Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

Following UWM’s 2021 announcement of an “All-In ” initiative — which prohibits UWM broker partners from sending loans to direct competitors Rocket Mortgage and Fairway Independent Mortgage — Atlantic Trust agreed to the “All-In” addendum, according to a complaint filed in January by UWM in a U.S. district court in Michigan.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Nominations for HousingWire’s 2024 Marketing Leaders award are open now through April 30th, 2024. The HousingWire Marketing Leaders award recognizes outstanding professionals who have demonstrated excellence in marketing within mortgage and real estate. Click here to nominate someone.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In fact, considering inter-family and estate transfers as well as for-sale-by-owners, as many as 20% of all transactions may not include the use of an agent. RealTrends + Harris Insights ‘ studies from 2002, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2014, and 2019 all show that consumers know that commissions are negotiable.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

California-based RE/MAX Proper has acquired All Nations Realty and Investments , an independent brokerage in Rancho Cucamonga. In total, 126 agents and staff members at All Nations have joined RE/Max Proper, increasing the total agent count to 203, up from 70 when the former indie brokerage affiliated with the RE/MAX brand in May.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The GTOs require title companies to identify the people behind shell companies used in all-cash purchases of residential real estate. The all-cash purchase threshold will remain $300,000 for all GTOs, with the exception of the city and county of Baltimore, which has a purchase threshold of $50,000.

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Inman

MARCH 7, 2024

The prestigious award honors the most creative, innovative and strategic-thinking marketers within the real estate industry for 2024.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

For now, we can say the labor market isn’t tight anymore, but it’s also not breaking. The four-week moving average declined slightly by 750, to 212,250 Below is an explanation of how we got here with the labor market, which all started during COVID-19. Today, we are at 157,808,000. Bachelor’s degree or higher: 2.2%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2021

HousingWire’s fourth-annual Engage Marketing event will feature experts focused on the specifics of mortgage and real estate in a purchase market. Agents and lenders need to be prepared to work with first-time buyers competing against all-cash offers and institutional investors , while still navigating some economic uncertainties.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In September, all-cash purchases represented one-third of the U.S. It’s the highest share of all-cash transactions recorded since 2014. Cleveland posted the highest share of all-cash purchases in September, reaching 49.2% of all transactions. home purchases, compared to 29.5% and 20.3%, respectively. a year earlier.

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RIS Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Curbio has announced that it is expanding its pay-at-closing home staging service to all markets following a successful pilot period and increased demand nationwide.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2020

Opendoor has resumed operations in all 21 of its markets as of Tuesday. Now, the company has added back the rest of its operational markets, including Las Vegas, Orlando, Minneapolis-St. The post Opendoor resumes iBuying in all of its markets appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

Wire and title fraud risk reached an all all-time high in Q4 2023 with 51.8% This creates additional motivation for short players or parties who are looking to express their negative view in free markets,” said Suri. On average, problematic loans had 2.2

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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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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Biden administration announced on Monday that it is looking to expand reporting requirements on all-cash real estate transactions. real estate market to launder money made through illicit activities, which the administration views as a vulnerability in the real estate market. The announcement came via a U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

In Texas and Florida , however, key market signals show diverging trends. Major markets such as Tampa, Orlando and Dallas also posted supply growth of 20% to 30% during this period. Tampa, Orlando, Houston, San Antonio and Jacksonville all had price-cut shares of at least 33%. Redfin reported that among the 10 U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

The number of first-time homebuyers made up 32% of all buyers in 2023, according to a report released by the National Association of Realtors. Against that backdrop, Zillow identified prime markets for first-time homebuyers , and half of them were nestled in the Midwest.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Against the backdrop of elevated mortgage rates and soaring home prices , discerning the evolving financial dynamics between renter-friendly and buyer-friendly markets is also paramount. Notably, renting emerged as the most affordable option across all 50 major metros, an increase from 45 metros in February 2023. difference.

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BubbleInfo

APRIL 23, 2024

But it’s not stopping those who want to pay cash and avoid a mortgage altogether – every area is showing increases in the all-cash purchases. If you don’t want to leave your local neighborhood, […] The post All Cash first appeared on bubbleinfo.com.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Roomvu , a Canadian-based video marketing platform for residential real estate agents, is partnering with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (LeadingRE) and Realty One to mark Roomvu’s expansion into the U.S. Our expansion into the U.S. Our partnerships with LeadingRE and RealtyOne are just the beginning.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 million , we could be at risk of housing inventory falling to such low levels that I would have to categorize this housing market as unhealthy. This is all about housing inventory collapsing to all-time lows in 2020-2021. A few months ago, I wrote that falling inventory was one of the biggest risks to the housing market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2023

However, the Austin housing market, which boomed during the pandemic , is now seeing barely positive migration numbers, along with Phoenix , Arizona, and Las Vegas, Nevada. The other top cities for in-migration include Jacksonville, Florida, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2023

Just when I thought days on market were returning to normal, that number for existing homes fell back down to 22 days. If the days on the market are at a teenager level or even lower, it’s never a good sign for the housing market. Instead, active listings are near all-time lows, which wasn’t the case from 2012-2019.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

But there is no universally adopted method in which all of this data comes into the title agency. The title agency isn’t receiving all of this information in one or two universally accepted methods. Not a one-time, all-hands email from management. Far from it. Far from it. Securely storing and protecting sensitive data.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Roughly 10 months since first expanding into Florida , Ryan Serhant’s eponymous brokerage is expanding into its third market in the state. Previously, the brokerage only operated in the Miami and Palm Beach County markets. We’re excited to expand into the Orlando market,” Serhant said in a statement. In early February, SERHANT.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

Redfin is expanding an agent compensation plan it launched last year by adding seven new markets starting in May, the national real estate brokerage announced Thursday. Beginning May 5, Redfin Next will be available in seven markets outside the Golden State —including Chicago, Connecticut, Dallas, Miami, New York City, Washington, D.C.,

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

The BLS jobs report data isn’t the best recession indicator, which we can all see since the recession of 2023 — forecast by so many — didn’t occur. Here are my three key points on the labor market recovery since I retired my COVID-19 recovery model on Dec. We should get back all the jobs lost to COVID-19 by September of 2022.

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2022

In this hot housing market, Michigan-based wholesale lender Homepoint understands the key to originating more home loans is ensuring more sellers accept offers made by its buyers. To do that it relies on the two words sellers increasingly want to hear: “All cash.” Presented by: Finance of America.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Average mortgage rates for 30-year and 15-year mortgages fell to all-time lows this week, Freddie Mac said in a report on Thursday. The supply of homes on the market was the lowest for any July since NAR started tracking the data about five decades ago, said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. million, a gain of 1.1% The post U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

The GTOs require title companies to identify the people behind shell companies used in all-cash purchases of residential real estate. The all-cash purchase threshold will remain $300,000 for all GTOs, with the exception of the city and county of Baltimore, which has a purchase threshold of $50,000.

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Inman

MARCH 8, 2023

Inman’s Marketing All-Stars is a nod to the most effective, creative and boundary-pushing marketing professionals in the real estate community.

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BubbleInfo

AUGUST 22, 2023

Could rates get so high that it turns into a cash-only market? Of the 118 closings this month between La Jolla and Carlsbad, 45% were all-cash, and it’s competitive. It’s heading that way. My buyers made a cash offer that was $101,000 over list on this one and didn’t make the final round. There were […]

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2023

New listing data was trending at all-time lows in 2021 abd 2022 and now it’s creating a new all-time low trend in 2023. Even though the labor market is currently showing signs of getting softer , there is no job-loss recession yet. We are roughly two months away from the seasonal decline in new listings.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2023

Can we now say that the housing market ‘s spring selling season is finally underway? In addition to the fact that housing inventory since 2020 has been working at all-time lows , purchase application data growth late in the year has pushed out the seasonal bottom for the following year. I believe that number is four months.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2024

This is the week the balls are all in the Federal Reserve ’s court. I can’t see the 10-year yield below 3.37% unless the labor market breaks — meaning jobless claims over 323,000 on the four-week moving average. Could this happen again? I believe it is in the Fed’s interest to keep existing home sales depressed.

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RIS Media

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Marketing tech tools litter the real estate industry. But how can a brokerage get their agents to adopt and make the most of the marketing technology solutions they provide? A telling statistic puts this problem into perspective: Over 40%… The post Do All Agents Really Need Every Marketing Tool?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

That is all the more impressive considering that several companies lost significant listings shares in this period. That is similar to the iBuyer slowdowns in markets like Jacksonville as the industry segment struggles to gain a foothold. The company more than doubled its share of listings during that period, going from 3.6%

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