Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2025

eXp Luxury , the upscale division of real estate brokerage eXp Realty , is teaming with MORE Seller Financing to give luxury home sellers new tools to attract buyers and improve listing performance in a high interest rate environment.

Finance

Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

Today, Rocket Companies announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase digital real estate brokerage Redfin in an all-stock transaction valued at $1.75 billion in equity. The deal, which has been approved by the boards of directors of both Rocket Companies and Redfin, is expected to close in the second or third quarter of 2025.

Purchase and sale agreement

Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2025

Rocket Companies announced on Tuesday the completion of its acquisition of Redfin after Rocket announced in March it agreed to purchase the digital real estate brokerage in an all-stock transaction valued at $1.75 Rocket Preferred Pricing is available to qualified clients buying a home with conventional, FHA or VA loans.

VA loan

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Zillow Home Loans — the platform’s affiliate mortgage lender — pushes the future of financing. Offering access to market-defining research and data Most shoppers review listing and pricing information through the Zillow platform, brokerage websites, or multiple listing services (MLSs).

Finance

Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Rocket Companies is buying Mr. Cooper , America’s largest mortgage servicer, in a market-shattering deal that could reshape the mortgage industry for years to come. The Detroit-based fintech , which is also in the midst of acquiring real estate brokerage and home search portal Redfin for $1.75

Finance

Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Bank7 is expanding its mortgage reach in Oklahoma. The community bank has completed its acquisition of First American Mortgage, Inc. , a small mortgage lender and brokerage based in the suburbs of Oklahoma City. Yukon-based First American Mortgage, Inc. Yukon-based First American Mortgage, Inc.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

UWM has debuted a new cash-out refi product without mortgage insurance. United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) has the mortgage industry abuzz over its latest product, a higher-risk, cash-out refinance at a time of economic uncertainty. Loan amounts, however, cannot exceed conforming limits. Is the juice worth the squeeze?

Equity

Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2025

as its new vice president of broker relations for mortgage and title services, marking his return to the firm after several years at Compass. He also contributed to development of the company’s mortgage and title initiatives in the region, and he implemented process improvements tied to sales capture rates.

Title

Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

One of the nation’s fastest-growing real estate brokerages announced a pending leadership change on Wednesday. Sharran Srivatsaa , president of The Real Brokerage , will be transitioning from his current role to the company’s board of directors effective June 1. Its volume soared from $14.4 billion to $21.2

Brokerage

Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

billion deal to acquire resi brokerage and portal Redfin in Q2 or Q3 2025. It seems that everyone in mortgage and real estate has an opinion about Rocket Mortgage ‘s pending $1.75 After the deal was announced, CEO Varun Krishna told investors that he expects a lift in purchase mortgage growth after the deal closes.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2025

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Mortgages

Real Estate News

JUNE 13, 2025

Skip to Content Agents Brokerages MLS/Assn Tech Industry By the Numbers Consumer Shutterstock Industry Startup aims to bring assumable mortgages to the masses Could a new market emerge around homebuyers taking over a seller’s existing low interest rate loan? One proptech veteran thinks so. "It was almost shocking."

Mortgages

Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2025

Six North Carolina borrowers have filed separate lawsuits against CrossCountry Mortgage and a local real estate brokerage, alleging they ran a kickback scheme disguised as a co‑marketing deal. The suits cite Shackelford’s prior legal trouble, noting a 2018 trade secrets and poaching case against him was settled privately.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

HousingWire is proud to announce the 2025 Finance Leaders, recognizing 40 of the most impactful finance executives in the mortgage and real estate industries.

Finance

Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2025

And to do that you need two things: real estate agents and loan officers. A lot of people have tried — Zillow bought a mortgage company and failed and now they are trying again and are all-in. Redfin bought Bay Equity and tried multiple mortgage products and now they are at Rocket. Nobody has gotten that right yet.

Loan Officer

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. One Real Mortgage also saw a jump in revenue, rising from $696,000 in Q1 2024 to $1.08 million a year ago.

Technology

Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2025

Ohio-based Union Home Mortgage (UHM) on Wednesday announced a partnership with ARIVE , a lending software platform built specifically for independent mortgage professionals. The partnership will also connect UHM to a network of users and loan officers who source mortgage offers from multiple wholesale lenders.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2025

residential real estate is drawing increasing interest from international investors —particularly in Latin and South America — according to Miami -based Waltz , a digital mortgage platform that caters to foreign buyers. ” Waltz partners with major brokerages including RE/MAX and eXp Realty. homes, Waltz noted.

Residential

Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2025

Now in its 16th year, the award honors leaders across mortgage, real estate and fintech who are making a measurable impact on their organizations and the broader housing economy. This year’s honorees include mentors, innovators, and community leaders. Congratulations to this year’s honorees!

Title

Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2025

An illustration of a mortgage executive losing a top-producing LO who wishes to become a 1099 LO. The mortgage executive who called was initially excited because he feels like hes abiding by the rules of Dodd-Frank in classifying his LOs as W2 employees. Illustration made with ChatGPT A source called with what sounded like big news.

Pre-approval

Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

Equity Smart Home Loans made a splash Wednesday by announcing it is severing ties with United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) and partnering with Rocket Pro. A lot of our loan officers are struggling. So we’re behind our loan officers, our consumers come first,” Martinez said during the interview.

Equity

Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2025

Now the mortgage lender is inviting external real estate agents and brokerages to take advantage of the program. “There are statistics still showing loans for Black borrowers have higher decline rates. We did it for loan officers. ” That will take place during a live webinar on June 4 at 10 a.m.

Agents

Real Estate News

AUGUST 6, 2025

Skip to Content Agents Brokerages MLS/Assn Tech Industry By the Numbers Consumer Illustration by Lanette Behiry/Real Estate News Industry Agent-buyer connections driving Zillow’s mortgage growth Overall revenue beat expectations — again — jumping 15% in the second quarter, thanks in large part to big gains in rentals and home loans.

Agents

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a lawsuit Monday accusing Rocket Homes of orchestrating a kickback scheme to funnel business to its sister companies, Rocket Mortgage and Amrock. The Jason Mitchell Group is also implicated in the alleged violations of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA).

Brokerage

Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

Rocket Mortgage is shutting down its Canadian operations as the company refocuses on its core U.S. We want to assure our clients that all loans in process will proceed without issue, and we remain committed to supporting them through this transition, Rocket Mortgage said in a statement.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

But for first-time and other cash-strapped buyers—those who are not relying on the proceeds of a home sale, who may be using a 100% financed VA loan, whose agents may be layering forms of assistance to put together enough cash for closing—knowing in advance about the seller’s contribution to their agent costs may be essential.

Debt-to-income ratio

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. of the loan amount) at settlement to use toward their closing costs.

Brokerage

Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2025

Brokers, also known as managing brokers, designated brokers or brokers-in-charge, are typically owners or supervisors of real estate brokerages. You must have a leadership mentality and the ability to see the bigger picture to grow your brokerage. Similar to an MLO, a mortgage broker finds financing for buyers.

Property Management

Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2025

Through impressive marketing efforts, this years recipients are driving mortgage origination volume, connecting with homebuyers at critical moments, and supporting real estate brokerages to engage buyers and sellers. This year 55 honorees were selected.

Marketing

Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

Rocket Companies made a major move this week by integrating Rocket Pro TPO with ARIVE , a leading software platform used by mortgage brokers. Its another path for them to come to us ARIVE offers a platform that includes a loan origination system, a consumer point-of-sale interface, a pricing engine and a marketplace of wholesale lenders.

Loan Officer

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Arrival Home Loans on Tuesday announced a partnership with zavvie a fintech company that specializes in bringing liquidity to residential real estate in an effort to enhance the homebuying experience for its customers. Arrival Home Loans, which is powered by Pacific Private Money Inc. produced a total volume of $52.5

Loans

Real Estate News

JUNE 16, 2025

Skip to Content Agents Brokerages MLS/Assn Tech Industry By the Numbers Consumer Shutterstock By the Numbers Down payments drop for the first time in nearly 2 years A new Redfin report suggests homebuyers may be seeking less expensive homes as ongoing economic concerns add pressure to large purchase decisions. Redfin found that 15.3%

VA loan

Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2025

His focus will be on returning the mortgage lender to profitability and regaining market share, the company announced on Monday. According to Inside Mortgage Finance , loanDepot ranks as the 20th-largest U.S. mortgage lender with $10.9 In 1989, he acquired a mortgage brokerage and transformed it into LoansDirect.com.

Technology

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

It has an emphasis on first-time homebuyers ; purchase loans through an expanded geographic footprint and partnerships; servicing portfolio scale and retention; operating leverage quality to drive down turn times; and recruiting, developing and retaining the best talent available. year over year. Origination volume was $6.7

Purchase and sale agreement

Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

Monday’s breaking news that Rocket Companies is set to acquire online real estate brokerage Redfin shed light on the changing landscape of the homebuying marketplace. And when you connect that to the scale of the mortgage platform that we’ve built over 40 years, we think that that creates a multiplier effect.”

Branding

Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

billion deal comes just weeks after the Detroit-based lender announced its acquisition of real estate brokerage Redfin for $1.75 There is the potential for significant revenue growth depending on mortgage rates. Rocket has built a world-class loan origination platform, and Mr. Cooper has built a world-class servicing platform.

Technology

Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2025

AnnieMac Home Mortgage has struck a deal to acquire Florida Funding and bolster its presence in the Sunshine State , the companies announced on Thursday. Under the new structure, they will continue to partner with Robert Slack Real Estate Brokerage. AnnieMac noted that Florida Funding has funded more than $600 million in loans to date.

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