Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

I think 2025 is going to be another major growth year for us,” Poleg said. Going into 2025, we are remembering the fact that this company was built in order to constantly provide value for agents,” Poleg said. Real owns mortgage and title companies, and in 2025, Poleg said he hopes to drive increased attach rates.

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

TD: There will be an uptick throughout the rest of 2024 and into 2025 due to a deficit of 5-7 million homes. We have access to and business purpose financing with loan amounts up to $10 million for builders, developers and experienced real estate investors. This will allow them to serve investors, builders and developers.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

As you plan your 2025, its important to be intentional about including self-development activities. Written by a top-producing agent in the Chicago area, Sasso has developed, perfected and still uses her mailer system as her core prospecting activity in her real estate business.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2025

housing market was relatively slow in 2024, experts say the luxury sector was an outlier and they are anticipating even stronger conditions in 2025. According to The Trend Report released Monday by Coldwell Banker s Global Luxury program, the brands luxury property specialists expect more luxury buyers to reenter the market in 2025.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

To get there, Martell said loanDepot is still committed to its Vision 2025 plan, announced three months following his arrival to the company last year. So, the Vision 2025 was built to have a little bit of wiggle room to adjust it. Martel spoke during the HW Annual Conference held from Oct. 4-7 in Austin, Texas. ”

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In 2025, home purchasers and homeowners will design cozy, environmentally friendly, and climate-resilient homes by fusing the newest technology with vintage, rustic beauty. Floral designs, tapestries, antique furniture, and chintz are all expected to make a big comeback in 2025.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced on Tuesday via Mortgagee Letter (ML) 2024-22 a maximum claim amount of $1,209,750 in 2025. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on Tuesday announced that conforming limits will increase to $806,500 in 2025. 1, 2025, through Dec. This is a developing story.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2024

1, 2025, for FHA-insured forward mortgages and Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs). The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) on Friday published Mortgagee Letter 2024-15 , which extends a foreclosure moratorium on the Hawaiian island of Maui through Jan.

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

As the new year draws near, Fannie Mae anticipates that many of the housing trends from 2024 will persist in 2025, with the lock-in effect of mortgage rates and housing affordability continuing to be major obstacles for countless Americans. In 2025, economists predict that the average mortgage rate will continue to be higher than 6%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2025

His statement on this, in a CNBC interview : If inflation continues on this path through the beginning of 2025, it’s reasonable to think that possibly rate cuts could happen in the first half of the year.” Some others have thought all the rate cuts were off the table for 2025.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

This downward pricing trend at distressed property auctions, combined with affordability constraints for retail buyers and rising rates of serious delinquency, foreshadows slowing home-price appreciation in 2025. 26, 2025 and hear Daren Blomquist in person. Register today to attend the Housing Economic Summit in Dallas, on Feb.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The family-run brokerage firm recorded some legal w ins and losses , developed new tools for agents and clients , and navigated one of the slowest years for home sales in nearly three decades. In 2025 and beyond, Hanna said he hopes these innovations lead to more growth.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced last week that the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) limit for 2025 will be $1,209,750. It’s the ninth straight year that the limit will increase based on home-price appreciation levels, which feeds into a single, national limit for all HECM loans.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2025

Several reverse mortgage industry professionals who spoke with RMD in the closing days of 2024 described how some of these efforts could manifest themselves in 2025. We’ve had such opportunity with our servicing portfolio, and this is something that we will be introducing in 2025: how we continue to educate, she said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) is welcoming many new and returning board of director members in 2025. In addition to the five open board seats filled, there are nine board members who will continue to serve their current terms in 2025.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In this fireside chat, Velt and Lane explore her approach to leadership, Coldwell Banker’s unique focus on agent development and its training program that is designed to teach effective communication. Velt: Tell me a little bit about your growth strategy and goals moving into 2025. What is your unique value proposition?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The third, a gift from the United franchise in Richmond, Virginia , states, Only the strong survive in 2025. Like many other brokerages , United will be focused on growth in 2025. And that, according to Haase, will continue to remain at the forefront for the brokerage in 2025 and beyond.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

The process of permitting and development can vary widely depending on the municipality, and should be considered when selecting a location. Professional home flippers focus on cities and neighborhoods that have housing demand, and where there is positive energy around renovating or repositioning outdated housing stock.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Required under separate regulatory frameworks, the FHFA submitted the plans as part of the 2025-2027 Duty to Serve (DTS) requirements and the 2025-2027 Equitable Housing Finance Plans (EHFPs). And Fannie Mae “will focus on enabling rural Community Development Financial Institutions to access secondary markets,” the FHFA explained.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Many in the real estate industry are looking at 2025 as a year to get back to the basics of the business, but Side is taking it one step further. As Side looks to 2025, the company wants to continue strengthening its agents and the industry as a whole through its education initiatives.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

Heading into the 2025 housing market, we havent had this many homeowners with mortgage rates over 6% since 2016. Most people didnt notice this growing lock-in effect as it was developing in the mid 2010s, but it was well under way. In 2025, we expect unsold inventory of homes on the market to get very close to the 2018 levels.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

Higher-for-longer mortgage rates have claimed their first victim of 2025. The company also plans to explore strategic alternatives for its credit card business in the first quarter of 2025. Bloomberg was the first to report the developments.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced this week that the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) limit for 2025 will be $1,209,750. I don’t think it’s a dramatic difference maker in terms of 2025 volume but also don’t believe it’s intended to be that,” Lunde said.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

trillion in 2025, up 28% from the $1.79 Mike Fratantoni, chief economist and senior vice president for research and business development, says although the economy has been stronger than expected this year, the MBA is forecasting a slowdown in economic growth and additional incremental increases in the unemployment rate in 2025.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As Compass looks ahead to 2025, Golod said the housing industry should expect to see more M&A action out of the largest firm in the country by sales volume. While expansion and growth are clearly on the horizon for Compass in 2025, Golod said it will look different this time around than it did in Compass early days.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Weaker demand from the local community developers buying at auction suggests continued weakness in the retail housing market into early 2025 given that those local community developers are anticipating retail market conditions about six months into the future,” Daren Blomquist, vice president of market economics at Auction.com, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2024

This is the technology that the Sagent team is developing for our industry, one that provides real-time data across a unified end-to-end user experience that both supports and compliments a superior consumer experience.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Wednesday issued a mortgagee letter that implements the Federal Housing Administration ’s (FHA) payment supplement partial claim. Gordon also announced that the FHA is extending the current temporary waterfall into 2025. million COVID-19 loss-mitigation actions.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2024

The most positive development in the housing market over 2024 has been the increase in active housing inventory , which is approaching the levels seen in 2019. Now, as we look ahead to 2025, the market is in a much better position if mortgage rates fall toward 6%, something that wasnt the case before.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In this HousingWire executive conversation, Chris Kennedy , Director of Sales and Business Development at RiskSpan , explores the key recapture strategies that lenders can follow to maximize profit in the 2025 real estate market. In 2025, we could see a huge booming refinance market. It beats waiting for the phone to ring.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

This week, the Seattle City Council had its first meeting of 2025 and housing was a key topic of discussion. To comply with state law, the city must pass new density rules by June 2025, the Times reported. The new proposed neighborhood centers have attracted the most opposition.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

The momentum is continuing as another 99,000 BTR homes are under construction in 2024, although the breakneck pace is expected to ease in 2025. But even in places with substantial rental supply, developers have been able to keep BTR homes mostly full. Many builders feel bullish about places that are low on rental supply.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) showed that housing starts shrank 4.4% trillion in origination volume in 2025, up from a projected $1.70 And higher rates are also impacting the future supply of homes, as housing permits have been in a downtrend for a while.“ Data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

31, 2025, which will modernize the mortgage market even if some vendors have to go kicking and screaming. In doing so, ICE is pushing companies to Encompass Partner Network and Encompass Development Partner Connect , which use a more secure, cloud-based open application programming interface (API) structure that launched in 2021.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 9, 2024

By the end of 2024, developers plan to have completed an astounding 518,108 rental units, a startling 30% more than in 2022 and 9% more than in 2023. Moreover, 47% of the 369 metro areas under study are probably going to develop more in the upcoming five years than they did in the years between 2019 and 2023.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

RealTrends Verified has opened the submissions period for its 2025 rankings, alongside a series of big-time enhancements. In 2025, the platform will offer a slew of upgrades designed to empower professionals, enhance local brand visibility for agents and highlight industry-leading talent. How can agents and teams benefit in 2025?

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Matic announced that it has published its annual year-end trends and predictions report, which examines significant developments in the house insurance market and their effects on mortgage lenders and homeowners. Regulatory obstacles could still impede development, though. However, climate threats are still quite uncertain.

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