Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

I have attended several industry events recently and so many of the discussions continue to focus on the short game—top of funnel. These are exciting times for our industry and technology innovations continue to improve to support the needs of modern agents. Host monthly discussions to highlight popular features and demonstrate ROI.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Introduction As part of our ongoing discussion on the concept of movement in the mortgage industry, it is readily apparent that the failure of mortgage companies to pivot or tweak their business models to satisfy changing market and other conditions has resulted in consolidation based on liquidity, buyback, financial and other concerns.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Momentum Builder has acquired Sales Mastery , the companies announced Wednesday. The merger of two industry leaders in sales training and coaching will result in a “unified super brand” that will be known as Sales Mastery Powered by Momentum Builder, the companies said in a press release. 14-17 in Dallas.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In a new episode of “The Loan Officer Podcast,” host Dustin Owen chats with John Cornish of Iowa-based Key Mortgage Group about his path into the industry, tips for scaling a mortgage lending business and how to avoid stagnation as a loan originator. When I sold competitive products, the sales portion of it felt really easy.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2025

Daniel Dennis, a longtime real estate executive with nearly two decades of leadership experience, has been named senior vice president of sales and service at RE/MAX , the company announced Monday. In his new role, Dennis will oversee sales and support services for brokerages in company-owned regions across the U.S. ”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The state of leadership in the mortgage industry When people say, Theres no such thing as a perfect company, are they really acknowledging an inherentflaw or are they feeling the void left by inadequate leadership? Skills such as coaching, conflict resolution, and teammotivation are rarely developed through sales roles alone.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Movement is constant in the mortgage industry. These movements are marked by transactions, including execution of employment agreements, sale or merger agreements, and management of risk. The second article deals with movement marked by mergers and acquisitions within the industry.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2025

Class Valuation has expanded its national sales team with the hirings of Jim Bannister and Scott Shaw as senior executives, the company announced Tuesday. Bannister has previously held senior sales roles at Cotality (formerly CoreLogic ), First American Financial Corp.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

The customizable AI bots created with eSelf AIs platform have been adopted across various industries, including education, customer service, and real estate. Looking ahead, Clia believes AI agents could significantly alter real estate sales by reducing reliance on human agents and cutting operational costs.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

market is led by company founder Adam Stern, who has more than 20 years of experience in the real estate industry. He has overseen more than $12 billion in sales and trained more than 4,000 agents across 16 offices. He has overseen more than $12 billion in sales and trained more than 4,000 agents across 16 offices. “We’re

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

Real estate industry executives may not see eye to eye on the National Association of Realtors ‘ (NAR) Clear Cooperation Policy (CCP), but there is one thing they do agree on — the vast majority of sellers receive the most benefit from listing transparency and broad exposure of their listings. “The

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2025

Reverse mortgage professionals made more inroads into the forward mortgage industry in 2024. Continuing this momentum into 2025 is a priority for many in the reverse mortgage space, according to conversations with leaders at various industry lenders. One key is to bolster connections between a companys forward and reverse divisions.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Stone Point is no stranger to the real estate industry, as it also holds strategic investments in Lone Wolf Technologies , Homepoint , CoreLogic and Meridian. Czarnecki has over two decades of real estate industry experience. The monetary terms of the deal were not disclosed. Keller will remain the companys executive chairman.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

He actively searches for new and groundbreaking ways to improve his companies and inject innovation and creativity into the industry. Offering enhanced integrations and efficiency upgrades to lenders HousingWire: Many have long seen title insurance providers as a separate industry from real estate and from mortgage.

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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 22, 2024

As low inventory levels, elevated mortgage rates and rising home prices keep the housing industry stagnant, short-term real estate investors — aka fix-and-flippers — faced market turmoil during the third quarter of 2024. Despite fewer sales and lower resale prices, fix-and-flippers faced fierce competition for deals in most markets.

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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. The future of Compass is bright, and we look forward to continuing to provide the industry-leading tools, technology, and support our agents need to excel as the demand for luxury properties continues to rise.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2025

Industry hot takes While NWMLS has yet to respond to the claims made by Compass, others in the real estate industry have had their fair share of thoughts about the suit and the contents of Compasss complaint. In a LinkedIn post, Potashnick, who has nearly three decades of industry experience, simply wrote, Are you kidding me?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Buyers are not required to prepare their current home for sale until after they move into the new property. The product uses a purchase price guarantee (PPG) to eliminate the need for a sales contingency — a real estate purchase agreement that makes the sale of a property contingent on the buyer’s ability to sell their current home.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2025

Reverse mortgage professionals are preparing to travel to Irvine, California, for the industrys first event of the year, hosted by the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA). But NRMLAs board will also aim to look even further ahead by engaging members on-site about the potential dynamics of the industry beyond that scope.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2025

Industry professionals were full of optimism heading into the spring that the housing market could pick up after a sluggish start to 2025. Existing-home sales are hovering around 4 million and many markets that are typically fruitful for homebuilders have stalled. But heading into the summer, that optimism has largely faded.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Dwiggins: Since we started the company back in 2014, we were always looking to try and be a little bit different from the rest of the industry, in the sense of it wasn’t about having tons of agents. It was about the quality of the people who shared sort of the same vision for the industry. Dwiggins: I am a free market guy.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2025

Kind Lending today announced the appointment of Geri Farr as its senior vice president of West retail sales. Farr, who has over a decade of leadership in the mortgage industry, will focus on helping the company grow its expansion across the West and is tasked with strengthening teams and driving performance across the region.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2025

A decade later, non-QM loans are considered a “ stable, crucial option ” by mortgage industry analysts. The lower mortgage rate forecast offsets the softer economic outlook for home sales. Fannie Mae analysts revised their outlook for total home sales upward to 4.95 debt-to-income (DTI) ratio (33.3% percent and 6.2

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2025

Tamir Poleg, chairman and CEO of The Real Brokerage , closed out the prepared remarks section of his firms first-quarter 2025 earnings call by addressing the transformative technological era the industry is currently operating in. Our industry is no exception. The firms sales volume rose 80% year over year to $13.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2025

If youre a supplier in our industry who can provide furniture or relocation assistance, WE NEED YOUR HELP. Real estate and mortgage firms are stepping up to help housing professionals and the Southern California community as wildfires ravage the area. He will help them find a place to rent and will credit them with any commission paid.

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2025

The answer lies in a remote corner of the mortgage industry: subservicing. While each deal represents a unique circumstance, they point to a broader industry truth: Scale has become increasingly critical as the cost of servicing continues to climb particularly for nonperforming loans. trillion as of Dec. 31, 2024, down from $3.99

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2025

Gary Keller’s influence Jason Abrams , the head of industry and learning at Keller Williams, may be a bit biased toward his firm but shares a similar view. “The Leaders of top teams at Keller Williams believe there are good reasons for this. The systems they provide are designed to help teams grow strategically.” It is hard to beat.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

While the increased limit theoretically increases the borrowing power for anyone considering a HECM loan, industry analysts are somewhat split over the potential benefits such a limit would have on the industry in the new year. Lisa Moriello, national retail reverse sales manager at loanDepot , also views the new limit as a positive.

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2025

In his email, he also said that 2025 has brought “a great deal of change, and while not always comfortable, change is an inherent part of working in a rapidly evolving industry like ours. Sources told HousingWire that sales and marketing staff didn’t appear to be affected much by the cuts, although engineers were.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Most recently, Choo has served as senior vice president of real estate software, which saw him lead sales for Premier Agent, ShowingTime and dotloop. He has been a key driver of our numerous technology investments to digitize the industry. On Thursday the firm announced that Zillow Group President Susan Daimler is stepping down.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

According to the brokerage, Caldwell is no slouch when it comes to sales volume. He and his 30-agent team pulled in $200 million in sales revenue over an unspecified time period. At Compass, he founded The Apollo Group, a team that achieved national acclaim from industry observers. 1 mega team by sales volume and units.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2025

billion deal to acquire digital real estate brokerage firm Redfin , industry observers are still trying to understand the future of one key asset: Bay Equity Home Loans. Industry observers say that while Bay Equity could cannibalize Rockets existing operations, it adds roughly $4.5 Over a month after Rocket Companies announced its $1.75

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The reverse mortgage division of Rate formerly known as Guaranteed Rate recently announced the hiring of reverse industry veteran Jesse Allen as the president for Rates reverse lending division as the company heads into 2025. Jesse Allen Allen sees some of his own duties in a similar way. That role is an active one, Allen said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

You can network and build community with other agents worldwide, keep up-to-date on the latest industry trends, stay motivated when you’re feeling discouraged, learn directly from some of the top real estate leaders, and even potentially find new clients! The content ranges from inspirational/motivational posts to questions asked by members.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The family-run brokerage firm recorded some legal w ins and losses , developed new tools for agents and clients , and navigated one of the slowest years for home sales in nearly three decades. In order to deal with the challenges 2024 threw at the real estate industry, Hanna said he and other leads refocused on the companys six pillars.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

In an era of high mortgage rates and stagnant home sales , a real estate transaction model is making waves by reintroducing and standardizing a once-popular financing method. These sales represented $30.3 We have a law firm thats closed more than 25,000 of these transactions, and never had a due-on-sale clause.

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