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HousingWire is excited to announce the winners of the 2024 Women of Influence award, recognizing 100 women who are shaping and propelling the housing economy forward with their impressive achievements. This year marks the 15th year of this award program.  Many of this year’s winners mentor women in the industry,…

Proper Rate, a joint venture between Guaranteed Rate and residential brokerage @properties, has tapped Chris Knapp to lead the company as president. Knapp boomeranged back to Chicago-headquartered Guaranteed Rate after he left in 2019. He held posts at rivals CrossCountry Mortgage, Draper & Kramer Mortgage Corp. and, most recently, Wintrust…

Redfin and Zillow are at the center of two video privacy suits that were filed on June 25 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. In two separate lawsuits, plaintiff Guillermo Mata accuses the real estate companies of violating the Video Privacy Protection Act and the…

Yet another party has taken a stand in the Nosalek commission lawsuit. On June 20, Dmitry Shkipin — who runs development and operations at HomeOpenly.com — filed an amicus brief that takes aim at the changes to the agent commission structure outlined by the Department of Justice in its statement…

Texas Capital Bank (TCB) is seeking a new partial summary judgment in its suit against Ginnie Mae. The suit alleges that the government-owned company “extinguished, in return for no consideration, TCB’s first priority lien on tens of millions of dollars in collateral” stemming from the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-sponsored Home…