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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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reAlpha gets into the mortgage brokerage biz, acquires Be My Neighbor

Housing Wire

million in cash paid on the closing date, $1.5 Be My Neighbor will continue to operate under its brand led by co-founders Christopher Griffith, Isabel Williams and Nathan Knottingham. Publicly traded real estate software firm reAlpha Tech Corp. reAlpha agreed to pay Be My Neighbor an aggregate purchase price of up to $6 million.

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New construction vs. resale homes: How agents can guide buyers in today’s market

Housing Wire

It can be tough for a buyer to choose when faced with the allure of a brand-new build or the charm and affordability of an older home. Brand-new systems and materials usually mean homeowners are less likely to have major repair bills in the first few years of homeownership.

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Compass’s title firm runs into trouble in Washington

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The complaint, filed in early 2020, comes from two rival firms that claimed Modus committed various co-branding and social media violations. The state of Washington is set to revoke the license of Modus , a title and escrow service software company owned by Compass, effective April 1.

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Why real estate professionals must return to old-school thinking in 2025

Housing Wire

For homeowners , stay top-of-mind by providing ongoing valuelike market insights or renovation adviceso they return when its time to sell. Consider platforms that centralize operations from lead generation to closing. Stuart Sim is the Head of Industry Development & Brand Ambassador for Lofty.

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How top LOs plan to beat the odds in 2023

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Krichmar, whose $100 million-plus origination volume in 2022 consisted of 77% purchase loans, expects LOs to be working longer hours to find referral partners, trying to close loans faster than the others and diversifying their mortgage product offerings to combat an industry that shrank by more than half this year.

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DataDigest: iBuyers slide farther from hyped market disruption

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Offerpad is an instant buyer, or iBuyer, a company that gives sellers cash offers for their homes and attempts to resell the homes for a profit, sometimes after making renovations. In November 2021, about four years after its first home sale, Zillow decided to close its iBuying division. Opendoor’s stock closed at $2.09

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