• OriginPoint adds $165M Halliday-Levin team to boost West Coast mortgage presence,Neil Pierson, HousingWire Automation

    OriginPoint adds $165M Halliday-Levin team to boost West Coast mortgage presence

    Chicago-based mortgage lender OriginPoint has hired top-producing loan officers Erin Halliday and Jon Levin from New American Funding, where they operated as a high-volume production team. Halliday and Levin officially joined OriginPoint — a joint venture of Rate and Compass — on July 27 as the Erin

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  • Congress finally acted on housing. Now the real work begins.,Ron Terwilliger

    Congress finally acted on housing. Now the real work begins.

    For years, housing affordability was a problem hiding in plain sight. Rents were climbing faster than wages. First-time buyers locked out of markets their parents once could afford. Families doubling up, moving away or simply giving up on the idea of owning a home. The numbers were damning. The caus

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  • AI is changing what it takes to be a great real estate agent. Here’s what matters now.,Colibri Real Estate

    AI is changing what it takes to be a great real estate agent. Here’s what matters now.

    For years, becoming a great real estate agent followed a familiar path. You put in the hours, learned your market, built relationships and slowly developed systems that made you more efficient than the competition. Experience wasn’t just valuable. It was your competitive advantage. AI for real estat

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