-crafted real estate agent bios can build trust and credibility and serve as a powerful tool in an agent’s marketing arsenal — giving prospective clients.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Earlier this month, the NAR announced the settlement of various lawsuits filed by home sellers, which allege that the real estate industry colluded to keep agent commissions artificially high at 5% to 6% of a home’s sale price. I would hope something would come of that because these people fought for our country, right?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

I am a big believer in developing a brand for your real estate business from Day One. The power of branding in real estate In the real estate world, there’s a prevailing belief that “You are the brand” as an agent. It could apply to the real estate industry, mortgage, or design.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Real estate conglomerate Anywhere is teaming up with Offerpad to expand the iBuyer ‘s services nationwide, according to an announcement on Thursday. Offerpad operates in 14 states. ” The program officially launched in all markets on Tuesday. ” The program officially launched in all markets on Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Real Estate Standards Organization is welcoming many new and returning board of director members in 2024. Of the nine open board of director seats, four went to MLS or Realtor association representatives and five went to members representing technology companies, developers, partners or consultants.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In a groundbreaking development for the real estate and mortgage industries, HousingWire has announced the successful merger of HousingWire Annual and RealTrends’ Gathering of Eagles. This isn’t your father’s housing event. The merged events will operate as HousingWire: The Gathering.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

Real estate brokerage William Raveis has returned to the acquisitions business. As operating partners, we help agents succeed with our world-class coaching, marketing, and innovations like Raveis365, a one-of-a-kind communication and technology platform developed exclusively for us by Microsoft.“

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Check out these nine downloadable real estate prospecting letter templates to help you make an impression in your neighborhood or zip code. My name is (your name), and I’m a licensed real estate professional with (your brokerage). Please think of me as your go-to resource for all things real estate.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Nonbank mortgage lender and servicer Pennymac Financial Services scrapped its plans to hire more than 300 staff in North Carolina due to prolonged periods of elevated interest rates. million into Pennymac Loan Services, its mortgage lending subsidiary, to establish a mortgage fulfillment production center in Cary, North Carolina.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Naturally, as is the case with nearly any form of change, this will impact both the mortgage and the settlement services industries. Open APIs represent a dramatic advance in software development, even at a time when the introduction of new ideas and concepts is only accelerating. Here’s how.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The alarming data underscores why housing professionals need to understand the financial impact of climate change on the real estate industry, George Gallagher, senior leader and principal of ESG, climate risk, natural hazard and spatial solutions at CoreLogic told attendees during a session at HousingWire Annual on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Class action attorneys allege real estate commission rates are too high and buyer brokers are being paid too much due to NAR rules. In reality, consumers are better off and business competition thrives very much because of NAR’s rules and how well local Multiple Listing Service (MLS) broker marketplaces function.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Mortgage pros have closely monitored the commission lawsuit developments since a Kansas City, Missouri jury determined that NAR, HomeServices of America , and Keller Williams conspired to inflate or maintain high commission rates through NAR’s so-called Participation Rule. You should be finding buyers before real estate agents anyway.”

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Real Estate News

JUNE 22, 2023

Errol Samuelson, chief industry development officer, explains how Zillow plans to stay on top in a growing crowd of real estate portals and agent services.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 6, 2024

Johnston is a certified real estate appraiser with advanced professional appraisal designations, project management designations, and process improvement credentials. In his new role, Johnston will drive the strategic execution and alignment of innovative products and services being developed in Candescent’s portfolio of companies.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Rebecca Anderson, senior vice president of strategic communications and public relations at loanDepot, wrote to HousingWire that the company “enjoys a long history of attracting and developing top-notch talent and “we thank Mosi for her many contributions to loanDepot and wish her the best in the next chapter of her career.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In today’s RealTrending Pritesh Damani , CTO for The Real Brokerage , shares how his team developed Leo, an AI assistant for teams and brokers. Two and a half years ago, The Real Brokerage made the strategic move to automate many of their processes. There are gimmicks and then there are some real use cases.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

California-based fix-and-flip lender Anchor Loans launched a third-party originator (TPO) channel to serve mortgage brokers, banks, private and non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) lenders and other referral partners whose clients are home builders, developers and investors. Anchor Loans was acquired by investment firm Pretium in November 2021.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2023

California Regional Multiple Listing Service (CRMLS) has announced the full release of its REcenterhub dashboard across its three MLS systems: CRMLS Matrix, CRMLS Paragon, and Flexmls. Developed internally by CRMLS, the REcenterhub dashboard introduces a range of new features designed to streamline productivity for real estate professionals.

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