Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

Proptech company RealReports is partnering with New England-based PrimeMLS , the companies announced on Thursday. The product is marketed toward real estate agents to help them build trust and credibility with their clients, a joint news release states. “In

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

Bellevue, Washington-based real estate investment firm Legacy Group Capital announced this week that it has acquired fintech company Rook Capital , a provider of home equity investment (HEI) products through its “Shared Value Investment” brand. Legacy is privately owned and terms of the deal were not disclosed. “As

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

Real estate agents appear to be more open to changing brokerages in 2024 compared to last year, according to a recent Coldwell Banker survey. The report found that 61% of agents plan to stick with their current company this year, down from 75% of agents in 2023.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

While revenue rose at eXp World Holdings during the first quarter of 2024, the firm was still unable to turn a profit due to the challenging housing market. In Q1 2024, the company reported a $15.6 The company revealed that it had 85,780 agents on its platform at the end of March, 2% less than one year ago. million in Q1 2023.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

Proptech firm RealReports unveiled a new feature for its AI-powered assistant, Aiden, the company announced on Thursday. RealReports is a real estate platform that gathers property data — including construction permits, climate risk, rental rates, flood insurance costs, remodel potential and valuation — in one place.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Rocket Companies will soon shut down Rocket Pro Originate , a mortgage origination platform for real estate agents, insurance agents, tax professionals and other financial professionals who are also licensed to originate mortgages. The company doesn’t break out purchase business versus refinances in its earnings reports.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

Capital Fundings , a Florida -based private mortgage lender, has partnered with real estate investment platform Privy , the companies announced on Tuesday. Our commitment to empowering borrowers aligns perfectly with Privy’s mission to revolutionize real estate investment through technology and education.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

(Photo Credit: AJ Canaria) In the real estate industry, the use of generative artificial intelligence has grown beyond just the composition of marketing copy, leading some to question other potential applications. We have enough problems in the real estate industry, we don’t need to find anymore,” he added. “We

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

With home sales still at historically low levels and uncertainty over the commission lawsuits , real estate brokerage executives prize good leads more than ever. Anthony Djon, CEO of Anthony Djon Luxury Real Estate , said his company gets 90% of its leads from listing portals Zillow and Realtor.com.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Roomvu , a Canadian-based video marketing platform for residential real estate agents, is partnering with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (LeadingRE) and Realty One to mark Roomvu’s expansion into the U.S. Our expansion into the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2024

eXp Realty launched a new coaching platform, eXp Elevate Coaching, the company announced on Thursday. In the first quarter of 2024, eXp World Holdings , eXp Realty’s parent company, was unable to turn a profit due to the challenging housing market. From January through March, the company reported a net loss of $15.6

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 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,” Burnett said. Hometap is among a handful of companies — including Unison , Unlock , Point and Aspire — that offer home equity investments. The annual investment volume in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Proptech company RealReports , formerly known as BHR , has successfully secured $2 million in seed funding. With this capital infusion, the company aims to accelerate its product development, grow its team and pursue market penetration with real estate brokerages, MLS associations and other proptech companies nationwide.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Real estate technology company reAlpha Tech Corp. launched Claire, a generative artificial intelligence -powered, zero-commission buyers’ agent chatbot, the company announced on Wednesday. The tool helps match buyers with the ideal property while providing insights into market trends and property values.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Rose will be in charge of recruiting top talent, individuals, groups and companies throughout the industry. In this capacity, he contributed to onboarding talents that brought more than $19 billion in total loan volume to the company, according to its news release.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Real estate brokerage eXp Realty has added industry veteran Wendy Forsythe to its leadership team. On Thursday, the firm announced that Forsythe was joining eXp as its new chief marketing officer. She will also oversee eXp Realty’s brand management and advertising, as well as the firm’s digital marketing and public relations.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

Real estate marketplace Xome appointed Michael Jansta to the position of chief operating officer, the company announced Monday. Jansta joins Xome from Altisource , where he served for two years as the chief marketing officer.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

s sister company, Wisconsin Title Closing Service Inc., We are pleased to welcome Wisconsin Title Service Company into the Mother Lode family,” Lisa Steele, chief operating officer of Mother Lode Holding Co., is a fixture of the Wisconsin real estate industry. According to Mother Lode Holding Co., said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Pre-pandemic, Jacksonville’s housing market was propelled by strong tailwinds: affordability relative to the rest of the Sunshine State, Florida’s lack of income tax and the quality of life benefits of having a river and oceanfront, to name a few. Listings jumped at both the state and city levels in 2021 and 2022.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The nation’s top loan officer Shant Banosian joined the board of directors at Healing Realty Trust , a healthcare-focused real estate investment company. Aiming to take the company public next year, Healing Realty Trust will tap into Banosian’s network of big banks as well as investors to grow its portfolio.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

PureWest Christie’s International Real Estate , a Montana -based real estate brokerage, is expanding into northern Idaho , the firm announced on Tuesday. The brokerage , which is a longtime affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate, is the largest independently owned brokerage in Montana.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Nominations for HousingWire’s 2024 Marketing Leaders award are open now through April 30th, 2024. The HousingWire Marketing Leaders award recognizes outstanding professionals who have demonstrated excellence in marketing within mortgage and real estate. Click here to nominate someone.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

Publicly traded real estate technology company Doma Holdings has entered into a definitive agreement to sell to title insurance underwriter Title Resources Group (TRG) and become a private company. The companies announced late Thursday that TRG has agreed to acquire Doma’s outstanding shares at $6.29

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

District Court in Arizona, Joseph Masiello, an Arizona resident and home seller, accuses several real estate companies of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. In a copycat suit filed last Friday in U.S. Masiello sold a home on an Arizona MLS through HomeSmart “in or about October 2021.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Friday’s bombshell – the National Association of Realtors ‘ proposed $418 million settlement of real estate commission lawsuits – set off a frenzy of trading for stocks in the residential real estate sector. Zillow For years, Zillow has dominated online home listings.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

First Team Real Estate , the largest independent brokerage in California , left Christie’s International Real Estate , the company first told Inman on Wednesday. Christie’s International Real Estate told Inman that the parting was “mutual.” First Team was with Christie’s for about 10 years.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Because of an apparent error made by staff at ICE Mortgage Technology ‘s Surefire customer relationship management (CRM) platform, more than 600,000 emails and texts were sent without permission to real estate agents, business partners and past clients of loan officers around the country.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

The Corcoran Group has expanded in recent years and this week welcomed its first franchise in Oregon, Corcoran Prime , the company announced on Tuesday. The brokerage boasts a team of roughly two dozen licensed agents , as well as support staff members in marketing, management and transaction coordination roles.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Realty ONE Group International , a global real estate franchise, recently promoted five women to drive the company’s global growth. Cory Vasquez was promoted to the position of co-president, alongside Vinnie Tracey, who has been the company’s president since 2017. The company ranked No.

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Lab Coat Agents

MARCH 22, 2022

Real estate is a highly competitive market, where both buyers and sellers are looking for the perfect deal. With the real estate industry picking up momentum again and the entire world pivoting to new ways of getting customers, there’s this one marketing agency that’s disrupting the industry with cutting-edge lead generation.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

. “The mortgage business remains an important business for the company and we will continue to provide our mortgage customers and partners the same great service that they have come to expect from Flagstar,” Joseph Otting, NYCB president and CEO, said in a statement. market share, the IMF data shows. billion; 5.7%).

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

loanDepot CEO Frank Martell expects the current mortgage market cycle to be “longer and tougher than anybody expected.” That’s kind of evaporated,” Martell said on Tuesday morning in a session during The Gathering , HousingWire’s real estate and mortgage conference held in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The American Land Title Association, alongside our real estate industry partners, are committed to making transactions easier for everyone through consumer education efforts. One of the most important roles we play at ALTA is strongly encouraging buyers to shop around for their title insurance company.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Launched in 2022 by BrightMLS and California Regional MLS , REdistribute is an MLS-owned company that includes licensed data from more than 40 MLSs. In January 2023, REdistribute announced that it had secured data coverage for 50% of the residential real estate properties in the country. “Our

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

Financial services firm Consolidated Analytics acquired Real Info, Inc. — With the acquisition , Consolidated Analytics expands its valuation solutions, offering clients tools — from data and analytics to appraisals — to predict market value and access a more comprehensive selection of collateral assessment products, the company said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Real estate platform Livian has recently acquired four additional teams to bolster its roster to a total of 61 teams. We’re bringing together the best minds in the industry to elevate our services and redefine the future of real estate,” Adam Hergenrother, CEO of Livian, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Even as the housing market slowed in 2022 and 2023, the fraudulent activity of bad actors did not let up. home buyers and sellers it survey were targeted with suspicious or potentially fraudulent activities, while 10% were targeted for real estate fraud and 5% suffered losses during their real estate transaction due to fraudster.

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