Real estate agent Kristin Sprague has rejoined Coldwell Banker Realty-Gundaker — returning to the brokerage where she began her career in 1995. Sprague has worked in the St. Louis metro area for more than 25 years. According to the most recent RealTrends Verified rankings, she remains among the most recognized agents in the St. Louis […]
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Like it or not, for consumers in today’s market for a newly built home – especially younger, more price- and interest-rate sensitive ones – a home builder is a homebuilder is a homebuilder. Product, price, and location may reveal nuanced differences, and offer a finite toolbox of motivators – i.e. incentives. Other than those nuances,
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Could your artificial intelligence-powered voice agents break the law in talking to consumers? Processing Content Experts behind agentic AI technology in the mortgage space suggest it’s already happening. The digital voice assistants offered by leading lenders, which help hundreds of thousands of customers today weigh home buying options and facilitate monthly mortgage payments, could also
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A federal judge has defeated a trade group’s bid to stop tighter lending rules for clean energy loans, overriding protests that the move would hike costs and diminish demand. Processing Content The ruling on summary judgment this week by U.S. District Judge Tom Barber, in favor of the government, means administrators with the Property Assessed
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Key Insight: Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman said the Fed is exploring ways to reduce banks’ regulatory costs associated with mortgage lending and servicing. Expert Quote: “These potential changes would address legitimate concerns about mortgage market structure while maintaining appropriate prudential safeguards.” — Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman. Forward Look:
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At some point, a house that once felt perfect just… doesn’t anymore. Maybe you need more space. Maybe working from home turned your dining room into a permanent office. Maybe the layout just doesn’t match how you live now. If your current house is starting to feel like it’s holding you back instead of supporting
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“We have seen enormous innovation across residential and commercial real estate over the last decade, and it has been exciting to be part of many of those success stories. But there is one area of the built environment that still feels materially underbuilt. Land. …. … In many ways, land feels like the last frontier
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Converging forces reshape the industry The real estate market is experiencing a once-in-a-generation disruption, driven by forces that are fundamentally reshaping the role of agents and brokers. Semi-private deal networks, a growing class of small investors, legal and regulatory shifts, and intensifying competition among online portals are creating an unfamiliar landscape High mortgage rates and
How off-market deals and investor demand are reshaping residential real estate Read More »
Mortgage lenders have been here before. It’s a cyclical business, and most of the executives who are running firms in this industry have been through a cycle or two. The industry experiences a downturn, during which rates rise, affordability falls, and borrowers back away from the market. Eventually, rates fall. Buyers re-enter the market. Pipelines
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Most buyers are conditioned to believe: wait for interest rates to fall and homes will finally be affordable again. It sounds logical; that lower rates should mean lower monthly payments and that is affordability, right? Except history shows something very different, something counter to what we have been led to believe; that when interest rates