Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Traditional MLS data excels at structured information like price ranges, bedroom counts and square footage. IntelliSearch: Breaking free from traditional MLS constraints Traditional MLS taxonomy constraints (structured information like beds and baths) have limited agents’ ability to adapt to modern search behavior.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

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. To do so, develop strategies and programs that cater to buyers and sellers at every stage.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

Online appearance: Double-check that the listing is accurate and optimized in the MLS. Inside, staging can make a huge difference. Ensure all details are correct, complete and appealing to potential buyers. Visual appeal: If the home isnt generating interest, consider how it shows in person.

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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

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

MARCH 24, 2025

Do your research by logging into your local MLS and searching through the listings in your area. 3D tours, virtual staging, drone photos or video, etc. Some agents write into their listing agreements that if the property doesnt sell, the seller will reimburse the agents out-of-pocket expenses for photos and staging.

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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. Buyer’s agent : The buyer’s agent represents the buyer.

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RIS Media

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Attending the International MLS Forum in Milan Oct.

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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. Stage the home (including virtual staging) Staging homes generally helps you sell them faster and at higher prices. Here are two tools to help.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 23, 2025

While the industry continues to adapt to the new era of real estate, charting a path forward begins with an intentional focus on your goals in addition to going above and beyond… The post Setting the Stage for 2025: A Blueprint for Success appeared first on RISMedia.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Although affordability continues to impact homeownership, the combination of a solid economy, strong demographics and lower mortgage rates are setting the stage for a more robust housing market,” Freddie Mac chief economist Sam Khater said in a statement. But investors anticipate that the central bank will begin cutting rates this spring.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

Bright MLS chief economist Lisa Sturtevant raised the question of whether the Fed has waited too long to cut rates given how much housing costs are driving the metric. This should put downward pressure on mortgage rates this fall and winter and will set the stage for a much better season for homebuyers in 2025.

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2023

model of local MLS broker marketplaces has long been — and still is — considered the best value in the world. I am at an MLS conference this week and I was thinking I might be that kid sitting alone in the school cafeteria, but as it turns out, this is something that other industry folks are excited to talk about,” Rath said. “One

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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

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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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

If the seller wants to include the garden shed out back, or the sectional couch in the basement that won’t fit up the stairs, then they might do so, and this would be noted in the “INCLUSIONS” section of the MLS listing. Do you see where this is going? Do you see the implications? But what if there’s more ?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Top Producer can also help you automate your marketing with branded MLS reports. Transaction Management tools built into the new Top Producer CRM, agents and teams can start a new transaction by following prompts, selecting a contact’s Property Insight, or importing an active MLS listing.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2024

MLS connectivity: Connect your IDX-enabled website with your MLS and send listingsand listing details in marketing pieces. Take advantage of MLS integration that supports multiple MLSs and get lead insights, as well as neighborhood and market information.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

up-to-date, reliable data comes directly from your MLS. Real estate data analytics that partner with your MLS?provide?the Lone Wolf recognizes that an informed real estate professional is an empowered one, and data is truly a foundational building block for any stage of the process, from?establishing?yourself the same trusted,?accurate?data,?

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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. We have a specialized service to ensure that the builder’s homes are presented to the realtors through MLS in the most efficient and accurate way.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2024

These alternative models have shown that the real estate model of the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, where a real estate broker got a significant percentage of the sales price for putting a sign in a yard and entering some data into the MLS, are over. That’s what discounted brokerages are for now.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Self-paced online Gold Coast School $263 Classroom, livestream, or online MLS Campus Real Estate School $83.88 Self-paced online Gold Coast School $263 Classroom, livestream, or online MLS Campus Real Estate School $83.88 For Math Cram and Exam Prep Master courses, MLS offers a “1 Day Limited Money Back Guarantee Policy.”

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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

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. Or omit the MLS link and tease out the listing with stats and photos in your newsletter, and invite your audience to contact you directly for more information.

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RIS Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

There were two stories being told on stage yesterday at RISMedia’s CEO & Leadership Exchange, with half a dozen MLS and brokerage executives each sharing their own parts of both sides. Photo credit: AJ Caneria WASHINGTON D.C.—There

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2021

Foreclosure moratoriums have forced servicers to shift capacity away from traditional late-stage delinquency recovery efforts, including foreclosure, and direct it toward forbearance processing and heavy home retention efforts. JC: There is no question that servicer capacity is a big issue.

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Housing Wire

JULY 10, 2024

Your local MLS and association can help you find these crucial data points. You can find the data to determine the market type in your local MLS. Step 1: Set the stage for success Real estate agents are famous for selling the importance of location, location, location. What is their family size?

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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. 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.

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RIS Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Key members of the executive team of Stellar MLS will take center stage this weekend at an international forum in Paris, France focused on the future of MLSs worldwide.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

It starts with your done-for-you, custom-branded, IDX-enabled website that features listings from your MLS feed. To target different cities or neighborhoods in your MLS, you’ll want to add additional Zurple websites. This can get expensive quickly, so it’s best to try one site before committing to multiple areas.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Look at the old MLS listing and public record and check the assessor’s database. There will likely be at least a week or two between the appointment and going live on the MLS, and the market changes day-to-day. If the seller allows you to, take photos and videos of the property so you can better prepare for any staging needs later on.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

We are also at the stage where the two-year yield will be discussed again. The next stage of this discussion will be when the Fed should cut rates. 6 featuring Mike Simonsen, president of Altos Research , Odeta Kushi, deputy chief economist at First American , and Lisa Sturtevant, chief economist at Bright MLS.

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GeekEstate

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In this week’s founder interview, we’re bringing you Michael Bonacina from Virtual Staging AI. I am the Co-Founder and CEO of Virtual Staging AI. We’re a startup from the Harvard Innovation Lab that developed a proprietary AI model to do virtual staging automatically. What problem does your product/service solve?

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Inman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Officials from the National Association of Realtors are meeting this week to discuss the so-called pocket listing ban — one of the industry's most polarizing rules.

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Inman

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As NAR's members and leaders met up, the industry's biggest question marks took center stage amid a mix of opinions and perspectives.

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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. His confidence didn’t just come out of nowhere.

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