Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One area in the mortgage and real estate industry that has been evolving for nearly two decades is digital closings. Much like efforts to achieve full self-driving vehicles, the road to achieve full digital closings has been bumpy. In Japan, the word for “improvement” is kaizen. E-mortgage volume spikes. Find out what those are here.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

These strategic leadership changes are designed to harness the potential of our talented team and align with our mission to provide exceptional service and support to our agents worldwide,” Michael Valdes, eXp Realty chief growth officer, said in a statement. The firm’s $143.578 billion in sales volume earned it the No. million in 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Broker Edition is designed to provide an intuitive loan management portal for borrowers while making loan management simpler at an accessible price point. Floify Lender Edition is a counterpart to Broker Edition , which was rolled out in December. Founded in 2013, Floify — a subsidiary of Porch Group Inc. —

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

Its plan takes aim at liquidity, budget authority, pay scales and other potential flexibilities to more closely align with the value it brings to the government and the broader mortgage market. This undermines Ginnie Mae’s ability to run a market-driven program.” This recommendation is based on two other ideas.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

Marketers are often the most creative and influential marketing minds in the housing economy. Their pivotal role in the industry is why we’re excited to offer marketing leaders a place to come together for a few hours to focus on what you do as a marketer and network with the brightest marketing minds.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

After two consecutive months of advances , Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index, a composite index designed to track consumers’ housing-related attitudes, intentions and perceptions, fell 2.3 In the coming months, Fannie Mae expects consumer sentiment to be closely linked to the country’s progress in containing the spread of the virus.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Regulators are paying close attention to valuations for many valid reasons. As part of our overall mission to digitize the housing continuum, ICE is marrying technological innovation with our vast data assets to bring transparency and accuracy to a complex, often confusing market.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Gen Z — born between 1997 and 2012 — is making waves in the market with their approach to homebuying. This applies to marketing available homes on the market. Gen Z wants a separate space for business One thing Gen Z likes to keep behind closed doors is their work. Gen Z values diversity and inclusivity.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

But when it comes to marketing a real estate or mortgage lending business, people who have made a sale in the past often consider marketing automation a “nice to have.”. Without marketing automation, he probably would have been right. How marketing automation saved Mike’s business. How marketing saved my business.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2021

Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI), a composite index designed to track the housing market and consumer confidence to sell or buy a home, decreased by 2.7 Last year, the market experienced record-breaking volume. The machine that’s coming for the robots. Presented by: Candor.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

housing market has reached its least affordable point in decades and housing agencies have increasingly rolled out homebuyer assistance programs to tackle this issue. A total of 135 new homebuyer assistance programs were introduced in 2023, a 6% increase over the previous year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2021

During this surge, many lenders experienced challenges as they tried to deliver an ideal customer experience while closing loans at the speed of light. . While the refi boom might be slowing down, the purchase market is heating up. While the refi boom might be slowing down, the purchase market is heating up.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

Lenders can choose to integrate and configure many third-party services such as verification of asset, verification of employment/ verification of income , e-signing and e-closing. Unlike off-the-shelf POS solutions, Blueprint Builder allows lenders to customize technology that is designed to help improve operations, Maxwell noted.

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The Close

JANUARY 18, 2024

Knowing what’s coming down the pipe regarding style, design, and technology will help sellers make thoughtful upgrades and improvements with strong returns on investment. While some interior design trends come and go (bye, granite countertops ), our picks are so amazing they might just become staples.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

First impressions matter, especially in the luxury real estate market. A well-designed and captivating digital platform instantly conveys professionalism, credibility and exclusivity — and the opposite can turn customers away. And often your first impression as a brokerage or an agent is your online presence.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2021

But the East Coast seaside town was gaining popularity way before then – millennials , especially, began flocking to the Portland housing market in 2020 to take advantage of the city’s growing startup scene of biotechnology , bioscience and biopharma. A balanced market, Davin said, requires five to six months.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

1 With over 12,000 Americans turning 65 every day in 2024, this burgeoning market will undoubtedly continue to bring more buyers and sellers to the table over the next decade. That’s where reverse purchase financing comes into play, the funding option specifically designed for older Americans. What is reverse purchase financing?

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Fancy Pants Homes

APRIL 5, 2024

You don’t have to be an architecture buff to recognize a house designed by John Lautner. Yet their designs couldn’t be more different. In the 1930s, Lautner made the move to California, where he kickstarted an extremely prolific career, designing more than 50 properties.

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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. You might be ready to take on the luxury real estate market! I’ll show you what it takes to succeed as a luxury real estate agent in any market. Kayla Lee of SERHANT.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Peak 65 serves as an historic demographic milestone of the new paradigm shift that is changing every aspect of the housing market , finance, retirement planning process and the fragile supply/demand balance of housing inventory for real estate at large. We are living in a watershed moment in history. Nothing is as it was.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Modern manufactured homes are an unusual feature of today’s housing market, the rare homeownership opportunity that is both lower-cost and high-quality. Much of this market dysfunction is also attributable to a lack of lenders. Demand for home-only financing is strong; in 2019, there were more than 200,000 home-only loan applications.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

His use of clear explanations combined with charts makes this crazy market comfortably understandable. Especially in uncertain times and market volatility, having the knowledge that I get from HW+ helps me communicate effectively with my team and my clients. In those years I originated, underwrote, processed and closed.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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. They’ll want to know you have what it takes to close the type of deal they are looking for, and that you can help them reach their financial goals.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In reality, the LOS is not the problem; the technology is doing exactly what it was designed to do. Adjust your expectations At its core, an LOS is designed to serve a very specific purpose: ensuring that lenders can originate compliant and sellable loans. The LOS is a foundational piece of technology for every lender.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Founded in 2017 in Greensboro, North Carolina by David Keener, the PREMIERE Group operates as a teamerage , providing agents with marketing and operations resources. 61 nationwide by transaction sides among all mega teams in the 2023 RealTrends + Tom Ferry The Thousand rankings, after the teamerage closed 701 transaction sides in 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

billion in closed loan volume and reached 2.5 At the same time, “human beings are not perfect creatures,” and AI is tracking human interactions as well. “The systems are designed with that dual feedback,” Krishna added. According to Krishna, the company will pursue market share growth and profitability.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Below are a few lessons title agents can take from previous down cycles that could help them adapt to current market conditions. It’s been a while since the settlement services industry faced such a competitive market. Of course, this was all but inevitable after the amazing numbers brought to market in 2021.

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RIS Media

APRIL 22, 2022

Even amid what’s been an ongoing busy market over the last couple of years, Spring is still widely considered the best season to sell a house—May especially. What better way to make your client feel appreciated than with a personalized closing gift? Closing gifts are more than just a kind gesture. Dollars to deductions .

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Realty Biz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

There’s a lot to explore on this front, but we’d say that restaurant furniture design tends to have an outsized impact when it comes to influencing the success of your establishment. For starters, the design of your furniture can become a component of your marketing efforts down the line.

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Fancy Pants Homes

MAY 9, 2024

“The design of the house, particularly the living room with its expansive views, has given us countless sunset memories, a daily spectacle that never ceases to amaze.” Architectural and design highlights Beyond its architectural pedigree, the $6.5 million. .” Like Fancy Pants Homes’ content?

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HomeLight

AUGUST 16, 2021

There are a few different types of as-is designations, and what as-is really means varies by designation. There are a few different types of as-is designations, and what as-is really means varies by designation. You’ll see the term as-is when shopping for a house, but what exactly does as-is mean?

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The Close

JUNE 16, 2022

Finding the perfect real estate closing gift for every buyer and seller you work with isn’t easy. A tall order to be sure, so here are our picks for the best real estate closing gifts for 2022: 1. If you’re listing a historic home, then offering your buyers a custom researched and designed house history will always be a hit.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 18, 2022

a pay-at-closing home improvement solution for real estate agents, brokerages and home sellers, has announced a $65M Series B funding round to support continued growth in the untapped market for fix first, pay-at-closing home improvement. Curbio, Inc., Curbio has raised a total of $93M since its founding in late 2017.

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Realty Biz

JANUARY 12, 2024

When selling a house, the real estate marketing your chosen listing agent provides is crucial. Real estate marketing plays a crucial role in selling homes by creating exposure and generating interest among potential buyers. For example, the real estate marketing materials left at the home can make a difference when selling houses.

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Fancy Pants Homes

AUGUST 27, 2021

Owned by Laura Kimpton, best known for her monumental word sculptures, the lovely house is bright and bustling with art, pops of color, and inviting spaces specially designed to get your creative juices flowing. The post LOVE, Art, and Cozy Living Close to the Venice Canals appeared first on Fancy Pants Homes.

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The Close

MARCH 18, 2022

Real estate designations separate you from the competition, demonstrate your expertise, and give you access to professional networks for referrals and support. But, with so many designations to choose from, it’s hard to tell which ones are worth your time, effort, and money. About Real Estate Designations.

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Realty Biz

JULY 25, 2023

Real estate CRMs are specifically designed for the real estate industry and can help agents and teams to manage leads, track progress, and close more deals. Here’s how you can use such a tool to help you close more deals than you would be able to otherwise without it. What do you want to achieve with your CRM?

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