Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Working in real estate sales for a few years, and now you want to challenge yourself and raise the stakes? You might be ready to take on the luxury real estate market! I’ll show you what it takes to succeed as a luxury real estate agent in any market. Visit Coffee & Contracts 2.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Can you build a thriving real estate business on TikTok? She went from a brand new agent in 2020 to running her wildly successful boutique brokerage with Side in less than four years. When we caught Kina on a recent episode of the Real Estate Rockstars podcast, we had questions lots of them. Kina Desantis did.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2024

Just this week, I have spent time with successful people in the following pursuits: Technology consulting, software development, real estate sales, building construction and contracting, the law, nuclear physics innovation, advertising, medical sales, and product innovation. Good agents do a lot more than simply show houses.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools equip real estate agents with unprecedented capabilities. Since real estate tech changes by the hour these days, we did a deep dive into the most helpful AI tools for real estate agents on the market today. Visit Top Producer 2.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2020

But the agent with TeamBarham, Keller Williams Homewood didn’t expect the grub question. As Americans ditch urban cores for roomier abodes in the suburbs, real estate agents say the list of must-haves has changed: buyers are looking for pools, home offices and makeshift learning centers. The post Two home offices?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

Bonnie Williamson never intended to be a real estate agent. As more and more people enter the real estate industry – membership at the National Association of Realtors has ballooned to a record 1.6 For brokerages – and agents themselves – transaction sides and sales volume are easy ways to measure productivity.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

These lawsuits threaten to radically reshape the residential brokerage landscape, and could be the catalyst for a fat decline in the annual commission pool as well as the industry shedding as many as 80% of agents, according to a team of analysts at Keefe Bruyette Woods. Relatedly, the commission rates could decline by 200 bps or more.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

Well into January, we are already seeing properties go under contract in the first weekend with multiple offers. Interest rates, a key determinant of the real estate market’s health, are on a downward trend. The real estate industry must keep up with the big appetite for housing.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

That means you’ve been thinking about real estate agents…a lot. The purchase money mortgage transaction begins with the real estate sales contract and that’s not something our industry controls. It’s the real estate agent who has the consumer’s trust at this point.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2025

” Their business is to “dominate” the market , “take” real estate agents’ business, “ buy Redfin ” and acquire new businesses “behind their back.” He said they “bought a real estate business because real estate agents won’t work with them.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

20, the National Association of Realtors said that contract signings were up 23% year over year. There were nine new pending contracts for every 10 new listings, a slower rate than the 9.9 The post No seasonal slowdown this year as real estate agents report a busier-than-usual fall appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2023

Achieving success as a real estate agent requires more than simply understanding the mechanics of the job. Here are 10 essential skills every real estate agent should possess. Here are 10 essential skills every real estate agent should possess. Another hat to place on your head?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If you’re interested in becoming a real estate agent in Illinois, you’ll be happy to hear that the path to getting your real estate license in the Prairie State doesn’t require as much of a time commitment as other states. 1] As a real estate broker in Illinois, it is not legal for you to work independently.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Women make up more than half of the real estate agents in the United States, yet women make up less than a third of nationally-recognized real estate coaches — The Helm aims to change that,” Wilkie said in a statement. “We

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

To help you find the best real estate website builder for your needs, our team of agents, brokers, and tech experts researched and ranked the best real estate website builders for 2024. Instead of learning to code or wrestling with WordPress, you can get your website up and running in an afternoon.

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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? Its important to understand how real estate teams work for you to decide whether its the right career move for you. How do real estate teams work?

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Despite challenges in the market, luxury agents can leverage these insights [from the mid-year report] to finish the year strong.” Those trends include buyers’ pursuit of “forever dream homes” which, according to agents, offer adaptability to grow and change alongside homeowners’ evolving lifestyles. of responding specialists agreed.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

Under the terms of the settlement, agents will no longer be allowed to share their seller’s offers of buyer broker compensation on an MLS. For Lamacchia, it is essential that his agents and brokers are able to clearly explain and communicate about the forms they are asking clients to sign. And the agents are scared,” Lamacchia said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

The company announced this week that it secured $8 million in funding to offer better insights and cohesiveness to real estate agents. Indigo is a search platform that allows buyers to bid on agent-approved listings. Users can also track all agents interested in a specific listing and offer data analytics. .

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

If you dig a little deeper into the backgrounds of the agents on the Real Trends Verified list, you might think so. He was a bartender who started his real estate career in a market that was brand new to him. He was locked into a one-year contract, but the minute it ended, he began his search for a new coach.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Real estate agents are facing a contracting issue that could seriously upend the traditional housing landscape. Under current guidelines, sellers pay a 5-6% commission on a sale which is split between the buyer and listing agents. But what happens if consumers pivot away from buyer agents altogether?

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 14, 2025

Some homes are attracting bidding wars like its 2020 again, while others are sitting on the market for weeks with no action, said Desiree Bourgeois, a Redfin Premier Real Estate Agent in Detroit. In Miami, the typical home that went under contract last month sat on the market for 94 daysmore than any other major metro.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

So read through these real estate statistics, commit them to memory and use them as fuel in your real estate conversations. Why are real estate statistics important for agents? Is there a better way to make yourself the go-to agent in your area? 89% of sellers used an agent to sell their home.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2025

Predictive analytics in real estate combines the use of historical data and algorithms to anticipate future market trends and identify potential sellers sometimes even buyers, too. Real estate agents can use this data to identify motivated sellers and people who are likely to buy a home.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Additionally, the Times reported that Goldberg’s contract entitled him to things like memberships to exclusive country clubs, first-class airfare for personal travel, expensive car allowances, money for his dog to travel with him and even tickets to “Hamilton” at the height of the musical’s popularity.

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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. Now, agents are showing and selling nonstop. The South followed, at 20%; the Northeast at 13%; but the West actually declined, by 4%.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Im seeing more homebuyers back out of deals than usual, and Im hearing the same from other agents and mortgage lenders in the area, said Sam Brinton, a Redfin Premier agent in Salt Lake City. Some real estate agents are advising buyers to monitor homes they missed out on, as deals are falling through at a higher rate.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 17, 2025

of homes that went under contract that month. Homebuyers pumped the brakes when mortgage rates ticked back up and are now in wait-and-see mode, said Jesse Landin, a Redfin Premier Real Estate Agent in San Antonio. of homes went under contract within two weeksthe lowest share in five years. a year earlier.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2021

Compass defrauded its real estate agents out of millions of dollars in sales commissions and broke pledges to give agents shares of stock, according to a new lawsuit that seeks class-action status. One program has agents buying stock at the “preferred” price of $154 a share. The second-largest brokerage in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The role and value of real estate agents has come under scrutiny since the National Association of Realtors (NAR) settled a bevy of antitrust lawsuits related to offers of agent compensation on Realtor-owned multiple listing services (MLSs). But Rayse also plans integration for seller agents sometime in 2025.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

These housing professionals have been gaming out the potential impact on buyers’ agents – a significant source of referrals. Loan officers and mortgage executives expect home sellers and homebuyers to negotiate more aggressively on commission paid to buyer agents, potentially bringing costs down.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In a recent episode of “The Loan Officer Podcast,” host Dustin Owen and guest John Coleman explore key tips that all aspiring real estate agents should know when navigating mortgage financing for a potential client. A final point urges agents to not rush mortgage preapprovals before moving forward in the process.

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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

MARCH 26, 2025

Other goals of door knocking you should keep in mind are: Building rapport in a neighborhood Establish yourself as the go-to agent in a specific farm area Make listing appointments Gather contacts Work in conjunction with other marketing strategies (e.g. If you need some design inspiration, look no further than Coffee and Contracts.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

Filed mere hours after a Missouri jury found real estate industry players liable for colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions, the Gibson suit largely mirrors the claims made in the original commission lawsuits, including Sitzer/Burnett and Moehrl. 31, 2019, and the present.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2025

Believe it or not, good old-fashioned postcards are still one of the most effective real estate marketing strategies. 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.

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Inman

JULY 7, 2024

As a real estate agent, your reputation can make or break your business. Christy Murdock shares seven things that can significantly damage your professional image and what you can do to avoid them.

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