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LoanSnap troubles continue as California revokes its lender license

Housing Wire

Founded by Karl Jacob and Allan Carroll in 2017, LoanSnap raised $100 million in seed funding from investors such as Richard Branson’s Virgin Group ; former NFL star Joe Montana’s Liquid 2 Ventures ; and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.

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Compass strikes again with leadership changes in the Southeast

Housing Wire

The brokerage has hired industry veteran Nikol Solares as senior managing director of new development marketing. ” Nikol Solares Solares brings 20 years of experience in luxury development, new construction sales and marketing to her new role. Before Compass, Sheridan also operated her own PR firm, epgPR , from 2008 to 2017.

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Guaranteed Rate Affinity appoints new mortgage lending VP

Housing Wire

Rawls is the latest addition to a leadership team of seven executives at the developing company. Guaranteed Rate Affinity was formed in 2017 through a partnership between Rate , formerly branded as Guaranteed Rate , and Anywhere Real Estate , formerly known as Realogy.

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Chicago-area contractor sentenced to 17 years in prison over reverse mortgage scam

Housing Wire

Diamond was criminally indicted in 2017 and pleaded guilty last year to a federal charge of wire fraud affecting a financial institution, the DOJ said. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He was sentenced to 205 months in prison by district court Judge Franklin Valderrama, who also ordered Diamond to pay $2.7

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Japanese luxury-home developer plans U.S. IPO

Housing Wire

a developer of luxury single-family homes and condominiums, which also has residential leasing operations in Dallas, is looking to raise up to $30 million via the U.S. IPO to continue developing its business operations in Japan, to expand a startup online listing network and for general corporate purposes. stock market. stock exchange.

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Consumers Agree to Disagree When It Comes to New Neighborhood Construction

Appraisal Buzz

Report Highlights: National Housing Survey 2024 Due to sharp rises in property prices and mortgage interest rates, a much larger percentage of consumers now feel it is difficult to locate affordable housing than when we originally posed the topic in 2017.

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Stone Point Capital takes a stake in Keller Williams

Housing Wire

Weve built an incredible foundation and as we focus on each agents personal development and their continual sales growth, we welcome the partnership and backing from the team at Stone Point Capital. From 2017 until 2023 he served as the CEO of Broadstone Net Lease. Czarnecki has over two decades of real estate industry experience.