Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Based on NAR’s settlement, agents working with buyers will need a signed buyer representation agreement starting in mid-July, pending final court approval of the settlement. Bills Clarke said this is exactly how agents already work with sellers, so it shouldn’t be a big deal to implement buyer agreements into a business. “We

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

million settlement with plaintiffs in two bombshell buyer commission lawsuits have been made public, and they stipulate that the brokerage conglomerate make significant changes to its practices. The terms of Anywhere Real Estate ‘s $83.5

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

Coldwell Banker Realty , a New England-based residential real estate brokerage , welcomed James F. Wood “Coldwell Banker Realty is proud to partner with James F. Coldwell Banker Realty boasts approximately 6,300 affiliated agents and 90 office locations. Wood, the brokerage announced on Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2024

District Court for the Central District of Utah, include the usual cast of antitrust lawsuit characters: the National Association of Realtors (NAR), Anywhere Real Estate , Keller Williams Realty , HomeServices of America , and RE/MAX. Buyers using Homie would receive some or all of any BAC offered by the seller,” the complaint states.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

At the height of the pandemic there were bidding wars and all that, but it didn’t seem impossible, but now it seems impossible to get our buyers into homes,” said Heather Corrigan , a RE/MAX Signature Homes agent based in Closter, a borough that is 24 miles north of Manhattan and renown for its schools. There is nothing to show.”

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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

JUNE 25, 2024

A report released Tuesday by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) found that the California Association of Realtors’ (CAR) buyer representation and broker compensation agreement is “virtually unreadable.” The eXp contract is written with the buyer in mind. This requirement goes into effect Aug.

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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

MAY 2, 2024

On Thursday, the family-owned firm announced that it had acquired South Carolina -based Carson Realty. Founded in 2006, Carson Realty serves clients in the South Carolina markets of Hilton Head, Bluffton and Lake Keowee. We look forward to our partnership with Carson Realty (CR).

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

launched Claire, a generative artificial intelligence -powered, zero-commission buyers’ agent chatbot, the company announced on Wednesday. The tool helps match buyers with the ideal property while providing insights into market trends and property values. Real estate technology company reAlpha Tech Corp.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2024

real estate landscape over the next several months due to the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) commission lawsuit settlement agreement , eXp World Holdings — the parent company of eXp Realty — is focused on improving the firm’s agent value proposition. ” Ahead of the Aug.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Realty ONE Group is letting agents decide if they want to renew their National Association of Realtors (NAR) membership. Starting on the first of the year, Realty ONE agents in Arizona can choose to keep their NAR membership or join Realty ONE Group AZ , a newly established subsidiary of Realty ONE Group, Inc.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

“Most of the demand is coming from first-time buyers,” Trevor Levin, a local agent with Los Angeles-based Nourmand & Associates , said. Nationwide, the share of buyers who are first-time buyers has risen in recent months. Nationwide, the share of buyers who are first-time buyers has risen in recent months.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In response, Glenn Sanford, the founder and chief executive of the company, which is parent to eXp Realty , expressed concern about low-income homebuyers who may not be able to afford representation “if the rules change too much.” “I But at eXp Realty, transactions were down 8.6% million to $14.90 million to $14.90

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

“Low interest rates and high rent prices are certainly partially responsible for the strong demand we have seen,” local eXp Realty agent Tiffany Lee said. “Of I have been getting buyers from Ohio, California and all over.”. For local buyers, many of whom are first-time homebuyers, this has resulted in serious competition.

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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 25, 2024

I called the listing agent and it was listed three hours ago, but it was sold,” the Cincinnati, Ohio -based eXp Realty agent said. “We Buyers are really struggling.” But rising prices are not the only financial challenge buyers are having to contend with right now. We couldn’t even see it. It is not going to slow down.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

With NAR’s settlement requiring agents to have a signed buyer agency agreement with every buyer that spells out how much the agent will be paid in a transaction, many believed that buyers using a loan from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) would be disadvantaged.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

commission ($10,250) to the buyer broker.” Like the other commission lawsuits, the Masiello suit takes aim at the National Association of Realtors’ Participation Rule, which requires listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to the buyer’s broker in order to list a property on a Realtor-affiliated MLS.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic has opened the possibilities of working remotely, more and more people are looking to buy a house in Vermont’s largest city, causing a huge swell in demand in an area that was already flush with prospective buyers. Buyers from across the country have set their sights on Burlington. “We

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2024

However, things have changed now and buyers have to have a separate buyer agreement. And if those fees can’t be negotiated into the transaction, the buyer is going to have to come out to pocket now in order to have a human Realtor represent them.” reAlpha is just one of the many AI agent platforms that have sprung up recently.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

The brokerage defendants include The Agency ; Compass ; eXp World Holdings and its local branches eXp Realty of California , Southern California , Great Los Angeles and Northern California ; Berkshire Hathaway and its affiliates; First Team Real Estate Orange County ; Rodeo Realty ; and Pinnacle Estate Properties.

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Housing Wire

JULY 10, 2024

Anything under $300,000 or $350,000 has really good activity, but above that, I think interest rates have really affected buyers in those price ranges,” said Eddie Campos, the president of Northwest Ohio Realtors and an associate at RE/MAX Preferred Associates. “I 1 challenge for his buyers is the current inventory situation.

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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

MARCH 20, 2024

False: The NAR settlement will, for the first time, allow sellers to no longer pay compensation for an agent bringing the buyer. There has never been an obligation for a seller to pay buyer agent compensation , yet it is a practice that’s worked well.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

Sotheby’s International Realty is expanding its footprint in the Golden State. The Redding, California-based firm will now operate as Shasta Sotheby’s International Realty. The area is seeing interest from domestic buyer s in major cities alongside the West Coast looking for a change of scenery and slower living.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

“In the absence of NAR’s Mandatory Offer of Compensation Rule, the expense of buyer broker commissions would be incurred by their clients (homebuyers),” the complaint states. This would lead to competition among buyer brokers to offer lower commission rates. 16, 2020, and the present.

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Inman

AUGUST 26, 2024

The Florida-based brokerage's buyer-focused marketing and educational resources are made for agents in need of assistance as they pitch buyer representation services, executives told Inman.

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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. Jackie Merchant, Realtor at Coldwell Banker Realty in Sacramento-Sierra Oaks, said she doesn’t think her market will be slowing down anytime soon.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In a raw demonstration of market power, the Florida Realtor MLSs overturn the natural order of a rational price system where home sellers and home buyers each separately bargain and pay for the services provided to each of them,” the complaint alleges. 4, 2019 and the present. These allegations are absurd.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This has felt a lot more like Y2K versus some other stuff that we were warned about but were not prepared for, which is what I wanted,” said Leo Pareja , the CEO of eXp Realty. “My 17 deadline, much of the industry concern was over how home buyers and sellers would react. Would sellers suddenly stop offering buyer’s agent compensation?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Central to the complaint is NAR’s Participation Rule, which requires listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to buyer brokers in order to list a property on the MLS. “By By enforcing this mandate, the NAR establishes an anticompetitive market where sellers are coerced into subsidizing the buyer’s costs.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Urban District Realty , a Washington, D.C.-based So, both headsets of VR go on, then our buyers are brought into a presentation room with the agent to actually go through the properties, before they actually select a property, and then can walk around it just like they would a normal property.”.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

What remains unchanged is the central focus of the lawsuit — NAR’s Participation Rule which requires listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to buyer’s brokers in order to list a property on an MLS. “The But all of that changed on Thursday, when Whaley’s counsel filed an amended complaint naming 15 brokerages as defendants.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

While rising interest rates affected all homebuyers, this impact was more pronounced among Hispanic households, many of whom are first-time buyers with lower median incomes and who live in higher priced markets,” according to NAHREP. That’s encouraged the ITIN buyers to come down and start buying.” I’ve even seen grandparents jump in.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

It’s bad, like really bad,” Doug Danzey, the leader of the eXp Realty brokered teamerage The Cobalt Group , said. “We In recent months, however, as mortgage rates have stabilized and even come down slightly, agents like Danzey say more buyers have come to the market, adding even more pressure to the already strained inventory situation.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Competition heats up In 2019, Watson Realty Corp. In 2023, not only is Watson Realty’s lead gone, but the company has fallen to 3rd place in listings. Keller Williams Jacksonville has taken its crown, and Florida Homes Realty has narrowly overtaken it for 2nd place. Other would-be disruptors have not fared so well.

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