Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“This expansion is not merely for growth’s sake, but rather to address a pressing need to deliver quality legal services expressed by several key clients. We are obviously excited and will continue to strategically grow to accommodate our clients’ needs in the future,” said Robert D. Forster II , Managing Partner of BDF.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2024

The firm’s over 900 agents serve clients from Opelika to Montgomery and Hoover to Wetumpka, with 12 offices across Alabama. Ellison began her career in real estate in 2006 at an agent ERA King, before becoming a managing broker at the firm in 2014. The future is bright, and I’m excited to see what we can achieve together.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2024

million in 2006 to about 999,000 by 2012. Relationships are a crucial part of lead generation, as one never knows who may be a client in the future or what services and vendors one may need to lean on when the market picks back up. The aftermath of the 2008 crisis led to significant attrition among real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

Since joining Fannie Mae in 2006, Halley has proven her ability to lead, taking over as executive vice president and chief financial officer in 2021.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Redfin said its real estate agents have helped clients in Seattle and the Bay Area buy and sell homes since 2006, with a listing fee as low as 1%. Meanwhile, San Francisco residents have been leaving the Golden State as more people who are working from home want more space in more affordable parts of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Legacy, headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was founded in 2002 and purchased by its CEO Jack Thompson in 2006. Clients will also benefit from access to new digital and customer relationship tools that improve every step in the lending experience, including servicing, a Guild strength for decades,” Thompson said in prepared remarks.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2022

Celebrity is “honoring all the locks in the pipeline, so no clients are disrupted,” Robnett wrote. Part of the financial services holding company Celebrity Financial, the Illinois-based Celebrity Home Loans is licensed in 48 states and has reached $21 billion in home loans since 2006, according to its website.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2022

About Altos Research Founded in 2006, Altos Research is the premier resource for real-time real estate data. helping real estate professionals, investors, financial institutions, and their clients make better-informed decisions. HW Media is based in Dallas, TX with team members across the country.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

As any good marketer knows, getting prospective clients to dream is the first step in successful marketing. Presenting it in the best possible light is an integral part of your fiduciary duty to your client! Since 2006, HousingWire has been the go-to resource that provides the full picture of the U.S. The short answer?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2024

Prior to embarking on that trip, he was advised by his superiors that trainees needed to have a well-developed plan for potential cold-call subjects with clients. This proved to be a pivotal moment for Bruser’s career, since this exercise is what first led him to interact with older clients.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

That’s why knowing the signs and interpreting them can provide invaluable direction for your clients and your business. Runaway headlines that predict housing doom shouldn’t be what dictates your business or your client’s next move. One straightforward thing is to have a team that looks like the client community.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

We hold the unique distinction of being the sole outsourcer that has successfully listed, managed, marketed, and sold more than 700,000 properties, representing an impressive portfolio of over $50 billion in real estate transactions since our inception in 2006. To find out more, visit VRM Mortgage Services.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

Specifically, clients can use Brokermint to complete tasks in commission automation, accounting, agent management, and reporting and analytics. The integration allows BoomTown’s clients, at no cost, to create real-time performance leaderboards and other productivity tools. BoomTown was named a 2020 HWTech100 winner.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2021

Boston National Title (BNT), founded in 2006, offers servicing solutions to help ensure loan portfolios meet investor expectations and are both in compliance with regulatory requirements and within the risk tolerance of the GSEs. Our clients really appreciate our adaptability combined with our great service.”.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

as of 2020 — the highest level since 2006, according to the State of the Nation’s Housing 2021 report from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. It also means we have to get back to the basics of building relationships with our clients and being their loan adviser for life instead of treating them as transactional customers.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

Another panel participant, Shelly Griffin, senior vice president of client development at non-QM lender Deephaven Mortgage , added, “When I’m talking with loan officers, I get asked about ARMs a lot. Non-QM isn’t the 2006 product that it once was” — during the era of subprime mortgages.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 3, 2025

She will join the executive team with a focus on integrating innovative solutions that drive competitive advantage while delivering enhanced value to clients. Since joining SingleSource in 2006, Abbondanza has held key roles in valuations, property preservation, inspections and vendor management, shaping operations across the company.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2021

Case Study: How One Lender Increased Efficiency and Client Satisfaction. Founded in 2006 as The Loan Post, the company pivoted to loan modification, short sales, and nonperforming notes following the 2008 financial crisis. Download this case study to find out about the integration process and the results it yielded.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

Richelle Hopkins of Mutual of Omaha Mortgage has been a reverse mortgage professional for 20 years, moving to Arizona in 2006. There were clients, and we had others who invited their adult children in, because housing wealth covers such a large demographic, from first-time homebuyers to retirees,” she said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When I talk to clients and they are wondering why their $3 million condo isn’t selling, I’m like, ‘I don’t know, dude, maybe it has to do with the three people who got killed in front of your building last night.’ A CBS Chicago analysis of police data from Jan. 1 through Dec. Redfin found that the city’s median sales price was up 6.9%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

During this period of significant opportunity for purchase transactions and refinances, brokers and wholesale correspondents (non-delegated) need to align to wholesale lenders that provide deep industry expertise, comprehensive products and efficient operational support to support their clients’ strategies. 1 VA, FHA and GNMA lender.”.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Our data is good enough for the DOJ and the FTC to use for their own report on competition in the industry in their 2005-2006 report. The writer then goes on to say “agents must adapt and find new ways to provide value to their clients. The average has been dropping for nearly all of those years and now stands at slightly less than 5%.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

My counsel to clients I speak with is, ‘Don’t think about this in any other terms than potential time savings,’” Pyle said. There’s still some battle scars from 2006 to 2009 where appraisers were made to be the scapegoats,” Pyle said. Don’t try to wrap cost savings into this.”.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy. Serving clients, showing up to the closing table and getting paid were all great, but it was a lonely business for me. That journey started in 2003. About one year later, I became the world champion. And, two and a half years after my first day on the ice, I won the first U.S.

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BiggerPockets

MARCH 19, 2025

When I first started investing in real estate around 2006 (yeah, I know, not a great time to start), the biggest dangers to the industry were things like interest rate […]

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Rise of the mom and pops Fred Matera, chief investment officer at Redwood Trust , which operates CoreVest , a division focused on providing business-purpose loans for investment-property purchases, said the “smaller and middle market sector of the [SFR/fix-and-flip] industry has historically been a core client base for us at CoreVest.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2024

If agents don’t bring in new recruits directly, a third-party source such as an existing client or a business partner might inspire an agent to join a brokerage. Launched in 2006, the Zillow Zestimate leverages public documents to provide estimates of value for every house in a given neighborhood.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

The agents who spoke with RealTrends all viewed any time spent developing leads and cultivating relationships that will help them grow their client base as productive. These brokerages are not alone in terms of their technology offerings. Record Breaking Years.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

997 American Mortgage Mortgage 594% 2019 A 100% employee-owned company providing solutions to mortgage industry challenges, which benefit clients and employees. 1,943 EmpowerHome 289% 2006 A partner to real estate teams and agents, offering exclusive programs to ensure sellers get top dollar for their properties.

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Lamacchia Realty

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Her reason for becoming a real estate agent is to continue her desire to work with people and have clients be as happy with their lifestyle as she is providing it to them. Her desire to help her clients earned Shauna the title of  Rising Star in the September 2021 issue of the South Shore Real Producers Magazine !

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DW Slater Company

MAY 4, 2021

Many things have changed since I first began in 2006! Since this year has been so full of appraising, my focus has been on providing our monthly newsletter, completing Qualifying Education classes, and of course, providing appraisal services for our clients. I still love all of these things about being a real estate appraiser.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Redfin, on the other hand, has had agents as employees since Glenn Kelman founded it in Seattle in 2006. So why just sue Redfin, particularly since Redfin’s bonus system – and thorough effort to respond to all leads – is intended to make agents less incentivized to focus on clients willing to pay top dollar? One was accepted.

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Empire Appraisal Group

MAY 13, 2021

housing,” Vishwanath Tirupattur, a Morgan Stanley strategist, wrote in a note to clients this week. The median selling price for a home is up $35,000 compared to a year ago, which is the fastest-paced increase since 2006, Tirupattur said. But this isn’t 2006. He told Axios last month: “This is not a bubble.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 12, 2024

Keith founded the company in 2006 and Dr. Travis-Johnson joined in 2008. Admiring that Murray’s background in the appraisal field meant he was someone “who understands value,” Travis-Johnson recalled that Murray seemed to be someone “who understood all the problems that started happening with the 2006 book of business.

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Lamacchia Realty

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Kelly has lived in Billerica since 2006 and has been a top-producing REALTOR® in Billerica and the surrounding communities for several years. Most recently, she earned the industry recognition of 10 Best in Middlesex County for Client Satisfaction by the American Institute of Real Estate Professionals. See you in Aruba, Kelly!

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Lamacchia Realty

MARCH 7, 2025

February 2025 Winners of the Top 10 for the Company are: (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) AJ Bruce is a seasoned real estate professional with a proven track record of success and a passion for helping clients achieve their homeownership dreams. In 2021, he took home the award for Most Acquired Clients company-wide and was honored with the Meghan A.

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Lamacchia Realty

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Since 2006, Kelly has lived in Billerica and has been a top-producing REALTOR® in the town and the surrounding communities for several years. Her dedication to her clients and the work she does certainly doesn’t go unnoticed, and we are so excited to celebrate this exciting accomplishment with her!

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