HousingWireHousingWire Chicago-based Maverick Systems is rapidly expanding its real estate data analytics platform nationwide, offering brokerages a new tool in the competitive landscape for experienced agents. The company is currently profiling about 200,000 real estate agents across the U.S. It focuses on eight key Multiple Listing Service (MLS) markets, including…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire The reverse mortgage industry in 2025 could be defined by two key developments: continuing efforts to establish partnerships with the forward mortgage industry, as well as the development of proprietary reverse mortgage products that could be the “future” of the industry. This is according to an interview with James…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Choosing the right hard money lender for your investment project can be challenging. With nearly three decades of experience in real estate and investing, I’ve worked with hard money lenders to secure financing for everything from simple fix-and-flip projects to multi-million-dollar apartment building rehabs. There’s no one-size-fits-all hard money…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire The typical U.S. homebuyer put down 16.3% of the purchase price in December, up from 15% a year earlier, as rising home prices pushed down payments higher, according to a new report from Redfin. In dollar terms, the average down payment in December was $63,188, an increase of 7.5%…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Home Depot is expects same-store sales in 2025 to be just 1.0% better than this past year, an indication that the housing market will remain slow. That 1% growth projection is below the 1.65% rate expected by Wall Street analysts, and comes on the back of a fairly disappointing…
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