Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

Is the home being marketed effectively? Is the price aligned with current market conditions? Here are the initial items to check on: Marketing photos and description: Start by reviewing your marketing strategy. Online appearance: Double-check that the listing is accurate and optimized in the MLS. Does it show well?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

If so, here’s how to return back to our roots and navigate an ever changing market. Additionally, with cooperative compensation removed from MLS systems, alongside the new requirement for buyer-agency agreements, agents must speak up and share their value clearly and confidently. Isn’t that promising?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2024

Market Leader is an all-in-one solution for generating real estate leads, nurturing them with automated tools, and converting them into long-term clients. Its suite of tools includes a robust CRM, a real estate website, predictive analytics, marketing automation, and much more. Summary Key specs How does Market Leader work?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

The weekly data shows some good news for the housing market ! With mortgage rates also falling, I am hopeful that more people will list their homes and buy another, so we can get back to a more functional housing market. However, that has changed recently, so it’s time for the housing market to put up or shut up for spring 2023.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

People going through divorce and need to sell (and potentially buy a new placeor two), people moving across the country for a new job and estate/probate sales after someone has passed away are the three most common life stages in which property needs to be sold. Days on market accrue. Thats your future business!

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

We’ll also share best practices for developing and sending real estate newsletters and recommend some essential tools to make your email marketing stand out. Save time with pre-written newsletters from Market Leader Don’t have time to write three or more newsletters every month? Lets dive in!

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

Yet I still hired a professional real estate photographer, and we had an accepted offer after just four days on the market. The fact that the photos showcased how much light the small condo got made it attractive to buyers and made it stand out from the other listings on the market. Which photos stand out? Which grab your attention?

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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. Also top of the list, agents are marketers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Showings: Explain how you, as the agent, will find and send properties through MLS searches and set expectations for how you will conduct property tours. While you want your clients to be prepared, focus primarily on the immediate next steps and reiterate the key details as you progress through each stage of the transaction.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Dawn Pfaff is a free-market evangelist, and that informs how she runs MyState MLS. We weren’t named in the litigation, we weren’t named in the copycat cases and we didn’t have the mandated rules that were named in the litigation,” said Jeremy Crawford, president and CEO of First MLS. “So,

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Here’s a guide to making your open house a can’t-miss occasion, with creative open house ideas that run the gamut from planning to marketing — from being the host with most to providing superb client follow-up. Listing and marketing properties is a complicated process. But what exactly is the right approach? Let’s dig in!

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The number of housing units that came online in September showed a big year-over-year jump, but data on earlier stages of construction suggest not much is coming through the pipeline. Single-family construction in earlier stages of construction are a bright spot in the data, with permits for one-unit housing rising 0.3%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

1, a decrease from last week’s figure of 6.69%, according to Freddie Mac ’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey released on Thursday. Khater added that the solid jobs market, income growth and household formation growth should provide strong fundamental support to the housing market in the months ahead.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

It makes sense for the Federal Open Market Committee to cut interest rates in September, given that inflation is mainly tied to housing costs and housing costs are being driven by high mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

New findings from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) show a fresh picture of who’s buying and selling homes, with more first-time buyers entering the market and families looking for homes that fit multiple generations. Join their waiting list for access to a treasure trove of digital marketing tools and some sweet discounts.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

An industry favorite for its popular CRM, Top Producer can help you keep in touch with all your prospects with timely text messages, emails, and market reports delivered to their inbox. Top Producer can also help you automate your marketing with branded MLS reports. before they even ask — and easily track client engagement.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2024

Alisande Heriyanto , vice president of product and tech support at The Corcoran Group , which focuses on the luxury home market, said on stage during HousingWire ‘s AI Summit in Dallas on Tuesday that the company is adopting AI in its product ecosystem to bring more efficiency to real estate agents.

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RIS Media

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Attending the International MLS Forum in Milan Oct.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

model of local MLS broker marketplaces has long been — and still is — considered the best value in the world. NAR stands by its pro-consumer, pro-competitive guidance for affiliated local broker marketplaces that ensure equity, efficiency, transparency and market-driven pricing options for home buyers and sellers,” Williams wrote in an email.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Originally filed in 2019, the lawsuit won class-action status shortly after, and alleges that some NAR rules, including one that requires listing brokers to offer buyers’ brokers a commission in order to list a property in a Realtor-affiliated MLS, violate the Sherman Antitrust Act by inflating seller costs.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

market experts are rolling out?all a buyer’s market. ? . Why focus on what the national experts are saying when you could be an expert in your very own market??? . Finding out that Chicago’s real estate market could still skyrocket a double-digit percentage?is certain neighboring market’s? Market data can?help

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2024

I vividly recall when Homie first entered the market. By offering consumers more affordable options and greater flexibility, these models have expanded access to real estate services, particularly for individuals and families navigating an arguably more difficult housing market. That’s what discounted brokerages are for now.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

And the result is that the real estate agents of homebuyers can overlook newly built homes because those homes have not been properly entered into the MLS , and promoted the way existing homes are. Ben Caballero : Our service supports builders, sales, their marketing and then management as it relates to marketing their homes to realtors.

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Housing Wire

JULY 10, 2024

Research market data Your work begins once you and your client have set an appointment to meet. It’s crucial for you to know the market and understand the numbers. Your local MLS and association can help you find these crucial data points. Market Inventory: What is the current market and micro-market inventory?

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Today, I would like to present the most notable of these rules, which is based on how they will affect market participants and the process of buying, selling, listing, or viewing a property, in person or online. We amend the MLS listing to include the $75,000 in imported Italian furniture, but what about the $40 HomeSense mirror?

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2021

Using Xome’s Xpert Seller Program, servicers can help borrowers determine the best marketing strategy list and sell their homes. This new program is designed to connect borrowers with local real estate professionals and guide them through the process of marketing and selling their home.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

Nick Bailey, RE/MAX Chief Customer Officer, paced back and forth on a convention hall stage Thursday, warning of a “bogeyman,” be it Zillow or some other existential threat, that always seems to threaten the home broker. It has a market cap of $1.16 Nick Bailey, courtesy of RE/MAX. Gaddis recommended a series of measures.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

Starting at: ~$1000 per month Visit Boomtown Also Popular Market Leader An affordable all-in-one lead generation and nurturing platform Market Leader offers a complete marketing suite with email and SMS marketing services, lead capture forms, and a built-in lead management CRM, and its in-house advertising experts send leads exclusively to you.

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RIS Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Above: Gary Keller, Jay Papasan and Jason Abrams on stage for Keller Williams’ Family Reunion event in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Feb. Above: Gary Keller, Jay Papasan and Jason Abrams on stage for Keller Williams’ Family Reunion event in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Feb.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2020

As interest rates continue to stay well below 3% with no end in sight, lenders are faced with consumer demand from all corners of the housing market. 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.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

use their answers in your marketing) “Are there any light fixtures, appliances, or window treatments we need to exclude from the listing that you’ll be taking with you?” Prepare your initial comparative market analysis (CMA). Look at the old MLS listing and public record and check the assessor’s database.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

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Easy Agent Pro

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

According to buyers’ agents, “Staging the living room was found to be most important for buyers.” (NAR). Forty-two percent of buyers’ agents claim that the master bedroom is second in importance when it comes to staging. Even stranger is the number of buyers’ agents who feel staging “has an effect on most buyers’ view of the home.”

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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. He said he’s also interested in seeing where homes will be listed since they will no longer be required to be in the MLS system.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

So with that in mind, let me start today’s MLS Musings with a few helpful hints for any learners currently reading… – As a Realtor, attention to detail is important. This applies in many areas, but when writing your MLS ‘blurb,’ it’s incredible what a difference one letter can make. Staging tiger?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

Under the terms of the settlement, agents will no longer be allowed to share their seller’s offers of buyer broker compensation on an MLS. Like the athletes in Paris, Realtors and brokers across the U.S. have been busy training and preparing to be ready for Aug.

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RIS Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In today’s competitive real estate market, making a positive first impression is more crucial than ever. One effective strategy to enhance a property’s appeal and facilitate a quicker sale is through the art of home staging.

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