Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Immediate sales If sellers are growing we need to know if buyers are growing too. We have more buyers than sellers this time of year so the active inventory of unsold homes ticked down this week. And the spring buying season will have improved selection for home buyers. It’s not a ton of sellers. But it is growing.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Open houses remain one of the best ways to showcase a property and connect with potential buyers. From tech-forward tools to smart follow-up strategies, there’s a sign-in solution here that can help you grow your business and build valuable connections with buyers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

You should have downloaded one of those open house apps HousingWire was telling you about. You log in to check your email, and responses from potential buyers at yesterdays open house are already waiting. This open house sign-in app automates your follow-up by sending emails for you and highlighting your most engaged buyers.

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Inman

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

In the post-Sitzer world we now live in, agents and brokers are already dealing with the new reality by cutting buyer commissions to the bone.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

The new rules mandated by the National Association of Realtors ‘ (NAR) settlement of class-action lawsuits related to buyer agent commissions take effect in just two days, and brokerages and MLSs are scrambling to find the best ways to implement them.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2024

Realtor.com is extending the reach of its buyer representation advertising campaign, according to an announcement on Monday. The listing portal argues that since sellers have an agent looking out for their best interests, buyers also deserve the same level of support.

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Inman

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

We get into the nitty-gritty of how to talk to buyers post-Sitzer and ensure you're communicating your value.

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Buyers Agents 179

Inman

JUNE 29, 2024

What do you make of commission-sharing workarounds, and how are you planning to change up your communication strategy?

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Buyers Agents Brokerage Marketing 199

Inman

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

We're taking the opportunity to bring you some of the lesser-known stories you may have missed last week while you were reading about KW and NAR.

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Buyers Agents 199

Inman

MARCH 1, 2024

The Consumer Federation of America, an industry watchdog, says that the buyer agreements you're depending on are woefully inadequate to properly protect homebuyers.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Rates are falling now and if that continues, buyers will jump and inventory will fall well into the first quarter of 2024. These sellers have been matched by an increase in buyers, too, so there were 10% more immediate sales than last year. Download the free Altos eBook: “How to Use Market Data to Build Your Real Estate Business”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

We know that these higher mortgage rates are deterring buyers, and inventory is building. I still feel like the biggest risk for housing this year is too much inventory growth, with fewer buyers and more sellers. And we can absolutely see the impact on home buyers. Will sellers retreat entirely, like they did last year?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

One of the most downloaded white papers in July takes things a step further: Titled “ Creating an invincible lending strategy refresh amid chaos ” from Candor, this white paper illustrates how lenders can use today’s challenges to their advantage. The post July: Market Update for Housing Marketers appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

Inventory is slowly but steadily increasing over last year, which means slightly more options for buyers this spring. This implies that there are more than enough buyers at these prices and these mortgage rates to keep activity happening in housing. The last week of data for the year U.S. Sales rates are climbing.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2025

Predictive analytics in real estate combines the use of historical data and algorithms to anticipate future market trends and identify potential sellers sometimes even buyers, too. Market Pulse: Identify local market trends in real time with downloadable graphics to use in your marketing campaigns.

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Inman

JULY 5, 2024

Buyers and sellers who feel like the commission settlements didn't go far enough are fighting back in court, and the cases are bunching up.

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Sellers Buyers Brokerage Agents 193

Inman

JULY 20, 2024

Ed Zorn, Anthony Lamacchia and others weigh in on buyer agreements, commission sharing and everything you need to know about the new forms.

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Buyers Brokerage Agents 202

Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2021

In fact, according to a new report from real estate brokerage Redfin, a whopping 63% of last year’s buyers made at least one offer sight-unseen, never setting a single foot inside the property before putting in a bid. In total, sight-unseen offers are now up nearly two-fold since 2018, when just 32% of buyers bought homes from afar.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Last year there was still a lot more buyer momentum than sellers. This buyer momentum at the time led to 5% home price appreciation in 2023. Prices have been inching up, but there just isn’t enough buyer demand to push home prices higher — and this is the highest-demand point in the year. Last week, 30.5%

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Inman

AUGUST 24, 2024

Everyone — from Michael Ketchmark to the consumer advocates behind Moehrl — is letting agents know that they're under scrutiny as they implement the new rules of buyer agreement and (not) commission-sharing.

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Inman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Is the policy a power grab from NAR and the MLSs or a sincere effort to level the playing field for buyers? It seems everyone's talking about Clear Cooperation these days.

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Buyers Brokerage Agents 187

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This is not a recipe to keep the home buyer momentum we saw building in December. Remember that the way to more selection for home buyers is with higher mortgage rates. Spring buyers’ market It’s the spring buyers market and inventory is falling each week. There are more buyers than sellers. A few years.

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Inman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This week on The Download: How are you adding value to your buyer-side UVP now that RE/MAX has folded on its part of the bombshell commission lawsuits?

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Buyers Agents 150

Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Price Reductions: The current rate of price reductions tells us that there are sufficient buyers for the current inventory, at current prices, and current mortgage rates. Download the free Altos eBook: “How to Use Market Data to Build Your Real Estate Business” Just 31.4% Mike Simonsen is the president and founder of Altos Research.

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Inman

MAY 17, 2024

In the face of so much rapid change and an often-frustrating lack of clarity from The Powers That Be, what the heck are you supposed to tell your buyers and sellers now?

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Clients Sellers Buyers Agents 174

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Last year at this time, we were seeing surprising home buyer demand with rates having fallen to the low 6s. Last year at this time, we were seeing surprising home buyer demand with rates in the low 6s. It is simply very clear evidence of how home buyers wait when mortgage rates stay higher for longer. But we’re not there yet.

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Sellers Inventory New Listings Contracts 468

Inman

OCTOBER 14, 2023

The bombshell buyer commission trial is finally here. We're making sure you're all caught up before it begins this week.

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Buyers Brokerage Agents 174

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Price reductions increase We can really see how sensitive home buyers are to higher mortgage rates when we look at the price reductions data. It can be hard to communicate all this with buyers and sellers. If you need to help buyers and sellers see the actual data, you should join us at Altos.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

When a potential buyer or seller lead searches for homes or a home valuation on Google, they are driven to your site by ads created and managed by Zurple’s advertising experts. How Zurple generates and automatically nurtures leads Here’s the four-step process Zurple uses to generate and nurture leads: 1.

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Advertising Tools Real Estate Sellers 458

Inman

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This week: With buyer commissions up in the air, here's how to talk to your clients about your value and your compensation.

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Clients Buyers Agents 140

Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

If they have buyers, the price of the new listings spikes up quickly. Download the free Altos eBook: “How to Use Market Data to Build Your Real Estate Business” Small spike in new listings After the first of the year we always see early price signals with the price of the cohort of new listings each week.

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Real Estate Marketing Inventory New Listings 508

Inman

MAY 5, 2023

Agents can deal with economic headwinds by understanding their buyers' mindset and helping them tap into down payment resources.

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Clients Agents Buyers Lending 158

Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

For the title agent, it meant finding those documents, scraping or collecting them from a website or requesting them manually, then painstakingly scouring them (sometimes dozens to hundreds of pages long) before processing what that particular HOA required to close the deal as well as what would be required of the buyer.

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HOA Real Estate Technology Investors 474

Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

Second, the settlement agreements envision claims made through a hand-filled claim form, a needless and time-consuming complication for a homebuilder that will be downloading this information from computer databases.” “I Dwiggins noted that unrepresented buyers also pose a major threat to the industry. It is not about our own needs.

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Realtors Real Estate Real Estate Agent Brokerage 447

Inman

OCTOBER 28, 2023

As the first of the buyer commission trials draws to a close, get to know the plaintiffs in Sitzer | Burnett and plan for the changes ahead.

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Buyers Brokerage Agents 151

Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Follow this link to download a copy to your computer ( [link] ). It includes insights from CoreLogic economists to help appraisers and home buyers understand the market. Active listings also provide insight into current seller and buyer motivations. If you are familiar with VBA coding, you can easily change the colors or labels.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2021

One Realtor may prefer text while a loan officer might wish to use a technology integrated with her LOS and the buyer might only communicate via phone. Nor will all of them download an app that applies to only a percentage of their clients or files. So what’s the practical application of all this? The forms are many.

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