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Recruiting real estate agents: A complete roadmap for 2024

Housing Wire

The data are sobering: The Agent Movement Index , the number of experienced Realtors switching brokerages each month, was at its lowest level since 2016. Newly licensed agents: 25% Newly licensed agents will require extensive training and coaching to start generating revenue for your brokerage.

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What’s new in QC and Compliance

Housing Wire

In fact, the critical defect rate for the fourth quarter of 2023 was 1.53%, which ranks amongst the lowest rates we’ve observed since the report’s inception in 2016. TG: Fannie Mae offers numerous training and education resources to help lenders improve loan quality, which lenders can find online through its Loan Quality Learning Center.

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CFPB, senators pledge to look at house-flipping business practices

Housing Wire

Within the original report, HomeVestors representatives told ProPublica that its reporting “represent[ed] a tiny fraction of the company’s overall transactions, which have totaled more than 71,400 since 2016,” according to the report. A duo of bipartisan U.S.

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Are you prepping for worst-case commission lawsuit outcomes?

Housing Wire

The lawsuit, which was originally filed in 2019 and won class-action status in April, alleges that some NAR rules, including one that requires listing brokers to offer buyer brokers a commission to list a property in a Realtor-affiliated MLS, violate the Sherman Antitrust Act by inflating seller costs.

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Cardinals of a different feather: Inside Samson Properties’ unique model

Housing Wire

Samson is so agent-centric, in fact, that its agents receive a 100% commission split and services like training, office desks, and help with marketing. Donny Samson claimed that his brokerage began turning the corner in 2016, around when he took the position of chief operating officer. “We Samson reported $9.6

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7 best real estate schools in Massachusetts for 2024

Housing Wire

6 months course access Ridgeline: All features of Base + Livestream option and Forms Training 101. Visit Website Overview The Lee Institute School of Real Estate combines professional instruction and video format training to make the concepts of the real estate business more digestible and engaging. 25 hrs livestream access.

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Kevin Sears Ranks on the Swanepoel Power 200 for 2025

Lamacchia Realty

In 2010, Kevin was elected as President of the Massachusetts Association of REALTORS, after numerous years of being on the board and receiving accredited awards such as 2016 REALTOR of the Year and the Milton H. Sears Real Estate has been serving buyers and sellers since 1971, under the influential leadership of the late Paul Sears.

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