Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Over the last eight years, Abraham Sarway has parlayed calculated risks like this one into running a team that closed $100 million in volume in 2024. To this day, my team and I are still working in the South Bronx, even though we regularly close deals on luxury units in Manhattan.” He knew his local market data inside and out.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell played the Grinch last week for the housing market, sending mortgage rates higher after his remarks at the Fed presser on Wednesday. This positive trend suggests that despite the typical slowdowns, the housing market is showing some promising resilience as we head toward the end of the year!

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The market is not great, so we aren’t often dealing with multiple-offer situations. Due to these conditions, Dwiggins and other industry professionals believe there won’t be much of an impact on first-time buyers until the housing market strengthens, leading some sellers to potentially stop offers of buyer broker compensation. “If

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Higher prices, higher mortgage rates and limited inventory are making for a slow market among buyers and sellers alike. According to data from CoreLogic, investor purchases have tracked closely with consumer home sales, and the share of home sales attributable to investors is down as well. Same with the iBuyers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

housing market has shown signs of slowing, demand remains strong in key Midwest and Northeast cities, where homes are selling weeks faster than the national average, according to Realtor.com s Hottest Markets Report for February. There’s still a lot of first-time homebuyers in the market too. They keep the market healthy.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The housing market got some much needed relief in the fall when mortgage rates began to drop, but it was short lived. The turbulence in rates has trickled down to individual markets like Cincinnati, where real estate agents say they dont know what to expect from sale to sale. A substantial drop in new listings is a contributing factor.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As the year draws to a close, available unsold inventory of homes on the market is nearly 27% greater than a year ago. Almost every market in the country has more homes available now than at the end of 2023. A few states have more homes on the market now than any time in the last eight to 10 years.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Weve now been in the post-pandemic housing market recession market as long as we were in the pandemic boom. Does the housing market start to get back to normal? The number of unsold homes on the market is finally getting closer to 2019 levels. But, the market change isnt evenly distributed. Two and a half years.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Matterports cutting-edge 3D capture and AI-powered property insights have already transformed how residential and commercial properties are marketed and experienced, Andy Florance, the founder and CEO of CoStar Group , said in a statement. CoStar paid $1.6 billion for the acquisition.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Multistate mortgage lender Click n’ Close on Thursday announced that it’s adding a 30-year, fixed-rate conventional loan option to its SmartBuy Shared Appreciation Mortgage (SAM) program. Click n’ Close’s program also offers down payment assistance (DPA) options ranging from 3.5% to 5% down.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2025

Tom closed over $17 million in volume in his second year in real estate. Tom Brennan: By the numbers Market: Charlotte, North Carolina Niche: Luxury homes Year one sales volume: $1.9 The local competition in Charlotte was fierce, and with only a handful of closed deals, he knew he couldnt compete with experienced agents.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

As market conditions evolve, homebuyers demand more than just rate quotes and loan approvalsthey seek guidance, financial literacy, and a trusted partner in wealth-building. Understanding todays mortgage market challenges 1. Deliver value beyond closing to foster long-term engagement. With rates hovering around 6.5%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2025

Rising personal home insurance rates, fueled by escalating claims costs, increasing property values and the growing frequency of natural disasters, will all have a profound impact on market dynamics and homeowners insurance costs. For real estate professionals and mortgage lenders, these shifts present both challenges and opportunities.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Foreclosure Market Report. As we move into 2025, we’ll be closely monitoring how economic pressures and market dynamics may influence a potential rebound in activity.” Foreclosure activity slowed slightly in November 2024, reversing a trend of rising foreclosures in October.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

In a changing real estate market , mortgage lenders face increasing demand. The primary and secondary mortgage markets may be separate business components, but mortgage originators must understand both businesses intimately. How do we get a loan from I want a house to its closed and done before they walk away?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The company has an aggressive marketing goal to reach the No. And then looking at the vast demand or the vast breadth of competitors out there, we kind of looked at where they are doing well and where did we need to kind of jump in there and kind of close that gap. Market share and brand authority Why launch this site now?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

has introduced GO Live, a virtual closing system designed to streamline real estate transactions for attorneys and their clients. The platform, which debuts in Chicago , will expand to additional markets in the coming months. Attorneys can now review and guide buyers through their closing documents in real time.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Every title company wanted a great piece of the current refi market and most would do about anything to obtain it.The problem; almost all were late to the party and not prepared. Unfortunate for most, whereas a few had prepared, most did not see the magnitude of this market anomaly! Consumers were refinancing in astronomical numbers!

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

They explore the intersectionality of trends in the labor and housing markets. After diving into some background on The Burning Glass Institute, Simonsen and Berger dive into the state of the labor market heading into 2025. Simonsen: Let’s get some baseline about the state of the labor market rolling into the end of 2024.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

By channel, Rocket reported $13 billion in closed loans in the second quarter via its direct-to-consumer channel and $11.3 Rocket told investors in September that by 2027 it aims to double its current market share in purchase mortgages to 8% from the current 4%, and its refinance share to 20% from 12%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

The firm also added Sasha Stair a 2023 HousingWire Woman of Influence as its chief marketing officer in October 2024. Brown’s duties will also include monitoring emerging mortgage industry trends and aligning Xactus’ product strategy with the market. His hiring follows another key addition to the Xactus leadership suite.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2025

During the 10-minute conversation, Pieklo explores his new focus on developing AFR’s wholesale lending strategy, the competitive landscape of the mortgage market, and the company’s unique approach to differentiating itself from other big names in the wholesale space. We look to the secondary markets first.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Stats are the fuel to the fire of the real estate market and will make you exude confidence in conversations with potential clientsmaking them feel confident in hiring you to represent them. This proves your expertise to clients and allows you to provide them with knowledge about the real estate market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

With fluctuating mortgage rates and economic pressure in the housing market, foreclosure activity ramped up in October 2024. Foreclosure Market Report on Tuesday. “As we approach 2024, the recent Fed rate cut , and the new administration could impact mortgage rates and market stability. Attom released its October 2024 U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

Tom Davis: When you’re working with a professional and you want expertise, you’re going to want to work with someone who is the expert in your market. Davis: Either you take market share or someone takes yours, right? Why do you think brokers should work with a specialist instead of a multi-product lender?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2025

A title company had a question about closing documents. I have tried being a solo agent, team, and everything in between, but lets face it the market is tough right now. For example, when multiple agents from a team come together to analyze a listing, they can offer a unified market analysis. This is the future of real estate.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The key points of this report indicate that the Federal Reserve has overlooked the housing market for years. The existing home sales market does not align with their dual mandate of ensuring stable personal consumption expenditures (PCE) or consumer price index (CPI) prices, as these measures account for rent. We will soon find out.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

A large majority of homeowners (88%) have concerns about selling their homes, with financial uncertainty and housing market conditions ranking among their top fears, according to a recent survey by Clever Real Estate. Other concerns include potential buyers requesting excessive concessions (72%) and backing out of a deal before closing (70%).

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

March figures to be a crucial month for gauging consumer interest in the 2025 housing market. The 10-year yield is all over the map this morning, ranging between 4.11% to 4.18% as the stock market sells off more and more money is going into bonds. would been as a sign of stability for a housing market that has been volatile of late.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

Recent data highlights a growing trend of specialization, increased productivity, and market consolidation. 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. annual production 15 listings/year 64.7%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

These off-market listings not only harm sellers, but they limit exposure to potential buyers, possibly deepening inequities that have long existed in real estate. We must maintain transparency in the housing market so we dont go back to the dark ages of real estate. To conduct its study, Zillow analyzed 2.72

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Davis believes that by aligning with the right lender and expanding product offerings, originators can position themselves as valuable partners in a shaky market. 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.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Rocket Companies is buying Mr. Cooper , America’s largest mortgage servicer, in a market-shattering deal that could reshape the mortgage industry for years to come. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2025. billion , is paying an equity value of $9.4

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

In 2024, we saw a notable increase in buyer demand when mortgage rates got close to 6%. housing market. more homes on the market now than a year ago. By the end of May there were 38% more homes on the market than the year prior. California and Arizona have 45% more homes unsold on the market now than a year ago.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

1 in market share. I got that market share in 2012, and in 2016, I really started to work community banks throughout the Midwest. What is your strategy for competing against these two juggernauts and carving out your own slice of the market? To start the discussion, the duo dive into Windsor Mortgage’s origin story.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In the newest episode of the PowerHouse podcast, HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins sits down with Greg Schwartz, CEO of Tomo , to discuss market recovery indicators and Tomo’s recent investments in artificial intelligence (AI). Unlike other lenders, Tomo doesn’t use market conditions to determine production goals or other critical metrics.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The hardest position to take in analyzing the housing market is one that is contrarian and bullish. When everyone knows that the housing market is sluggish and weak, but the data shows surprising strength. These are homes that will generally close in November and December. more homes on the market than last year.

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