West Coast hit hardest as US home prices cool for 7th-straight month

Nineteen cities out of 20 tracked by the S&P CoreLogic Case-Schiller Index posted monthly declines in January, with the biggest decreases seen in San Francisco, Seattle and San Diego. Continue reading

Fully digitized closings can save lenders more than $400 per loan

Snapdocs research finds often overlooked secondary market efficiencies like reduced funding cycle time account for about 80 percent of savings. Continue reading

Fredrik Eklund’s REAL Messenger to go public via Nova Vision SPAC

The transaction will have a pre-money enterprise value of approximate $150 million at closing, according to an announcement Tuesday. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2023. Continue reading

The Agency launches 3 Canadian offices in March

The offices across Toronto West, Fort McMurray and Ontario’s York region raise The Agency’s number of Canadian offices to 16 and its total number of global locations to 79. Continue reading

Will spring be a bust? 4 decades of housing data tell a complex story

Past periods of high inflation and high rates — be it in 1979, 1980 or 1990 — have caused the housing market to stall. But they also didn’t crush it forever, according to an Inman analysis. Continue reading

Consistency equals consumer confidence. Here’s how to build a trustworthy brand

Brand consistency becomes brand recognition. Brand recognition converts into trust, and trust equals success.  Continue reading

ChatGPT picked favorites from 10 commission objection scripts

If you’re having trouble figuring out which scripts work best in various situations, take them for a test drive on ChatGPT, writes trainer and author Bernice Ross. See what it says, and ask it to explain why one script is more effective than the others… Continue reading

10 tips to make your first client event a roaring success

When done well, events offer huge rewards, whether that’s increased brand engagement or more leads coming through your door from referrals made at events themselves.  Continue reading

Compass Houston founding member Garcia takes team to KW Luxury

Houston real estate veteran Haley Garcia has taken her seven-person team to Keller Williams. Garcia was with Compass from 2018 to early 2023 and generated $205.5 million in sales volume during her last two years with the brokerage. Continue reading

First Citizens BancShares to acquire SVB in FDIC-brokered deal

The deal includes the purchase of approximately $72 billion in loans at a discount of about $16.5 billion, along with the transfer of all of the bank’s deposits totaling about $56 billion, according to the FDIC. Continue reading