Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

I think a lot of people in this industry probably got caught sideways because they had never seen a rate environment where rates went up. I think the hardest part was the layoffs followed by salary cuts across the organization. We are not a huge company and we had to go from 460 people to 275 really fast. And it’s tough.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) to revise its policies that ban veterans from paying broker commissions, an issue that is gaining attention following the NAR’s landmark $418 million settlement. NAR’s letter follows a similar message sent by the Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA) to the VA earlier this week.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Existing home sales fell in today’s report , which isn’t surprising, but one headline that shocked some people was that home prices are still up year over year, even with higher inventory and higher mortgage rates. Or, as in this case, it meant we had too many people chasing too few homes. from the previous year ($375,300).

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But Serhant continued to follow up — for five years. Serhant used this story to illustrate how he manifested this deal by religiously following up with the client. I always tell people to be the most authentic they can be and they will meet their people. For some people, it is at temple or at church.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

first brought the issue up by saying it is an important element to address for the kinds of people who most commonly make use of FHA mortgage programs. “I I don’t have to tell you, that’s working people, people of color [and] first-time homebuyers,” Sherman said. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee on Jan.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Chongling often receives calls and messages from people looking to connect with her, but often finds the initial contacts very “cold and generic, almost robotic.” I think that that impacts people a little bit more.” Be persistent The final piece of successful networking is to follow through and be persistent.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

Don’t send spammy emails: One of the best ways to stay in Google’s good graces and your recipients’ graces is to send content that people want. Remove people not engaging with your content, honor opt-outs and keep your emails updated. Avoid spam-triggering words such as No.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

This means that when you have 100 people in your database , and they’re hearing from you regularly with something of value, at least 10 of those contacts should either transact with you or refer someone they know who will work with you buying or selling real estate. Are 200 people in your database hearing from you all the time?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

She hadn’t started her real estate business there yet, and she was lonely — so to meet new people, she decided to throw a holiday party and invite anyone she could. “I Dillard’s first holiday party had about 15 people in attendance. Picking up the phone and calling and inviting people is really great.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Market your event You can plan a perfect event, but if your marketing strategy isn’t comprehensive, how will people know about it? Use multimedia Very few people can attend an hour-long lecture and remember everything they heard. This increases your potential audience and introduces you to more people you might not otherwise reach.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

One of the biggest concerns is protecting seniors against feelings of isolation , which can be a serious threat to the well-being and cognitive function of older people. There’s just not enough young people willing and able — not to come in once a month for a home visit, but to be there all day long,” Skuler said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

followed by a Southern Regional Meeting in Austin the following month before October’s nationally focused Nashville event. There seems to be a lot of enthusiasm for people to get together down in Nashville.” Last year, it convened a Western Regional Meeting in June that took place in Irvine, Calif., 1 state for business.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

At that time, Bloomberg reported that LendCo, which was valued between $2 billion and $3 billion, was expected to go public in the first half of 2024, according to people familiar with the matter. The following year, CMG acquired Homebridge’s retail assets. and Jefferies Financial Group Inc.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Mortgage servicers, regulators and economists are closely watching the delinquency rates for Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans following a spike in the fourth quarter of 2023. “All these increases in costs impact people’s ability to pay, without question,” Steven R.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

More Americans are reaching the milestone age of 65 , and these people are redefining what 65 looks like in comparison to prior generations — with a raft of implications for American society. This is according to a recent story published by the The Wall Street Journal. A growing share are divorced.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

million followers, is getting its own nine-episode series on HGTV , the company announced on Tuesday. Millions of people are obsessed with scrolling through outrageous and over-the-top properties on social media while dreaming about where they would like to live,” Loren Ruch, head of content at HGTV said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

followers and 524.8k We’re on there to provide accurate information, and if people want to use us, that’s awesome.”. Playlists make it easier for your followers to binge your content and absorb all the information. In April she had 400 people fill out inquiries and applications from TikTok. likes on the platform.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As global tensions have escalated in recent years so, too, have concerns in the United States about the ownership of real estate by people from other countries — especially those from adversary nations. First, any law restricting ownership must clearly state that the obligation to follow the law rests with the buyer.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

For those who have followed my Instagram story videos for over a year, the essential level of 4.34% is getting close to being tested again. Mortgage rates have been increasing lately, and I am always mindful that some people will not list their homes to sell and buy another one if rates jump on them. Serious mortgage rate talk!

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

After being promoted to the role of president following the FOA acquisition of former industry-leading lender American Advisors Group (AAG), Sieffert sat down with HousingWire President Diego Sanchez for a “ Ten Minute Talk ” to go deeper into her new role. I think that sentiment is probably echoed by a lot of people.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

West Palm Beach and Jacksonville in Florida followed with 49% and 46.2%, respectively. High mortgage rates are exacerbating inequality between people who own homes and people who don’t,” Redfin Senior Economist Sheharyar Bokhari said. It’s the highest share of all-cash transactions recorded since 2014. of all transactions.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Going into 2023, people thought housing inventory would skyrocket, home prices would crash, and we would see the housing market of 2008 all over again. We created this weekly tracker at the end of 2022 to give people a live weekly outlook on everything that drives the housing market and which factors to follow.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

When people are less apt to buy and sell property? To make it in such an environment, real estate professionals must embrace the following elements: visibility, systems, consistency, education and prospecting, along with a commitment to being an actual expert in their field. Actively following up on your CRM is key.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

“You really don’t have a choice at this point if you want to stay in the industry, because that’s a great way to reach people now,” said Shivani Peterson, a mortgage advisor at All Western Mortgage with almost 25,000 Instagram followers ( @shivpeter ). And Reels should be a bit more produced and polished.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Where it was shifting the TDR team to be a more strategic function, to strengthening our employee engagement work, or to partnering with each of us during COVID to keep our staff safe — Donna has always put the people at NAR first,” Goldberg wrote in his email. More such changes should follow.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

There were 56 complaints from California, followed by Florida (49), New York (25), Maryland (21) and Texas (19). In other responses, companies will request follow up information from consumers.” It’s very important for people to understand, so I find this encouraging that [so many] of them were closed with an explanation.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

Fee pressure was followed by appraisal management company (AMC) requests for revisions (28%) and technology fees (26%), a category that was not included in 2022 survey responses. It’s] essentially redlining — neighborhoods of predominantly people of color are given lower market value,” said one non-appraiser respondent.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Global statistics from 2023 show that people watch videos an average of 100 minutes a day, with millennials — the largest share of homebuyers in the U.S. Engage in a professional way with the people who reach out to you. Specifically look at: How many people have seen the video. spending 10 to 20 hours a week watching videos.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

One of the most significant changes has been the rise of remote work, which has allowed many people to move to new locations in search of a better quality of life. But what appears to have changed are the distances that people move, with the median distance more than tripling in 2022 from the decade prior.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

From live coverage of the breaking news that impacts professional practices, to the quarterly earnings and battlefield strategies from the top brokerage leaders and agents, HousingWire’s award-winning newsroom is following it. “In

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

.” In a webinar last week with NAR’s Deputy General Counsel Lesley Muchow, she notes that if the plaintiffs are successful, “We will be forced back into the 19th century or what we see as the Wild West where unscrupulous people can regularly defraud clients. ” What’s at stake?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Following the company’s initial public offering (IPO) and its choice to focus exclusively on retirement solutions, FOA’s acquisition of AAG was a natural way to stake a major claim of leadership in the business. Obviously, it’s hard to move right now, but people do have a lot of equity,” she said. “So,

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2022

HousingWire: What are you fast thoughts on the following: Stuart Sim: My most useful tech tool is… my iPhone. My biggest learning opportunity was… leading people and learning as we grew rapidly. HousingWire: What’s one thing that people aren’t paying attention to that you think they should be paying attention to?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2023

The White House supports a new rule for AVMs, which follows goals set out by the president in addressing issues of racial bias that have exacerbated homeownership and wealth gaps. “Even when appraisers follow the intended approach, it may result in an outcome that disenfranchises people. ”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Despite not requiring NAR membership, Frazier said the brokerage does require agents to follow the NAR Code of Ethics. “We think it’s appropriate for them to follow,” Frazier said. We don’t want people unrepresented.” He noted, however, that the firm does not enforce this rule.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

You can use these for door-knocking, lead follow-up, open house giveaways, and at the closing table. Send a video email offering an updated market analysis and follow up with phone contact. Then, reach out with individual phone calls to invite people. Promote your event via a video sent to your database.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

If a lender has a supposedly neutral policy that results in them denying loans to people of a protected class (i.e., People qualify based on their ability to pay, not their placement in some opaque scoring system. racial, religious, or gender minority) at a greater rate, that policy may constitute lending discrimination.

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