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Texas team rejoins eXp Realty amid YouTube-driven growth 

The team now leads what they describe as Texas’s largest media-driven real estate team, with an estimated 5,000 inbound leads per year.

NAHB encourages ‘practical’ renovations for aging in place 

Aging-in-place renovations are popular, and NAHB offered some advice for “practical” applications on new projects.

The pandemic made housing less affordable, but not in the obvious places 

The housing affordability crisis often conjures images of coastal urban cities, but that’s not where costs are rising the most.

NFM CIO Christos Bettios on building AI solutions from scratch 

Christos Bettios, CIO at NFM Lending, talks about the company’s private, proprietary GPT that is making his whole team more efficient.

Todman on HUD’s steps to increase supply, review rules and get the money ’out the door’    

Adrianne Todman is succeeding Marcia Fudge, who announced her resignation from office on March 11.

With elections ahead, housing policy analysts discuss the end of GSEs’ conservatorship  

Analysts expect other issues to dominate the federal fiscal agenda, obscuring talk of returning Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the private sector.

Offerpad lands $600M more in credit to power iBuying 

As Zillow tries to disentangle itself from iBuying, Offerpad goes the other way, snagging $600 million more in credit to increase its iBuying.

Top of the list: An interview with Ben Caballero 

Each year RealTrends releases its list of the highest performing real estate agents in the country, and, like clockwork, Ben Caballero of Dallas-based HomesUSA tops the list.

What’s next after a historic housing boom? 

“We just went through one of the biggest housing booms in modern history,” said Jonathan Miller, a real estate appraiser at Miller Samuel.

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