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- How gen AI is making real estate cybercrime easier than ever January 20, 2025AI is making fraudsters’ jobs easier, but cybersecurity professionals are not backing down without a fight.
- Lower CEO Dan Snyder explores acquisitions, technology and growth plans January 20, 2025Lower recently acquired Neat Labs to transform its in-house technology stack going into 2025. CEO Dan Snyder shares more details.
- Moment of truth: 2025 RealTrends Verified rankings are open for submission January 20, 2025The time has come to highlight game-changing real estate professionals who adhered to the gold standard of brilliance in 2024. RealTrends Verified has opened the submissions period for its 2025 rankings, alongside a series of big-time enhancements.
- Capitulation: Why buyers and sellers are ready to move January 20, 2025Inaction is easy. It’s quiet; unwritten; immune from critique. It sits undone; confidently static. But if buyers and sellers were compelled to transcribe their inaction, it would read like a sociopath’s diary entry: “We could have watched you grow up, but your grandpa and me weren’t willing to give up our 2.875% rate to move […]
- All the ways the wildfires could make LA housing more expensive January 19, 2025Residents looking to rebuild or find new housing will face numerous headwinds that could drive up housing costs in LA.
- Mortgage rates fell last week. Can they go lower? January 18, 2025Mortgage rates fell last week after a brutal few months of rising rates. The question now is whether rates can keep going lower.
- Lawmakers, housing groups react to Scott Turner’s HUD confirmation hearing January 18, 2025Lawmakers and housing trade groups reacted to Scott Turner's confirmation hearing to lead HUD, with many saying they're poised to work with him on housing issues.
- Reverse mortgage servicing safeguard might help LA borrowers January 17, 2025A 2023 safeguard introduced in reverse mortgage servicing software could help borrowers in Los Angeles avoid foreclosure.
- Mortgage applications for new homes are 9% higher than a year ago January 17, 2025MBA builder application survey data for December highlighted 9% year-over-year growth in loan applications for new homes.
- Chicago-area contractor sentenced to 17 years in prison over reverse mortgage scam January 17, 2025The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced this week that Mark Steven Diamond, who was accused of “bilking elderly homeowners in a reverse mortgage and home repair scheme,” was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
