Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2020

Rather than a typically busy spring home-buying season , the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the bulk of home-buying this year into the summer months, and real estate agents are busier than ever. Since homebuying season was pushed back from this spring, realtor.com ’s Housing Market Recovery Index reported that August is the new May.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Active listings of homes for sale rose to the highest level since early in the pandemic. New listings hit the highest level since July 2022, increasing 1.9% of homes that went under contract last month. New listings: New listings rose most in Seattle (30.8%); Oakland, California (27.7%); and Sacramento, California (25%).

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

New listings volume is trying to grow with its biggest week since September. List prices inched up for the week, though sales prices did not advance. We calculate that while there were 63,000 newly pending single-family home sales in the week, there were another 20,000 withdrawn listings across the country.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Why are real estate statistics important for agents? The median list price of homes in the US is $435,000; the median price of new listings is $435,900. Is there a better way to make yourself the go-to agent in your area? Homebuyers found photos to be the most valuable feature found on a listing website (66%).

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

“But if the pandemic surges up again, I think we’re just going to get busier and busier here, because we are definitely located in the correct position, outside of New York City, where parents can still commute to work and children can have space needed for homeschooling and things like that,” Kanacki said.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

New home sales contracts are coming in pretty consistently fewer than last year — 4.9% Our Immediate sales measure of homes that get listed, take offers and go into contract in a few days is also notably lower than last year. On the supply side, new listings are slightly more than a year ago, but pulling back.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. Single-family homebuyers who entered contract, meanwhile, slalomed to 12 total in July compared to 46 a year earlier, per the report. Aspen, Colorado. Of those 12 homes purchased, 10 cost at least $5 million.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2025

Even though most agents focus their marketing efforts online, people start thinking about finding a real estate agent well before they hit ENTER on their first Google search. Knowing this, real estate agents should always find friendly, conversational ways to stay on their potential clients minds year-round.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2024

New listings rise This week saw 69,000 new single family listings unsold. There were another 15,000 new listings that are already in contract, which is very low for immediate sales recently. So that’s a total of 84,000 total new sellers for single-family homes this week.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

New listings Last week, 59,000 new single-family listings came to market. New listings volume continues to run ahead of last year and we see more sellers than last year. In fact, last week, after including the 16,000 immediate sales, there were 24% more new listings than the same week a year ago.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2024

That’s why many successful real estate agents turn to a CRM, lead generation and marketing platform like Market Leader. The complete Marketing Center, including automated marketing, is fully integrated with the Market Leader CRM Contract requirements: Six-month contract How does Market Leader work?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2021

During the four week period ending November 28, the number of active listings was a 23% decrease compared to the same time period in 2020 and a 42% drop compared to 2019. The number of new listings was also down compared to 2020, dropping 4%, but it was 12% higher than the number of new listing during the same time period in 2019.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

There are only 358,000 single family homes in contract pending now. We saw 64,000 newly pending contracts last week for single family home sales which is 7% fewer than last year. This week is a holiday week so new sales will tick down win next week’s data. So we have 11% fewer total contracts but only 7% fewer new contracts.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

of homes that went under contract that month, according to a new report from Redfin. They’re getting cold feet,” said Jaime Moore, a Redfin Premier real estate agent in Reno, Nevada. New Listings Tick Up Slightly, But Overall Housing Supply Remains at Record Low New listings rose 0.8%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

In the nearby metro area of Cape Coral-Fort Myers , active single-family inventory over the previous 90 days averaged 6,500 listings as of March 15, above its March 2020 level of 5,044 listings and approaching its March 2019 level of 7,243 listings. Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

One of the biggest challenges for agents is finding new clients and staying top-of-mind until they are ready to buy or sell. Today, It is an all-in-one platform designed to help real estate agents manage many aspects of their business, including building meaningful relationships to grow repeat and referral business with clients.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

In one moment, you may be a content creator, and in the next, a customer service agent, administrative assistant, marketing strategist, copywriter and editor — all in one. Yet, in a competitive real estate market, agents don’t always have the luxury of investing months into long-term brand-building.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 20, 2024

Conversely, new listings remain near historic lows. Another explanation for the drop in pending sales is a scarcity of new, desirable listings for buyers to select from. New listings are up 7.7% They don’t want to spend extra money on paint or new appliances.” YoY change. YoY change. pt YoY change.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2021

Diving deeper, for the two week period ending May 9, 2021, 57% of homes that went under contract had an accepted offer within the first two weeks on the market. ” How real estate agents can alleviate consumer pain points in a tight market. Asking prices also reached an average of $361,875, another record high.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s no secret that homeowners search online to find a listing agent who can sell their home quickly and for top dollar. If you’re an agent, team or brokerage looking to keep a pipeline of qualified listing leads coming your way, SmartZip may the solution you need. But what if you could find them first?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

It was at this point in 2022 when new listings started plummeting each week. In September, even though new sellers were few, buyers were even fewer, so inventory rose. Through July, new listings volume each week was in the normal range as in previous years. Suddenly new listings volume dropped each week.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 12, 2024

Inventory, New Listings and Pending Sales Overview New listings increased by 7.9% more new listings compared to last year. New listings are still 23.3% Inventory (the number of listings active at any time during the month) in May increased by 7.4% The typical mortgage payment is up 11.3%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2021

One-third of homes that went under contract had an accepted offer within one week of hitting the market, a new report from Redfin found. In addition, the number of homes that went under contract within two weeks of listing rose to 46% from 42% during the same period in 2020. points from a month earlier.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 17, 2024

According to new Redfin research , more than three in five—an estimated 61.9%—of of homes on the market in May had been listed for at least 30 days without selling. Dallas Share of unsold listings sitting on the market for at least 30 days: 60.5% That’s up from 60% a year ago and around 50% two years ago. set in October 2023.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While you were pulling your hair out trying to come up with the perfect post idea, other agents in your farm area just…did it. That’s a lot of pressure for one phone call and where most new real estate agents fail. Visit Coffee & Contracts 3. All created by Realtors, for Realtors. Guess what?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Real estate agents today need outstanding websites — or, at the very least, highly functional ones — to both attract and communicate with clients. Zurple Zurple is a marketing tool for real estate agents that helps them grow their database with high-quality leads.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 12, 2024

Now is a good time–at least compared to the recent past–for serious house hunters to get under contract on a home,” said Daryl Fairweather, Chief Economist at Redfin. Compared to 28% two years prior, 40% of the residences on the market had been listed for at least two months without receiving a contract. overall and by 7.3%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

For many, summertime in northern New Hampshire is the perfect opportunity to get back to nature, relax lakeside and generally slow down a little. According to local real estate agents, the region’s housing market seems to have read the same memo, as June did not bring the same market boost as many have grown accustomed to.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2021

“I never know how my day is going to go, because when a new listing comes on the market in Knoxville, the race is on. You set your appointments the night before, and when you get there that morning, they might already be under contract.” Generally, they go under contract in a day or two.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2025

After Jensen took over as CEO in 2015 , MRED created an internal MLS private listing network after survey feedback from subscribers found that many were frustrated by the number of pocket listings and sales occurring.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Listing and marketing properties is a complicated process. For every new listing, you’ll be reminded when to tackle important milestones. If you can’t nab listings like this, offer to sit open house events for busy agents at your brokerage who DO have listings in the areas you aspire to work in.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

There are no signs of any surge in listings, and as a result we’ve seen a floor on home prices. New contracts dipped as affordability is out of reach for so many. There are 348,000 single-family homes in contract right now, with only 54,000 new contracts pending in the last week.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Though mortgage rate lock-in continues to limit new listings, particularly in the New York City suburbs, listings have increased in upstate New York as people have continued to leave the area for warmer climates. Most expect their pipeline of contracts to keep construction busy through the year.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2023

Pending Sales There are now 378,000 single-family homes in contract. There were 68,000 new contracts for single-family homes this week. In the chart below, the light portion of each bar represents the new contracts each week. But, there were another 15,000 condos and townhomes that went into contract this week.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Brokerages and individual agents alike need to understand the market and adapt their strategies to showcase creativity, become memorable and lead with empathy. Demonstrating you have a keen understanding of the whole client journey — from staging and listing to settling into a brand-new home — will give you a competitive advantage.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Texas residents interested in becoming a real estate agent must first complete 180 hours of approved coursework to be eligible to sit the state licensure exam. We estimate that it’ll take three to six months to get up and running as a licensed real estate agent in the Lone Star State. That’s a longer program than in most states.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

As a broker and real estate coach, I’m always surprised when new agents tell me they don’t want to use real estate scripts. Expired listing cold calling script Cold calling expired listings is a proven (if sometimes terrifying) way to find new business. This is [name] with [brokerage]. Lead with value!

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