Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Your prospective clients need to know hat you’re a real estate agent and you’re still an active player in the field. Establishing and maintaining your visibility involves actively engaging with potential clients, networking and participating in the local real estate community. And the more potential clients will trust you.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Many of my coaching clients are eager for knowledge but often seek it in areas of personal interest rather than in areas where they most need to learn and improve. This phenomenon is explained in the book Man’s Search for Meaning , authored by Holocaust survivor Viktor E. In the book, Frankl states, “Don’t aim at success.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

According to Ketchmark, the home sellers paid an average of $6,700 to the buyer’s agent in the transactions, adding up to $1.78 Ketchmark also brought up Keller’s book “The Millionaire Real Estate Agent,” which discusses the ‘co-opetition’ model that has evolved among rival brokerages. billion in damages. And I say average.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

According to NAR , five percent of sellers and four percent of buyers found their agent through another agent’s referral. A referral estate referral occurs when a licensed agent or broker passes along a prospective buyer or seller to another licensed agent to handle a transaction. What are the benefits of referrals? It’s a win-win!

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But as much as it’s already a core tenet of real estate, collaboration currently presents a unique new opportunity for real estate agents to evolve the way they work with their buyers and sellers. It’s time that tech providers took a page from the book of the people they serve. We’re taking that page.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Equipped with the right real estate marketing tools, you’ll save time, scale faster, and attract more clients — all without having to learn 40 new complicated skills and programs. Real estate agents today need outstanding websites — or, at the very least, highly functional ones — to both attract and communicate with clients.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We have 189,000 real estate clients who work with us. As a public company, we’re a pretty open book.” If there is an outright ban on sellers paying buyer agents, it’s clear from research focus groups and what happens in other countries that we will not see homebuyers coming out of pocket to pay buyer agents,” Florance said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In April, Ocwen announced it acquired the entire $14 billion book of mortgage servicing rights of Texas Capital Bank through its subsidiary PHH Mortgage. In total, the deal added 200 new correspondent sellers and 60,000 loans to PHH’s business. The post Ocwen delivers a $21.5M profit in Q3 appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Buyer and seller-specific landing pages: You’ll want a site that offers visitor-specific content pages. For example, buyers will want to browse listings while home sellers visiting your site will appreciate your free home valuations. The goal: to stay in touch with any and all visitors to your website.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

How to prepare for a listing appointment Have a quick call with the sellers to ask them about their motivation, timeline, and price they have in mind. You can send everything electronically if they prefer, but I always like to have hard copies on hand just in case that’s easier for the sellers. Business cards.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

That question would be answered succinctly when the Dodd Frank Act retooled the entire consumer regulatory structure, redrafting lending and closing documents, stiffening enforcement of laws long on the books and creating new ones, and sending participants in the real estate process into a panic trying to figure out to make it all work.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

Messina went on to call MAM a “valued subservicing client.” The Waterfall affiliate MAM has been a subservicing client of ours for some time now, so we know these assets well from a performance perspective. “The This deal is also accompanied by seller-provided financing, and it is accretive to both earnings per share and cash.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2023

Adjusted revenue exceeded the top end of our guidance, driven by healthy client demand and strong execution,” Jay Farner, CEO of Rocket Companies, said in a statement. “We now have multiple ways to acquire and engage our clients,” Brian Brown, CFO of Rocket Companies, told analysts. Rocket reported $8.1 Rocket has 2.5

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

According to Freel, originators that do not own MSRs are likely to benefit from lower rates due to higher origination volumes and the absence of markdowns on their servicing books. million clients, a number it will likely reach by early 2025 after migrating Flagstar’s customer base. Cooper Group.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

Successful agents, brokerages and loan officers of the future are going to rely significantly on technology to find, nurture and engage with buyers and sellers while also playing an expanding role as personal advisors. “I had one client in St. Presented by: Propertybase. She relocated to New York.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

One of the best books I’ve read on business was Lean Startup by Eric Riese. Now we’re leveraging AI to understand in advance of a client contacting us how to recognize the right candidate for them. Ultimately, we’re using data to know 30-60-90 days before we get a phone call from a seller or agent that a call is coming.

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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. Many nosy neighbors end up turning into sellers, and hosting open houses is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your marketing skills.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

These sellers were on the market with another agent before and could not sell. Back in my own cold-calling days, I tried every expired listing script in the book. This simple real estate script generates the best results because it acknowledges the sellers’ feelings and piques their interest: Hi. Lead with value!

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

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. Create interactive polls on platforms like Instagram stories and posts to boost engagement and better understand your client’s preferences.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Snatching up first-time homebuyers is akin to striking gold — since developing a relationship with them can mean a loyal client for life. Regular communication keeps you top-of-mind when clients are ready to make a move. Of course, you can’t do everything — but consistency is important.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Real estate and the dawn of the internet era Prior to the advent of the World Wide Web, for-sale listings were published in a hard-copy MLS book, which was not allowed to leave the broker’s brick-and-mortar office. All of the books said they were confidential and not to give them away,” said Saul Klein, the current CEO of San Diego MLS.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2024

Kleimann: What are you advising seller’s agents and buyer’s agents about the changes? In some markets, like in Texas, for example, I have agent clients who are in a little bit more of a buyer’s market. I think agents need to be very, very aware of market conditions and the seller’s goals and desires.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2023

The LO in the Portland, Oregon area said she’s trying to get creative to help clients, pursuing 3/2/1 and 2/1 mortgage rate buydowns. But with all of the volatility it’s been a struggle to get sellers to give the kind of credits we need for those programs. That’s tough to compete against.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Here, we summarize the real estate software programs that help you capture leads, organize data and connect with clients more effectively — in a year that promises to be anything but typical. This combination is highly effective for agents needing to keep track of the latest MLS listings and manage client relationships efficiently.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

And that’s how Saller’s clients — siblings in their early 20s — can close on a $335,000, three-bedroom condominium in Jackson, New Jersey, early in March. The DPA share in FHA’s total book of business, including refinances, was 27% as of October 2023.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2022

When they said they were starting exams again, I hopped on it and managed to book a slot for two weeks after they opened up,” Hunt said. “I These rookies were thrust into the most extreme seller’s markets in history, where they had to learn on the fly how to write an offer, pitch a potential seller, and generate leads.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

You can network and build community with other agents worldwide, keep up-to-date on the latest industry trends, stay motivated when you’re feeling discouraged, learn directly from some of the top real estate leaders, and even potentially find new clients! Use these groups to find homes for picky buyers or find deals for your investor clients.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

Absent hard proof, that potential move by the lender is still in the arena of rumor at this point, but perceptions do affect buyer and seller choices in the market. Fueling the rumor in this case is Wells Fargo’s recently announced plans to reduce its MSR portfolio, valued on its books at $9.3 billion as of the end of 2022, U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Sellers usually have an efficient sales force but can’t afford the back-office operations. Planet’s transaction with Homepoint, however, doubled its client base in the correspondent space. We had about 400 sellers on our own. Then, the net new sellers that came on with Homepoint was about 400 more.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

It’s important to be intentional and choose strategies that give you the highest likelihood of meeting and connecting with your ideal clients. Rather than wasting time and money trying many different tactics to find clients, a detailed plan allows you to focus on just a few. You need to reserve enough energy to serve your clients well.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2021

Texas Capital Bank is selling its entire $14 billion book of mortgage servicing rights to PHH Mortgage , a subsidiary of Ocwen Financial Corp , for a “modest profit.” Texas Capital’s correspondent lending business originated approximately $2.4

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

That challenge is compounded by the low level of new-loan production now being booked at much higher coupons in the 6% to 7% range. Literally, every other week we have different clients come to us and say, ‘What has happened in my portfolio [because it’s losing value]?’” They’re net sellers of MSRs to the market. “So,

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McKissock

JULY 6, 2022

The reality, however, is many agents struggle to properly set and manage the client’s expectations of how the chaos is going to work and how the process is going to play out. Managing client expectations is critical, and sadly, often overlooked as part of the agent/client relationship. As agents, we know better.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Standout features: VIP tours CTA, Calendy tour booking, neighborhood guides, custom designs available See it live: The Meza Team Why we love it AgentFire offers branding-focused IDX websites at a surprisingly affordable price. We’d love to see CINC home pages focus more on personal branding and client service. Pricing is also an issue.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2022

But I am really great with crowds and with the pandemic I was looking for a way to stay in touch with my clients, so I decided to start filming some shows and posting them on social media and YouTube. So, for us this means making sure that the closing set up is elegant and that the homebuyers and sellers feel relaxed and a little spoiled.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

Gone are the days of weekly listing books and print advertisements with grainy black-and-white photos. The agents who spoke with RealTrends all viewed any time spent developing leads and cultivating relationships that will help them grow their client base as productive. That was in 1980.”. Record Breaking Years.

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McKissock

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Real estate agents are commonly sued for breaching their duty to act in the best interests of their client. To protect your clients’ interests, and reduce your own risk exposure, check out our highly-rated course, Know the Code: Your Guide to the Code of Ethics. Real estate risk management is an important concern for agents.

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