Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Dwiggins: Tell us a little bit about the acquisition of Virtual Staging AI and the strategy for that. Wacksman: It’s a great young company that has innovated a way to do virtual staging. Dwiggins: With this app, how do you balance between what the agents and the brokerage want with the sellers’ wants?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

In fact, the sweet spot for acquisitions over the next couple of years is going to be the small one-office brokerage firms.” With the headwinds facing the real estate industry, Wright and Murray believe smaller brokerage firms will be looking for a place to land, making acquisitions a possibility for even one-office, 25 agent firms.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2024

The motions filed by Compass , eXp World Holdings , Redfin , Weichert Realtors and United Real Estate claim that the homebuyer plaintiffs are simply trying “to parrot the allegations they made in an amended complaint,” which was filed in the Batton 1 suit that consists of the same plaintiffs but a different group of brokerage defendants.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

That can include being a housing market expert and advising clients on the best times to list or buy a home; having referrals handy for inspections, repairs, staging and photography; understanding the mortgage origination process; and more. Now, it’s time to join a brokerage. How do real estate agents get paid?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

Before rushing to a price reduction for your real estate listing, its important to take a step back and evaluate all the factors that could be affecting the sale. Inside, staging can make a huge difference. Simply put, there are more buyers than there are homes for sale. Is the home being marketed effectively? Does it show well?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Yun took the stage on Tuesday at NAR NXT , the trade group’s annual conference in Anaheim, California. However, as mortgage rates stabilize and home sellers adapt, “Existing-home sales will rise by 15% next year,” Yun said. In 2023, new-home sales are up 5% year to date, Yun said. Consumers are happy with real estate service.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

On Thursday, MLS leaders took center stage at several conference sessions, including discussions of the business practice changes driven by the NAR commission lawsuit settlement and how the role of the MLS — and the MLS-broker relationship — has evolved as a result. “And We’ve come a long way since then.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 26, 2023

There is no question that the headline of the year in 2023 for many publicly traded brokerages was the commission lawsuits. At this stage there is obviously a wide range of potential outcomes of how the lawsuit storyline could unfold next year. Morgan , said.

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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. million sales volume last year. ”At At this stage, joining Compass, a company at the forefront of technology and agent support, makes sense for my business,” Bennett said in a statement. 17 with $47.7

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2025

Just a few years later, I was breaking sales records, and at age 27, I was on the cover of Realtor Magazines 30 Under 30. Many brokerages offer a group E&O insurance policy and others may have additional requirements. Therefore, you should do your due diligence on your brokerage before investing in an E&O policy.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

The campaign aims to boost brand visibility during peak real estate sales seasons. “Our network was eager to elevate the ERA brand on a national stage, and baseball, with its deep community ties and diverse fanbase, aligns perfectly with our target market.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2023

Recruitment is a crucial determinant of growth and success for real estate brokerages. Like your customer, the recruitment process can be visualized as a sales funnel, where potential recruits enter at the top, and the best-suited agents emerge at the bottom as ideal members of your team or brokerage.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2024

The recent announcement of Homie’s decision to strip its brokerage services and end employment for its real estate agents has once again brought the discussion of alternative models in real estate to the forefront. Many limited service brokerages have faced similar hurdles in their quest to disrupt the status quo.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The Specialized Team Every team members role is based on their strengths agents specialize in either listings or sales, while support staff focuses on marketing or transactional details. They work to appropriately price listings, stage homes, and prepare properties to go to market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2024

Bough — who is overseeing the Sitzer/Burnett and Gibson/Umpa commission cases — granted preliminary approval to the brokerage firm’s settlement agreement. HomeServices of America is the third-largest brokerage in the country by transaction sides at 235,861 in 2023, according to the latest RealTrends Verified rankings.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

For example: What do you hope to achieve in the sale of your home? It also helps include them in solution-building, setting the stage for a negotiation that everyone leaves satisfied with. This shows you care and sets the stage for the other party to do the same. For example: Im sorry if I missed something.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A common thought among brokers revolves around the idea that if your gross commission income or office size is not increasing, you’re not successfully growing your brokerage. According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the average tenure of an agent with a brokerage is six years.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2024

The largest brokerage in the country by sales volume is working to further solidify its presence in middle Tennessee. 18 small team in Tennessee by sales volume, according to the 2024 RealTrends Verified rankings. million in sales volume in 2023. The Knox Team is the No. The team closed $45.8

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Real estate brokerage eXp Realty has added industry veteran Wendy Forsythe to its leadership team. Her visionary approach will be crucial in elevating eXp Realty’s presence and impact on the world stage,” Leo Pareja , the newly CEO of eXp Realty, said in a statement. 3 spot in the rankings.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

I was nervous at first, but I enjoy a challenge, and at this stage, I feel like I’ve got a strategy in place that is really going to set me apart from people who are still trying to figure it out,” VantHof said. Training on forms has been a central focus of brokerages across the country. And the agents are scared,” Lamacchia said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

brokerage firms. In addition, HW Media will be home to the industry’s leading journalists and creators, charged with building communities and serving audiences across digital media brands, virtual and live-event stages, and social media and podcast platforms. We believe they will build on our years of REAL Trends industry excellence.”.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

For example, tips on home staging for a quick sale, how to get top dollar for a property, or advice on how to improve curb appeal are all topics that a seller might be interested in. RealEstateNews.com Tech trends, real estate news, brokerage and agent trends and news, and a data and research resource.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

million in annual sales. million in sales to stand out in the Queen City’s real estate scene. RealTrends Verified is accessible through RealTrends.com and HousingWire.com , attracting significant search traffic from homebuyers and sellers seeking top agents, teams and brokerages at the city, state and national levels.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

from 2023, and the brokerage said that similar growth is expected in 2025. We expect there will be slightly more sales this year, largely due to pent-up demand, but there wont be enough of an increase in listing activity to put significant downward pressure on prices.” Home sales also took a hit due to high prices.

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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

MAY 31, 2022

The chief executive officer for real estate brokerage Side announced a fresh $50 million in venture capital money spearheaded by ultra-prolific financier Tiger Global Management. For many years, everyone thought brokerage was ripe for major disruption,” said Gilles Duranton, real estate professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2024

In markets where inventory is tight, the way my agents are approaching it — and the way I’m advising them — is basically to use commission as a negotiation point in the sale. Michiels: So, at this stage, every real estate agent knows. We move forward, we buy a home and the seller is offering 1% toward commission at that stage.

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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

MARCH 15, 2024

At this early stage, it’s unclear how such commissions would be paid since buyers could pay their agents out of their pockets or negotiate commissions as a seller concession in the closing costs. Another consequence could be the emergence of real estate agents creating their brokerages and forming joint ventures with lenders, he said.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

At the 2024 Keller Williams Family Reunion event in Las Vegas, co-founder and executive chairman Gary Keller took the stage on Tuesday and spoke to a room full of real estate agents about the importance of buyer agency agreements within the context of the ongoing antitrust lawsuits. You are being accused of not being transparent. “If

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

For example, Redfin , a real estate brokerage firm, adopts VR to offer virtual walkthroughs of properties with QR codes. Virtual home staging According to Realtor.com, staging a 2,000-square-foot home typically costs between $2,000 and $2,400 per month. New agents can also practice their sales and negotiation skills.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Agents, one of the biggest factors in property sales is pricing. Whether assessing current agents on your team or co-op agents who might be a good fit for your office, these reports hone in on all of the local sales data that can help you recruit or coach?a yourself as a new real estate agent to a respected brokerage with multiple?offices?who

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

But as I write this blog post (over the weekend), I can only guess as to how October sales will look. In my monthly “TRREB Stats” blog post, I always examine three essential statistics in our real estate market: price, sales, and new listings. That , in my opinion, is the number-one reason why sales are slow right now.

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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

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. If you can’t nab listings like this, offer to sit open house events for busy agents at your brokerage who DO have listings in the areas you aspire to work in.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The suit’s class includes 265,297 home sale transactions that occurred during the relevant time period. I reported the numbers and walked off the stage.” Ketchmark also brought up Keller’s book “The Millionaire Real Estate Agent,” which discusses the ‘co-opetition’ model that has evolved among rival brokerages.

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