Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2025

Expanding homeownership, embracing commercial real estate As president of NAHREP, Herrera says her main priority is expanding access to homeownership amid todays affordability crisis. When I started, commercial brokers were majority white males, and it was hard to break in, Herrera said. But I became the first homeowner in my family.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

So why aren’t more commercial real estate (CRE) entities – investors , principals, banks, law firms or developers – seeking the same? Market conditions have certainly trended downward for residential or commercial real estate. Right now, we’re generally seeing more mixed-use developments and multifaceted commercial projects.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

Stewart Title of Louisiana is expanding its support for commercial real estate transactions, through the addition of Ashley Coco as the firm’s Louisiana underwriting counsel, it announced Tuesday. Before joining Stewart, Coco was the lead attorney heading the commercial services department of Commerce Title in Baton Rouge.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

The company said the additional capital will be used to advance MoxiWorks aggressive product strategy, which is aimed at helping brokerages and agents win and close more deals. Situations like this create huge uncertainty, but also a huge opportunity for evolution to support the modern agent.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Finance of America Companies (FOA) has entered into an agreement to sell the operational assets of its Finance of America Commercial vertical to Roc Capital Holdings LLC. The terms of the deal do not include the FOA commercial vertical’s financial assets, which are comprised of loans and securitizations, according to the 8K filing.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

While not yet reaching the trillion-dollar mark, Miami ‘s total real estate value, including both residential and commercial properties, was estimated at approximately $650 billion as of 2023, according to the Miami Association of Realtors. Each closed over 50 transaction sides in 2023. As of Sept.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

Notably, the company recently launched its AI-powered website, Rocket.com , brought on Katie Sweeney as executive vice president of broker advocacy for Rocket Pro , made a Super Bowl commercial comeback and kicked off a companywide rebranding campaign.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Why are real estate statistics important for agents? Is there a better way to make yourself the go-to agent in your area? Visit Altos Research Sources: Altos Research Buyer statistics Part of being a great buyers agent is getting inside the mind of a buyer. 89% of sellers used an agent to sell their home.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

On Tuesday, at the preliminary approval hearing for defendant MLS Property Information Networks (MLS PIN) settlement, Judge Saris r efused to grant preliminary approval to the settlement as the plaintiffs and defendants were hoping to expand the class to include commercial property sellers and mobile home sellers. Why do you care so much?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

A pair of top-producing agents are returning to Coldwell Banker Realty. Additionally, she has experience in commercial real estate transactions. In 2023, she closed 57 transaction sides for a total of $29.979 million in sales volume. This earned her the No. Most recently, in 2020, she set the record with the sale of a $7.5

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2025

Experiencing it firsthand confirmed what he had hoped for a deep agent-first mindset that he believes will power the companys next phase of growth. Less than two months into the role, hes clear on his focus: organizational stability, deeper investments in agent education and technology, and measured expansion.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The virtual notary services industry has become increasingly popular amid the COVID-19 pandemic as businesses have adopted remote signatures to adhere to social distancing protocols while closing on mortgages and other loans. Electronic closings supported by remote online notarization (RON) offer advantages to notaries, borrowers and lenders.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

In 2024, agents have two choices; learn how to run your entire business from the apps on your phone or tablet, or find a new career. It’s simple enough for most agents to learn quickly, but has enough features to keep team leaders and managing brokers happy. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

Is virtual staging finally ready for its close-up? Our team of agents, brokers and marketing pros thoroughly tested each app to vet their image quality, features, ease of use and pricing. Its an ideal solution for agents and teams who want to generate large volumes of Zillow-ready virtual staging images at an affordable price.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2022

Trusted by over 1 million users, NotaryCam’s eClose 360 platform allows borrowers to close anytime from pretty much anywhere. NotaryCam’s customers are the first to express their satisfaction with the company’s future-thinking approach to closings. The pandemic has brought extra hurdles for everyone. Rick Triola.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2025

While telepathy isnt an option, predictive analytics will get you pretty close. Real estate agents can use this data to identify motivated sellers and people who are likely to buy a home. While some agents may shy away from using high-tech solutions, SmartZips user-friendly platform is perfect for agents at all experience levels.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

If the trend of private listings continues, residential real estate will look more like what it does in Europe or the commercial market in the U.S. Its about protecting Zillows ability to profit from your listings by selling your leads to competing agents. This isnt about protecting consumers, Florance wrote.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

CoStar said it plans to continue running the commercials throughout the rest of 2024, including during major TV broadcasts like the Oscars and the NBA playoffs. No other competitor comes close to our investment to drive leads to all agents,” the video states. We’ve climbed from No. 5 or 6 to No.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

New York-based AmTrust Title Insurance Company on Tuesday introduced MidPoint , its new title closing solution enabling title agents to work outside their geographic areas to serve clients nationwide. MidPoint’s three transaction service levels are the “title-only workflow,” the “sub-escrow workflow,” and the “full-escrow service.”.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

Name Job Title Company Name Aaron Heidorn Director of Software Engineering & Infrastructure Cloudvirga Aaron Smith Director, Sales CubiCasa Adrian Provost Chief Executive Officer Realty ONE Group Terminus Ana LeBlanc Human Resources Director InterLinc Mortgage Annie Lemon Producing Branch Manager Gold Star Mortgage Financial Anthony Russo Diamond (..)

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Title First has grown into one of the largest independent title agencies in the nation, building strong partnerships across the United States to serve its residential, commercial, and lender customers in their purchase and refinance transactions,” Lessack said in a statement at the time of the acquisition.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Carolyn Monroe, the president of Old Republic’s title insurance segment, attributed the relatively small yearly drop in 2022 to a strong performance by the firm’s commercial title insurance sector. Commercial premiums reported for full year 2022 represented an all-time high for the title group.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

The portfolio of loans examined included residential, commercial investor and business purpose loans. issues, which FundingShield says indicates a lack of appropriate controls by closing agents and lenders to identify and fix issues. “Q1 On loans that exhibited problems, the analysis found an average of 2.22 of transactions.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As a real estate agent, you may think clients should care more about their next home than your life story. And while that may be true, well-crafted real estate agent bios can build trust and credibility and serve as a powerful tool in an agent’s marketing arsenal — giving prospective clients. So let your personality shine.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The acquisition was made for $250 million in cash and is expected to close by the end of this year, pending closing conditions and review, according to a release. The addition of Homesnap will increase the number of brokers and active agent users on CoStar’s platforms from approximately 100,000 to over 400,000, the company said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

Susan McClain was named vice president of agent success, a role in which she will focus on increasing agent support and satisfaction. Sean Murphy is eXp’s new senior vice president of commercial growth, while Nadia Habib was promoted to the role of senior vice president to oversee growth in Canada.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2021

Jason Gordon, AmTrust Title president, said Bozzomo is “ideal” for the role based on his experience with complex commercial transactions — including retail, office and multifamily. Like most in the title and closing industry, underwriters have had to adapt to a post-pandemic housing industry.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2022

We caught up with Hurst to talk about his new role and why the firm is looking to invest in commercial real estate tech startups and mortgage tech firms. Since we now have good coverage across those segments, our more recent investments have primarily focused in two areas – mortgage technology and commercial real estate.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2022

It is just ridiculous to put that on real estate agents and companies,” Giguiere said. That is not the role of a real estate agent. There is already so much liability and so many things put on us, as agents, it should not be our job to keep track of who paid cash for a home and who didn’t.”.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2021

The company announced this week that Cassidy’s role will include evaluating and monitoring NATIC’s independent policy-issuing agencies, settlement and escrow agents, and approved and supported attorneys for compliance with agency underwriting agreement requirements, company programs, legal and regulatory requirements.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Howard Hanna Real Estate Services closed a huge deal late Tuesday, announcing a strategic partnership with Rand Realty , giving the massive independent brokerage a sizable foothold in the booming suburbs of New York City. The Rand family will continue managing the new firm, which also has a commercial arm and a title services business. “At

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

The move strengthens the bank’s balance sheet amid a confidence crisis related to its commercial real estate loan portfolio. In connection with the transaction, which is expected to close on March 11, NYCB will sell and issue shares of common stock at $2 and a series of convertible preferred stock with a conversion price of $2.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Agent-to-agent referrals aren’t as commonly mentioned in most real estate lead generation training courses as cold calling or door knocking. Yet referrals are one of the best ways new agents can close more deals and earn more money. Sometimes, a real estate agent may choose not to work with a specific buyer or seller.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2023

Daryl Owen , the founder of top California independent brokerage Nationwide Real Estate Executives , is joining eXp Realty and taking 200 agents along with him. In 2022, his team closed $887 million in sales on 1,091 transactions, with an average home price of $740,000, eXp said in a statement Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2021

Farmer, who has been promoted from within, will continue to serve as state counsel for First American Title’s Mississippi operations while providing underwriting guidance and assistance to title agents in Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee. Farmer is a founding member of the Land Title Association of Mississippi.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In addition, both non-commercial and commercial title revenue were down, with yearly decreases of 18% and 5%, respectively. The market has shifted away from refinance towards purchase and commercial transactions, which is where we are stronger. The firm’s title segment reported an operating revenue of $647.9 year over year.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2021

Margaret Redman has been named director of national commercial services and senior regional underwriting counsel for North American Title Insurance Co. as the firm’s parent company begins the process of rebranding in preparation for an independent public offering. but projects to be at 5% by 2023.

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