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Why a California law to create housing units hasn’t worked

Housing Wire

Local officials throughout the state have created limitations on height, square footage, architectural style and landscaping, making it more difficult for homeowners to comply and turn a profit, according to the Journal. California cities reported 194 lot-split applications in 2022 and 321 last year.

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The BIG Point of Sale integrates with ICE Mortgage Technology

Housing Wire

The POS system technology includes a mixture of consumer and origination portals in multiple formats, such as web landing page, mobile application, and kiosk, and uses the ICE Mortgage Technology API Platform to provide a unique single point of truth database architecture. “Our industry is going through some interesting times.

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New construction vs. resale homes: How agents can guide buyers in today’s market

Housing Wire

This may translate to a less-developed community with longer commutes and fewer amenities and social services in place. Resale homes are typically ready for immediate occupancy, and a new owner can move in once the paperwork is complete and the mortgage has closed, sometimes as quickly as two to six weeks after the contracts have been signed.

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Math and empathy: Changing negative perceptions about real estate agents

Housing Wire

Just this week, I have spent time with successful people in the following pursuits: Technology consulting, software development, real estate sales, building construction and contracting, the law, nuclear physics innovation, advertising, medical sales, and product innovation. Also, architecture, store management, and payments services.

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Billionaires Row Continues to be Challenged

Miller Samuel

The slowdown is related to the oversupply of new development created from the vast amounts of capital looking for a home since the financial crisis. It's been no secret that super luxury Manhattan sales have been the hardest hit segment of the market since 2014. I was asked by the New York Post to provide a snapshot of this submarket.

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Opinion: What the ICE-Black Knight merger means

Housing Wire

Technology hasn’t been the barrier since 1998 when Equifax, and later other firms, developed systems to secure complex, multi-party transactions over the Internet. Lenders began to define the “trust model” of standards, contracts and shared services necessary to achieve cross industry interoperability.

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Stavvy’s CTO on moving a whole industry to digital

Housing Wire

He is an author and has three granted patents in the areas of digital media and reliable web service architecture. SW: How do you decide what you want to develop next? There is a lot of inefficiency in managing a lot of contracts and integrations are always a nightmare. Sarah Wheeler: What led you to join Stavvy last year?