Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Ongoing supply and affordability challenges in the housing market have frustrated many homeowners who have looked to trade up or relocate for various reasons. In response, some consumers have turned to renovation projects to meet their needs. According to survey data released this week by St. Louis-based Clever Real Estate , 63% of homeowners would rather remodel their current home than move to one that has already been fixed up.

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Real Estate News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The trade organization filed an official request with the high court today, asking for a review of an antitrust case that was ostensibly closed in 2021.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Real Brokerage ’s explosive growth continues. The company has added the Grant Johnson Group , based in the Minneapolis area, bringing 55 agents to Real and pushing the brokerage’s total agent count past 22,000. “It’s fitting that a fast-growing team, focused on building a strong culture, has helped us surpass 22,000 agents,” Real President Sharran Srivatsaa said in a statement.

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Keeping Current Matters

OCTOBER 10, 2024

If you’re toying with the idea of selling your house, you’re probably wondering how much it’ll cost.

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Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant

Join this insightful webinar with industry expert Abdi Ali, who will discuss the challenges that can arise from managing lease accounting with spreadsheets! He will share real-world examples of errors, compliance issues, and risks that may be present within your spreadsheets. Learn how these tools, while useful, can sometimes lead to inefficiencies that affect your time, resources, and peace of mind.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

If there was any doubt that the Federal Reserve’s half-point interest rate cut was the right move, those doubts are fading, and there’s reason to support another cut in the coming months. That’s because the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) for September fell by 0.1 percentage points compared to August and sits at a measured 2.4% year-over-year.

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Real Estate News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Buyers are left wondering if they should wait for rates to fall again, as some economists expect, or act now “and worry about rates secondly.

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Inman

OCTOBER 10, 2024

While no agent is perfect, we should all continually strive for excellence, no matter where we are in our journey as an agent from brand new to very experienced, broker Cara Ameer writes.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Real estate data provider CoreLogic is unveiling a new artificial intelligence -powered property and location intelligence platform. The California-based company is launching the Araya platform, according to an announcement on Tuesday. 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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Inman

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Learn how this problem solver, communicator and strategic thinker is bringing his style of decisive leadership to Christie's International Real Estate Group New Jersey.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Struggling fintech LoanSnap had its mortgage lender license in Connecticut revoked in early October by state authorities, adding to the company’s legal and financial problems. The firm was first licensed to do mortgage business in Connecticut in January 2021 and applied for a renewal in December 2023. The request was pending, but in July, the company had its mortgage lender license in the state automatically suspended.

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Inman

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The American Real Estate Association is looking for those 'fined or otherwise harmed' by the National Association of Realtors' pocket listing rule and are interested in "collective action.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

What do you get when you combine home renovation specialists with a lender that can provide funds in short order? The new partnership between HouseAmp and Renovation Sells. The technology companies will tether their respective services with the goal of streamlining the process of getting a home ready for sale. The Renovation Sells platform focuses on design and construction, while the loans come from HouseAmp.

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Inman

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Reports send mixed signals on the economy, with CPI showing prices rose more sharply than expected in September and jobless claims surging to highest level in more than a year.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Commissioner Julia Gordon and David Berenbaum, deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Housing Counseling at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), described a need for more reverse mortgage comprehension during an interview at this year’s National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) Annual Meeting and Expo in San Diego.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments will rise by 2.5% in 2025, the lowest such increase since 2021. This reflects cooling levels of inflation after a period of historic increases, which pushed the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to its own heights during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The benefits, which apply to more than 72 million Americans, will translate into a roughly $50 increase on a monthly basis, according to the Social Security Administration (S

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Inman

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Most real estate professionals say little has changed since new commission rules went into effect in August. But for a smaller group, the changes have unleashed a completely different experience.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Agents and LOs are grappling with heavily damaged housing markets in the Southeast. Housing markets in the Southeast are reeling from a one-two punch of devastating hurricanes that are believed to have caused at least $100 billion in damage. The housing markets in Tampa, Florida, and Asheville, North Carolina, have effectively frozen as federal and state relief efforts get underway, but a full recovery will take years.

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Inman

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Bright MLS CEO Brian Donnellan takes issue with assertions made by Compass CEO Robert Reffkin in his Oct. 8 op-ed for Inman on the role of MLSs in promoting Clear Cooperation.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Compass has a new head of investor relations. On Wednesday, the brokerage firm announced that it has appointed Soham Bohnsle to lead its investor relations division. Bohnsle has more than a decade of experience covering the housing sector, most recently as a senior analyst at BTIG. He also held roles at Morgan Stanley and Susquehanna International Group , where he began his career in housing as a research assistant. “We sought someone who could deliver an immediate impact, and Soham’

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Inman

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Baffled by a home that's languishing on the market? Mega-team leader Carl Medford offers a step-by-step plan for evaluating your listing and getting it sold.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

I started doing weekly interviews with tech executives over a year ago to find out where technology was making a real difference in housing and to keep a pulse on trends — especially artificial intelligence (AI). Open AI launched the first version of ChatGPT on Nov. 30, 2022. Mortgage and real estate firms began developing use cases in 2023. But what has happened in the past year — and especially in the last six months — is incredible.

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Inman

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Sacramento-based Prime Real Estate Team has transitioned from Side to eXp Realty after seven years, the brokerage announced on Wednesday. After serving the white-label brokerage in the Folsom and Greater Sacramento areas, the team is ready to advance the real estate industry with eXp.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Similar to past experiences, Hurricane Helene may lead to 5% of mortgage borrowers in affected areas becoming delinquent but eventually self-curing over the next 12 months, according to a Bank of America (BofA) analysis. The hurricane, which made landfall in Florida in late September, also impacted parts of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia.

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Inman

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The trade group's petition leans heavily on the government's promise to close investigations into the Clear Cooperation Policy and the Participation Rule.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

While the homebuyer commission lawsuits continue to be a thorn in the side of the real estate industry, three corporate brokerages have at least for now recorded a small win. On Wednesday, Chicago-based U.S. District Court Judge LaShonda Hunt, who is overseeing both Batton suits after Judge Andrea Wood recused herself in early September, granted RE/MAX , Keller Williams and Anywhere’s joint motion to stay the case during a status hearing.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

Customers of RealReports can now access in-home energy insights from Pearl Certification, a provider of property energy analytics.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Prominent housing finance attorney Gina Hough and her associate Trevor Cardo have joined Ballard Spahr ‘s housing finance practice, the firm announced this week. Hogh, a former vice president and deputy general counsel at Fannie Mae , will join as senior associate, said housing finance practice chair Peter Michaud. She’ll work out of the Washington, D.C. office while Cardo will be based out of New York.

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RIS Media

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Above, from left, Jillian Young, Donny Samson, Drayton Saunders, Kate Rossi and Cindy Ariosa As the industry reconciles with new realities in the post-National Association of REALTORS® (NAR)-settlement era, agent attrition has been acknowledged as one of the expected consequences. Some top real estate minds recently gathered to discuss solutions—not only for how to prevent… The post Leaders Offer Solutions for Preventing Agent Attrition in a Post-Settlement Landscape appeared first on RISM

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Inman

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Find out how this North Carolina broker got his start in real estate and what he wishes he had known from the beginning.

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Speaker: Sarah Santa Ana, Real Estate Coach, Move4Free Realty

Networking is one of the crucial elements in every real estate organization's success. Both agents and real estate companies need to maintain robust networking links. This is why social media is essential for any real estate professional! Social media enables you to stay in touch with your present clients, maintain connections with your past clients, and engage potential customers and investors.

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