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. This complex project management of a bunch of parties all need to come together to enable that one-stop shop.

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Inman

APRIL 2, 2025

Author and trainer Bernice Ross offers a laundry list of don'ts when it comes to preparing a home to hit the real estate market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

“FirstTeam’s impressive growth is fueled by a robust ecosystem designed to nurture agents at every stage of their career,” said Michele Harrington , the companys CEO. The firm is among the largest privately held U.S. brokerages and is a founding member of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

What stage is the company in right now? Divya Aathresh: We are still very early, in the pre-seed stage. Sarah Wheeler: You founded MaxHome.AI in January. In terms of options, we’re very fortunate to have some of the top brokers in the country working with us on a product suite we will soon take to market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

Both the weekly new contracts and all the homes in the contract pending stage are below last year. Overall, the number of homes in the contract pending stage is just over 257,000, thats almost 2% fewer than a year ago. Again, the real-time measure is of the contracts pending the stage before the sale closes. When will that be?

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2024

While Wu did leave it open to allow Move to file an amended complain, he also wrote that “CoStar may very well be able to factually establish a disconnect between the documents Kaminsky accessed and Kaminsky’s role at CoStar at a later stage of this case.” As we have said all along, Move’s case is a sham.

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Inman

MARCH 18, 2025

Learn from real estates best and brightest in the business, all while growing your network and meeting like-minded passionate and driven professional peers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2025

Housing policy needs to be better at planning for the needs of different age groups and their life stages to avoid mismatches between supply and demand, Myers said. The second is to combine the tracking of population growth and housing supply rather than isolating them.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

He said the “stage is set for a more data-driven lending environment.” “Consumers now control their financial data, sharing it securely with third parties. “This has created an even less durable final rule that does not reflect market, technological , and practical realities.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

The announcement comes shortly after Rocket unveiled the first stage of its rebrand and is a part of the company’s conscious effort to unify Rockets many companies under a single umbrella. Per a release from the Detroit-based fintech, the Rocket.com website is an AI -driven, “intuitive” experience.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As permits continue to decline, Redfin predicts that the new-home share of the market will fall further, leaving the door open for existing-home sales to take center stage in the market.

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Inman

JANUARY 13, 2025

As wildfires rage across California, destroying over 9,000 homes and displacing thousands of residents, accessory dwelling units (ADUs) have emerged as a critical housing solution five years after being approved in Los Angeles.ADUs, also known as granny flats, in-law apartments, or casitas, are independent living spaces attached to or located on the (..)

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2025

Tip 3: Stage each space with intention Staging is just as important for showings as it is for listing photographs. Decorate your space (Source: Collov AI ) Staging doesnt have to be the use of physical furniture and decor. With Collov AI, you can stage any room in seconds, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This week, we count 14% more homes in the contract pending stage now than a year ago. There are now 354,000 single-family homes in the contract pending stage. Home sales are significantly better than they were last year at this time. No one else is reporting it yet, because the traditional data takes so long to reach the headlines.

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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

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

Rocket Companies , the parent of Rocket Mortgage , on Tuesday unveiled a refresh to its brand identity in an effort to unify Rocket’s many companies under a single umbrella. As part of this effort, Rocket is rebranding some of its businesses. Its title producer and appraisal management arm, Amrock , will now be known as Rocket Close.

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Real Estate News

APRIL 4, 2025

Brokerage leadership coordinated a private listings push in the region despite MLS rules restricting pre-marketing and the risk of steep fines for agents.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

The primary difficulty cited was the effort required 63% were surprised by the demands of staging, showings and repairs, while 37% were caught off guard by the emotional toll. More than 65% of first-time sellers said they would accept 20% less for their home to avoid the stress of staging, repairs and negotiations.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

Todays builder survey gives us more clues about what stage they’re in, and it isnt good. I believe the White House wants a shift in mortgage rates to avoid this sector going into a recession because it might take some time to get them out of it.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2024

On the hook But even before first-timers get to the offer stage in their homebuying journey, some agents say they are seeing them run into issues with the new requirements mandated by NAR’s settlement agreement. So, just asking for it in the offer probably won’t disadvantage them.” Since the new terms went into effect nationwide on Aug.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

It is the ballet of our lives being rendered on a stage we can finance thanks to a robust secondary market. Over the past few years, the noisy misdirection of data had us thinking homeownership was cerebral. Its storytelling. You walk in to a new listing with a price and a plan.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

In recent years, they have focused on mentoring loan officers and tailoring their support to match different career stages. Fairfield and Keranen bring decades of experience in mortgage lending, as loan originators and managers in California.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

Long-term growth Roughly 110,000 single-family rental homes are currently under construction or in the planning stages nationwide, according to Point2Homes. Huntsville, in particular, stood out with a 255% year-over-year increase in BTR completions the largest percentage jump in the country.

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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. Make sure you research your options, said gerontologist Nancy Schier-Anzelmo, principal in Alzheimers Care Associates in an interview with Yonder.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

“Combining Sales Mastery’s legacy of providing top-tier sales training with Momentum Builder’s innovative approach to performance coaching, the new brand will offer an even more comprehensive suite of tools and resources to help professionals at every stage of their sales journey,” the press release states.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cash buyer companies appeal to sellers with property issues, the report pointed out, as 54% avoid expenses like repairs or staging. Some sellers (65%) touted that their cash buyer experience led to them closing within a month and 31% sold without listing their home.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

By enabling agents with technology that delivers 24/7 transparency before, during, and after the transaction, Compass One showcases the agent’s value well beyond just facilitating transactions: It reinforces their role as trusted, full-service real estate advisors, providing clients with expert guidance at every stage of homeownership.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

Some of these companies are much younger and are in a heavy growth stage, so its not an exact comparison. At the same time, agent counts at other publicly traded companies have exploded, with The Real Brokerage (+1,173%), Fathom Realty (+136.6%), Compass (+78.8%) and eXp Realty (+64.9%) leading the way.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Setting the Stage for 2025 Heres the good news, 2025 is set to stabilize. Despite this, the Las Vegas housing market held its ground with steady appreciation, climbing 5-7%. The key takeaway? Real estate is resilient, and the market proved once again that patience and strategy pay off. and 6%, with potential dips below 6% by mid-year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

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. ” FinLocker indicated that future initiatives will target other high-cost areas like title expenses.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

The data provider examined all stages of delinquencies to gain a complete view of the mortgage market and loan performance health. Early-stage delinquencies (mortgages 30 to 59 days past due) accounted for 1.5% In March 2024, the national delinquency rate for residential mortgages stood at 2.8% in March 2023. “The

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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 6, 2025

By stage, the 30-day delinquency rate decreased 9 bps to 2.03%, the 60-day rate increased 3 bps to 0.76%, and the 90-day rate jumped 11 bps to 1.19%. The seriously delinquent rate (loans that are at least 90 days overdue, plus those in foreclosure) for FHA loans is 4.12%, roughly three times higher than the 1.14% rate for conventional loans.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

I’m excited to join the MAXEX leadership team at this critical growth stage,” he added. However, due to its complexity, mortgages had never been successfully traded on a centralized exchange before MAXEX. MAXEX is based in Atlanta. MAXEX said it has managed more than $37 billion in transactions.

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Inman

MARCH 3, 2025

The future of real estate is here, and its time to look ahead. In Nashville, were doing just that, and were giving you the secrets and skills youll need to thrive in the next era of real estate.

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