The HW Marketing Leaders award celebrates the industry’s most innovative and influential marketing minds who are continuing to help their organizations grow and flourish. We reached out to previous years’ honorees to ask what advice has helped propel their careers as marketers and see what they have to say about
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We only have 2.6 months’ worth of housing inventory in the U.S. after coming off the single biggest home-sales crash year in history. That is where we are today in America. As expected, existing home sales fell from February to March since the previous month’s report was intense. We have
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The HousingWire award spotlight series highlights the individuals who have been recognized through our Editors’ Choice Awards. Nominations for HousingWire’s Marketing Leaders award are now open through Friday, April 21, 2023. Click here to nominate someone you know — a client, colleague, boss or friend — it can even be you! For the past
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Denver-based brokerage franchise Motto Mortgage, owned by RE/MAX, has accused broker shop UMortgage of “tortious interference” in its contract with a former franchisee called TRB Solutions, whose controlling member was Breon Price, the top-producing loan officer. According to a lawsuit filed in March in a U.S district court in Colorado,
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Distributed retail lender Guild Mortgage has picked up a top-producing team of loan officers, branch managers and back-office staff in California from rival retail shop Fairway Independent Mortgage. Guild, publicly traded and based in San Diego, added 40 employees across eight branch offices in California, the company said Thursday. John
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The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on Wednesday released a proposed rule that would codify many of its regulatory policies related to fair housing and fair lending. In formalizing housing regulation policies through the rulemaking process, the Biden administration hopes to make it more difficult for future administrations to untangle them. The proposed rule would
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A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) employee forwarded records containing personal information on approximately 256,000 consumers at one financial institution, as well as confidential supervisory information at 45 other institutions, to a personal email address, the Wall Street Journal reported. The agency, already under fire by Republican lawmakers, described the
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Real estate valuation technology provider Clear Capital announced on Thursday an expansion of its partnership with CoreLogic. Through the expanded partnership, Clear Capital’s recently launched Universal Data Collection product will be available for order and fulfillment through CoreLogic’s suite of Valuation Workflow Solutions. “The key to appraisal modernization is wide-spread
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Interest rates for mortgage loans broke five straight weeks of declines caused by the bank crisis. This week, the 30-year fixed rate rebounded due to recent data indicating a still-resilient economy, the potential continuity of the Federal Reserve’s tightening monetary policy, and pressures in the secondary market. “For the first
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After posting a surprising 14.5% monthly increase in February, breaking a year long streak of declines, existing home sales were back down again in March, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), released Thursday. Existing home sales dropped 2.4% month over month in March to a seasonally adjusted
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A for sale sign is seen near houses in Sonoma in January. Sonoma and Napa counties each saw their home values increase between Feb.
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Here are the property transactions recorded for the week of Feb. 6-10, 2023, in the Brockton area, according to The Warren Group.
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