Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2025

million in sales, representing clients in Atlanta’s luxury real estate market. Welcoming Brandi back home to Keller Williams is a power move for our luxury presence across Georgia ,” said Gabby Maddox-Davis, operating principal at Keller Williams Realty West ATL. .” Since the start of 2022, Lewis has closed more than $56.1

Principal

Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2025

The acquisition brings the firms total footprint to three offices and roughly 80 affiliated sales associates. Melissa Sterling, principal broker and owner of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Heritage Group, said the acquisition aligns with the firms strategy of growth through shared values and professional development.

Principal

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

5 in sales volume at $62.6 Led by co-principals Annie Tran, Dewey Luong and Tiffany Powell, the Atlas team said that culture is one reason SERHANT. Atlas Group is coming over from Compass. According to 2023 production data from RealTrends Verified , Atlas ranked No. 3 in transactions in Atlanta with 132 and No.

Principal

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on Tuesday released an update about the sales of non-performing loans (NPLs) through the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), saying the data has shown a steady drop in mortgage delinquencies since the start of COVID-19 pandemic. billion through the end of June 2024.

Loans

Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2025

billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB), up 2% from the end of 2024 and 10% higher compared to March 2024. “We’re hiring forward to build scale, both in operations and sales. Wholesale partnerships Last week’s earnings painted an interesting picture for the company.

Marketing

Real Estate News

JULY 12, 2025

The move brings together 35 high-performing agents with a combined $500 million in sales volume over the last year, the company said. 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.

Brokerage

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

WFP has 150 agents and has executed $43 billion in sales volume over the past 25 years. According to WFP, the brokerage has the highest average sales volume per agent and the highest average sale price in the areas where it operates. At the end of 2023, the number of principal agents at the brokerage stood at 14,683.

Brokerage

Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2025

Name Job Title Company Name Abigail Williams Chief Legal Officer Lima One Capital Alexandra Lumpkin Chief Legal Officer The Real Brokerage Ali Haralson President Auction.com Alison Adams Grey Chief of Staff LPT Realty Amy Adams National Real Estate Expert The CE Shop Amy Butler Executive Vice President, National Sales Northpointe Bank Amy Creason Co-founder (..)

Title

Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2025

Led by principal agent Wendy Banner, the 13-agent team brings more than 100 years of combined experience and $2.03 billion in career sales to Compass. The Banner Team — one of the highest-performing real estate groups in the Washington, D.C., metro area — has joined Compass. Maryland and Northern Virginia) in 2024.

Principal

Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2025

Guild’s servicing portfolio stood at $94 billion in unpaid principal balance as of March 31, according to Inside Mortgage Finance. We don’t have to onboard a customer to a servicing platform; everything is very well integrated,” she said, referencing the alignment between the sales team, CRM system and servicing portfolio.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2025

In a sales call that took place just days after the Rocket-Mr. Ishbia did not discuss the plan to service loans in-house or its deal with ICE on its sales call with brokers on Wednesday, April 30, sources said. billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB) as of December 31, 2024, with a weighted average interest rate of 4.76%.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Its pull-through gain-on-sale margin was 3.29% in Q3 2024, compared to 3.22% in Q2 2024. Regarding loanDepot’s servicing portfolio, the unpaid principal balance (UPB) increased to $114.9 The pull-through gain-on-sale margin is expected to be between 2.85% and 3.05%. Origination volume was $6.7 billion on Sept.

Purchase and sale agreement

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This resulted from a portfolio of $878 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB), including $755 billion in mortgage servicing rights (MSRs) owned by the company. Gain-on-sale margins improved to 1.23% in the third quarter, up from 1.05% in the previous quarter.

Equity

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

It appears to be a compelling model in an era of muted home sales and high origination costs, and it positions Rocket to compete against other large servicers with high recapture rates— Freedom Mortgage , Mr. Cooper , Pennymac and NewRez —as rival lenders without servicing increasingly get boxed out on repeat business.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

decrease on the national median sale price. Compass also grew its national market share by 65 basis points during the year ending in December, grabbing a 5.06% share of all home sales in Q4 2024. The data also suggests that the impact is greatest among the lowest-priced homes. less and those in the next lowest tier sell for 2.7%

MLS

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Gain-on-sale margins for Q3 2024 were 278 basis points, a decrease from 299 bps in the previous quarter but nearly unchanged from 276 bps in Q3 2023. Refinancing opportunities are largely coming from Rocket’s servicing portfolio, which reached an unpaid principal balance (UPB) of $546.1 billion from its third-party originator channel.

Purchase and sale agreement

Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2025

Overall, the wholesale lender s gain-on-sale margin stood at 94 basis points from January to March, down from 105 bps in the previous quarter and 108 bps in Q1 2024. According to them, operating earnings per share missed us and consensus because of a lower gain-on-sale margin and higher opex. billion as of March 31, compared to $242.4

Principal

Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2025

His brother, Jeffrey Finn, serves as principal broker, Richmond BizSense reported. Last year, United Richmond agents closed more than 1,000 home sales. The newly formed Virginia team will operate as RVA Blue Realty. Terms of the cash deal were not disclosed, although John Finn said it was backed by third-party acquisition financing.

Brokerage

Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2025

SW: What are some of the other workflows where you are combining AI with human effort?

Technology

Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2025

. “With Smitty joining the leadership team and June contributing her expertise to our faculty, we are forming a powerhouse of knowledge, innovation, and support for both agents and clients, Jeffrey Finn, the principal broker of United Real Estate Richmond, said in a statement.

Brokerage

Fancy Pants Homes

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

That record-setting sale, closed in 2023, was brokered by the same agent who represents Casa Exumas. A massive primary bedroom Photo credit: Legendary Productions The large principal bedroom suite has generous proportions and a modern design, featuring black-framed windows that contrast against the crisp white walls and marble flooring.

Principal

Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

Name Job Title Company Name Aaron Heidorn Director of Software Engineering & Infrastructure Cloudvirga Aaron Smith Director, Sales CubiCasa Adrian Provost Chief Executive Officer Realty ONE Group Terminus Ana LeBlanc Human Resources Director InterLinc Mortgage Annie Lemon Producing Branch Manager Gold Star Mortgage Financial Anthony Russo Diamond (..)

Lending

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The simple answer is that real estate agents are paid on commission, typically a percentage of the property’s sale price. Broker-in-charge or Principal broker : These roles most closely align with designated brokers. How do real estate agents get paid? Brokers’ income varies depending on whether they still sell.

Agents

Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2025

The critics Compass is the most vocal critic of the CCP and it has been loudly advocating for its three-phase marketing plan, which it claims is designed to maximize demand and fine-tune [the sellers] positioning for the best possible sale outcome.

MLS

Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2025

Instead, Compass principally alleges that 64% to 66% of homebuyers and sellers visit Zillow,” the filing states. Those figures are not market shares and disregard the fact that Zillow facilitates only a single-digit share of for-sale transactions.”

Brokerage

Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2025

Its gain-on-sale margin was 2.80% in Q2 2025, a decrease of 19 basis points compared to the same period last year and a decline of 9 bps from Q1. Rocket’s unpaid principal balance for its servicing portfolio, which includes acquired and subserviced loans, reached $609 billion in the quarter.

Equity

Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2025

The HECM Tool a software platform designed to serve as a reverse mortgage sales conversion tool announced this week that it has integrated the proprietary reverse mortgage offering from Smartfi Home Loans into the platforms existing visualization and comparison capabilities.

Mortgages

The Close

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Tax liens and auctions: Search for tax lien sales and foreclosure auctions. Listing websites: Sites like Zillow, MLS, Realtor.com, and LoopNet list properties for sale. Gather the property’s history and recent sale prices in the area to understand market trends. If you flip the property, you can pay them from the proceeds.

Hard money loan

Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2025

The wholesale lender’s gain-on-sale margin improved to 113 basis points, up from 94 bps in Q1 2025 and 106 bps in Q2 2024. In its servicing portfolio , the company’s mortgage servicing rights totaled $211 billion in unpaid principal balance as of June 30, slightly down from $214 billion at the end of March.

Loan Officer

Calculated Risk Real Estate

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The median asking rent was $1,720, down by $23 from last month, reflecting a similar seasonal trend as observed in the for-sale market. increase in median price-per-square-foot of for-sale home listings in the 5 years ending October 2024. median rent continued to decline year-over-year for the fifteenth month in a row , down $14 or -0.8%

Principal

Calculated Risk Real Estate

MARCH 5, 2025

The ICE HPI is a repeat sales index. ICE reports the median price change of the repeat sales. ICE reports the median price change of the repeat sales. Overall delinquencies decreased in January are below the pre-pandemic levels. The index was up 3.0% year-over-year in January, down from 3.4% YoY in December. from +3.4%

Mortgages

Seattle Times Real Estate

JULY 5, 2025

June marked a continuation of a sluggish year with more homeowners listing their properties for sale than a year ago, but many of those homes are lingering unsold and would-be homebuyers are hanging back, skittish about their budgets and job security. The prices are kind of defying gravity,” said Windermere principal economist Jeff Tucker.

Technology

The Close

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Market the property for sale: There are endless ways to generate excitement about your property and increase the sale price. It’s common for flippers to aim for an ROI of 20%. You or your general contractor should manage the timeline, remembering that delays increase your carrying costs.

House Flipping

Marco Santarelli

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Sam Khater, Freddie Macs Chief Economist, suggests that while there are slight improvements in new and existing home sales, a significant undersupply of homes continues to challenge the market. This situation may lead potential buyers to act sooner rather than later, as waiting could result in even higher rates.

Fixed-rate mortgage

The Living Room

MAY 15, 2025

Hey everyone, I’m Aryne Blumklotz, principal broker with the Dream Digs Team at Living Room Realty, and I’m here to give you a quick update on what’s happening in the Portland market as of mid-May 2025. Pending Sales They’re down slightly—2.5% The average sale price is down 4.5% compared to this time last year, but up 3.6%

Marketing

Rochester Real Estate

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

PITI stands for principal, interest, taxes, and insurance, which are the critical components of your monthly mortgage payment. PITI, an acronym for principal, interest, taxes, and insurance, represents the major components of your monthly mortgage payment. (585) 704-7095 Contact Now Search Homes Home Fair Housing S.O.P. What is PITI?

Debt-to-income ratio

Rochester Real Estate

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

What To Expect From Your Listing Agent Why For Sale By Owners (FSBOs) Fail Blog Featured Articles Home Buying Home Selling LOCAL Rochester NY Articles Real Estate Agent vs. Broker: What’s The Difference? Many people who become real estate brokers enjoy management more than sales.

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