Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-Wis.) has introduced a bill to the U.S. House of Representatives that would codify the “tri-merge” credit model into law, a rebuke to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)’s recent efforts to transition to a “bi-merge” model that would require only two credit reports to be pulled instead of three. This is according to an official log of the proposed bill, designated as House Resolution (HR) 7857 and which Fitzgerald is calling the “Accurate Credit Reporting for Homeb

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Keeping Current Matters

APRIL 5, 2024

Hiring an agent when buying a home helps you understand the buying process and the local market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

Today’s jobs report beat estimates , but the internals show the labor market is softening, as the Federal Reserve wants. The data shows that wage growth is cooling down and the job opening quits rate is below pre-COVID-19 levels. This bodes well for those hoping to see a soft landing, and for those hoping for lower mortgage rates. The 10-year yield has had a wild ride today, but now is an excellent time to look at my macro take on the labor market and explain what the Fed is looking for wi

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Real Estate News

APRIL 5, 2024

Ruling could lead to further changes in industry practices by allowing the Department of Justice to revisit an antitrust case originally settled in 2020.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

Ginnie Mae this week issued a public notice to its issuer partners warning of an observation of higher prepayments in some of its mortgage-backed securities (MBS) programs, reminding issuers that a violation of its requirements could result in punitive action. In a prior All Participants Memorandum (APM) issued in December 2017 , Ginnie Mae described how it monitors prepayments in its MBS programs.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

The number of first-time homebuyers made up 32% of all buyers in 2023, according to a report released by the National Association of Realtors. Millennials comprised 75% of this demographic, with older millennials and Generation X (ages 44 to 58) accounting for 44% and 24% of first-time buyers. Against that backdrop, Zillow identified prime markets for first-time homebuyers , and half of them were nestled in the Midwest.

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Real Estate News

APRIL 5, 2024

Jennifer Berman most recently served as COO of Direct Offer and was a cast member on the CNBC series “Listing Impossible.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

As of March 29, the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metropolitan area was the fourth-hottest housing market in the country. The Bay Area metro had a 90-day average Market Action Index score of 61.19, according to data from Altos Research. In comparison, Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue , the top-ranked metro area, had a score of 64.53. Altos considers anything above a Market Action Index of 30 to be a seller’s market.

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Inman

APRIL 5, 2024

In another loss for the National Association of Realtors, the court ruled the U.S. Department of Justice can reopen its investigation into rules around commission sharing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

The National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) announced this week that Peter Sciandra, EVP of reverse lending and secondary marketing at Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation , has joined its board of directors for the remainder of the 2023-2024 term. Reverse mortgage division leaders at Fairway announced in February that in addition to a reshuffling of the division’s leadership team, the company had elected to rejoin NRMLA after splitting from the association in late 2021.

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Inman

APRIL 5, 2024

Dive into a discussion with industry leaders as they share valuable tactics for effectively communicating the value you bring to transactions.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

In a filing earlier this week, HomeServices of America asked Judge Stephen Bough, who is overseeing the Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit , to deny the plaintiffs motion for entry of judgement. In their mid-March filing, the Sitzer/Burnett plaintiffs asked the court to order HomeServices of America, the sole remaining defendant in the suit, to pay $4.7 billion in damages.

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Inman

APRIL 5, 2024

That includes benefits for first-time homebuyers, who might be better served by inexperienced agents. However, some benefits require changes from mortgage lenders, consumer watchdog says.

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Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

Reverse mortgage professionals in Massachusetts will be reliant on their borrowers’ ability to complete their required counseling sessions under the state’s face-to-face mandate following the expiration of a provision temporarily relaxing the standard that expired on April 1. This is according to prior legislative documents reviewed by RMD and an announcement this week by the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA).

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Inman

APRIL 5, 2024

Inman sat down with Raveis following his firm's 50-year anniversary to discuss what it takes to lead a brokerage for half a century.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

To paraphrase Mark Twain, history may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme. The U.S. mortgage industry recently had to remind itself of this fact when a CNN analysis found that the nation’s largest credit union, Navy Federal, has the widest disparity in mortgage approval rates between white and black borrowers of any major lender. The report, released back in December, noted that Navy Federal Credit Union approved more than 75% of white borrowers who applied for a new conventional home pur

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Inman

APRIL 5, 2024

Luxury agent and new Inman contributor Beckie Nielsen offers insight on making client service more personal, more meaningful and, ultimately, more effective.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

The U.S. economy added another 303,000 jobs in March, exceeding economists’ expectations, and well above the average monthly gain of 231,000 jobs over the prior 12 months. Jobs increased in March, up from a revised rate of 270,000 in February , according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday. The national unemployment rate changed little at 3.8%, down from 3.9% in February, and still below the full employment rate of 4%.

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Inman

APRIL 5, 2024

Real estate maven Barbara Corcoran tells the industry to calm down following the furor over NAR's commission lawsuit settlement.

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Bigger Pockets

APRIL 5, 2024

Insurance premiums are skyrocketing across the U.S., with no end in sight to annual increases that may just make you rethink investing in real estate in several parts of the country.

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Inman

APRIL 5, 2024

Hunterbrook Media founder dismisses Ishbia's take as "baseless conspiracy theory", while Rocket says it and founder Dan Gilbert have no financial interests or relationship to Hunterbrook.

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Bigger Pockets

APRIL 5, 2024

Depending on the college, students nationwide looking to live at school have recently found themselves staying in luxury hotels, trailers, on friends’ couches, or Zooming in to class from their […]

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Inman

APRIL 5, 2024

The LA luxury powerhouse passed away peacefully in her home on Tuesday. Industry professionals shared with Inman the many ways in which Berman touched their lives.

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Bigger Pockets

APRIL 5, 2024

During much of the year, this short-term, two-bedroom rental in Indio, California, a lovely, quiet, desert town about 35 minutes past Palm Springs, hovers around $172 a night.

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Inman

APRIL 5, 2024

Broker Julie Busby shares tips for making messages around HELOCs and real estate investing a centerpiece of your springtime content marketing efforts.

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RIS Media

APRIL 5, 2024

In a split decision, a panel of judges for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today overruled a district judge who had previously prevented the Department of Justice (DOJ) from reopening its investigation into the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), potentially allowing regulators to pursue further changes to policy and rules in the industry. In… The post BREAKING: Appeals Court Rules DOJ Can Reopen Investigation Into NAR appeared first on RISMedia.

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Inman

APRIL 5, 2024

First-time homebuyers made up half of all homebuyers in St. Louis in 2023, according to Zillow. That's the highest share the city has seen since at least 2017.

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RIS Media

APRIL 5, 2024

The March jobs report, released Friday from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, defied odds predicted by analysts—indicating a slightly positive upward trend in employment from February, which will likely keep interest rates high in the coming months. The data showed an addition of 303,000 jobs in March compared to 270,000 in February, an increase… The post New Jobs Report Shows Stronger-Than-Expected Results appeared first on RISMedia.

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