Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2025

CVA is structured to comply with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice and is intended for use across various stages of the loan life cycle. These include forensic appraisal reviews, internal control audits, construction validation and post-board evaluations required by the government-sponsored enterprises.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

From the RISE stage in Las Vegas , Real unveiled three new products for agents and clients on Tuesday. Real also unveiled Leo of Clients on the RISE stage Tuesday. The Real Brokerage is keeping attendees of RISE, its third annual agent conference, on their toes. But Real agents are not the only ones receiving upgraded AI technology.

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Agents Brokerage Technology Staging 417

Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2025

Staging a home can make or break a sale but the traditional approach is broken. Even the traditional virtual staging solutions take days to turnaround, while todays buyers make decisions to attend an open house onlineoften in seconds. Collov AI : A smarter, faster and an AI way to stage Collov Inc. ,

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2025

Housing starts and permits peaked in 2022 and have been fluctuating at levels similar to the early stages of the COVID-19 recession for some time now. Even though new home sales showed growth last month, the homebuilders — both big and small — have no desire to grow housing permits or starts with 7% mortgage rates.

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Construction Mortgages Sales Staging 545

RIS Media

MAY 8, 2025

A new report from the National Association of REALTORS (NAR) found that almost three in 10 (29%) real estate agents reported that staging homes for sellers resulted in a… The post NAR Report Finds Home Staging Increases Home Value, Reduces Time on Market appeared first on RISMedia.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Dwiggins: Tell us a little bit about the acquisition of Virtual Staging AI and the strategy for that. Wacksman: It’s a great young company that has innovated a way to do virtual staging. This complex project management of a bunch of parties all need to come together to enable that one-stop shop.

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Technology Staging Agents Brokerage 369

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

What stage is the company in right now? Divya Aathresh: We are still very early, in the pre-seed stage. Sarah Wheeler: You founded MaxHome.AI in January. In terms of options, we’re very fortunate to have some of the top brokers in the country working with us on a product suite we will soon take to market.

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Brokerage Staging Industrial Agents 369

Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2025

LPT Realty achieves growth by tailoring compensation models to the career stage of its real estate agents, from newbies who get the most out of a flat-fee model to superstars who like a traditional split. What that creates is [that] we actually have alignment with our team leaders,” said LPT CEO Robert Palmer.

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Agents Brokerage Technology Staging 417

Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2025

Many MLSs nationwide allow coming-soon listings to be publicly marketed, but MLSs differ in how long a listing can remain in this stage If the listing fails to sell during the first two phases, it’s listed as active on the MLS. From there, the listing moves to a “coming soon” status and appears on Compass’s website.

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Agents MLS Staging As-is 383

Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2025

.” The disclosure form describes Compasss phased approach to marketing homes starting with a Private Exclusive period, followed by a Coming Soon stage and culminating in a public listing on the multiple listing service (MLS) during Phase 3.

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Seller disclosure MLS Marketing Staging 359

Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

Both the weekly new contracts and all the homes in the contract pending stage are below last year. Overall, the number of homes in the contract pending stage is just over 257,000, thats almost 2% fewer than a year ago. Again, the real-time measure is of the contracts pending the stage before the sale closes. When will that be?

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Sales Mortgages Staging Fixed-rate mortgage 388

Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

They concluded that Bayview and its affiliates delayed the regulatory process by not promptly complying with requests during the early stages of the inquiry. State agencies in California, Maryland, North Carolina, and Washington led the multistate investigation.

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Staging Loans Mortgages Banks 403

Inman

JUNE 13, 2025

Put effort into the before, during and after of the listing appointment to position the property and generate additional leads from the process, Nick Schlekeway writes.

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Staging Agents Marketing 140

Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2025

Many MLSs nationwide allow coming-soon listings to be publicly marketed, but MLSs differ in how long a listing can remain in this stage. From there, the listing moves to a “coming soon” status and appears on Compass’s website. If the listing fails to sell during the first two phases, it’s listed as active on the MLS.

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MLS Brokerage Staging Days on market 384

Inman

MARCH 18, 2025

Learn from real estates best and brightest in the business, all while growing your network and meeting like-minded passionate and driven professional peers.

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Staging Development Brokerage Marketing 167

Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2025

The company offers a broad range of interior and exterior services — including some that are less common among traditional contractors, such as staging, deep cleaning, and upgrades to minor fixtures and finishes. Curbio handles scheduling, sourcing of materials and oversight of project execution.

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Brokerage Staging Residential Agents 320

Inman

APRIL 2, 2025

Author and trainer Bernice Ross offers a laundry list of don'ts when it comes to preparing a home to hit the real estate market.

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Staging Marketing Agents 153

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This sets the stage for an exhilarating showdown: Who will emerge victorious in the home equity battle? According to CoreLogic, total home equity skyrocketed to an astounding $33.8 trillion by May 2024—up from just $19.5 trillion in 2019, marking a staggering 73% increase. Download the paper today.

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Equity Banks Staging Residential 414

Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

“FirstTeam’s impressive growth is fueled by a robust ecosystem designed to nurture agents at every stage of their career,” said Michele Harrington , the companys CEO. The firm is among the largest privately held U.S. brokerages and is a founding member of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World.

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Agents Brokerage Staging Equity 369

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

While Wu did leave it open to allow Move to file an amended complain, he also wrote that “CoStar may very well be able to factually establish a disconnect between the documents Kaminsky accessed and Kaminsky’s role at CoStar at a later stage of this case.” As we have said all along, Move’s case is a sham.

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Staging As-is 417

Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

The announcement comes shortly after Rocket unveiled the first stage of its rebrand and is a part of the company’s conscious effort to unify Rockets many companies under a single umbrella. Per a release from the Detroit-based fintech, the Rocket.com website is an AI -driven, “intuitive” experience.

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Staging Design Mortgages Finance 370

Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2025

Housing policy needs to be better at planning for the needs of different age groups and their life stages to avoid mismatches between supply and demand, Myers said. The second is to combine the tracking of population growth and housing supply rather than isolating them.

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Lending New Construction Staging Construction 403

Inman

JANUARY 13, 2025

As wildfires rage across California, destroying over 9,000 homes and displacing thousands of residents, accessory dwelling units (ADUs) have emerged as a critical housing solution five years after being approved in Los Angeles.ADUs, also known as granny flats, in-law apartments, or casitas, are independent living spaces attached to or located on the (..)

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Staging Commercial Branding Technology 158

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

He said the “stage is set for a more data-driven lending environment.” “Consumers now control their financial data, sharing it securely with third parties. “This has created an even less durable final rule that does not reflect market, technological , and practical realities.”

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Banks Mortgages Lending Staging 429

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As permits continue to decline, Redfin predicts that the new-home share of the market will fall further, leaving the door open for existing-home sales to take center stage in the market.

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As-is Marketing Construction New Construction 370

Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

Rocket Companies , the parent of Rocket Mortgage , on Tuesday unveiled a refresh to its brand identity in an effort to unify Rocket’s many companies under a single umbrella. As part of this effort, Rocket is rebranding some of its businesses. Its title producer and appraisal management arm, Amrock , will now be known as Rocket Close.

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Staging Title Branding Design 370

Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

Todays builder survey gives us more clues about what stage they’re in, and it isnt good. I believe the White House wants a shift in mortgage rates to avoid this sector going into a recession because it might take some time to get them out of it.

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Mortgages Staging Development As-is 449

Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

The primary difficulty cited was the effort required 63% were surprised by the demands of staging, showings and repairs, while 37% were caught off guard by the emotional toll. More than 65% of first-time sellers said they would accept 20% less for their home to avoid the stress of staging, repairs and negotiations.

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Debt-to-income ratio Staging Loans Equity 371

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This week, we count 14% more homes in the contract pending stage now than a year ago. There are now 354,000 single-family homes in the contract pending stage. Home sales are significantly better than they were last year at this time. No one else is reporting it yet, because the traditional data takes so long to reach the headlines.

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Sales Staging Mortgages Closing 387

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Refresh online listings and staging If property photos don’t reflect the season or the current state of the property, give your online listing a quick update. This can also include tweaks to any staging that’s been done to better reflect a homey vibe appropriate for the time of year.

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Staging Investor Closing Closing costs 370

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

On Thursday, MLS leaders took center stage at several conference sessions, including discussions of the business practice changes driven by the NAR commission lawsuit settlement and how the role of the MLS — and the MLS-broker relationship — has evolved as a result. “And

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MLS Technology Staging Agents 403

Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2025

Anchor Home specializes in high-end residential sales, staging, new construction consultations and renovation strategies. Were always proud to partner with top brokerages and agents who share our commitment to delivering an exceptional experience for buyers and sellers across every market we serve. Their average listing price is $1.7

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Working in this arena, you see all kinds of different markets, and the common denominator is that once a senior is in that stage of life, it remains and continues to be an opportunity. And that situation is not unlike countless others from coast to coast.

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Mortgages Staging Equity Loans 413

Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2025

This week at The Gathering by HousingWire , reverse mortgages took center stage on Tuesday as HW Media CEO Clayton Collins welcomed two leading industry executives to the stage. Dan Ventura, the president of reverse mortgage lending at Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. ,

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Mortgages Debt-to-income ratio Lending Staging 373

Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

It is the ballet of our lives being rendered on a stage we can finance thanks to a robust secondary market. Over the past few years, the noisy misdirection of data had us thinking homeownership was cerebral. Its storytelling. You walk in to a new listing with a price and a plan.

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Staging Finance Mortgages As-is 370

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

According to the motion, naming new class representatives is warranted “in order to ensure that the proposed classes are adequately represented, addressing an issue that Defendants may raise at a later stage in this litigation.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

In recent years, they have focused on mentoring loan officers and tailoring their support to match different career stages. Fairfield and Keranen bring decades of experience in mortgage lending, as loan originators and managers in California.

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Lending Loan Officer Loans Staging 370