Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2025

PAL Realty originally began as the resale division of The Plantation at Leesburg, a retirement community developed by the Smith Richardson Family Trust and Lakewood Development. The merger expands the reach of Century 21 Myers Realty to seven offices and brings its agent count to approximately 160. Their daughter, Mary M.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

This is a developing story. Based on the SEC filings, the Freddie Mac board removals included six members including board chair Lance Drummond, and Jane Prokop, who joined the board on Jan. Pulte installed himself as board chair, who joins the board alongside Brandon Hamara, Clinton Jones and Ralph Cody Kittle.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Weaker demand from the local community developers buying at auction suggests continued weakness in the retail housing market into early 2025 given that those local community developers are anticipating retail market conditions about six months into the future,” Daren Blomquist, vice president of market economics at Auction.com, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

This tailwind is currently under threat as developers grapple with the short-term and long-term impacts of new and evolving tariffs on building materials. But the cost of renting remains well above pre-pandemic levels, according to the newest Realtor.com rent report released Wednesday. But compared to March 2019, the median rent is still 20.2%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2025

At the same time, people like Tom Ferry developed coaching strategies that team leaders began to employ, a function that’s a natural fit for a team. What that creates is [that] we actually have alignment with our team leaders,” said LPT CEO Robert Palmer. “Everybody wins, and it’s led to massive growth.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. New home sales grew over last month in the latest Census report , but homebuilders are now facing a supply issue their inventory is building up. This is the reason why housing starts are at recession levels today. This situation poses a risk to construction labor in 2025.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

The brokerage has hired industry veteran Nikol Solares as senior managing director of new development marketing. ” Nikol Solares Solares brings 20 years of experience in luxury development, new construction sales and marketing to her new role. .” Adam Vellano was promoted to managing director of the South Florida market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The states business-friendly regulations and tax policies have led to rapid population growth in recent years, including an estimated 16,000-person inflow from 2020 to 2022 alone. But as the states population has grown, its housing supply which was already beginning to tighten more than a decade ago has failed to keep pace. Its a big deal.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

Michael Nourmand, president of Beverly Hills-based Nourmand & Associates Realtors , said in an interview Wednesday with HousingWire that safety is the top priority. This law applies to those who sell food, emergency supplies, medical supplies, building materials, and gasoline. But those on the scene have already witnessed price gouging.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A lower Fed funds rate can assist with land purchases and apartment construction, but that process would take considerable time before we see any development. Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari recently stated that housing demand is high so the clearance rate (mortgage rates) should be higher. percent (±11.6 percent (±9.0

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Mortgage lending, small business loans, and investments in local development projects are all driven by local lenders who know their markets, live in their communities, and have a vested interest in the growth of their economies. The FHLBanks are also key players in affordable housing and community development initiatives.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Step 4: Develop a recruitment and retention strategy Attracting and retaining top talent is critical to scaling your team. Offer training, mentorship, and career development plans to support long-term success. Action plan: Develop client-centric processes that make transactions seamless and stress-free.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

While state-level ADU policies take aim at local rules that hamper ADU development, there’s still work to be done. Colorado’s HB24-1152 and Arizona’s SB 1415 followed the main tenets of what’s become a standard approach to stoking ADU development. That’s because impact fees can add up to more than enough to stifle ADU development.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2025

Kobetz, a lifelong Mendocino County resident, transitioned into real estate in 2017 after a career in his family’s motorsports dealership, where he developed sales and finance experience. The move expands Century 21 ‘s presence in Mendocino County and the surrounding region.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2024

It prevents the development of a skilled workforce that can adapt to new technologies and market conditions. Employee input and engagement are crucial during the development and implementation phases. Change Management Develop robust strategies to manage the human side of technological change. Is technology the problem?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2025

On Twitter today, the Minneapolis Fed tweeted out a quote from one of their recent articles : “9th District apartment construction is expected to slow down soon as number of construction permits sought by developers fall. It’s not booming. It’s not falling.” ” message.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Monday announced the disbursement of $72.6 million in new funding under the Indian Community Development Block Grant (ICDBG) program, adding up to $2 million to 38 individual community recipients to bolster housing development , expansion and preservation.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2025

is going to have an easier time with product development thanks to a $2.6 The company said the funding round will accelerate Shilo’s product development and go-to-market expansion. “AI million seed funding round. The AI assistant firm announced the funding round on Friday. That teammate’s name is Shilo.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2025

Shelly Hettleman, who served as the chief sponsor of the Senate version, is happy with the development. Janine Lind, president of nonprofit multifamily developer Enterprise Community Development , lauded the signing in a statement provided to HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2025

Using growth indicators that measure upcoming construction and development, southern metros take eight spots in the top 10 list. in builder/developer land, 4% in recent build and 1.1% Southern housing markets have dominated growth lists over the last few years, and a report by CoreLogic today shows Southern markets are still hot.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The increase was largely attributable to the way that FHFA developed its market forecast.” Fannie and Freddie are also legally mandated to follow housing goals that “serve as benchmarks for measuring how the GSEs facilitate the financing of affordable housing for low-income families,” the report stated.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2025

Over the weekend, fears rose that the 10-year yield would climb to 5%, leading to 8% mortgage rates. However, Monday morning arrived with a sense of calm. The 10-year yield is now nearing a more balanced position at 4.35%, reflecting what I believe it should have always been after the jobs report two Fridays ago.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2025

Originally developed and launched internally through its NAF Black Impact initiative, the HAC program has trained more than 1,000 company employees, NAF said. Gatling said the program includes tailored marketing materials to attract diverse clientele, as well as professional development opportunities.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2025

One of the lesser known storylines in housing economics is that the improvement in mortgage spreads since 2023 has contributed to a noticeable trend in purchase application data for 2025, which is now showing 15 consecutive weeks of positive year-over-year growth. Under normal circumstances, the spread typically ranges from 1.60% to 1.80%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Without more clarity on mortgage rates , substantial growth in housing permits is unlikely. percent (19.7 percent)* above the revised November rate of 674,000 and is 6.7 percent (16.2 percent)* above the December 2023 estimate of 654,000. percent (19.7 percent (16.2

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These include six “Develop the Developer” academies from Freddie Mac, with the goal to better address the capacity for housing development in rural areas. And Fannie Mae “will focus on enabling rural Community Development Financial Institutions to access secondary markets,” the FHFA explained.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Your program should provide a foundation of technical skills but also help participants develop the soft skills they need to guide others effectively. One of the greatest gifts you can give to your organization—and to the people within it—is the opportunity to grow into leadership.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO)’s dedicated reverse mortgage development work group is targeting January 2025 as the release window for reverse mortgage standards it is helping to develop. Almost as important, he added, is the participation of non-reverse lending companies in the conversation.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The promotion applies to select homes in various housing developments across multiple cities. Magnolia Ridge, one of the participating housing developments in the Greater Houston deal, is offering $7,500 to $7,500 off select homes , with a few of the homes seeing prices drop from $289,200 to $244,990 and $248,590 to $239,990.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

And actual robotic assistance is something being developed in other parts of the world, including through government endorsement of the idea. In Japan, robot development is being encouraged by the government, industry, and academia, with a general optimism towards their application, the article explained.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

The company said it hired the four executives to focus on developing its products and services for real estate professionals nationwide. For over 20 years, Ive focused on sales leadership, surpassing business targets, developing top talent, and building high-performance teams.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2025

Product development The development of this product has been a long time in coming, Mayer added. On Tuesday at The Gathering, Mayer expanded on some of the thinking that went into the product’s conception and development. “We Reverse mortgage lender and servicer Longbridge Financial , a no. does this.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2025

While the results may not be particularly dramatic, considering the current state of mortgage rates, I view 2025 as a positive development with more inventory and less price growth. While that forecast was lower than most others, it seemed achievable due to higher mortgage rates and increased inventory. I was wrong and too low for 2024.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In these instances, the enterprise must develop a housing plan (which is an action plan to demonstrate how it will improve its performance), the FHFA explained. In line with the August proposal, there is also a new goal for very low-income purchases (for borrowers earning less than 50% AMI).

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Weve built an incredible foundation and as we focus on each agents personal development and their continual sales growth, we welcome the partnership and backing from the team at Stone Point Capital. Keller Williams has entered into a strategic partnership with private equity firm Stone Point Capital , according to an announcement on Monday.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2025

The app, developed in partnership with real estate technology company Lundy Inc. MetroList , the largest MLS in Northern California , has rolled out a new “add/edit” voice-controlled app for real estate agents to collect and input property data directly from the field.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2025

Ohio is projected to experience statewide population declines in 74 of 88 counties over the next 25 years, according to the Ohio Department of Development. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has expressed intentions to invest in the city’s housing development efforts for years to come. Detroit follows close behind at 52.9%

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