Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Weve built an incredible foundation and as we focus on each agents personal development and their continual sales growth, we welcome the partnership and backing from the team at Stone Point Capital. Keller Williams has entered into a strategic partnership with private equity firm Stone Point Capital , according to an announcement on Monday.

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Technology Residential Commercial Brokerage 448

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

1 and Sept 30 of this year based on prices for closed residential sales. The nation’s most expensive neighborhood — Atherton, California — saw its median sale price jump to $7.9 In 2023, Atherton’s median sale price was $400,000 lower than today. 4 spot on the list with a median sale price of $5.7

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

Residential real estate activity picked up in most Districts despite continued low inventories of homes for sale,” the report states. In return, the lack of inventory of homes for sale pushed demand for rental properties in some areas — including New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City Federal Reserve districts.

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Residential Construction Finance Sales 459

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

While shoppers flock to malls and online retailers for Black Friday deals, M/I Homes is shifting the focus to residential real estate with holiday incentives that rival traditional doorbusters. That’s right, there are Black Friday home sales! The discounts come as homebuilders’ confidence in the market remains muted.

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Fixed-rate mortgage Closing costs Residential Finance 418

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The rule applies existing protections for residential mortgages to borrowers who seek PACE loans to upgrade or renovate their homes through clean energy technology. The rule will implement a congressional mandate to establish consumer protections for residential PACE loans.

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Loans Mortgages Finance Lending 396

Housing Wire

JULY 10, 2024

Highlands Residential Mortgage announced that Dan Carson recently joined the company as a senior vice president and area manager of its Park Cities branch in Dallas. I love the mortgage industry and I can’t wait to share that passion and drive that comes with it to the Highlands Residential Mortgage Team.“ “We billion in volume.

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Residential Mortgages Banks Industrial 433

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

However, Leading RE agents and team bested the sales volume. Network Affiliation by Sales Volume The RealTrends City Rankings includes agents and teams that were submitted as part of the State and National rankings, as well as agents and teams that submitted specifically for the City Rankings.

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Agents Commercial Land Branding 464

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

CoStar Group , the parent company of real estate data giant CoStar , has made an offer to acquire OnThe Market , the third most visited residential property portal in the United Kingdom. The announcement bolsters the claim that CoStar is “playing for keeps in the residential real estate market.” residential rental platform.

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Residential Agents Closing Marketing 448

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

According to Redfin, an investor is “any institution or business that purchases residential real estate,” which includes both institutional and mom-and-pop investors. In October, the typical sales price for an investor-owned home was 55% — or $181,567 — more than what most investors paid. As the U.S. of investor purchases.

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Investor Residential Brokerage Mortgages 488

Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

New home sales have been one of the brighter housing stories since the home sales crash in 2022 — as we can see in the chart below, new home sales have been able to grow since then. When we take a more extended look at new home sales, we aren’t working from an elevated level — slow and steady wins this race.

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Sales Staging Mortgages Residential 514

Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2025

With the loss of manufacturing jobs in 2024, private sector payroll growth is at risk if the next interest rate sector breaks, particularly residential construction jobs. I recently wrote about the new home sales report, discussing why this report was disappointing , even though the headline beat estimates.

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Marketing Residential Construction Mortgages 405

Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

But increased activity in residential construction , particularly in the South, is helping to alleviate affordability challenges in certain regions, according to ananalysis from First American Financial Corp. In the housing market, you cant buy whats not for sale, said Sam Williamson, senior economist at First American.

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Construction Residential New Construction Land 320

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Chris Raveis, the company’s president of residential sales, welcomed the JRE team in a statement. ” Beaulieu also said the company focuses on developing talent with training, coaching and technology solutions for marketing and sales. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Brokerage Agents Residential Technology 369

Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

New home sales missed estimates , showing that demand isn’t crashing but not growing much either. The future production of housing units at risk I am bringing this up because economic recessions tend to see residential construction workers lose their jobs first. months at the current sales rate. This represents a supply of 9.1

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Sales Marketing Construction Residential 497

Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2024

This is key because, traditionally, residential construction workers are the first to lose their jobs before every recession since higher mortgage rates hit housing first. Now that new home sales are trending lower , with fewer permits, are we getting closer to the end of this cycle? months at the current sales rate.

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Sales Construction Mortgages Staging 488

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The hits keep coming for now-defunct residential sale-leaseback platform EasyKnock. After the company failed to have new council file an appearance, the court dismissed EasyKnocks defamation lawsuit against law firm Feldman & Feldman last Monday. Originally filed by EasyKnock in Nov.

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Lending Equity Investor Residential 394

Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

on Thursday announced that Blue Ridge Bank has entered into a definitive asset purchase and sale agreement to sell certain assets of its mortgage division. Monarch Mortgage provides mortgage banking services, including the origination and processing of residential mortgages primarily for sale on the secondary market. ”

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Banks Purchase and sale agreement Mortgages Residential 311

Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

People say that housing leads the economy into a recession: this is true when new home sales and housing permits fall together. This is one reason I raised my fifth recession red flag for Housing on June 16, 2022 as I saw that higher mortgage rates would impact new home sales and housing permits. months at the current sales rate.

Sales 514

Sales Construction Mortgages Residential 514

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

On Wednesday, existing home sales collapsed near the lows we saw during COVID-19 and back in 2007 when the housing bubble burst. Since the credit standards have improved post-2010, we shouldn’t see distressed sellers until a job loss recession happens, even if sales fall noticeably. Confused by this? Housing inventory.

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Sales Mortgages Short sale Principal 531

Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

In 2024, a year in which single-family residential resale transactions were at a 29-year low , Compass outperformed. Every moment of friction is potentially a lost sale. Founder and CEO Ryan Serhant is a leader in leveraging social media to drive sales. is its own sales technology incubator and accelerator.

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Brokerage Technology Agents Development 320

Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

stake in Angel Oak , offering its own investors access to the firms residential mortgage credit business, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In January, Brookfield acquired rent-to-own startup Divvy Homes in what was described as a “fire sale.” Brookfield will take a 50.1%

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Investor Residential Lending Mortgages 279

Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

When I joined MoxiWorks six months ago, it was clear that the residential real estate industry was undergoing significant change. According to the release, Raeburn will be tasked with leading the companys sales strategy, including global sales. Raeburn comes to MoxiWorks from SimpleLegal , where he led sales organization.

Technology 368

Technology Brokerage Commercial Equity 368

Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

Tuesday’s report on new home sales came in as a miss of estimates and prior revisions were all negative. However, for the new home sales sector, it would put their business model at risk. The previous economic expansion (2008-2019) had the weakest new home sales recovery; thus, we had the weakest housing construction cycle ever.

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Sales Construction Mortgages Title 514

Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

During Tuesday mornings zoom hearing, Judge Saris noted that she was under the impression this lawsuit only involved residential real estate and that none of the named plaintiffs were involved in commercial sales or those involving mobile homes. District Court Judge Patti B.

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MLS Commercial Residential As-is 272

Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

We believe adding 3D digital twins for Homes.com will increase the leads we deliver, increase customer satisfaction, increase renewal rates, increase sales and increase site traffic further.” In the first quarter, the sales team for Homes.com generated nearly $40 million in net new bookings. each, representing a value of $2.1

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Sales Residential Branding Brokerage 437

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The company reported via Google Analytics , that the Homes.com network recorded an audience of 110 million average monthly unique visitors in Q4, which it claims makes the network the second largest residential real estate marketplace in the U.S., Additionally, in January 2025, CoStar reports that the Homes.com sales team sold $3.73

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Branding Residential Investor Agents 321

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Nations Direct Mortgage, a residential lender in both the retail and wholesale channels, on Wednesday announced appointing Jack O’Brien as its senior vice president and national sales director. O’Brien & Associates and VP, Eastern regional sales manager at National City Home Equity, among others. .

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Sales Mortgages Principal Equity 459

Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2024

California -based mortgage lender loanDepot (LDI) has made two additions to its sales leadership team. On Wednesday, the company confirmed that Justin Andrews has been hired as the new area sales manager in the Seattle region. A native New Englander, Jeff fits the bill all around.

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Sales Loan Officer Mortgages Development 446

Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

Move Sales , OpCity Acquisitions , OpCity Inc. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is facing yet another lawsuit. The latest complaint, which is seeking class-action status, was filed on Friday by eight real estate agents in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The suit claims that NAR, along with Move Inc., and REA Group Ltd.

Purchase and sale agreement 514

Purchase and sale agreement Sales Agents Design 514

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The latest enhancements to the integration, however, “improve application pull-through and loan quality by allowing lenders to embed VOIE directly into the point-of-sale (POS) workflow within nCinos Mortgage Suite,” reads a release from the companies.

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Loan Officer Loans Mortgages Residential 364

Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

Planet Home Lending hired Matt Kingsborough as regional sales manager, the Connecticut-based lender, servicer and asset manager announced Thursday. It’s an opportunity to align with an organization that not only values excellence and innovation in mortgage lending but also deeply invests in the growth and success of its sales professionals.

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Lending Sales Commercial Loans 447

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He began his presentation during the “Residential Economic Issues and Trends Forum” by analyzing the data points that impacted 2023 real estate conditions before diving into forecasts for next year. However, as mortgage rates stabilize and home sellers adapt, “Existing-home sales will rise by 15% next year,” Yun said.

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Sales New Construction Staging Mortgages 482

Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

It relies on examinations of agents’ sales for five major real estate firms in each of four geographic areas; out of a sample of 2,000 agents, 100 were selected randomly from each firm in each area. To Brobeck, the fact that so many agents rely on residential sales for occasional, marginal or supplemental income is a problem.

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Agents Sales Residential Commercial 459

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs take issue with what they claim is a requirement for agents and brokers — in Michigan and nationally — to be members of NAR, their state Realtor association and a local Realtor association in order to gain access to the MLS. The three plaintiffs are real estate professionals.

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MLS Agents Residential As-is 370

Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

The recent Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles have eradicated thousands of residential properties, leaving both physical and financial damage to Southern Californias housing market. The population is much greater than the homes available for sale or rent. And in Altadena, it’s like $1.3 And in Altadena, it’s like $1.3

Land 366

Land Residential Technology As-is 366

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Though most commonly thought of for residential deals, real estate agents can also help people buy, sell or rent commercial properties, land and more. Though most commonly thought of for residential deals, real estate agents can also help people buy, sell or rent commercial properties, land and more. Let’s dive in!

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Agents Brokerage Purchase and sale agreement Commercial 448

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

I would just say that the rental market is still performing a little bit more strongly than the residential or the for-sale market,” Knapp added. In November 2023, CoreLogic reported a 2.7% annualized increase in U.S. single-family rents. But the narrative is more complex in niche markets like the Texas capital of Austin. by September.

Marketing 370

Marketing Construction As-is Residential 370