Above, a screenshot from one of Homes.com’s new ads featuring Dan Levy of “Schitt’s Creek” fame and SNL’s Heidi Gardner. During one of America’s most enduring traditions, Super Bowl Sunday, Homes.com plans to make history, regardless of who takes home the championship trophy. Through four commercials reaching some 113 million viewers, the rapidly ascending real…
Before the continuous wave of litigation and investigations that has engulfed the residential real estate industry this past year, the Burnett vs. NAR case and its historic $1.8 billion settlement award handed down to the plaintiffs on October 31, 2023 set the precedent. Regular readers of RISMedia may remember last fall that leading up to…
As mortgage rates remained elevated, tipping over the 7% mark last month, sales of new homes fell significantly in May, down 11.3% below the revised April rate of 698,000 and 16.5% below the same activity a year ago, according to the latest data released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and…
This week we reported on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) inquiry into mortgage “junk fees” that are typically added onto closing costs. Launching a formal inquiry into the issue, CFPB filed a Request for Information notice that was published June 6 in the Federal Register. According to the report, from 2021 to 2023, median…
After taking home the top Rookie of the Year honors at RISMedia’s annual Power Broker event last November, Stacy Cole hasn’t let it go to her head. In fact, she says it’s the little everyday activities that combined with hard work and proper life balance, have added up to another successful year for her this…
Editor’s Note: The Mortgage Mix is RISMedia’s weekly highlight reel of need-to-know mortgage-industry happenings. Watch for it each Friday afternoon. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed an increase of 0.3% in April on a seasonally adjusted basis, after rising 0.4% in March. Bright MLS Chief Economist Dr.…
The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 6.4% annual gain for February, up from a 6.0% rise in the previous month. The data from the leading measure of U.S. home prices released April 30 shows that 18 out of the 20 major metro markets…
Editor’s Note: The Mortgage Mix is RISMedia’s weekly highlight reel of need-to-know mortgage-industry happenings. Watch for it each Friday afternoon. This past week, RISMedia published one of its “Storytellers” features on “The Mobile Mortgage Mom,” who is taking her business—and her family—on a unique and unprecedented trip, bringing her passion to communities around the country.…
Editor’s Note: The Mortgage Mix is RISMedia’s weekly highlight reel of need-to-know mortgage-industry happenings. Watch for it each Friday afternoon. loanDepot provided an update this week on the cybersecurity attack that forced the company to shut down some of its systems back on Jan. 8. According to a release issued this past Monday, loanDepot determined…
RISMedia is excited to announce that Jackie Louh, Chief Operating Officer of Lamacchia Realty, will be heading up an industry-leading panel of real estate experts at the 2024 Real Estate’s Rocking in the New Year, the company’s fourth-annual all-virtual conference to be broadcast live on Jan. 11, 2024. Click here to register! Louh’s panel, “How…
RISMedia is excited to announce that Kim Crumley, Senior Vice President of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Georgia Properties will be heading up an industry-leading panel of real estate experts at the 2024 Real Estate’s Rocking in the New Year, the company’s fourth-annual all-virtual conference to be broadcast live on Jan. 11, 2024. Click here to register! …
In the modern age of social media forms and the storytelling that comes with them, blogging feels like a bit of an outdated form of marketing. This, however, is absolutely untrue. Read more.
