Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

As a result, brokers no longer need to deal with a title company or settlement agent to close a refi. the company also announced ChatUWM, an AI-powered search engine that provides instant responses to clients, including guidelines, matrices, lender tools, and technology. The top U.S. The top U.S. AI CHAT During UWM Live!,

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re focused on growing and engaging that audience even further, because we know it will result in more quality leads for our customers.” Realtor.com has access to a large audience of buyers and sellers, and compared to the competition, a higher portion of our audience is ready to find an agent to help them transact.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

In a working paper published in late February by Borys Grochulski and Zhu Wang of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond , the Fed concluded that the current real estate agent compensation structure “may lead to elevated home prices, overused agent services, and prolonged home searches.” housing market. “One needs to change.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2023

Zillow launched a new AI-powered feature called “natural language search” that can now interpret home shoppers’ colloquial lingo, much like how they would talk to friends and family. Zillow is the first company to implement such a search engine.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The brokerage already initiated a search process to find a replacement. Whiteside’s planned departure is “not a result of any disagreement regarding the company’s financial statements or disclosures,” the company noted. “I Last week , eXp World Holdings posted strong financial results for the third quarter of the fiscal year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Utilize SEO best practices Search engine optimization (SEO), which determines where a website appears on the search results page of Google, is critical in the age of video. Most organic search results list the top three links as videos, and you want to be as close to the top of that list as possible.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The Company continues to assess whether the incident will have a material impact on the Company’s financial condition or results of operations, which at this point cannot be determined.” Its home warranty website was also online, as were its public records search and FraudGuard platforms.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

Since then, the company has been searching for a “ tech leader.“ The new strategy also resulted in the launch last month of a proprietary tech platform called Rocket Logic and a new tool called Synopsis. Rocket Logic relies on 10 petabytes of proprietary data and 50 million annual call transcripts.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Judge Thomas Zilly, who oversaw the trial, ruled that the jury verdict was not the result of a “procedural flaw” or an “error on the part of the court,” but REX’s shortcoming in presenting evidence that convinced the jury it had been harmed. Due to this, Zilly ruled in January that REX would not be granted a new trial.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

At that time, the FTC proposed to require financial institutions to notify electronically of any security event that resulted or was likely to result in the misuse of customer information affecting at least 1,000 consumers.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2023

Most real estate sites feature landing pages tailored to broad search terms—think “homes for sale in New York” or “apartments for rent in Boston.” But here’s a twist: What if potential homebuyers or renters are using more specific terms in their searches? The outcome? The technical side of things?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

Mr.Cooper , a victim of a cybersecurity attack in late October that exposed nearly 15 million current and former clients, is currently facing four class action suits as a result of the attack. In late November, Fidelity National Financial became the victim of a ransomware attack that took its systems offline for a few days.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 6, 2023

It’s also clear that many settlement services firms have invested in new means of managing most, if not all, of their title searches, whether it be via technology or third-party service provider (or both). We’re also seeing increased options for almost every aspect of the title search or things like compliance or accounting processes.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As a result, NAR’s Pending Home Sales Index fell to a reading of 71.4, Multiple offers, of course, yield only one winner, with the rest left to continue their search,” he said in a statement. As mortgage rates edged near multi-decade highs, pending home sales declined 1.5% down from 72.6 in September.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2021

Our Agent Elite and Premium Placement programs can maximize visibility and boost your profile to the highest ranking in search results. #1. Higher profile ranking in agent search results. #3. Monthly REO market reports — local and nationwide. #2. Get More Info.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

One of the most significant changes has been the rise of remote work, which has allowed many people to move to new locations in search of a better quality of life. This can result in increasing income for all residents in the new city, not just the newly relocated worker. This has led to a phenomenon known as “pandemic migration.”

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Inman

MAY 16, 2024

Lawsuit alleges search results on Mortgage Matchup are "designed to steer borrowers to brokers who funnel nearly all their business to UWM, regardless of whether UWM offers the most competitive loan terms."

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2023

Elbaum’s departure is not related to the company’s financial or operating results or to any disagreements with the company regarding the company’s financial, operational, accounting or reporting policies or practices,” according to the filing. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) in December. “Mr. million in the previous quarter.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

Attorneys would search property records and state their written opinion that the property records were clear of any title defects. Title professionals conduct a search of public records for liens, debts and other issues that could threaten a homeowner’s property rights. Alternative products lack oversight and regulation.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Unlike car and homeowners insurance, which requires a monthly premium and only helps you after there is a problem, a title search most often catches and addresses any problems before closing day and title insurance provides protection for as long as you or your heirs own the property. Diane Tomb, ALTA CEO Contributor.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Once again CoStar Group delivered exceptional results in our commercial information and marketplace businesses for the full year 2023, while at the same time devoting major time and resources towards launching the new Homes.com,” Andy Florance, founder and CEO of CoStar Group, said in a statement. billion for the year ending Dec.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2021

In response to the lawsuit, Zillow officials said the company has been actively working to update the industry rules to allow a “seamless search experience.” Tune in March 16th to experience demos from the most innovative real estate technology solutions. billion visits.

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Inman

MARCH 6, 2024

SEO expert David Marden writes that, with smart keyword planning, you can find your place in online search results. Think your website can't compete with the big portals?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Two months prior, in January 2021 , Zillow began moving homes out of its initial search results for sellers who chose not to use agents adhering to the NAR and local multiple listing service (MLS) practices, creating a two-tab design for agent listings and “other listings.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Ninety percent of consumers start their home search online and many get prequalified for financing before they even reach out to a real estate agent. Lenders and search companies alike need to look for trusted agent partners to provide the client with the experience they deserve. “By It’s simplistic. It makes sense.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2020

Before the pandemic, 9% of homebuyers said they were searching for a home in rural areas. As a result of COVID-19, 13% of homebuyers had searched for homes in a different area than originally planned, according to a Redfin survey conducted from July 19 through 21. Now, 19% say they are looking at rural options. 2, and rose 9.2%

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

Utilizing automated valuation models instead of full-blown appraisals or title searches in lieu of title policies makes loan production less expensive and more rapid,” according to the report. Non-bank lenders and government agencies are also competing with banks for their standings on search engine results, the report notes.

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BAM Media

MAY 15, 2024

According to a National Association of Realtors report , 97% of all home buyers used an internet search, at least once, to find a home—and 51% eventually bought a home they found online. Most people realize the search results on the first page aren’t there by accident. Read on to find out. What is real estate SEO?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

Brokerage giants RE/MAX and Keller Williams announced second-quarter numbers Friday, reflecting a business environment that had its share of ups and downs as a result of COVID-19. Keller Williams, a privately held company, released numbers for home searches, agents and transactions. As a result, our agents maintained momentum.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

Even though the industry has evolved greatly with title professionals now embracing artificial intelligence and automation when conducting title searches — our mission has never wavered: making the American dream of homeownership possible and protected for all.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2023

Our results are largely consistent with previous studies, despite previous studies often using either rate sheet data and/or selected data on originations from private providers without coverage comparable to [HMDA],” CFPB said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Apart from payment of the settlement amount [of $55 million], we do not expect the terms of the proposed settlement to have material impact on results of operations and cash flows.” “In the settlement we agreed to certain business practice changes, many of which we already do,” Nick Bailey , the president of RE/MAX said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

As a result, sellers who are winning in this market spent time making sure their homes are in show-ready condition. Buyers right now have a different strategy than before as some were swept into multiple offers on their dream home while others understood they may find gold at the end of the rainbow if they broadened their search parameters.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2023

Big Purple Dot (BPD), a technology solutions provider for the real estate industry, announced this week that it has launched BPD Recruit, a recruiting software designed to transform talent acquisition strategies and deliver exceptional results. The software is powered by CoreLogic , a renowned leader in data and analytics solutions.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2023

Unlike a search engine like Google , where every search needs to start from scratch, ChatGPT can take follow-up instructions. How to get better answers from ChatGPT While this is as easy as typing a search phrase on Google, the trick to getting better results is writing better prompts (instructions).

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

It results from about “70% of the interactions being fully self-serve without the need for team member intervention,” the company explained. That means purchase, refis, servicing, home search.” Rocket estimates that Synopses will save the servicing team nearly 40,000 hours annually.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2021

That said, many companies still rely on legacy systems and manual processes to procure, search, and examine title. This slows the search and underwriting processes, makes them more prone to errors and delays closings at the expense of the homebuyer.

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