Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The role of the real estate agent has been under the microscope of late as a result of class-action litigation over agent commissions, but the feedback agents want most about their practices comes from two sources — home buyers and sellers. This was unambiguous among homebuyers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Commit to two open houses per week Maximize the return on those open houses. Call other agents that you have a relationship with that may not want to or can’t hold their own open houses. Hold open houses on weekdays too if you don’t have enough. Extend hours.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Nearly three quarters of recent American home sellers said in a Clever survey that using a traditional real estate agent is the best way to sell. Of the 73% who said they preferred using agents, 67% believe traditional real estate agents are still the best option and 6% favor discount agents.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Fintech software and hardware provider Mortgage Automation Technologies is launching The BIG Agent , a transaction management platform for real estate brokers and agents. The BIG Agent was developed to address complex issues arising from recent industry changes.

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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 17, 2024

The role of the buyer’s agent has been turned on its head and Lone Wolf Technologies wants to help. The real estate software company is launching a “Buyer’s Agent Club” that is designed to assist agents in navigating an uncertain time in the industry through resources, tools and training.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

So, let’s start with the basics: What is a real estate broker vs. an agent? To answer that, we’ll take a deep dive into the differences between the many types of real estate professionals, including a real estate agent and a real estate broker. Summary What is a real estate agent? What does a real estate agent do?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

On Wednesday, real estate tech company Zigzy launched beta testing of Townify, a solution that enables real estate agents to host virtual open houses , which has become a necessity in a time when we are told to remain socially distant, the company said in a release. Additionally, 75% of U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

The data are sobering: The Agent Movement Index , the number of experienced Realtors switching brokerages each month, was at its lowest level since 2016. The number of agents switching brokerages is ticking upward and markets are stabilizing across the country. If you want to learn how to recruit agents, now is the time.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2021

Shawneequa Badger, leads an agent team at Corcoran Living in Oakland. Amy Kong of Trust Real Estate hosts open houses where people ask, “Where is the agent?”. These are instances of racism experienced by Hispanic, Black and Asian real estate agents. Just 6% of all of the National Association of Realtors’ 1.4

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

During a virtual open house hosted by Keller Williams to answer agent and broker questions about the settlements in the commission lawsuits , the overwhelming message was for real estate professionals to focus on what they can control. Don’t panic. The executives said they received more than 150 questions.

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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. There’s a ton of money to be made just by opening doors and looking glamorous — Right? Most of the agents you see on TV wearing $1500 outfits work 80+ hours per week. And I wasn’t alone.

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Inman

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Putting on an effective open house, Jonathan Pressman writes, means being the informed agent and the best source of information for current and future clients.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It’s a weird time to be a real estate agent , and I see it all around me here in the Denver metro. But what happens to real estate agents when the market shifts and goes down? In fact, some of the most successful real estate agents have thrived even more when times are tough. I think that’s the thing most missed with agents.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

Listings are the life-blood of all successful real estate businesses, but making the leap from working primarily with buyers to working with sellers can be a challenge for many agents early in their careers. As overall home sales decline on a national level, signing listings is more difficult than ever for agents of all experience levels.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

For decades, referrals have been the backbone of a real estate agents business. But in an era where nearly everything begins with a Google search, the way buyers connect with agents has changed dramatically. Buyers are increasingly conducting their own online review of prospective agents before choosing one.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

MARCH 19, 2022

If you’re planning on selling your home, you’re probably going to have open houses so that you can let buyers see for themselves the wonderful features of your home. How can you get the most impact from an open house? Now she wants to have an open house. Photo via Pexels. What do you need to do?

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Inman

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Sitting an open house for a listing agent is a "golden opportunity" to generate leads and practice your home-showing skills with potential buyers, Realtor Jonathan Pressman writes.

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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. stars on every major review platform.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

And with millennials emerging as the largest generation of homebuyers in today’s market, comprising 28% of all homebuyers, real estate agents need to master social media or they might miss out. Sixty percent of agents surveyed believe that social media provides higher quality leads than the MLS.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

Under the terms of the settlement agreement , agents will have to have a written agreement with a client in order to work with them as a buyer’s agent. Under these circumstances, the agent or MLS participant would not need a written agreement with the buyer.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2022

When the restaurant Tom Hunt worked at as a server temporarily shut down during the spring of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he decided it was the right time to pursue his longtime desire of becoming a real estate agent. Hunt is just one among thousands of agents who has ventured into the field of real estate during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Real Estate News

MARCH 25, 2024

Nothing is changing yet, and when change does come, it won’t eliminate buyer agents or cooperative compensation. ‘‘No No one can force you to work for free.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2024

According to DelPrete, it illustrates real estate’s last mile problem, where brokerages can invest in systems and technology to help the process, but still need effective agents to close the deal. The experiment also included trips to open houses, but brokerages didn’t fare much better there either.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Access to a hyper-local agent is more important now than ever. You can absolutely send this type of mailer to homeowners around a recently sold property that someone else sold — but make sure you adjust the language and ensure it’s clear you were not the listing agent. I recommend getting permission from the listing agent first.

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Inman

MARCH 21, 2024

A Sydney listing agent accidentally burned down her client's $3 million home. Five years after the accident, her broker has been ordered to pay $850K in damages.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Real estate farming, or geo-farming, is a lead generation strategy in which the agent focuses on a specific geographic area. Real estate agents rarely use farming as their only marketing approach, but the ones who use it successfully credit real estate farming for the longevity of their business. Why should I try real estate farming?

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Inman

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In the new normal, open houses have once again become one of the most valuable lead sources available, team leader Carl Medford writes. Here's how to run one the right way and make the most of the opportunity it presents.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The real estate industry as agents and brokers know it has been turned upside down. It remains to be seen exactly what the guilty verdict in the Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit means for agents and brokers, as the industry waits for Judge Stephen Bough’s injunction. billion in damages. (It It would swell to $5.36

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

As a result, PrimeMLS’s 12,000 member agents will have access to RealReports’s wealth of property data. The product is marketed toward real estate agents to help them build trust and credibility with their clients, a joint news release states. “In

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Real estate prospecting is a necessary activity for agents aiming to build a robust pipeline of buyer and seller leads. There are numerous methods an agent can use to prospect, some traditional and others that leverage technology. Here are some different methods that real estate agents use to prospect for leads.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Agents the perfect tools to manage and market their prospects and listings, all in one centralized solution. It offers open house sign-ins that automatically convert into a prospect, easily shareable listings for social media, virtual open house capability, personalized marketing materials and so much more! #1.

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Inman

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Fargo-based agent Kyle Olson lost his father to Alzheimer's in 2018. Since then, Olson has raised more than $40,000 for the Alzheimer's Association through several record-breaking open house events.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

This piece will explore some of the key domains where AI is having the greatest impact for real estate agents, brokers and the innovative companies leading the charge. Their all-in-one platform allows agents to send out mailers to leads at scale, with personalized copy developed by AI and hand-written notes produced by robots.

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Inman

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Bring fun to your October open houses with these holiday-themed ideas from coach Darryl Davis. In real estate, a little magic goes a long way.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2023

Nationwide, pre-pandemic the first week of February typically marks the lowest point for housing inventory during the year, as sellers return to the market in time for spring, but since the onset of the pandemic this predictable trend has been thrown out the window. “ It is maybe $10,000 or $15,000 at most.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2024

Not many people in any profession enjoy making cold calls to potential clients, but a venture capital-backed technology startup hopes to make it a little easier for real estate agents. The tool also serves as a platform for agents to organize and prioritize calls. ” Bardi, 25, has a well-scripted startup story of his own. “We’ve

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