Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

They will cater to clients seeking to purchase, sell or invest in luxury real estate throughout the Greater Nashville area. Since its inception, the brokerage has onboarded more than 30 top agents, including Roi Klipper, Sweta Patel, Melissa Rubenstein, Jacki Lee and Jina Kusuman.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Edgerton and Reisinger will have an impact on the global network of 550-plus independent real estate brokerages. When she joined the company in January 2019, she focused on member engagement, performance, and satisfaction. Edgerton moves up from her position of executive vice president of operations, which she’s held since 2018.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2023

Maggie Wu has returned to Compass , and she’s bringing her four-person The W Team to the New York brokerage. With the move, Wu returns to where she began her career as junior partner on the Jing Chen Team in 2019. In December 2021, she had left Compass to join the young brokerage SERHANT. where she launched her own team.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Initially filed in April 2019, the lawsuit takes aim at NAR’s Participation Rule. million payout, Anywhere has agreed to not require company owned brokerages, franchisees, or affiliated agents to belong to the NAR or follow the NAR Code of Ethics or MLS Handbook. Along with a $83.5

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2021

Lone Wolf’s other acquisitions include: W+R Studios , LionDesk , HomeSpotter and Terradatum so that Lone Wolf’s technology suite includes solutions for marketing, CRM, CMA, transaction management, eSignature, brokerage operations, insights and analytics, talent management, as well as ancillary tools and services.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2024

Despite only a little over a year at Anywhere, Atallah is no stranger to the real estate conglomerate, as he began his career in 2001 as an associate broker at Coldwell Banker before becoming a senior vice president there in 2011 and a regional vice president for the Greater Atlanta region in 2019. “I’m

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Due to how HomeServices and its affiliates handle their client contracts, if a dispute arises, each client is entitled to individual arbitration of their claims. who sold a house on an MLS and used an agent from one of the brokerage defendants between Dec. It remains unknown whether the court will grant any of these motions.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

My name is (your name), and I’m a licensed real estate professional with (your brokerage). Check out Wise Pelican Typically, you’d mail the just sold letter to homeowners who live around a property you just helped your client to sell. Dear (first name), I’m (your name), a local real estate professional with (brokerage).

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

A 50-year-old former unlicensed mortgage broker from Long Island, New York, pleaded guilty Wednesday to defrauding clients and wholesale lenders out of $4.7 million in mortgage refinancing proceeds that were supposed to pay off existing client mortgages. Prior to working at mortgage brokerage Bliss Home Funding Corp.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2021

Although the claims were made prior to Compass’s acquisition of Modus, Compass officials said the brokerage was aware of the investigation when it acquired Modus in October 2020 for approximately $50 million. It has lost money each of the past three years, including a $388 million net loss in 2019. In all, Compass has lost $1.1

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

despite a challenging mortgage market in which real estate brokerages are laying off staff. For the HomeLight Cash Offer program, also introduced two years ago, the firm makes an all-cash offer on the client’s behalf and holds the home until the client secures financing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2024

Agents are the lifeblood of real estate brokerages. Recruiting and retaining high-performing agents remains a critical challenge for brokerages, especially in the environment created by the National Association of Realtors ’ recent $418 million settlement in a litany of agent commission lawsuits.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2022

“My Coldwell Banker agent office policy insists that we do not cut commission under any circumstance,” said one agent who requested anonymity to speak candidly about her company, which is part of the Realogy brokerage conglomerate. We supported NWMLS when it made this change in 2019. Gorman’s comments confuse me.”.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Just hours after securing a victory for his home seller clients in the landmark Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit, Michael Ketchmark, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, filed another class action antitrust lawsuit against some of the real estate industry’s biggest players, in U.S. District Court for Western Missouri.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2021

The buy is Compass’s first since the residential brokerage started publicly trading shares earlier this month. Of course, CAR is examining all of its options to make sure that data integrity and CAR’s high standards of privacy for its members and their clients are protected.”.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While the lawsuit does name large corporate brokerage firms as defendants, including Keller Williams , Side , HomeServices of America , and Fathom Realty , the robust defendant list also includes real estate teams, such as The Loken Group and Hexagon Group , as well as an individual broker, Mark Anthony Dimas. 13, 2019, to the present.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Defendants in the lawsuit include the Florida Association of Realtors , the nation’s largest state Realtor group with 238,000 members, and 16 large local brokerages, with agent counts ranging from 655 to nearly 4,000. 4, 2019 and the present. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

had no involvement in the issuance and or enforcement of NAR rules and that it did not impose those rules, including the Cooperative Compensation Rule, upon its franchisee brokerages or their affiliated independent contractor agents,” attorneys for Keller Williams wrote in the motion that both NAR and HomeServices joined.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

million after the brokerage paid its commissions and related expenses. Compass also requires their agents to ensure buy-side clients sign buyer-broker agreements. Revenue decreased by 10% year over year to $1.34 billion as transactions declined 12% over the quarter, driven by macroeconomic factors. Revenue was revised down to $241.20

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2021

Real estate broker Amherst Madison Treasure Valley was the fastest grower in 2019. Mortgage Bankers Association data reports that total mortgage origination volume in 2019 came in at $2.25 1 asset next to our loyal client base. Several of the nations top real estate brokerages as ranked by RealTrends graced Inc.’s

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2020

million agents, 8,000 brokerages and hundreds of MLS ’ and associations in North America. The companies said that the deal would create the “largest real estate brokerage software platform in North America.”. ” Lone Wolf provides real estate technologies to over 1.5

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Both brokerages also said they will not provide agents with any software that filters or restricts MLS listings based on the level of compensation being offered. Filed in 2019, both lawsuits take aim at NAR’s Participation Rule.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Gadberry Group is a location intelligence data company of 16 employees who build products that help clients solve geospatial challenges through accurate and precise location data. According to RE/MAX , Gadberry Group will continue to serve non-RE/MAX clients while contributing to RE/MAX.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

8, 2019, and the present. In a competitive market, the seller would pay nothing to the buyer broker, who would instead be paid by the buyer (their client), and the total commission paid by the seller would be set at a level to compensate only the seller’s broker,” the complaint states.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

In eOriginal’s 2020 Tech100 nomination, the company boasted about the efficiency their ClosingCenter product brought to mortgage lending clients; Fairway achieved 80% faster mortgage acceptance by secondary market investors and also realized a 90% reduction in interest expenses to warehouse lenders for mortgages closed using ClosingCenter.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2022

Samson is the CEO of Samson Properties , a rapidly growing Northern Virginia-based brokerage. Samson has a different business model and branding than Compass, but both brokerages identify as “agent-centric.”. DOJ has swooped into lawsuits against the National Association of Realtors and top brokerage firms.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2021

In late 2019, Google announced a phase-out of third-party cookies across its platforms in a move claimed to protect consumers asking for more privacy. Built on the world’s top CRM, Propertybase has enriched the platform specifically for real estate brokerages to get the most out of their data. Client engagement is a struggle.

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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. That large volume of listings is then used to create real buyer clients organically.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

Parvesh Sahi, senior vice president of business and client development at ICE Mortgage Technology, said that lenders will have a true digital experience that provides efficiency, speed, and cost savings. “We Maxwell connected the popular Encompass LOS to its point-of-sale platform in 2019.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2024

RE/MAX has held onto this spot since the publication of the 2020 iteration of The Thousand, which was based off sales data from 2019. RE/Max overtook Keller Williams, which took the title in 2019. ”RE/MAX RE/MAX agents consistently set high standards and exceed them, delivering exceptional results for their clients.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The disputes involve Californian brokerage shops Kevron Investments Inc. According to the lawsuit, independent mortgage broker Kevron, which started originating loans to UWM in July 2019, submitted at least 22 mortgage loans to the competitors since the ultimatum. and Mid Valley Funding & Inv.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

The Compass Cares program is the charitable arm of Compass, a real estate brokerage making big waves in the market. When the initiative was announced in 2018, CEO Robert Reffkin said, “I want clients to know that when they are working with Compass, they are working with a company that gives back.” million to local charities since 2019.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

The company recently launched a mortgage brokerage firm that offers a plug-and-play program for real estate agents to become mortgage loan officers, a practice called dual licensing. An originator since 1999, Read got his real estate license in 2014 and opened up his real estate brokerage in 2019. Being a good Realtor is hard.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

Specifically, clients can use Brokermint to complete tasks in commission automation, accounting, agent management, and reporting and analytics. The integration allows BoomTown’s clients, at no cost, to create real-time performance leaderboards and other productivity tools.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The year 2019 taught us that any natural or economic force can wildly shift expectations into the stratosphere. Being able to lead a data-backed pricing discussion with clients helps you all settle on a price that is competitive, fair, and more likely to move.?Guiding Guiding your clients to a price?that Mortgage rates?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In the video, Ketchmark showed Keller footage from a KW Family Reunion event where Keller showed a slide showing the average commissions KW agents had earned between 2002 and 2019, to which Keller responded: “We didn’t talk about commissions. Members of the group include many brokerage executives. There isn’t one,” Glass told the jury.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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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