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It’s time for real estate to do the right thing

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Our family established Baird & Warner more than a century ago with a mission to serve buyers and sellers with transparency and integrity, and we’ve endured many changes in our industry during this time. Doing the right thing is easy in theory, but often the hardest in practice.

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Offrs Review: Pros & cons, features, pricing, and alternatives

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It will help you identify sellers very early, giving you access to them before they’re talking to other agents. After you choose your neighborhood or zip code, Offrs activates your area, enabling you to get contact info for leads, sorted by category (FSBO, predictive sellers, expired listings, and exclusive leads).

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Zurple Review: Features, pricing & alternatives

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When a potential buyer or seller lead searches for homes or a home valuation on Google, they are driven to your site by ads created and managed by Zurple’s advertising experts. Leads are generated and captured on an IDX home search website First, Zurple creates a custom-branded IDX home search website for you.

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No ’horror stories’ from agents on the first weekend of NAR settlement changes

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According to real estate professionals, the biggest adjustments they had to make this week was to get buyers to sign buyer representation agreements and to explain to sellers that while they don’t have to offer buyer broker compensation , they will most likely see most prospective buyers ask for some help in paying their agent.

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Year of change: Real estate pros reflects on anniversary of Sitzer/Burnett verdict

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Although many large brokerages had the education and training platforms already in place, the intensity and level of training required to get everyone up to speed in time for the business practice changes was something few had dealt with before. At NextHome, agents are no longer engaging in cooperative compensation.

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BHHS CEO Gino Blefari: ‘Doesn’t agree with it one bit’ about commission conspiracy

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Ketchmark also questioned Blefari about the training video in which Blefari said, as an agent, his commissions started at 6% and went up. “I It’s a negotiation with the seller.” However, he said this might not be in the best interest of the seller. I was a successful agent. The value I add, I believe, is worth 6%.

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Thinking of joining a real estate team? Here’s everything you should know

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This is an experienced agent or broker who provides leads, training, mentorship, support and other resources for the team members. Sellers agents: Listing agents specialize in representing sellers. Marketing specialists: Marketing specialists handle the teams branding and advertising efforts.