Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Zillow and Realtor.com have agreed to share 3D home tours, interactive floor plans and photo listings between both platforms, the real estate portals announced this week. Zillow’s 3D home tours feature, launched in 2019, is the centerpiece of this partnership.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2021

” How real estate agents can alleviate consumer pain points in a tight market. The severe lack of inventory in today’s housing market has been a source of stress for home buyers and real estate agents alike. But until then, the housing market will remain red-hot.” Presented by: Move Sales.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Originally filed in March 2019, the Moehrl lawsuit alleges that real estate industry participants including HomeServices, the National Association of Realtors (NAR), Anywhere , RE/MAX and Keller Williams conspired to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

1 in population growth for eight straight years and The Wall Street Journal named it the hottest job market in 2019 and 2020. But while rising inventory and days on market are proof of lower demand, Austin home prices remain stubbornly elevated above their 2019 levels. higher than 2019 prices.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Take a look through the list of some of last year’s impressive honorees: HomeLight’s technology has helps hundreds of thousands of clients connect with top real estate agents and the company had 40 million transactions connecting to 1.2 million agents as of last year. from 2016 – 2019 as they entered 2020.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

1 city in population growth for the last eight years and it was the hottest job market in 2019 and 2020, according to the Wall Street Journal. Rapidly accelerating home prices come with a variety of challenges for lenders and real estate agents, including one of the biggest pain points right now — the appraisal gap.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

At the end of August 2019, there were 5,472 homes for sale in King County, according to the Northwest Multiple Listing Service. Northwest MLS numbers show that throughout 2018 and 2019 the number of homes available for purchase on a given day hovered around 18,000. By the end of August 2019, active listings dipped to 16,697.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Rocket managed to produce a gain-on-sale margin of 4.41% in the fourth quarter, which was up 100 basis points from the fourth quarter in 2019 but a decline of 11 basis points from the third quarter. Notably, Rocket Companies disclosed that its platform generated 153 million unique visitors in 2020, a 61% increase from 2019.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

With a huge increase in remote work and his core group of clients buying homes across the country – whether it be vacation homes, more affordable areas, or for new work opportunities – Banosian was at risk of losing clients when they went to states his team wasn’t operating in. “As Or will soon.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

Like the Department of Justice , the Federal Reserve has decided to weigh in on the real estate agent commission debate. They noted that in the Houston metro area, between 1997 and 2019, 2.58 of them including an offer to pay 3% of the sales price to the buyer’s agent.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

Interest rates are a major headache for real estate agents across Illinois. On the sell side, agents say that low mortgage rates from a purchase or refinance transaction in late 2020 or early 2021 are keeping many potential sellers in their home. “A I think people really got used to the lower interest rates.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Djon Luxury Real Estate is expanding its sell-side business, training buyer-side real estate agents on the necessary contracts and selling their value to the consumer. The change would go into effect in mid-July 2024 if the settlement is approved by a judge. People will still need to buy a home after July.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2022

When the restaurant Tom Hunt worked at as a server temporarily shut down during the spring of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he decided it was the right time to pursue his longtime desire of becoming a real estate agent. At the close of 2019, the National Association of Realtors had 1.4 million members.

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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

APRIL 1, 2024

We do see this as a new asset class in the real estate ecosystem and we see it as complementary to traditional debt options that exist today,” Burnett said. “We Partnerships with real estate agents or mortgage originators to educate homeowners and buyers on HEI products will be key, the companies interviewed by HousingWire said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

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. Buyer’s agents who can find their clients a home that’s not even on the market are instant heroes. While some agents choose to handwrite these, it can be time-consuming.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

At the end of the year, the agents and brokers at that location are able to donate the funds to an organization in their community and affect real, local change. million to local charities since 2019. Compass Cares has given back over $2.6 HousingWire: What is the origin story of the Compass Cares Classic?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Becca Summers does not typically include Wells Fargo on the lender recommendation list she gives to clients. However, when mortgage rates started rising in the spring, Summers encouraged her clients to take advantage of the bank’s mortgage rate lock product. Looking back, Summers is glad she encouraged her buyers to swap lenders.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Moving forward, we will continue to be opportunistic in our approach to adding to our agent base via selective M&As,” Hart said during the earnings call. Compass agents are more likely to work in upper-echelon markets where buyers and sellers would work with agents, he said. Revenue decreased by 10% year over year to $1.34

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

homeowners are “house-rich, cash-poor,” home equity investment firm Hometap provides clients with a way to tap into their home equity instead of selling their home or taking out a loan. Burnett: After being founded in 2017, we made our first investments in 2018 and 2019. Based on the notion that far too many U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The lawsuit accuses its 29 defendants of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. In the absence of NAR’s Mandatory Offer of Compensation Rule, the expense of buyer broker commissions would be incurred by the clients (homebuyers),” the filing states. 13, 2019, to the present.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2023

District Court for Northern California, accusing the real estate industry of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. 8, 2019, and the present. A home seller plaintiff in California filed an antitrust lawsuit on Friday in U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

The market right now just feels like it’s a bit lukewarm,” said Brian Huskey , a Billings, Montana-based ERA American Real Estate agent. Inventory is rising a little bit, it isn’t as high as in 2019, but it’s better than it has been and it’s still slightly a seller’s market, so we are just moving to a levelized market.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2021

In a second-quarter earnings call, CEO Robert Reffkin announced that they are creating an end-to-end technology platform for real estate agents. ” That’s not entirely true as Redfin and United Real Estate both have advanced technology platforms. .”

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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

APRIL 26, 2021

Compass announced Monday that it has reached an agreement to buy San Francisco-based real estate transaction platform Glide , a deal that some California real estate agents may feel uneasy about. The Zillow suit was settled in 2019, and the Realogy lawsuit is still pending.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

based firms on percentage revenue growth from 2019 to 2022. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2019. The minimum revenues required are $100,000 for 2019 and $2 million for 2022. 193 CertifID 2,807% 2017 A company dedicated to fighting wire fraud for the real estate industry.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2022

When Missouri federal judge Stephen Bough unsealed a sworn declaration last week from Coldwell Banker CEO Ryan Gorman in a sprawling antitrust lawsuit about real estate commissions, it prompted disquiet among real estate agents, including those who work at Gorman’s company. “My

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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 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

MARCH 12, 2024

Reizen, his wife Julie, and their four children moved to Sandpoint in 2019 and started selling homes with local brokerage Realm Partners. In August 2022, the Reizens founded their firm, 48th Parallel Realty , before ultimately partnering with PureWest Christie’s International Real Estate.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

No matter where you are in the state, real estate agents in Virginia are facing low inventory conditions that are creating frustrating scenarios for their buyers. “I Out in Wise, Virginia, near the westernmost tip of the state, RE/MAX Cavaliers agent Brett Tiller and his clients are also struggling to find suitable properties.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

While its unknown how many real estate teams exist today, we do know that the top 1,000 teams ranked by transaction sides in the 2021 RealTrends The Thousand and America’s Best Real Estate Professionals saw their average transactions increase by 49.7% in 2020 over 2019. The average team in the rankings closed 252.9

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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. In the script the agent responds: “Let me explain what happens when you reduce a commission.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

Levitre was previously affiliated with Keller Williams Nashville, while Mariani worked as an independent agent. Both agents will work from Corcoran Reverie’s office at 30 Burton Hills Boulevard. They will cater to clients seeking to purchase, sell or invest in luxury real estate throughout the Greater Nashville area.

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