Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The receiving agent becomes the buyer or seller’s primary point of contact and representative, and the referring agent receives a referral fee if a transaction closes. Sometimes, a real estate agent may choose not to work with a specific buyer or seller. Many people expect it, especially from real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This modest but significant one-year decline understates KeyBank’s longer-term performance for non-wealthy families seeking to buy a home to live in: In 2018 more than 38% of such KeyBank loans went to an LMI borrower. . “KeyBank’s betrayal of Black and low-income homebuyers continued in 2022” “KeyBank made 19.2%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In 2018, real estate agent Luis Robledo received a lead for a potential buyer looking to live in Venice Beach, California. The lead had come through Ylopo, a real estate digital marketing solution that aims to help agents find more clients while simultaneously building their brand and team.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 4, 2025

Pent-up demand caused the housing market to flare up in February, but as buyers wait for more inventory, it has cooled off in March, according to Josh Felder, a Redfin Premier real estate agent in the Bay Area. Compared to before the outbreak, the market still seems less active.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2020

billion in VC funding, is looking to bring aboard real estate agents in Phoenix, Arizona, to support its “Home Reserve” iBuying platform, according to Inman , which spotted a jobs posting Friday morning. In 2018, the firm acquired Dallas-based discount brokerage Open Listings for an undisclosed sum.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Christie aims to transform the Compass Harlem office into a “central hub” for real estate agents to expand their presence in the neighborhood. “We Prior to joining Serhant, Christie was with Compass from 2018 to 2021. I have known Jason for many years.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal , certain community members are calling foul on the high-priced homes sitting empty in the areas in which residents are desperately seeking housing, and real estate agents are some of the loudest people bringing attention to the issue. Why are there vacant houses here?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Redfin said its real estate agents have helped clients in Seattle and the Bay Area buy and sell homes since 2006, with a listing fee as low as 1%. Since 2018, Redfin has also offered its Concierge listing service in both markets, for a listing fee as low as 2%.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

“In the past, we never talked about co-borrowers — obviously, husband and wife, you know, that’s your co-borrower,” said Edgar Garcia, a real estate agent at Revolve Realty in El Paso, Texas. But last year I had co-borrowers where the dad was jumping in, the mom jumping in. I’ve even seen grandparents jump in.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

How much are real estate referral fees? Who pays the real estate referral fees and how are they paid? Drafting a referral agreement that works for all parties How to find a great real estate agent in another area When to accept a referral (and when not to)? What is a real estate referral fee?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

He and his 30-agent team pulled in $200 million in sales revenue over an unspecified time period. The team will transition from its affiliation with Compass , where Caldwell founded The Apollo Group in 2018. “For me, real estate is about pushing boundaries and embracing opportunity, Caldwell said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2020

Whether you’re a real estate agent needing to spruce up the yard for an open house or a DIY landlord who needs ongoing yard care for your rental properties, you can manage it all from the TaskEasy app. Ryan has an intriguing idea for any loan originators that are planning to join our Real Estate Technology Demo Day.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

She first joined the company in 2018 when her brokerage, Star Estates , merged with First Team. “I’m I’m excited not only to launch our new look but also our brand mantra, ‘Behind the Agent,’” Harrington said in a statement. As part of its rebranding effort, First Team appointed Michele Harrington to the role of CEO.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

Homebot , a home education portal that keeps people connected to their loan officers and real estate agents, acquired Quo Finance , a mobile app for first-time homebuyers. Quo’s team, led by co-founders Tucker Hass and Neel Yerneni, will join Homebot. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

Charleston, South Carolina-based real estate tech firm PunchListUSA , which calls itself the first platform digitizing national home inspection data , closed on a $39 million Series A funding round this week. . PunchListUSA has now raised more than $49 million in equity capital since its inception in 2018. .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Meanwhile, the count of active agents continues a modest decline but has not yet reached levels seen back in 2018. reflecting a normal post-holiday lift in agent movement. January often brings a bump in recruiting momentum as agents re-evaluate their broker relationships, said Relitix Founder, Rob Keefe.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In 2018, he told an interviewer , “In five years, I think we’ll be in the top 50 markets in the world, and number one in all the U.S. As for Robert Reffkin, Compass’s chief executive officer and co-founder…Well, don’t let them get into the slender, youthful looking Reffkin’s Twitter affirmations – “The bad news is time flies.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Now, the FHFA is considering implementing hybrid, or bifurcated, appraisals that enlist a third-party – typically an appraiser trainee, home inspector or real estate agent – to collect the data for a lender and certified appraiser once past the automated underwriting system. Presented by: VRM Mortgage Services.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

g)(1)(v) exemptions allow payments pursuant to cooperative brokerage and referral arrangements between real estate agents and real estate brokers. This limited exemption on kickbacks only applies to fee divisions within real estate brokerage arrangements when all parties act in a real estate brokerage capacity.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

As an introverted real estate agent and coach, I know firsthand how challenging networking can be. I started Move Over Extroverts to teach other agents how to face their fears and clear this common hurdle. We include role-play sessions specifically for introverted real estate agents. Scary, right?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

The company’s electronic signature software became a go-to product for millions of real estate agents , mortgage professionals and title agents who couldn’t attend closings during the pandemic. Since taking on the role of chief executive in 2017, Springer took the company public in 2018.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2021

Compass defrauded its real estate agents out of millions of dollars in sales commissions and broke pledges to give agents shares of stock, according to a new lawsuit that seeks class-action status.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

Ironically, the technology he’s developed can be a benefit to real estate agents as well. When I originated loans, there were a certain number of people that just didn’t need an agent — because the buyers and sellers knew each other in some fashion. SW: Why did you want to develop this platform?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

It also announced that it would be hiring real estate agents (as independent contractors) in Phoenix as part of its plan to bulk up its Home Reserve iBuying platform. While Opendoor is hiring a yet-to-be-determined number of 1099 agents, it already has an in-house staff to sell scores of homes across the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Instead of 25 to 30 offers on turnkey homes, we’re now seeing five to seven,” Nicole Dege, a Redfin real estate agent from Orlando said in a statement. of offers written by Redfin agents facing competition in August. In 2018-2019, total housing inventory was in the range between 1.52 and 35.7%, respectively.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

Use this opportunity to position yourself as a professional real estate agent and build credibility in your network. This can make a big difference for newer agents just starting out. She’s now the Lead Listing agent for the Fleet Homes team in Massachusetts and a regular contributor to Vetted by HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2021

bidding-war rate Redfin saw in June 2020, when the housing market was starting to rebound from a temporary standstill triggered by pandemic shutdowns, said Laura Sechrist Molenda, a Redfin real estate agent based in Southern California. In 2018-2019, total housing inventory was in the range between 1.52 million and 1.92

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2020

They use the StreamLoan technology to run their mortgage operations, such as collecting mortgage leads, capturing loan applications, collaborating with real estate agents and streamlining the collection of myriad mortgage documents. million in funding, including a $2 million seed round announced in February 2018.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

Originally founded in 2018 as a contractor services company serving real estate agents in Charleston, South Carolina, PunchListUSA is now focused on intuitive online ordering, tracking and pricing transparency for homeowners, brokers and institutional investors.

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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.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

How 2020 exposed a greater need for collaboration between real estate agents and LOs. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. Zillow Offers, meanwhile, came into focus in 2018 when Rich Barton stepped back into the CEO chair.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2021

The Insurance Commissioner for the state of Washington apparently concluded that Modus offered real estate agents and their clients a “thing of value,” such as free home warranties, other closing-related services, in exchange for switching their escrow and title services to Modus. In all, Compass has lost $1.1

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2021

” Why more real estate agents are leaving online portal leads behind. Find out how a single lead from Ylopo led to roughly $20 million in real estate closings for real estate agent Luis Robledo. Presented by: Ylopo. Per Redfin, 58.1%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2024

But as many as 200 real estate agents , brokerage firms and landlords are alleged to have violated this law by discriminating against applicants with federally subsidized Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers, according to an undercover investigation conducted by the Housing Rights Initiative (HRI).

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2021

All cash offers are more common among repeat buyers than first time buyers and a survey of Zillow Premier Agent partners found that all-cash offers are the top strategy for winning a competitive bid. The Millennial Guide: How Real Estate Agents Can Win Over this Critical Audience. Presented by: Doma.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

It allows us to better serve our partners, including real estate agents. like 2020, 2016, 2017, 2018 where there were more home sales and lower rates. The tools that we utilize allow us to truly be available to our clients when they need it the most, when it matters the most whether it’s nights or weekends.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Northwest MLS numbers show that throughout 2018 and 2019 the number of homes available for purchase on a given day hovered around 18,000. Inventory began to tumble last summer as real estate agents’ predictions of “pent up demand” amid the coronavirus pandemic came true.

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