REMAX Fine Properties and REMAX Solutions have merged to form a single brokerage operating across Arizona — combining more than 400 agents and 10 offices statewide. The unified company will operate under the REMAX Fine Properties name with offices in Avondale, Flagstaff Glendale, Munds Park, Peoria Pinetop, Scottsdale, Gilbert and Tucson. Jamie Wong will continue […]
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Artificial intelligence is not only changing the way people search for and find information online, but it is also changing how they are searching for products and services, including their new home. Founded in 2006, Zillow has witnessed the housing industry develop from its early embrace of the internet to now entering the uncharted territory
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Rocktop Technologies has launched Rocktop Digital, a new business focused on digitizing and tokenizing mortgage and private credit assets to modernize how the assets are financed, owned and traded, the company announced Wednesday. As part of the launch, Dallas-based Rocktop Technologies promoted Brett Benson, previously its co-president, to CEO of Rocktop Digital. The move formalizes
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The housing market update still looks relatively stable on the surface. Inventory rose to 723,460 single-family homes in the week ending April 3, while 34.44% of listings had price cuts and the weekly absorption rate came in at 10.49%. At the national level, the baseline is still holding. As HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami noted
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Philadelphia-based RenoFi announced Wednesday that it has hired Brandon Silvia as executive vice president and national production leader, moving to the renovation financing platform from top-10 U.S. mortgage lender Rate. Silvia will oversee all sales and production operations nationwide, with a mandate to scale volume, grow RenoFi’s originator network and boost adoption of its artificial
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It’s a fluid situation in financial markets on Wednesday. The 2-week ceasefire in the Iran war caused a big reaction last night, but the benefit to the bond market (bonds dictate rates) has been increasingly wiped out during domestic hours. If we measure the reversal versus yesterday’s closing levels at 5pm ET, the reversal is
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The effective tax rate for U.S. properties hit its highest mark since 2020 last year, with a decline in housing prices offset by rising bills, according to new analysis from Attom. Processing Content Single-family homeowners across the U.S. a cumulative total of $396.8 billion in taxes on more than 89.6 million properties in 2025. The
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New American Funding is expanding its presence in the Midwest with a new branch and team in Nebraska. Processing Content The Santa Ana, California-based lender announced Wednesday the addition of One Goal Mortgage Powered by New American Funding, a branch serving the Omaha, Nebraska, metro area and Southwest Iowa. The team joined New American in
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Better Home & Finance announced Monday that it’s strengthening its finances through unexpectedly high originations, cost cuts, the sale of a United Kingdom bank and a stock offering. Processing Content The company reported that it is categorizing Birmingham Bank as held-for-sale and indicated it was actively working to shed it. Better also noted it has
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The latest Basel III proposal could encourage banks to hold more mortgages, but its impact on financing they provide to nonbanks selling home loans is “murkier,” according to a new report. Processing Content Pennymac’s early analysis of the proposed bank-capital rules’ impact on warehouse lending indicates that they currently preserve part of an earlier draft
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