Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

While they do care about finding the right fit, they are also looking for information that solves their most pressing problem: buying or selling a house. Yes, share information about your background, personal interests and professional qualifications — but not without first acknowledging how you can help the reader on the other end.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

For such a critical number, little has been written about the expected rate and its impact on HECM loans. In this month’s update, we’ll discuss two features you may not know about expected rates. This rate is used, among other things, to help determine a borrower’s initial principal limit (borrowing capacity).

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

You need a communication plan that keeps you top of mind with your sphere of influence so they’ll contact you when they need to buy or sell a home. Set a daily contact goal and call your database regularly Take the total number of people in your database and divide by 20. There are 20 business days in each 30-day period.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Dan Stewart, founder and CEO of Happy Grasshopper , to talk about the company’s tech strategy in creating content that resonates with consumers. Today we’re nurturing about 37 million contacts on behalf of our members. And this content is not typically about real estate.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

SmartZip pricing Starting price: $500 per month SmartZip is discreet about its pricing information, only revealing a starting price of $500 per month for its basic plan. Contact SmartZip directly for current pricing, custom quotes, discounts, and terms. And according to SmartZip’s website, its Reach 150 product starts at $36 per month.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

While reading about the $1.8 What we also know is that the average gross margin, the money that is retained by brokerage firms, is about 14% of gross commissions among all brokerage firms in the U.S., to set this claim — then it would equal about 124% of all the gross margin that all brokerage firms did in the last five years.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

The new paradigm brings into question many closely held assertions about who we serve, the type of homes we should be building, and the best way to pay for a home in retirement. Shift and change Everything we think we know about the marketplace and the future will demand reconsideration. We are living in a watershed moment in history.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In its motion, Hanna Holdings claimed that it should be dismissed from the suit because it does not transact business in Missouri, and the neither the company nor any of its affiliates have Missouri contacts. Additionally, the holding companies state that they have no employees or contacts in Missouri.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

FHA would be nervous about providing high principal limits to borrowers with the assumption that current short-term rates will always remain at 1%. To contact the author of this story: Dan Hultquist at dan@understandingreverse.com To contact the editor responsible for this story: Chris Clow at chris@hwmedia.com

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

If you’re having a blizzard where you live, make a video about preparedness, emergency systems, where to get the best snowblower, etc. Send a video email offering an updated market analysis and follow up with phone contact. Create a Facebook live session or a video about VA loans and how they work. In the south?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

It’s an easy 6%” is another truth bandied about. Let’s think about this in clear terms: Entrepreneurs take on enormous risk and expense to build a set of products, services, and relationships. “What value do they really add?” is a question we hear a lot. We respect them for that. What does this sound like? The life of an agent.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2022

The mortgage tech firm then calculated and compared the aggregate frequency with which those contact records triggered loan-opportunity, prescriptive-scenario and risk-and-retention alerts during the first and second quarters of 2022. According to MBA, the overall mortgage production in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

But the work that ensued was mostly about breaking down who I thought I was supposed to be, my false self, if you will. To contact the author of this story: Justin Bailey at Justin@RealtyExecutives.com To contact the editor of this story: Tracey Velt at tracey@hwmedia.com It read, “Congrats on the CEO gig.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Perpetrators also relied primarily on what FinCEN refers to as “unsophisticated means,” or those that “minimize direct contact with financial institution employees” and which include “using previously compromised identifying information and/or passwords, guessing passwords, or mass spam emails that elicit replies containing sensitive information.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

Currently about 44 million U.S. households, or about 36%, are renters. To contact the author of this story: Michael Lucarelli at michael@rentspree.com To contact the editor responsible for this story: Tracey Velt at tracey@hwmedia.com That number seems likely to go up in the coming years.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In a market as tough as this, it is always about gaining that edge,” said Dave Greenbaum, MoxiWorks’ VP of customer engagement, in a news release. For years we’ve talked about the secret weapon of annual property reviews,” York Baur, CEO of MoxiWorks, said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s an opportunity for everyone to learn more about this important history, and to better understand what this group has overcome. The thing about history is that we make more of it every day. Here is why and what can be done about it. Those loans are always the first loans to go bad and it’s about to get worse.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

That requires real estate professionals to cooperate with each other by sharing pertinent information with competitors regarding the home and about the terms of a potential transaction. Every day, consumers make choices about which broker they want to work with and how much they want to pay. The list goes on and on.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

BLVR – a marketing and promotional campaign launched by EPM on Monday – aims to reach as many retail loan officers to provide information about the wholesale channel. When retail loan originators visit the website, LOs are asked to fill out their names, contact information and comments or questions about wholesale lending.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A major point to make here is that so long as both parties are clear about their goals in trying to create a successful merger of interests, then the possibility remains for a great outcome. Steve Murray is a partner with RTC Consulting and a senior advisor to HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is sounding the alarm about an accelerating rate of scams that most commonly target older Americans, where a bad actor will pose as an official representative of the Bureau or another federal agency. It can be reached at (855) 411-2372 and operates from 8 a.m.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2022

According to Friedman, the most important thing brokers need to understand about servicing is that the information they collect with the borrower is critical for servicers to establish contact once that borrower is being serviced by them. It all starts really with the initial contact.”. Communication really is key.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

I have spoken numerous times over the past 35 years about the fairness and efficiency of what I refer to as the Realtor marketplace , which is a combination of a multiple listing service with Realtor association oversight, supported by a majority of brokerage firms and sales agents. Buyers may begin to go directly to listing agents.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 1, 2024

The law, enacted to curb illicit financial activities, requires nonexempt companies doing business in the United States to register information about the individuals who ultimately own or are in control of them. 1, 2024, also required to submit information about the individuals who formed the business. driver’s license).

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

It’s one less thing people have to wonder or worry about. To contact the author of this story: Geoff Bray at geoffrey.bray@engelvoelkers.com To contact the editor responsible for this story: Tracey Velt at tracey@hwmedia.com There is power in steady, unchanging predictability, both in life and in real estate.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Interest rates The Fed has already expressed concern about possible ripple effects from China’s economic struggles. To contact the author of this story: Vince O’Neill at vince@getplunk.com To contact the editor responsible for this story: Tracey Velt at tracey@hwmedia.com

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

It is critical that title professionals and our industry partners spread awareness about this type of fraud and educate buyers about the steps they should take to protect themselves. Scammers pose as property owners and contact a real estate agent to list the property for sale.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

First, real estate agents invite their leads or contacts to the platform, either manually or automatically. It’s all about enabling choice, flexibility, and customized solutions for home buying and selling,” Andrew Flachner, president and co-founder of RealScout,said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2023

About 50 years ago, a trailblazer named Dave Liniger created the concept of “real estate maximums,” birthing RE/MAX. About 10 years later Gary Keller founded Keller Williams, and it was KW that revolutionized the cap-commission model, which, for all intents and purposes, is a low-cost model.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Matthew Marx is the CEO and co-founder of digital marketing agency Evocalize , and has written on the topic of the new rules on social media as well as speaking about the changes on podcasts including HousingWire Daily. We now have a time clock of about six months. You have to give consent to a specific lender now,” he said. “So

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

But life isn’t about waiting for the perfect wake; it’s about learning to ride the waves, even if it means falling a few times along the way. Regularly update content, share valuable insights about the local market, and interact with potential clients. It feels safe and comfortable.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

So how can real estate agents be so cavalier about their job? Which real estate functions can AI outperform humans I asked GPT-4 about real estate valuation. Conversely, what happens if the reader is fooled into thinking that the agent is knowledgeable about the subject matter of the ChatGPT-created blog post?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

With the acquisition of Academy, Guild will be onboarding nearly 200 branches and 1,000 new employees, about 600 of which are loan officers. But she said there was no “serious talk” about an M&A deal until the end of 2023 amid a depressed mortgage market. Guild Mortgage ’s acquisition of Academy Mortgage Corp.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

When the MLS and Zillow came out, there were fears about the future of the real estate agent. To contact the author of this story: Matthew VanFossen at matthewv@ahmcloans.com To contact the editor responsible for this story: Deborah Kearns at deborah@hwmedia.com They’re still here and not going anywhere.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Make the decision today that this is your year It’s your year in spite of mortgage rates, inventory levels, who your broker is, who gets elected and what you hear on TikTok about the market. Commit to speaking with 100% of your contacts at least every 90 days Speak with them, pop by or take them to coffee.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2022

About 2% of monitored contacts, whose loan closed less than 6 months ago, shopped with a competitor that day, an 11% decline from the previous quarter. In the third quarter, less than 3% of customers received a mortgage from a competitor in the last 24 hours, down 12% from the previous quarter, according to Sales Boomerang.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For example, when a consumer is looking at an agent’s RealReport, they typically give out their contact information. RealReports arm real estate agents with every fact and figure they need about a property on both the buy and sell side,” James Rogers, CEO of BHR, said in a statement.

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