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A growing Fannie Mae “blacklist” is paralyzing home sales

Housing Wire

A spokesperson for Fannie told WSJ its requirements are designed to help protect borrowers from physically unsafe or financially unstable projects,” and disagreed with the characterization of Fannies database of projects as a blacklist but rather an online tool.

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AgentCoach.AI is deploying bots to train real estate agents

Housing Wire

Users can access AI bots designed to assist agents with general real estate knowledge, sales, marketing , negotiation and motivation. Each training bot is designed to tackle one of five challenges that real estate agents may face. The new platform will leverage specialized training bots to help agents prepare for business.

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RealScout opens exclusive listings platform to all brokerages

Housing Wire

The platform is designed to help agents and clients effectively manage and distribute their exclusive listings. The RealScout Exclusives platform is designed to stand out from similar options through home search technology that continuously analyzes buyer behavior in real time, the company explained in its announcement.

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Ruoff Mortgage teams with Calque on ‘buy before you sell’ offering

Housing Wire

Indiana-based lender Ruoff Mortgage is making a move designed to help more homeowners get into new homes with ease. Buyers are not required to prepare their current home for sale until after they move into the new property. Calque also offers buyers a guaranteed offer on their current home to reduce risk. “It

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California will require home insurers to offer policies in high-risk wildfire areas

Housing Wire

Fewer options have led more homeowners to the California FAIR Plan, which is designed to be a stopgap measure rather than a permanent solution. The lack of insurance options has also led to many home sales falling through. The number of policies under the FAIR Plan more than doubled from 2020 to 2024, according to the AP.

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Rate adds Manginelli to lead sales coaching program

Housing Wire

The Chicago -based mortgage lender announced Tuesday that it’s bringing on Daniel Manginelli to lead its sales coaching program, which is designed to help mortgage professionals implement best practices and improve performance. He’s worked in sales and managerial roles, and has authored two books, during his more than 35-year career.

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Lower mortgage rates fueling existing home sales

Housing Wire

Existing home sales had a huge beat of estimates on Tuesday. To understand why we had such a beat in sales, you only need to go back to Nov. The weekly growth in purchase application data during those months stabilized housing sales to a historically low level. We understood why sales collapsed during COVID-19.

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