Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

added mortgage lending under its umbrella by acquiring mortgage brokerage company Be My Neighbor on Monday. million in cash paid on the closing date, $1.5 Publicly traded real estate software firm reAlpha Tech Corp. reAlpha agreed to pay Be My Neighbor an aggregate purchase price of up to $6 million. This consists of $1.5

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

Rocket Companies hopes to close a $1.75 billion deal to acquire resi brokerage and portal Redfin in Q2 or Q3 2025. After the deal was announced, CEO Varun Krishna told investors that he expects a lift in purchase mortgage growth after the deal closes. billion deal for Redfin.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

Name Job Title Company Name Aaron Heidorn Director of Software Engineering & Infrastructure Cloudvirga Aaron Smith Director, Sales CubiCasa Adrian Provost Chief Executive Officer Realty ONE Group Terminus Ana LeBlanc Human Resources Director InterLinc Mortgage Annie Lemon Producing Branch Manager Gold Star Mortgage Financial Anthony Russo Diamond (..)

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

Fast-growing The Real Brokerage posted a $3.97 During the second quarter, Real once again delivered best-in-class growth with our agents closing a record number of transactions,” said Tamir Poleg , the CEO of Real. Like many other brokerages , the firm is still in the red (it lost over $20 million last year). compared to 8.3%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2022

million for the mortgage lending operation in its quest to provide customers “a one-stop shop” where they can buy, sell, rent and finance a home, according to a news release from the company. The post Redfin closes $138M deal for mortgage lender appeared first on HousingWire. Cracking the code on marketing to the realtor channel.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2020

According to one broker, Parkside Lending and Stearns Lending are offering a 15-year-fixed rate as low as 1.75% to some mortgage brokers, depending on the relationship. (We If people are willing to buy or refinance at a higher rate, they can get a rebate toward closing costs,” he said. And location can also be a factor.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

While this means stepping away from our lending business in Canada, we thank our team members who have helped us expand over the last five years. The CFPB alleged that between 2019 and 2024, the brokerage incentivized real estate agents to direct business to Rocket-affiliated companies.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The brokerage has entered into a joint venture with Barrett Financial Group to offer what the companies believe will be a wide range of mortgage products and streamlined underwriting to The Agency’s luxury clients. Dubbed Aclara Lending, the joint venture will start in Southern California with plans to expand in the near future.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The cloud-based brokerage recorded $1.1 The third quarter of 2021 saw eXp agents close 130,029 residential transaction sides, a year-over-year increase of 72%. The brokerage was the fourth-largest in the U.S. billion of revenue in the months of July, August and September. Operating expenses also increased 100.3%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Referrals from past and repeat customers still generated the greatest number of inquiries for real estate firms in 2020 with 30% of brokerage business coming from this source, the same amount as in 2018, when the survey was last completed. In 2018, 1% of surveyed brokerages said their business came from open houses. million in 2018.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2022

Redfin announced Tuesday layoffs of 121 employees as it shakes up its mortgage department, including purchasing a lending company. The acquisition is intended to enable Seattle-based Redfin to expand its loans products nationally, as it wants to be a one-stop-shop for brokerage and lending.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

California-based ICE Mortgage Technology announced this week two enterprise agreements to integrate its eClose solution to Maxwell and Roostify platforms, enabling a more streamlined closing process for lenders and borrowers. Roostify, a mortgage technology provider, will integrate the solution to its digital home lending platform.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

despite a challenging mortgage market in which real estate brokerages are laying off staff. The company also announced Thursday it will acquire Accept.inc, a Denver, Colorado-based lending startup, in an all-stock transaction for an undisclosed amount. The deal is expected to close in coming weeks. .

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

last year, has joined brokerage firm UMortgage , the company announced on Tuesday. Military Academy at West Point, will continue to originate loans and hold the national director of military lending position at UMortgage. He’ll join forces with fellow veteran loan originator Jay Bunte in the brokerage firm.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

HW Media, publisher of HousingWire, FinLedger, and producer of Engage Events, today announced it has closed on the strategic acquisition of REAL Trends, the residential real estate industry’s leading report that ranks the performance of the top U.S. brokerage firms. HW Media currently publishes HousingWire and FinLedger.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

California-based Impac Mortgage Holdings , a former mortgage lender repositioning itself as a brokerage firm, announced on Thursday that NYSE American, LLC. on Thursday at about 11:00 AM EST, up 2.23% compared to the previous closing. Impac does not intend to appeal the determination, the company said in a filing with the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2022

It encompasses brokerage, mortgage, title, insurance and technology companies like Real Results, Verus Title and Encompass Lending. He and his team’s hard work has landed the company a ranking as one of the top 10 largest brokerages in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2023

In February 2022, UWM filed a lawsuit against AML, claiming the brokerage firm owes $2.8 AML also claims that wholesale lending is a separate submarket of the mortgage industry, which has barriers to entry. After filing the lawsuit against AML, UWM sued California-based brokerage shops Kevron Investments Inc. in February 2022.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2021

Szalecki previously served as director of brokerage operation for Fathom Realty and as a regional operations manager for eXp Realty. ” A Keller spokesperson is quick to point out that the move was not in response to competition from brokerage models such as Fathom and eXp, but instead the result of many conversations with stakeholders.

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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 Planet Home Lending, will focus on increasing market share by adding branches and loan originators.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2022

335), Trius Lending Partners (no. Trius Lending, a local direct and hard-money lender specializing in residential investment, attributed its rapid success to customizing to investors’ needs. According to the firm, the core business at Trius Lending is residential rentals or properties for fix-and-flip. MortgageOne (no.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2021

Find out how a single lead from Ylopo led to roughly $20 million in real estate closings for real estate agent Luis Robledo. of households in current neighborhoods that were once designated undesirable for mortgage lending are non-white, compared with 40.4% of households in current neighborhoods that were labeled desirable for lending.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2021

The deal will allow Black Knight access to Top of Mind’s brain child, Surefire, a customer relationship management system and marketing automation software for the mortgage lending industry. At the time of the acquisition, Black Knight said it planned to eventually offer a 100% digital closing.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In 1983 Jim Campbell launched what is believed to be the first joint venture experiment between a real estate brokerage and a title and settlement firm. Campbell is now something of a JV guru, having completed over 80 joint ventures with real estate or lending firms. Image was created using MidJourney.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Serving some of the top organizations in the real estate and lending space is a privilege,” said Jason Mitchell, president of JMG. When you are able to add the number of closings we do to our agents’ book of business, they understand the importance of delivering the results we require.”. Technology plays a vital role in this.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

With rising rates and inflation, non-QM lending has spent the last few months in choppy waters , with some lenders closing their doors. However, the outlook for non-QM for the rest of 2022 is relatively optimistic, according to Acra Lending CEO Keith Lind. “We We are fairly bullish,” Lind said. Acra advantages.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2021

Aslan Home Lending Corporation. JMAC Lending. Synergy One Lending. SVP, Correspondent Lending. Planet Home Lending. Brokerage Operations. GM of Orchard Title and Head of Closing Operations. VP, Marketing. Finance of America Reverse. Bernadette Kogler. CEO and Co-Founder. Briana Ings. Carrie Gusmus.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The schemers submitted false claims on loan applications, bank statements, gift letters, pay stubs, HIID-I settlement statements and more to get mortgages closed, authorities said. A more secure closing process for everyone involved. The alleged scheme occurred over a six-year period ending in April 2016, the government said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2021

Judd Hoffman has been hired as chief executive officer for Proper Title LLC , an Illinois-based title insurance agency that’s backed by top independent real estate brokerage @properties. How hybrid title and valuations help increase lending efficiency. billion, good for eighth in the national brokerage rankings.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Building the next generation of tech: Three ways to digitize home lending. The home lending industry has a massive opportunity to digitalize to create efficiencies and to deliver a simpler end-to-end user experience that would benefit both borrowers and servicers. Refinancing is also not an option.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

National Head of Brokerage. SVP, Retail Lending Analytics Manager. Synergy One Lending. VP, Origination Title and Close. Managing Director, Capital Markets. Finance of America Mortgage. Caleb Mittelstet. Carrie Koester. Head of Product Marketing Strategy. Chelsea Goyer. OriginPoint. Craig Rebmann. Black Knight.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

At AmeriCash, he oversaw more than 300 employees and helped the company close more than $18 billion in home loans. Giangrande will also lead negotiation efforts for wholesale brokerage agreements with mortgage companies that seek to partner on EquiFi’s home equity investment (HEI) contract and other products.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

When mortgage rates rose and demand for lower-priced mortgages grew, Kirby saw opportunities in the wholesale lending channel. Kirby hopes to have a total of 15 LOs and close $50 million in production volume by year-end. So opening up a brokerage was kind of always on my mind.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

million investment in eOriginal, a multi-year Tech100 winner that developed a ‘simple closing experience for lenders, borrowers and settlement agents.’ This isn’t a new story in mortgage lending or real estate brokerage. Mortgage lending has its problems. In 2016 LLR led a $26.5 This could be read through a negative lens.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2022

Less business for lenders and real estate brokerages, in return, is hurting title companies, tech vendors, appraisers and mortgage insurance firms. ” Brokerages prepare for leaner times. However, real estate brokerages aren’t immune from the current market environment. The Mortgage Bankers Association projects that of $2.4

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

Most recently, the private-equity firm invested in Real , a technology-powered real estate brokerage in 2020, and perhaps most notably, e-recording provider Simplifile in 2013. Our vision is to hone the entire home buying journey from the borrower’s first contact with a Realtor to the closing table and beyond,” Schreiner said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2021

Lending Heights ( 592% growth) President Jason Cecco said his focus was on “empowering our team members to thrive, which leads to the best customer experience.”. 5000 winners took a close look at all recognized companies in the single-family housing sector with a focus on mortgage and real estate sales markets. 5000 map.”.

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