Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2021

Real estate technology company Lone Wolf Technologies announced its launch of Digital Title Orders, a digital title solution allowing agents to select their preferred title provider and submit orders directly within a transaction. The post Lone Wolf launches digital title solution appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Hanna Family of Companies , the parent company of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services , announced the merger of Erie Title Agency, Inc and Barristers of Ohio to form Erie Title Barristers Group on Wednesday. The Cleveland-based Erie Title has been serving clients in Ohio since 1998.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

Be it new experimental technology, legislation or regulation to respond to, disruptive proptech models, shifting market dynamics and so on,” said Price. We see this benefiting Endpoint as well as proptech companies who are looking to build their own title companies. HW: You’ve had a 20-year career as a title and escrow pro.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Third-quarter earnings season kicked off with a bang last week with three ( Stewart, First American and Old Republic ) out of the Big Four title insurers reporting their earnings on Thursday. The firm’s title segment reported an operating revenue of $647.9 At Stewart , Q3 revenue came in at $716.4 million, down from $836.7

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2021

But while Blefari has a clearly defined personality, the residential real estate brokerage he runs doesn’t. The post Warren Buffett’s boring, dominant resi brokerage appeared first on HousingWire. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices of America is not just a boring mouthful of a name, but it is a confusingly layered operation.

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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. There, he oversaw States Title use of predictive analytics and technology on its title and escrow platform.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

One of our big goals at Blueprint Title is to shrink the title insurance business from an $18 billion business to a $10 billion business,” Berneman, the company co-founder and CEO. “We share of the market controlled by small, independent title insurance companies. ow and ease of the entire closing process.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

One potential stream that quickly comes to mind is the potential of capturing title and closing business. For the most part, many brokerages and real estate agents on the buyer’s side of the transaction have continued on with a “business as usual” approach until we have certainty as to the true impact.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

Fast-growing The Real Brokerage posted a $3.97 Like many other brokerages , the firm is still in the red (it lost over $20 million last year). The brokerage now operates in 47 states in the U.S. The virtual brokerage in March disclosed that it is raising fees on agents. million loss year over year. compared to 8.3%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

Mike’s passion for leveraging technology to facilitate online property auctions makes him a perfect fit for Xome,” the company said in the post. It boasts its own in-house digital transaction management platform, a network of agents, in-house title and mortgage services, as well as a 24/7 “concierge” service.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A partnership between Realogy Title Group and Notarize that has sought to accelerate the adoption of remote online notarizations hit a milestone in the first half of 2020. Roughly 400 closing and escrow agents use Notarize’s technology through RTG to close digitally; agents in the remaining 13 states use hybrid options.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Name Job Title Company Name A.T. Rising Stars have impressive professional momentum, and are building reputations for driving growth and change while making those around them better. Take a look below to see this year’s list of honorees. Congratulations to the 2024 Rising Stars!

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

We are bringing them new profit sources such as Upward Title. We are providing them excellent technology, we are reducing their costs through products like the Listings Direct technology, and we are utilizing Anywhere data scale to provide actionable franchisee insight to help them run their businesses better,” Schneider said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Real estate brokerage and services company Anywhere Real Estate announced last week that it is appointing Tony Kueh as its first chief product officer. In his new role, Kueh will lead the company’s product strategy, innovation roadmap and technology investments. billion, but the company has remained profitable.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

But the Robert Reffkin -helmed brokerage has proved the naysayers wrong, at least for now. billion, which the brokerage attributed to a 19% year-over-year decrease in transaction sides to 54,207, combined with a decrease in the average home sale price, as the brokerage’s gross transaction value dropped 26% year over year to $56.8

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2021

Real estate software company Lone Wolf Technologies announced Monday the acquisition of two real estate technology companies, LionDesk and Homespotter. “We’re bringing the best technology together to dramatically simplify the work that agents and brokers do every day, but this is more than just connecting the dots.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2022

The mortgage and real estate industries are quickly adapting to technological advances in order to keep up with consumer demands and the changing markets. It encompasses brokerage, mortgage, title, insurance and technology companies like Real Results, Verus Title and Encompass Lending. Register here.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

brands, including brokerage, mortgage, title, insurance and technology. Julie Pierson-Fields , Vice President of Marketing, has excelled at directing and implementing marketing strategies for all Fathom Holdings, Inc.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2022

The title insurance space isn’t generally known for placing outsized bets on technology. Since we now have good coverage across those segments, our more recent investments have primarily focused in two areas – mortgage technology and commercial real estate. As of Sept. Is this something you are thinking about?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Tom Cronkright, co-founder and executive chairman of CertifID and CEO of Sun Title , to talk about battling the latest frauds and scams as bad actors leverage a new arsenal of tech tools to wreak havoc on buyers and sellers of real estate. And that’s all publicly available technology now.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

courted.io/ Real Estate Sales New York, NY CoreLogic corelogic.com/ Real Estate Sales, Multifamily / CRE and Real Estate Data and Analytics Irvine, CA Constellation1 constellation1.com/

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Real Brokerage has appointed Christian Wallace as chief of integrated home services, the company announced on Thursday. Prior to joining the brokerage , Wallace worked at some of the leading companies in the industry, such as Rocket Homes , Better.com , Opendoor and Farmers Insurance.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2021

Former CoreLogic executive Rouz Tabaddor has been named vice president and chief intellectual property officer at title insurance provider First American Financial Corp. — Georgetown Title has been in Texas for more than 125 years, First American said in a statement following the acquisition. The company announced a healthy $7.1

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

Volatile mortgage rates and economic uncertainty have rocked the housing market this year, challenging mortgage lenders, real estate agents, title companies and appraisal firms to adapt quickly to changing conditions. After just one year from its launch in 2020, the brokerage became the most followed real estate brand in the world.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

Ryan Serhant, founder of real estate brokerage SERHANT., Serhant launched his namesake brokerage after building the No.1 Serhant’s new brokerage is designed to break the traditional model, with divisions focused on media, branding and technology to reach consumers in a new way. will headline HousingWire Annual Oct.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

However, there is an opportunity in the closing process for better integration between platforms to improve communication and sharing of documents between the brokerage, lender and closing company, each of which has its own process and technology, to relieve some of that stress.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2022

the M&A-hungry parent of cloud-based real estate brokerage Fathom Realty , achieved supercharged growth in 2021. Leaders optimistic about future of brokerage. The brokerage’s agent count also grew 48% year over year to 8,100 agents. Fathom Holdings Inc. , million, representing 9.5% of total revenue for the quarter.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2021

Residential real estate brokerage conglomerate Realogy reported a net income of $149 million on its quarterly earnings call Thursday. Let’s dive into two areas that technology partners and independent brokerages can align to ensure that demand is captured and more at-bats are won. The brokerage group was the no.

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RIS Media

DECEMBER 3, 2020

First American Title Insurance Company and Lone Wolf Technologies recently announced an integration to offer digital title insurance orders within Lone Wolf Transactions (zipForm Edition), the national transaction management member benefit in the U.S.,

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GeekEstate

OCTOBER 29, 2021

I’m excited to release Thomvest’s real estate technology market map, which includes more than 240 companies operating within the residential real estate segment. This market map real estate technology companies operating across every phase of the home purchase value chain. As such, we’ve included the Blend logo in those areas.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

“SentriLock delivers zinger to Zillow with new showing service,” was the email subject head SentriLock sent about its new tool, titled SentriKey Showing Service. But, ironically, the emerging NAR-Zillow proxy battle comes three months after Zillow announced it is an NAR-member real estate brokerage.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This year, 100 honorees were selected for their outstanding leadership in the midst of market volatility. Congratulations to this year’s Vanguards honorees. Take a look at the full list below.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Last week, we wrote a letter to FHA , offering constructive suggestions to ensure a level playing field between borrowers where the seller agrees to fund buyer brokerage commissions and where the seller doesn’t.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2022

Stewart Title. ICE Mortgage Technology. Vice President of Brokerage Operations. ICE Mortgage Technology. Chief Technology Officer. Take a look through the names below to see the full list of 2022 honorees. Company Name. Andria Lightfoot. Chief Customer Officer. SimpleNexus. Angela Dunham. Chief Operating Officer.

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RIS Media

JUNE 9, 2021

Since going public on the Nasdaq (FTHM) at the end of July 2020, Fathom Holdings has acquired a title company, a mortgage company, an insurance company, a lead generation business, two technology companies and completed a brokerage acquisition. Fathom Realty CEO Josh Harley weighs in on the brokerage’s recent moves.

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Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2023

However, they all share a common trait of working collaboratively across their organizations to help drive growth and success. Congratulations to the 2023 HW Marketing Leaders! Take a look at each honoree’s full profiles below.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

National Head of Brokerage. Director of Product, Origination Technologies. VP, Technology. VP, Origination Title and Close. ICE Mortgage Technology. It’s clear that this year’s winners are driving big growth within their organizations and have the metrics to back their successes. Company Name. Amanda Price.

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