Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2025

They point to programs like Compass Private Exclusives, which allow sellers to “pre-market” their homes to an internal network before listing publicly. However, Compass itself acknowledges in their disclosure that limiting exposure by not listing on the MLS can reduce the number of showings, offers, and the final sale price.

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DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on Tuesday released an update about the sales of non-performing loans (NPLs) through the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), saying the data has shown a steady drop in mortgage delinquencies since the start of COVID-19 pandemic. billion through the end of June 2024.

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

The after-repair value is the estimated full market value of a property in fully repaired condition. In some cases, this capped credit bid is lower than the market-driven reserve price. Listening and responding to the market helps them sell faster, reduce holding costs and optimize their net proceeds from a sale.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

The company has an aggressive marketing goal to reach the No. Citis previous use of the URL was to redirect to learning center content within the home lending pages on the Citi domain, according to Head of Mortgage Marketing at Citi, Chip Burgard. Market share and brand authority Why launch this site now?

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JANUARY 3, 2025

Californians deserve a reliable insurance market that doesnt retreat from communities most vulnerable to wildfires and climate change , Lara said in a statement. My Sustainable Insurance Strategy is focused on addressing the challenges we face today and building a resilient insurance market for the future.

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JUNE 2, 2025

Staging a home can make or break a sale but the traditional approach is broken. a Silicon Valley-based startup, is transforming the property marketing process with Collov AI , the real estate industrys first listing marketing AI Agent. Thats why Collov AIs Visual Agent is designed to be as simple as taking a photo.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2025

Real estate technology firm Lofty has announced the launch of Lofty Bloom, a new automated marketing solution aimed at helping real estate professionals focus on specific ZIP codes and generate high-quality seller leads. The platform combines direct mail, digital retargeting and artificial intelligence -driven followups, Lofty explained.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Users can access AI bots designed to assist agents with general real estate knowledge, sales, marketing , negotiation and motivation. Each training bot is designed to tackle one of five challenges that real estate agents may face. Productivity tools are also available to keep agents on track. said in a statement.

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JANUARY 28, 2025

Luxury real estate auction house Concierge Auctions has entered a co-marketing partnership with proptech startup Luxury Presence , announced today. The partnership also gives Concierge’s agents and brokers access to Luxury Presence s advanced website design, hosting and SEO services.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2025

They find aesthetically challenged homes in coveted LA neighborhoods, crunch the numbers, hire interior designers to renovate them so they look good on Instagram and then list and sell them for a tidy profit. Sounds too good to be true, right? Claire and Sam OConnor are living your HGTV-inspired rockstar Realtor dream life.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

Indiana-based lender Ruoff Mortgage is making a move designed to help more homeowners get into new homes with ease. Buyers are not required to prepare their current home for sale until after they move into the new property. Calque also offers buyers a guaranteed offer on their current home to reduce risk. “It

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MAY 5, 2025

Prudent AI on Monday announced the launch of Prudent AI Upfront, a one-touch pre-qualification platform designed to improve lender sales funnels. “The Non-QM market has long struggled with pre-qualification bottlenecks,” commented Paul Gigliotti , chief growth officer. “Upfront eliminates these barriers.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

The platform offers a new broker scoring system designed for better account management and a tagging system to improve email marketing campaigns. The CRM company launched in 2016 to provide third-party origination (TPO) mortgage lenders with account management, sales and email marketing through its software-focused approach.

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MAY 28, 2025

However, this rapid population growth comes with challenges for the single-family rental market. Remote work flexibility, retiree relocation, and an influx of younger families seeking affordable living have all contributed to Floridas rental market surge. Floridas demographic trends are also shifting.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Higher mortgage rates are forcing many first-time homebuyers to adopt a “wait-and-see” approach to the market. HomeLight is an Arizona -based real estate platform designed to connect agents with clients. HomeLight notes that this is becoming more common for existing-home sales. 30 and Nov.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

housing market remains challenging for prospective buyers as concerns over mortgage rates , home prices and affordability persist in 2025. I believe the concerns for the market at this point are dramatically related to geographics. But AI-driven lending tools have raised concerns about bias.

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DECEMBER 6, 2024

We’ll also share best practices for developing and sending real estate newsletters and recommend some essential tools to make your email marketing stand out. Save time with pre-written newsletters from Market Leader Don’t have time to write three or more newsletters every month? Lets dive in!

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JANUARY 22, 2025

Auction.com has long been a leading platform for bank-owned (REO) and foreclosure sales to real estate investors and others seeking a discount. SmartSale is designed as an alternative for sellers who are navigating financial challenges or simply seeking greater control, Auction.com explained.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2023

Existing home sales had a huge beat of estimates on Tuesday. To understand why we had such a beat in sales, you only need to go back to Nov. The weekly growth in purchase application data during those months stabilized housing sales to a historically low level. We understood why sales collapsed during COVID-19.

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APRIL 15, 2025

Founded in 1976, FirstTeam operates more than 46 offices with 2,200-plus sales agents. “FirstTeam’s impressive growth is fueled by a robust ecosystem designed to nurture agents at every stage of their career,” said Michele Harrington , the companys CEO. The firm is among the largest privately held U.S.

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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. Why is the real estate market stuck right now? These sales represented $30.3 Today, Leahy sees a similar affordability crisis.

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MARCH 13, 2025

The platform is designed to help agents and clients effectively manage and distribute their exclusive listings. The RealScout Exclusives platform is designed to stand out from similar options through home search technology that continuously analyzes buyer behavior in real time, the company explained in its announcement.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

Understanding that real estate housing markets are hyperlocal, the RealTrends Verified City Rankings represent the newest evolution of RealTrends agent and team rankings. reflecting the importance of localized expertise in today’s evolving market. However, Leading RE agents and team bested the sales volume.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

That’s right, there are Black Friday home sales! The Ohio-based builder is offering discounts of up to $20,000 on select homes in Greater Houston , along with no-cost 2/1 rate buydowns , and slashing prices by as much as $93,850 in other markets like Chicago.

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MARCH 11, 2025

We discussed the current market conditions and revisited the propertys previous listing history including that the last agent had failed to sell it, eventually pulling it off the market 60 days later. But in land sales where no physical structure exists this vital step is often skipped, leaving a gap for scammers to exploit.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

With thoughtfully designed tools to drive better conversion rates, automate social media marketing, and streamline time consuming tasks, technology is a key enabler to business growth, but only when fully maximized. Agents need to move beyond a fixed mindset when it comes to technology and invest the time to learn the platform.

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JUNE 2, 2025

The company, redT Homes , states that it’s the Denver areas only residential real estate development company […] offering a full suite of services, ranging from land acquisition and entitlement to design, architecture, and construction along with real estate-focused marketing and sales.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

Move Sales , OpCity Acquisitions , OpCity Inc. These processes (the ‘Unlawful Bundling’) are designed to amass a tremendous (and tremendously growing) database which the defendants then characterize as ‘leads,’” the complaint states. The suit claims that NAR, along with Move Inc., and REA Group Ltd.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

” TikTok riches are in the niches TikToks algorithm is designed to give users exactly what they want when they want it. I’m not his ideal agent, and he’s not my target market, even though I handle his transactions. Coffee & Contracts has hundreds of gorgeous agent-designed templates and scripts for social media.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2025

Believe it or not, good old-fashioned postcards are still one of the most effective real estate marketing strategies. Even though most agents focus their marketing efforts online, people start thinking about finding a real estate agent well before they hit ENTER on their first Google search. But where do you start?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

After rock-solid careers of their own, they decided to combine their skills and their shared passion to help Chinese home buyers, sellers and investors navigate Southern Californias competitive real estate market, Real President Sharran Srivatsaa said in a statement. Theyve set the gold standard for service to the Chinese community.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2023

Mortgage rates didn’t move much last week, but the 10-year yield rose even though inflation data was tamer than expected, and we had a weaker retail sales report number. In 2007, when sales were down big, total active listings peaked at over 4 million. Purchase application data rose again, with more positive than negative data in 2023.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

“Their input has been incredibly valuable, significantly shaping the ongoing development of Smart Underwrite, especially in the growing wholesale market,” Brown said in a statement. ” Last year, The Loan Store launched a consumer rewards program designed to aid mortgage brokers in offering better interest rates. .

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2025

According to a statement from Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman on Monday, Redfin.com will not publish any listings that have been publicly marketed before being shared with all real estate websites via the MLS. Kelman said Redfin is doing this because it believes that all buyers should be able to see all listings.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

In 2022, Coldwell Banker launched digital EMD capturing for all agents through an integration earlier with Payload to its My Deals platform — a system designed to replace traditional transaction cover sheets — and its Trident account system.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

According to a survey released Tuesday by John Burns Research & Consulting , the top 50 MPCs sold more than 34,600 new homes in 2023, up 24% from the nearly 28,000 sales in 2022. And in 2023, each of the top 50 communities sold at least 368 homes, although that’s fewer than the 2021 record of 460 sales per community.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

Peter Sciandra, who serves as EVP of reverse lending secondary marketing at Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. Were seeing market headwinds, and not really seeing a lot of release in the rates. noted: High inflation and high interest rates unfortunately kept a lot of borrowers on the sidelines.

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