Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2025

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming the new norm for many real estate agents and brokerages. Most brokerages had between 101 and 500 agents, and most closed $1 billion to $5 billion in total transaction volume. Additionally, younger real estate agents are no longer leading mainstream AI usage.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

Charleston, South Carolina-based real estate tech firm PunchListUSA , which calls itself the first platform digitizing national home inspection data , closed on a $39 million Series A funding round this week. . ’s largest home inspection services providers, to offer customers instant repair estimates. .

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2024

Coldwell Banker Realty is adding another top-producing agent to its roster. Vicky is a highly regarded agent in the Bay Area and we are thrilled that she has chosen to affiliate with the Redwood City-San Carlos office,” Jennifer Lind, the Western regional president of Coldwell Banker Realty, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

After 29 years and thousands of listing presentations, I have found that sellers, more than ever, want an agent who has solid negotiation chops and who is willing to use them on their behalf. If you want a positive outcome, its your responsibility to manage not only your emotions but the emotions of the other agent and your client.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The new rules mandated by the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) antitrust settlement are designed to encourage more negotiations for buyer agent commissions. That’s according to Redfin , which interviewed dozens of its agents about what they’re seeing on the ground in regard to buyer commission conversations.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Coldwell Banker Realty is strengthening its roster of California- based agents. On Monday, the brokerage announced that it was welcoming top-performing agent Jing Hu to the firm’s office in the Silicon Valley hub of Cupertino. Hu was previously brokered with Keller Williams Santa Clara Valley.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Real estate agents in the leafy suburbs of Bergen County, New Jersey say the current housing market — with historically low inventory and record-high prices — is actually more challenging than the multiple offer chaos they sweated through during the pandemic. “At as of March 6, 2024. Altos considers any score above 30 to be a seller’s market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Here are the following strategies agents can use to guide first-time homebuyers toward achieving this monumental step. Homebuyers using a variety of mortgage loans to finance their home purchase are eligible to use assistance options to help with their down payment and/or closing costs. I’ll explain later.)

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2021

Working with a real estate agent isn’t free, but it takes the work off your plate as a seller. A real estate agent finds potential buyers, arranges housing tours and handles all the paperwork and coordination between all the parties involved. A concession is when the seller agrees to pay part of a buyer’s closing costs.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Too many real estate agents are watching artificial intelligence (AI) from the sidelines, assuming technology will never replace them. They repeat the mantra “Home buyers and sellers will always need a real estate agent.” So how can real estate agents be so cavalier about their job?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

17 , when the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ commission lawsuit settlement agreement had to be implemented, most brokers and agents were concerned about how they would disclose a seller’s offer of buyer broker compensation. The previous system guaranteed buyer agent payment through MLS enforcement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2022

It also gives real estate agents ideas. Absolutely, I will offer an NFT option to sellers within the next year,” said Richard Hopen, a Compass agent in Short Hills, New Jersey. NFTs in real estate are, for the moment, a grossly impractical novelty act that, publicity aside, offer tenuous benefits to agents.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The Doma Intelligence platform works by automating many of the rote tasks of the closing process including retrieving and analyzing documents that need to be searched. Doma Intelligence is used by Chase , Wells Fargo , Homepoint and PennyMac to automate portions of their closings.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

These include refreshed guidance on applications and disclosures, HECM eligibility, property acceptability and underwriting, closing requirements, and program details for HECM for Purchase (H4P) and reverse mortgage applicability to condominiums.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Curbio , a provider of pre-sale home improvement services that requires payment at closing, will provide its “Build Your Own Estimate” mobile app to NAR members, which offers free repair estimates for home inspections upon the upload of a PDF document. Founded in 2017, Curbio is based in Potomac, Md.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

.” In a statement Friday, Accurate Group said it has completed more than three million property data inspections and hybrid appraisals through its ValueNet suite of products. Our appraisal, property inspection, title and closing technologies are designed to plug into any digital platform.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2024

The majority of real estate sales fall under this category and usually employ a buyer’s and seller’s agent who negotiate on behalf of their respective parties. Contingencies in the agreement protect both parties if problems arise during the appraisal, inspection, or financing stages of the transaction. Establish a timeline.

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Keeping Current Matters

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Most real estate agents have developed a strong Internet and social media strategy to promote the sale of your house. The buyer’s agent, who solely represents the best interest of the buyer. The buyer’s agent, who solely represents the best interest of the buyer. You Net More Money When Using an Agent. Bottom Line.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2024

Now, people make mistakes, sometimes things happen, but you are looking for them to be as close to flawless in their delivery and execution of what they do as possible. The owner of the company said to me, “Well, you know, Debbie, when it comes time to do the termite inspection, you get in the way. I do the inspection.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2024

.” Waltz aims to support international buyers with a “comprehensive” solution that covers the compliance, legal, banking and regulatory processes to close the purchase process within 30 days. Investors can partner with a real estate agent , mortgage broker or turnkey provider to locate a property of their choice. .”

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Housing Wire

JULY 10, 2024

While Northwest Ohio ’s housing market has remained fairly strong in recent months, local real estate agents say things become a bit more complicated when you segment the market by price point. Agents attribute the varying market conditions to the current interest rate environment. and are spending a median of 56 days on the market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

By most standards, I’ve had a highly successful career in real estate — as a Keller Williams Mega Agent, Broker-Owner, and bestselling author. For the past 14 years, I’ve had the privilege of coaching some of the nation’s top-producing real estate agents. Now, the buyer wanted the agent to pay for the repairs. Shine your light!’

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2021

. “Buyers are moving outside of Colorado Springs — and in some cases out of Colorado completely — to get away from the increased traffic, busy restaurants and sometimes even the weather, but mostly due to the rocketing costs of housing, including rent,” said Scott Sanchez, a Colorado Springs Keller Williams real estate agent.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2024

Brooklee Han: Right now in the real estate industry, we are seeing a tremendous amount of adoption of artificial intelligence at a time when we are also seeing many parties questioning the value of a real estate agent. Back then, we never thought about the property inspection. Now, agents are responsible for so much.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Starting February 1, UWM’s one-time close construction loans will be available on eligible 15- and 30-year fixed conventional loans and 7- and 10-year adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs), the firm said Wednesday. This type of loan only has one set of closing costs to pay, reducing the borrower’s overall fees.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. This is sick, and I want it to end,” said Sharon Aubuchon, a RE/MAX Premier Realty agent in Prairie Village, Kansas a suburb of Kansas City. “It Kansas City, Missouri.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Residential real estate marketplace Sundae has announced it closed $36 million in Series B funding on Tuesday, led by QED Investors and with additional participation from Founders Fund , Susa Ventures , Navitas Capital , Prudence Holdings and General Global Capital. million in Series A funding this June. “Our

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

If a homebuyer can’t close on their mortgage in time to buy the home they want, instead of losing out on the house, Accept.inc will buy the property with its own funds and reserve the home on their behalf. If the all-cash offer wins, the home is purchased from the seller and reserved until the loan is ready to close.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

Luke Tomaszewski, an appraiser doing home inspections in the aftermath of the housing bust, was traveling as much as an hour across Chicago just to snap exterior photos of bank-owned properties. At $50 to $100 per inspection, according to ProxyPics, it’s certainly less expensive than sending an appraiser. Something has to give.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2023

This was going on pre-pandemic, but during the pandemic people were waiving their inspections, or were buying homes sight unseen. So that’s one of the things that we teach not only our members, but their customers and real estate agents. First-time homebuyers are susceptible because this process is very complicated.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

For agents in New Hampshire , this week marks two months since PrimeMLS , the state’s multiple listing service , implemented the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ nationwide commission lawsuit settlement agreement. It is a seller decision, not an agent decision.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2021

million in cash and $10 million of Porch’s common stock at closing, according to a press release. In 2021, Floify’s software, which streamlines the loan origination process by allowing document sharing, and communication between LOs and real estate agents, has helped over 77,000 mortgage applications close each month, according to Porch.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Lenders who are modernizing across the entire scope of the origination journey — digitizing processes from application and title through close and post-close — are building unprecedented momentum for their businesses. Closing – Automation speeds the generation of closing documents and reduces errors in post-close review.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

As a broker and real estate coach, I’m always surprised when new agents tell me they don’t want to use real estate scripts. These sellers were on the market with another agent before and could not sell. Usually, they’re inundated with agents calling them for the first few days after their listing expires.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

When the meeting concluded, DeRoussel quickly reached out to the seller’s agent to see if her client could get in for a tour, but it was too late. “I I called the listing agent and it was listed three hours ago, but it was sold,” the Cincinnati, Ohio -based eXp Realty agent said. “We We couldn’t even see it.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) is a detailed report that helps real estate agents evaluate and determine the market value of a property. It is an essential tool that allows agents to clearly communicate a pricing benchmark for a property. It’s imperative that agents invest their time to properly prepare comps!

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Today, borrowers expect to close fast. A small issue within the title process can have an impact on the length of the closing process, impacting mortgage lenders and borrowers. The tools enabling work-from-home and remote closings were not only readily available, but efficient and accessible.

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