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Dermot Buffini discusses brokerage leadership, real estate market shifts
Dermot Buffini addresses the pressures that brokers and team leaders face amid market volatility and shifting agent performance.
New Home Co. acquires Landsea, forming a top 25 homebuilder
New Home Co. has completed its acquisition of Landsea Homes, creating a top-25 U.S. homebuilder based on new homes sold in 2024.
ABA has ‘significant concerns’ with CFPB proposal to ban medical debt from credit reports
The American Bankers Association thinks that the reasons for prohibiting medical debt on credit reports isn’t sufficiently justified.
Mortgage rates hold steady ahead of Powell’s Jackson Hole speech
Mortgage rates have plateaued ahead of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech on Friday at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium.
That’ll do: Average IMB posts net profit of $693 per loan in Q2 2024
IMBs post first net production profit in two years largely due to better expense management, MBA says in its quarterly profitability report.
Even super hot housing markets like LA are cooling off
Not everyone is leaving California, and plenty of buyers are still interested in LA. But it is cooling, local agents report.
HW+ Member Spotlight: Brian Gubernick
“The issue that seems to take up space in my mind, and has for several years now, is the threat that I believe Realtors are under as it pertains to our role in the industry,” Brian Gubernick shares in his HW+ member spotlight.
HW+ Member Spotlight: Rogers Healy
This week’s HW+ member spotlight features Rogers Healy, owner and CEO at Rogers Healy and Associates, as he discusses the need for a universal MLS.
