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2025 mortgage lending predictions

Jeremy Collett, Chief Capital Markets Officer with Rate, shares his mortgage lending predictions for 2025.

Lender of the Year: Guaranteed Rate Affinity

Guaranteed Rate Affinity is a partnership created between Anywhere Real Estate and Rate, formerly Guaranteed Rate, that prides itself on providing elite customer service and a fast, simple loan process.

Charitable Service: Haley Cutter, COMPASS

Haley Cutter, a seasoned agent with COMPASS, founded The Cut Fire Fund after her own family’s house fire in July 2022.

Guaranteed Rate names Tammy King VP of Mortgage Lending

King’s role will be in the Martha’s Vineyard region of Massachusetts

Chicago Agent magazine takes home NAREE Award

Chicago Agent magazine has received a bronze award for Best Residential Real Estate Trade Magazine Story by the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE). Held virtually on December 9th, the 70th annual Real Estate Journalism Awards competition — open

Offerpad hires two new executives

Real estate tech company Offerpad has expanded its executive team.

August is the new May for peak home sales

Peak homebuying season has shifted to the end of summer, according to realtor.com.

4 Reasons to Hire a Virtual Assistant

Brokers can delegate a multitude of tasks to workers equipped to handle them from a remote location. Learn how such a set-up can benefit your business.

Boston sees highest national rates of home flipping

Nationwide, home flippers saw a 36.7% return on their investment in the first quarter of 2020.

Helping renters become buyers in today’s market

While the world may be on pause right now, the housing market is still moving along. Brian Buffini shares some techniques for helping first-time buyers feel comfortable and confident during uncertain times.

What the ‘stickiness’ of home prices means for your clients

A new report by First American Financial Corporation shows housing “may be better positioned than many believe” for recovery.

A quarter of Realtors have sold homes sight unseen

A National Association of Realtors survey shows that one in 10 members have either seen their business grow or remain flat under COVID-19.

How Boston agents are dealing with COVID-19, Insta-style

In this time of social distancing, there’s a fair amount of scrolling through social media happening. But it’s not all doom and gloom. Check out these posts highlighting acts of goodwill, charity and positivity from the local real estate community. 

What’s behind the racial homeownership gap?

Black homeownership is lagging well behind the national average, and NAR wants to understand why.

Agent Snapshot: Dal Coger, Real Estate Sales Agent, Clockhouse Realty

What was your most interesting job before going into real estate? Executive Recruiting. I worked as an executive recruiter for 26 years prior to and concurrent with real estate. Where did you grow up? Columbia, SC and Memphis, Tennessee.

Agent survey: Clients

Our Truth About Agents survey found that 37 percent of readers said the majority of their clients are millennials.

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