HousingWireHousingWire Unlock the power of artificial intelligence (AI) in mortgage lending with the report, Overcoming the Top Barriers to AI Adoption in Mortgage Lending, done in collaboration with TRUE. Discover what’s holding the industry back — and how forward-thinking lenders are breaking through. This report offers practical strategies and expert…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Mortgage applications decreased 1.2% from one week earlier, per data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending May 23, 2025. On an unadjusted basis, the index decreased 2% compared with the previous week. The refinance index decreased 7% from the previous week,…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire On this week’s episode of the RealTrending podcast, host Tracey Velt chats with Sarah Reynolds, the CEO of EmpowerHome with Keller Williams, about leadership and navigating a shifting real estate market. Reynolds said the key to success is to focus on what agents can control, not market fluctuations. Keeping…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Current homeowners and prospective buyers are on the fence as 60% say they don’t know whether now is a good time to buy a home. That marks a three-year high and is up from 48% two years ago. The data comes from the newest Bank of America Homebuyer Insights…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Some brokerages are what I sometimes think of as “Lily Pads” because they’re waystations where agents sometimes go—albeit briefly—to level up their commission splits. And then they move on. Lily Pad brokerages attract and recruit based on a higher split, but fail to retain a cohesive team because they…
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