Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

The companys free title monitoring service alerts homeowners of any changes to their propertys title after a sale, allowing them to respond quickly to potential threats. Dovidio noted that standard title insurance policies typically only cover issues that arise before a sale is finalized.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

That’s right, there are Black Friday home sales! For instance, at Lone Star Landing in Montgomery, Texas, M/I Homes is offering discounts ranging from $7,500 to $20,000 on specific properties. Chicago’s offerings include doorbuster deals on Quick Move-In homes, which reduce pricing up to $93,850 if the home closes this year.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

We’re fortunate enough to serve a very close-knit community where local values dictate all, and the brand perfectly understands that. She is known for maintaining an active sales presence while also managing her company’s day-to-day operations.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The turbulence in rates has trickled down to individual markets like Cincinnati, where real estate agents say they dont know what to expect from sale to sale. These companies bring in transplants who move for work, and homebuilders have flocked to the area to provide additional housing on more available land.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

These rankings are designed to help top-performing agents and teams highlight their accomplishments within their specific local markets, enhancing their credibility where it matters most — close to home. However, Leading RE agents and team bested the sales volume. Production data represents residential transactions only.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

Texas insurance commissioner Cassie Browns office laid out what led to the move in a written order containing provisions analyzed by the Texas Land Title Association (TLTA) and the Texas Office of Public Insurance Counsel (OPIC). Every time a Texan buys a home, they will spend less on closing costs.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

If you follow real estate data closely, you’ll know that inventory rose late into November. However, what you might not know is that home sales are climbing, which is a good sign. more homes for sale now than last year at this time. We had 52,000 new pending sales this week. Short on time? New listings volume is up, too.

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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. Every single buyer I ask, ‘Would you buy a home today if you could get a 5% rate with no points, streamline underwriting, closing fast?’ on its own.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

Based in San Antonio , the Neal & Neal Team finished 2024 with $338 million in sales volume and 914 homes sold. That performance ranked them second in closed units and third in gross commission income across all Keller Williams teams nationwide. The team includes roughly 80 agents and nearly 20 support staff.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

pending home sales fell 1.1% Year over year, pending sales are showing promise in every region of the U.S, As talk of an urban exodus continues, the Northeast’s pending home sales slid 5.9% months at the current sales rates as builders attempt to keep up. compared to a year ago. The Midwest dropped 0.7% but remained 19.6%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

Since mid-February, over 80 listings for burned lots in Pacific Palisades and Altadena have appeared on the market following the devastating Los Angeles wildfires that took place in January, with land parcels fetching prices exceeding initial expectations. Two hours ago, a second property just closed in the Palisades.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2024

Fannie Mae’s Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group downgraded its forecasts for 2024 and 2025 home sales based on a number of reliable metrics that have “barely budged in response to the more favorable rate environment.“ million home sales in 2024 (down from 4.81 million sales in 2025 (down from 5.26

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

housing market could have a soft landing in 2023. Any time you use the phrase “soft landing” it should come with a trigger warning because some folks get really angry hearing it. But, I think it’s pretty indisputable now that we got a soft landing. This is what a soft landing looks like. So right now — soft landing.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

AEGIS Land Title Group last week announced the acquisition of Capital Title of Washington , a boutique independent title and escrow provider operating in the greater Seattle area. Meanwhile, Paul and Julie Hofmann have owned and operated AEGIS Land Title Group since 2015, after they acquired Stewart Title of Kitsap and rebranded it.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

I think there would be even stronger growth and more stability in the market if we had more houses for sale, he added. In 1925, the state Legislature passed the New Hampshire Zoning Enabling Act , which gave municipalities the right to zone their own land. They want to attract younger employees, including recent college graduates.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2022

Worldwide sales of non-fungible tokens, better known – of course – as NFTs, catapulted from $94.9 But Ethereum was the first with a blockchain that enabled NFT sales. In this particular sale, Heckler worked out an arrangement to receive the commission distribution after the winning bid. million in 2020 to $24.9

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2024

Seller impersonation fraud has reportedly risen significantly over the years, and one such fraudster attempted to cash in by facilitating a fraudulent sale of Graceland, the famous Memphis, Tennessee , home owned by the late Elvis Presley. But this type of policy won’t protect you against forgery occurring after your property purchase. “But

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Buyer after closing Dear (Buyer Name), It was a pleasure working with you! Co-broke agent after closing Dear (Agent Name), It was a pleasure working with you on the sale of (Address)! So, I sent a note just like this after closing. Thank you for your professionalism; I can tell you truly care about your clients.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2025

The regulation takes effect for home sales that close after Oct. To support housing development, the rule exempts certain pre-sales of new construction, provided contracts are signed before substantial completion and the seller offers at least a one-year express warranty.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2025

reported its Q1 2025 earnings Thursday, touting a turnaround as its financial losses narrowed, deal pipeline strengthened and it landed major clients while sharpening its focus to become “software-first.” Blend Labs, Inc. ” SEC filings show that Blend’s platform revenue for the first quarter came in at $26.8

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

Dunmor CEO Franck Ruimy spoke with HousingWire ‘s Sarah Wolak on why he anticipates 2025 will be a strong sales year, and he highlighted the recent growth for the business-purpose lending (BPL) sector. So, it’s been an interesting time where I see now in 2025 that sales volumes are picking up for ground-up construction.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Though most commonly thought of for residential deals, real estate agents can also help people buy, sell or rent commercial properties, land and more. An agent may also be present at closings to review closing documents and help guide their client through the final steps. How do real estate agents get paid?

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The Close

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Buying vacant land can be a wise investment with great returns if you plan carefully and understand what’s involved. While land can be a relatively cheap and low-effort investment compared to a house, making money from it might be trickier. Check access: Make sure you have legal access to the land. Let’s get into it!

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2023

announced on Monday that it has integrated its next-generation point of sale system, The BIG Point of Sale, on the latest API Platform available through ICE Mortgage Technology , a division of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. Fintech software and hardware company Mortgage Automation Technologies, Inc.

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Inman

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Apparent scammers attempted to use a video generated using artificial intelligence to carry out the sale of a plot of land before the fraud was uncovered at the closing.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2025

Builders continue to face challenges from high land costs, zoning restrictions, supply chain disruptions, and rising labor expenses. This has reduced the number of homes available for sale and kept renters in the market longer. Moreover, investors should keep a close eye on Florida’s evolving climate resilience policies.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

His goal is to bring his sales numbers up to $450 to $500 million, with origination coming from different states, and potentially capitalizing on a little refinance boom in the latter part of 2023. The problem we have with the people that already own a home is you cannot buy with sales contingencies here. Marquis: Correct.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2022

Actual” real estate is defined as property consisting of land or buildings, and everything that is permanently attached to the land. Its boundaries can be shown on a land survey and ownership is vetted through a physical deed in the jurisdiction, where the physical real estate is located. Defining virtual real estate.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2023

When it comes to close on the sale of the property the scammer will request a remote notary signing. The scammer then impersonates the notary and returns falsified documents to the title firm or closing attorney involved in the transaction. The title firm then transfers the closing proceeds to the scammer.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

Not even close. When he first landed in New York City from Alabama, he could only find work as a waiter and handing out flyers in Times Square. Heres Tyler: “Last year, my team had seven sales north of $10 million, and everything else was almost exclusively first-time buyers. But Tyler Whitman wasnt born lucky.

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Brokerage Agents As-is Land 341

Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Although fewer home sale transactions closed in 2023 , fraudsters continued to be active, with the FBI reporting that fraud loss in the real estate sector reached $446 million in 2023.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2020

billion, according to the latest market share analysis from the American Land Title Association. But with home sales and mortgage origination volumes rising, it comes as no surprise that mortgage title insurance is also seeing an uptick. Here are the top 5: Westcor Land Title Insurance : 6% WFG National Title Insurance : 2.9%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

New construction accounted for approximately 30% of active for-sale housing inventory, doubling the usual figures for a standard year. The acquisition is set to close in the first half of 2024. They also boast advantageous relationships with land sellers and can command lower costs of debt.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Expanding acess to digital closings At the beginning of the pandemic , as our industry was deemed essential, we saw a need to increase access to digital home closings. Tina Smith’s Mapping Housing Discrimination Act , which would help fund research regarding discriminatory covenants in land records.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Land the plane, folks, land the plane! A close above that and follow-through bond market selling could lead to higher mortgage rates. If they cared about a soft landing, which I have been skeptical about from the start, as I talked about here on CNBC , the Fed would be more mindful of what they say and do.

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Mortgages Land Staging As-is 517

Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2025

While telepathy isnt an option, predictive analytics will get you pretty close. Agents can now spend time converting high-quality leads that are sure to turn into more closed deals instead of spending hours trying to identify potential sellers through expired MLS listings or door knocking. What does this mean for you?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2025

Florance added that Homes.coms demo-to-close rate topped 50% in April, the highest ever for any CoStar sales team. The platforms dedicated residential sales force has grown to 370 and is expected to hit 500 by the end of June. Adjusted full-year EBITDA is expected to land between $355 million and $385 million.

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Agents MLS Residential Branding 225