Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

Los Angeles-based rental management software provider RentSpree successfully passed an audit regarding its data protection strategy, obtaining the System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type II compliance. SOC 2 is regarded as the premier data security standard for Software as a Service (SaaS) providers. Developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants , the SOC 2 Type II audit examines a company’s controls related to security, availability, processing integrity, confi

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

What’s the housing market going to do in 2024? Nobody has a crystal ball, but here are some emerging trends. Scroll quickly by topic or digest slowly. UPCOMING (PUBLIC) SPEAKING GIGS: 01/12/24 Prime Real Estate (private event (I think)) 01/17/24 Gateway Event (private) 01/30/24 Joel Wright & Mike Gobbi Event 9am (on Zoom here) 2/09/24 […] The post Real estate trends to watch in 2024 first appeared on Sacramento Appraisal Blog.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

When assessing December’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) volume data for December 2023, Reverse Market Insight (RMI) used a choice word as the title for its commentary : “thud.” Amid an already challenging operating environment observed throughout 2023, both HECM endorsement volume and HECM-backed Securities (HMBS) issuance closed out the year on a low note, with both metrics falling lower from the month before, according to data from RMI and New View Advisors.

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Real Estate News

JANUARY 4, 2024

Saul Klein, who helped push real estate online in the '90s and served in numerous tech and leadership roles, is the new CEO and director of SDMLS.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

In the first week of 2024, mortgage rates continued to stick around the mid 6% mark. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.62% as of Jan. 4, a slight increase from the 6.61% rate recorded on Dec. 28 , according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey released on Thursday. The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.89% this week, down from 5.93% the prior week.

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Real Estate News

JANUARY 4, 2024

Interest rates were nearly flat in the first week of 2024, ticking up slightly after nine weeks of declines.

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Real Estate News

JANUARY 4, 2024

Zillow predicts some of the hottest markets for price growth and home sales will be those in the Great Lakes region, with three Ohio cities in the top 10.

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Marketing 278

Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

Title insurance giant First American Financial reported progress on restoring its systems from a pre-Christmas cybersecurity incident. First American has fallen victim to data theft after a perpetrator exfiltrated data and encrypted data on certain non-production systems in late December. “First American’s network, including our employee email system, has been restored.

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Real Estate News

JANUARY 4, 2024

T3 Sixty opens submissions for residential real estate website rankings; HomeScout acquires lead-gen company Trinity Oak; Inside RE releases AI assistant.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

After a 2023 of real estate brokers saying they feel “neutral” or “pessimistic” about the housing market, some 48% of those surveyed for the Q1 2024 HousingWire BrokerPulse survey are optimistic that the next three months will be positive. In fact, some 60% says that interest rates will go down in the next three months, no doubt based on current economic indicators.

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Inman

JANUARY 4, 2024

More than 80 percent of real estate agents work for small brokerages with fewer than 25 agents, and the average is seven, Brad Inman writes. But their might was on full display in 2023.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

Mortgage tech firm Blend aims to court more lenders as it now supports Fannie Mae ’s Desktop Underwriter (DU) early assessment enhancement with a direct integration from Blend’s soft credit pull function. DU early assessment gives lenders more options for their pre-qualification process in DU. Lenders can submit a single soft pull credit file and receive a conditional DU recommendation, which can determine homebuyer preparedness and mortgage options earlier while consumers are spared the impact

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Mortgage 448

Inman

JANUARY 4, 2024

Agent "glut" means part-timers are now the majority, leading to "widespread incompetence and pressure to maintain high commission rates," according to the Consumer Federation of America.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with George Brady, loanDepot’s chief information officer, to discuss the company’s evolving tech strategy and how he thinks long-term about tech in a rapidly changing environment. Sarah Wheeler: You joined loanDepot in 2021 from Capital One. What drew you into the mortgage industry? George Brady: You could argue I joined at the absolute worst time!

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Inman

JANUARY 4, 2024

The membership of the National Association of Realtors shrank by 1.7 percent last year as the trade group weathered a tough market and major lawsuits.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

Older Americans are forced to navigate a series of serious financial challenges compounded by their needs for both housing and later life care. While home equity can certainly be a beneficial tool for some seniors to deploy, it will not always be a definitive answer for every senior’s needs. This is according to Jennifer Molinsky, project director of the “Housing an Aging Society” program at Harvard University ’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) in an interview with NextAvenue.

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Inman

JANUARY 4, 2024

Fava and his New York-based team are the latest agents to participate in a trend of leaving a brokerage, only to return some time later.

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Eyes on Housing

JANUARY 4, 2024

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in the third quarter of 2023. According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the percent change in real GDP increase ranged from 9.7 percent in Kansas to 0.7 percent in Arkansas. Nationwide, growth in real GDP (measured on a seasonally adjusted annual rate basis).

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Marketing 97

Inman

JANUARY 4, 2024

After rates fell from October highs, homebuyers with a new mortgage are paying about $400 less each month. Still, there's no buying spree — yet.

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BiggerPockets

JANUARY 4, 2024

Today, we’re going to show you how to pay off credit card debt FAST.

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Inman

JANUARY 4, 2024

The fifth-floor unit at the Standish in Brooklyn Heights was often mentioned in the "Superman" comic books as Clark Kent's abode. Now the real-life 2,400-square-foot condo is for sale.

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BiggerPockets

JANUARY 4, 2024

One couple is building MASSIVE passive income and generational wealth by buying rental properties for zero dollars out of pocket, sometimes with zero percent interest rates.

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Real Estate 90

Inman

JANUARY 4, 2024

Zillow is again predicting that more affordable markets will be the ones to watch in 2024, with Buffalo, New York, taking the top spot.

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Marketing 183

GoForrmz

JANUARY 4, 2024

Master the transformative impact of digital forms One key component you may have found in your end-of-year planning is that in 2024, it might be time to find digital solutions to both ease the burden on your existing team, while also finding ways to streamline processes to be more efficient going forward. Popularly called a digital transformation, the idea of embracing new technologies to solve existing problems is nothing new and is likely already a part of your strategy in the coming year.

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Inman

JANUARY 4, 2024

Find out how this California broker puts his three decades of knowledge, experience and community focus to work for his agents and staff.

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Mortgagebroker News

JANUARY 4, 2024

Younger Canadians age 18 to 34 were the most worried

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Mortgage 74

Inman

JANUARY 4, 2024

With the acquisition of Weidel Real Estate, the Corcoran Group franchisee is adding approximately 180 agents and seven new offices to its ranks, as well as moving into Pennsylvania.

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Mortgagebroker News

JANUARY 4, 2024

Morguard research director highlights the market's numerous challenges in 2024

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Marketing 74

Inman

JANUARY 4, 2024

The only private island in San Francisco Bay is up for a sale with a $25 million price tag. Red Rock Island is a six-acre vacant hill just off the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge north of the city.

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Mortgagebroker News

JANUARY 4, 2024

The market was supported by "surprising resilience" in the face of sky-high borrowing costs

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Inman

JANUARY 4, 2024

Small brokers may not get as much attention as the big guys, but they make up the majority of the real estate industry's firms and manage to win David-and-Goliath struggles every day.

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Clear Capital

JANUARY 4, 2024

Story by Appraisal BuzzCast In today’s episode, host Hal Humphreys chats with Kenon Chen, EVP of Strategy and Growth at Clear Capital. Kenon tells us a little bit about his history in the industry, as well as his focus on the topic of appraisal modernization. What does appraisal modernization look like? How is it changing how the appraisal process works?

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Inman

JANUARY 4, 2024

Transparency and communication are more important than ever before. Darryl Davis offers essential talking points for your next commission conversation with sellers.

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Appraiserblogs

JANUARY 4, 2024

As long as the new normal is reporting the appraiser when you don’t like the value continues, why bother? In today’s new and unimproved appraisal atmosphere, any appraiser that does not “hit the number” is open to detrimental consequences. Buyers, Sellers, & Refinancers – The U.S. Government from the top down have provided the media and the public in general with so much toxic misinformation and encouragement that any appraiser doing their job, a job that can lead to lower values than expec

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