Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

When it comes to handling compensation eXp Realty is not mincing its words — it is not sharing its listing fee with the buyer’s broker. However, the firm says this does not mean it is unwilling to work with buyer’s brokers. But it will be their sellers who make the decision on an offer of compensation to a buyer broker.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

No matter where you are in the state, real estate agents in Virginia are facing low inventory conditions that are creating frustrating scenarios for their buyers. “I I have buyers that are looking, but to find a house that you love enough to pay a high price for — and to be at over a 6.5% In Wise County , there were only 56 listings.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2021

Robbin Sutton with DASH Realty Carolina has been a broker for 20 years, and she’s never seen anything like the current housing market in the Raleigh-Durham metro. The post North Carolina’s low home prices luring buyers appeared first on HousingWire. “It’s just insane. .

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

On Monday, several high profile real estate firms such as Berkshire Hathaway Energy (BHE) the parent company of HomeServices of America Windermere Real Estate , Hanna Holdings , EXIT Realty , William Raveis , Crye-Leike and William L. Lyon & Associates each filed responses to claims made in the Gibson commission lawsuit.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Our brand has always been about elevating the experience, whether for a high-net-worth buyer relocating to Park City or a developer unveiling a world-class mountain retreat, Lindner said. Previously with Summit Sothebys International Realty , Frost and Lindner have built a reputation for high-impact sales and marketing strategies.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Earlier this year, however, agents in the metro were seeing houses go into contract within five days of being listed and properties with desirable features – such as single-story living and an updated kitchen and bath – bringing in 20 to 30 offers. I have been getting buyers from Ohio, California and all over.”. It is really wild.”.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2024

As more brokerages and agents contemplate moving away from a cooperative compensation model , many are grappling with some tough questions, the most vexing probably being: What do I do if a seller is only willing to contribute part of the buyer broker’s fees, or none at all? You have to make sure you are on the same page.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

“There’s a lot of homeschooling going on in this hybrid world, and it’s difficult,” Realtor Vesna Kanacki with Century 21 Full Service Realty in New City, New York, told HousingWire. 20, the National Association of Realtors said that contract signings were up 23% year over year. Over the last four weeks ending on Sept.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2024

According to real estate professionals, the biggest adjustments they had to make this week was to get buyers to sign buyer representation agreements and to explain to sellers that while they don’t have to offer buyer broker compensation , they will most likely see most prospective buyers ask for some help in paying their agent.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2020

According to the National Association of Realtors , contract signings kicked off strong in August , with the most contract signings last week in the Midwest, at 21%. As new contract signings are outpacing new listings due to low inventory, properties sold typically within 26 days in the four weeks leading up to August 2, NAR said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2020

In the age of COVID-19, Peck Barham knew that prospective home buyers would pepper him with questions about home offices as they decamped downtown Birmingham for the spacious suburbs. And about 70% of the people he works with are getting pools installed, specifically buyers with older kids.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

“In one bucket are agents and listings who are not sharing what they are offering for buy-side compensation and are instructing buyers to write all their asks into their offer. In the other are sellers who are choosing to advertise the buyer broker compensation they are offering in all allowable channels.”

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Inman

JULY 31, 2024

A new draft seller contract that eXp Realty is distributing to its brokers and agents is largely consistent with a newly issued set of criteria from the Consumer Federation of America, the watchdog group said this week.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

The Indigo platform looks much like a search portal but allows buyers to bid on listings provided by agents, which are boosted by the AI to include the preferences of the seller. The platform will collect and validate offers from buyers, a process the company calls the “Home Checkout.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

“Florida, like many places, is seeing the insurance piece of the component impacting people’s payments in a way that is making it hard to them to navigate the market,” said Cyndee Haydon , a Seminole-based agent for Future Home Realty agent. From 2022 to 2023 alone, rates rose 15%. Literally since Jan.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2024

Pardon if my words convey a dash of sarcasm yet, after over four decades of helping buyers and sellers and running two of the largest brokerage companies in the world, I am compelled to read missives of the misinformed as they pop corks in celebration. This compensation may be fully or partially offset by the seller.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2021

There was no bidding war,” recalled Pellegrini of Pellegrini & DeGeorge Partners , an affiliate of Sotheby’s International Realty. “It The company said it would complete purchases that are under contract but not closed, and will continue to work on reselling existing inventory. More will be known Nov.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2020

“It’s been a circus, really,” said Anthony Lamacchia, Realtor and owner of Lamacchia Realty in the Boston suburbs. Across the different markets, the agents consistently reported bidding wars amid heightened demand for single-family homes, low inventory and an increase of buyers fleeing big cities.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Time waits for no buyer in the suburbs. With record-low interest rates, paltry inventory and a surge in buyers, agents are advising clients to be extraordinarily aggressive to win. “The property comes on within 24 hours, and if it meets your buyers criteria you want to get them out to see it.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

There isn’t a whole lot of time during the year where it is super slow because we have a lot of vacation buyers, but pre-COVID, between Columbus Day and Thanksgiving, when the mountains were just starting to open, was typically slow. It really is just really slow from a buyer standpoint.” as of June 21, 2024.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The report is based on a monthly survey of NAHB members, in which respondents are asked to rate market conditions for the sale of new homes at the present time and in the next six months as well as the traffic of prospective buyers of new homes. NAHB attributes this increase to strong consumer demand for homes.

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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. They will also have to obtain a signed buyer representation agreement prior to a buyer’s first home tour. Like the athletes in Paris, Realtors and brokers across the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2021

The complaint – which proposes a class of every single real estate agent who signed a contract with Compass in the last four years – is brought by Lisa Sheppard and Todd Sheppard, a sales team that operated a boutique brokerage in Sonoma County and has since moved onto Sotheby’s International Realty.

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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 Just how we do contracts now is so much faster. Brokerages Invest in Tech.

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Raleigh Realty

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

What Does 'Under Contract' Mean in Real Estate? You've decided to buy a home and whether it's your first home or your tenth you're likely to stumble across homes that are listed as 'under contract' on the real estate listing. Then, you look at the status and that other shoe finally has a chance to drop: it's "under contract."

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This trend has made it easier for buyers with financing and other contingencies to purchase a home. Also helping buyers is an increase in housing inventory, Ridenour Lindsey said. “It And our buyers that do get under contract are a little bit more skittish and quicker to cancel, so I have seen a high number of back-on-markets.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Prior to the implementation of the current CCP in May 2020, listing brokers had two business days from the signing of the listing contract to either enter the listing into the MLS as “active” or submit a listing exclusion form, which had to be authorized by the seller, to the MLS.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2022

On a Facebook video chat , Amy Heckler of Heckler Realty in St. Pete’s Beach, Florida answered real estate agents’ questions, surrounded by a white and red Heckler Realty banner and two office plants. Generally, listing agents extract a commission from the homeseller and then split it with the buyer’s agent.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This is a dramatic and peculiar stance, given that same company a couple of years ago launched a $1 million annual advertising campaign touting a 1% listing fee, but only if the seller turned into a buyer for them. Meaning, they were counting on buyer agent compensation to pay their bills. How, then, will a buyer agent get paid?

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Raleigh Realty

MARCH 26, 2022

What Is A Buyer's Agent? What is a Buyer's Agent in Real Estate and do I need one when buying a home? We have all that answered and more If you are wondering if you should use a Buyer's Agent the answer is easy, yes. At Raleigh Realty we have some of the best Buyer Agents and Realtors on our team.

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Lamacchia Realty

OCTOBER 25, 2024

2024: 10,013 2023: 9,667 2022: 9,054 Pending Home Sales in South Florida: The number of homes placed under contract is down by 12.1% The decline in total sales and pending homes suggests that buyer demand may be weakening. when compared to September 2023. when compared to September 2023.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This will help you meet the type of buyers you want to connect with. Strategically choose the day & time Picking a time of day with plenty of natural sunlight will help highlight the home’s interior features, but a nighttime view of a city skyline can be equally dazzling for the right buyer and the right listing.

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Lamacchia Realty

DECEMBER 24, 2024

2024: 9,931 2023: 9,425 2022: 8,371 Pending Home Sales in South Florida: The number of homes placed under contract is down by 4.1% The decline in overall sales and pending transactions suggests a slowdown in buyer demand. As a result, many of these properties are becoming less affordable for buyers, further influencing market dynamics.

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Lamacchia Realty

MARCH 7, 2025

Here at Lamacchia Realty, we offer relocation consulting services for clients wanting to relocate ! As a member of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, Lamacchia Realty provides expert relocation services. Contact a trusted Lamacchia Realty REALTOR to get started and make your relocation a seamless and exciting experience!

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Lamacchia Realty

DECEMBER 24, 2024

2024: 1,086 2023: 1,082 2022: 1,173 Pending Home Sales: The number of homes placed under contract is up by 28.3% With more homes being listed and pending sales on the rise, buyers are staying engaged and making quick decisions. This change helps buyers access higher loan amounts to keep pace with rising home values.

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Realtor

JULY 13, 2021

Getty Images Buyers, we know it’s hard out there for you right now. All of this demand means buyers are going to ever-greater lengths to make their offer stand out. All of this demand means buyers are going to ever-greater lengths to make their offer stand out.

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