HousingWireHousingWire A Missouri judge ruled this week that Crye-Leike Real Estate Services will not be covered by the commission lawsuit settlement agreed to by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), rejecting the brokerage’s argument that it is six independent companies and not one. The $418 million settlement offers brokerages that…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire San Francisco-based real estate technology firm RealScout on Thursday announced that it’s making its RealScout Exclusives platform available to all brokerages. The platform is designed to help agents and clients effectively manage and distribute their exclusive listings. RealScout said that the nationwide launch of the platform “follows years of…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Home equity increased nationally by $281.9 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024, an increase of 1.7% year over year, according to the latest CoreLogic Homeowner Equity Report (HER), released Thursday. But the report also noted rising negative equity in some sunbelt states, along with Oregon and Washington, D.C….
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Vice Capital Markets, a mortgage hedge advisory firm for independent lenders, banks and credit unions, announced Thursday that it is the first to integrate Fannie Mae’s new loan pricing application programming interface (API) into its trading portal. The API simplifies the loan pricing and commitment process by consolidating multiple…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire During his first day in office, President Trump took aim squarely at the nation’s continuing housing affordability challenge, issuing an Executive Order directing his administration to pursue appropriate actions to “lower the cost of housing and expand housing supply.” This presents a tremendous opportunity to correct a widely recognized…
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