Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2024

In the newest episode of the RealTrending podcast , host Tracey Velt chats with Ryan Michaelis, chief growth strategist at Worth Clark Realty , about business growth through recruitment, flat-fee models for agents and the effects of the National Association of Realtors ’ (NAR) settlement on buyers and sellers across the industry.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

eXp Realty continues to add agents and teams at a fast clip. The company announced the addition of the Maine -based Realty ONE Group, a 36-agent team that has closed 338 transactions totaling $128 million in sales volume so far this year. The team is led by Steven Brackett, who has been part of Realty One Group for six years.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Capitalizing on these market factors, brokerage firms in the 2022 RealTrends 500 brokerage rankings broke records in market share, closed transaction sides (there must be inventory somewhere!) The top four — Realogy Brokerage Group (RBG), HomeServices of America , Compass and eXp Realty — now have 20% market share in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Before acquiring the firm two years ago from his predecessor’s family, Carrion served as the CEO of Coldwell Banker Alliance Realty in California. Velt starts the conversation by asking Carrion for background on his purchase of the brokerage. Carrion also leads the firm’s office sales and investment advisory group. Following the Aug.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

As it became clear that many real estate professionals are in need of guidance, brokerages and industry leaders have launched a variety of educational resources and training courses for agents and brokers. The webpage is open to agents across the industry regardless of their brokerage affiliation.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The brokerage announced Wednesday that the KW Integrity market center has merged with Sparta, New Jersey-based Clearview Realty , bringing 25 agents and tens of millions of dollars in annual sales volume to KW Integrity. In June, independent brokerage TJ Lewis Real Estate affiliated with Keller Williams.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

1 brokerage in the country by transaction side count is getting bigger. Troy Palmquist is bringing his team of nearly 30-agents at DOORA Properties over to eXp Realty from white-label firm Side. The educational and professional development opportunities at eXp were also a draw for Palmquist. “For

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2021

the holding company for eXp Realty announced that it has exceeded 60,000 agents globally. Our growth is a direct result of our agent-centric value proposition and our commitment to providing the best possible resources for our agents to succeed,” said Jason Gesing, CEO of eXp Realty. “Our eXp World Holdings, Inc.,

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2024

At the start of 2024, CEO Leo Pareja did not think eXp Realty would find itself in the real estate forms business, but eight months into this year, things look a little different. 17 implementation deadline for these changes, brokerages like eXp are finding themselves sorting out their forms.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2024

Keller Williams Realty has launched a real estate assistant that is powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) and is trained on the company’s proprietary models, systems, books and training resources. “We We want to provide agents an assistant for writing impactful content,” Cox said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

have been busy training and preparing to be ready for Aug. In only a matter of weeks, real estate professionals nationwide will find out whether their training has paid off. VantHof has spent several months training to prepare for the business practice changes. Like the athletes in Paris, Realtors and brokers across the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Leading real estate brokerage William Raveis is making another game-changing acquisition before the new year. This week, the firm announced the acquisition of Nantucket, Massachussetts -based brokerage Jordan Real Estate (JRE). This deal follows a similar move in May to acquire South Carolina-based Carson Realty.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

In the 24 hours after news broke of the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) settlement agreement in the commission lawsuits , Doug Danzey, the leader of the eXp Realty -brokered teamerage The Cobalt Group , said the most pervasive emotion among his agents has been panic. “I It is really going to go backwards.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

He became a top-producing real estate agent in the area and in 1991 became the manager of the largest office for Prudential Long Island Realty , training agents throughout the East Coast markets. Four years later, Harney founded his own brokerage, National Homefinders, using market insights to grow the business to 500 agents.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Together, we are poised to create unparalleled opportunities and set new standards of success in the world of real estate brokerage.” Previously called Hergenrother Realty Group , an expansion team founded in 2011, Livian launched in 2021 in partnership with Keller Williams.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Recruitment efforts have been a mainstay of The Real Brokerage ‘s growth efforts in 2024. And the digital brokerage platform continues to grow this week with another affiliation. In November, the platform added 400 agents from Amerivest Realty to bolster its presence in four states.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2024

Agents are the lifeblood of real estate brokerages. Recruiting and retaining high-performing agents remains a critical challenge for brokerages, especially in the environment created by the National Association of Realtors ’ recent $418 million settlement in a litany of agent commission lawsuits.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2024

Naples, Florida -based Premier Sotheby’s International Realty is shaking up its C-suite. Additionally, he will also hire, train and manage sales teams; develop strategic relationships with developers and brokers across the company’s markets; and exclusively represent select new development projects.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2024

At The Jason Mitchell Group, agents were supposedly trained to suggest transactions could fail if clients shopped around for other mortgage options. Rocket Homes also repeatedly pressured real estate brokerages to hit a capture rate of 80%. The Jason Mitchell Group did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2021

Szalecki previously served as director of brokerage operation for Fathom Realty and as a regional operations manager for eXp Realty. The KW Expansion Network is a nationwide brokerage. Heading up the new Network will be Matthew Szalecki, who was named senior director of strategy and operations for the Expansion Network.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Home Swap is offered exclusively through local real estate professionals who have been trained as Knock Certified Agents. In these markets Home Swap will be offered through Keller Williams Realty of Central Florida , Keller Williams LeHeup Group and Keller Williams Suburban Tampa – The Chadwick Group. Presented by: Total Expert.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2023

“I saw the direction things were going in and I thought that it only made sense for me to form a team and get paid for the work I was doing,” Danzey, whose team is brokered at eXp Realty , said. Side’s thesis is: teamerages are the future,” Steve Capezza, the president of white-label brokerage Side , said. That depends on who you ask.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2024

It is really leveling the playing field,” said Jason Posnick, the sales manager at Lamacchia Realty. Another wrinkle is that not all agents, brokerages or sellers are handling offers of buyer broker compensation the same way. It is just the Wild West again.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Because of that, and several other reasons, gross margins for real estate brokerage firms are declining with no real end in sight. for the largest brokerage companies in the United States. The first cause of the decline is the growth in competition for productive agents and a variety of new brokerages. Now, they’re at 13.5%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

United Real Estate | DFW Properties is merging with Grapevine, Texas-based Insight Realty Network , according to an announcement on Thursday. In this merger, one plus one equals four,” Andy Bearden, the owner of Insight Realty, said in a statement. With the support of the sixth-largest national brokerage in the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

According to the annoucment, King, who has been with Keller Williams since 2001, will continue as a training and coaching leader for Keller Williams’ Franchise Systems Orientation and will continue his work updating the Team Leader and Keller Williams experiences.

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Inman

JANUARY 16, 2025

Since its founding in 2011, Home Experts Realty has built an ethical and diverse team of agents who are dedicated to providing exceptional service. The brokerage's founders have ensured that their agents are well-trained to operate both independently and as part of a cohesive team.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

She said that HomeServices does not meddle in operations, give advice, or advise on commissions or how the brokerage approaches Realtor association membership. Ketchmark asked Warner if those statistics suggest that agents are practicing the messages they are receiving in their training. It is human nature,” Frazier said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2020

In San Antonio Knock is partnering with Keller Williams Heritage and Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Don Johnson Realtors, and in Austin Knock is partnering with Berkshire Hathaway Texas Realty to give homeowners the option to “swap” their current house for their dream home.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2024

Consumers who utilize the platform must sign a buyer representation agreement with reAlpha Realty, but they are allowed to break it at anytime and will not incur a penalty. “In In the stock brokerage industry in the late ’90s and early 2000s, they used to charge 1.5% And then Charles Schwab came in and said, ’$49 a trade.’

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Ketchmark also brought up Keller’s book “The Millionaire Real Estate Agent,” which discusses the ‘co-opetition’ model that has evolved among rival brokerages. He also noted that the training scripts were not telling agents what to do, but were serving as examples of what other agents have done to handle similar situations.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

She then went on to teach high school French, but after six years of dealing with “hormonal teenagers” Williamson was ready for a change, and on a friend’s suggestion interviewed at the local Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty affiliate. “It Brokerages Invest in Tech. Just how we do contracts now is so much faster.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

National Head of Brokerage. EVP, Training and Operational Support. eXp Realty. Sotheby’s International Realty. Managing Director, Capital Markets. Finance of America Mortgage. Caleb Mittelstet. Carrie Koester. Head of Product Marketing Strategy. Chelsea Goyer. Senior Director of Strategic Growth and Acquisitions.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Most brokerage leaders know about the multiple challenges facing the real estate industry, not the least of which are the major class-action lawsuits. Those details are clearly established in the listing agreement between your brokerage and the seller. Read your brokerage ‘s listing agreement.

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Inman

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Steven Brackett and his 36-agent team have moved to the virtual brokerage. Brackett cited tools and training, as well as the commission lawsuits, as reasons that convinced him to make the move.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Alipour gushed about Redfin’s training program, and she accessed maternity leave benefits other agents lack. Redfin is a publicly traded company, a nationally recognized listings website and one of the biggest brokerages in the country. Some agents, like ones at RE/MAX , even pay the brokerage fees for office space and marketing tools.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2022

Samson is the CEO of Samson Properties , a rapidly growing Northern Virginia-based brokerage. Samson has a different business model and branding than Compass, but both brokerages identify as “agent-centric.”. DOJ has swooped into lawsuits against the National Association of Realtors and top brokerage firms.

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