Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

While the real estate industry has witnessed the introduction of a number of spectacular and innovative developments in recent years, we still (sometimes unfairly) get tagged as “old fashioned” or “conservative.” Why is the industry still transferring money the old-fashioned way? There’s really no experience quite like buying a home.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

David Peskin, formerly from Senior Lending Network and Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF), has purchased an ownership stake in top 10 reverse mortgage lender HighTechLending (HTL) and will lead the company’s new pursuits alongside co-owner and COO Erika Macias. Peskin spoke to RMD about the move. We’re very excited to work with her.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2024

According to Anthony Lamacchia , the broker-owner of Lamacchia Realty , he and his agents have seen disputes over buyer broker fees for years, highlighting the importance of having a signed buyer representation agreement , which will soon be required by the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) nationwide commission lawsuit settlement agreement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

title insurance company had “no-poach” agreements with rivals. My office will continue standing up for workers’ rights by stopping no-poach agreements and holding companies accountable for their bad actions.” The agreement comes as Fidelity’s volumes are declining due to fewer real estate sales.

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Housing Wire

JULY 10, 2024

For over 37 years I have been a consultant to brokerage firms, MLS’s, Association of Realtors, and other entities related to the residential brokerage industry. In addition to general advisory consulting, I was involved in nearly 1,000 sales or acquisitions of entities in this industry.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Ron Frasier, a title industry veteran and CEO of title startup Atlas Title , has been watching the commission lawsuit saga closely. “If They will have to get on that listing side of things, which will be much harder as it is an earlier point of sale, as no one has even looked at buying the house yet.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

Mortgage rates, which climbed upward one day and went down the next in the wake of the recent wave of bank failures, will continue to be volatile before it stabilizes, industry watchers said. Borrowing money will be relatively expensive, “including taking on a mortgage borrowing for a home purchase,” Jones said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2021

with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week gave the mortgage industry a glimpse into how its partner Better.com fared in the second quarter. According to the filing, Better’s gain-on-sale margin declined from 301 basis points in the first quarter to 160 bps in the second, which in turn resulted in a drop in revenue of $171.8

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Buyers are not required to prepare their current home for sale until after they move into the new property. It is quite common that our customers are faced with challenges around selling their current home before they can purchase a new home,” Ruoff Mortgage CEO Clint Morgan said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2024

17, 2024 , has come and gone, and the real estate industry is still plugging along, despite the business practice changes mandated by the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) commission lawsuit settlement agreement now being implemented nationwide. The landmark date of Aug.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2024

While there have not been any “ horror stories ” in the first few days since business practice changes mandated by the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) commission lawsuit settlement agreement were implemented, that doesn’t mean it has been completely smooth sailing for real estate professionals.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2022

Fannie Mae has unveiled its third reperforming loan sale of the year, an offering of nearly 10,000 loans valued at $1.57 The offering, dubbed FNMA 2022-RPL3, represents the agency’s 26th sale of reperforming loans since the inaugural offering in October 2016, which involved a pool of 3,600 reperforming loans valued at about $806 million.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2023

The purchase of a home is one of life’s largest and most important investments, and it is critical that homeowners remain vigilant to protect this investment. These companies know how to make their agreements sound good. To date, six state attorneys general have filed complaints against these agreements.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

First piloted in a handful of markets in September 2023 and formally launched in early February, the Sign & Save program provides buyers who sign up to work with a Redfin agent before their second home tour — and who purchase a property with that agent within 180 days of signing the agreement — a refund of 0.25% to 0.5%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

For agents in New Hampshire , this week marks two months since PrimeMLS , the state’s multiple listing service , implemented the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ nationwide commission lawsuit settlement agreement. For the most part, brokers said buyers are willing to sign these agreements.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Zillow said Thursday that more than 50% of its remaining iBuying inventory “has sold, is under contract to sell or has reached agreement on disposition terms.”. As of last month, the firm reported 9,800 homes it purchased but has yet to sell, and 8,200 it is contractually obliged to buy – or a shade under 18,000 total.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

Under the terms of the settlement agreements reached by both Keller Williams and the National Association of Realtors (NAR), cooperative compensation is still allowed. Cooperative compensation offers can also be — and should be, if the client wishes — included in purchase agreements.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2022

Fannie Mae has launched its fourth reperforming-loan sale of the year — an offering of 6,130 loans with an unpaid principal balance of $997 million. The reperforming-loan sale is slated to close by late October 2022, after due-diligence period. billion — or a bit more than half of the RPL sales by loan count and $5.7 billion.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2021

Compass announced Monday that it has reached an agreement to buy San Francisco-based real estate transaction platform Glide , a deal that some California real estate agents may feel uneasy about. Glide, which was founded in 2017, provides tools like eSignature and the digitization of sales processing forms.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2022

Ohio-based CrossCountry Mortgage has entered into an agreement to acquire California-based retail lender LendUs , multiple sources familiar with the deal told HousingWire. . The CrossCountry-Lendus deal appears to be the first in what analysts and industry veterans believe will be a wave of mergers and acquisitions in 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Despite having long ago settled the commission lawsuits , legal challenges continue to mount for real estate industry giant Anywhere. On Friday, the firm and some of its subsidiaries and agents were accused of violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and the Lanham Act.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2021

They also recently closed on their purchase of a new home. In the process, they had to rent a home for four months between their sale and their purchase given “simultaneous closings” are not a practice there. And they paid a 1% fee to their solicitor for their purchase. The real estate industry and the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

(Photo Credit: AJ Canaria) Between inflation , an uncertain interest rate environment and legal challenges , the real estate industry is facing unprecedented challenges. Wright and Murray also said that the headwinds facing the industry are creating a buyer’s market for acquisitive firms. My advice is to start simple.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

You probably already know that the MBA’s latest mortgage forecast puts the purchase money at 75% of all loan volume. If you’re planning on staying in the mortgage business in 2022, you’re probably already shifting your strategy to better enable you to originate purchase money loans next year. Stevens, President at SRE.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As a real estate reporter, it was not lost on me that the formal start of my house hunt would coincide almost perfectly with the real estate industry working through the nationwide implementation of the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors ‘ (NAR) commission lawsuit settlement agreement.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

Paul Giangrande “Paul brings a distinguished reputation in the mortgage industry with an uncanny sense of distribution. His impressive industry acumen and established mortgage credentials add significant strength and valuable perspective to our management team.” billion have been issued since August 2021.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2021

The above agencies also signed a statement outlining flexibilities on industry appraisal standards and then addressed appraisal regulations for Fannie and Freddie a week later. The CFPB also now intends to take enforcement action against land developers subject to the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act under Regulation J.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

But for mortgage industry professionals hampered by fewer sales opportunities since the Fed’s streak of rate hikes began in March 2022, will this be the start of better days? Long time coming The cut was long overdue for many in the industry, including the Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA).

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Company officials say the moves will allow refi-heavy Better to increase its strength in a mortgage market that is increasingly becoming purchase-focused. The company plans to automate some of its refi processes and is now focused on purchase operations, one company official, who requested anonymity, said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2024

Since the 1940s, the DOJ has repeatedly sued the industry to introduce more price competition. Today, price competition has a chance because of their efforts and class action litigation, culminating in a jury decision against the industry. New industry rules prohibit mandatory offers of compensation through multiple listing services.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

Today’s action means that lenders have more time to offer QM loans based on the homeowners’ DTI, and more time to use the GSE Patch, which provides QM status to loans that are eligible for sale to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. “This act poses serious risk to mortgage finance and brings potential downstream legal risk to the industry.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2023

As a professional in the industry with over twenty years of experience, I know that two of the most crucial aspects of any real estate transaction are title and escrow. Buyers, sellers and lenders all have a stake in the sale, and title and escrow ensure that everyone’s interests are protected. How has technology impacted the industry?

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2021

According to the wholesale giant ‘s quarterly earning statement, UWM posted a gain-on-sale margin of 2.19%, an 86 basis point decline from the 3.05% margin it posted in the fourth quarter. ” UWM’s quarterly earnings statement shows it did in fact increase its purchase business in the first quarter. billion in Q4.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

In return, Hometap gets an agreed-upon percentage of the sale price or appraised value within a 10-year period. Affordability has always been a challenge,” said Ashkán Zandieh, managing partner and industry chair at the Center for Real Estate Technology and Innovation. “In The annual investment volume in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The repurchase-request volume, which includes both depository lenders and nonbanks, is being driven up this year by the huge volume of lower-rate loans made in 2020 and 2021 that Fannie and Freddie are continuing to vet for loan-sale representations and warranties violations. And industry experts say it’s not a systemic threat.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As the real estate industry grappled with the fallout of the Sitzer/Burnett jury verdict and eventual settlement from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), a top concern was how changes to the agent commission structure would impact veteran homebuyers. The temporary guidance went into effect on Aug.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Our for-sale growth pillars mark the pathway to meeting our goals to grow customer transaction share from 3% to 6% by the end of 2025 and grow revenue alongside that transaction share growth,” Jeremy Wacksman, Zillow’s chief operating officer, said. We are confident in our ability to grow our company in this evolving climate.”

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