Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

HW Media, publisher of HousingWire, FinLedger, and producer of Engage Events, today announced it has closed on the strategic acquisition of REAL Trends, the residential real estate industry’s leading report that ranks the performance of the top U.S. brokerage firms.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2021

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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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Anywhere Real Estate partnered with agent-client collaboration platform RealScout to allow the company’s affiliated real estate agents and franchise owners “to engage, nurture, and convert clients at each stage of the real estate journey,” according to an announcement on Friday. How does it work ?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Mortgage professionals need a solution that gives them total insight across the customer life cycle and that can offer multiple functionalities that keep them top of mind with customers – even after the loan closes. Ultimately, Surefire users have the right functionality at their fingertips for every stage of the loan life cycle.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2022

As Chief Marketing Officer at OJO Labs , Karen Starns will be taking the stage for the “1+1=3 The Marketing Strategy of M&A” panel. In her role as CMO, Starns oversees a fast-growing, agile team across product marketing, brand, creative and insights. Women of Influence Forum.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Designed from the ground up based on the real-world experiences, pain points, and best practices, CANDID focuses on simplicity while delivering a consistent brand experience across every touchpoint—from its natively built POS, automated marketing content, and portals to fulfillment automations and client retention experience.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The right open house strategies will generate leads and establish your brand presence in high-demand neighborhoods among your most desired clientele. We share some open house ideas to help you do just that, taking you through the planning, staging, marketing, hosting and follow-up for your open house events. Let’s dig in!

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

So, it is the best place to get attention on a brand.” No other competitor comes close to our investment to drive leads to all agents,” the video states. 2, but we are just beginning to market our brand to consumers. This is the next stage in the development of Homes.com. We’ve climbed from No. 5 or 6 to No.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2021

And yet, Bob has surrounded himself with a top-notch team of highly-skilled professional photographers, staging experts, graphic designers and other specialists. Bob takes a huge amount of pride in the presentation and marketing of a property, and he works with clients personally from the pre-listing stage all the way through to the closing.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

successfully closed on the sale of this luxury, 4,700-square-foot property on Park Avenue on the Upper East SIde of Manhattan for $13 million. Bring polish and consistency to your social media branding with this $54 monthly subscription service that lets you customize your message without having to fret over branding and design.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

They will take the stage to share insights, advice and stories that attendees can take back to their organizations to inspire further change and hard work. . ” Attendees will hear Starns speak on: Branding a newly combined company. You don’t want to miss seeing these women in action! Marketing strategies. Carrie Gusmus.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As a result, homeowners either must sell their current home and suffer through double moves and short-term rentals to access the equity they’ve accrued, or they have to make contingent offers that require the sale of their current house to close. Consequently, 37% of homeowners say they want to move but are staying in their current home.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

To help, Tom Ferry’s brand new Recruiting Roadmap course offers group coaching sessions with talented team leaders like you. Treat agents like potential customers, not dollar signs When building out your recruiting system, it can help to see the agents you want to recruit as potential customers instead of leads to close.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The platform’s mobile-first approach enables lenders to close more loans through on-the-go origination tools while also delivering the modern convenience that today’s consumers have come to expect. After downloading the mobile app, borrowers can upload documents, eSign disclosures and closing documents, and check their status in real-time.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Unfortunately, purchased leads are expensive, and their lofty price tag does not guarantee they will convert to closed loans. A dependency on purchased leads not only weakens a lender’s brand, but it also indicates that an organization is missing out on opportunities to capture the business of contacts already in its database.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2020

From refis to first-time-homebuyers in the beginning stages of their search, consumer interest has certainly been piqued by low rates and is only growing stronger. Consumers increasingly tuning out messaging and brands that are not relevant to them based upon their needs and interests in the moment.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Sure, they made mistakes, but today their social media accounts are helping them build their personal brands and generate leads — even while they sleep. Studies show that 58% of people would be willing to pay MORE to work with someone who doesn’t work for a big company, but has an established personal brand. That’s where hooks come in.

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Housing Wire

JULY 10, 2024

In this article, I’ll share close to two decades of experience as a licensed agent and small brokerage owner in Boston to help you compete and win listings with a dynamite listing presentation. Step 1: Set the stage for success Real estate agents are famous for selling the importance of location, location, location.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

Teams that work in multiple farm areas or those who want to expand to new areas will also appreciate having a branded, lead-capturing website for each area they serve. Leads are generated and captured on an IDX home search website First, Zurple creates a custom-branded IDX home search website for you. Zurple’s pricing: Is it worth it?

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RIS Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Most luxury real estate professionals and their clients know staging trends are important. But did you know staging changes as the market evolves? Of course, there are timeless aspects of staging…. Or that luxury staging can afford to take more risks? That means you should have a grasp on staging trends yourself.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

If your marketing isn’t aligned with your niche, personal brand, and skills, you’ll waste time, money and effort pursuing it. I put together this guide to help you find your niche and create a real estate marketing plan aligned with your brand, personality, and local market. Is the return worth it? For me, I’d say absolutely yes!

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2025

To save you some time, here are Vetted by HousingWires top six real estate schools in Colorado: SCHOOL BEST FOR DELIVERY COST The CE Shop A real estate school you can stick to through all stages of your career, as they offer courses from pre-licensing through manager broker licensing. Need flexibility?

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The Close

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

You can edit your virtually staged property listing videos directly from your browser using Vimeo’s state-of-the-art tools and drag-and-drop timeline editor. Pricing: 5.0 General Features: 5.0 Ease of Use: 4.6 Customer Service: 5.0 Reputation: 3.5 Expert Score: 5.0 Pricing: 5.0 General Features: 5.0 Ease of Use: 4.6 Customer Service: 5.0

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2021

The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of this year. The lender and servicer prevailed in a lawsuit brought by the CFPB, which alleged that Ocwen failed “borrowers at every stage of the mortgage servicing process.” Texas Capital’s correspondent lending business originated approximately $2.4

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BAM Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Staying active on social , even during slower times, is essential if you want to keep building your brand and growing your business. Let your followers see what goes on behind the scenes when you’re not busy closing deals. Sharing your daily BTS can humanize your brand, making you more relatable to your audience. #3—Post

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

They are in high demand for each stage of the mortgage process, yet they are in seriously short supply in a still-booming mortgage market. There’s absolutely been cases where you’re hoping to close by a certain date, and it gets pushed out 30 days because of due diligence [needs]. …It

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BAM Media

MARCH 12, 2025

When he takes the stage, hosts a webinar, leads a mastermind, publishes content, or even just chats with someone at an event, it really is like witnessing prime MJ. Just the best representation of a brand you could ever ask for. Reals 2024 growth wasnt just in agent countit was across every metric: $1.26

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BAM Media

APRIL 2, 2025

What if I told you a $20-a-month AI tool could do your staging , design, and marketing in seconds? Think virtual staging, interior design renderings, custom graphics, you name it. Virtual Staging Empty listing? Virtual staging with ChatGPT is like hiring a digital stager who works in seconds. No furniture? No problem.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Its Enterprise Solutions group includes title and closing service providers WFG Lender Services, WFG Default Title Services and Valutrust Solutions, a national appraisal management and property valuation provider. Another important landmark in 2015 was the addition of WFG Board Member Steve Ozonian as president and CEO. To 2021 and beyond.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2021

Shares closed trading at $20.90, giving Blend a valuation of around $4.6 Black Knight and ICE Mortgage Technology (formerly known as Ellie Mae) have far larger market caps and a strong interest in every stage of the mortgage origination and servicing process. Blend Labs ‘ life as a public company is off to a promising start.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Build your social media presence (Source: Coffee & Contracts ) Whether youre breaking down market trends on Instagram or sharing home staging tips on TikTok, Coffee & Contracts makes it easy to keep your content fresh and relevant. Thats alright, you can build a landing page to solidify your online footprint.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

Its services include professional photography, no upfront fees, all negotiations, pricing, staging advice, showing monitoring and more for a flat 1% fee. . Our agents focus on branding our unique value proposition which has clients pursuing them. That large volume of listings is then used to create real buyer clients organically.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Conversely, passive agents who expect AI to build their “expert agent” brand will not survive the inevitable industry disruption. It could be the listings, noteworthy closed transactions, blog posts, videos, podcasts, website copy and agent bios. Think of a custom chatbot as a ChatGPT that is uploaded with the agent’s data.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

With interest rates hitting all-time lows, lenders doubled their origination volume to more than $4 trillion in both 2020 and 2021, hired more staff and ramped up investment in technology to close loans faster. The deal isn’t expected to close until 2023 as executives must persuade regulators the acquisition doesn’t hinder competition.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2023

How the solutions work For those already familiar with other GSE appraisal alternatives, the new solutions’ names shouldn’t strike you as brand new. This efficiency enhances the overall lending process, allowing LOs to accelerate their workflow and reduce the time it takes to close deals.

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Inman

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Revenue, closed transaction volume and net income fell in Q3, earnings data on Thursday shows. But a strong luxury push and October uptick in buyer activity have set the stage for a robust Q4.

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BAM Media

MARCH 10, 2025

Real Estate Commissions (Your Primary Income Stream) This ones obvious: closing deals is the foundation of your income. Monetizing Your Personal Brand Your brand is an income-generating asset, not just a marketing tool. If youre only using it to close deals, you could be leaving a lot of money on the table.

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