Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Diane Yu, co-founder and CEO of TidalWave, to talk about the benefits of building an AI-first company in today’s business environment. Yu founded and sold ad tech platform FreeWheel to Comcast in 2014, and she served as chief technology officer at Better.com
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Kevin Peranio, left, of Paramount Residential Mortgage Group, and Candice McNaught of Supreme Lending lead a panel discussion during the HousingWire IMB Summit in Dallas on Oct. 1.(Photo courtesy of Willie & Kim Photography) As mortgage rates edge closer to the 6% mark, optimism has spread across the industry. Lenders
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After a slow start to the year, the housing market picked up the pace during the second quarter. For the title insurance industry, this meant an uptick in title insurance premium volume, which came in at $4.09 billion for the quarter, according to the American Land Title Association (ALTA)’s Market
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A stronger than expected September jobs report is not great news for the Federal Reserve or the housing industry, which was hoping for a swift decline in interest rates. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released on Friday shows that 254,000 non-farm payroll jobs were added in September. This is higher than
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Two home sales in Chicago’s northwest suburbs set price records. A newly constructed mansion in South Barrington sold for $5.3 million Tuesday, …
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Santa Cruz County is planning a huge real estate sale to try to recover more than 38 million dollars missing from the County Treasury.
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Sales. Urbana @ Oro Valley LLC purchased Sunnyslope Apartments, a 41-unit apartment complex located at 150 E. Hardy Road, Tucson. The property was …
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Salisbury, Md. — SVN | Miller Commercial Real Estate has arranged the sale of a single-tenant retail property located in Salisbury.
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William Chang is stepping down from his roles as chief capital markets officer at PennyMac Financial Services and chief investment officer for PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust, the company announced Thursday. Industry veteran Mark Elbaum will succeed him. Chang, who joined the company in 2012, will “pursue other interests in the
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The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is prioritizing its legislative work on a bill that would ban the practice of trigger leads, in which consumer credit reporting agencies share with other lenders that a “hard credit report” was pulled for a mortgage application. This can lead to an onslaught of calls
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On Thursday, the devastation of Hurricane Helene reached a grim milestone as the death toll has reached 200, according to reporting by the The Associated Press. In the western regions of North Carolina, “the storm washed out roads and knocked out electricity, water and cellular service,” the AP reported. But
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The reverse mortgage industry could begin seeing some benefits of lower interest rates, but endorsement volume and securities issuance largely continued its trend from the prior month. Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements fell by 2.1% from August to September, with 2,153 loans endorsed along with an increase in Federal
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