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Guaranteed Rate, Union Home Mortgage, Optimal Blue make leadership moves

Guaranteed Rate, Union Home Mortgage, Optimal Blue make leadership moves

CAREER & COMPENSATION, Career advancement, Career moves, Industry News /

Rick Seehausen Altisource Portfolio Solutions, a provider of real estate and mortgage solutions, appointed Rick Seehausen as president of Lenders One, a national alliance of independent mortgage bankers. He will lead the strategic direction and day-to-day operations of Altisource’s Origination segment, with a focus on strengthening Lenders One’s value proposition, growing membership and launching new […]

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Equity Prime Mortgage, ex-workers at odds over settlement

CAREER & COMPENSATION, Law and legal issues /

Equity Prime Mortgage is asking a judge to enforce a six-figure settlement slated for its former employees in a wage case, a deal the workers’ attorneys say isn’t real.  Processing Content The company this week claims the parties agreed to a $660,000 payout last summer, and that the plaintiffs’ attorneys are now reneging on that

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January new home sales fall 17.6%, weather and rates in focus

Homebuilders, Marketing & Sales, New Home Sales, Residential Real Estate, The Builder's Daily /

After seeing an uptick in sales last year, the nationwide new home market experienced a sharp drop in new home sales activity in January, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s New Residential Sales report released on Thursday. Economists say that this could be a momentary drop due to extreme weather conditions, or that the sales

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The ground just shifted: coming soon listings are taking over real estate

Brokerage, Clear Cooperation, Compass, eXp Realty, Homes.com, HWmember, Keller Williams, Leo Pareja, MLS/Associations, National Association of Realtors, Real Estate, Robert Reffkin, Zillow /

At a time when real estate industry leaders seem to be more conflicted than ever, one idea has emerged that everyone from Homes.com to Zillow, to eXp Realty and Compass can agree on: pre-marketing coming soon listings. What does that mean for the MLSs and will it invite more federal scrutiny? The resurgence of coming soon

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BFS CEO Jackson maps a bigger role in homebuilding workflows

Construction, Homebuilders, Technology, The Builder's Daily /

Builders FirstSource‘s decade-long strategic jag has expanded the construction giant beyond its traditional role as a building materials supplier, pitching itself as a full-service partner that can support homebuilders with planning, procurement, delivery, installation and digital project management. In a one-on-one interview with The Builder’s Daily, CEO Peter Jackson said the company’s acquisition strategy and technology

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How policy uncertainty is reshaping senior retirement plans

Baby Boomer, Center for Retirement Research, Gen X, HWmember, Mortgage, Retirement, Reverse, Reverse Mortgage Daily, Social Security /

Growing uncertainty over Social Security, Medicare and fiscal policy has left many older Americans more concerned about their financial futures — with some delaying retirement and shifting to more conservative investment strategies. Findings from a new survey analysis by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College offer critical insights for reverse mortgage professionals as

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Optimal Blue’s Mike Vough on borrowers staying rate anchored into 2026

Adjustable-Rate Mortgage, HWmember, Mortgage, Mortgage Rates, MSRs, Optimal Blue, Origination, Refinancing, Servicing /

Borrowers are still anchored to ultra-low, pandemic-era mortgage rates, a mindset that is influencing both purchase and refinance trends as the market heads into 2026. That’s according to Mike Vough, Optimal Blue‘s senior vice president of corporate strategy, who highlighted the company’s latest Market Advantage report in a conversation this week with HousingWire at the

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Bank regulators unveil capital reforms to boost mortgage lending

Banking, basel III, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Reserve, HWmember, Mortgage, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Regulatory /

Federal bank regulators on Thursday introduced proposals to overhaul capital rules, affecting how depositories treat mortgage assets. The package includes three measures: revisions to the Basel III framework for large, internationally active banks; changes to the Global Systemically Important Bank (GSIB) surcharge; and updates to the U.S. standardized approach. A broader Basel III proposal introduced in 2023

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NAREB president calls for ‘optimistic underwriting’ to expand homeownership

Affordability, Appraisals and Valuations, Black Homeownership, Brokerage, FHA, First-Time Homebuyers, Homeownership, Housing Inventory, HUD, HWmember, Interest rates, Lenders, Mortgage, Mortgage Rates, National Association of Real Estate Brokers, Real Estate /

Ashley Thomas III has assumed the presidency of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) — the nation’s oldest and largest Black real estate organization — with an agenda focused on expanding homeownership access. Thomas, a housing policy and wealth equity strategist with more than 25 years of experience across real estate, lending and

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Compass, Rocket, Redfin urge MLSs to allow seller-directed pre-marketing

Brokerage, Clear Cooperation, Compass, HWmember, MLS, MLS/Associations, National Association of Realtors, Real Estate, Redfin, Rocket Companies /

Compass International Holdings, Redfin and Rocket Companies are urging MLSs to adopt policies that support pre-marketing and phased marketing distribution and to cease penalizing or punishing agents for carrying out “seller-directed marketing plans.”  The companies, which entered into a mutually exclusive deal to publish Compass coming soon listings on Redfin in late February 2026, made

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