Real Estate Broker/Agency News

Opinion: Putting the housing market into perspective

2022 has been filled with discussions on homeownership affordability challenges for good reason. The challenges buyers face today are significant: higher interest rates, higher home prices, historically low inventory, increasing costs for labor and materials and supply chain challenges. On the surface, these factors might make the outlook for the

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loanDepot notches partial win in scrap with CrossCountry

loanDepot registered a partial win against CrossCountry in a trade secret and employment-separation dispute.  The California-based mortgage lender sued its rival in April 2022 claiming that six former employees — Steve Schneider, Cindy Smolin, Samantha Siegel, Fernanda Baske, Bob Bowman, and John Noyes — left the company to join CrossCountry after accessing, downloading

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Have we found the bottom in existing home sales?

On Wednesday, existing home sales collapsed near the lows we saw during COVID-19 and back in 2007 when the housing bubble burst. In addition, this is the fourth straight month of inventory declining, while days on the market are growing! Confused by this? I hear you; let’s dive deeper into

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