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Brandon and I are at the NAR Convention and listened to FHA Commissioner Dave Stevens today. He is clearly engaged, understands the issues the industry faces and is on our side. Some highlights:
- Beginning Monday, FHA will no longer require a second appraisal in declining markets! If you followed us on twitter (@remaxallegiance) you would have known this as soon as Stevens uttered the new policy in the session. By the way, Dave Stevens now personally follows Allegiance on Twitter.
- The stimulus is working. For example, if it were not for the Fed buying mortgage backed securities, interest rates would be at about 7.5%. Stevens stated that worrying about deficits in a recession is the same as worrying about water conservation when your house is on fire.
- Streamline refinances will no longer be available as of 1/1/10 as streamline refinances perform three times as poorly as fully documented and processed loans.
- In 2006-7, FHA accounted for 2% of loans. For the first half of this year, it accounted for 25%.
- 80% of first time home buyers choose an FHA loan.
- Nearly half of all African American and Latino buyers chose an FHA loan in 2008.
- FHA capital is eroding, as expected, but is still at $31B, $3B more than last year.
- FHA is completely self sustaining. There has not been, nor will there be, an FHA bailout.
- FHA has revised its condo policies, effective December 7. Look for details soon.
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It was the sound of $86 million in Keller Williams market share in New England going to RE/MAX:
A 45-agent Keller Williams office in Framingham, Mass., converted to RE/MAX in October, giving the network a huge market share boost with the creation of RE/MAX Best Choice Real Estate.
New Broker/Owner Annette Norton, who had been with Keller Williams for five years, most recently as the office manager, chose RE/MAX because of its powerful brand name and the tools, culture and support offered by the network. Fiona Beecy, Regional Director of Operations for RE/MAX of New England, worked with Norton to convert the office and attract the new agents to RE/MAX.
“As much as I believed in the Keller Williams model, I wanted to look at my options and see what other opportunities were out there,” Norton says. “I finally decided RE/MAX was the way to go. RE/MAX of New England’s support totally blew me away through this transition. We are very fortunate to have incredible agents who accounted for more than 96 percent of the business at the former office join us over at RE/MAX. Everyone is happy with the transition.”
One of those happy top producers is Jim Coady. The Sales Associate with RE/MAX Best Choice was drawn to the network because of its reputation for having top producers. Coady is already seeing a boost in business, he says.
“The RE/MAX name is synonymous with top producers, and it’s a well-known fact that RE/MAX agents do more business than Keller Williams agents,” Coady says. “Nothing compares to the support and technology RE/MAX offers, such as Imprev, Mainstreet and LeadStreet.”
Broker Associate Faye Winer, who was one of the first Keller Williams agents in New England, couldn’t agree more. The real estate veteran of more than 30 years says that although change is never easy, she’s up for the challenge. And with guidance from the region and Norton, Winer is already hard at work to turn her business around.
“RE/MAX of New England and our fellow Associates have been so warm and welcoming,” Winer says. “I’m looking forward to turning what has been a dismal economic year into a better 2010 with RE/MAX.”
The addition of the new agents and rebranding of the office represents an $86 million market swing in the Framingham area, says RE/MAX of New England Regional Director Jay Hummer. The region held a kickoff day to welcome the new office and its agents by flying in Broker/Owner Deb Stevens of RE/MAX Results Realty in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. Stevens, who had been with Keller Williams for seven years, converted her 145-agent brokerage to RE/MAX earlier this year. RE/MAX of New England also invited the new agents to its fall sales rally in Providence, R.I., which included technology training, speakers and plenty of educational sessions.
“This is a great group of agents who are led by an incredible Broker/Owner,” Hummer says. “One of the new agents said that the sales rally was unlike anything they had on the regional level at Keller Williams. We’ve worked hard to help the new agents see the value of the RE/MAX brand through our regional efforts.”
By Deborah Ball, RE/MAX Times Online Associate Editor
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A recent search on Google returned 98 million results for “RE/MAX,” 43 million for “Century 21,” 8 million for “Coldwell Banker” and 5 million for “Keller Williams.”
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As you know, Dave Liniger spoke to many of you last week while on his Demand Success Today Tour. If you’d like all of the resources shown on the slides and discussed, please visit:
www.demandsuccesstoday.com/resources
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Last Thursday at the RE/MAX Allegiance Annual Convention, the following awards were presented:
Associate of the Year: Mike Minnery, Dale City Office
Staff Member of the Year: Jackie Shively, Hampton Roads Offices
Manager of the Year: Edwin Rucker, Chesapeake Office
Congratulations to all of the winners!
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RE/MAX Allegiance Associates and Staff raised $16,000 for Chldren’s Miracle Network during the company’s Fifth Annual Convention and Expo held on Thursday. The funds were raised through silent and live auctions held after convention attendees heard from Eric Cole, the proud father of a Children’s National Medical Center patient. With these additional finds, the company expects to raise over $100,000 for the network of children’s hospitals for 2009 alone.
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RE/MAX has negotiated a 24 hour discount for the CDPE course.
Go to cdpe.com/washingtondc
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Congratulations to Pat Fales of the Burke office for being chosen as the Realtor Profile for last week’s version of the Washington Times’ Friday Home Guide Section.
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