Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

trillion-plus (in unpaid principal balance) at the end of Q3 after you acquired Flagstar’s mortgage operations, or will Flagstar’s book be added to that total? Bray: Flagstar’s book will be added to that. Sanchez: Is the $1.2 It will be over $1.5 trillion in service to over 6 million customers.We were acquiring MSRs.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The spread on mortgage-backed securities (MBS) trouble many industry professionals, and at a recent roundtable discussion, it spurred an interesting discussion on the degree of risk being absorbed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. At policy panels held by the Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA) on Monday in Washington, D.C.,

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2024

Keller Williams Realty has launched a real estate assistant that is powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) and is trained on the company’s proprietary models, systems, books and training resources. “We The first phase of KWIQ’s rollout addresses this opportunity, streamlining content generation for daily use.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2024

” FinLocker President and COO Brian Vieaux said Buswell wrote the entirety of Chapter 25 in the book “Rethink Everything: You ‘Know’ About Being A Next Gen Loan Officer,” which he co-authored with Kyle Draper. The book is now being dedicated in her memory. We miss you, Sue, and we honor you with every page.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2024

Visit Sierra Interactive CINC Brokerage pricing: Book a demo to get details CRM included: Yes Example site: [link] Integrations: Brokermint, Dotloop, Follow Up Boss, Mojo Dialer, Agent Pronto + more CINC is a feature-rich marketing solution that includes IDX websites, a CRM, and automated lead nurturing. Here are our three top picks for 2024.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2023

The Detroit, Michigan-based lender sold about $20 billion in MSRs to JPMorgan Chase in April, following a decline in its servicing book in the first quarter of 2023. Add Rocket Mortgage to the list of companies selling mortgage servicing rights (MSR) in a difficult operating environment.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Throughout it all, Murphy said, “Books, God and my wife are my triangle of success.” So, I went to Barnes and Noble, and I started buying real estate books, investment books and financial books. I read Robert Kiyosaki’s book, “ Who Took My Money ? That book changed my life.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

MIAC Analytics is marketing a large mortgage servicing rights portfolio on behalf of a lender with a big book of business in California. The portfolio consists of $292.91 million in Fannie Mae , Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae servicing rights.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

Demand from the buyer side has remained steady or increased, however, and new home builders have responded to inventory shortages by increasing speculative inventory production, according to the Federal Reserve Beige Book, released Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The performance of the forward book of business posted a stand-alone capital ratio of 10.20%, another slight decrease of 0.27% compared to a year ago. Editor’s note: Find performance coverage for the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) book of business on Reverse Mortgage Daily. 30, a year-over-year drop of 0.6%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

John Ruhlin’s book Giftology sheds light on creating a strategic and thoughtful approach to gift-giving, offering real estate professionals a unique perspective on how to create positive impressions that last beyond the closing table and set you up for return and referral business.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

To start, Bell and Naghmi explore why leadership is important and their motivation for writing the book. Sanchez: You’ve got a lot of different voices that you’re sharing in this book. Bell: There’s a chapter in the book by Keith Canter on ‘red pen’ culture. Bell: Leadership is everything, honestly.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

And they can sort their book of business by highest interest rates, identifying past clients who could benefit through a quick analysis. Sales leaders and executives can use the system to determine which LOs are using the product to find refis in their books, said Jeff Bell, the founder and CEO of Uplist.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2023

AG Mortgage would issue newly listed common shares to Western Asset shareholders on a book-for-book basis, consisting of 31% ownership of the combined company. billion in assets and $436 million of adjusted book value upon completion of the merger. In addition, AG Mortgage is waiving $2.4

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

economy, higher single-family home prices, and the credit quality of our book of business continue to be important factors affecting our performance,” CEO Priscilla Almodovar said in prepared remarks, noting that Fannie Mae delivered a profit for a 25th consecutive quarter. The strength of the U.S. billion to $9.3

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The trend was the subject of a recent book, “Unretired: How Highly Effective People Live Happily Ever After,” written by journalist and management consultant Mark Peabody. This year is also set to see the U.S. population grow older at a faster rate.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Become an author Writing a book is still the most effective way to establish yourself as an expert (read: credibility and authority) in any given field. If you can’t write enough for a book, distill your message and expertise into 8-10 pages and publish an e-book available to download for free on your website.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 13, 2024

I recall receiving MLS books once a month and being thrilled that a whole new population of sales were available to be considered within the pages of each book. By the time I got the new book, the sales were already a bit dated, and since they were only closed sales – they had actually sold a few weeks to months prior.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

The firm now boasts roughly 600 agents, along with 48 new development projects on the books that total $3.5 Under Alese, the brokerage secured a number of major new developments, primarily in Manhattan , Brooklyn and South Florida. billion in inventory, The Real Deal reported.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

30, or roughly 0.13% of the GSEs single-family conventional book of business. The GSEs serious delinquency rate saw a slight uptick in Q3 to 0.53%, but this rate is still lower than those for loans sponsored by the Federal Housing Administration (3.63%) and Department of Veterans Affairs (2.26%), as well as the industrywide average of 1.55%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

CoreLogic is re-writing the MLS defense book for safeguarding MLS systems and data against threats like ransomware and cyber-attacks. “Security is one of the top issues on the minds of every MLS leader today,” Shaleen Khatod, executive of enterprise strategy and initiatives for CoreLogic , said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Pennymac has been a profitable company amid a higher mortgage rate environment, mainly due to its servicing book. “To ensure a smooth transition, I have asked Mark to step into the roles on an interim basis, with the utmost confidence in his ability to lead our capital markets group,” chairman and CEO David Spector said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Although wholesale has never been a big book of business for Fairway, rival lender United Wholesale Mortgage ’s “All-in” ultimatum , which barred brokers from sending business to Fairway and Rocket Pro TPO while still sending loans to UWM, likely hurt growth prospects. billion in broker business through the first nine months of 2023.

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2024

The average single-family conventional guaranty book of business decreased by $6.4 Purchase loan acquisition volume, of which approximately half was for first-time homebuyers, increased to $74.5 billion in Q2 2024, up from $53 billion in the prior quarter. And refinance acquisition volume ncreased to $11.4 billion, up from $9.3

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Ketchmark also brought up Keller’s book “The Millionaire Real Estate Agent,” which discusses the ‘co-opetition’ model that has evolved among rival brokerages. In the book, Keller also mentions that each side in a real estate transaction gets an average of a 3% commission. This is simply a model for the flow of money.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

Books, music, TV and movies. Be it books, music, television or movies, we all read, listen and watch. And as far as books are concerned – wha’s the last one you read? Or share with each other places you’ve been and favorites at that location. Have you seen the new blockbuster movie that came out? Have you seen it?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

During his testimony, Keller also discussed his books and the models he uses during conferences, which had been previously discussed during the plaintiffs’ testimony. He also noted that when his book first came out in 1996, there was no data on commissions. range he saw in the industry at the time.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

In addition to the webcast, agents can download an e-book called the “Buyer Agent Navigator.” Real hosted a live webcast, the “Future-Proofing Buyer Representation Workshop,” that is available on the company’s YouTube channel. There’s also a resource for clients to educate themselves on what to expect moving forward.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

It can provide assistance with booking property tours, submitting offers and negotiations. “We Claire boasts a conversational interface to guide users through every step of the homebuying journey, from property search to deal closing.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The health of the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) book of business remains strong from FHA’s perspective, as its economic value has increased while the portfolio overall has recovered from issues that previously put it on shaky financial footing.

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Real Estate News

APRIL 30, 2024

After landing in the Guinness book three times in his 62-year real estate career, he has achieved a new record. Ben Caballero isn’t slowing down.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Earlier this year, Bodner published a book about reverse mortgage use cases and strategic ways to incorporate it into a financial plan, and the companys leadership recognized the importance of education and why a practitioner with educational experience should lead the division.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2023

billion in loans across all business channels in 2021, said MSR assets also provide “real cash flow” if kept on the books. Servicing books typically will yield around 10%,” he said. There’s a good yield that comes from the servicing book. “So, Nunziata, whose mortgage company originated some $7.4

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

“While many originators suffered operating losses amid rapidly rising rates, scaled lenders were better equipped to navigate rate hikes and maintain operational flexibility, as cost saving initiatives were implemented and large servicing books continued to provide cash flow streams,” Fitch stated. Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

While rivals are looking to their servicing books to goose refi originations in the coming year, UWM has taken a different tack. .” Per the program requirements: Lender-paid compensation must be at or below 150 bps and correspondents must have a max net price of 101.50 billion in volume in the second quarter.

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2024

He’s worked in sales and managerial roles, and has authored two books, during his more than 35-year career. He’s the founder and owner of the Manginelli Group , through which Manginelli serves as a motivational speaker and professional coach for the mortgage industry and beyond.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Dubbed Newrez Home Rewards, buyers will be matched with a real estate agent who works with Newzip and provided booking services. Top 10 mortgage lender and servicer Newrez is partnering with Newzip , a tech-enabled real estate platform, to roll out a program aimed to save buyers and sellers on credit costs.

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