Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

The new platform will be available in all markets that Final Offer operates in. According to the company, PX allows agents to share “pre-market” and “off-market” properties with clients via a private channel. Pre-market and off-market listings have caused some controversy in the real estate industry.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

I have attended several industry events recently and so many of the discussions continue to focus on the short game—top of funnel. These are exciting times for our industry and technology innovations continue to improve to support the needs of modern agents. Stuart Sim is the VP of Industry Development at Lofty.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2025

Industry professionals were full of optimism heading into the spring that the housing market could pick up after a sluggish start to 2025. Existing-home sales are hovering around 4 million and many markets that are typically fruitful for homebuilders have stalled. But more markets are being downgraded from normal to slow.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Introduction As part of our ongoing discussion on the concept of movement in the mortgage industry, it is readily apparent that the failure of mortgage companies to pivot or tweak their business models to satisfy changing market and other conditions has resulted in consolidation based on liquidity, buyback, financial and other concerns.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The stagnant 2024 housing market is one the real estate industry cant wait to get away from, but not so for the niche luxury market. drop in overall home sales and a 5% rise in median price. And the rich are getting richer thanks to the stock market boom. Thats compared to a 12.9% The S&P 500 is up 26.9%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Momentum Builder has acquired Sales Mastery , the companies announced Wednesday. The merger of two industry leaders in sales training and coaching will result in a “unified super brand” that will be known as Sales Mastery Powered by Momentum Builder, the companies said in a press release. 14-17 in Dallas.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In a new episode of “The Loan Officer Podcast,” host Dustin Owen chats with John Cornish of Iowa-based Key Mortgage Group about his path into the industry, tips for scaling a mortgage lending business and how to avoid stagnation as a loan originator. When I sold competitive products, the sales portion of it felt really easy.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

Movement is constant in the mortgage industry. These movements are marked by transactions, including execution of employment agreements, sale or merger agreements, and management of risk. The second article deals with movement marked by mergers and acquisitions within the industry.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The luxury real estate market is on a growth trend early in 2025. This success pushed one of the countrys top luxury real estate brands to a strong year for sales volume. According to the report, Sothebys did $157 billion in global sales in 2024, and its U.S. sales volume increased 9.4% year over year. In the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2025

Weve entered the busiest season in the real estate industry at the same time that markets are more uncertain than ever. Nearly 40% of annual home sales happen between May and August, and were quickly approaching the most popular day to list your home: June 1*. The industry is constantly changing.

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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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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2025

Industry debate around off-market listings or pocket listings has become increasingly heated. For Willoughby, founder of The Jaymes Willoughby Team with Keller Williams Realty , off-market listings are a gamble that rarely pays off for sellers. Youre artificially limiting your market. Hidden gem or missed opportunity?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2025

Class Valuation has expanded its national sales team with the hirings of Jim Bannister and Scott Shaw as senior executives, the company announced Tuesday. Bannister has previously held senior sales roles at Cotality (formerly CoreLogic ), First American Financial Corp.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

housing market after large numbers of federal employee layoffs were announced. Social media posts suggest that more than 4,000 homes recently hit the housing market in and around the nation’s capital. housing market. Powell shared an image that shows an exorbitant number of homes for sale in the Washington, D.C.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2025

During last week’s earnings call, PennyMac Financial Services chairman and CEO David Spector said during a Q&A with investors and analysts that the company’s goals include continued growth in its broker direct channel and 10% market share by the end of 2026 a goal of more than 100% growth over the next 18 months.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

Another year of slow home sales resulted in a further decline in title insurance premium volume, according to the American Land Title Association (ALTA)’s Market Share Analysis report released Thursday. In 2024, the title industry generated $16.2 of the market, Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co. With 27.7%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

Real estate industry executives may not see eye to eye on the National Association of Realtors ‘ (NAR) Clear Cooperation Policy (CCP), but there is one thing they do agree on — the vast majority of sellers receive the most benefit from listing transparency and broad exposure of their listings. “The

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2025

The suit alleges that NWMLSs policy which, unlike the National Association of Realtors (NAR) policy, does not allow for private exclusive listings is the most restrictive homeowner marketing rule in the country. In a LinkedIn post, Potashnick, who has nearly three decades of industry experience, simply wrote, Are you kidding me?

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The announcement, made in a YouTube video featuring Rocket Pro TPO Executive Vice President Mike Fawaz and Divisional Vice President Nathan Kyle, also advertised the company’s upcoming “Pro Performance Sales Training” efforts, slated to occur on Nov. billion through its TPO channel.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

Luxury real estate auction house Concierge Auctions has entered a co-marketing partnership with proptech startup Luxury Presence , announced today. As part of this partnership, the two companies will collaborate on marketing initiatives to promote exclusive, co-branded campaigns and resources.

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Housing Wire

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. Collov AI : A smarter, faster and an AI way to stage Collov Inc. ,

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Araya’s data will come from CoreLogic‘s 360 Property Data suite, which offers property and marketing intelligence. The marketing intelligence tools speak to the future, giving users the power to uncover market trends, customer preferences, partnerships and other predictive data.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As low inventory levels, elevated mortgage rates and rising home prices keep the housing industry stagnant, short-term real estate investors — aka fix-and-flippers — faced market turmoil during the third quarter of 2024. An index score above 50 indicates market expansion, while a score below 50 indicates contraction.

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

bringing a team with more than $300 million in career sales. because we feel the real estate industry is in need of change,” Smith said in a statement. “In In many ways, the industry has become stagnant, and we refuse to accept that. Key Avenue Group is leaving Keller Williams for SERHANT., first entered South Carolina in 2023.

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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. NQMs provide an alternative for borrowers who dont fit the conventional mold.

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Housing Wire

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

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 company claims the product is the mortgage industry’s first of its kind and allows lenders to process more applications, reduce fallout and capture more business.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Stats are the fuel to the fire of the real estate market and will make you exude confidence in conversations with potential clientsmaking them feel confident in hiring you to represent them. Before we give you the real estate industry statistics, we want to provide a little more food for thought about what you can do with them.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2025

Reverse mortgage professionals made more inroads into the forward mortgage industry in 2024. Continuing this momentum into 2025 is a priority for many in the reverse mortgage space, according to conversations with leaders at various industry lenders. One key is to bolster connections between a companys forward and reverse divisions.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Right now, the industry will wait for that letter of intent signed by both parties to confirm the rumor. In the meantime, industry experts speculate on the potential impact and implications. ” Maybe the decentralized, high-trust nature of real estate sales isn’t a business he wants to stay in.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

The brokerage has hired industry veteran Nikol Solares as senior managing director of new development marketing. Adam Vellano was promoted to managing director of the South Florida market. And Erika Sheridan was promoted to senior director of marketing and operations in the Southeast.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Forecasts for the housing market in 2025 are not that rosy, but Ryan McKeveny and Brian Hale see this as a good thing for the years ahead. Although this is not the news housing industry professionals were hoping for, McKeveny does see hope on the horizon. The market is reaching this coiled spring point, he said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Buyers are not required to prepare their current home for sale until after they move into the new property. We have partnered with Calque to provide better options to those customers, including the ability to close immediately on a new home before putting their current home on the market.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The Tech100 Real Estate award honors the most innovative and impactful companies transforming the real estate industry. Now in its 6th year, the Tech100 Real Estate program provides a trusted resource for real estate professionals, showcasing the industrys top technology providers. Explore the full list of this years honorees below.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

He actively searches for new and groundbreaking ways to improve his companies and inject innovation and creativity into the industry. In this Executive Conversation, Marc digs into a wide variety of topics on how to approach change management as market volatility remains outside of our control. How do you see this industry?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2025

While these borrowers may follow a less traditional route, they play an essential role in the diversity and strength of the housing market. Indeed, it bears highlighting that the Non-QM market is increasingly critical to helping specific segments of the population who do not fit the conventional “box” achieve the American Dream.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Stone Point is no stranger to the real estate industry, as it also holds strategic investments in Lone Wolf Technologies , Homepoint , CoreLogic and Meridian. Czarnecki has over two decades of real estate industry experience. In addition to the partnership with Stone Point, the firm also announced leadership changes.

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