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

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Tom Davis: Investor transactions are still close to 28% of the overall purchase market. Many investors prefer to close in the name of an LLC. Close one loan for a real estate investor and you have a repeat client for life! TD: DSCR loans are one of the easiest and quickest loans to close.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

The real estate industry is already in a whirlwind and the year has barely kicked off. To put it simply, the industry appears to be in its rapid evolution era. An industry-wide focus on lead generation has left many professionals with vast, often un-tapped lead databases. Have a seat and buckle in. What does this look like?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

With the election behind us, the industry is refocused on building momentum and driving growth in 2025. It also provides your agents with consistent closings, creating a more predictable and growth-focused pipeline. First, you free up your agents to focus on what they do best: closing deals.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Rocket Companies industry-shaking plan to acquire Mr. Cooper in a $9.4 The deal, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2025, integrates the largest servicer in the country into Rockets flywheel. We think that this is the ideal state of where the industry should be going, and we hope that this inspires others.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Seemingly forever, the average time between reaching a sales agreement and closing on that property has hovered around 45 days — a month and a half. There’s an entire industry built upon the “what’s next” in question. A document might be needed closer to the closing date or as soon as a few days after the start of the process.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Mortgage pros have closely monitored the commission lawsuit developments since a Kansas City, Missouri jury determined that NAR, HomeServices of America , and Keller Williams conspired to inflate or maintain high commission rates through NAR’s so-called Participation Rule. LOs on average get about 1%.)

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The company introduced its Smart Underwrite system in May 2023 to reduce manual tasks for underwriters and reduce loan processing times, addressing a significant efficiency challenge in the mortgage industry. Mike Brown, chief revenue officer for Gateless, echoed her sentiment and praised The Loan Store for its forward-thinking attitude.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

Scott Mitchelson is joining The Corcoran Group as senior vice president of global development, the company announced on Tuesday. In his new role, Mitchelson will lead the expansion of the Corcoran brand both domestically and internationally while working closely with the Corcoran affiliate network’s existing sales team.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As a real estate reporter, it was not lost on me that the formal start of my house hunt would coincide almost perfectly with the real estate industry working through the nationwide implementation of the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors ‘ (NAR) commission lawsuit settlement agreement.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), addressed industry attendees at the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) Annual Meeting and Expo in San Diego last week. By 2022, the numbers were close to 85,000 to 87,000 sessions, but recent challenges have affected those numbers.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Seemingly forever, the average time between reaching a sales agreement and closing on that property has hovered around 45 days — a month and a half. There’s an entire industry built upon the “What’s next?” When asked why it takes an average of six to seven weeks to get to closing, there are a lot of complex (and honest) answers.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The mortgage industry is highly fragmented and complex. Closings in particular involve multiple stakeholders, each of whom has different requirements, processes and technologies that make collaboration between parties a time-consuming and error-prone exercise.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

To avoid a job loss recession, closely monitoring the homebuilding industry is essential. If mortgage rates don’t drop, we may see this sector facing supply issues and shrinking profit margins. Why is this important?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The receiving agent becomes the buyer or seller’s primary point of contact and representative, and the referring agent receives a referral fee if a transaction closes. Their work is done, and it’s up to the receiving agent to serve the client and close the deal. What are the benefits of referrals? Choose your moment!

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

Each year, HousingWires Rising Stars award recognizes the next generation of leaders making a significant impact on the industry. The 2025 HousingWire Rising Stars have demonstrated exceptional leadership, expertise, and dedication to moving the industry forward.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

With its four largest firms all at least 100 years old, the title insurance industry has a bit of a reputation for being antiquated and technology averse. “I The title industry has worked hard over the last few years to shed that reputation. Not only did it take a lot of time, but it cost a lot of money.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Housing Counseling Federal Advisory Committee (HCFAC). Prospective borrowers are required to attend a HECM counseling session with a HUD-certified counselor prior to closing their reverse mortgage. Dujanovich was first appointed to HCFAC in late 2021.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Robinson: Going into 2025, what leadership skill set would you recommend any leader in the industry to focus on or level up? Some courses are online or live and all are about leadership and leadership development. To close the conversation, Morris recommends certifications for buyer and seller agents to pursue. Vision Course.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

The 2024 NAR settlement has reshaped the residential real estate industry, creating a new dynamic in how listings are distributed among agents. This shift is further underscored by a new analysis showing that agents taking at least 15 listings per year achieve significantly higher proficiency in converting listings to closings.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In an email to partners on Tuesday, ICE said that it will be closing down the Encompass SDK (Software Development Kit) on the same day it sunsets the program’s Technology Partner Network, Total Quality Loan Services, PSDK and ePass.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Housing industry experts attribute this to the states restrictive zoning laws. The lack of affordable housing also makes it more challenging for folks who are the caregivers , whether they are paid help or family, to be close enough to their loved ones or the ones they are caring for.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Kevin Wilzbach : Without question, the growth in the use of AI and particularly GenAI has been transformational for the banking industry. Kevin Wilzbach: While the industry awaits relief in the form of interest rate reductions, there’s no quick fix to the associated high costs of housing in the near term.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In the case of FOA — the current industry leader — the earnings results were robust. While Ellington’s results were softer in comparison , company leaders remain bullish on profitability prospects for Longbridge and the wider industry. With several top 10 reverse mortgage lenders now active in some form within the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Tim Nelson, a longtime reverse mortgage industry professional and reverse department manager at VIP Mortgage in Scottsdale, Arizona , spent 20 years in the home lending arena before shifting his focus entirely to reverse. Nelson is now a reverse mortgage borrower in addition to being an industry professional.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And that’s, as you outlined, another example of us enabling the real estate industry to become more digital, integrated and productive. Robinson : How would you help agents understand how you are positioning your technology for the good of the industry and for the good of the agent?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The new credit optimization platform will combine the best parts of the What-if Simulator and Wayfinder tools, giving mortgage professionals the power to reach more clients and close more loans. CreditXpert developed the platform to cut down loan filing timelines. 1 in preparation for the launch of the new platform.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Despite a drop in overall profitability in the fourth quarter of 2024, FOA, one of the nations leading reverse mortgage lenders, remains optimistic about the total addressable market for home equity-based retirement products and will continue to develop its offerings in 2025.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The family-run brokerage firm recorded some legal w ins and losses , developed new tools for agents and clients , and navigated one of the slowest years for home sales in nearly three decades. In order to deal with the challenges 2024 threw at the real estate industry, Hanna said he and other leads refocused on the companys six pillars.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

However, the industry is approaching this cycle with caution. loanDepot’s focus is on the sales side, attracting experienced loan officers (LOs) and people who want to join the industry via its accelerated career in effective sales (ACES) program. We’ve been hiring, training and developing our people. in Q2 2024 from 1.7

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

Brown will oversee Xactus’ product life cycle from ideation and development to launch and implementation. Brown’s duties will also include monitoring emerging mortgage industry trends and aligning Xactus’ product strategy with the market. . ” Brown has decades of experience in the financial services industry.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week released a new order amending its “express consent” rules for the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), which closes the “lead generator loophole” used by mortgage professionals to connect with potential business leads. So that could be interesting, too.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

Ruimy: The BPL sector is a very fragmented industry with a lot of different players. … The trend over the last few years of banking financing retreating from this sector , I think it opened up a lot more opportunities for BPL lenders to be the at the forefront of the funding solution to residential developers and investment.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

If you are helping them and you hear that they lost their job prior to getting to the closing table and they are now lying to their lender at closing because they no longer have that job, then you are liable,” she said. With this in mind, Adams told title professionals to increase their vigilance.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

This requirement is being floated at a time when SSA is reportedly set to close a number of field offices nationwide potentially creating even more conflict. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Alaska maintains three SSA field offices in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The reverse mortgage industry in 2025 could be defined by two key developments: continuing efforts to establish partnerships with the forward mortgage industry, as well as the development of proprietary reverse mortgage products that could be the future of the industry.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

Patty LaRocco, a veteran New York City real estate broker, has joined Compass after departing Douglas Elliman , where she was one of the firms top-performing agents in new development and residential sales. LaRoccos client roster has included figures from the finance industry, celebrities and other prominent individuals.

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