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Top 5 home improvement projects real estate agents should recommend to sellers

Housing Wire

Being able to provide data-driven home improvement recommendations can help agents build credibility with potential clients, sell homes faster and for more money, and ultimately win more listings. This is because hardwood floors have a certain modern, luxury appeal to them that can change the entire feel of a home.

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The FICS advantage: Leveraging automation for smarter mortgage servicing in 2025

Housing Wire

Furthermore, servicers can leverage these relationships to approach consumers with value-added services including asset protection, insurance products, home improvement loans, and maintenance options. Effective loan servicing positions servicers as reliable advisors for the homeowner.

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DIY projects to increase your home value

Housing Wire

In the past year, there’s been an upturn in home improvement projects. According to a survey completed by Bid-On-Equipment, 89% of American homeowners made some sort of improvement to their homes during the pandemic. With so many American’s spending time at home, this really shouldn’t come as a surprise.

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What role does the servicer play in creating clients for life?

Housing Wire

The transition from originator to servicer is too often a consumer experience hiccup, and must be a primary focus of servicing modernization. Consumer-first servicing modernization isn’t just a catchphrase, it’s a mandate we all must follow in a consumer-led era. Cut 18 Days Off The Originations-to-Servicing Transition.

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Real estate newsletters: The ultimate playbook (+ 49 topic ideas & subject lines)

Housing Wire

Evergreen topics might include: how to prepare to list your house, everything your client needs to know about VA loans; or which home improvements yield the best financial return in a home sale. Youll want some evergreen content you can pull from for your real estate newsletters.

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How to gain a competitive edge through in-house servicing

Housing Wire

Maintaining MSRs generates servicing fee income and helps servicers improve the customer experience. It’s easy to see why more institutions are choosing to service their loans and why modern servicing software is currently in high demand. Why should lenders retain servicing?

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How retaining servicing provides a competitive advantage

Housing Wire

Servicing retention generates servicing fee income and helps servicers improve the customer experience. Modern software automates investor reporting and compliance and creates a more efficient workflow, allowing servicers to effectively service loans in-house.