McKissock

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In recent years, the real estate industry has noticed some significant trends in the commercial and residential housing markets. For instance, in 2021 small and private investment firms were responsible for nearly 3/4 of retail asset acquisitions , representing a 30% increase from the prior 10-year historical average. .

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

Michael Saleh, a former senior vice president of Rocket Mortgage who spent about two decades at the company, has transitioned from the retail lending channel to wholesale by launching independent brokerage firm Zoom Home Lending. According to Saleh, Zoom Home Lending is licensed in several states and works with real estate agents for leads.

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McKissock

APRIL 20, 2021

Becoming a real estate agent requires a giant leap of faith and an investment of time and money. That’s why some agents may choose to test the waters with a part-time real estate position while hanging onto a steady income from another job. Finding time for part-time real estate.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

When the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to zero on March 15, 2020 and set off an extraordinary real estate boom, Rocket Mortgage was ready. The lender made focused efforts to target the purchase market in 2021 and set up dedicated teams to cultivate relationships with real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

During a panel discussion at the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) conference in Austin this week, real estate experts noted that Austin’s high concentration of technology companies ties the city into the tech industry’s boom-and-bust cycles.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

You should be finding buyers before real estate agents anyway.” NEXA has always been focused on purchase loans , which means some of its LOs do significant business with buyers’ agents. Kortas believes that good buy-side agents will remain highly relevant and garner more business as competitors wash out.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The winners have spent 2023 focused on strengthening relationships with real estate agents , educating borrowers and improving their marketing strategies. We’ve seen a massive shift in retail LOs transitioning to the wholesale channel, and we expect this trend to continue. HW: We know rates will drop at some point.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

Mortgage Matchup will continue to be a consumer-facing website focused on homebuyers and real estate agents and offer educational material around the home buying and refinancing processes, along with a database of independent mortgage brokers near them, said UWM in a news release Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Margin compression, higher mortgage rates, and a purchase-focused market are dictating more sales process control among loan officers and fewer layers of bureaucracy in retail lenders. And, according to Covey, the changes are necessary in traditional retail lenders to navigate the industry headwinds. “LOs It’s the local relationships.

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Appraisal Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

What Appraisers Wish Real Estate Agents Understood McKissock Survey Question: “What’s one thing you wish real estate agents knew about the appraisal process? I will always remember when, many years ago, a top local real estate agent asked me why I was driving around taking photos of homes.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

No seller must use a real estate agent to sell a home — ever. In fact, considering inter-family and estate transfers as well as for-sale-by-owners, as many as 20% of all transactions may not include the use of an agent. Consumers are free to sell or buy a home without an agent — and consumers know this.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Insellerate Modern CRM, Engagement & Customer Intelligence Platform Insellerate helps loan officers close more loans with our award-winning modern CRM, Lead Management, and Engagement platform, which handles all your lending channels, retail, wholesale, TPO, Consumer Direct, and Reverse.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

“Sometimes 10-20 basis points is all an LO needs to win over a real estate agent or get creative on a borrower’s loan,” the company said in a statement. . For most of 2022, UWM had an aggressive pricing strategy in place to gain market share and attract loan officers from the retail to the wholesale channel.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Nominations for the 2022 HousingWire Tech100 Mortgage and Tech100 Real estate are closing today. The Tech100 Real Estate Award recognizes the 100 technology companies that are changing the home sales process forever – from home search to lead management solutions, and remote closing to transaction management software.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Roughly 20% of Cliffco’s production comes from the wholesale channel and 80% of origination volume comes from its retail channel – through which it offers GSE, government loans and non-QM products. Cliffco’s proprietary CRM platform enables loan officers to break away from being heavily dependent on real estate agents for referrals. “In

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

In a statement confirming the deal Tuesday afternoon, Guaranteed Rate said the acquisition of Stearns would enable a boost in retail loan originations and further scale its JV platform, while also developing “new multichannel capabilities.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

He most recently served as the president of troubled, largely defunct retail lender Celebrity Home Loans. During this 90-day period, the client can work with a real estate agent to list their prior home. Meadow has 25 years of mortgage industry experience.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

AARP concerns “FHA will move forward with its proposal that permits contributions by the property seller, real estate agent, builder, or developer to HECM for Purchase borrowers’ closing costs,” HUD said in its update to the policy. Tane Cabe Tane Cabe, also of C2 , concurs with Harmes.

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Inman

AUGUST 14, 2023

Retail investors and local landlords offer real estate agents a wide array of options for staying active in a market bereft of traditional inventory, you simply need to know how to connect with them.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2023

I think these next couple of months are crucial for anybody in the mortgage and real estate industry to position themselves strongly,” said Susan Byerley, senior loan officer at Neighborhood Loans. For example, Ruotolo is keeping in touch with her database and the real estate agents that refer and support her.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

With the deal, Movement adds the brokerage’s more than $400 million in annual sales volume and 48 employees, including loans officers, support staff and executive members, to serve homebuyers and real estate agents in the Greater Boston Area. . The company was first established in the New England region in Rhode Island.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

Better is focused on originating profitable business while pulling back from unprofitable channels, which resulted in the company shutting down its real estate arm and laying off employees in June. In Q2, Better decided to wind down its in-house real estate agent business to focus on partnering with third-party real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

Desmond Smith: There are two ways to get a mortgage — wholesale or retail. Retail lending is when you walk into a bank branch or go to an online lender, and they help you get a mortgage. Consumers who use a mortgage broker instead of a retail lender save $9,400 over the life of the loan and that increases to $10,400 for minorities.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

“You can lend where you live and continue to build relationships with clients and real estate agents in your community. We have Rocket retail, and we compete,” Fawaz said. The company is looking for someone who has a “proven track record generating organic referrals” that result in closings.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2021

Foley has a long track record as a human resources executive, but no prior experience in real estate. Similarly, Shirley has years of financial leadership experience, including at retailers Tuesday Morning and Neiman Marcus , but does not possess a real estate background.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Online retail lender loanDepot raised just $54 million by offering 3.9 LoanDepot, the second-largest retail-focused IMB in the country, had initially planned to raise about $362.5 But it noted that its retail strategy is more developed. million shares at $14 on Thursday, far below the range of $19 to $21 it initially had sought.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Rick Arvielo: What’s interesting about our growth is that we are the 13 th largest retail IMB in the country, but we’re only in about a third of the United States. We grew with a call center model for the first 10 years and only got into outside distributed retail 11 years ago. What made Draper and Kramer a good fit for NAF to acquire?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2021

billion in the wholesale channel in 2020 (compared to about $62 billion in retail), lost roughly 5% of its broker clients to UWM, according to company executives. Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2021

Mortgage, title, appraisal, servicing, iBuying, real estate brokerage , green energy — the gamut. They’d then utilize the services of a real estate agent found through the growing Rocket Homes platform. A few hours after applying for a mortgage, the consumer would receive underwriting approval.

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The Robert Weiler Company

MAY 18, 2022

When selling commercial real estate, the favorite phrase, “A little bit goes a long way,” holds much truth. Below are 24 practical tips you can use to improve any of the five major types of commercial real estate. What is Return on Investment in Commercial Real Estate?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

You have a lot of flexibility in pricing, flexibility with other broker products, flexibility with marketing under an compliant umbrella,” Steinway said of Revolution Mortgage, which has a hybrid wholesale and retail lender model. He was the fourth mortgage loan originator to join Guaranteed Rate in 2000. It’s the local relationships.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

The feature , published earlier this month, noted that Rocket embarked on a local LO hiring spree in 2023 to capture purchase market business from real estate agent connections. So it seems like the real estate community is reacting positively to this particular program,” Emerson told analysts.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2021

In Ishbia’s estimation, these two companies, which both have retail operations, are trying to cut the broker out of the mortgage equation. Rocket is training real estate agents to originate loans, and Fairway is trying to poach loan officers, he claims.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2022

As lenders adapt to a purchase-centered market, HousingWire spoke to Brian Boero, CEO of 1000watt, about opportunities to grow lenders’ effectiveness in the real estate agent and broker market. retail, residential mortgage applications. Cracking the code on marketing to the realtor channel. Presented by: 1000watt.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

The outside distributor retail is a hedge against the call center in the different environments. Since launching as a call center in 2003, the California lender has expanded into the outside distributed retail model with a target on the purchase mortgage market, serviced its own loans and developed its tech stack in-house.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Just in case you weren’t aware, real estate brokers in some states, like Ohio, are now required by law to show you the home’s interior living space. Do you intend to use it as the foundation for your retail price? I measure homes for homeowners and real estate agents, and not just for appraisal assignments.

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McKissock

APRIL 14, 2021

How many of your real estate clients have used you before in a home sale? A survey by the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) said 91 percent of buyers would likely use the same real estate sales agent again or recommend them to a friend. Stay in touch with real estate clients.

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