Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

The Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA) is calling on both houses of Congress to adopt a mortgage interest credit as the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) is currently set to expire in 2025. This is according to a letter the organization submitted to leaders in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. In the lead-up to its 2017 passage, CHLA representatives “aggressively advocated for a Mortgage Interest Credit (MIC) during debate on the 2017 tax bill, when it became clea

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JUNE 20, 2024

Summer is officially here and that means it’s the perfect time to start planning where you want to vacation and unwind this season.

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JUNE 20, 2024

In 2021, HousingWire published an article spotlighting Austin as one of the hottest housing markets in the country. The Texas capital was a COVID-era darling, but the city had been attracting employers and homebuyers well before the pandemic. As noted in that article, Austin had ranked No. 1 in population growth for eight straight years and The Wall Street Journal named it the hottest job market in 2019 and 2020.

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Real Estate News

JUNE 20, 2024

There could be a window of opportunity for would-be buyers as mortgage rates continue to ease and homes sit on the market longer, prompting price cuts.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is seeking to provide more support to military veterans who want to age in place in their current homes. This includes exploration of the smart-home technology sector, according to reporting at the Federal News Network. Smart home tech, including wearable devices like smart watches, could help flag instances when an older veteran living independently is having some kind of medical emergency.

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Real Estate News

JUNE 20, 2024

The path is more clear for MLSs than brokerages, according to a top industry lawyer. The National Association of Realtors, meanwhile, had no comment.

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Real Estate News

JUNE 20, 2024

Watch the conversation with CubiCasa leader Jeff Allen as he discusses the “magic” of capturing floor plans and how they can boost agents’ value proposition.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

Finance of America (FOA), the leading U.S. reverse mortgage lender, has received shareholder approval upon recommendation of its board to perform a reverse stock split at a 10-to-1 ratio in a move designed to boost the company’s stock price. This is according to a company filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reviewed by HousingWire ’s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD).

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JUNE 20, 2024

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

On Thursday, two U.S. regulators — the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) — announced their approval of a final rule imposing quality control standards for automated valuation models (AVMs) used by mortgage originators and secondary market issuers. AVMs, which value residential real estate used as collateral to secure mortgages, are under an interagency rulemaking process.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Parent company Inside Real Estate will carry the BoldTrail name in a range of iterations as they roll out this summer. The new moniker is meant in impart that real estate isn't for the faint of heart.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with UWM CTO Jason Bressler on the HousingWire Daily podcast to talk about technology and how UWM is leveraging AI specifically. This interview has been edited for length and clarity, but you can listen to the entire episode here. Sarah Wheeler: How is UWM leveraging AI? Jason Bressler: Literally, in everything that we do right now.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Purchase loan applications have surged for two weeks in a row, but rates for conforming mortgages are inching back up toward 7 percent this week as investors weigh the odds of Fed rate cuts.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

Real estate technology provider Inside Real Estate is rebranding its kvCORE platform to BoldTrail , according to an announcement on Thursday. Like kvCORE, BoldTrail is a branded portfolio that unites a collection of capabilities into one system, bringing Inside Real Estate products together in one place. But the company also said that this is about more than just a new name.

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JUNE 20, 2024

A former project manager said she was subjected to sexual harassment and retaliation in a lawsuit filed June 18 in Illinois District Court.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

Real estate technology firm Knock announced Thursday that its bridge loan product is being integrated into the borrower application process at Baltimore -based NFM Lending. The bridge loan estimate is being integrated into the lender’s workflow through an Encompass plugin. NFM loan officers will be automatically notified when a homeowner can tap into the equity of their current home to buy a new one before selling.

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JUNE 20, 2024

The "River of Real Estate" continues to flow, even in a challenging market. Coach Verl Workman offers insights for growth and resilience under any circumstances.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

Interest rates are a major headache for real estate agents across Illinois. On the sell side, agents say that low mortgage rates from a purchase or refinance transaction in late 2020 or early 2021 are keeping many potential sellers in their home. “A lot of people pre-COVID or during COVID locked in a great rate,” said Ryan Smith , a Western Springs, Illinois-based RE/MAX Properties agent.

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JUNE 20, 2024

According to eXp’s Troy Palmquist, these professional organizations have a greater role to play in providing services to support agents.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

Oklahoma -based Adfitech , a mortgage industry partner for quality control and risk management services, has changed its name to Mortgage Connect Risk Solutions. The move reflects the company’s 2022 acquisition by Pennsylvania -headquartered Mortgage Connect LP. Mortgage Connect, a nationwide services provider for lenders, institutional investors and servicers , acquired Adfitech two years ago to expand its efforts in third-party due diligence and quality control (QC).

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JUNE 20, 2024

Schmidt and his wife, Wendy Schmidt, bought the home in 1990 for $2 million and gradually expanded the estate over about 20 years, adding neighboring parcels, a guest house and a green house.

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JUNE 20, 2024

California-based loanDepot has concluded the transaction to extend $497.7 million in senior notes due in the fourth quarter of 2025, resulting in new debt with a higher interest rate and a shorter maturity period than usually seen in the market for similar companies. A loanDepot subsidiary, LD Holdings Group LLC, will exchange its outstanding senior notes due in 2025, paying 6.5%, for senior secured notes due in 2027, paying 8.75%, according to an 8-K filing sent Thursday to the Securities and E

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JUNE 20, 2024

The mobile experience is everything, especially when it comes to adding value in a consumer-first era and in the wake of consumer lawsuits.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

The plaintiffs in the Moratis commission lawsuit (formerly known as the Spring Way suit ) took issue with the nationwide commission lawsuit settlement agreement reached by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). On Wednesday, West Penn MLS , a defendant in the Moratis suit, filed a motion to stay the case, noting that it has opted into the NAR settlement agreement.

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Inman

JUNE 20, 2024

A penthouse at Central Park Tower on Manhattan's Billionaires' Row has sold to an unidentified international buyer for $115 million, making it the first residential sale in New York City over $100 million since 2022.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

Early this year I had the opportunity to sit down with HousingWire Editor-in-Chief Sarah Wheeler to discuss, among other things, our industry’s persistent profitability issue. A few weeks later the Mortgage Bankers Association released its Quarterly Mortgage Bankers Performance Report , underscoring my point with some truly grim figures. The fourth quarter of 2023 was the seventh straight quarter of net production loss for lenders , who hemorrhaged an average of $2,109 pre-tax dollars for each l

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JUNE 20, 2024

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JUNE 20, 2024

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Inman

JUNE 20, 2024

Find out how this Michigan broker rebooted her real estate career at its lowest ebb and discovered a whole new passion for the business.

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Bigger Pockets

JUNE 20, 2024

The rental market could finally be returning to stability after a wild past four years.

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