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JULY 12, 2025

Skip to Content Agents Brokerages MLS/Assn Tech Industry By the Numbers Consumer Illustration by Lanette Behiry/Adobe Stock Brokerages SERHANT. Maryanne Moyers, Principal Broker, Serhant Maryanne Moyers, a veteran broker with more than $5 billion in career sales, will lead the expansion as principal broker.

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MARCH 22, 2023

Mortgage rates, which climbed upward one day and went down the next in the wake of the recent wave of bank failures, will continue to be volatile before it stabilizes, industry watchers said.

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OCTOBER 3, 2024

It comes as Securent seeks capital to invest in rising-demand products, especially in the residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) space. He previously worked with VineLight’s principals, Bryan Binder and Jason Garmise, at CastleLine , a provider of mortgage data and insurance products. Vedder will continue to lead Securent.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2022

As the principal broker for a RE/MAX franchise in coastal Cannon Beach, Oregon, Alaina Giguiere’s typical responsibilities include marketing homes for sellers, touring homes with buyers, generating new business leads, managing client relationships, and drafting and reviewing contracts with buyers and sellers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Let’s face it: joint ventures (JVs) and affiliated business arrangements (ABAs) are all the rage in the residential real estate space right now. So why aren’t more commercial real estate (CRE) entities – investors , principals, banks, law firms or developers – seeking the same? And why not?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The company also increased its agents count by 4%, reaching 14,055 principal agents in Q3. That’s a 4% year-over-year increase of 511 principal agents since Q3 2022 and a 3% increase of 422 agents compared to the second quarter of 2023.

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JULY 1, 2024

In 2022, Kaufman co-founded AdaMark Residential , where he served as president. Prior to that venture, Kaufman was a vice president and principal of a luxury residential real estate marketing firm. Kaufman is also a member of the Florida Board of Realtors. Adam brings a wealth of experience to our team.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

Fannie Mae has launched its fourth reperforming-loan sale of the year — an offering of 6,130 loans with an unpaid principal balance of $997 million. million in unpaid principal balance; pool 2 is at $342.5 Freddie Mac updates risk mitigation requirements for the industry due to elevated cybersecurity threats.

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MAY 6, 2024

MBA and NRMLA each state that they are generally supportive of the proposed changes, which include wholesale revisions to the lender table for the best estimate of the total cost of a refinancing to the borrower, as well as increases to the borrower’s principal limit.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2022

Most industry observers predicted that the national foreclosure rate would rise once foreclosure moratoriums ended on July 31, 2021. of the loans modified included a principal deferral, the OCC said. million first-lien residential mortgages with $2.6 trillion in unpaid principal balance, the report said. compared to 94.2%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Annaly has $75 billion in assets invested across its agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS), residential credit and MSR strategies. It has built an MSR platform with 608,000 loans, representing $192 billion in unpaid principal value (UPB) and $2.8 Terms of the deal were not disclosed. billion in market value as of June 30.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

Lewisville, Texas-based property services company MCS announced last week that it acquired Five Brothers Asset Management Solutions , a deal which brings MCS into the reverse mortgage industry for the first time, according to an announcement by the company. Five Brothers, headquartered in Warren, Mich.,

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Homesnap has great relationships, data , software, and tools for residential real estate professionals that are complementary to our existing offerings ,” Florance said. Principal Broker and CEO of Urban District Realty Ryan Fiero said that demand for the product led to the decision to make PROJETO available to more in the industry.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

These include wholesale revisions to the lender table for the best estimate of the total cost of the refinancing to the borrower, as well as increases to the borrower’s principal limit. Form 1003 “is also used in the mortgage industry by government sponsored enterprises to originate conventional mortgages,” the notice stated.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

. “Working together as one group combines a vast range of industry backgrounds that contribute to expertise in every category of real estate. It ranked 8th for residential sales volume, with a total of $46,687,375. 3 rank in Nevada by that measure. The Blankfeld Group came in No.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2023

Whitfield is the founding principal of the Whitfield Property Group and he recorded $33 million in sales volume in 2022. With a decade of experience as an agent, Wilbanks entered the industry after working as a residential mortgage loan officer. Whitfield and Wilbanks are both leaving Compass to join The Agency.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2022

The major market dynamic making EBO deals attractive now, according to KBRA, is a changing of seasons in the mortgage industry, marked by fast-rising rates , high housing prices and a turn toward a competitive purchase-mortgage market. Its servicing portfolio for all-agency loans based on unpaid principal balance stood at $374.8

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2022

The gain-on-sale margin on originations declined from 5% in 2020 to 4.02% in 2021, but at the end of the fourth quarter, it had fallen to 3.47%, generally consistent with industry trends. The company’s unpaid principal balance increased 18% last year to $70.9 In the fourth quarter, volume checked in at $8.8

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

The new REMIC, Mill City Loan Holdings LLC , will serve as a mortgage conduit for funds managed by CarVal while also developing relationships with originators to acquire “residential mortgage assets across multiple strategies,” according to a CarVal statement announcing the launch of the REMIC, which will do business as Mill City Loans.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

The value of all residential real estate worldwide is approximately $200 trillion. The numbers are staggering so it is no surprise that residential proptech is a heady market, capturing the imagination of entrepreneurs and institutions alike. Principal among these are: Invested capital “requires” the highest return. exceeds $1.5

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AUGUST 9, 2022

billion in assets, has a diverse portfolio of residential and commercial real estate assets. A closer look at WMC’s books, however, shows that as of June 30 its residential whole loan portfolio, nearly all of which is comprised of non-QM loans, was underwater by some $44 million. WMC, with some $2.8

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates, now around 6.5%, are cooling down the housing market and triggering mass layoffs in the mortgage and real estate industries. The volume is slightly lower than in May when it hit a 14-year high of nearly 11% of the overall residential mortgage applications. Mortgage rates have nearly doubled to around 6.5% About 9.1%

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2022

UWM, the nation’s largest wholesale lender, sold MSR on loans with an aggregate unpaid principal balance of about $56.6 billion in the unpaid principal balance of MSRs as of March 31, 2022 compared to $221 billion exactly a year earlier. million), nonbank mortgage lender and servicer New Residential Investment Corp. ($690

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

Between February 2020 and January 2022, we witnessed something in the mortgage industry that we thought we’d never see — 30-year fixed-rate mortgages under 3.5%. The residential real estate industry faces an interesting dynamic of rising mortgage rates while, at the same time, homeowners have record equity in their homes.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Mortgage industry executives are echoing the sentiment that Ginnie Mae’s risk-based capital requirement is currently the main concern for companies holding mortgage servicing rights (MSR). According to industry leaders, the rule can force a sell-off wave, reduce values and put some lenders and services in a difficult spot.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

On the heels of the central bank’s announcement to raise the federal funds rate by 50 basis points to 4.25%-4.50% on Wednesday, most economists and industry experts were on the same page about the housing outlook and which direction mortgage rates would be headed. . Existing home median price appreciation is forecast to slow at 5.4%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Sprout was founded in 2009 by industry veteran Michael Strauss and became “one of the fastest growing non-QM lenders in the country,” according to the lawsuit. A recent lawsuit claims Sprout Mortgage left its warehouse lender FirstFunding holding over $220 million of its debt when the mortgage lender abruptly closed on July 6.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2022

a real estate investment trust (REIT) based in Mill Valley California that has residential operations focused on nonagency jumbo loans, recently reported a second-quarter 2022 net loss of $100 million, after recording a net gain of $31 million in the prior quarter. Redwood Trust Inc. , Likewise, Atlanta-based A ngel Oak Mortgage Inc. ,

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2022

Between February 2020 and January 2022, we witnessed something in the mortgage industry that we thought we’d never see — 30-year fixed-rate mortgages under 3.5%. The residential real estate industry faces an interesting dynamic of rising mortgage rates while, at the same time, homeowners have record equity in their homes.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The recently released report is the industry standard for nationwide fraud monitoring and analysis and draws on its proprietary Mortgage Fraud Consortium Database, which includes over 100 million loan files, The large drop in fraud risk can primarily be attributed to the increase in low-risk refinance transactions. year-over-year nationally.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2023

Historic housing shortage The unprecedented rate hikes over the past 12 months have exacerbated a historic housing shortage while destabilizing the residential mortgage market. Instead, we will undergo a traumatic reshaping of the industry not seen since the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

mortgage industry to fund $4.1 What remains clear for industry observers is that higher mortgage rates will cool down the housing market. Fewer buyers in the industry means margin compression for lenders, which are relying heavily on purchase mortgages coming off a refi boom. trillion in new loans in 2020 and $3.9

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

“Rate declines will impact companies differently based on their business model,” said Craig Freel, partner and co-chief investment officer at Rice Park Capital Management , an investor in residential mortgage assets. trillion unpaid principal balance (UPB). billion by the end of June 2024, placing it fourth in the industry.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

But unlike financing with a traditional mortgage, monthly principal and interest payments are not required on the loan, so long as the homeowner keeps up to date with real estate taxes, homeowners’ insurance and property maintenance. And reverse purchase financing may finally find its rightful place within these industries,” he continued.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

However, the company was able to report a profit in an extremely difficult operating environment for residential mortgage originators in addition to seasonally low purchase origination volumes in Q4.” “Pennymac’s decline in profitability from Q3 2022 is credit negative,” Warren Kornfeld, Moody ’s senior vice president, said. trillion to $1.9

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The mortgage servicing rights market took off like a rocket in January and it has continued to accelerate into the stratosphere in February, according to industry experts who follow the MSR market closely. trillion in unpaid principal balance of agency loans being serviced by lenders. billion.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

Rumors this week that regulators would increase residential mortgage capital requirements for larger depositary banks, far exceeding international standards under the Basel III rules, have raised alarms for industry executives, analysts and trade groups. That’s 20 basis points higher than the international standard.

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