Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2022

I grew up in Houston, and I’ve seen the benefits and the pitfalls of real estate development in perhaps the most lightly regulated city in the United States — a place where developers don’t fret about complex building regulations, because such regulations simply don’t exist. The results are uneven, but can be inspiring.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

Negotiation is not just a skill its an art. In real estate, knowing the keys to a successful negotiation is essential. Skillful negotiations can not only help you build a more sustainable career they can also help you earn higher compensation, get more listings, and achieve more satisfying outcomes for your clients.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Are borrower-assisted inspections here to stay? The relaxed lending standards allowed the GSEs to use “appraisal alternatives to reduce the need for appraisers to inspect the interior of a home for eligible mortgages.” HousingWire reached out to the company, and will update this story with any new developments. 31, 2021. “We

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) must reverse layoffs and planned closures of offices across New York state to avoid imperiling housing for 800,000 residents. In the wake of severe cuts to staff and its field office footprint, the U.S. The letter represents an effort led by Democratic Reps.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

We’ll also share best practices for developing and sending real estate newsletters and recommend some essential tools to make your email marketing stand out. Its up to us as agents to stay engaged and stay in contact with our clients. In this article, weve compiled 49 compelling real estate newsletter ideas and subject lines.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

A rough guide to ChatGPT for real estate agents ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot that can understand and generate human-like text and images. Think of it as a very smart assistant that never sleeps, never gets tired and (almost) never complains. Oh, and it’s also getting smarter and faster every day. The downside?

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2025

Is scrolling homes on Zillow a favorite pastime of yours? Do you subscribe to every real estate-related email newsletter? Do you watch every HGTV show? Is your ideal weekend spent going to open houses (even if you have no intention of buying)? Do you play (and win) the how much do you think this house costs game?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD), state attorneys general and fair housing organizations to start applying this legal framework to homebuyers FHA loans accounted for 15.6% These anti-discrimination statutes make it illegal to refuse to rent, sell or lease housing because of a lawful source of income being provided.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

PunchListUSA , a real estate technology platform digitizing home inspection data, has named Stefan Pampulov as its chief product and data officer. 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.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

For many, buying a home is a complex process, and navigating the real estate market’s rules and regulations can be tricky, especially in states where property sale prices remain a secret. Here are nine tips to navigate the home-buying process in non-disclosure states. What is a non-disclosure state? Tips for homebuyers in non-disclosure states 1.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Veev’s business model is innovative: it provides pre-inspected, fully cladded walls directly to homebuilders , ready for installation. Veev said at the time that the funding would be used to scale its operations, accelerate its research and development, and expand construction into new markets.

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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, This explains that damage inspections may be completed by “any FHA Roster Appraiser in good standing with geographic competence in the affected market.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The mortgage ecosystem evolves quickly, with different sub-sectors such as lending, loan aggregation as well as loan securitization being impacted, Sean Begley, senior director of business development at CAPE Analytics, told HousingWire. The solution renders an array of nationwide property information available in one PDF report.

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Redfin

JUNE 18, 2025

Yes, a condo inspection is a crucial step in protecting yourself from unexpected repairs and hidden liabilities inside your home. That’s why a condo inspection is a crucial step in protecting yourself before you buy. In this article: Why is a condo inspection important? What does a full condo inspection include?

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

NRMLA and MBA also request changes to language in certain forms, including in the Compliance Inspection Report, so that the report can “utilize the documentation from a licensed and bonded person as required by the state to certify without additional costs to the borrower or mortgagee.” Following an announcement that the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2023

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) surveyed them and heard complaints about: Regulatory requirements – including the requirement that housing units be inspected before voucher holders move in, which can extend vacancies between tenants and force landlords to make costly repairs. million households.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2024

“Foreign capital is a major driver for real estate development around the world, but the US is still ill-equipped to deal with foreign investors. Closing tasks such as appraisal , inspection, title insurance and homeowners insurance are done remotely. Miami -based startup Waltz Inc. A digital U.S. residential real estate is low.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

The company says it will use the funding to scale its operations, accelerate its research and development and expand construction into new markets. The company accomplishes this through a turnkey panelized approach, providing pre-inspected, fully cladded walls directly to building sites for installation. Census Bureau.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2022

Regarding alternative audit procedures, Ginnie said that it will continue to accept audited financial statements from issuers where the auditor relies on alternative documentation in lieu of doing a physical inspection as required by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2022

A Fannie Mae survey published in mid-May found that mortgage lenders see value in appraisal modernization, specifically in the implementation of non-traditional appraisals and inspection-based appraisal waivers. However, they have several more pressing priorities when it comes to what they’re investing in.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2025

From flexible online courses to hands-on training out in the field, well walk you through the six best home inspection training schools we recommend. If youre thinking about becoming a home inspector, youre not alone. Finding the right home inspector training school is the first step in launching your new career. Lets get started.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Remote inspections have the power to make homeowners and appraisers more comfortable. Incenter Appraisal Management’s new remote appraisal inspection tool streamlines the appraisal process while ensuring appraisers stay in control of the inspection and data collection. Incenter recognizes the complexity of the appraisal process.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Tom Kriby, Vice President of Client Development and Partnerships at Westwood Insurance, about how insurance issues can hold up a home closing and how lenders can integrate insurance into their process to help their homebuyers avoid delays. It’s more common than you think.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

In the letter , addressed to FHFA Director Sandra Thompson , the associations ask for “reasonable” building inspection requirements for aging infrastructure. In addition, the groups “request transparency in the process of developing final guidelines for condo and housing cooperative lending requirements.” “Any the letter states.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2021

With the onset of the pandemic, the GSEs introduced temporary flexibilities to the appraisal process which enabled the path for major advancements in 3D scanning, guided inspection applications and data-driven solutions. HW: What is the No. 1 challenge housing professionals are facing today regarding appraisals?

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2021

Still, I’m encouraged to see companies using digital tools and platforms — or creating their own — to take little bites out of a gigantic industry, from streamlining financing and inspections, to centralizing communication, to optimizing budgets and reducing project delays. That’s what building a new home is like for most people.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This friend, “placed some of her own family photos, depicting her white family” around the house “prior to the inspection.”. This friend, “placed some of her own family photos, depicting her white family” around the house “prior to the inspection.”. Messages left with Miller and AMC Links on Monday were not returned.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2024

The goal is to help them develop this territory and use this platform to attract talent – established loan officers, up and coming loan officers,” Steinway said in an interview with HousingWire. “One New American Funding (NAF) has snagged top Chicago loan officer Larry Steinway as it looks to grow its presence in the Chicagoland area.

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2021

Unfortunately, the ability to obtain information on individual property data about these two factors is hard to come by, short of an interior physical inspection. This is why most automated valuation models (AVM) default to assessing “average” quality and condition. Difficult, But Not Impossible. Realtor Comments Hold Vital Info.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Once the loan is closed, UWM claims it will handle the rest of the process by staying in direct communication with the builder on subsequent draws, as well as subsequent inspections, to confirm the project is on pace. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), according to lawyers.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2021

As part of Davis’ roadmap, advisors worked with her to help her develop a financial plan. Throughout the process, Davis faced common issues, such as being outbid on a property and encountering unexpected defects in homes she toured that wouldn’t have passed inspection.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2022

February 10 may go down as a momentous day in real estate history. That’s when a 70-year-old brick home in the St. Petersburg, Florida suburb of Gulfport sold for the equivalent of $654,310, where the asset exchanged was represented by a non-fungible token. million in 2020 to $24.9 Heckler was the listing agent of the auctioned off Gulfport home.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

So, it’s like you put those things together and it’s like, what is the argument for having a human being go to a house and physically do an inspection.”. Simkoff said Doma will look to enter into these spaces through its own technological developments, as well as mergers and acquisitions. Presented by: Doma.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Another example is the LIDAR that’s now available on iPhones, which adds a whole other dynamic to developing point cloud technology to gather measurements and spatial information about anything that you’re scanning. It’s moving so much faster than ever before. And generative AI is probably the best example of that.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

We continue to see the benefits of using advanced AI and machine learning techniques when developing new mortgage lending solutions,” said Ann Regan, Executive, Product Management at CoreLogic. One of the first steps in determining a property’s value is the use of an Automated Valuation Model (AVM). Everyone wins.”.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

A public inspection version of the rule was released on Tuesday prior to its final publication. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in exchange for claim payments, the notice reads. The rule goes into effect on Jan. Implementation of the rule without changes did not appear to be a cause for concern among servicers.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2022

The Federal Housing Finance Agency released voluminous plans last week developed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make the housing market more equitable, in part through changes to the appraisal process. Non-traditional appraisals to the rescue. In March, Fannie Mae said it would start offering desktop appraisals for some loans.

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