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MARCH 24, 2025

The industry veterans describe it as an AI-driven platform for real estate team and brokerage valuations and sales. FIJI is the future of real estate brokerage valuations and M&A. Im also excited about the new FIJI AI tools that will give brokerages ongoing advice and support to reach their goals, Murray said in a statement.

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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

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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MARCH 13, 2025

San Francisco-based real estate technology firm RealScout on Thursday announced that its making its RealScout Exclusives platform available to all brokerages. The platform is designed to help agents and clients effectively manage and distribute their exclusive listings.

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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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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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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.

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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

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. Every moment of friction is potentially a lost sale. billion, with transactions up by 24%.

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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. 5 by sales volume.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The brokerage has acquired Washington Fine Properties (WFP), a luxury real estate brokerage located in the Washington, D.C., WFP has 150 agents and has executed $43 billion in sales volume over the past 25 years. At the end of 2023, the number of principal agents at the brokerage stood at 14,683.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Brokerages are scrambling to adapt to the post-settlement landscape of real estate, and more of them are turning to the same method for growing their headcount — acquiring new teams. The addition of teams is an efficient way for major brokerages to bolster agent counts and boost sales volumes on their income statements.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

But in light of Redfins blockbuster sale to Rocket Mortgage that was announced less than two weeks later, hindsight dictates that Kelman may have known that the end of independence was coming for the company hes run for almost 20 years. Agents got benefits like health insurance, a 401(k), vacation time and a more predictable stream of income.

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JULY 9, 2024

Fast-growing firm The Real Brokerage is celebrating its 10 th anniversary by announcing that it has surpassed 20,000 agents. In an announcement on Tuesday, the firm said it has added roughly 1,000 agents per month throughout the first half of 2024. “I The team closed nearly $120 million in sales volume in 2023.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2025

She went from a brand new agent in 2020 to running her wildly successful boutique brokerage with Side in less than four years. Luckily, she had the time to (patiently) walk us through the exact strategies she used to build a Zoomer real estate brand on TikTok and gave us her advice for new agents. Most agents dont bother.

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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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APRIL 2, 2025

Luxury Presence has introduced Private Listings Hub, an invitation-only platform designed to help real estate agents promote off-market and pre-market listings with greater control and discretion. Agents can control listing visibility, filter buyer matches and receive notifications for relevant off-market opportunities.

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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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DECEMBER 19, 2024

There’s a reason why eXp Realty regards itself as the “the most agent-centric brokerage on the planet.” ” This week, the company embodied that mindset with yet another major affiliation that expands its agent network. Caldwell is the latest in a trend of new agents and leaders to join eXp’s network.

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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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APRIL 14, 2025

However, in what Kelman says is an effort to preserve a sellers ability to control how their property is marketed, Redfin is also asking MLSs to create a coming-soon designation for listings that precludes search sites from showing how long a home has been for sale and at what prices.

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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

APRIL 10, 2025

Veteran real estate broker-associate Christina Khosrowabadi, who has closed more than $140 million in sales since 2022, has joined Christies International Real Estate Sereno , one of northern Californias largest independent brokerages. Im excited to be part of a brokerage that supports agents in doing their best work.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

“Most of the confusion we are seeing is from agents who don’t understand what has happened and even broker-owners who don’t understand changes have occurred.” Living up to its legacy Keller Williams is a franchise known for its agent education efforts. In the days immediately following Aug.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

Leading brokerage Compass announced some key leadership moves this week to bolster its operations in the Southeast, including Florida. The brokerage has hired industry veteran Nikol Solares as senior managing director of new development marketing. Adam Vellano was promoted to managing director of the South Florida market.

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JUNE 25, 2024

If real estate brokerages fail to make changes to their operations, 79% of them will be unprofitable if the terms of the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) nationwide commission lawsuit settlement agreement lead to typical agent commissions dropping to 2%. This is according to a study published Tuesday by AccountTECH.

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

bringing a team with more than $300 million in career sales. In the four years since Ryan Serhant founded the company, it’s reached almost 800 agents across eight states, and it has doubled in size over the past year. and earlier this year, the brokerage entered Orlando with the addition of the 16-agent team The Home Squad.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

Today, Rocket Companies announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase digital real estate brokerage Redfin in an all-stock transaction valued at $1.75 billion in equity. The deal, which has been approved by the boards of directors of both Rocket Companies and Redfin, is expected to close in the second or third quarter of 2025.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

eXp Realty continues to add agents and teams at a fast clip. The company announced the addition of the Maine -based Realty ONE Group, a 36-agent team that has closed 338 transactions totaling $128 million in sales volume so far this year. The 21-agent team closed 211 sides for a total volume of $126 million in 2023.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The arrangement known as cooperative compensation allows sellers to choose to offset the cost of buyers’ agents. The settlement requires listing agents to stop making offers of compensation for buyer’s agents on Multiple Listing Services (MLSs). It explicitly allows for such offers to be made off-MLS, however.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

The brokerage announced this week that it has added the Milwaukee -based Houseworks Collective real estate team. The deal brings 15 agents and more than $60 million in annual sales volume to Keller Williams. The team has a strong record of multimillion-dollar sales revenue, accumulating $118.5

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APRIL 16, 2025

Founded by Ivan Sher in 2018, ISLuxury has closed nearly $2billion in sales in Las Vegas and Henderson, Nevada, over the past three years. The new office, located in Newport Beach, California, includes 11 agents who joined from other brokerages , and it will be led by Christi Carrillo.

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DECEMBER 30, 2024

Some agents attribute stale inventory growth to unreasonable prices that repel would-be buyers from pursuing certain listings. ” In tandem with Loggins’ remarks, a separate Redfin renter tenure report released Monday suggests that for-sale supply is growing in part because renters are moving less frequently. metro areas.

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DECEMBER 11, 2024

According to a company statement, this move will strengthen the brokerage’s presence in the Carolinas. United President Rick Haase credited United Queen City for driving this expansion with excellent management practices and brokerage growth. For-sale inventory is up 17.1% in the state compared to a year ago.

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JUNE 6, 2024

The Real Brokerage announced Thursday the addition of several new teams across the U.S. last month as the publicly traded company pushed its agent count above 19,000. 10 for sales volume ($21.2 The former option allows independent brokerages to join Real and use its resources while maintaining their current brand.

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