Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In its race against other brokerages to add agents, eXp Realty has scored big in California. Prime Real Estate Team is leaving the white-label brokerage Side and taking its 21 agents to eXp. Led by the wife-and-husband team of Angelica Galeana Yost and Robert Yost, the team serves the Sacramento and Folsom areas of Northern California. Robert Yost is a 19-year veteran in real estate, and Angelica serves as co-team lead and director of growth.

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Real Estate News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In the second of a 2-part series, NextHome CEO James Dwiggins warns of a greed-driven future if the CCP is eliminated, and shares a proposal for revising it.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The home insurance marketplace has been facing a reckoning. The challenges that higher costs place on carriers, regulators , lenders and consumers has been well documented this year, and the acceleration of extreme weather events has only made things worse. The arrival of Hurricane Helene late last month threatens to exacerbate the situation in the states it struck.

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Real Estate News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

President Susan Daimler reiterated the company's support for the Clear Cooperation Policy, and called private networks "terrible" for consumers and agents.

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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 9, 2024

Heading into Aug. 17 , when the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ commission lawsuit settlement agreement had to be implemented, most brokers and agents were concerned about how they would disclose a seller’s offer of buyer broker compensation. What few actually considered, though, was what would happen when a buyer went from looking at a property to making an offer.

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Real Estate News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Zillow’s latest trends report finds that, despite turbulence in the market, consumer traits and preferences are fairly stable — with some key exceptions.

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Keeping Current Matters

OCTOBER 9, 2024

You may have heard chatter recently about the economy and talk about a possible recession.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Zillow Group is continuing its quest to become a one-stop shop to serve all the needs of a real estate agent. On Tuesday, the residential real estate giant announced the acquisition of Virtual Staging AI (VSAI). The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2023 by Michael Bonacina and Mikhail Andreev, VSAI helps home sellers, agents and photographers create digitally staged images of a listing, eliminating the need for physical furniture in the home. “ We’re excited to bring th

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Inman

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The entrepreneur and founder of Inman Group gets why people don't want to stand out. But there's also risk in letting dreams go unfulfilled, he told the audience at an Inman real estate conference in Austin.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Homelessness is an escalating problem for the growing number of U.S. seniors, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) based on data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). An estimated 138,000 older Americans — those 55 and older — experienced homelessness on a single night in 2023, according to HUD data.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

Sridhar Sharma, who's credited with developing Mr. Cooper's patented AI, has been promoted to a new role, and three new tech leaders are joining from other companies.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Mortgage tech firm Candor Technology has expanded its Loan Engineering System (LES) to include Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans. The company now fully automates underwriting decisions for FHA loans — minus collateral – and also offers a warranty on income calculations and cleared conditions for funded FHA loans. “There is no other automated underwriting technology that helps lenders make decisions on FHA loans like ours,” said Mark Hinshaw, CEO of Candor Technology.

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Inman

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In this exclusive video series on Inman, Windermere’s Principal Economist Jeff Tucker illuminates the latest stats, reports and numbers you should know. This week: The latest employment numbers.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

After reaching their highest level since July 2022 , mortgage applications have declined for two straight weeks, counteracting some recent positive signs for a still-sputtering housing industry. According to weekly data released Wednesday by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), applications shrank 5.1% on a seasonally adjusted basis during the week ending Oct. 4.

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Inman

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Inman Connect Austin kicked off with a spirited debate about Clear Cooperation and the disconnect between brokerage leaders and agents over whether to keep it.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

A pair of top-producing agents are returning to Coldwell Banker Realty. On Wednesday, the brokerage announced that Leominster, Massachusetts -based Lynn Walsh and Charlotte -based Victoria Speer are coming back to the firm. Walsh departed Coldwell Banker Realty in April 2024 to join Lamacchia Realty , but she recently made the decision to return. “I’m very excited to be back and working with my esteemed colleagues,” Walsh said in a statement.

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Inman

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Compass has hired Soham Bhonsle as its head of investor relations, according to an announcement on Wednesday. In his new role, Bhonsle will be responsible for maintaining strong investor relationships and maximizing shareholder value.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In its ongoing battle with CoStar , the parent company of Realtor.com is not giving up without a fight. Initially filed by Move Inc. in July, the lawsuit centers on James Kaminsky, a former Realtor.com employee who went to work at CoStar-backed Homes.com after being laid off by the Move subsidiary. In the suit, Move alleges that Kaminsky stole documents and trade secrets from Realtor.com, which he then provided to CoStar to fuel the rapid growth of Homes.com.

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Inman

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The Iranian-American Lahijani family is practiced in real estate investment, and acquired the property in March for $17 million. The family has reportedly begun a complete renovation of the home.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In a recent episode of “The Loan Officer Podcast,“ hosts Dustin Owen and John Coleman sit down to expose common mortgage industry myths that can impact everyone from the media to recruiters and branch managers. To start the episode, Owen dives into media misconceptions concerning the Federal Reserve ’s interest rate cuts and their impacts on mortgage rates and home sales.

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Inman

OCTOBER 9, 2024

With legal and leadership challenges aplenty, what do you see as the most intractable problem for the National Association of Realtors today?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

MIAC Analytics is marketing a large mortgage servicing rights portfolio on behalf of a lender with a big book of business in California. The portfolio consists of $292.91 million in Fannie Mae , Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae servicing rights. The seller will be providing full representations and warranties on the portfolio , which has an average loan size of $343,383.

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Inman

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Eales said the U.S. model of cooperation remains the gold standard — but declined to take a stance on NAR's policy. "Beware what you wish for," he said on Wednesday at Inman Connect Austin.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

“Rules of the Game,” a popular interactive session from past annual meetings of the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA), returned in 2024 to the San Diego event that took place at the end of September. Hosted by reverse mortgage educators Dan Hultquist and Jim McMinn, the pair aimed to once again point out how guidelines can often be misunderstood in the reverse mortgage industry.

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Inman

OCTOBER 9, 2024

A consumer watchdog filed complaints with California’s Civil Rights Department against 200 firms after an undercover sting found that the vouchers were refused repeatedly across the state.

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Bigger Pockets

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The BRRRR strategy (buy, rehab, rent, refinance, repeat) is based on finding discounted properties, fixing them up, renting them out, refinancing, and socking away the cash flow with a long-term tenant, and repeating the process until you have amassed a sizable monthly cash flow. In 2024, I largely believe that it's unrealistic.

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Inman

OCTOBER 9, 2024

During a panel at Inman Connect Austin on Wednesday, Rachel Hocevar of Compass and Romeo Manzanilla of @properties Christie's International Real Estate discussed the implications of industry shakeups.

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Brownstoner

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In a rare case of the state blocking a property sale over questionable dealings, a judge has sided with the attorney general in a long running drama that has pitted locals and preservationists against a developer and a nonprofit in Bed Stuy. In a dramatic development, a Kings County Supreme Court… Read More > The post Court Nixes Sale of Dangler Mansion Site, Throwing Its Future Into Question appeared first on Brownstoner.

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Inman

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Strength in job market rekindles inflation worries, raising the prospect that the Fed might cut by only a hair in November -- or not at all.

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Estate Agent Today

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Estate agency stock is on the rise, perhaps helped buy landlords listing properties in fear of capital gains tax (CGT) rises in the Autumn Budget, the Royal Insitute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) claims.

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

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