Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

After the National Association of Realtors settlement changed how commission is paid, there was some fear among agents that buyers and sellers might forgo their services in favor of handling the transaction themselves. Here are the best ways to follow up with unresponsive clients without being pushy.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

It adds a personal touch and makes me stand out from all the other agents out there. Ill share my strategies and templates so youll be ready to write amazing thank you notes to your clients and stand out among the real estate agents in your area. Buyer after closing Dear (Buyer Name), It was a pleasure working with you!

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The race is on for brokerages to capture clients in an incredibly difficult housing market, and Compass believes a new technology offering will give it an advantage. The brokerage on Monday launched Compass One, a client-facing portal that provides a guide through the process of both home buying and selling.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The real estate market is constantly shifting, and today’s market calls for agents to return to the more tried-and-true marketing strategies. Open houses remain one of the best ways to showcase a property and connect with potential buyers. This allows the agent to tailor their follow-up strategies for better results.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

AgentCoach.AI , an AI-powered real estate coaching company, is launching a new training platform for real estate agents. The new platform will leverage specialized training bots to help agents prepare for business. Productivity tools are also available to keep agents on track. said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Israeli startup eSelf AI has developed a technology that provides interactive AI real estate agents capable of answering questions and guiding prospective buyers through listings at any time. Porta da Frente Christies CEO Joo Clia told Fox Business that the firm has seen great results since live-testing the AI agent about a year ago.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In the latest episode of the RealTrending podcast , Amy Stockberger — broker-owner of Amy Stockberger Real Estate — joins Tracey Velt for a tantalizing conversation that covers her teamerage’s unique “Lifetime Home Support” model and other ways that agents can provide value to home buyers and sellers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

Most real estate agents I coach do not have a lead problem they have a lead nurturing and conversion problem. Understand why nurturing is essential, and check out my top seven lead nurturing strategies and best practices to help you convert more leads into clients this year. Finding real estate leads is relatively easy.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

Alabama governor Kay Ivey has signed into law a bill that ensures homebuyers only have to sign a buyer brokerage agreement prior to submitting an offer on a property and not before touring a home with an agent. Ivey signed the bill into law on Tuesday after it passed the state Senate earlier this month.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This is evident when you ask any highly successful agent where they find their clients. Inevitably, their answer will be “my past clients and sphere.” That’s wonderful and something to be admired, yet I’ve had many agents who are earlier in their careers ask me HOW these agents built this referral machine.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A majority of agents believe 2025 is going to be a great year for the housing market. Although agents are split on whether its going to be a buyers or a sellers market, 87% predict that demand will remain very strong over the next year. That will likely make it a busy year for real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The majority of homebuyers are still expecting sellers to cover their agent’s compensation, according to The Real Brokerage ’s August 2024 agent survey. 15, recording the responses of roughly 300 agents across North America. 15, recording the responses of roughly 300 agents across North America. 30 and Sept. 30 and Sept.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

She went from a brand new agent in 2020 to running her wildly successful boutique brokerage with Side in less than four years. No cold calling, no door knocking just (patiently) educating new and move-up buyers with quick-hit educational TikTok videos. Most agents dont bother. Kina Desantis did. Sound familiar?

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) proposed settlement of litigation, recently given preliminary approval by the Court, has raised questions about whether buyers with limited resources, especially first-time home buyers , can afford closing costs. Here is an example of how that might work.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2024

31, 2023, and has since reshaped the business practices for real estate brokerages and agents across the country. Stubbornly high interest rates, low levels of inventory and elevated home prices are putting a strain on the often-limited budgets of first-time buyers. It is no secret that many first-time homebuyers are struggling.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2024

Secure payment provider Payload is launching a new payment and billing tool specifically geared to buyer agents , according to an announcement on Thursday. Payload has designed a tool to help agents bill their buyer clients.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

For example, changing agent commission guidelines and emerging lead contact regulations are keeping professionals up at night. Together, these obstacles are forcing agents and brokerages to hit the sidelines and plan against seemingly insurmountable odds like facing Brady and the Patriots in the Superbowl. What does this look like?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2024

As more brokerages and agents contemplate moving away from a cooperative compensation model , many are grappling with some tough questions, the most vexing probably being: What do I do if a seller is only willing to contribute part of the buyer broker’s fees, or none at all? You have to make sure you are on the same page.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Own our worth Almost as soon as the commission verdict was announced, most major industry voices came out with marketing campaigns and webinars about how agents can demonstrate their worth. I predict these “buyer presentations” are going to start having as much depth to them as our listing presentations. We need to own it, too.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Additionally, Redfin agents note that as home prices rise, multigenerational households are becoming more prevalent. Monthly costs are so high these days that Im trying to find big homes for a lot of multi-generational families, said Julie Zubiate, a Redfin Premier agent in the Bay Area.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

Think of it as ROYGBIV, but instead of helping third graders learn color theory, it will help you convert more cold buyer leads with less stress. Its powerful stuff, especially for new buyer agents. The LPMAMA script cuts right to the heart of a buyers needs, wants, dreams and financial ability to achieve them.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

home seller pays a 2.55% commission to the real estate agent hired by their buyer, down from an average of 2.62% in January, according to a Redfin analysis of MLS data. 28 and July 14 of this year to compare average commission rates paid to a buyer’s agent. The typical U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

It offered an innovative take on the agent compensation model and got a headstart on Zillow in the portal wars. They still have to bear the cost of those agents, despite production not being there in a terrible housing market.” Since the first quarter of 2021, Redfins agent count has fallen by 22.5%. It shows in the data.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2024

Buyer representation has become one of the hottest and most debated topics of the year. Amid the lawsuits and non-stop news coverage, one major question has emerged: What is buyer representation and why does it matter? Unless you’ve sworn off all forms of media, news, and the internet (in which case, how are you reading this?),

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

According to a recent Redfin analysis, the average buyers agent commission for properties sold in Q4 was 2.37%. When the regulations come into effect on August 17, the average buyers agent commission dropped from 2.38% in July to 2.35% in August. A Redfin-commissioned survey of 500 U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This is especially true when various MLSs, brokerages and agents are taking their own approaches to dealing with the business practice changes. As Sharran Srivatsaa , the president of The Real Brokerage , sees it, there are two primary agent camps right now. It is actually forcing agents to improve their communication.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

As he and his clients walked out the door of a multi-million home they had just toured together, the buyer told Sarway he wanted to submit an offer. Instead, he took a deep breath, remembered his fiduciary duty to his buyer and told him exactly why buying the apartment would be a mistake. Agents were doing deals there.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Those efforts are not for the benefit of sellers or buyers, but are instead designed to benefit those brokerage firms by entrenching them as the gatekeepers of property listings. An open, fair, transparent, and comprehensive marketplace benefits all market participants, including sellers, buyers, brokers, and appraisers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

Miami -based Real on Tuesday announced the addition of Harvest Realty , an independent brokerage in Southern California with 550 agents. Real will also offer its virtual community platform to Harvest agents. Im stoked about this new opportunity and thrilled to enhance my clients overall experience, Burgman said. billion.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2025

A client needed to see a house and of course they needed to see it immediately. Another agent was asking for an open house on the condo for the 3rd weekend in a row. I have tried being a solo agent, team, and everything in between, but lets face it the market is tough right now. So, Ive made a change.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

Through the terms of the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) commission lawsuit settlement agreement Zillow is now getting into buyer representation agreements. Under the terms of NAR’s settlement agreement, agents will have to have a written agreement with a client in order to work with them as a buyer broker.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Why are real estate statistics important for agents? This proves your expertise to clients and allows you to provide them with knowledge about the real estate market. Is there a better way to make yourself the go-to agent in your area? 32% of buyers are first-time buyers, and 75% of those first-time homebuyers are aged 25 to 33.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Youve likely heard about real estate teams and how they can impact your career but what exactly are they, and why are so many agents joining or building teams? Our goal is to help educate you on what a real estate team is, how they work and the types of agents who thrive on teams. If youre reading this article, youre not alone.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2024

Watch any of the glamorous pseudo-reality real estate shows on TV, and you might be tempted to become a part-time real estate agent. Most of the agents you see on TV wearing $1500 outfits work 80+ hours per week. Most of the agents in my office worked equally long hours. Most of the agents in my office worked equally long hours.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The family-run brokerage firm recorded some legal w ins and losses , developed new tools for agents and clients , and navigated one of the slowest years for home sales in nearly three decades. Hanna said this led the company to revamp some of its agent education. It created a buyer representation certificate for agents.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Real estate agents often make the mistake of believing their clients will remember them forever but they dont. Its up to us as agents to stay engaged and stay in contact with our clients. Content: Agents can include any combination of data and information. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

The meeting focused on the implications for Black homeowners and agents. Several Black agents with personal and professional ties to heavily impacted neighborhoods in Altadena also attended. Kalin led a segment on best practices for legal matters that agents may face when assisting Altadena residents. million.

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