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Revolutionized financing: How Zillow empowers home shoppers with innovative tools

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Zillow Home Loans — the platform’s affiliate mortgage lender — pushes the future of financing. Providing personalized financing guidance to homebuyers By providing access to transparent information, Zillow offers buyers personalized solutions tailored to their unique situation. Click Here

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Fathom promotes veteran finance leader Joanne Zach to CFO

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On Wednesday, the firm hired former senior vice president of finance Joanne Zach as chief financial officer. According to firm, Zach gained valuable insight from Fregenal on Fathom’s finance strategy while forming key relationships across the company. million in average yearly sales volume per agent.

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Real Brokerage leverages agent count growth for soaring revenue

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Instead, its continuing to add agents at an explosive rate. On its earnings call for the fourth quarter of 2024, the company disclosed that its agent count was 24,140 at the end of the year. Real credited its technology offerings and business model for the explosive growth in agents. million in 2023 to $4 million in 2024.

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Opinion: The myth of financing buyer agent commissions

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As a salve, a vocal minority of activists say that “simply” allowing the financing of buyer-agent commissions into mortgages will resolve all concerns. For reasons both practical and legal, buyer-agent commissions are not today explicitly financeable with a mortgage. But this is much easier said than done.

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Here’s what buyers and sellers want from their real estate agent

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The role of the real estate agent has been under the microscope of late as a result of class-action litigation over agent commissions, but the feedback agents want most about their practices comes from two sources — home buyers and sellers. This was unambiguous among homebuyers.

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How will first-time buyers fare if sellers can’t offer buyer agent compensation?

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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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What is a real estate broker vs. an agent? We explain the key differences

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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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