Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2025

While residential mortgage-backed securities have a robust and well-established institutional investor network, the first HEI securitizations only occurred in October of 2024. HEI securitization is really in its nascent stage of institutional involvement. Theres a supply of billions of dollars in home equity that wants to be tapped.

Equity

Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2025

Real estate agent License or education required: Yes Average national salary: ~$86,000 Job description: The fundamental duties of a real estate agent are to assist individuals with buying, selling and renting residential and/or commercial properties. Its essential to research the strategy you prefer to make sure it aligns with your goals.

Property Management

AAOA

JUNE 12, 2025

As a residential property manager, your role bridges the gap between property owners and tenants, and how well you manage this connection can shape the experience of everyone involved. Let’s dive into the key elements of leasing, including crafting a lease agreement, screening tenants, and using the right technology to save you time.

Property Management

The Residential Specialist

JULY 21, 2025

According to the National Association of REALTORS® 2024 Technology Survey, 65% of real estate professionals are very or somewhat familiar with AI, and 56% use AI tools at least once or twice a month. From Click to Close: Where AI Fits In AI tools can support nearly every stage of a real estate agent’s workflow.

Staging

The Close

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Without further ado, check out these fabulous courses for every stage of your real estate investing career. These courses have hundreds of on-demand videos covering writing a business plan , balance sheets, financing, pricing, technology, and tons more. For additional topics included in these courses, click on the course link.

Commercial

Redfin

MARCH 3, 2025

Nature textures Photo courtesy of KNOF Design Susan Knof of KNOF Design shares: While trends can be inspiring, timeless design always takes precedence in high-end residential interiors. Victoria Moronta Design & Co 2. Cassiana Jensen Interiors 5. Its got soul and thats what 2025 is all about. Kate Dawson, with Decor Whore 12.

Design

Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2025

Were here to guide you toward the best real estate education and offer tactics and strategies for success at every stage of your career. If you are unfamiliar with selling residential real estate in New Jersey, these courses will equip you with the understanding you need to get off on the right foot. out of 5 stars Rating: 4.5

HR

GeekEstate

MAY 14, 2025

Geek Estate is about celebrating entrepreneurship, focused on real estate tech (residential and commercial). The eight companies selected for the 2025 REACH class are: Foyer : a financial technology company offering a “401(k) for homeownership” and personalized guidance to accelerate the journey to homeownership.

MLS

The Close

JULY 9, 2025

With changing habits in buying and selling, predictive technologies are becoming increasingly necessary. Sellers in low-supply markets can still command strong prices, but those in balanced or buyer’s markets must focus on staging, setting strategic list prices, and offering concessions such as rate buydowns.

Marketing

GeekEstate

JULY 8, 2025

Immersive Expo Hall , featuring the latest technologies & solutions, startup kiosk clusters, lounge areas, an Innovation Stage, 1:1 Meeting Zone, and tons of fun.

Construction

Rochester Real Estate

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Low Cost Home Improvements I reached out to Anita Clark, a real estate agent in Kathleen GA who has been serving the residential real estate needs of consumers in middle GA for the past decade, to get her opinion on potential low cost home improvements sellers can make to give their home a better opportunity to be seen and sold.

Renovation

Marco Santarelli

MAY 20, 2025

Tech Takes Center Stage: The focus on AI and data analytics by Rocket and Redfin could set a new industry standard. Expect to see more technology aimed at predicting market trends, targeting customers more effectively, and making the whole process more automated.

Mortgages

Inman

JULY 22, 2025

Mortgage broker Elliman Capital, a "strategic alliance" with Associated Mortgage Bankers Inc., will offer traditional and specialty loan products "from multiple national and regional lenders."

Brokerage

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

On Tuesday, the residential real estate giant announced the acquisition of Virtual Staging AI (VSAI). Founded in 2023 by Michael Bonacina and Mikhail Andreev, VSAI helps home sellers, agents and photographers create digitally staged images of a listing, eliminating the need for physical furniture in the home.

Staging

Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2024

On the other hand, the usual hyperbole that accompanies any trend in technology should not be taken at face-value; kicking the tires and assessing previous promises and bets is essential. For the sake of simplicity, I will keep my comments restricted to residential real estate in the US. Valuation 3. Transaction 5. It is a snapshot.

Residential

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Today, while the mortgage industry has the technology to support this, we’re still in the early stages of determining how it should be used. Almost all of the lender’s technology investment over the past few years has been focused on the Point of Sale (POS). Lending technology out of focus. But there is still a problem.

Technology

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

AI and data-led fintech company Pagaya Technologies named Sanjiv Das as president. Das spent six years as CEO of Caliber Home Loans — a NewRez -owned residential mortgage lending company — until January 2022. Das, a former CEO of Caliber Home Loans , will begin his new role on Oct.

Technology

Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2023

I think that’s really key because part of what I’ll be doing is leveraging my unique background to be able to bring a different lens when it comes to the digital landscape technology and how that incorporates different types of tools and resources that our competition isn’t using. GW: I’m really excited to attend the event.

Staging

Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Just hours after announcing his firm’s acquisition of 3D scanning firm Matterport , CoStar Group CEO Andy Florance took to the stage in Scottsdale, Arizona, at HousingWire ’s annual conference, The Gathering , to discuss the news. Photography is so 1989,” Florance said.

Branding

Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2022

Those new investments include venture capital plays, particularly in the financial-technology arena. Abate described technology as being key to “building efficiencies” to accomplish the real estate investment trust’s goals. Redwood is not backing away from its venture capital pursuits.

Equity

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

HW Media, publisher of HousingWire, FinLedger, and producer of Engage Events, today announced it has closed on the strategic acquisition of REAL Trends, the residential real estate industry’s leading report that ranks the performance of the top U.S. brokerage firms. We believe they will build on our years of REAL Trends industry excellence.”.

Branding

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Sandra Madigan, digital product director, enterprise product strategy, servicing technologies at Black Knight. If you were standing on a stage giving an acceptance speech, who would you want to thank for helping you get where you are today? To read the other two Q&As in the magazine, go here.

Industrial

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Dave Sheeler, president of residential servicing and correspondent lending at Freedom Mortgage. If you were standing on a stage giving an acceptance speech, who would you want to thank for helping you get where you are today? To read the other two Q&As in the magazine, go here.

Industrial

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

This is an ongoing trend, as direct residential refinance revenues have continued to be a smaller portion of our total direct revenue, contributing approximately 28% of total direct revenue in the fourth quarter of 2020 as compared with 16% in the fourth quarter of 2021.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2021

Acquisitions-hungry New Residential Investment Corp. News of late-stage talks between NewRez and Caliber were first reported by HousingWire in the LendingLife newsletter. We believe this is a terrific acquisition for our Company,” said Michael Nierenberg, head of New Residential. For months, New Residential Investment Corp.

Residential

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

What makes Select Network stand out from its competitors, Heller said, is its AI-nurturing technology. Some consumers are at a stage where they know what they want, they’re ready to go and want to be introduced to the top agent today,” Heller said. OJO Labs has been busy the last few years as it continues to grow.

Agents

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Anywhere Real Estate partnered with agent-client collaboration platform RealScout to allow the company’s affiliated real estate agents and franchise owners “to engage, nurture, and convert clients at each stage of the real estate journey,” according to an announcement on Friday. How does it work ?

Staging

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Previous investors Andreessen Horowitz , New Residential Investment Corporation (NRZ), an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group and 166 2nd also participated in the Wednesday round. Putting the homeowner first is the foundation of our technology.” “But it doesn’t have to be that way,” Wang added.

Investor

Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

The Urban Institute report, published in November 2023, shows that the average number of months from origination to repurchase between 2005 to 2008 (prior to and during the early stages of the global financial crisis ) was 46 months for Freddie Mac and 52 months for Fannie Mae. That’s a much better outcome and solution for the industry.”

Loans

Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2021

According to a study from ClosingCorp, a provider of residential real estate closing cost data and technology, 50% of buyers were “surprised” by how much they were charged at closing. Which is why it’s important to set proper expectations with clients and guide them through the various stages,” said Citi’s Masseria.

Inspection

Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2022

The company, which does not rely on blockchain or cryptocurrency technologies , started the year with about 22 employees and expects that number to jump to 50 by year’s end, Frazier said. Over the same period in 2021, there was a total of 10 prime and nonprime PLS deals involving about 12,200 residential rental properties valued at $3.34

Investor

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The supply-chain bottleneck afflicting the global economy has its own counterpart in the world of residential mortgage-backed securities, also referred to as RMBS. They are in high demand for each stage of the mortgage process, yet they are in seriously short supply in a still-booming mortgage market. “Non-agency RMBS market.

Due diligence

GeekEstate

OCTOBER 29, 2021

I’m excited to release Thomvest’s real estate technology market map, which includes more than 240 companies operating within the residential real estate segment. This market map real estate technology companies operating across every phase of the home purchase value chain. Expanding access to home financing options.

Technology

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2022

That intelligence allows the lender to proactively address curative issues in concert with other early-stage workflow steps. MR: Our patented platform, Flueid Decision, is designed to bring purpose-built title data and workflow insights to the start of every residential real estate transaction.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Too many real estate agents are watching artificial intelligence (AI) from the sidelines, assuming technology will never replace them. Powerful AI tools are already transforming residential real estate and forward-thinking agents are paying attention. However, it was deemed as too challenging technologically so it languished.

Agents

Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

The San Francisco company was now “backed by the top three technology initial public offering underwriters,” Side announced at the time , and the money raise “sets the stage for a future IPO.”. Today, though, Side is radio silent on going public. Gal and other company representatives did not return messages for this article. “I

Brokerage

Realty Biz

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Virtual staging offers both advantages and disadvantages in the real estate industry. Using virtual tools, properties can be showcased with furniture and decor without physical staging. Considering the pros and cons is essential in deciding if virtual staging is the right choice for a specific property and target market.

Staging