Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

FHA will move forward with its proposal that permits contributions by the property seller, real estate agent, builder, or developer to HECM for Purchase borrowers’ closing costs,” the update said. The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) quickly lauded the development, according to an announcement issued by the organization.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

For most real estate agents, working with a reliable lending partner is essential to a smooth and successful transaction. That partnership is everything,” Amy Breach, a Seattle-based Keller Williams agent, told HousingWire in late 2022. The lender and LO can make or break the transaction.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Those too young to remember the wild west of real estate believe that real estate commissions have always been evenly split between seller’s and buyer’s agents, with each receiving a portion of the sale price. This misconception obscures the reality that, historically, buyers lacked formal representation.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Together, they will boast a total of 42 real estate agents , serving clients across different neighborhoods and price points throughout the Las Vegas Valley. Two of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Nevada Properties ’ top teams, The Mullin Group and The Blankfeld Group, have merged to create The Mullin Blankfeld Group.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

by 1% to 2% just by cutting the commission paid to buyer’s agents.” This is from the Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal, “Ninety percent of transactions offer buyer agent commissions of exactly 3%.” Louis Federal Reserve that says American home equity amounted to nearly $30 trillion at the end of 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

Benefiting from longer periods of homeownership compared to other generations, boomers approach these transactions with substantial equity, enabling strategic housing trades.” Across all generations, the role of real estate agents also remains pivotal. Similarly, sellers showed a high likelihood of reusing or referring their agents.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

After the release of proposed new rules for the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) for Purchase (H4P) program late last year, the reverse mortgage industry expressed a lot of excitement. AARP applauds HUD’s update to its Home Equity Conversion Mortgage for Purchase Program which keeps vital consumer protections in place,” Jones said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

The HECM for Purchase is not a refinancing tool; it is not akin to a Home Equity Line of Credit ( HELOC ). And after years of advertisements and TV commercials promoting the benefits of better-known reverse mortgage loan uses like continuing to live in your current home while tapping your home equity, 4 who could blame them?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

Pampulov will be responsible for the development of PunchListUSA’s proprietary products, data infrastructure, home lifecycle services, and predictive pricing models, according to the firm. “I Pampulov comes to PunchList USA with two decades of experience in real estate data strategy and product development.

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Realty Biz

JANUARY 10, 2022

Many more people live in the surrounding area on acreage or at least large lots that have been individually developed. We think there might be good money to be made by developing the acreage into a residential development with large lots (1/2 acre each). How do real estate developers make money? Thanks in advance.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Through the development of improved and sophisticated systems, protocols and technology, these operations leaders are driving their companies to growth and success. In its 8th year, the HW Insiders program is spotlighting the talented operations professionals who are laying the foundation of success for their organizations.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

5000 list an impressive five times: Total Expert , which offers CRM and data-driven customer engagement solutions, turning customer insights into actions to increase loyalty and drive growth; and FirstClose , a tech solution provider for HELOC and home equity lenders. Other established names to make the Inc. 4,105 FirstCloseFirstclose.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

Mangus then worked to build the dedicated reverse mortgage department at his new company from scratch and has found a notable degree of success by building Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) for Purchase (H4P) business through the use of continuing education (CE) classes designed for licensed real estate agents. Curtis Mangus.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Amid a higher rate environment when refinances are scarce, Martell said that loanDepot sees opportunities in other products, such as renovation loans and home equity lines of credit (HELOCs). AI will help areas like the call center, product development and underwriting so lenders can make “better decisions quicker,” he said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2022

Critics argue that prospective homebuyers should pay real estate agents directly out of pocket — as opposed to the more common practice of the listing broker paying the buyer broker’s compensation. The Biden administration has placed an emphasis on increasing equity in the housing market, and we applaud those efforts.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Walking that thin line is becoming increasingly important as more distressed sales are pushed up-funnel into the pre-foreclosure marketplace — a trend that began developing about 10 years ago and has accelerated in earnest over the last two years.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Monday published a new version of its Single Family Housing Handbook 4000.1, which includes numerous updates to its guidance for the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program overseen by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).

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Realty Biz

MAY 4, 2021

Real estate development is quite a bit different from traditional real estate investing. The appeal of real estate development is the potential for higher operating profits during ownership and larger capital gains upon sale. Residential Development Project Scope.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Yet as surrounding neighborhoods appreciated in value with increased amenities and services, rising costs pushed out the mostly Black, longtime residents — excluding them from the benefits of development.” I had an agent that lived in the city say, “Oh, I only work in the suburbs.” I hope you will join me.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2023

The fight for gender equity in the workplace remains a challenge, especially when it comes to the number of women in leadership positions. As an organization, and in partnership with NAR, we’re always looking for new ways and new offerings that can help bring women in real estate together for professional networking and development.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2020

NFHA will also have a seat on the LBGTQ+ Real Estate Alliance’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council, the LGBTQ+ Mortgage Advisory Council and the Sponsor Advisory Board. We look forward to Anthony’s leadership and welcoming many of the brand’s brokers, managers and agents into the Alliance.”.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Access to a hyper-local agent is more important now than ever. I would be happy to give you an equity analysis and let you know how much equity you have in your home. Better yet, get permission from the listing agent to do a mailer around their sold listing, if possible.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

By the time the average US homeowner retires, it’s often stated that 83% of their wealth will come from their real estate’s equity, however, the challenge is most homeowners don’t consider their home an asset. According to NAR over 69% of buyers have a home to sell, so really homeowners represent the earliest buyer.

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Realty Biz

JULY 1, 2022

Williams currently serves as Founder and Managing Principal of Dabar Development Partners. Dawanna Williams is the Founder and Managing Principal of Dabar Development Partners – a real estate development firm that offers modern living solutions with intelligent planning, architectural ingenuity, and environmental integrity.

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Real Trends

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Meanwhile, real estate tech innovation exploded, prompting strategic agents to learn how to leverage for the benefit of their business in 2023 and adjust their strategies to better meet the needs of increasingly savvy home buyers and sellers. Only focusing on the top of the funnel is an antiquated solution to a persistent problem.

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RIS Media

MARCH 7, 2022

The American Land Title Association (ALTA) Board of Governors approved the creation of a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Advisory Council, composed of ALTA members who have been critical in developing initiatives at their organizations, the organization recently announced. For more information, visit www.alta.org.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The top three opportunities mortgage pros see are new construction (15.3%), first-time homebuyers (14.5%) and cultivating referrals and building new relationships with buyers, builders and agents (13%), according to HousingWire ‘s Q4 2023 LenderPulse survey. About 37% of respondents were spending money in social media and 34.8%

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

On the existing-home market , agents say the lack of inventory is due to a rate-lock effect, as homeowners with mortgage rates at 5% or below are reluctant to give up their rate unless a major life change necessitates a move. “You said Robert Cavinder , a broker at Burlington-based Keller Williams Central.

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Realty Biz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

eXp Realty ® , “the most agent-centric real estate brokerage on the planet™” and the core subsidiary of eXp World Holdings, Inc. That's why EXPCON 2023 is bringing together top experts and agent thought leaders to share their insights, strategies and best practices on leveraging AI effectively and using it to increase productivity.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Utah-based software developer offers a private-label digital mortgage platform and mobile app designed to connect lenders with borrowers and real estate agents. In fact, prior to founding SimpleNexus in 2011, CEO Matt Hansen worked on the Simplifile development architecture team for nearly five years.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

In Q2, Better decided to wind down its in-house real estate agent business to focus on partnering with third-party real estate agents. The company’s latest filing shows the firm had less than five agents as of June 8, 2023, declining from 470 agents as of December 31, 2021, and about 80 agents as of December 31, 2022.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Stone Point Capital has purchased Vista Equity Partners’ stake in real estate software company Lone Wolf Technologies. Financial terms of the transaction with Vista Equity Partners weren’t disclosed. million agents, 8,000 brokerages and hundreds of MLS ’ and associations in North America.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2021

KWx also announced Travis Peace as its first head of business development and partnerships. Peace and Liebert overlapped at USAA , an insurance agent for the military and their families. Some real estate agents inside and outside Keller Williams said that the moves were uninspired and noted those advancing were all white men.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Approximately 91% of the company’s volume last year consisted of purchase loans, with refis accounting for 5% and the remaining share coming from home equity lines of credit (HELOCs). Better is confident that its development of a “supervised learning network“ will further automate many parts of the mortgage process.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) for Purchase (H4P) program saw its share of total HECM endorsements in 2023 rise to its highest level since 2019. According to the most recent annual report to Congress by the U.S. That’s not saying all that much.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

million in equity financing and $17.5 The funding will go toward product development and business development with real estate agents to reduce their time-to-close to 10 days, significantly higher than the industry average. How this real estate brokerage’s unique model generates more profit for agents.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2022

In his new role, Hogle will manage the firm’s retail operations, overseeing growth and development of retail sales and the production network, while supporting the firm’s business channels. Full-service lender Cherry Creek Mortgage announced Rick Hogle has joined the company as its chief revenue officer.

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