Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

Launched in 2004, Redfin was named after the companys mission to redefine the real estate industry. But in light of Redfins blockbuster sale to Rocket Mortgage that was announced less than two weeks later, hindsight dictates that Kelman may have known that the end of independence was coming for the company hes run for almost 20 years.

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MARCH 17, 2025

The purpose of the expanded historical series, which runs from 2004 to 2010, is to give the current series historical perspective by illustrating how credit availability has changed over the past ten years, including the housing crisis and the recession that followed.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2024

The brokerage was founded in 2004 by broker-owner Herman Herrera, a retired U.S. The firm, which was founded in 2003 by Ray Sharma, was previously affiliated with Century 21 in 2004. Century 21 is welcoming new affiliates on both coasts On Tuesday, the company announced it was welcoming Staten Island, New York -based Herman & Co.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

COMPANY BIO Founded in 1992 and 2004, respectively, USRES and RES.NET provide comprehensive real estate solutions. By optimizing operations, improving client satisfaction, and maintaining a competitive edge, agents can drive profitability and achieve greater success in the real estate market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

To start, the duo explore the backstory behind Your Castle’s launch in 2004 and Welsh’s involvement. Velt: You founded Your Castle in 2004. They discuss Your Castle’s origins, real estate agent retention strategies and the use of artificial intelligence (AI). This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

Originally from Colombia, Serna founded Broker’s LLC in 2004 and grew her independent brokerage to more than 500 agents throughout South Florida. “This union not only reaffirms our commitment to our agents’ success, but also opens the door to unprecedented opportunities.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

More inventory for boots-on-the-ground buyers Richards started investing in real estate in 2004 and discovered distressed property auctions in late 2019. Like Richards, most Auction.com buyers are local community developers who have a deep knowledge of the markets and submarkets where they are buying.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The expanded historical series, which spans 2004 to 2010, was developed to give the current series historical context by illuminating changes in loan availability during the previous ten years, including the housing crisis and recession that followed. The expanded historical series from 2004 to 2010 does not include updated methodology.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

All Nations Realty opened in 2004 by founding partners Richard and Nova Dahler, who will stay on for the transition. The Dahlers organically grew All Nations from zero to 126 agents; the firm closed more than $126.3 million in volume in the past 12 months, RE/MAX Proper said in a statement.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 8, 2024

The expanded historical series, which spans 2004 to 2010, was developed to give the current series historical context by illuminating changes in loan availability during the previous ten years, including the housing crisis and recession that followed. The expanded historical series from 2004 to 2010 does not include updated methodology.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Launched in 2004, 10 of the nation’s top 30 banks work with Volly. “As the digital transformation of our industry accelerates, we’re committed to acquiring and building solutions that help us further expand our reach and achieve the next stage of our mission to transform and streamline the real estate experience for all constituents.”

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 11, 2024

The expanded historical series, which spans 2004 to 2010, was developed to give the current series historical context by illuminating changes in loan availability during the previous ten years, including the housing crisis and recession that followed. The expanded historical series from 2004 to 2010 does not include updated methodology.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

He has been with Carrington for nearly 20 years after joining as associate director and head of analytics in 2004. Taffet, meanwhile, will be in charge of day-to-day operations and oversight of the company, a task he’s been handling for some time now.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

McFarlane was associated with Keller Williams from 2004 to 2018. Keller Williams was named to an additional class-action lawsuit that takes issue with alterations made to the brokerage’s profit-sharing program. On Thursday, James McFarlane filed a complaint aiming for class-action status in the U.S. District Court of Maine.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Since 2004, the company has served roughly 27,900 Australians, amounting to a total equity release of $1.8 More than half of the company’s reverse mortgage customers (55%) are using their loan proceeds to fund home renovations or to consolidate debt (51%). billion AUD, or roughly $1.2 billion USD.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Other members include Jeff Waggoner, who joined in 2004 and currently leads over 158 employees, including 92 MLOs in 41 branch locations. Wendell Couch joined in 2008 and closed over $1 billion in loan production in 2021.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In 2004, she was promoted to senior vice president, managing the Eastern region; and in 2016, she became executive vice president, overseeing operations and production of the company’s builder division. She has served as president of Lennar Mortgage, the mortgage lending subsidiary of Lennar Corp., since 2018.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2022

From 2004 to 2006, during the housing boom years, even though homes were moving at a rapid pace, buyers typically looked at nine homes. NAR Research has tracked the number of homes viewed since 1987 and eight is the lowest number on record.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2022

I don’t think it’s shocking that people have never seen this index dated from 2004-2021. We just lend to the capacity to own the debt, and the index is correct to stay low since 2008 because we can’t legally loosen up lending standards as happened from 2004-2005. Whenever a recession happens, credit should get tighter.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2021

According to the Federal Housing Finance Agency purchase only house price index, it took almost six years during the bubble period from 1998 to 2004 for home price growth to accelerate from 5% to 10% on a year-over-year basis. The result has been an extraordinary acceleration in home price growth.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Braun’s political career began as a member of the Jasper School Board from 2004 to 2014, when he won a race to the Indiana House of Representatives. Braun previously announced that he would not be seeking a second term as Indiana’s junior senator, instead choosing to run for governor as incumbent Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) is term limited.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Lowman has been with the lender for more than 21 years starting from managing a founding branch to being promoted as president in 2004, CEO in 2017 and vice chairman earlier in 2023. “I I look forward to driving APM forward in the new year and turning the challenges into opportunities in 2024 and beyond,” Lowman said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Even as California lost nearly 215,000 residents to net migration in 2022, census data also shows that the Golden State saw a net increase of almost 44,000 Gen Z adults (people born between 1996 and 2004, excluding students) who moved there from other states.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2023

The executive acquired both teams in 2004. UWM and JP Morgan Chase declined to comment on the topic. The seller of the Suns Legacy Holdings , which owns the Phoenix Suns and Mercury, was Robert Sarver. Earlier in 2022, Sarver was fined $10 million and suspended for one year following an NBA investigation regarding workplace conduct.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Emerson will fill the seat on the board vacated by Farner and serve for a term expiring at Rocket’s annual meeting of stockholders in 2004 until his successor is elected. “Mr. Bill Emerson, who served 15 years as Farner’s immediate predecessor, will replace Farner on an interim basis starting June 1.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2024

Our area manager at Wells Fargo approached me in June 2004 and asked if I had ever considered doing reverse mortgages. In August 2004, I went out to Boston for a week of reverse mortgage training. Jim Cullen: Yeah, definitely. I made the switch into reverse mortgages, quite honestly, not due to anything I initiated.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2021

At 4%, payment-to-income ratios would rise above the 1995-2003 market average, and at 5% would drive affordability to its worst level on record outside of the 2004-2008 bubble,” the report said. Black Knight’s report remarked that even if home prices hold steady, a rise in 30-year rates to 3.5%

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2021

Mueller has been with Old Republic since 2004. The title insurance giant announced that Frank Sodaro will succeed Karl Mueller as chief financial officer when Mueller retires at the end of June.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2025

Since joining the MBA in 2004, Woodwell has overseen the trade group’s economic research and analysis of the commercial and multifamily finance markets. From there, the Brown University alum advanced to director-level business development roles with Virginia’s WMF Group and New York-based CapitalThinking.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

Lamacchia bought his first house in 2002, started fixing and selling properties soon after, and got his real estate license in 2004. College was never in the cards for Lamacchia, so the CEO launched his real estate career after finishing high school. He wanted to expand and switch the company to a brokerage model.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2021

It’s only the second acquisition Redfin has made since its founding in 2004. Redfin then swooped in, agreeing to pay $608 million in cash to acquire the company despite RentPath’s $650 million bankruptcy restructuring.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Since 2004, they claim to have created $4 billion in equity value to investors. The team co-founded several businesses, such as the fintech Enova, real estate investment trusts (REIT) Pangea Properties and New Lake , and the online lending company Avant.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 7, 2024

The enlarged historical series, which covers 2004 to 2010, was designed to provide historical context to the current series by demonstrating how credit availability has changed over the last ten years, including the housing crisis and subsequent recession.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The executive acquired both teams in 2004. The NBA said in a news release that the deal is expected to close this week, and both teams will change hands for the first time in 19 years. The seller is Robert Sarver, managing partner of Suns Legacy Holdings , which owns the Phoenix Suns and Mercury.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2022

Kumar was a manager at Standard Chartered Bank from 2002 to 2004. Mortgage consulting firm LendArch has hired Karthik Kumar, the former global mortgage practice head at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). He will serve as LendArch’s executive vice president and chief operating officer. .

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2024

The final rule also made additional regulatory changes to the HECM reverse mortgage program, including amended origination and servicing policies.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

It’s only the second acquisition Redfin has made since its founding in 2004. Seattle-based Redfin has agreed to pay $608 million in cash to acquire RentPath , though the deal still requires sign-off by the Federal Trade Commission and a bankruptcy court. “Redfin’s brand will get bigger.

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