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Mortgage lenders need to lean in to consumer expectations

Housing Wire

When it comes to consumers’ growing desire for a seamless, fully digital home-buying experience, coupled with COVID-19’s influence on buying behaviors, it’s safe to say there truly is “no turning back.”. From hybrid appraisals to virtual showings to RON/RIN, the digital mortgage process took center stage over the last year.

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Mike Fratantoni on MBA’s 2022 mortgage market forecast

Housing Wire

We’ve had the sharpest and yet also the shortest recession in history, record-low mortgage rates leading to record origination volumes, and record home prices as housing demand far outstripped supply. A silver lining is that we are expecting both 2022 and 2023 to be record years for purchase originations.

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Inside Redfin’s unique, brave and vulnerable business model

Housing Wire

But Alipour exited Redfin for Compass last month, due to Redfin’s sales expectations. Grace Alipour spoke loudly into the phone over the cries of her two-year-old being strapped into a car seat. “I I started at Redfin 12 years ago,” she said. And in 2017, I decided to go on full-time as a lead agent.”. The pay wasn’t great.”. On a mission.

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50 of the Top Residential Real Estate Companies in the US

HomeLight

To best meet your homeownership needs, the real estate company you choose should have expertise in the local market, a high number of home sales under their belt, a quick turnaround on home sales, and a track record of ethical transactions. There are over 106,500 real estate brokerages and over 3 million real estate agents in the U.S.

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Seven Predictions for 2023: The Grime Edition

Notorious ROB

Welcome to yet another edition of the Seven Predictions, sure to be wrong or your money back. Does not apply to VIP Subscriptions.) This is one of my favorite annual traditions around this time of year. For those keeping track at home, I just published my results from last year’s predictions , and my lifetime average is.374.

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Looking Back on 2022

GeekEstate

Many links included are to members-only articles, so won’t be accessible without an account already setup.]. Image created with: Jasper Prompt: New Years celebration over a city skyline reflecting houses reflecting technology with text reading “2022” Mortgage rates went up, and buying houses became harder.

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Looking Forward to 2022: Climate Takes Center Court

GeekEstate

[Editor’s Note: We publish a Weekly Transmission for GEM members , a series of long-form articles covering the spectrum from shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war. We need to overlay climate on top of EVERY deal. There will be eight Teslas [or] 10 Teslas.

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