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WFG News
February 2, 2015

Real estate is missing an opportunity to reach qualified buyers

After decades of operating on the day-to-day transactional side of this industry as an agent and lender, I now enjoy a unique vantage point where the housing industry intersects — real estate, mortgage lending, quasi-governmental housing agencies, policymakers and non-profit organizations, and, of course, the homebuyer. My observations over the…
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WFG News
January 27, 2015

And the real estate person of the year is … the millennial buyer

Ah, the elusive millennial homebuyer. Our industry has spent most of 2014 analyzing why this demographic hasn’t bought a home — student debt? Unemployment? They want to rent? — and even more time researching millennial goals and beliefs to forecast what’s next for housing. In fact, it’s hard to come across any…
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WFG News
January 27, 2015

Go figure: rabid football fans, commission competition, home averages across the pond and more

My team can beat up your team Where are the STEM cells? Averages crossing the pond Commission competition: What’s your position? How to get down (payments) We need to define this relationship (See a dual agency interactive heat map and read the full report.) Have data you’d like to see featured here?…
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WFG News
January 26, 2015

Mortgage marketplace will partner with real estate agents

Sindeo, a mortgage marketplace that arms consumers with insights into costs and fees to help them plan, qualify and shop for a mortgage with multiple lenders, has hired Trulia’s Ginger Wilcox as chief industry officer as the company prepares to launch a new service for real estate professionals. Ginger Wilcox…
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WFG News
January 23, 2015

US mortgages are the Gazinta!

A wild story still unfolding, most of it overseas. The result here at home: mortgage rates near 3.75 percent and the lows of the year — and the tilt in chart-pattern witch-doctoring to lower yet. Rates will rise only on substantial good news, somewhere. The only domestic economic data of…
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