Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The company said that Stebbins has been instrumental in connecting reverse loan originators with key industry partners, including real estate agents, financial planners and builders. Josh Kilty (left), senior vice president of reverse lending at Fairway, presents a lifetime achievement award to Pistol Pete Stebbins.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Real estate technology firm Knock announced Thursday that its bridge loan product is being integrated into the borrower application process at Baltimore -based NFM Lending. The Knock option is available to loan officers and real estate agents in 22 states across the country, the company explained in its announcement. . billion.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2024

Additionally, Opteon engages trained third-party data collectors, comprised of appraisers, agents, and home inspectors, who adhere to stringent requirements, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of the collected data. This efficiency translates to cost savings and improved operational workflows for lending institutions.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Full-service mortgage lender Nations Lending and local Indiana real estate firm Carpenter Realtors launched a joint venture, Commitment Mortgage , in order to offer an end-to-end experience — from finding a home to closing a loan in a cooled-down housing market. “We Nations Lending originated $3.43

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

However, for many lenders and title agents, the path to compliance can be a bit too much to handle while running a business and dodging compliance risks. GridBase is a proven leader in title and lending technology, offering a seamless, coding-free solution that simplifies migration while enhancing operational workflows.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

This is an exciting milestone for all Keller Williams agents and franchisees, Gary Keller, the co-founder and executive chairman of Keller Williams, said in a prepared statement. Stone Point is no stranger to the real estate industry, as it also holds strategic investments in Lone Wolf Technologies , Homepoint , CoreLogic and Meridian.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

That means you’ve been thinking about real estate agents…a lot. It’s the real estate agent who has the consumer’s trust at this point. Real estate agents, like mortgage loan officers, work from wherever they are today. Being where the agents are for better connections. Those days are long are over.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

The transaction will merge Redfins home search platform , which is comprised of 50 million monthly visitors, 1 million active purchase and rental listings and its network of over 2,200 agents, with Rockets mortgage services, with the goal of delivering “a more seamless experience from search to close, to servicing and future transactions.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite. We would feed them leads, but they came back to us because they didn’t know how to structure the full document deals,” Jay Voorhees, co-founder at JVM Lending, said in an interview with HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tech-focused real estate brokerage Radius , flush with $14 million in venture capital raised this past April, has launched a mortgage lending arm in California that it plans to roll out to additional markets sometime next year. The goal is to build and amplify the affiliated agents’ own brands, Kasle explained.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2025

Redfin brings significant scale to Rockets ecosystem: 50 million monthly visitors on its home search platform , 1 million active purchase and rental listings and more than 2,200 real estate agents. Redfin agents could instantly refer clients to Bay Equity loan officers in a one-stop-shop for brokerage and lending.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Mortgage industry trade group Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA) is urging government agencies to begin to have conversations surrounding the impact of the jury verdict and potential court ruling in the Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit on lending practices.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Maryland-based mortgage lender Apex Home Loans has appointed Leo Anzoleaga as its senior vice president of residential lending. Prior to his role at Apex Home Loans, Anzoleaga has held roles as a certified local facilitator at Buffini & Company, a senior vice president of residential lending at Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

loanDepot has appointed David Smith to the newly-created position of vice president of national VA lending, the company announced on Monday. In this role, Smith, a former Army sergeant, will oversee the lender’s VA lending strategy. Smith’s promotion follows the departure of Patton Gade , the nation’s top VA loan originator in 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

BPOs, often used in real estate transactions and lending decisions, can vary due to subjective assessments by different agents. The collaboration aims to enhance the accuracy and consistency of property valuations by using AI to assess property conditions and quality.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Peter Sciandra, who serves as EVP of reverse lending secondary marketing at Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. Robinson added that one of the ways that NAF is aiming to address the messaging challenge is by spreading it across multiple platforms and divisions, including the retail lending and distributed field sales divisions at her company.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Not surprisingly, affordability is inextricably linked to fair housing , as fair housing (and lending) for all is foundational to affordability for all. How to make a difference in your market With just these three instances, clearly unfair housing (and lending) still exist. Back to Bob’s American dream. But we are not powerless.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Presented by: Acra Lending. It has over 6,000 agents. The post The Real Brokerage to acquire LemonBrew Lending appeared first on HousingWire. This model may have worked well for the last two years, but it’s time for a different approach. and two Canadian providences.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2024

parent company of North Carolina -based Fathom Realty , announced Wednesday that it has started two new commission plans for agents. The two agent payment plans, Fathom Max and Fathom Share, complement the real estate firm’s existing plan known as Fathom One. Existing agents can opt to stick with their current plan.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

Blue Sage: Digital Lending Platform Our Digital Lending Platform is a multi-channel, end-to-end digital mortgage solution that provides a superior experience for lenders and customers. Plus, standalone solutions for settlement agents, servicers, and document management. #2

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2022

“By combining all-cash offers with the lower rates and fees associated with wholesale lending, independent originators give homebuyers and their real estate agents the best shot at closing deals and saving money,” Shoemaker added. Planet Home Lending entered into a $2.5 While the lender had $20.7

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MARCH 28, 2024

NAR this week sent letters asking government lending agencies to allow buyers to finance agent compensation. Thursday, it started getting answers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2025

The agency noted that the fraudulent callers pose as legitimate lenders by spoofing the caller ID number of the homeowner’s actual lending institution. The FCC estimates that Green Mirage has impersonated over 400 mortgage lenders.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Not long ago, homeowners insurance was a minor concern for most homebuyers, real estate agents and mortgage originators. Paul Scalone, a San Diego real estate and insurance agent, said he’s witnessed first-time homebuyers take a hard hit. “I Scalone has been an agent since 2019 and opened his own insurance company, Dignified.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2025

Here are three strategic areas that deserve renewed focus: Refocus on purchase lending With refinance volume shrinking, lenders must realign operations around purchase demand. It also means deepening relationships with real estate agents, builders and referral partners who are closest to the transaction.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In 2011, he founded the innovative brokerage The Agency RE, and he recently launched a real estate agent trade group that aims to serve as an alternative to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). JA: You also launched a joint venture called Aclara Lending in conjunction with Barrett Financial.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2025

Principal agents and closed loan sellers can ask their LOS administrator to add it to their available product menu, the company said. But the variations available to brokers and principal agents differ. Previously, the Platinum line aligned its minimum amount with Federal Housing Administration (FHA) lending limits.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The excited and at times nervous first-time homebuyers that James Dunn often represents ask him how that whole process of taking out a mortgage works, and Dunn, a Los Angeles-based real estate agent with eXp , replies with a few trusted names. Two hours south in San Diego, clients ask eXp agent Alanna Strei for a mortgage reference.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Potter added: “Government lending would come to a halt. “But agent commissions have never been a closing cost from a buyer perspective. We don’t even know if the buyer’s agent fee would be an allowable closing cost because they might not even be a material necessity to the transaction.” Grant said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Most agents seldom sell homes, according to a new study published by the Consumer Federation of America last week. The study, CFA’s third of three on this topic, suggests that a significant portion of agents in the U.S. sell at most five homes in a year. On this, NAR has previously reached the same conclusion.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

Rocket obviously has the moat in mortgage and Zillow has the moat in search and agent referrals, so it is not surprising to see Rocket make a move to expand its presence on the other end of the spectrum in home search and with that agent network. John Campbell, an analyst at Stephens , shares a similar view.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2022

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network , or FinCEN, is floating a proposed anti-money laundering rule that could impose reporting mandates on a broad swath of professionals in the residential real estate market, including real estate agents, brokers, attorneys, title insurance companies and settlement agents.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will not count buyer’s agent commissions as part of their allowable interested party contributions (IPCs), according to announcements from the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) on Monday.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

And with millennials emerging as the largest generation of homebuyers in today’s market, comprising 28% of all homebuyers, real estate agents need to master social media or they might miss out. Sixty percent of agents surveyed believe that social media provides higher quality leads than the MLS.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Rocket Companies will soon shut down Rocket Pro Originate , a mortgage origination platform for real estate agents, insurance agents, tax professionals and other financial professionals who are also licensed to originate mortgages.

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