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. Thank you for your professionalism; I can tell you truly care about your clients.

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2024

To help, we reached out to real estate agents nationwide to compile our list of the best books for real estate agents. Best books for mindset Failing Forward by John Maxwell Rebecca Del Pozo , an agent and trainer out of Washington State, recommended this book, saying, I read this book in 2003 when I was a brand new real estate agent.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

In this weeks episode of the RealTrending podcast, host Tracey Velt sits down with Ohio Realtors President Michelle Billings , an agent at Coldwell Banker Realty in Montgomery, Ohio. They explored affordability issues in today’s real estate market and how agents should leverage their knowledge for success.

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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. In this article, we’ll take a look at why digital sign-in sheets matter and how savvy agents are using them to maximize their lead-generation strategies.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The digital brokerage platform announced on Monday the addition of Amerivest Realty , a Florida-based brokerage, adding 400 agents across Florida , Colorado , Minnesota and Wisconsin to Real’s platform. Amerivest was built on the foundation of empowering agents with the tools and technology to succeed,” he said.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Following this move, 150 agents are joining Real’s platform and strengthening its presence in ROVI’s areas. CEO Steve Rovithis founded the company to offer agents and clients alternative methods to “traditional franchise models.” Steve Rovithis ROVI Homes arrived on the scene in 2015.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

But for real estate agents who have engaged with the H4P program, there is a true opportunity to cultivate strong business, according to two agents who spoke with HousingWire s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD). When an opportunity presents itself, she offers these clients educational materials from Mangus. I like puzzles.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

Instead, its continuing to add agents at an explosive rate. On its earnings call for the fourth quarter of 2024, the company disclosed that its agent count was 24,140 at the end of the year. Real credited its technology offerings and business model for the explosive growth in agents. million in 2023 to $4 million in 2024.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

We discussed the current market conditions and revisited the propertys previous listing history including that the last agent had failed to sell it, eventually pulling it off the market 60 days later. Unfortunately, the prior agents never reported the incident, allowing the scammer to attempt it again this time, through me.

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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

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. Luckily, she had the time to (patiently) walk us through the exact strategies she used to build a Zoomer real estate brand on TikTok and gave us her advice for new agents. Most agents dont bother.

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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. Those are profit centers for us as well.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2025

The on-again-off-again legal battle between Top Agent Network (TAN) and the National Association of Realtors (NAR) is now off. This choice is allegedly removed due to NARs Clear Cooperation Policy , which requires agents to list the property on the MLS within 24 hours of marketing it.

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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

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. Events are not just for past clients!

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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

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

DECEMBER 30, 2024

They discuss the utility of artificial intelligence (AI) for the real estate industry, as well as JPARs solutions designed to enhance agent and brokerage performance. Another thing that we’ve also done which also helps our agents, not just our affiliates is that weve taken a personality profile and turned it into a quiz with AI.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

Mortgage and title clients are undergoing a significant transformation with the shift from Encompass Software Development Kit (SDK) to Encompass Partner Connect (EPC). However, for many lenders and title agents, the path to compliance can be a bit too much to handle while running a business and dodging compliance risks.

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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. The next day, the client called to tell Sarway how impressed he was with his honesty. Agents were doing deals there. Abraham Sarway did. A vacation cabin upstate. Hes 26 years old.

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2024

per month per user Contract required: Month-to-month Integrations: Popular CRM platforms, lead generation platforms, accounting software Dotloop is perfect for bringing agents, clients, and support teams together on every transaction. Transact gives agents all the necessities along with additional features that are easy to use.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Real ended 2023 with 13,650 agents and as of Wednesday the company reports that it has now reached 23,000 agents. “We A year or two ago, a large opportunity for us would be someone coming with 100 agents or maybe 150 agents. I think 2025 is going to be another major growth year for us,” Poleg said.

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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 often tell my agents we are the Swiss army knife of real estate since we have so many different skills. We need to own it, too.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Several JRE agents serve on local boards and nonprofits across the island. Gloria and David, longstanding pillars of the community, along with our presence on Main Street, where we are proud to have many of the island’s finest producers, gives us an unmatched client offering,” Raveis said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

While Alabama-based brokerage leader Anna-Marie Ellison said she supports the state associations efforts, she also said her agents have not expressed concerns about signing a buyer representation agreement prior to touring a house with a prospective client. And that is positive.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

According to HomeLight ‘s Top Agent Insights report released this week, real estate agents are feeling this and are being forced to switch up tactics to attract buyers. HomeLight is an Arizona -based real estate platform designed to connect agents with clients. 30 and Nov. 30 and Nov.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

While many agents are all-in on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube, theres another social media platform thats incredibly powerful: LinkedIn. Keep reading to learn why LinkedIn for real estate agents is so important, plus tips to optimize your profile and how to get real estate leads on LinkedIn. Theres also a recommendations section.

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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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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

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.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 10, 2025

Founded in 2004, Redfin operates a home search platform with more than one million for-sale and rental listings and a tech-powered brokerage of more than 2,200 agents. Rocket will match homebuyers with the best real estate agents and the best loan officers across the combined companies. billion of equity value.

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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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