Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

After mortgage rates spiked to 8% in October, causing a riot in the real estate industry, we had an epic move lower in mortgage rates last week. Does this mean we’ve hit the peak in mortgage rates for this economic cycle? So what happened triggered the drop? The week ahead: Will mortgage rates keep falling?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

Maybe when it consistently fails to attract viable, aspirational customers (in part because it is cycling through last year’s leads and legacy customers instead of innovating new pathways to reach underserved , high-propensity homebuyer communities). The consumer knows and their real estate agent knows.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

For Flueid, the mission to deliver a digitally accelerated real estate life cycle began long before the pandemic push – nearly 30 years ago, in fact. Today, the goal of streamlining real estate transactions from start to finish remains the same – especially as U.S. trillion in home equity.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Despite these massive headwinds, we have positioned Compass for significant upside when the market begins to recover.” Compass attributed some of these struggles to the slower housing market of 2023, which saw Compass close 178,848 transactions, down 15.5% million in 2022.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Executives from Dark Matter Technologies, under the Constellation Software umbrella, said that a down market is the best time to make investments in technology and prepare for the next cycle. Now we’re in a down cycle, they need to do it with fewer people and they need to be more efficient to get the cost down.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

Like its big four counterparts First American and Old Republic, Stewart , the smallest of the four largest title underwriters , still managed to turn a profit despite challenging housing market conditions. We are routinely reevaluating markets where we have the opportunity to pre share and enhance our leadership strength,” Eppinger said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Many analysts who cover the mortgage industry believe that the worst of the current cycle may be in the rearview mirror. The program concludes with a paid internship, providing real-world exposure to a company. of employees at commercial real estate companies were men, while 41.4% According to data from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The worst times for mortgage originations may be over as the market appears to be turning, but it’s still an unaffordable environment for younger borrowers in particular, according to a fourth-quarter 2023 lending report from Maxwell. If home prices and lending costs moderate in 2024, significant demand could flow into the market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

The decision to allow the ICE – Black Knight merger to proceed announces the digital integration of the real estate value chain anticipated for over 25 years. The capital, capability and content are present to make all real estate markets smarter, faster, safer and connected.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Chronically distressed properties lost more than $7,000 in total home equity on average while cycling in and out of foreclosure, according to an Auction.com analysis of more than 80,000 properties scheduled for foreclosure auction multiple times in the last three years. I have a guy who has been leasing from us for six years. It’s a win-win.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

Scott Smith: I think a differentiator is our position in the market. I think we have the most comprehensive end-to-end capital market platform. We’re [Constellation] in about 125 vertical markets. In a challenging market, how do we partner and engage with our clients within Optimal Blue?

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

The housing market has been on a topsy-turvy roller-coaster ride in recent years that has been particularly neck wrenching since this past fall, fueled by stubbornly high inflation and a still-strong jobs market. Treasury market — jumping to as high as 121 in mid-April after ending March near 85.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2023

economy and real estate markets, having worked at the National Association of Realtors and Move, Inc. Real estate transactions are complex processes, and a lot of people approach them with fear and concern,” Ratiu said. Speaking about the housing market, Ratiu cautioned that housing markets are constantly evolving.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Real estate experts say the performance reflects limited inventory in the country, a problem expected to continue in 2024. Luke, head of commodities, real & digital assets at S&P DJI , said in a statement. ” Regional markets Detroit had the highest gain in October, with home prices increasing 8.1%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In my experience within the real estate industry, a fundamental lesson stands out: the power of partnerships. These collaborations represent opportunities to combine expertise, share resources and, ultimately, elevate real estate agents’ and clients’ real estate journeys. This team includes: 1.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Real estate innovation has been highly focused on individual parts of the transaction workflow,” said Peter Bowman , Co-Founder & CEO of Flueid. “To Flueid was recognized as a 2022 TECH100 winner for its innovation in the real estate transaction process. PB: Digitization happened first within each individual workflow.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

.” The suit comes two months after the CFPB issued orders against Freedom and Realty Connect USA Long Island for allegedly engaging in illegal kickbacks, the first 1974 Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) case in six years. Freedom must pay $1.75

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Play chess, not checkers The market is dynamic, and right now it’s shifting into a unique playing field that many of us have not seen in our careers. Recessions and volatile markets are a natural part of the economic cycle and are historically followed by high returns in real estate.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2023

Whether you believe the worst market conditions are now behind us or that the coming months will remain turbulent, there’s no doubt that title related businesses will need a combination of thrift, ingenuity, innovation and persistence to be successful for the foreseeable future. Will it work well with your new clients in that market segment?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

Nominations for HousingWire’s 2024 Marketing Leaders are open until April 30, 2024. While they have endured a rocky, rates-driven cycle, marketers in mortgage and real estate continue to play a pivotal role in lead generation, customer acquisition and retention differentiation that has helped to keep many organizations stay afloat.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2022

Notarize offers technology for the real estate market with an all-in-one workflow to complete remote notarizations as part of the eClosing process. Notarize helps mitigate margin compression and maximize profit in a shifting market by guiding lenders and title agents towards a fully digital mortgage. .

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Modern manufactured homes are an unusual feature of today’s housing market, the rare homeownership opportunity that is both lower-cost and high-quality. Unlike site-built homes, which are always titled as real estate, over 40% of manufactured housing is titled as personal property (the same way a car is titled).

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Storytelling is key to the company’s success and Stewart’s own story explains how he stays cool in any market cycle. So the cycle of what’s happening in the world becomes extremely important for creating effective messaging. And this content is not typically about real estate. Or is that created by humans?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In these 20-minute sessions, attendees will walk away with tangible and actionable information from leaders at mortgage, valuation, real estate and title companies. Find out how housing leaders are interpreting this hot topic as they manage market changes and create a competitive edge in this engaging expert panel.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2022

Just like Earth, mortgage rates and housing markets are cyclic and we’re heading into another Ice Age. that didn’t talk about the cycle. What if this isn’t our typical cycle? We are looking at this 2022 market like a snow day in January. Things recover from the bottom of any cycle. An Ice Age, not a snow day.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2023

He attributed this to “stable pricing in their luxury markets where buyers are more immune to interest rates pressures and the competitive advantage provided by Douglas Elliman’s strong marketing business.” However, the company’s real estate brokerage segment’s adjusted EBITDA was $2.5 Elliman reported a $2.6

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

HousingWire: Why should independent mortgage brokers embrace today’s market? The winners have spent 2023 focused on strengthening relationships with real estate agents , educating borrowers and improving their marketing strategies. We want them to remember how seamless and easy their broker made it.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Lenders in a purchase money market, like the one we’re in now, are running a long-distance race. Responding to the real estate agent’s or prospective borrower’s first call is the start of this race. Preparing for the next mortgage market What should lenders be doing now to be ready for the return of the refinance business?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

“We do see this as a new asset class in the real estate ecosystem and we see it as complementary to traditional debt options that exist today,” Dan Burnett, head of investor product at Hometap, said in an interview with HousingWire. One is through the market that we’ve approached. How big is it?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To get there, Cliffco, which has been in business since 1987, is going after the non-qualified mortgage ( non-QM ) market and investing in tech to get in front of buyers and non-agent referral partners. On the non-QM side, only 3% of the market has been penetrated. But we’re heading into different segments of the ocean.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Home affordability was at its lowest point in decades and the real estate industry was shaken up by massive class action lawsuits. The rapid pace of change from the highs of 2021 to 2023 happened at breakneck speed, driven by one of the most aggressive monetary tightening cycles in history. According to the Thomvest U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Those economic projections from the 19 members of the Federal Open Markets Committee show both a tighter consensus of opinions and a lower target Federal funds rate than the projections the FOMC made in September. percentage points] by early 2025, which is more than both Fed policymakers and market participants currently project.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2023

is an award-winning software, data and analytics company that supports innovation in the mortgage lending, servicing, and real estate industries, as well as the capital and secondary markets. In April, real estate focused artificial intelligence firm Restb.ai Black Knight, Inc.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The result we see today is an extremely resilient and steady growth business even during a time when the property markets are in a hard down cycle as they are now.” We could be seeing the biggest change the residential real estate industry has seen in recent or even long-term history,” Florance said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2022

These power-packed talks will dive into each leader’s perspective on cycle highs, cycle lows and everything in between. The Vanguard Forum convenes at one of the most consequential moments in the history of the modern housing market,” said Clayton Collins, CEO of HW Media. “The

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

“We feel the resiliency of residential purchase volumes, which have held up in a weak market despite mortgage rates spiking to 7%, is a testament to the underlying demand for housing the exists in this country.” While the title segment’s revenue dropped 27% year over year to $1.9

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RIS Media

APRIL 12, 2024

Home prices have been the bane of the real estate news cycle for a while now, bringing a damper on the home-buying market. However, recent data shows that home prices really might not have kept buyers out as much as was thought.

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