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HousingWireHousingWire When it comes to housing, real estate and mortgage industry professionals in the HousingWire Pulse Q4 2024 survey chose President Donald Trump’s housing policies over Vice President Kamala Harris’s. Broken down by real estate brokers, real estate agents and mortgage professionals, some 51% of brokers chose Trump, with 45%…

HousingWireHousingWire The Midwest and Northeast regions seem to be the new hot spots for real estate investors. This week, Realtor.com named markets in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut among the top markets for real estate investment opportunities in 2024. The list was compiled through an analysis of the…

HousingWireHousingWire EasyKnock, which offers sale-leaseback solutions to homeowners, announced a legal victory in Texas on Wednesday as it was awarded more than $153,000 by an arbitrator. The company has been fighting legal battles on multiple fronts through a series of consumer-initiated lawsuits and actions by regulators in several states. The…

HousingWireHousingWire For too long, the mortgage industry has used “the money gun” to deal with problems. And that has consequences. Nowhere is that more evident than in the cost to manufacture a mortgage, which was more than $11,600 in the second quarter. In a panel at HousingWire’s IMB Summit in…

HousingWireHousingWire What began as a legal battle between two companies that previously worked together on a Keller Williams technology platform has recently expanded to include industry veteran Josh Team. A lawsuit that was originally filed in early February in the Tarrant County District Court of Texas accuses the former KW…