Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Let’s face it, mortgage sales is not for the weak. As an introvert, when I first started in the operations side of the mortgage world I dreaded the weekly pipeline calls with the sales manager I supported. Social media has also played a big part in my branding and business model. Cold calling?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Each year, RealTrends Verified identifies the country’s most successful residential real estate brokerages, teams and agents – verifying transaction sides and closed sales volume for top-performing real estate brokerages — to give you the full picture of real estate performance.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, payments, insurance and proptech. A signer such as a customer closing on a loan appears before a notary on a video call and they complete, sign and notarize the document, he said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

successfully closed on the sale of this luxury, 4,700-square-foot property on Park Avenue on the Upper East SIde of Manhattan for $13 million. Working in real estate sales for a few years, and now you want to challenge yourself and raise the stakes? Kayla Lee of SERHANT. Don’t try to do everything or be everything to everyone!

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The allure of the name recognition of large national brands is causing many independent brokerages to affiliate as mortgage rates rise and housing inventory remains low. Ocala, Florida -based Foxfire Realty is the latest firm to join a national brand, announcing its move to RE/MAX on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Swann’s team closed $101 million in sales volume in 2022, according to America’s Best Real Estate Professionals ranking on RealTrends. It ranked 90th in sales volume among small teams nationwide. The Swann Group , led by Rachel Swann, has joined Coldwell Banker Realty in Northern California from Compass.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

As the lifeblood of the industry, agents play an important role in attracting clients, closing deals and determining the ultimate profitability of a brokerage. Usually, less brand recognition as compared to well-established traditional firms. Today, new brokerage models and disruptors are the norm.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As a result, homeowners either must sell their current home and suffer through double moves and short-term rentals to access the equity they’ve accrued, or they have to make contingent offers that require the sale of their current house to close. Buy before you sell (BBYS) products may be the answer.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Final decisions on these employees are still being worked out based on the needs to wind down the current pipelines and close out the Academy business, she said. The acquisition of Academy’s retail assets is scheduled to close by the end of February. Guild Mortgage ’s acquisition of Academy Mortgage Corp.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The Opendoor presentation projected sales of more than 37,500 homes in 2023. While home sales are down nationwide in 2023’s high-mortgage-rate environment , sales data suggests the aspiring disruptors are losing ground to industry stalwarts. Zillow Offers’ last full year of home sales netted a loss of $881 million.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A key differentiator of ours (and something missing from the market at large) is a focus on the loan officer’s experience,” said Jason Smith, SVP Sales and Marketing. “A A key differentiator of ours (and something missing from the market at large) is a focus on the loan officer’s experience,” said Jason Smith, SVP Sales and Marketing. “We

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RIS Media

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The streak of record-shattering home sales stretched to three months in September, as closings rose 21.1 September sales were only 3.3 The median sale price of $289,900 was just $100 below the report record set in August 2020, and 12.8 Closed Transactions. Median Sales Price – Median of 53 metro median prices.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The great promise of short sales and other distressed pre-foreclosure sales as a foreclosure alternative is most fully realized in a competitive and transparent online auction marketplace, according to recent data from the Auction.com Market Validation Program (MVP) for pre-foreclosure sales. Falling Short. More than 1.7

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

It is open to any independent teams and brokerages that are “culturally aligned” with eXp Realty, have more than 50 agents and a minimum of $100 million (US/CAN) in sales volume in the originating country over the previous 12-month fiscal period, the brokerage said. “The The team has 24 offices across New England.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

SmartZip users can launch targeted marketing campaigns to reach these “hot leads” and capture more listings, and its algorithm gets smarter with every home sale. Let’s learn how. Summary How does SmartZip work? FAQs Is SmartZip right for you? And according to SmartZip’s website, its Reach 150 product starts at $36 per month.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2023

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. Owen cited the brand’s revenue share model, network size and collaboration opportunities as reasons for making the jump.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

From the thrill of a sale to the pursuit of new leads, it keeps you on your toes. You can’t advise yourself, you’re too close to it. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Real estate is a vibrant, dynamic and competitive industry. Ventures. “So An unbiased view is worth millions.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A national research study conducted by Brand Builders Group found that some 74% of all Americans and 85% of millennials aged 35 to 44 say they are more likely to trust someone who has an established personal brand. Follow these tips to differentiate yourself from the pack and enhance your professional brand.

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RIS Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

A year ago, in March 2020, on the heels of an active January/February that set the year up as a strong one for home sales, the reality of COVID-19 hit the U.S. “Our advice was for them to reach out to people with kindness and a helping hand—not a sales pitch. million existing-home sales, a 5.9% total of 5.64

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

For real estate professionals, this option presents an opportunity to capture more sales. With this option, older homebuyers can increase their purchasing power with fewer financial worries and limitations as they move towards or through retirement. Yet staggeringly few are aware of its existence. What is reverse purchase financing?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

I take all that experience I’ve learned over time, along with the experience of some of my team members, to help them get up to speed with reverse mortgages if they’re brand new [to the business],” Schmidt explained. “I Technically, it encompasses brokers, principal agents and closed loan sellers,” he said. “We

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2023

1 in sales volume to to the top of the list and retained their No. 1 this year, with 397,138 transactions side, sparking an incredible growth line for the brand. of all brokerage-controlled sales in the country, staying even with the 2022 rankings, with 35.9% Last year, Compass rose to No. eXp Realty moved from No.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

We saw some good growth this week, and hopefully, in 2024, we can close the gap and get back to 2021-2022 data on new listings. This explains why home prices fell last year, with crashing sales and a higher percentage of price cuts. The question now is: Have we hit the seasonal peak in inventory for 2023? Weekly inventory change (Nov.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

The stunning decline in profitability suggests Rocket has much work to do as higher mortgage rates wipe out refinancing opportunities and even depress purchase sales. billion in closed loans from April to June, down from $83.7 The gain-on-sale margin, however, grew from 2.78% to 2.92% in the period. . The company originated $34.5

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Realtor.com

JANUARY 1, 2021

We’ve found 11 great homes on the market right now that are brand-new—all ready for you to move in and make a fresh start. Located close to the Braves’ stadium and the Silver Comet Trail, the home abuts a green space. But how about leaving your old house behind and toasting new beginnings in the new year? Price: $457,881.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

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

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2023

Last week’s listings rate remained super low and available inventory of homes for sale fell again by almost 1% to 410,000, according to Altos Research. Christina Panos: We work closely with agents to ensure their marketing strategies are nimble.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2023

In this role, Hanson will lead a consolidated marketing team and oversee the development of the brand, digital marketing, and the organic and digital lead generation campaigns, the company said. The lender closed its wholesale channel in Q3 2022 after its origination volume plummeted in the face of increased broker competition.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2021

Today, RealTrends + Tom Ferry announced the 16 th annual The Thousand list of America’s top 1,000 real estate sales professionals and teams. Today, RealTrends + Tom Ferry announced the 16 th annual The Thousand list of America’s top 1,000 real estate sales professionals and teams. closed sides in 2020 versus 106.9

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Motto Mortgage, a national mortgage brokerage franchise, and wemlo , a mortgage processing solution with an all-in-one digital platform, tapped Chris Erickson as vice president of product and strategy for both brands this week. For the Motto brand, Erickson will focus on streamlining the product ecosystem for franchisees.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The more agents you have a positive relationship with, the more potential borrowers will come your way, leading to more closed sales for you and the agent. If you’re able to communicate more clearly and more often, you’re less likely to run into delays or confusion about turn times or closing dates.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

” — Jennifer Leonard , vice president of brand strategy at AIME. If you take good care of your customers, they will advocate for you, and there’s no better sales tool than a testimonial.” What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? “Always hire people that are smarter than you!

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

LenderLogix, a provider of mortgage automation software and application programming interfaces (APIs), has launched LiteSpeed, a white-label streamlined point-of-sale (POS) system that serves small- to mid-sized mortgage lenders. The company was featured in HousingWire’s Tech 100 in 2022.

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Realty Biz

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The ERA network was also the first national real estate brand to offer home warranties in 1973 and we were also the first to offer a guaranteed home sale program. There are many other firsts, but one that shows our relevance today is that we pioneered the flexible branding model. Can you talk about the program?

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2023

Clearly, over the last decade, teams have grown far faster than individual agents in terms of closed transactions. However, in terms of the average price of properties closed, our research shows that individual agents have the upper hand. in terms of closed transactions from 2011 to 2022. over that period. versus 117.0%.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Mortgage professionals need a solution that gives them total insight across the customer life cycle and that can offer multiple functionalities that keep them top of mind with customers – even after the loan closes. Using Surefire, marketing and messaging is fast, simple and always available.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It’s the backbone of the lending process , responsible for handling complex calculations, managing compliance and orchestrating a multitude of moving parts to transform an application into a closed loan. In reality, the LOS is not the problem; the technology is doing exactly what it was designed to do.

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