• FirstTeam expands in Midwest with new Kansas City office,HousingWire Automation

    FirstTeam expands in Midwest with new Kansas City office

    FirstTeam has expanded its national brokerage footprint into Kansas and Missouri, partnering with broker-owner Scott Eckhoff and Rival Real Estate to open the company’s first Midwest office in Kansas City, the company announced Tuesday. The move marks the next phase of FirstTeam’s national expansion

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  • Epique Realty CEO Josh Miller offers 3-point fix for agent tech adoption,Jonathan Delozier

    Epique Realty CEO Josh Miller offers 3-point fix for agent tech adoption

    Josh Miller, CEO and co-founder of Epique Realty, told attendees at Tuesday’s HousingWire AI Summit that the real estate industry’s most expensive technology investments are often the least used. He offered a three-part prescription to solve the problem. Brokerages spend thousands of dollars on tool

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  • Mortgage insurers face larger safety net rule for VantageScore 4.0,Flávia Furlan Nunes

    Mortgage insurers face larger safety net rule for VantageScore 4.0

    Mortgage insurers will be required to keep a larger safety net for mortgages originated using VantageScore 4.0 than for comparable loans using Classic FICO, according to new guidance from the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). In late July, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac published a new grid for t

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