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LeadingRE adds Rejig.ai to preferred vendor program
Rejig.ai provides automated digital marketing tools for real estate agents, teams and brokerages, such as AI-generated avatar videos.
Redfin: Multifamily housing permits fall from pandemic highs
Developers secured an average of 12.8 permits for buildings with at least five units per 10,000 people from July 2024 through June 2025.
Hurricane season arrives amid homeowners insurance hikes
The report notes that homeowners loss ratios have steadily increased, inching upwards from 75% in 2021 to 85% in 2023.
Smarter subservicing: Elevating efficiency & customer experience
Lenders face constant pressures to scale their operations while maintaining profitability. Growing and retaining a servicing portfolio helps to maintain and diversify the revenue of a mortgage company, but it isn’t always the sole way to increase productivity.
PHH’s Liberty Reverse Mortgage relaunches EquityIQ proprietary product
Liberty is reentering the proprietary reverse mortgage landscape in a more crowded field than when it introduced EquityIQ in 2019.
Congressman touts bipartisan long-term care bill at DC event
Last month, Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) reintroduced the Well-Being Insurance for Seniors to be at Home (WISH) Act, which would amend Social Security to provide long-term care benefits for program participants.
Pandemic market chaos continues in Bergen County
The county’s desirability combined with tight inventory means buyers are still engaged in bidding wars and waiving inspections.
Most home sellers still rely on agents, but trust issues linger
Even among respondents planning to hire agents, only 70% said they trust them, the report noted, marking a decline from 81% in the prior year.
Gibson defendants want to move the suit out of Missouri
Both Berkshire Hathaway Energy and HomeServices of America are looking to have the Gibson suit moved to Iowa and Pennsylvania, respectively.
