Fairer & Faster Residential Real Estate. Superior quality information, accuracy, and automation arriving 2021. [email protected]

New York, NY
Joined November 2020
Narrative Violation : “Don’t invest in MBAs” If you just invested in the HBS Class of 2011, you would have hit $100B+ in market cap. - Coupang: $60B - Grab: $17B - Gojek: $10B - Oscar Health: $7B - Stitchfix: $5B Lesson? Don’t make up “proxy rules” in a game of outliers.
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Transforming the data collection process for appraisal and assessing is the ante for change; anything less is "thoughts and prayers." Identifying the problem ok, fixing it better. Unlimited bias training won't solve alone. Great article from @brentinmock bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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One-third of homebuyers would relocate if #remotework becomes permanent. Let’s break down the results from our most recent survey 👇
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Hot Take: 2021 will eclipse record breaking 2020 year for mortgage market. Interest rates stay low, virus pushes young families towards more space, and vaccinated boomers take adv. of low prices in cities & sell at suburban peak, unlocking much needed suburban inventory.
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Millennials buying homes during COVID like
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Avg. sized purchase loan hit all time high last week and markets are seeing tons of bidding wars. Real time dataset for comps to size loans correctly given velocity of market is non-existent. Comps from 90 days ago are low & stale. 🙃
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Get what you pay for. $127K implied value difference w two divergent square footage numbers. Data inaccuracies are crushing consumers @streeteasy
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with record low mortgage interest rates and tight supply of homes for sale, house prices have been accelerating across the country the chart below shows the 3-month annualized rate of growth by state
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A record 19.4 million homeowners can now save big on a #mortgage refinance, as rates hit another new low cnb.cx/3nSEc8L #Mortgagerates #refinance #housing
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NEW-- FHFA releases Q3 2020 House Price Index report: U.S. House Prices Up 7.8 Percent from Last Year; Prices Rise 3.1 Percent in Third Quarter ow.ly/RUUI50CtmQ3
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Article today from @timothyglaze at @housingwire: Oct. mortgage turnaround times up to 48 & 57 days for purchase and refi loans. That's 22 days more than turnaround time in March Why? increased volume. How to fix? Data collection digitization and process innovation
Check out this apt. It's real square footage is 22%/522 SF off it's advertised. According to @streeteasy, the building sells for $3400 PSF, meaning $1.8MM is wrongly captured.
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2020 is an inflection point for all industry and hindsight will show mortgage industry as near top of list of most transformed. Potential ending of Fannie and Freddie conservatorship is a story to watch as we head into end of this year.
September GSE loan volume: 835,000+ transactions with 47% of Freddie and 42% Fannie transactions getting an appraisal waiver 🧐