Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

So why aren’t more commercial real estate (CRE) entities – investors , principals, banks, law firms or developers – seeking the same? Market conditions have certainly trended downward for residential or commercial real estate. Right now, we’re generally seeing more mixed-use developments and multifaceted commercial projects.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

How do we get a loan from I want a house to its closed and done before they walk away? The real estate company handles the entire lifecycle of the loan process, from processing and underwriting to closing and servicing. Most companies think from the primary lens. Most processors handle a pipeline of 25 to 30 loans.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

Stewart Title of Louisiana is expanding its support for commercial real estate transactions, through the addition of Ashley Coco as the firm’s Louisiana underwriting counsel, it announced Tuesday. Before joining Stewart, Coco was the lead attorney heading the commercial services department of Commerce Title in Baton Rouge.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The changes come after NYCB, which concluded a merger with Flagstar in December 2022 and acquired some of Signature Bank ‘s assets in March 2023, faced a confidence crisis related to its commercial real estate portfolio. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

These rankings are designed to help top-performing agents and teams highlight their accomplishments within their specific local markets, enhancing their credibility where it matters most — close to home. RealTrends excludes transactions such as commercial, rentals, lease, land, empty lots, and outside referred business from published totals.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Finance of America Companies (FOA) has entered into an agreement to sell the operational assets of its Finance of America Commercial vertical to Roc Capital Holdings LLC. The terms of the deal do not include the FOA commercial vertical’s financial assets, which are comprised of loans and securitizations, according to the 8K filing.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2022

Texas lender Mid America Mortgage rebranded as Click n’ Close to expand into the mortgage technology industry following the sale of the majority of its retail lending operations. Click n’ Close will retain retail operations related to its reverse mortgage and lending business for Native Americans, the company said Monday.

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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. An agent may also be present at closings to review closing documents and help guide their client through the final steps. Buyer’s agent : The buyer’s agent represents the buyer.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

On Tuesday, at the preliminary approval hearing for defendant MLS Property Information Networks (MLS PIN) settlement, Judge Saris r efused to grant preliminary approval to the settlement as the plaintiffs and defendants were hoping to expand the class to include commercial property sellers and mobile home sellers. Why do you care so much?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The virtual notary services industry has become increasingly popular amid the COVID-19 pandemic as businesses have adopted remote signatures to adhere to social distancing protocols while closing on mortgages and other loans. Electronic closings supported by remote online notarization (RON) offer advantages to notaries, borrowers and lenders.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

Notably, the company recently launched its AI-powered website, Rocket.com , brought on Katie Sweeney as executive vice president of broker advocacy for Rocket Pro , made a Super Bowl commercial comeback and kicked off a companywide rebranding campaign.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2025

In this role, Quantie will work to expand KeyLinks residential and commercial title offerings, making them available to outside financial services entities by the end of first-quarter 2025. On Thursday, Planet announced the hiring of Ken Quantie as its new senior vice president of KeyLink Title.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2021

Notarize has tapped Larry D’Angelo as its first president and chief commercial officer, the company announced on Thursday. Lastly, the company continues to build out Notarize for Mobile — Partner Edition that aims to “let the real estate industry have a seat at the digital closing table.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

If the deal goes through, it would instead focus on other lines of business , such as reverse mortgages, commercial lending and home improvement. ” The post FoA plans to sell retail division to Guaranteed Rate, close wholesale channel: sources appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2025

For real estate professionals and mortgage lenders , these challenges heighten the risk of deal cancellations and complicate the closing process. Having a clear understanding of the underlying factors driving these shifts and addressing insurance costs early in transactions is essential to avoid last-minute disruptions.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

The company said the additional capital will be used to advance MoxiWorks aggressive product strategy, which is aimed at helping brokerages and agents win and close more deals. The exact amount of funding was not disclosed. According to the release, Raeburn will be tasked with leading the companys sales strategy, including global sales.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2022

Trusted by over 1 million users, NotaryCam’s eClose 360 platform allows borrowers to close anytime from pretty much anywhere. NotaryCam’s customers are the first to express their satisfaction with the company’s future-thinking approach to closings. The pandemic has brought extra hurdles for everyone. Rick Triola.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

In early May, the company launched a commercial servicing division led by James DePalma and Janina Woods. In May, Planet closed a $150 million increase to its conventional MSR facility because, “Naturally, companies need bigger lines as they grow,” Dubeck said. Planet was very active in MSR deals in the first half of 2023.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The company closed over one million transactions while most of our people were working from home. Total commercial revenue was $226.6 Direct premiums and escrow fees were up 24% compared with the fourth quarter of 2019, driven by a 32% increase in the number of direct title orders closed. million, down 5% year over year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Sources: Census Bureau , Apartment List , FRED , Zillow Commercial real estate statistics Diving into commercial real estate statistics is a bear because the commercial market is divided into a bunch of different sectors. Homebuyers found photos to be the most valuable feature found on a listing website (66%).

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

Name Job Title Company Name Aaron Heidorn Director of Software Engineering & Infrastructure Cloudvirga Aaron Smith Director, Sales CubiCasa Adrian Provost Chief Executive Officer Realty ONE Group Terminus Ana LeBlanc Human Resources Director InterLinc Mortgage Annie Lemon Producing Branch Manager Gold Star Mortgage Financial Anthony Russo Diamond (..)

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Agency title premiums and commercial title revenue also increased 23% and 70%, respectively during the fourth quarter. Commercial orders also increased, with the number of commercial orders opened increasing 13% and the number of commercial orders closed increasing 17% year over year. billion, with $1.0

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

First the market is shifting away from refinance transactions towards purchase and commercial transactions, which is where we have a greater market share. The Guide to Accelerating Closings in 2022. Like other “big four” member Stewart , First American’s commercial title volume and revenue saw big improvement from a year ago.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2021

Fidelity’s total commercial revenue was $347 million, an 89% increase year-over-year driven by a 65% increase in closed orders. Total commercial orders opened also increased 58% year over year. Second quarter refinance orders opened and closed both decreased this quarter — 25% and 5%, respectively, on a daily basis.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2025

While telepathy isnt an option, predictive analytics will get you pretty close. Agents can now spend time converting high-quality leads that are sure to turn into more closed deals instead of spending hours trying to identify potential sellers through expired MLS listings or door knocking. What does this mean for you?

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2024

It is our team’s job to understand how LeadingRE can best support them, which may mean recommending specific courses from our Institute learning platform, introducing technologies from a Solutions Group provider, engaging them in our commercial real estate program, or helping them build new development business through Destinations by LeadingRE.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2021

Hometown Title and Escrow is led by industry veteran Sharon Keegan and serves both residential and commercial transactions in the Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. ” The title and land company also announced the recent hiring of 25-year industry veteran Heather Niedens, a national commercial escrow officer.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This data is critical as it fuels our operational efficiency initiatives are title automation efforts and our ongoing efforts to digitize the real estate closing experience. Most notably, commercial title revenue was up 66% to $377 million, contributing to a record of $1 billion in commercial title revenue for all of 2021.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

The firm cited a 28% annual decrease in the number of open and closed title orders due to the “elevated interest rate environment,” for the drop in title income. Domestic non-commercial title revenue, on the other hand was down 5% year over year to $234.4

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

NYCB) confirmed it’s closing 69% of the retail home lending offices outside of its branches after acquiring Michigan-based Flagstar Bank. “We We made the strategic decision shortly after the transaction closed to swiftly restructure the business, which occurred in January,” Thomas Cangem, NYCB president and CEO, said in a statement. “We

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As we continue to grow our portfolio, we’ll use equity as well as debt … a lot of the banks that he works with also do commercial lending. So he’ll have access to commercial lines of credit for us,” Joe Caltabiano, CEO of HRT, said in an interview. portfolio of more than 150 retail centers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Carolyn Monroe, the president of Old Republic’s title insurance segment, attributed the relatively small yearly drop in 2022 to a strong performance by the firm’s commercial title insurance sector. Commercial premiums reported for full year 2022 represented an all-time high for the title group.

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2022

The number of purchase orders opened per day dropped 1% year over year, while the number of commercial orders opened per day rose 6% compared to a year prior. The increase in commercial volume led to a 46% year-over-year increase in commercial revenue to $347 million. However, the firm expects commercial volume to remain strong.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

CoStar said it plans to continue running the commercials throughout the rest of 2024, including during major TV broadcasts like the Oscars and the NBA playoffs. No other competitor comes close to our investment to drive leads to all agents,” the video states.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

“Title First has grown into one of the largest independent title agencies in the nation, building strong partnerships across the United States to serve its residential, commercial, and lender customers in their purchase and refinance transactions,” Lessack said in a statement at the time of the acquisition.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2022

New York-based AmTrust Title Insurance Company on Tuesday introduced MidPoint , its new title closing solution enabling title agents to work outside their geographic areas to serve clients nationwide. AmTrust Title is a wholly owned subsidiary of AmTrust Financial Services, Inc.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

Is virtual staging finally ready for its close-up? In addition to virtual staging, Styldod offers AI image enhancement, Matterport virtual staging and commercial virtual staging. We think it is. The days of AI-staged photos that look more like Salvador Dali paintings than comfy living rooms or HGTV-ready kitchens are long gone.

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