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Drees leader Rader chosen for Leadership Cincinnati class 50

Aug 27, 2026 · 7:22 PM HousingWire Automation HousingWire

HR leader Pamela Rader will add housing insight to the Cincinnati Chamber’s flagship regional leadership program

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How can Social Security COLAs impact reverse mortgage planning?

Aug 27, 2026 · 6:31 PM Neil Pierson HousingWire

In a higher-rate environment like today, line-of-credit growth can accelerate, influencing choices about loan draws and Social Security claims

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FirstTeam promotes Lauren Henss to chief marketing and strategy officer

Aug 27, 2026 · 4:10 PM HousingWire Automation HousingWire

The brokerage cited brand modernization, agent centric tech work, and AI plans tied to its Purlin partnership.

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MLSs need to expand options for sellers to improve cooperation

Aug 27, 2026 · 4:06 PM Victor Lund HousingWire

Sellers who want privacy, repairs or price testing were pushed toward private channels when public marketing triggered a one-business-day MLS clock.

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Velocity to buy Toorak platform, manage $3B BPL portfolio

Aug 27, 2026 · 3:49 PM Flávia Furlan Nunes HousingWire

Deal boosts Velocity’s origination volume by 76% and its servicing portfolio by 39%

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MBA says July mortgage payments dipped, affordability improved

Aug 27, 2026 · 3:33 PM HousingWire Automation HousingWire

The median payment dropped $16 from June but was up $48 from a year earlier

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REMAX co-founder Gail Liniger dies at 81

Aug 27, 2026 · 3:32 PM HousingWire Automation HousingWire

Liniger co-founded the franchise in 1973 and helped scale it to 145,000 agents across 120 countries.

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Lisa Cook’s lawyer says Trump lacks legal basis to remove Fed governor

Aug 27, 2026 · 3:09 PM Flávia Furlan Nunes HousingWire

Abbe Lowell argues alleged primary residence mortgage errors were inadvertent and not fraud

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Why real estate brokerages keep losing good agents

Aug 27, 2026 · 2:59 PM Lance Pendleton HousingWire

NAR data puts median tenure at 6 years, the article argues weekly reviews of dropped tasks reveal where follow up and systems fail.

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Realtors don’t just sell communities. They show up for them

Aug 27, 2026 · 2:43 PM HousingWire Automation HousingWire

Eighty percent of association executives and MLS staff volunteer each month, data shows

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