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Push button. Get CEO? What’s next for Rocket

Housing Wire

Jay Farner likes to tell a story about his early days at Rock Financial , which would become Quicken Loans and eventually Rocket Mortgage. It was 1996 and Dan Gilbert , the founder and CEO, announced that the company’s mortgage bankers weren’t going to meet with applicants face to face. That was new back then.

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Rocket cautiously wades into iBuying

Housing Wire

Rocket Companies CEO Jay Farner. When Rocket Companies announced in August that it would be dipping its toes in the iBuying space, the lender didn’t do so with its usual panache. In fact, news that Rocket would be pushing into iBuying was barely a footnote in the August press release. Become a member today.

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The “Big Four” take on the upstarts in title insurance

Housing Wire

This article is part of our HousingWire 2022 forecast series. One of our big goals at Blueprint Title is to shrink the title insurance business from an $18 billion business to a $10 billion business,” Berneman, the company co-founder and CEO. “We The event is exclusively for HW+ members, and you can go here to register.

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Cover Story: The Future of Mortgage Visibility Is in Your Hands

RIS Media

Rocket ProSM Insight Is Changing the Game and Helping Real Estate Agents Enhance Their Business. Empowering real estate agents like never before, Rocket Mortgage® introduced Rocket ProSM Insight this past October to great fanfare. Unprecedented Visibility Into the Mortgage Process. Subscribe today.

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Inside Redfin’s unique, brave and vulnerable business model

Housing Wire

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman. We would go out to dinner a lot on the beach in Asbury Park on the Jersey shore,” recalled Jacki Wilfinger, an erstwhile Redfin agent in New Jersey. That changed with RE/MAX , under its swaggering CEO Dave Liniger. “RE/MAX I started at Redfin 12 years ago,” she said.

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HousingWire Magazine: August 2021

Housing Wire

Starting on page 28, you’ll see how these 100 women have taken a year that has disproportionately impacted women and defied the odds to set new records in and out of the housing finance space. The first to reimagine a new, more innovative technology, the first to sit on a board and even the first woman CEO of a company.

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7 Strategies for Agents to Survive & Thrive During the Holidays

The Close

At first glance, finding a new listing or buyer seems like a daunting task during the holidays. Buyers and sellers put off making big money decisions until after the new year. New construction projects go on hiatus in many parts of the country during the winter months. Be Extra Available.

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