Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

You’ve probably already used some AI tools for marketing without knowing it, if you’ve virtually staged your listing photos or used writing tools like Grammarly or ChatGPT to write blogs, emails or online ads. It’s the perfect way to introduce seasoned agents to AI without the intimidation factor – or the steep learning curve.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

These include requiring “clear, meaningful” notice at each stage of the tax foreclosure process; ensuring both owners and inheritors of ownership receive notice of foreclosure stages; creating alternatives to tax-initiated sales; and making redemption costs both “affordable and accessible.” In 2023, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This data becomes important at various stages of a transaction, and when it’s time to produce it, the process is radically easier if it is clean and organized. From a data lens, transactions can be broken out into three different stages: Valuation , Due Diligence , and Contract. Data cleanliness can make or break a transaction!

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

mortgage delinquencies remained near a record low in July, with the share of homes entering that status or progressing to later stages either unchanged or lower,” said Molly Boesel, principal economist for CoreLogic , in a news release. The rate for early-stage delinquencies was 1.3% “Overall U.S. 30, the report highlighted.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The number of housing units that came online in September showed a big year-over-year jump, but data on earlier stages of construction suggest not much is coming through the pipeline. Single-family construction in earlier stages of construction are a bright spot in the data, with permits for one-unit housing rising 0.3%

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Let’s see how this has played out in different stages of the economy. All of these factors set the stage for what happened next. Home prices escalated out of control after 2020 and when we look at why that happened, we can see that housing credit mattered more to inventory data than most people realize.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Real estate agents now have a new tool to remove these distraction from home staging photos — and no, it’s not Apple Intelligence. Defurnish is one of a number of new tools Matterport rolled out this week as the company seeks to improve how agents market properties.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

We share some open house ideas to help you do just that, taking you through the planning, staging, marketing, hosting and follow-up for your open house events. Stage the home (including virtual staging) Staging homes generally helps you sell them faster and at higher prices. But what exactly is the right approach?

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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. Brands matter.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

That’s according to a new study from Virtual Staging AI , which named Lakeway, Texas, as the best location in the country for buying a waterfront home. Using data from Redfin , Virtual Staging AI put together six metrics on waterfront properties in 100 of the most popular beach communities across the country.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Through this, Saunders said, consumers began to realize the importance of staging, photography and online marketing. We are in the stage now where we are having to play cleanup on a lot of different fronts, and part of that cleanup is actually providing a service to the end consumer by way of brokerage,” Saunders said. “We

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

At the 2024 Keller Williams Family Reunion event in Las Vegas, co-founder and executive chairman Gary Keller took the stage on Tuesday and spoke to a room full of real estate agents about the importance of buyer agency agreements within the context of the ongoing antitrust lawsuits. You are being accused of not being transparent. “If

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

While Finance of America Companies (FOA) President Kristen Sieffert was the biggest reverse mortgage industry representative to take the stage at the event, other lending professionals who are active in the reverse mortgage business also spoke about why they’re involved in the space and what they believe it can do for their companies going forward.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

” My answer: “Stop talking about raising rate at this stage with a hawkish outlook! ” My answer: “Stop talking about raising rate at this stage with a hawkish outlook!” Why are mortgage rates rising? This is a question many people are asking — even some of the Federal Reserve members.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2024

There are three stages that agents and their clients need to be aware of. Stage 1: Preparing for the home appraisal First, if you represent buyers making an offer on a home, it’s vital to include an appraisal contingency in the offer. What is the purpose of a home appraisal? How does the home appraisal process work?

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2024

RentRedi’s biggest investors include K1 Investment Management, RiverPark Ventures, TIA Ventures and Tribeca Early Stage Partners. The National Association of Realtors is adding another partnership to its NAR Realtor Benefits Program. RentRedi was founded in 2016 and is backed by venture capital.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2024

Cases in the early stages may be transferred to other lenders with an FHA approval. In practice, the direct endorsement authority allows lenders to underwrite single-family mortgages and submit them to FHA for insurance endorsement. Open Mortgage’s termination is based on the “poor performance” of these loans, HUD stated.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

William Shakespeare said it well: “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” I didn’t realize how much I needed to get out of my comfort zone until I was out on that stage. I relate, as much of my life and career has been spent in the public eye. The discomfort zone is the growth zone.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Housing supply shows no signs of easing There were 325,000 single-family homes in the contract-pending stage, or 6% fewer home sales than last year. But if demand for homes at current prices is down then why haven’t home prices fallen to meet the lower demand? To get the weekly picture about the housing market, watch the video above.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

We’re reviewing loans at the stage where they’ve been approved with conditions, giving us an earlier look before fully committing to underwriting,” said Anne Green, risk QA specialist at Enact MI. “By With interest rates trending downward and refinances picking up, the industry is preparing for an upswing.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

As we get older its hard to make new friends and thats why its important to find your tribe those people who are at the same stage of life and have the same life experience as you do. This is according to a syndicated article originally published by the Daily Yonder , a national news publication focusing on stories from rural America.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Nathan Knottingham, COO at Vetted VA , announced the launch of a new mortgage continuing education provider, MLO Force , from the stage at HousingWire’s The Gathering this week. The company, operated by 20/20 Vision for Success Coaching , will be led by Knottingham as CEO and video producer Sawyer Jones.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

But the builders will halt permits in a second if they don’t think they can sell these homes once they’re completed, so we might be in the early stages of seeing a decline in single-family permits, like we saw in 2022. This is one reason why the homebuilder stocks have done so well since November of 2022.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

On stage, Alisande Heriyanto , vice president of product and tech support at The Corcoran Group , added that Friday’s episode shows that “we shouldn’t put our eggs in one basket as far as any specific technology.” “We cannot have people log into workspaces with no endpoint protection. Not everybody can do that.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The increase was driven entirely by a rise in earliest-stage delinquencies – those 30-days and 60-days past due. Later-stage delinquencies – those 90 days or more past due – declined to the lowest level since the first quarter of 2020,” Marina Walsh, MBA’s vice president of industry analysis, said in a news release.

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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. That’s what technology does.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

. “The past four years have placed a series of stressors on the market, which have been exacerbated by long-standing gaps in housing supply,” Adrianne Todman, HUD’s acting secretary, said on stage during Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Secondary & Capital Markets Conference held in New York.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

There are some novel uses of data, including generative A I in so many stages of the mortgage process, and many could represent leaps that benefit lenders and consumers. And Rohit Chopra , the hard-charging director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , who is often the target of such complaints, apparently agrees.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2024

Moreover, I increased my investment in marketing for each listing and initiated complimentary staging and cleaning services for my clients at no additional cost. In an era where AI is all the rage, we prioritize human involvement at every stage of the process, from making marketing decisions to communicating with and guiding clients.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2024

HomeServices of America is one step closer to moving on from the home seller commission lawsuits. On Thursday, Judge Stephen R. Bough — who is overseeing the Sitzer/Burnett and Gibson/Umpa commission cases — granted preliminary approval to the brokerage firm’s settlement agreement. The jury verdict came to $1.76 billion in damages.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

” In addition, she said that foreclosures are not picking up, so borrowers are either paying off their loans before entering the severe delinquency stage, or if they are in the serious delinquency stage, they are entering a workout. “The The question I posed to all of you is, ‘Is this a blip or a bigger trend?' “The

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It shows the early stages of thawing from a frigid year. 279,000 single family homes are in the sales contract pending stage vs, 282,000 last year. Home prices are flat The median price of single-family homes in the U.S. is up 2% to 3% over last year at this time. But, 3% home price gains is not that significant. There are still 1.3%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Exuma believes that the platform will provide transformative change to every stage of homeownership. Exuma believes that the platform will provide transformative change to every stage of homeownership. “My An AI assistant called Revana will provide personalized help with renovations, installations and maintenance.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Her visionary approach will be crucial in elevating eXp Realty’s presence and impact on the world stage,” Leo Pareja , the newly CEO of eXp Realty, said in a statement. On Thursday, the firm announced that Forsythe was joining eXp as its new chief marketing officer. “I’m absolutely thrilled to join eXp Realty.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

During the early stages of the labor market recovery, when we observed weaker job reports, I remained steadfast in my belief that job openings would reach 10 million in this recovery. Friday’s jobs report came in as a miss of estimates and wage growth came in lower than expected. So where does this leave us?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Although affordability continues to impact homeownership, the combination of a solid economy, strong demographics and lower mortgage rates are setting the stage for a more robust housing market,” Freddie Mac chief economist Sam Khater said in a statement. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.63% as of Feb.

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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. How are they using tech?

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