Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

To help, we reached out to real estate agents nationwide to compile our list of the best books for real estate agents. Best books for mindset Failing Forward by John Maxwell Rebecca Del Pozo , an agent and trainer out of Washington State, recommended this book, saying, I read this book in 2003 when I was a brand new real estate agent.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Introduction As part of our ongoing discussion on the concept of movement in the mortgage industry, it is readily apparent that the failure of mortgage companies to pivot or tweak their business models to satisfy changing market and other conditions has resulted in consolidation based on liquidity, buyback, financial and other concerns.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Whether you’re looking to start a career in real estate, already have one or are involved in real estate transactions, you may find yourself wondering about industry terminology and job titles. The industry acronyms alone look like alphabet soup. So, let’s start with the basics: What is a real estate broker vs. an agent?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

We discussed the current market conditions and revisited the propertys previous listing history including that the last agent had failed to sell it, eventually pulling it off the market 60 days later. Unfortunately, the prior agents never reported the incident, allowing the scammer to attempt it again this time, through me.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Following this move, 150 agents are joining Real’s platform and strengthening its presence in ROVI’s areas. CEO Steve Rovithis founded the company to offer agents and clients alternative methods to “traditional franchise models.” Steve Rovithis ROVI Homes arrived on the scene in 2015. in both 2020 and 2021.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The state of leadership in the mortgage industry When people say, Theres no such thing as a perfect company, are they really acknowledging an inherentflaw or are they feeling the void left by inadequate leadership? Skills such as coaching, conflict resolution, and teammotivation are rarely developed through sales roles alone.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As real estate practitioners adjust to the practice changes that took effect in August, and the industry waits for final approval of the NAR settlement from the court in November, questions continue about seller offers of compensation. These are the questions that advocates who want to upend the real estate industry further cannot answer.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

Final Offer’s new feature gives agents a new avenue of communication with clients looking for unique listings. According to the company, PX allows agents to share “pre-market” and “off-market” properties with clients via a private channel. Some agents call any non-MLS listings “ pocket listings.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

These housing professionals have been gaming out the potential impact on buyers’ agents – a significant source of referrals. Loan officers and mortgage executives expect home sellers and homebuyers to negotiate more aggressively on commission paid to buyer agents, potentially bringing costs down.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In some states, the door has been open for many years to real estate agents who want to access their local MLS without being a Realtor. More choices for agents PAR refers to its non-Realtor option as MLS Choice. I was an adviser on the recent sale of the MLS in Denver and I fully expect we are going to see more sales, Murray said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2024

bringing a team with more than $300 million in career sales. because we feel the real estate industry is in need of change,” Smith said in a statement. “In In many ways, the industry has become stagnant, and we refuse to accept that. Key Avenue Group is leaving Keller Williams for SERHANT., first entered South Carolina in 2023.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

With a 67% annual increase in agent count to 16,680 agents during the first quarter of 2024 , it is no surprise that The Real Brokerage also recorded an 86% annual increase in revenue to nearly $201 million. That means we believe a skilled agent will outperform an unskilled agent 10 to 1.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

While many agents are all-in on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube, theres another social media platform thats incredibly powerful: LinkedIn. Keep reading to learn why LinkedIn for real estate agents is so important, plus tips to optimize your profile and how to get real estate leads on LinkedIn. Theres also a recommendations section.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

In the wake of the recent NAR settlement , coupled with persistently sluggish home sales and high interest rates , real estate agents find themselves at a crossroads marked by uncertainty and unease. Amidst this backdrop, brokerages face a critical task; keeping their agent counts from diminishing.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Stone Point is no stranger to the real estate industry, as it also holds strategic investments in Lone Wolf Technologies , Homepoint , CoreLogic and Meridian. This is an exciting milestone for all Keller Williams agents and franchisees, Gary Keller, the co-founder and executive chairman of Keller Williams, said in a prepared statement.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

They also explore the National Association of Realtors ‘ (NAR) commission lawsuit settlement , agent training deficiencies and more. Dwiggins: Since we started the company back in 2014, we were always looking to try and be a little bit different from the rest of the industry, in the sense of it wasn’t about having tons of agents.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

During the conversation, the duo discuss traditional real estate team structures, offer unique resources for new team members and cover future trends in the real estate industry. To start the episode, Dowell dives into her early career as a new real estate agent in Chicago. When I bring agents on, I also help them with marketing.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The platform is intended for housing professionals in various sectors, including 5 million loan officers, appraisers , servicers , underwriters , developers, agents, brokers, attorneys and regulators. housing industry,“ Devi Mateti , CoreLogic’s president of enterprise digital solutions, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

The industry veterans describe it as an AI-driven platform for real estate team and brokerage valuations and sales. If news leaks that a brokerage is for sale they risk losing agents and triggering competitor recruitment, which can greatly affect value, the announcement explains.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

The brokerage has hired industry veteran Nikol Solares as senior managing director of new development marketing. “We are poised for continued success, supporting our agents and expanding Compass footprint across the region. Compass currently has more than 33,000 agents in its national network.

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Housing Wire

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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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2025

As real estate agents, we have an obligation to help [people] find a place even when its going to be difficult. If youre a supplier in our industry who can provide furniture or relocation assistance, WE NEED YOUR HELP. The charity is offering emergency grants, as well as supplies and assistance, for agents and their immediate families.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

31, 2023, and has since reshaped the business practices for real estate brokerages and agents across the country. For us, probably the biggest change has just been a refocus on the engagement that our agents have with the consumer at the inception of a real estate transaction,” Kelly said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Despite having long ago settled the commission lawsuits , legal challenges continue to mount for real estate industry giant Anywhere. On Friday, the firm and some of its subsidiaries and agents were accused of violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and the Lanham Act.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This is evident when you ask any highly successful agent where they find their clients. That’s wonderful and something to be admired, yet I’ve had many agents who are earlier in their careers ask me HOW these agents built this referral machine. Asking for referrals can be intimidating for some agents and it can feel sales-y.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And that’s, as you outlined, another example of us enabling the real estate industry to become more digital, integrated and productive. Robinson : How would you help agents understand how you are positioning your technology for the good of the industry and for the good of the agent? We have a phrase at Zillow.

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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. Launched in 2004, Redfin was named after the companys mission to redefine the real estate industry.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2025

Redfin may have been acquired by Rocket , but it still operates a real estate listing portal and it doesnt want the industry to forget that it too has skin in the the debate surrounding the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Clear Cooperation Policy (CCP). Zillow and Redfin are not the only firm with strong opinions about this issue.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Right now, the industry will wait for that letter of intent signed by both parties to confirm the rumor. In the meantime, industry experts speculate on the potential impact and implications. ” Maybe the decentralized, high-trust nature of real estate sales isn’t a business he wants to stay in.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

Despite the appeal of running their own operation, most find themselves facing financial challenges due to high overhead costs, intense competition, agent commission structures, and ineffective business strategies. Agent commission structures In order to attract top-producing agents, brokerages often offer competitive commission splits.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In this week’s episode of the Power House podcast , host Diego Sanchez sits down with FirstTeam Real Estate CEO Michele Harrington for a provocative conversation about female empowerment, leadership in the real estate industry and recruitment strategies. We do a disservice to our industry when women don’t step up and lead.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Since joining Zillow Group she has served as senior vice president and general manager of StreetEasy , and senior vice president over the Premier Agent program. Most recently, Choo has served as senior vice president of real estate software, which saw him lead sales for Premier Agent, ShowingTime and dotloop.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Yes, it was a meaningful component, but in fact, the MLS is really the center of how the industry operates.” ’We We as an industry have spent 30 to 40 years building the greatest marketplace ever in the world of real estate for home buyers and sellers,” Dwiggins said. We’ve come a long way since then.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The Tech100 Real Estate award honors the most innovative and impactful companies transforming the real estate industry. Now in its 6th year, the Tech100 Real Estate program provides a trusted resource for real estate professionals, showcasing the industrys top technology providers. Explore the full list of this years honorees below.

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Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2024

Like many in title , Iain Bryant, the newly appointed president of Stewart Title’s agency division, found his way into the industry through family. Services , a title production business, in 1990, and after growing up surrounded by the title industry, Bryant said he was determined to never be part of the industry. “My

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

RealTrends Verified first arrived on scene in March 2024 as the first dual-verified real estate sales performance platform that highlights brokerages , agents and teams that deserve to stand out among their peers. How can agents and teams benefit in 2025? of real estate professionals. But that isn’t the half of it.

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