Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

The numbers are staggering so it is no surprise that residential proptech is a heady market, capturing the imagination of entrepreneurs and institutions alike. As a marketer by profession, I tend to put these companies into categories to create a narrative and to develop brand specificity. Category 3 is somewhat established.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In five of the six size categories of teams both gross profit margins and net income margins declined from the second quarter 2023 results. This realignment can be viewed as an evolution in market dynamics, with sales dispersing into lower revenue categories (Gross Commission Income), teams and agents are still running profitable companies.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2023

A paradoxical picture is emerging as the spring market is underway. On the one hand, elevated mortgage rates continue to erode buyers’ purchasing power, and in some markets, home prices are falling. All major housing market metrics point to a restrained housing market. What can we expect in 2023? Buyer disappointment.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Upon examining the financial performance across various gross revenue categories, 2023 reveals a distinctive pattern in net operating percentages as they relate to increasing revenue levels, according to the Streamlined Quarterly Team Benchmarking Report , which looked at the financial performance of more than 200 teams across the nation.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

In the most competitive housing markets in the country, virtually every buyer has immaculate credit, a few hundred thousand dollars – or more – for a downpayment and knows what their mortgage options are. San Jose ranked first in both the “credit score” and “down payment” categories, pushing it to the top spot overall.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

The lack of housing inventory – a major pain point for real estate agents and loan officers – is an issue that Mark Cohen, principal owner of Cohen Financial Group , also sees in the upper end of the Southern California market. It’s a two-story housing market in Southern California,” Cohen said. Who are your main borrowers?

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

A lack of available revenue will help separate companies that excel in execution from those whose success has derived mostly from a favorable market. as well as rent, depreciation, general & administrative, marketing and other fixed expenses. Mortgage lenders can benefit by adopting kaizen principles.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell maintained a hawkish tone during his speech at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon — but it wasn’t hawkish enough to keep optimism from spreading across the markets as mortgage rates dropped closer to 6%. Is the market overreacting?

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RIS Media

APRIL 25, 2021

Read on for more information on the categories of homebuyers. They may start out with unrealistic expectations and end up going through a long search before they get a true sense of the market, a concept of what they can afford, and an understanding that the homes within their budget may not be perfect. First-Time Homebuyers.

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Inman

JULY 28, 2023

Starwood Capital Group Chairman and billionaire real estate investor Barry Sternlicht claims Fed inaction has all but ensured a recession is on the way. Nobody wants to sell anything today," he said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

As mortgage rates rise and home price appreciation continues , employees in the housing industry are hard at work preparing for shifting market conditions. One large deal can swing the industry from loss to a profit for the year and large commercial deals tend to be geographically concentrated in larger urban markets,” Glombicki said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

Reverse mortgage professionals often cite financial advisers as their most ideal referral partnerships, but uptake on the product category by those in the profession has been tepid.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2023

Small teams had highest increase in net margin Teams in every size category saw an increase in Gross Margin (GM), with teams having annualized revenue between $300,000 and $550,000 seeing the largest increase in GM from 72.5% of GCI to 49.3% of GCI to 29.0% of GCI, or a decline of 23.1% from Q1 to Q2. of GCI to 29.0% from Q1 to Q2.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2023

Last week was wild, and not just for the housing market. This assumes the spreads are wide as the mortgage back securities market is still very stressed. Do they even want to risk more stress in the markets? Homes are taking longer to sell so we are back to normal in that category. Already, the future pricing of a.50%

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2021

“I started as an agent up here in 2009, and I’ve been saying since then the only thing that would slow down the market would be some sort of national or international event,” said Pullin, a managing broker at Skyline Properties. It’s just a crazy competitive market.”

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GeekEstate

MARCH 26, 2024

What we like: Though virtual staging is a competitive and mature product category, the team bootstrapped to over $1 million in ARR in the past year …that’s no small feat. Learn More The post Streamlining Property Marketing with AI-Powered Virtual Staging appeared first on GeekEstate Blog. staged picture.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2023

The mortgage servicing rights (MSR) market has opened 2023 with a healthy volume of capital committed to purchasing the assets along with multiple sellers primed for deals — as evidenced by the $60 billion to $65 billion in MSR portfolio offerings currently out for bid, market experts say.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

The consensus is that the change would primarily affect the shrinking jumbo market (loans greater than $726,200) and hurt regional banks , sources said. According to George, the rule would impact only the jumbo market, a very high credit quality market. That’s 20 basis points higher than the international standard.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

The National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) announced this week that Peter Sciandra, EVP of reverse lending and secondary marketing at Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation , has joined its board of directors for the remainder of the 2023-2024 term.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

As the market shifts, interest in non-QM lending from traditional lenders and brokers has increased. HousingWire: How is the shift from refi to purchase affecting the non-QM market? But it may not be as sensitive as the more traditional refinance market. First the whole market shut down at the beginning of the pandemic.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

HousingWire journalist Will Robinson won the Data Journalism category for his data reporting series on the seismic changes in the real estate industry. Our vision is a world in which housing leaders have a complete view of the housing market, and a broad community of peers with whom they can connect.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

The market grappled with low inventory and mortgage rates that gave many homebuyers a reason to pause. Today, there are 100,000 more homes on the market than there were in March of last year — that’s 21% inventory growth. Overall, independent brokerages stole market share from the largest brands.

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Inman

APRIL 25, 2023

Using Airbnb's search categories and data around average daily rates, AirDNA has compiled a report showing the highest potential earning markets for short-term rental investors.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The most recent RMBS Credit Indices report from the Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) shows that loan pools supporting outstanding private-label residential mortgage-backed securities issuances overall are performing relatively well to date in both the prime and nonprime markets. as of January of this year. “So,

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

HousingWire: According to ATTOM Data Solutions‘ latest foreclosure market report, bank repossessions climbed 9% in the first half of 2023 compared to the first half of 2022. While credit cards and auto loans aren’t directly related to mortgages , they comprise segments within the three main consumer debt categories.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

A national syndicated columnist has taken a closer look at the reverse mortgage product category after reviewing data from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) about the industry’s advertising practices , and she says that the product can have utility for older Americans as long as a prospective borrower properly understands it.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

Because of certain persistent reputational challenges faced by the reverse mortgage industry, it can be challenging for borrowers to find objective informational sources about the product category. I’m trying to understand all things housing with the market being so crazy these days.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

The reverse lending industry’s most prominent attendee — Kristen Sieffert of Finance of America Companies (FOA), parent company of industry-leading lender Finance of America Reverse (FAR) — offered insights into various topics about the reverse mortgage product category.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

percentage points over the past three months, have thrown a wrench into the mortgage origination and private-label securitization markets. Refinancing is plummeting, purchase activity is softening, and rate volatility is making secondary market deals harder to price efficiently across prime and non-prime/non-QM deals.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

However, despite these well-intentioned programs, ADUs remain a somewhat tricky thing for many consumers to finance – and many lenders are still figuring out how to best serve this growing category. Additionally, it provides an avenue for elderly homeowners to downsize and remain in their communities.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

Getting straight to the point when creating video content is huge when marketing to Gen Z. Tip: Decide on 3-5 categories to focus your content on and try to stick with them — for example, local restaurants, mortgage content, family time, morning coffee thoughts, fun facts or acronym breakdowns.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

” In January, serious delinquencies (loans 90 or more days past due) were down month over month, subtracting 5,000 borrowers in that category and affecting 470,000 loans in total. Prepay activity in this market has been, and continues to be, driven primarily by the purchase market,” Walden said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced on Thursday that the 2023 multifamily loan purchase caps for Fannie Mae and the Freddie Mac will be $75 billion for each government-sponsored enterprise (GSE), for a combined total of $150 billion to support the multifamily market, according to an announcement from the FHFA.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

Borrower education and spreading awareness of the product category has been a key priority for most major reverse mortgage industry players for years. “We That’s a problem that’s solved with content, with influencers, PR, marketing, advertising and messaging.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

“We’re on a mission to become the most valuable platform powering business growth for our agents and brokers,” Blake Elmquist, Realtor.com’s vice president of the seller category, wrote in an email. “We We know it’s difficult for them in today’s market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2022

As the housing market enters a purchase-market cycle sparked by rising mortgage rates that have killed off a long-running refinance boom, we can expect to see mortgage-fraud schemes proliferate, industry experts say. Following is a breakdown of SARs filings by institutional category for 2021, compared with 2020.

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Realty Biz

JANUARY 21, 2021

Engel & Völkers today released its annual year-end Canadian Luxury Real Estate Market Report including 2021 forecasts for homes exceeding $1 million, projecting homes in Canada will grow in value by 7.5 As it relates to home value, there is no question both fiscally and in sentiment, it’s never been greater in the Canadian market.”.

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