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The best real estate closing gifts for 2025

Housing Wire

Real estate closing gifts personalize and ultimately strengthen the relationship between you and your client, which can lead to a string of referrals. We curated some standout closing gift ideas for buyers and sellers and assembled this guide to help you navigate the closing gift process.

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Navigating movement in the mortgage industry series: Post-closing matters are important too

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Regardless of whether you are on the buy or sell side for a mortgage lender and/or servicer in a M&A transaction, it is critical to focus on post-closing matters too. Below are some of the items that wont necessarily be on your radar when you initially explore an acquisition or sale, but may need to be dealt with on a post-closing basis.

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How a new agent closed $17 million in his second year using this simple strategy

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Tom closed over $17 million in volume in his second year in real estate. Tom knew that building rapport and trust online as a brand-new agent was nearly impossible a lesson some new agents never learn. Tom honed his networking skills over a multi-decade career in product and business development for multinational brands.

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Rocket’s Varun Krishna thinks Redfin deal can expand opportunities for broker network

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” Shared brand values Rocket’s year to date has been marked by a series of changes in the company’s outreach and branding. “We think we can create a stronger overall brand by really optimizing the interaction between these brands.”

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Sherry Chris named special adviser to NAR CEO Nykia Wright

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Sherry Chris may have retired from her role as president and CEO of Anywhere Expansion Brands including the Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate (BHGRE) and ERA Real Estate brands but that doesnt mean she hasnt been keeping busy.

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FOA’s Kristen Sieffert talks about growing the business in 2025

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Sieffert called 2024 a significant period of strategic alignment for the company, citing the unification of its disparate brands under a single banner, and the challenges she said were overcome as it processed the particulars of its acquisition of American Advisors Group (AAG), the industrys former leading player.

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Thinking of joining a real estate team? Here’s everything you should know

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Fleet Homes Real Estate Team – Keller Williams Real estate teams are comprised of real estate agents and other professionals working together towards one common goal to close deals. Depending on the team’s structure, agents can work closely together or independently. Teams are led by a team leader.