Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Sean Shallis, a “Recovering Realtor” and top-producing loan officer , is offering strategies to help realtors break through this stagnation by leveraging micro-market shifts to create urgency and inspire action. Leveraging micro-market shifts Realtors have an opportunity to use local market changes to drive urgency for their clients.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the narrative is more complex in niche markets like the Texas capital of Austin. Social media posts have fueled speculation that Austin’s rental market is in freefall. Gerli told HousingWire in an emailed response that normalizing market conditions would be indicated by a slow and gradual decline in rents.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 16, 2024

According to the Realtor.com September Rental Report, there remains a geographical gap in the rental market despite a national trend of overall rent declines. Despite a nationwide decline in rent, nine of the ten Midwestern markets included in the 50-metro survey experienced year-over-year increases in rent in September.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 9, 2024

To effectively support market condition adjustments in line with recent Fannie Mae guidelines, appraisers can use a variety of market analysis techniques. These methods provide a solid foundation for demonstrating how changing market conditions affect property values over time.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

“A national secondary market for construction financing could allow lenders, like state housing finance agencies and banks, to provide the investment capital needed to get multifamily housing projects built and keys in families’ hands.” This could make the overall cost to entry — which is already low — more digestible.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Department of the Treasury ’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund announced on Wednesday that it has awarded 48 organizations a total of $246.4 million to develop affordable housing and community facilities. territories including Guam and Puerto Rico.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

real estate market. While the Sun Belt region is the most dramatic example of this phenomena, insurance markets responding to the increasing awareness of climate risk are materially changing the calculus behind home ownership and the desirability of entire communities across the country. The post How the Climate Is Reshaping the U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Mortgage Capital Trading (MCT) has released a new AI adviser for mortgage capital markets called Atlas. platform, Atlas serves as a virtual capital markets expert and educational resource for MCTs mortgage lender clients. Now available within the MCTlive! No client data has been exchanged with or used to train Atlas, MCT says.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Climate change is having a pronounced impact on the housing market, particularly when it comes to the accelerating risks of extreme weather events in areas that were already vulnerable to impact. Developers continue to build in these areas with few obvious signs of slowing, the story said. “La

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Every title company wanted a great piece of the current refi market and most would do about anything to obtain it.The problem; almost all were late to the party and not prepared. Unfortunate for most, whereas a few had prepared, most did not see the magnitude of this market anomaly! Consumers were refinancing in astronomical numbers!

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

In this monograph, we discuss the absolute necessity of developing more than one skill set as part of becoming a competent and professional real estate appraiser. At its core, real estate appraising involves the due diligence necessary to form a credible opinion of the market value of a particular property.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

The brokerage has hired industry veteran Nikol Solares as senior managing director of new development marketing. Adam Vellano was promoted to managing director of the South Florida market. And Erika Sheridan was promoted to senior director of marketing and operations in the Southeast.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2025

The 10-year yield and mortgage rates have been on a wild ride lately, even testing my top-end forecast at 7.25%, but today, the 10-year yield fell after remarks by Fed President Chris Waller about whether the Fed would do even more rate cuts than the market was anticipating. It’s not booming. It’s not falling.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

Tom Davis: When you’re working with a professional and you want expertise, you’re going to want to work with someone who is the expert in your market. Davis: Either you take market share or someone takes yours, right? Why do you think brokers should work with a specialist instead of a multi-product lender?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. percent)* above the November 2023 estimate of 611,000 The charts below provide insight into the current state of the new home sales market. Over the past two years, new home sales have significantly outperformed the existing home sales market. percent (18.6

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The Tech Trendsetters are made up of the top product and technology leaders who have been essential in bringing innovative tech solutions to market for mortgage and real estate clients. Congratulations to the 2024 Tech Trendsetter honorees! Take a look at the full list below.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The platform is intended for housing professionals in various sectors, including 5 million loan officers, appraisers , servicers , underwriters , developers, agents, brokers, attorneys and regulators. Araya’s data will come from CoreLogic‘s 360 Property Data suite, which offers property and marketing intelligence.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Our economy faces many challenges persistent high mortgage interest rates , a declining rate of existing home sales, elevated costs for basic goods and services, labor market imbalances, and rising health care costs to name just a few. The FHLBanks are also key players in affordable housing and community development initiatives.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Why most teams struggle to scale Scaling a real estate team to $100 million in production is a daunting challenge, but the biggest roadblock isn’t market conditions or competition — it’s outdated strategies. Delegate or outsource tasks where weaknesses exist, such as transaction coordination, lead follow-up, or marketing.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

Mortgage and title clients are undergoing a significant transformation with the shift from Encompass Software Development Kit (SDK) to Encompass Partner Connect (EPC). Increased software development needs : New integrations often require more development resources to ensure compatibility with existing systems.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Valon intends to use the fresh capital to boost product development and expand its reach to new markets. Valon has built a fundamentally better and more comprehensive solution for a market that has been characterized by limited technological innovation for decades,” Dart said in a statement. The firm is currently valued at $1.1

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

New home sales continue to be a bright spot in a dismal housing market. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development shows new-home sales registering at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 698,000, good for a 6.7% Inventory continues to be an issue in the existing-homes market. The December report from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Davis believes that by aligning with the right lender and expanding product offerings, originators can position themselves as valuable partners in a shaky market. Tom Davis: Investor transactions are still close to 28% of the overall purchase market. The Fix-and-Flip program is great to serve to investors and tap into that market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

These leaders have demonstrated exceptional expertise in financial strategy, capital management, and operational efficiency, helping their organizations navigate an evolving market landscape and drive sustainable growth. Take a look at the full list of this year’s honorees below.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In August 2023 , the bank disclosed it was under investigation by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) after the nonprofit organization filed a complaint alleging violations of the U.S. million to certain California markets. California and Washington are the bank’s main markets. Fair Lending Act.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The Ohio-based builder is offering discounts of up to $20,000 on select homes in Greater Houston , along with no-cost 2/1 rate buydowns , and slashing prices by as much as $93,850 in other markets like Chicago. The promotion applies to select homes in various housing developments across multiple cities.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Falling Interest Rates Seen as Key to Market Recovery While commercial real estate faces a changing economic and regulatory environment, investors remain focused on interest rate movements as the most significant market driver. The industry is also divided on how rising housing material prices will affect new developments.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) shows new-home sales in October clocking in at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 610,000 — a 17.3% After a year of strong results, sales of newly built homes took a major step back last month. Data released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. decline year over year.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The build-to-rent market is on fire, with occupancy levels at 95% and strong construction activity in most states and metros in the U.S. Texas has a big lead : The Lone Star State has 21,812 houses for rent in different stages of construction, all ready to hit the market in the near future.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Wallace brings more than 30 years of experience as a leader of tech-focused mortgage, asset management and capital market platforms. ” Daniel Wallace MAXEX chairman and co-founder Tom Pearce shared Decker’s praise for Wallace, highlighting the new COO’s vision for building an accessible central mortgage market platform.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 10, 2025

However, customized integrations are expensive and time consuming, and lenders often spend a disproportionate amount of their technology and engineering resources just integrating vendors, rather than developing tech that actually drives differentiation. As discussed earlier, trying to build too much of the tech stack is impractical.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 27, 2025

Election results should create a better market going forward, wrote one survey respondent. This suggests that local community developers who were purchasing distressed properties at auction gained more confidence in the 2025 real estate market after the election results. How Much Are Distressed Properties Worth?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Next year, real estate brokers and team leaders can adapt, innovate and truly thrive in the new market. With these unique strategies, brokers can achieve sustainable success while staying ahead in a competitive market. Optimize your P&L: trim costs and boost efficiency Efficient cost management is key to thriving in any market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

As the housing market continues to be marked by high mortgage rates and record-breaking home prices across many U.S. This rise reflects a growing trend among developers to construct homes specifically for the rental market, catering to those who desire the benefits of single-family living but might not have the means, or desire, to purchase.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

California-based Auction.com published its 2025 Distressed Market Outlook report on Tuesday, which included three scenarios for this years expected tally of auction sales. But these ratios vary significantly across local markets. Conversely, Minneapolis, Detroit, St.

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Retail Renovations Buyers Finance 417

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Verification solutions company Xactus has appointed Sasha Stair its new chief marketing officer. Having a chief marketing officer who can seamlessly partner with our sales team and across all areas of the business is crucial for our growth.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Home sales have been essentially stuck at around a four-million-unit pace for the past 12 months, but factors usually associated with higher home sales are developing,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. At the current sales pace, this represents a 4.3-month month supply of unsold inventory, up from 4.2

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