Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Home sales are significantly better than they were last year at this time. Another tricky part of communicating this news is that home sales aren’t suddenly great. When you include the 9,400 immediate sales, the total is 13% more sellers than a year ago. That’s where we are right now.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Israeli startup eSelf AI has developed a technology that provides interactive AI real estate agents capable of answering questions and guiding prospective buyers through listings at any time. Looking ahead, Clia believes AI agents could significantly alter real estate sales by reducing reliance on human agents and cutting operational costs.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2024

New home sales grew over last month in the latest Census report , but homebuilders are now facing a supply issue their inventory is building up. Monthly new home sales have been stagnant for the past two years. When mortgage rates decline, sales improve, but it becomes more challenging for builders and buyers when rates rise.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

First-time homebuyers stimulate sales, you know. Kenosha has always been kind of the engine in terms of real estate sales in southeast Wisconsin, she said. So that really kind of hinders our actual total sales and total closings. But our sale prices keep climbing and climbing year over year. They keep the market healthy.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

The brokerage has hired industry veteran Nikol Solares as senior managing director of new development marketing. ” Nikol Solares Solares brings 20 years of experience in luxury development, new construction sales and marketing to her new role. It is the nation’s leading brokerage by sales volume.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

Dallas -based Certainty Home Lending , an affiliate of Guaranteed Rate , named Shadi Kamran as its new national business development executive. Kamran is based in Los Angeles and will support Certainty’s strategy and sales performance.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

The deal involves two of the nations top-four brokerages by sales volume in 2024, according to data from RealTrends Verified. billion across more than 177,000 home sales. billion across nearly 236,000 sales. Editor’s note: This is a developing story and will be updated. Compass ranked No. 1 last year with $184.5

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

We should note that existing home sales are in the third consecutive year of the lowest sales on record when you adjust to the workforce size. When it comes down to it, the supply and demand model works and new home sales currently today are still below levels we saw during the tech recession in 2001.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in July—filed a lawsuit against the lender, appraiser Maksym Mykhailyna and his company, Maverick Appraisal Group , and the appraisal management company Solidifi U.S. And the Detroit-based lender believes it’s a “massive overreach.” ” On Monday, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

New home sales missed sales estimates , but the builders’ stocks have been roaring higher. Also, new home sales are notorious for big positive and negative prints that tend to get revised. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. months at the current sales rate. What gives?

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2024

Now that new home sales are trending lower , with fewer permits, are we getting closer to the end of this cycle? New home sales aren’t collapsing but they’re not growing anymore either, so the ball is in the Fed’s court now. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. percent (±14.6 percent (±15.2

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Sales Construction Mortgages Staging 488

Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

New-home sales reached a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 693,000 in March, according to data published Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ). increase from the revised February rate of 637,000 sales, and it also marks an 8.3% At the current sales pace, there is an 8.3-month

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

That’s right, there are Black Friday home sales! The promotion applies to select homes in various housing developments across multiple cities. The National Association of Homebuilders reported in October that builders used sales incentives in 62% of transactions in September.

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Fixed-rate mortgage Closing costs Residential Finance 418

Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2024

Incenter Lender Services, a Philadelphia -based family of companies that works with nonbank and depository lenders across the country, announced this week that it has promoted Shelley Duffy to the role of executive vice president of national sales. Duffy first joined Incenter in February 2022 as its senior vice president of national sales.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2024

The new home sales report had such a big beat today that many people had to double-check the numbers — and I get it. The estimates were for 623,000 but the sales came in at 739,000. This isn’t my first rodeo with new home sales data and I believe these numbers will be revised lower, but a beat is a beat. This is 10.6

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2025

While some homeowners are looking to cash in on the equity they’ve built up since the pandemic, these same increases in property values are driving up the number of home sales that the capital gains tax would be applied to. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

New home sales missed estimates , showing that demand isn’t crashing but not growing much either. From Census : For Sale Inventory and Months’ Supply: The seasonally adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of April was 480,000. months at the current sales rate. This represents a supply of 9.1 percent (±12.0

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

People say that housing leads the economy into a recession: this is true when new home sales and housing permits fall together. This is one reason I raised my fifth recession red flag for Housing on June 16, 2022 as I saw that higher mortgage rates would impact new home sales and housing permits. months at the current sales rate.

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Sales Construction Mortgages Residential 514

Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

As homebuyers continue to grapple with a lack of existing homes for sale, the market for new homes continues to see strong demand, and some areas of the country — including Sun Belt states — are producing new homes at a relatively rapid rate. In March the average home sale price in the U.S. 2 (1,574 sales), with San Antonio at No.

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Sales New Construction Construction Finance 468

Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

New-home sales receded slightly in February but continued to track above last year’s pace, reaching a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 662,000 last month, according to data published Monday by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ). decrease from the revised January rate of 664,000 sales, it also marks a 5.9%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Skills such as coaching, conflict resolution, and teammotivation are rarely developed through sales roles alone. When organizations conflate sales success with leadership readiness, they risk placing individuals into roles that may lead to frustration and poor teamperformance. This disconnect can have significant consequences.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Wednesday proposed a new rule that would implement a permanent program to sell seriously delinquent single-family mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).

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Sales Mortgages Loans Development 456

Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

The proportion of newly built homes for sale in the U.S. of single-family homes for sale in the first quarter, virtually unchanged from a year earlier and down slightly from a peak of 34.5% Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). According to a Redfin report released Monday, newly built homes accounted for 33.4%

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Sales New Construction Construction Mortgages 468

Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2024

California -based mortgage lender loanDepot (LDI) has made two additions to its sales leadership team. On Wednesday, the company confirmed that Justin Andrews has been hired as the new area sales manager in the Seattle region. In late April, Jeff Wilkish joined loanDepot after seven years at Movement Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The platform is intended for housing professionals in various sectors, including 5 million loan officers, appraisers , servicers , underwriters , developers, agents, brokers, attorneys and regulators. Through Araya, CoreLogic will give customers access to the data and analytics of nearly all U.S. properties on one platform.

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Loan Officer Technology Industrial Development 458

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

After blasting off in July , new-home sales returned to earth in August. Sales dropped by 4.7% Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ). In August, new-home sales posted a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 716,000. “Clearly, lower rates are helping new-home sales grow again. “New-home

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Sales MLS Lending Mortgages 434

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Our economy faces many challenges persistent high mortgage interest rates , a declining rate of existing home sales, elevated costs for basic goods and services, labor market imbalances, and rising health care costs to name just a few. The FHLBanks are also key players in affordable housing and community development initiatives.

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Lending Development Banks Loans 387

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Similar to the HousingWire TECH100, which celebrates the most innovative companies in mortgage and real estate tech, Tech Trendsetters highlights the individuals who are developing cutting-edge technology and leading innovation for their clients in these industries. This year, 75 honorees were selected. Take a look at the full list below.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2024

Roof AI , an artificial intelligence -powered sales assistant that helps real estate and mortgage companies generate revenue across their business units, announced the integration of OpenAI ’s technology into its system, significantly boosting its capabilities.

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Technology Sales Pre-approval MLS 468

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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Lending Technology Title Development 296

Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

Dunmor CEO Franck Ruimy spoke with HousingWire ‘s Sarah Wolak on why he anticipates 2025 will be a strong sales year, and he highlighted the recent growth for the business-purpose lending (BPL) sector. So, it’s been an interesting time where I see now in 2025 that sales volumes are picking up for ground-up construction.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Chris Raveis, the company’s president of residential sales, welcomed the JRE team in a statement. ” Beaulieu also said the company focuses on developing talent with training, coaching and technology solutions for marketing and sales. “We welcome JRE to our family company.

Brokerage 367

Brokerage Agents Residential Technology 367

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The two best-performing demographics for African Americans — Black female-headed households and millennials — both declined in home sales in 2023,” the organization explained in an announcement of the report’s findings. This development has “significant implications for the housing market.”

Pre-approval 418

Pre-approval Mortgages Loans Finance 418

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The company announced the addition of the Maine -based Realty ONE Group, a 36-agent team that has closed 338 transactions totaling $128 million in sales volume so far this year. This allows me to focus on what I do best: finding, developing, and nurturing top talent.” eXp Realty continues to add agents and teams at a fast clip.

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Agents Residential Technology Development 429

Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2025

Overall purchase activity has shown year-over-year growth for more than two months as the inventory of existing homes for sale continues to increase, a positive development for the housing market despite the uncertain near-term outlook.

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Fixed-rate mortgage Loans Mortgages Development 358

Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

Every moment of friction is potentially a lost sale. Among publicly traded companies, Compass has done technology development and implementation better than most of its peers. Founder and CEO Ryan Serhant is a leader in leveraging social media to drive sales. is its own sales technology incubator and accelerator.

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Brokerage Technology Agents Development 289