Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Dwiggins: Tell us a little bit about the acquisition of Virtual Staging AI and the strategy for that. Wacksman: It’s a great young company that has innovated a way to do virtual staging. And that’s, as you outlined, another example of us enabling the real estate industry to become more digital, integrated and productive.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

This portion of our agenda is intended to shine a light on the marketing leaders pushing the boundaries in the housing industry and their colleagues who don’t work directly in the marketing space. Attendees can find inspirational speakers on stage during the Marketing Leaders sessions.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

American Identity Group , an information security company that monitors and fixes security breaches and primarily operates in the wholesale lending space, has also become well established in the title and home warranty industries. When we look at the mortgage industry in our office, we broad-brush it,” he said. “We

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

To avoid a job loss recession, closely monitoring the homebuilding industry is essential. Todays builder survey gives us more clues about what stage they’re in, and it isnt good. If mortgage rates don’t drop, we may see this sector facing supply issues and shrinking profit margins. Why is this important?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

On Thursday, MLS leaders took center stage at several conference sessions, including discussions of the business practice changes driven by the NAR commission lawsuit settlement and how the role of the MLS — and the MLS-broker relationship — has evolved as a result. “And We have to reinvent the MLS to be something bigger.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

The company calls the move an “industry-first initiative.” FinLocker details that the initiative will eliminate verification costs at all stages of the mortgage journey, from prequalification and underwriting to final reverification before closing. ”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

They concluded that Bayview and its affiliates delayed the regulatory process by not promptly complying with requests during the early stages of the inquiry. State agencies in California, Maryland, North Carolina, and Washington led the multistate investigation.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

With its four largest firms all at least 100 years old, the title insurance industry has a bit of a reputation for being antiquated and technology averse. “I The title industry has worked hard over the last few years to shed that reputation. Something we say a lot is let robots do what robots do and let humans do what humans do.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

As we get older its hard to make new friends and thats why its important to find your tribe those people who are at the same stage of life and have the same life experience as you do.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

The real estate industry is already in a whirlwind and the year has barely kicked off. To put it simply, the industry appears to be in its rapid evolution era. An industry-wide focus on lead generation has left many professionals with vast, often un-tapped lead databases. Have a seat and buckle in. What does this look like?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

Mortgage industry veterans Eli Fairfield and Brian Keranen have joined Everett Financial (dba Supreme Lending ) as regional directors for the Pacific Southwest, the company announced. In recent years, they have focused on mentoring loan officers and tailoring their support to match different career stages.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

This portion of our agenda is intended to shine a light on the marketing leaders pushing the boundaries in the housing industry and their colleagues who don’t work directly in the marketing space. Attendees can find inspirational speakers on stage at the Marketing Leaders section.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The merger of two industry leaders in sales training and coaching will result in a “unified super brand” that will be known as Sales Mastery Powered by Momentum Builder, the companies said in a press release. Momentum Builder has acquired Sales Mastery , the companies announced Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Working in this arena, you see all kinds of different markets, and the common denominator is that once a senior is in that stage of life, it remains and continues to be an opportunity. And that situation is not unlike countless others from coast to coast.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Tim Nelson, a longtime reverse mortgage industry professional and reverse department manager at VIP Mortgage in Scottsdale, Arizona , spent 20 years in the home lending arena before shifting his focus entirely to reverse. Nelson is now a reverse mortgage borrower in addition to being an industry professional.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

Unfortunately, industry experts are anticipating that things will only get worse in 2025 as gen AI makes committing cybercrime easier than ever. While cybersecurity experts believe fraudsters are just in the early stages of AI utilization, they have already seen some impressive applications.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2023

But for potential homebuyers to benefit from new technology, the industry must figure out a way to keep bias out of decision-making models, experts said Monday. That’s something that will have to be overcome before we have wholesale adoption and use across the industry,” Stucky explained.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

However, waiting is not an option for homebuyers in pivotal chapters of their lives—whether starting a family or setting the stage for long-term financial stability. As home prices rise and high interest rates persist, many Americans are delaying purchasing a home, believing they cannot afford it or that now is a bad time to buy.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Kevin Sears took to the NAR NXT main stage at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center on Friday morning with a large iced coffee from Dunkin’ in hand. We’ve gone through some leadership changes , some legal challenges and one of, if not the largest, industry shifts of our lifetime.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2024

“Our shared vision of providing superior support and building lasting relationships with our clients set the stage for offering more efficient, reliable, and scalable solutions, thereby enhancing the value we provide to our customers,” Ward added.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

At this early stage, it’s unclear how such commissions would be paid since buyers could pay their agents out of their pockets or negotiate commissions as a seller concession in the closing costs. Consequently, mortgage industry executives believe buyers will pay agents out of pocket or ask sellers to pay their agent fees through concessions.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

Launched in 2004, Redfin was named after the companys mission to redefine the real estate industry. Some of these companies are much younger and are in a heavy growth stage, so its not an exact comparison. It offered an innovative take on the agent compensation model and got a headstart on Zillow in the portal wars.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

Tracey Velt: I’m sure you’re seeing a lot that’s going on in the industry right now. What are you seeing as some of the major industry trends? So, building those relationships and being proactive and communicating with them at an early stage of the transaction is key. That has calmed quite a bit.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Although mortgage delinquencies rose only ten basis points in the fourth quarter of 2024 compared to one year ago, the composition of the delinquencies changed, Marina Walsh , the MBAs vice president of industry analysis, said a statement.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2023

Her industry experience is vast and includes leadership roles across the housing landscape. A look at her list of accomplishments includes serving as the head of industry marketing and relations for Trulia , co-CEO and chief revenue officer at RealSure and chief experience officer at Homepoint.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

When asked if a P&G-like approach that more regularly makes use of traditional market research tools could benefit the reverse mortgage industry, he agreed. FOA and AAG have certainly made use of market research in the past, but I think as an industry more broadly, we need to go deeper,” he said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Eytalis argues that the case should continue on to the discovery stage, as some of the arguments raised by the defendants about notices for membership dues sent to Eytalis agents by the defendants raise factual disputes that cannot be resolved at this stage.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Compass shares our passion for empowering clients at every stage of their homeownership journey and has been a powerful leader in driving positive change within our industry, Thomas Anderson, president of Washington Fine Properties, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Setting the Stage for 2025 Heres the good news, 2025 is set to stabilize. Although no person can truly predict mortgage rates for there are several factors involved; Industry forecasts predict interest rates will hover between 5.5% Real estate is resilient, and the market proved once again that patience and strategy pay off.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Because not only are we an industry that values the bottom line, we serve the spirit behind the American Dream of homeownership. During the Great Recession, I had the opportunity and duty to work with thousands of families that had aspired to homeownership, but found themselves in varying stages of the default process.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In the mortgage industry, where change is constant and challenges can be relentless, strong leadership isn’t just a competitive advantage; it’s the foundation that keeps teams grounded and resilient. Here are some core areas to include: Mortgage essentials : Ensure everyone has a strong understanding of mortgage industry fundamentals.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Redfin put the real estate industry on notice Monday morning, announcing that it will require agents to cancel their National Association of Realtors membership where possible. So far, Rath said the response from the industry to Redfin’s choice has been respectful. “I They’re all going to give that up? I doubt it, but maybe.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2025

Rather than fixating on how many loan officers are out there, the industry should be more interested in how they’re doing. Next came the bargaining mode when leading industry economists expressed rate optimism and “Survive till ’25” became a rally cry last year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

Startups in the real estate technology space are pushing the boundaries of staging with photorealistic virtual renderings of homes; in-person and remote touring; innovative financing options; better home renovation; and fraud-mitigation to protect high dollar-value transactions, just to name a few areas.

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RIS Media

MARCH 6, 2025

The Staging Collective has partnered with home sale funding firm HouseAmp to deliver a new seller financing program aimed at helping homeowners maximize their propertys sale potential, the companies have announced.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

To excel, you must enter the industry with four main elements: a clear vision, a recognizable brand, an inspired team, and the systems to support them. Identify a common problem for your customers or industry that you can no longer put up with. This is the specific impact or changes you’ll make for your people or industry.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

Teresa is a trusted leader in the mortgage industry, and as our first key hire, shes an exceptional addition to the Ridgeland Mortgage team, Dan Pea, executive vice president of national joint ventures for loanDepot, said in a statement. In her new role, Carlile will lead Ridgelands growth strategy and daily operations.

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