The American Genius for Real Estate

JUNE 9, 2022

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

The aim is to leverage the pair’s experience in content, training and digital production to make required NMLS training more fun, Knottingham said. “Annual CE requirements can feel like a chore – but we view it as a kind of common ground where our industry can take a beat, have fun, and learn together as a team.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

on the team. The recent team of hires reflects a variety of roles and meets the needs of our clients,” Boyd said. The recent team of hires reflects a variety of roles and meets the needs of our clients,” Boyd said. HousingWire reported in early January that CCM acquired AmCap to bolster its operations in Texas.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

Bringing our new bank statement HELOC product to the market is a testament to our dedication to meeting the evolving needs of borrowers nationwide,” Tom Hutchens, executive vice president of production for Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions, said in a statement. “The from $490 billion in the second quarter. Angel Oak has originated $9.4

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

According to Sears, NAR’s leadership team unanimously voted to end the program. As you know, there are many challenges facing our profession today, and the Leadership Team and I have been engaged in extensive discussions with members to understand their feedback and concerns,” Sears wrote in his email. “As

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

million real estate professionals , has planned an emergency leadership team meeting for Thursday, which may result in resignations. million real estate professionals , has planned an emergency leadership team meeting for Thursday, which may result in resignations.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2023

Brittany Roseboro and John Glover claim that Rocket’s leadership required them to attend unpaid pre-shift meetings and, due to technological delays and other problems, they usually had an uncompensated preliminary “boot-up” and “clock-in” time. That’s at least the second case that targets the Detroit-based lender for unpaid wages.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

The need for skilled, high-performing teams will always be a priority. To ease these challenges, property managers can use AI to experiment with new workplace models to provide more meaningful, effective opportunities for their teams. At the same time, the data suggests several benefits for early adopters.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2023

In the fast-paced and demanding world of real estate , a happy and motivated team can be the key to long-term success. As a leader, it’s crucial to invest time and effort in nurturing your team’s satisfaction and well-being. Foster a sense of belonging with team events.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

” Reffkin also noted that eliminating the role of COO will allow for “a streamlined management team with fewer layers and faster decision-making empowering our team and local regions even more.” According to the filing, Hart’s position is being eliminated and Compass will not seek to fill the vacancy.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

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. Peter Sciandra Sciandra expressed gratitude to NRMLA for the opportunity to join the board. ”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

When Jen Dillard, broker and team leader of Jen Dillard Real Estate Team, and her family first moved to Hood River, Oregon, she didn’t know anyone. 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

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2022

After returning from the Thanksgiving holiday, the roughly 575 staffers at Reverse Mortgage Funding assembled nervously on two separate Microsoft Teams meetings. On the first virtual meeting, 472 employees received the bad news that many expected : they were being terminated. Read the story of RMF’s downfall here.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Kristen Sieffert, president of Finance of America Reverse, speaks during The Gathering by HousingWire on Monday, April 21, 2024. Photo credit: AJ Canaria Reverse mortgages became an unexpectedly prominent topic during certain parts of The Gathering by HousingWire , held earlier this week in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

Shareholders will vote on the measure at the company’s annual shareholders meeting on May 28, and pending approval, the company will transfer to its new ticker symbol and name in June. Ocwen Financial Corp., the parent company of top five reverse mortgage lender Liberty Reverse Mortgage and PHH Mortgage Corp.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Allow teams to fail — but fail quickly Give your teams the space to be comfortable with failure, and to fail quickly. For example, give a team two weeks to code a solution prototype to see if it works. For example, give a team two weeks to code a solution prototype to see if it works. rather than the “What?”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2023

With few jobs available, he began crafting wooden toys in his workshop to make ends meet for his wife and three boys. Within these blocks lies a big lesson for Realtors and teams — focus. Each week, I meet with the most successful Realtors in the nation. It looks exactly the same.” Keller said. That’s it.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

He began his career there as an analyst in the Capital Markets division, later serving in various leadership roles on the production team. Peter has a proven ability to make strategic, forward-looking decisions and to meet and anticipate the evolving needs of the affordable market. Always assume positive intent,” he said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

If your brokerage is not meeting or exceeding that number, it’s time to reconsider your retention strategy. If your brokerage is not meeting or exceeding that number, it’s time to reconsider your retention strategy. These have become the basic requirements for attracting agents, but they hardly suffice for retaining them.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2022

Hopefully, you are as excited to join together with everyone in the housing industry as the HousingWire team is. . Here are five can’t-deny reasons for why you and your team need to join HousingWire for these 3 days of all things housing. . After all that effort, you and your team deserve a few days of play to balance it all out.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

For all real estate professionals , from brokers managing their business, to team leaders managing their colleagues, to agents managing their clients, an unpredictable market is an opportunity to cement yourself as a pillar of reliance and predictability. Outside of the occasional rainstorm, Arizona weather is quite consistent.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Paul Hurst , chief innovation officer at First American , to talk about the challenge of attracting and retaining tech talent and how to know if a project has a big enough vision. Sarah Wheeler: How do you think about buy versus build? Given enough capital, you can build a lot of technology.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In a statement confirming that a rumored emergency executive committee meeting had occurred on Thursday, newly appointed NAR president Tracy Kasper, who took the helm on Monday after Kenny Parcell’s resignation , said the executive committee was looking into policies and procedures related to the complaints discusses in the Times story.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

Like every department within housing, marketing teams across the country were forced to re-strategize and tailor their programs to accommodate the changing climate of 2020. We reached out to DeCiantis to learn more about how UWM managed to pivot its marketing strategies in 2020 and what her team is looking forward to most in 2021.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Robinson said that even within the challenging market, the team was able to roughly double its headcount of dedicated reverse employees compared to when she started in January 2023. Some of these challenges, especially in relation to historic interest rate increases, were out of the industry’s control.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today, a mortgage lender must have scalability in its operation, an ability to pivot quickly to meet changing market conditions and client needs, a well-designed technology stack and, above all, a keen sense of what its customers and the marketplace truly want from them.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

For instance, one team of agents in our firm regularly volunteer with Habitat for Humanity and, as they donate their time making a big impact, the agents are learning skills such as window installation as well, which sharpens their eyes for finer home details. One of the best outcomes of volunteering is bettering the community.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

NAR staffers had previously called for Goldberg’s resignation in an anonymous letter presented by NAR Regional Vice President Shannon King during a committee meeting in mid-September. I look forward to working with her, in partnership with our Leadership Team and staff, to continue strengthening our organization.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2023

Like your customer, the recruitment process can be visualized as a sales funnel, where potential recruits enter at the top, and the best-suited agents emerge at the bottom as ideal members of your team or brokerage. Webinars and workshops: Organize events that showcase your brokerage’s expertise and the benefits of joining your team.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To mitigate and manage inherent servicing risks, your risk management team must identify your institution’s specific risk areas. From there, your internal audit team should ensure the proper processes and procedures are in place to address those risks. Thankfully, the tune of the housing industry has changed over the last few weeks.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

According to Chen Zhao , senior manager of the economics team at Redfin , futures markets are currently pricing in a 4.5% probability of a hike in the next Fed’s meeting. As 10-year Treasury yields tumbled, the average 30-year fixed mortgage fell 26 basis points in the week ending Nov. The 30-year, fixed mortgage averaged 7.5%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

Modern-day redlining persists, and it’s costing lenders millions in legal fees. Recently, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has taken a strong stance on redlining, taking direct legal action against bad actors and thrusting the topic into the national spotlight. Last October, Ameris Bank had to pay $9 million to settle a redlining case.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

By separating the data collection and valuation processes, potential bias is eliminated, ensuring that homeowners and appraisers never meet. “Our service not only meets the definition of an Appraisal under USPAP but also provides a seamless upgrade from an AVM to a Desktop.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the Times investigation, three women described a pattern of inappropriate behavior by Parcell, who runs the Kenny Parcell Team at Equity Realty in Spanish Forks, Utah. Parcell was called out for alleged sexual harassment by 16 of the more than two dozen current and former NAR employees interviewed by the Times. “I NAR has over 1.5

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

But Sieffert also express bullishness on multiple levels about the strength that combined forces have in meeting reverse mortgage challenges and opportunities alike. Creating a united culture This vision leads to a feeling of excitement about what everyone can do as part of the same team, she said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2023

Top-producing loan officer Christopher Keelin has taken his 80+person team over to CrossCountry Mortgage to “take advantage” of the lender’s technology while scaling his business. In 2022, Keelin and his team closed $827 million in volume, with Keelin originating $322 million alone. Keelin noted.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

You and your teams have worked tirelessly through 2022 and into the new year. This conference is catered specifically to the CEOs, presidents, senior leaders and broker -owners in real estate and their teams. . Tickets can be purchased, here , for yourself or your team. Get ready for Gathering of Eagles 2023.

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