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Marc King out, Mark Willis in at KW

Housing Wire

According to the annoucment, King, who has been with Keller Williams since 2001, will continue as a training and coaching leader for Keller Williams’ Franchise Systems Orientation and will continue his work updating the Team Leader and Keller Williams experiences.

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Interfirst to lay off 140 employees

Housing Wire

Interfirst is a mortgage business founded in 2001 by Dmitry Godin that has been harmed before by market downturns. Interfirst boasted of its ability to train people with no background in mortgage through a rigorous training course. Presented by: Acra Lending.

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Interfirst Mortgage to lay off nearly 50 LOs

Housing Wire

Interfirst was founded in 2001 as a retail originator and then expanded to the wholesale channel and the correspondent channel in 2008 and 2011, respectively. In 2017, after years of plummeting volumes, the company, led by CEO Dmitry Godin, decided to shutter its business, only to relaunch in 2020.

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Pending home sales shock 2021 housing crash bears

Housing Wire

An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001.” I can tell you that these people don’t have the training to read housing or economic data correctly. in October. Year-over-year, signings fell 1.4%. Home sales had a big gap from trending sales to where total sales closed in 2020.

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Why home-price growth is still up 18% year over year

Housing Wire

This means all those men and women since 2012 who have been saying its housing 2008 all over again on their YouTube , Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets simply don’t have the proper training to talk about housing economics. I have documented the history of these housing price crash addicts for a decade now. million listings.

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Guaranteed Rate’s Larry Steinway makes the jump to Revolution Mortgage

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He then transitioned to PHH Home Loans in 2001 for an in-house lending stint, a role he stayed in for about nine years. Covey, who joined Revolution as executive vice president in December, was brought on to train and hire top talent who can penetrate local markets with their own databases and networks. It’s the local relationships.

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Interfirst, the phoenix of mortgage, lays off hundreds

Housing Wire

Interfirst Mortgage , the retail mortgage business he founded in 2001, had grown to $14.5 They were trying to capitalize on the refinance boom,” said Cullen Gandy, a classically trained opera singer who had been hired as an LO at Interfirst and left in July. “I In 2012, Dmitry Godin was seemingly on top of the world.

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