Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

When looking ahead to 2025, the challenges Kelly is anticipating having to prepare for include slow housing market conditions and potential regulatory or legal challenges. There are still those cyclical market challenges ahead of us. Whether it be rates, inventory, those challenges are going to persist,” Kelly said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

The recent Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles have eradicated thousands of residential properties, leaving both physical and financial damage to Southern Californias housing market. Mike Hardy, a Los Angeles-based managing partner for Churchill Mortgage , is concerned about the preexisting housing shortage in LA.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Housing permits are falling, since builders need to be more confident in building something. Cheaper housing is a terrible business model because the builders need to get paid. So, the housing permits story is done. The builders will finish what they are legally obligated to do. Except, we had one bit of good news.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Legal League has issued a brief on the recent decision in the state of Pennsylvania in the case of Foxfield at Naamans Creek v. Legal League is a professional association of financial services law firms, uniquely positioned to drive progress in the mortgage servicing industry. Legal League Advisory Council Chair Stephen M.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

Due to these conditions, Dwiggins and other industry professionals believe there won’t be much of an impact on first-time buyers until the housing market strengthens, leading some sellers to potentially stop offers of buyer broker compensation. “If

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Finding and creating opportunities that promote a more affordable and fair housing market while maintaining safety and soundness is at the core of our mission, so we are happy to extend the reach of our Expanded Housing Choice initiative to all eligible jurisdictions and properties.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

With the exception of two contracts related to “FD Online licenses and litigation data,” the bureau’s legal division was also ordered to terminate its contracts, Doe said in the affidavit. In a subsequent filing on Sunday, CFPB chief operating officer Adam Martinez repeated these claims.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

Kalin led a segment on best practices for legal matters that agents may face when assisting Altadena residents. Many Black families moved to these neighborhoods in the 1960s after redlining and interstate construction forced them out of other areas. He advised Black agents to maintain an objective approach when working with clients.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A key question that was before Hawaii Supreme Court was whether state laws controlling health care insurance reimbursement also apply to casualty and property insurance in limiting companies ability to pursue independent legal action against those held liable, AP reported. The justices answered yes.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

That can include being a housing market expert and advising clients on the best times to list or buy a home; having referrals handy for inspections, repairs, staging and photography; understanding the mortgage origination process; and more. citizen or legal resident and be 18 years of age or older.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

housing market. Legal experts told HousingWire that it is rare to see the Fed offer an opinion about an ongoing legal debate, as it typically does not want viewed as an influence on court decisions. Because of this, the authors believe buyer agents are then able to “command commission above cost.”

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Real estate appraising is a complex practice that requires a diverse range of skills and knowledge, from understanding current market conditions to understanding and interpreting complex legal and financial documents. However, becoming a successful real estate appraiser requires more than mere market knowledge.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2024

In a legal brief filed on Monday, MLS Property Information Network (MLS PIN) made it clear that it does not agree with the Department of Justice ‘s position on the banning of cooperative compensation, as outlined in the DOJ’s statement of interest in the Nosalek commission lawsuit.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Q: How are you preparing for potential economic downturns or fluctuations within the housing market? Q: How are you preparing for potential economic downturns or fluctuations within the housing market? Q: How are you preparing for potential economic downturns or fluctuations within the housing market?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Offerpad also announced new hires on its executive team, appointing David Connelly as its new chief growth officer and Ben Aronovitch as its new chief legal officer. Moving to the mortgage side of the housing market, Waterstone Mortgage Corporation named Jeff McGuiness as the new president and CEO.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

Garber added that the most pressing concern for appraisers remains the resolution of fair housing claims by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The claims) carry significant professional and legal consequences, he said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

. “Our antitrust team looks forward to continuing to pursue additional relief against remaining defendants for those who have been systematically overcharged for simply selling their homes in an already unstable housing market.” The Sitzer/Burnett suit is slated to head to trial on October 16, 2023.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD), state attorneys general and fair housing organizations to start applying this legal framework to homebuyers FHA loans accounted for 15.6% mortgage market in 2023, up from 14.3% of the U.S. in 2022, according to HUD.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

mortgage and housing markets and serves an audience of lending, servicing, investment and real estate market participants. In connection with the transaction, Goodwin Procter LLP served as HW Media’s legal counsel. Minor & Brown PC served as legal counsel to REAL Trends. About HW Media.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

Although more agents are fielding questions about the commission lawsuits than they were a quarter ago , they also remain optimistic about where the housing market is headed in the second quarter of 2024, according to the RealTrends Q2 2024 AgentPulse survey.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2021

And while the housing market continued to surge amid these changes, some people were still hesitant to do business in a digital landscape and unsure how to navigate the litany of rules related to compliance and processes. Each video session is recorded and retained along with an audit trail of the transaction. The time for RON is now”.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The report notes that widespread foreclosure moratoria in place do not apply to legally vacant or abandoned homes. Blomquist confirmed that “strong demand” for distressed properties is tied largely to the strength in the retail housing market, which in turn is tied largely to low mortgage rates. . “We

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

None of them, alone or in aggregate, merit the removal or significant weakening of a policy so critical to the integrity of our housing market,” Evans wrote in the email. We believe this is risky in a world where consumer, regulatory, and legal scrutiny on our industry has never been more acute.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Now that home sales are down for domestic buyers, more inventory is available and foreign buyers can fill this gap, boost home builder activity, local economies and overall housing markets in key states, such as Florida. The housing market will always have its ups and downs. homebuying process.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

. “The new home market has been extraordinary in 2023, and I think heading into 2024, we’re going to have the golden age of new home construction,” David O’Reilly, CEO of Howard Hughes , said in a recent CNBC interview. For more than a decade, housing has suffered a structural shortage of homes rooted in supply-side issues.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2022

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic increasing the need and demand for RON services, and nearly all states and counties across the country approved emergency legislation legalizing RON, Notarize rapidly expanded. How lenders can improve business models in 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2023

In addition, some white neighborhoods had zoning laws that legally banned non-white buyers from owning homes in those neighborhoods. The relationship between diversity, economic growth, housing and GDP The housing market is large and varied. Between the launch of FHA in 1934 and when President Lyndon B. Decades ago, U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

Between navigating a post-pandemic world, rate hikes and the threat of a recession, mortgage lenders across the country are managing a volatile housing market. A sharp rise in mortgage rates saddled the company with tens of millions of dollars in loans it couldn’t sell to investors in the secondary market at par.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The survey results also showed that more agents are optimistic about where the housing market is headed, which the report authors attribute to cooling mortgage rates and the expectation that the Federal Reserve will cut benchmark interest rates later this month.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Regardless of the outcome, real estate brokers are doing all they can to prepare their brokerages and their agents for more transparency, education on the value real estate agents bring to the transaction, and more, according to the 2023 Q4 BrokerPulse survey , a forward-looking housing market sentiment survey by HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2024

A newly released episode of the Real Estate Insiders Unfiltered Podcast explores the future state of buyer and seller relationships in the housing market after the National Association of Realtors ‘ (NAR) business practice changes take effect Aug. But there is a risk that offers of compensation could disappear.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

“So, what the brokerages have done historically is they’ve made all their money from the 80% of agents who actually don’t transact more than two deals a year , because they pay desk fees, monthly fees, technology fees and legal fees.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2020

How to gain more listing visibility in a shifting housing market. As real estate professionals strategize on how to do business in 2021’s competitive, fast-paced housing market, they’ll discover the need for better tools to market their listings. According to the complaint, 70% of U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

According to Katie Johnson, NAR’s Chief Legal Officer, jury selection started last week and should finish today. Named in the class action are NAR, RE/MAX , Anywhere , Keller Williams and Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices. “We are now anticipating opening arguments to begin on Tuesday, Oct.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

Between navigating a post-pandemic world, rate hikes and the threat of a recession, mortgage lenders across the country are managing a volatile housing market. A sharp rise in mortgage rates saddled the company with tens of millions of dollars in loans it couldn’t sell to investors in the secondary market at par.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2022

The current application packages and final doc sets have become very long and full of legal jargon that most laymens don’t understand. But, I am confident that this question was intended to reference the housing market. I am not too worried about the housing market in the long term. I believe in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The days of the low-FICO homebuyer returning to the housing market have ended, as I discussed in 2018. This protects the housing market from another crash in home prices like we saw in 2008. Simple: positive cash flow homebuyers typically buy homes when credit channels are standard.

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