Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

FirstTeam , an independent real estate brokerage based in Southern California , has begun its national expansion by opening new offices in Idaho and Washington , with plans to establish operations in Arizona , Nevada , and Oregon. Founded in 1976, FirstTeam operates more than 46 offices with 2,200-plus sales agents.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

Now, as brokerages experiment with private listing networks (PLNs) and MLS s push back, another fight has emergedwho should control where and how listings are shared. Brokerages hoard exclusive listings to drive traffic to their own sites. Brokerages hoard exclusive listings to drive traffic to their own sites. The argument?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Nearly three quarters of recent American home sellers said in a Clever survey that using a traditional real estate agent is the best way to sell. Of the 73% who said they preferred using agents, 67% believe traditional real estate agents are still the best option and 6% favor discount agents.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The family-owned brokerage firm announced the completion of two acquisitions on Wednesday. The merger combines the strengths of both companies, allowing us to better support agents, buyers, and sellers in the Dayton area while enhancing our leadership in the market.” The financial terms of the deals are not being disclosed.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

While new social media platforms seem to pop up all the time, Facebook remains a tried-and-true platform for real estate agents to grow their business in a variety of ways. Joining and engaging with groups of fellow Realtors on Facebook should be a key tool in every agent’s toolbox. Join Lab Coat Agents 2.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

So, let’s start with the basics: What is a real estate broker vs. an agent? To answer that, we’ll take a deep dive into the differences between the many types of real estate professionals, including a real estate agent and a real estate broker. Summary What is a real estate agent? What does a real estate agent do?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

While the commission lawsuits and the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) settlement occupied notable portions of 2024 for The Real Brokerage , impressive organic growth is the firm’s true highlight of the year. I think 2025 is going to be another major growth year for us,” Poleg said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

By contrast, legacy brokerages did not perform nearly as well. Consumers purchase homes, but Compass touts its technology among prospective real estate agents. Because agents are the heart of the business. It accrues directly to the bottom line and improves agent recruitment, retention, and performance.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

The duo explore the current state of mergers and acquisitions, team-based brokerage models, commission compression, and growth opportunities for agents and brokers. What we’ve seen mainly is the activity is now at the local level between local brokerage companies. Why can teams make it work so much better than a brokerage?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Brokerage giant eXp Realty is adding a superstar agent to its ranks. The company announced the recruitment of Phoenix -based agent Joshua Smith, a high producer who closed 297 transactions in 2023. Smith is the latest addition to eXp Realty’s expanding global agent network. agents by the The Wall Street Journal.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2025

As the largest brokerage in the country by transaction side count , eXp Realty is looking to make it easier for more agents to sponsor recruits and join the companys revenue share plan. On Wednesday, eXp announced it was adding a co-sponsor option to its revenue share program, allowing two existing eXp agents to sponsor a new agent.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In this weeks episode of the RealTrending podcast , host Tracey Velt sits down with Portside Real Estate Group CEO Dava Davin to discuss the importance of buyer consultations, brokerage leadership styles and ancillary solutions for brokerage growth in 2025. Velt: How has the transition been post-settlement for you and your agents?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2025

Growing dissatisfaction among real estate agents , concerns over declining commissions , and shifting views on the National Association of Realtors (NAR) are among findings in Redfin’s 2025 Industry Survey. Declining satisfaction, economic worries Agent morale has dropped 5% since last year, with just 21.2% saw a positive impact.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Divya Aathresh, founder and CEO of MaxHome.AI , to talk about the startup’s goals and how using artificial intelligence to solve real estate’s back-office problems will free up agents to do what they love best. I spent four years at Better and shadowed our own in-house agents.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In an environment where technology is increasingly becoming a recruitment tool for brokerages, eXp Realty has partnered with a data provider in an effort to give its agents an advantage over the competition. This strategic relationship allows us to extend these successful strategies to all our agents and teams at no additional cost.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The Real Brokerage ‘s expansion trend has continued with another major acquisition. The digital brokerage platform announced on Monday the addition of Amerivest Realty , a Florida-based brokerage, adding 400 agents across Florida , Colorado , Minnesota and Wisconsin to Real’s platform.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Michele Harrington: After entering real estate sales right out of the Marine Corps , I built my own brokerage. Sanchez: When you look at the industry, only 26% of leadership positions in real estate are held by women, even though over 60% of real estate agents are women. We’ve always been a new-agent company. Why is that?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2025

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming the new norm for many real estate agents and brokerages. Delta’s annual real estate leadership survey explores insights from brokerage leaders on AI, marketing technology and forward-thinking insights. Delta Media considered these brokerages to be “medium to large.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

The latest data through February 2025 shows agent mobility dropping across all tracked measures, signaling an unexpected dip as the real estate industry heads into its traditionally active recruiting season. As weve highlighted in recent months, the continued slowdown in agent movement is reflective of ongoing market uncertainty.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Understanding that real estate housing markets are hyperlocal, the RealTrends Verified City Rankings represent the newest evolution of RealTrends agent and team rankings. This year’s inaugural rankings feature agents and teams from 50 cities across the U.S., Find out which agents and teams ranked highest in your city here.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Recruitment efforts have been a mainstay of The Real Brokerage ‘s growth efforts in 2024. And the digital brokerage platform continues to grow this week with another affiliation. Following this move, 150 agents are joining Real’s platform and strengthening its presence in ROVI’s areas. in both 2020 and 2021.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

The 2024 NAR settlement has reshaped the residential real estate industry, creating a new dynamic in how listings are distributed among agents. Notably, the median listing is now held by agents who are more focused on the list side of transactions and are higher producers overall. annual production 15 listings/year 64.7%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2025

Given the massive changes experienced by the real estate industry in the past six months, it is no surprise that at least a handful of the startups feel that the real estate space is ripe for innovation, giving way to a proliferation of AI agent platforms. We only use it as a tool to make it more efficient for our human agents.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2025

While many brokerage leaders experiment with reimagined commission models and marginal tweaks, The Real Brokerage is playing a different game altogether. Only three years ago, The Real Brokerage was ranked for the first time on the RealTrends Verified Brokerage Rankings. Were going deep into pure tech innovation.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

One of the nation’s fastest-growing real estate brokerages announced a pending leadership change on Wednesday. Sharran Srivatsaa , president of The Real Brokerage , will be transitioning from his current role to the company’s board of directors effective June 1. Its volume soared from $14.4 billion to $21.2

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

This cycle of ascent and decline is also evident in the residential brokerage industry. However, whether measured by agent count, transaction volume, or market share, their once-commanding leads have diminished. The same can be said for many regional and local brokerage firms that were once dominant but have since lost ground.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

The moment felt surreal and inspiring for Chris Trapani and Ryan Iwanaga, co-founders of the Christie’s International Real Estate Sereno brokerage, as they repurchased their independence from @properties. Sereno even recruited a new team of agents soon after the deal was completed. “We learned so much from those guys.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2025

The lawsuit contains the same allegations as other commission lawsuits, accusing the real estate brokerage and MLS defendants of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. Prior to the Keel suit, Side was notably one of the few major brokerages left that had not settled the commission lawsuits.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Compass is certainly known for luxury property sales , but the nation’s top brokerage based on sales volume is looking to offer even more support to agents working on these types of deals. On Tuesday, the firm launched Compass Resort, a network for agents in vacation-home markets and clients searching for second homes.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

It offered an innovative take on the agent compensation model and got a headstart on Zillow in the portal wars. They still have to bear the cost of those agents, despite production not being there in a terrible housing market.” Since the first quarter of 2021, Redfins agent count has fallen by 22.5%. It shows in the data.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

What has changed for real estate brokerages since then? 31, 2023, and has since reshaped the business practices for real estate brokerages and agents across the country. While many, like Kelly, consider the new practices a positive for agents and consumers, implementing them was no small task.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

The brokerage is giving agents at all brokerages access to Coming Soon, which houses its exclusive listings. In the invite to outside brokers and agents to use Coming Soon, Reffkin states that CCP-related mandates prevent Compass agents from sharing Private Exclusives with agents outside of Compass.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Israeli startup eSelf AI has developed a technology that provides interactive AI real estate agents capable of answering questions and guiding prospective buyers through listings at any time. Porta da Frente Christies CEO Joo Clia told Fox Business that the firm has seen great results since live-testing the AI agent about a year ago.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Leading real estate brokerage William Raveis is making another game-changing acquisition before the new year. This week, the firm announced the acquisition of Nantucket, Massachussetts -based brokerage Jordan Real Estate (JRE). Co-owners Gloria Grimshaw and David Callahan acquired the brokerage from founder Lucille Jordan in 2007.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

Fathom Realty rolled out two new agent commission plans in 2024, and the brokerage isnt done yet. The plan is designed to help agents close more business. To back the new plan, Fregenal cited a survey showing that almost 90% of agents want more from their parent brokerages, but he offered no details on whats to come.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This is especially true when various MLSs, brokerages and agents are taking their own approaches to dealing with the business practice changes. As Sharran Srivatsaa , the president of The Real Brokerage , sees it, there are two primary agent camps right now. It is actually forcing agents to improve their communication.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Whether youre running a large brokerage, managing a small team or working on your own, the right transaction management platform can take the worry out of compliance and lighten your workload. From managing compliance to automating commission disbursements, its built to grow with your brokerage.

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