Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

HomeLight is an Arizona -based real estate platform designed to connect agents with clients. According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), only 24% of recent buyers were first-timers. The company’s 2024 Top Agent Insights survey gathered perspectives from more than 750 real estate agents between Oct. 30 and Nov.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

With home sales still at historically low levels and uncertainty over the commission lawsuits , real estate brokerage executives prize good leads more than ever. To convert these leads into business, the brokerage developed teams — also called units — headed by captains who are successful agents with high lead conversion rates.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2024

With technology changing faster than new agents answer phone calls, choosing the right real estate brokerage software can sometimes feel like a full-time job. Here’s why: Good software might help your brokerage stay afloat in a post-lawsuit market. The looming chaos from the commission lawsuits sure isn’t helping.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We looked at pricing, design quality, ease of use, lead generation features, and then combed online reviews to get feedback from other working Realtors. With competition for online leads heating up, we think AgentFire’s brand-first approach can be a game changer for brand-conscious agents, teams and even boutique brokerages.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

The company has added independent brokerage Delhougne Realty Group , a St. Joining eXp helps the group mitigate risks related to being independent in a rapidly changing industry environment spurred by the $418 million settlement that the National Association of Realtors agreed to in a class-action antitrust lawsuit filed in Missouri.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Real estate giant Zillow came out victorious in its years-long legal battle with discount brokerage REX Real Estate. In mid-May 2022, REX ceased its brokerage operations. In a verdict announced late Friday afternoon, a jury in a U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Lone Wolf Technologies , a real estate technology company that has been in business for decades, unveiled its reimagined brand identity last week as an effort to “blend technology with human-centered design to better serve real estate professionals,” per a release from the company. ”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

17, 2024 — the date that the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) commission lawsuit settlement agreement went into effect — served as a reckoning of sorts. “I The webpage is open to agents across the industry regardless of their brokerage affiliation.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

As lenders adapt to a purchase-centered market , HousingWire spoke to Brian Boero, CEO of 1000watt , about opportunities to grow lenders’ effectiveness in the Realtor and broker market. HousingWire: What’s happening right now in the Realtor world that lenders should know more about? This has created an environment of scarcity.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 28, 2024

We have yet to find out the full extent of the court-ordered National Association of Realtors (NAR) settlement back in March on the topic of commissions in which the NAR is expected to pay $418 million over a four-year period in damages and will change numerous rules that housing experts believe will lower house costs going forward.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Coldwell Banker Danforth , a Seattle-based Coldwell Banker franchise, won’t renew its National Association of Realtors (NAR) affiliation at the beginning of 2024, the company announced on Friday. Earlier in October, national real estate brokerages Redfin , Anywhere and RE/MAX took a step back from NAR.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

Engel & Volkers Atlanta , a luxury real estate brokerage, announced Thursday that Christopher Burell is joining the firm as its new chief growth officer. The brokerage includes multiple teams that cover Atlanta , its suburbs and other areas of north Georgia.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

On Thursday, the defendants in the suit, which now consist of only the National Association of Realtors , Keller Williams and HomeServices of America after both Anywhere and RE/MAX filed settlement agreements , filed a motion objecting to the purported withdrawal of the named plaintiffs of the eve of the trial.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The appeal of REX Real Estate s antitrust suit against the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and Zillow began in earnest on Thursday when the three parties, along with the Department of Justice (DOJ), gathered at the Ninth District Court of Appeals in Honolulu for oral arguments before a three-judge panel.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

“I was sitting on my couch and I saw Michael on CNBC calling us a cartel, saying that we take money that doesn’t belong to us, and I was infuriated at that rhetoric and I was infuriated at what that infers about Realtors,” Lamacchia said. “It It dehumanizes Realtors and turns us into money-making machines.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2024

The recent announcement of Homie’s decision to strip its brokerage services and end employment for its real estate agents has once again brought the discussion of alternative models in real estate to the forefront. Many limited service brokerages have faced similar hurdles in their quest to disrupt the status quo.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2021

While addressing all of these issues is important, should we not have more stories and conversations about how brokerages can capture the most important stakeholder of all? Let’s dive into two areas that technology partners and independent brokerages can align to ensure that demand is captured and more at-bats are won. The homebuyer.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

Many state Realtor associations’ new forms —such as buyer representation agreements—are largely incomprehensible to the average homebuyer or seller and have language that seeks to avoid the terms of the National Association of Realtors ‘ (NAR) nationwide commission lawsuit settlement agreement , according to a report released earlier this month.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The mood in the real estate industry has been gloomy since it was rocked by the $418 million settlement of antitrust lawsuits by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) in March, but brokerages are pulling out all the stops to change that. It includes videos, tools and other resources to make sure they’re complying with the rules.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Team structures to avoid While most team structures are designed for growth and success, not all teams are set up that way. They create content, manage the teams social media, and design marketing campaigns to attract leads. Team commission splits are typically lower than those of a traditional brokerage for an individual agent.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2025

These real estate mailers are designed to spread holiday cheer, express gratitude and maintain a personal touch among your network. Top places to order real estate postcards & find attractive templates In todays digital-first world, a postcard with a handwritten note can create a memorable impression. But where do you start?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2021

Trulia and the National Association of Realtors are also named in the suit. In September, Zillow unveiled Zillow Homes , a licensed brokerage entity, which serves as the brokerage of record for all Zillow Offers transactions. Real Estate Tech Demo Hour. billion visits.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

One such example includes agents struggling in a tough market while their dues fund personal pet sitting services for the National Association of Realtors (NAR) CEO. If we were to start fresh, no competent businessperson would design an MLS system like this. Recent revelations also expose the systems deep flaws.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) announced the launch of the Residential Real Estate Council’s (RCC) Broker Solutions , a new resource available to its over 1.5 million members nationwide through the Realtor Benefits Program , on Tuesday. Of these single office operations, 91% are independent, non-franchised firms.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It found the National Association of Realtors , HomeServices of America and Keller Williams guilty of collusion to maintain high commission rates. It’s yet to be determined what this means for Realtors at this point,” Timothy Ray, the lead attorney for Keller Williams, told HousingWire in the Charles Evans Whittaker U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Since almost all of our picks offer roughly the same features, we scored them based on our opinion of their property search experience, design quality, and overall user experience (UX). UX design quality: 4.6 UX design quality: 4.6 Property search results pages are well-designed, easy to navigate and customizable.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

The complaint argues that the NAR and the brokerage defendants collude “to impose, implement and enforce anticompetitive restraints that cause home sellers to pay inflated commissions on the sale of their homes, in violation of federal antitrust law.” “Because this blanket offer must be made available to every buyer-broker using the MLS (i.e.,

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Real estate marketing software provider MoxiWorks is looking to help agents up their game while complying with the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) commission lawsuit settlement agreement that went into effect last month.

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2024

While many had hoped the Department of Justice’s interest in the real estate industry would wane with the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ commission lawsuit settlement agreement , that is clearly not the case. “Moreover, the report contains wild speculations that brokers using C.A.R.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

In a new episode of the HousingWire Daily podcast , Editor in Chief and host Sarah Wheeler sits down with eXp Realty CEO Leo Pareja to discuss the National Association of Realtors ‘ (NAR) commission lawsuit, the new rules that agents are facing, and how eXp is helping agents navigate these challenges to thrive in the marketplace.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The Rayse platform is designed to make agent-client relationships transparent in an evolving real estate market. Rayse has served more than 200 brokerages, including NextHome another company owned by James Dwiggins. REside members will have early access to the platform and all of its communication-focused features.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2025

Just a few years later, I was breaking sales records, and at age 27, I was on the cover of Realtor Magazines 30 Under 30. Online $293 Colorado Real Estate School CRE courses are designed by Colorado-based brokers, so courses are specific to the local market. Does this brokerage offer the training and tools I need?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Carlson explores his early career journey, including insights into how he grew the brokerage. Realtors can go to get it themselves too, and that’s not truly differentiating yourself from the marketplace.” And Carlson offers some key tips on centralizing management, building a brand and creating a successful succession plan. “I

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The new rules mandated by the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) antitrust settlement are designed to encourage more negotiations for buyer agent commissions. But different brokerages are experiencing different things. Almost a month after the rules went into effect, that appears to be happening.

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2024

The August 17 deadline is looming, and many Realtors are gnashing their teeth over how they can share their seller’s offers of buyer broker compensation while still complying with the terms of the settlement. Nesthook has not been created by the National Association of Realtors, any Realtor Association or MLS.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

On Monday, the now defunct discount brokerage filed an appeal with the U.S. In mid-May 2022, REX ceased its brokerage operations. REX Real Estate is back again trying to get a new trial in its false advertising lawsuit against Zillow. Due to this, Zilly ruled in January that REX would not be granted a new trial.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is facing yet another lawsuit. These processes (the ‘Unlawful Bundling’) are designed to amass a tremendous (and tremendously growing) database which the defendants then characterize as ‘leads,’” the complaint states. The suit claims that NAR, along with Move Inc., and REA Group Ltd.

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