Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

This evolution in the market allows investors to make more informed decisions based on actual data, thereby reducing their risk when investing. HW: How does technology inform how you approach loan servicing and asset management? HW: Arbor has an in-house loan servicing platform, which every lender doesn’t offer.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The checklist covers such broad areas and topics as: organizational structure; litigation; compliance ; intellectual property; real property; financial and tax; labor and employment; material, vendor, and software contracts; insurance; and customers. It is often easy enough to do an initial online search to look for red flags.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

FirstFunding alleges that on July 6, Strauss informed the warehouse that Sprout was going under and ceasing operations, meaning that the mortgage lender could not pay its debts. Consequently, the warehouse lender filed the lawsuit against Sprout on Wednesday for breaching the contract and injunction in the U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The new home sales estimate is derived using mortgage application information from the BAS, as well as assumptions regarding market coverage and other factors. This data also provides information regarding the types of loans used by new home buyers. For additional information on MBA’s Builder Application Survey, please click here.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

Denver-based brokerage franchise Motto Mortgage , owned by RE/MAX , has accused broker shop UMortgage of “tortious interference” in its contract with a former franchisee called TRB Solutions, whose controlling member was Breon Price, the top-producing loan officer. According to a lawsuit filed in March in a U.S

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When we add back in another 7,500 new listings with immediate sales — those are already in contract and not added to the active inventory — overall that’s just 3% more sellers than a year ago. Frankly, it feels like the housing market is contracting a bit now in November. That percentage has peaked for the year and is now 38.8%

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

Wire and title fraud remained at all time high levels in the second quarter of 2022 while the market contracted, rates increased and fraud risk continued to rise,” FundingShield CEO Ike Suri said. For historical quarterly reports or more information, reach info@fundingshield.com.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

According to the state Legislature, it has taken testimony from NRMLA, as well as a private citizen in the state who believes the measure can provide protection for seniors against home equity contracts. By 2024, her home was valued at $425,000. This was among the final guidance the bureau issued under former director Rohit Chopra.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

along with several of its subsidiaries such as Move , Realtors Information Network and OpCity , are looking to have the Bandy fraud suit dismissed. and Realtors Information Network, Inc., The National Association of Realtors (NAR) and News Corp., Filed in U.S. the filing states.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2024

“NEXA also baselessly alleges that I defamed the company, for which it identifies no actual statements that are allegedly defamatory, as required.” “Kortas fired me after I raised concerns about his misconduct,” Grella added.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 24, 2025

Typically, this time starts when the comparable goes under contract, then ends on the effective date of the appraisal. This simplistic analysis means that for a sale that went under contract at $400,000 42-days ago, the increase factor would be $400,000 X 0.000329, or an increase of $131.51 times 42-days or $5,523. See the dilemma?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2025

Meanwhile, the marketplace data strongly suggests that an increase of office exclusive listings has the potential to harm prospective buyers and sellers by limiting access to information and creating a fragmented inventory system. Compass says that the listings protect home sellers against negative insights, such as days on market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

On March 13, 2024, Featherston knowingly misrepresented that a team member had [the property] under contract, when in fact she had submitted an offer for her own buyer, thereby concealing a clear conflict of interest and acting in bad faith, the complaint states. Ammann claims that a similar chain of events happened with another property.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

It also sought to allow consumers to provide institutions with information that may not have been considered during an appraisal or if deficiencies are identified in the original appraisal. In July 2024, a coalition of five federal agencies the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. ,

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Birmingham Appraisal

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Tips To Ensure a Successful Appraisal When it comes to the home appraisal process, providing complete and accurate information is critical for a successful appraisal. Whether youre representing a seller or assisting a buyer, the more accurate and complete the information you provide, the smoother the process will be.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2024

“CFA has already shown that some revised contracts are very anti-consumer while others are much fairer to buyers.” The criteria consist of 15 factors real estate leaders should consider when creating a buyer representation contract. The criteria are primarily focused on the form and content of the contract.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Kaminsky would have been using during the time he was unlawfully accessing Move’s confidential and trade-secret information.” The two other claims were aimed solely at Kaminsky and allege a breach of contract and promissory fraud.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This valuable information can significantly enhance our understanding of housing economics and what is coming next. From the information above, we can observe that sales can increase when mortgage rates approach 6%. We have observed that pending contracts improved when mortgage rates dropped to around 6%.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Cooper Group became the target of at least four consumer class-action lawsuits after disclosing a cyberattack at the end of October when customer information was compromised and the company shut down certain systems. The firm informed law enforcement, regulatory authorities and other stakeholders. Mr. Cooper had 4.3

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

” Vetted pro tip: 10x your social media KPIs with Coffee & Contracts Want a shortcut to social media stardom? Coffee & Contracts has hundreds of gorgeous agent-designed templates and scripts for social media. “When people ask me a question, I’m like, Oh, this is good information. Dont overcomplicate it.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

We have more homes going into contract each week now than we did a year ago — supply and demand are climbing together. New homes under contract When we look at all the homes in the contract pending stage, we’ve crossed a growth threshold there too, finally. There are now 258,000 single family homes in contract.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Mortgage subservicer Loancare informed authorities that the data of about 1.3 The company informed officials in Maine and California that 1,316,938 customers had information accessed by hackers during the incident. This data includes customers’ social security numbers. District Court for Central California.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

After finalizing everything with an e-signed contract, I moved forward, and within a few weeks, the listing was live. He informed me this wasnt the first time the property had been fraudulently listed ; the same thing had happened during its previous market appearance. Then came the call.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

“To bring the new industry model to market, the information, real-time intelligence and decision-making capabilities must improve to facilitate the transparency the market deserves,” Shah said in a statement. “It Indigo believes it is filling a need for real estate agents created by the new settlement-mandated rules.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2024

The original deadline of June 13 to provide discovery information related to the case cannot be met due to several factors cited by the government. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and other concerns about the public disclosure of information the company wishes to keep confidential.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2025

Tip 3 – Create collateral to leave behind Example door hangers from Coffee and Contracts Collateral refers to tangible marketing materials, and you want to have a bunch to leave behind when youre knocking on doors. These are easy to carry and should be chock-full of information about you and your services.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

In addition, market information about comparable sales data can be sparse, outdated or costly. Underappraisals According to the analysis, when the appraiser came in at below contract price, called underappraisal, appraisers made time adjustments in 64% of the properties.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

As brokerages across the country have begun implementing buyer agency contracts into their business practices in the wake of the Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit verdict, the Consumer Federation of America is warning consumers that they may be filled with “unfair provisions” that primarily protect agents and brokers.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2024

Supreme Court rejected a challenge to its funding mechanism in mid-May, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is now targeting the use of what it deemed ”unlawful or unenforceable” terms and conditions in contracts. On Tuesday, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This includes financials, organizational documents, agent productivity reports, operating metrics, vendor contracts, lease agreements, employment agreements, insurance documents, and more. From a data lens, transactions can be broken out into three different stages: Valuation , Due Diligence , and Contract.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

She has other reasons why a buyer’s agent should include information about how they are getting paid, whether it’s an offer or in a purchase and sales agreement. “If Prior to the business practice changes going into place, brokers say buyer agency fees got swept into the contract through the practice of cooperative compensation.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

Our upcoming State of the Residential Construction Industry (SORCI) Report will reflect how builders have braced for impact: Despite the rate of new contracts slowing, margins didn’t decrease. of builders showed profitability with $1 million plus contracts on average. Homebuilding Contract Values.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

million in damages related to a breach of contract claim (plus interest and attorney’s fees), representing six years of avoided license fees. Black Knight filed a complaint against PennyMac in November 2019 for breaching contracts and misappropriating trade secrets. 28, an arbitrator awarded Black Knight $155.2 per share.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2024

Agently Brokerage pricing: $459 per month for up to 20 users Contract required: None Integrations: Follow Up Boss, Sierra Interactive, kvCORE, Chime Agently is a gamified agent productivity app that simplifies agent onboarding, accountability and training to help agents stay motivated to hit sales goals. Here are our three top picks for 2024.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2022

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) will increase its oversight of fourth parties – companies that contract with firms doing business with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The GSEs both focus scrutiny on the fourth parties they believe to be higher-risk, but they often rely on second hand information to make that determination.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2024

The platform is designed to greatly expand the amount of information that prospective homebuyers can find online. The settlement of the commission lawsuits mandates that buyers now sign a contract to compensate their agents directly before touring homes or even identifying potential properties. Geological Survey (USGS).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

loanDepot’s latest update of its ongoing cyberattack shows that hackers gained access to the sensitive personal information of about 16.6 mortgage lender informed customers and the wider public of the cyberattack that brought its systems down through a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Jan.

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