Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In this article, we’ve gathered 30 real estate text message scripts designed to help you connect with leads, nurture relationships, and get more deals to the closing table this coming year. Use my well-worn, proven scripts below to build connection and close more deals. I’m so excited for you. Let me know if you’d like the list!

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

In fact, there aren’t many mortgage lenders, builders or real estate brokerages that haven’t at least fleetingly entertained the notion. That’s probably why so many title and closing firms have tried their hand at CRE business in the effort to diversify. And why not?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The nightmare created by Keller Williams’ decision to make changes to its profit-sharing program appears to be coming to a close. The news comes after James McFarlane filed notice last month that he had settled his lawsuit with the brokerage. district court in Nevada. The changes had been slated to go into effect in July 2024.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

“Profit share allows associates to build their businesses inside our franchise model, which is as powerful as if they owned a brokerage themselves.” In May, the brokerage announced that its International Association Leadership Council (IALC) had made the decision to rescind these changes. The lawsuits, however, are still pending.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Illinois-based Baird & Warner , an independent real estate brokerage, partnered with proptech firm RealReports , the companies announced Tuesday. The collaboration is designed to allow all of Baird & Warner’s 2,000-plus agents to benefit from RealReports’s wide-ranging property data. brokerage still in operation.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2024

real estate brokerage Compass announced Wednesday that it has hired Hal Bennett, a high-producing agent based in the Seattle area. In the announcement, Compass said that Bennett is ”known for his meticulous attention to detail and high conversion rates,” and he has ”successfully closed many high-value transactions, including a reimagined $3.45

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

Engel & Volkers Atlanta , a luxury real estate brokerage, announced Thursday that Christopher Burell is joining the firm as its new chief growth officer. Christopher Burell Burell will work closely with the firm’s founder and CEO, Christa Huffstickler, to oversee company management, team- and brand-building strategies, and agent growth.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The suits began piling up after the firm announced in August 2023 that it was cutting its profit-share distribution for vested “former” KW agents — those who joined the company before April 1, 2020, and left for another brokerage — from 100% to 5%. Agents join the profit-sharing program by designating a sponsor when they join a market center.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Here’s four strategies for leaders looking to maximize growth and position their brokerages and teams for success. It also provides your agents with consistent closings, creating a more predictable and growth-focused pipeline. First, you free up your agents to focus on what they do best: closing deals.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Real estate website design is evolving fast. In 2025, effective websites leverage beautiful imagery, videography, graphics, copywriting, captivating typography and user experience design (UX) to educate buyers and sellers and sell you as a hyper-local market expert and trusted advisor. Great design ensures that they wont.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

And often your first impression as a brokerage or an agent is your online presence. A well-designed and captivating digital platform instantly conveys professionalism, credibility and exclusivity — and the opposite can turn customers away. First impressions matter, especially in the luxury real estate market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Last but not least, real estate agents prepare documents such as closing documents, purchase agreements, and leases while ensuring that the transaction is in compliance with local laws and their client’s terms are met. An agent may also be present at closings to review closing documents and help guide their client through the final steps.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Carlson explores his early career journey, including insights into how he grew the brokerage. Today, the company has about 740 agents and 22 offices, and it closed some 8,000 transactions in 2024. Carlson and Velt close the conversation by exploring the criteria for a good succession plan.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

According to the announcement, once homebuyers sign an exclusive buyer agency agreement with a Howard Hanna agent, they can then work with the brokerage’s in-house mortgage team to get preapproved for a loan. Once the transaction is successfully closed by the Howard Hanna agent and mortgage team, the buyer will receive a credit of 0.5%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2021

” “The NAR and its MLS partners, which now include Zillow, are allowed to once again close off transparent access to home inventory by entering into agreements among themselves that disadvantage all but their own membership; consumers and competition will suffer,” read the lawsuit. Real Estate Tech Demo Hour.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Edgerton and Reisinger will have an impact on the global network of 550-plus independent real estate brokerages. Kate Reisinger was promoted to COO from EVP of member services Reisinger’s role will be to design and conduct the company’s operations. million global transactions a year. million global transactions a year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2024

The recent commission lawsuits have had a profound impact on real estate agents and brokerages as they face increased scrutiny and pressure to provide more transparency in their commission structures and potential conflicts of interest. Nominations for HousingWire’s 2024 Marketing Leaders Leaders award are open now through April 30th, 2024.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Pareja took over as CEO at eXp in April 2024 and became the first Hispanic CEO of a major real estate brokerage in U.S. eXp purposely designed the document in a way that uses as little legal jargon as possible, so as to not confuse buyers and sellers.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The new rules mandated by the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) antitrust settlement are designed to encourage more negotiations for buyer agent commissions. But different brokerages are experiencing different things. Almost a month after the rules went into effect, that appears to be happening.

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2024

In a message on Realtor Hub , a forum for NAR members, trade group president Kevin Sears told members that the DOJ is keeping “a close eye” on the industry, as first reported by Inman News. This came after a closed-door meeting with federal regulators late last week, led by Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

The data are sobering: The Agent Movement Index , the number of experienced Realtors switching brokerages each month, was at its lowest level since 2016. The number of agents switching brokerages is ticking upward and markets are stabilizing across the country. Thankfully, 2024 is shaping up to be a much better year for recruiters.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2020

And that’s exactly what brokerages and agents need if they want to rapidly respond to, nurture and convert those leads into opportunities and commissions. Most have been designed to help instantly answer questions and qualify leads before handing them off to an agent. Chat and Chatbots. Why does this matter? CINC (Commissions Inc.)

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

These rankings are designed to help top-performing agents and teams highlight their accomplishments within their specific local markets, enhancing their credibility where it matters most — close to home. Agents, Teams, and Brokerages must submit verifiable data in order to be ranked.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2021

When you are able to add the number of closings we do to our agents’ book of business, they understand the importance of delivering the results we require.”. Technology plays a key role in managing a platform like JMG, where each real estate agent is under the JMG brokerage umbrella. Technology plays a vital role in this.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Held live from the National Association of Realtors ‘ (NAR) NXT Conference in Boston, the conversation covers broker leadership tips, the value of designations and certifications, and educational resources for real estate agents. If you want to have successful brokerages, you need to have successful agents. NAR has the L.E.A.D

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

California-based Impac Mortgage Holdings , a former mortgage lender repositioning itself as a brokerage firm, announced on Thursday that NYSE American, LLC. on Thursday at about 11:00 AM EST, up 2.23% compared to the previous closing. Impac does not intend to appeal the determination, the company said in a filing with the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

That’s why we’ve designed our HW Annual event Oct. HW Annual will feature a keynote from Ryan Serhant , founder and CEO of SERHANT real estate brokerage, which leverages media, education, entertainment, tech and marketing to sell luxury real estate. The market shift this year will be a watershed for the housing industry.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2024

This new settlement agreement was enacted on August 17th, 2024, and has been designed to increase transparency in real estate transactions and change how compensation is communicated and negotiated between parties. We have been aware of this for a while and have fully prepared for the changes this will bring.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Having the right real estate transaction management and CRM softwares is not just helpful, but rather a necessity for navigating the complexities of a market where informed decisions and quick responses can make the difference between closing a deal and missing an opportunity.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

The report did not touch on forms created by individual brokerages. “I Due to this brokerages and Realtors associations across the country have had to create and distribute forms for their agents and members to use in order to comply with the terms of the settlement. I have reviewed several dozen of these new forms,” Monestier wrote.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Instead of generic design templates, LCA Marketing Center’s templates are designed for agents, by agents. The app allows you to quickly choose and edit design templates for social media, flyers, postcards, and even signs and business cards — all from your phone.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Chime’s all-in-one CRM and sales acceleration platform is designed to help real estate agents, teams, and brokerages close more deals faster. The platform combines IDX websites, lead generation, marketing automation, advanced lead management, and powerful AI to cost-effectively capture and convert leads into new business.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

For the well-prepared real estate brokerages, this holds a promising future. The fusion of technology, quick sales and incredible demand from the public have created a tsunami of discount-based brokerages trying to fill that public demand. Today, both sellers and buyers expect to handle a majority of the process online.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2023

What makes Qualia’s title and escrow products unique is the ability to achieve an unparalleled level of internal team connectivity, as well as connectivity with other transaction parties — such as lenders, brokerages, vendors, underwriters, banks and consumers — by bringing everyone together via a shared system.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Utah-based software developer offers a private-label digital mortgage platform and mobile app designed to connect lenders with borrowers and real estate agents. Most recently, the private-equity firm invested in Real , a technology-powered real estate brokerage in 2020, and perhaps most notably, e-recording provider Simplifile in 2013.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

If you opt for the handwritten note option, I’d shorten this by removing the last paragraph and jumping straight from the data to the closing sentence. My name is (your name), and I’m a licensed real estate professional with (your brokerage). Dear (first name), I’m (your name), a local real estate professional with (brokerage).

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2023

In February 2022, UWM filed a lawsuit against AML, claiming the brokerage firm owes $2.8 Now, faced with legal action because it closed numerous loans with Rocket in breach of the amendment while it was in effect, AML seeks to rewrite its bargain by asserting facially defective antitrust claims,” UWM states in its motion.

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