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HousingWireHousingWire Over the last decade, real estate transactions have increasingly become a prime target for cybercrime. Far from slowing down, the scams are becoming more prevalent, sophisticated, and difficult to recognize as fraudulent. With October being Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it is important that the real estate industry and consumers speak…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Compass’s plan for future success? Become a hub for real estate listings. Brokerage founder and CEO Robert Reffkin laid his firm’s plans for the future bare during its third-quarter 2024 earnings call with investors and analysts on Wednesday. “Listing inventory remains the lifeblood of the residential real estate marketplace,”…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire AgentCoach.AI, an AI-powered real estate coaching company, is launching a new training platform for real estate agents. The Austin-based tech company will use advanced training bots on the platform, according to a recent announcement. The new platform will leverage specialized training bots to help agents prepare for business. Users…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire New York-based asset manager Rithm Capital, the owner of multichannel lender Newrez, reported a 58% increase in refinances to $3 billion in the third quarter of 2024 after mortgage rates dropped due to the Federal Reserve’s 50 basis-point rate cut. But executives expect things to calm down moving forward. …
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire You don’t often hear about someone with an affinity for nuclear physics finding their way into the reverse mortgage field, but that’s exactly the journey we’re charting in this edition of “Origins” from HousingWire’s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD). Rick Schluter, a New Jersey-based reverse mortgage specialist with Mutual of…
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