Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2025

A lot of the title closing and real estate back office workflow stuff is squarely in the wheelhouse of the type of work that is automatable with AI, and I think this is a preparatory step for both companies towards looking at how we are going to utilize the tools that are coming out. We are just really excited for this partnership, Baker said.

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MARCH 3, 2025

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. Stone Point, a large asset manager, has a track record of putting companies it invests heavily in on a path toward an initial public offering.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

According to the survey’s findings, more local community developers who buy at auction see the state of the market as a disadvantage rather than an advantage. In the third quarter of 2020, the number of properties brought to foreclosure auction was 44% of the pre-pandemic level, down from 46% in the previous quarter and 53% in Q3 2023.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Tomo, which was founded in 2020 by former Zillow executives Greg Schwartz and Carey Armstrong, has received a total of $130 million in funding to date. Were excited to invest in Tomo and to support their mission to modernize the home buying experience, Erwin Raeth, corporate development leader at Progressive Insurance, said in a statement.

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MAY 21, 2024

is promoting its new development director, Jennifer Alese, to the position of chief business officer, The Real Deal reported on Monday. Alese will be the company’s first chief business officer, and Carolyn Sebba will replace Alese as the new development director. New York City -based brokerage SERHANT. The future of SERHANT.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Last year we had an abnormal burst of housing demand that was just make-up demand from the COVID-19 pause in the second half of 2020. As we all know, the housing sector has extremely well-developed yet untalented Americans calling for a housing crash during the years 2012-2021. This content is exclusively for HW+ members.

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APRIL 7, 2025

Since early 2020, when the income required to purchase a typical home was $78,236a near-50% increase. Income Needed to Purchase Skyrockets from Pandemic-Era Levels A number of reasons, including rapidly rising property prices, have made owning increasingly unaffordable for many since January 2020. With an increase of 84.6%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Feldman has a banking background, serving as president and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago from 2008 through 2020 and prior to that as president of Continental Trust Co. — In early 2020, FHFA explored expanding the role of CSS to serve a broader market,” FHFA stated in a press release announcing Feldman’s appointment as chair.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

New home sales in 2021 picked up right where they left off in 2020, near their highest levels in more than a decade thanks to low inventory. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sales of new single-family houses in January were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 923,000 — 4.3% in the West.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The reverse mortgage industry in 2025 could be defined by two key developments: continuing efforts to establish partnerships with the forward mortgage industry, as well as the development of proprietary reverse mortgage products that could be the future of the industry. By FY 2024, that number had dwindled to roughly 26,500.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2025

in Q1 2022 and the lowest share since Q4 2020. Additionally, in January, the Fed announced it does not anticipate changing its intentions on tariffs, immigration, fiscal policy, or regulatory policy until there are more tangible developments to respond to. Below 5% : 73.3% have a rate below 5%, down from a record 85.6% Below 4% : 55.2%

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

His responsibilities will include overseeing enhancements to the Empower loan origination system (LOS) and establishing Dark Matter’s developer community. In his new capacity, Rao will directly report to chief product officer Stephanie Durflinger.

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DECEMBER 30, 2024

Owner-occupied homes in rural areas are twice as likely as urban homes to fall short of the Department of Housing and Urban Developments housing adequacy standards. Between 1986 and 2020, over 13,000 U.S. Non-Mortgageable Homes Physical deficiencies and legal complications often render rural homes ineligible for traditional mortgages.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

In a statement confirming the deal Tuesday afternoon, Guaranteed Rate said the acquisition of Stearns would enable a boost in retail loan originations and further scale its JV platform, while also developing “new multichannel capabilities.” This is a breaking news story. Check back for more updates.

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MARCH 25, 2025

million house shortage in the country, which is the third-largest yearly gap since 2012, after 2020 and 2023. According to a Realtor.com research, in 2024, new home development exceeded household formations for the first time since 2016. was aided by modest household formation and respectable levels of new development.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Richards claims that this demand was announced during a production meeting in August 2020, where Hsieh allegedly screamed, “I am Mello Clear, and we must immediately close loans regardless of documentation.” billion in 2020, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings. billion in loans in 2020. billion in 2019 to $4.3

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This acquisition furthers our long-term plan of developing a full-service commission-free homebuying and financing technology platform powered by our proprietary AI technology and dedicated professionals,” Brent Miller, chief financial officer of reAlpha, said in a prepared statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

I’m going to start by making Rate the absolutely best place for every single loan officer to work at figuring out ways in which we can develop them, give them all the skills, the coaching , the mentoring and the tools, so they can have an amazing business, but also better serve all their clients and all their partners.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2022

When I wrote the America is back recovery model on April 7, 2020, and then retired it on Dec. 9, 2020, I knew one data line would lag the most: jobs! Well, I was off by two months: Today, the BLS reported that 528,000 jobs were created with positive revisions of 28,000, which gave us just enough to pass the February 2020 levels.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2021

. “We now view stronger and persistent inflation as the principle risk to our forecast, though uncertainties over consumer behaviors related to reopening and COVID-19 developments remain,” Fannie Mae’s ESR Group said. Thus, we expect refinance volume will pull back from the 2020 peak throughout our forecast horizon.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Louis-based developer of a leading white-label financial fitness and homeownership platform, announced the closure of a $17 million Series B funding round on Tuesday. In addition to product development, FinLocker (a former HousingWire Tech 100 winner) plans to expand its strategic partnerships and collaborations within the mortgage ecosystem.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

For Universal Studios employees, the owners of the park are seeking to construct a 1,000-unit mixed-use development slated to open in 2026 that would promise a short commute to the Universal Orlando Resort, which is also aiming to open a full-scale third theme park called “Epic Universe” next year.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2024

In this role, T3 Sixty said Bailey will focus on business development, enterprise-level consulting projects and representing T3 Sixty at industry events. Lessinger had previously served as senior vice president of regional development at RE/MAX.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

The median home sales price in late July was $412,300, a slight decrease from the previous three months, yet still 28% above the second quarter of 2020, according to data by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. since the beginning of 2020. Currently, more than 44 million U.S. rise over the same period. In 2001,10.9 This number grew to 14.3

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Department of Housing and Urban Development. higher than the August 2020 rate. In comparison, 40% of new homes sold in Spring 2020 were completely finished. homebuilders started construction on 1.615 million homes in August, up 3.9% from July 2021 and 17.4% higher than a year ago, according to a new report by the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. percent) below the August 2020 estimate of 977,000.” family houses in August 2021 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 740,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. percent (±15.1 percent (±19.1

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

She went from a brand new agent in 2020 to running her wildly successful boutique brokerage with Side in less than four years. Developing post ideas, writing, shooting and editing can quickly overwhelm your schedule. For almost all of 2020, 2021, and 2022, I literally worked every moment that I wasn’t asleep.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is being sued in federal court over accusations that it failed to refund nearly $385 million in mortgage insurance premiums (MIP) to borrowers over a period of more than two decades. ” This is a developing story. million in unclaimed refunds. .

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

And even in January 2020, just prior to the pandemic, average apartment rents were $1,400. JBREC is not forecasting meaningful rent growth until 2026 and beyond, which will make it harder for new project developments to pencil.” In January 2017, Altos recorded an average apartment rent in the city of $1,265. in January to 3.9%

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

million last year from 14 million in 2020. With 45,400 single-family rentals presently in the development phase, 2024 is expected to beat the record 27,500 completions set in the previous year. In conclusion, data from the IPUMS Census show that the number of single-family renter households increased to over 14.2

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Fannie Mae met all of the housing goals the Federal Housing Finance Agency imposed for 2020, but Freddie Mac failed its low-income refinance goal. The FHFA also determined that meeting the 2020 goal was feasible for Freddie Mac. The government-sponsored enterprise lagged the wider market in its acquisitions of low-income refinances.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Schreiner Gates assumed the CEO mantle in June after founder Matt Hansen stepped down to lead a team of software developers and sales staff for upcoming research and development tactics within SimpleNexus. Schreiner Gates had served as president at SimpleNexus since September 2020.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

He also led the development and execution of an enterprise-wide IT strategy aligned with the company’s business objectives, resulting in improved customer experience and increased profitability. “I Dovenmuehle was 2020 HW Tech100 Mortgage winner

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JANUARY 22, 2025

Between 2020 and 2023 alone, real premiums rose approximately 20%, according to the latest report from Harvard Universitys Joint Center for Housing Studies. On the other hand, underpricing policies relative to true risks can enable risk-seeking behavior such as further development in highly exposed regions.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) in 2022 aimed to assess the state of the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program over a 20-year period. A study commissioned by the U.S. Overview of findings The report was released to the public in November 2023.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. percent) above the April 2020 estimate of 582,000.” family houses in April 2021 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 863,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. percent (±11.2 percent (±24.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The lawsuit, filed in the Fourth Judicial Circuit Court in and for Duval County, Florida, sought $340 million in damages and injunctive relief under the Florida Uniform Trade Secrets Act and declaratory judgment of ownership of all intellectual property and software developed by or on behalf of Pennymac. per share.

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