Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

How many other clients are you representing right now? Do I have to sign a contract and, if so, how is it structured? You should also find out what the agent’s contract looks like. Do you have any references I can contact? Do your research, ask questions, and check reviews and references.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Contracts 545

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Arguably, one of the most important functions of a real estate agent is to guide and be a subject matter expert to clients through the buying and selling processes. Put simply, a good agent is a sherpa who knows every step of the journey and expertly leads their client up the path. How do real estate agents get paid?

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Real Estate Real Estate Agent Agents Brokerage 441

Housing Wire

JULY 10, 2024

Research market data Your work begins once you and your client have set an appointment to meet. You may also want to research the client on social media to understand their needs and circumstances. The goal of a successful listing appointment is to win the listing and walk away with a signed contract in hand.

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Sellers Real Estate Agents Clients 393

McKissock

JUNE 21, 2021

Contracts fall through. When those things happen, it will be up to you to deliver the bad news honestly and openly, without destroying your clients’ confidence in you or the whole process. Follow these tips to break bad news to real clients. Even if a monster contract for you just fell through. Bad things happen.

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Clients Real Estate Contracts Business 98

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

During the podcast episode, which is from September 2019, Dalton is asked if he has a technique for when clients ask him to cut his commission. He tells listeners that he uses the following script: “There’s no bleeping bleeping way I’m going to cut my bleeping bleeping commission[.

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Training Realtors Agents Real Estate 394

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The bank loan officers were thrilled to refer clients they couldn’t help, knowing that our loan officer wasn’t going to compete for the banking relationship. We also show them how to pre-qualify bank statement loans before the borrower is even under contract or what the rent survey needs to come back at on a DSCR loan.

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Lending Loan Officers Tools Mortgage 371

Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

CMLS goes on to argue that the court should evaluate the settlement agreement proposed by the plaintiffs and MLS PIN without any reference to the DOJ’s statement of interest. According to CMLS’ reading of the proposed agreement, two main policy changes are proposed.

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Sellers Real Estate Buyers Contracts 449

Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Success depends on how well (and how quickly) you can combine your own marketing skills with the right tools and support systems out there to help you convert leads into clients. Agents do pay for these leads, with Zillow’s “Zillow Flex” now taking a percentage of commissions from referred leads.

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Real Estate Real Estate Agent Tools Contracts 371

Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2024

Additionally, the board also voted to change Article 4’s first standard of practice, which currently reads: “For the protection of all parties, the disclosures required by Article 4 shall be in writing and provided by Realtors prior to the signing of any contract.” represent themselves 2. represent a member of their immediate family 3.

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Realtors Finance Agents Legal 335

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Due to how HomeServices and its affiliates handle their client contracts, if a dispute arises, each client is entitled to individual arbitration of their claims. 27, 2019, and the present — 118 different client agreements that are subject to arbitration fall under the laws of 35 different states.

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Realty Real Estate Law Brokerage 402

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Many people are referring to this time as a ‘profitless boom’ for the building industry. Be cautious when signing fixed-price contracts. Enter into contracts that are malleable to market prices. In most cases, the builder will have to bear the additional cost – eroding any net profit left in the project.

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Construction Supply Chain Contracts Business 423

McKissock

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Commercial appraisal review assignments flow from different types of clients, each with their own intended use, required scope of work, and set of concerns for the reviewer to be aware. Government clients. In addition to reviewing an existing appraisal, these assignments sometimes entail performing a new appraisal for your client.

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Clients Appraisal Government Law 73

Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

If a client wants additional services such as professional photography, he connects them with vendors who charge the seller for those services directly. He sees his role in the transaction as simply ensuring the seller stays in compliance with laws and regulations.

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Agents Sellers Buyers Contracts 413

Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

To succeed in real estate, it’s essential to have affordable, efficient tools for generating, nurturing, and converting leads into clients. You’ll get alerts about the hottest leads that include personalized talking points, properties of interest, and housing market data to reference.

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Advertising Tools Real Estate Sellers 379

GoForrmz

MARCH 12, 2024

From simplifying data collection to improving communication and professionalism with clients, digital transformation can elevate your business to new heights. Maintenance Agreement The mobile maintenance agreement form, streamlines contract management with Electronic Signatures and Required fields.

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Clients Project Management Business Contracts 148

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Demonstrating you have a keen understanding of the whole client journey — from staging and listing to settling into a brand-new home — will give you a competitive advantage. Create interactive polls on platforms like Instagram stories and posts to boost engagement and better understand your client’s preferences.

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Real Estate Marketing Real Estate Agent Tools 407

Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 1, 2022

As a minimum basis, a real property appraisal report written for the government sponsored entities (GSEs) and agencies are what USPAP (Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice) refers to as Appraisal Reports. When reading contracts, words will always have their ordinary meaning unless defined otherwise. adjective.

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Valuation Contracts Appraisal Legal 360

Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

It’s important to be intentional and choose strategies that give you the highest likelihood of meeting and connecting with your ideal clients. Rather than wasting time and money trying many different tactics to find clients, a detailed plan allows you to focus on just a few. I usually recommend sticking to no more than two or three.

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Real Estate Marketing Agents Tools 408

Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Saghafi has clients who recently decided to pull the trigger and move to a bigger house by selling their home that had a 2.375% mortgage rate. By doing so, you are adding value to their marketing efforts and getting them a contract even if you don’t write a loan on that home,” Clark said.

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Loan Officers Mortgage Buyers Inventory 424

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Do this before the appointment, and refer to our list of questions to get specifics. All the contracts, disclosures, and paperwork your lead will need to sign to hire you as their listing agent. Prepare your initial comparative market analysis (CMA). Your listing packet, printed or electronic. Several pens.

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Agents Real Estate Sellers Real Estate Agent 348

Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2022

I continue to refer to this as the best piece of advice I have ever received because it reflects two key values. Making sure everyone is included spans from our diversity, equity & inclusion commitments to our product development where we create greater opportunities for our clients.

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Modernization Legal Contracts Mortgage 359

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Zillow closed in October its $500 million purchase of ShowingTime, a company that helps real estate agents schedule home showings for their clients. Barton’s answers largely referred back to his opening statements, adding occasionally that ZIllow has a “lot more potential” as an “asset light” business.

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Market Value Real Estate Agent Agents Business 418

Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2024

My wife and I have worked with the same real estate agent to buy and sell several homes, and we’ve referred her to help more than a dozen friends with their home transactions. It’s not good enough to just understand basic contract law. That cost may not be sustainable, especially in this business.

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Real Estate Legal Law Agents 227

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Caballero is like any real estate listing agent, on the hunt for clients. But instead of individual homesellers his clients are homebuilding companies including Toll Brothers , Trophy Signature Homes , and Historymaker Homes. But what you’re referring to would be a business to consumer business. And we don’t do any of that.

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Realtors Real Estate Agent Agents Real Estate 341

Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

One of my favorite seller clients was a FSBO who I became friends with. If you have any questions about the paperwork or need help during the contract to close period, please save my number and reach out. Your sphere will always be your best source of business if you teach them how to refer you AND keep in touch with them.

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Real Estate Business Agents Sellers 391

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

And that’s how Saller’s clients — siblings in their early 20s — can close on a $335,000, three-bedroom condominium in Jackson, New Jersey, early in March. So, the client is benefiting directly and, you know, we’re addressing really what’s the No.

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Mortgage Buyers Loan Officers Sellers 474

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Right now, the first suit to go to trial should be the Sitzer lawsuit (named after its lead plaintiff), which was scheduled to begin on February 21, 2023, but at the request of Anywhere (referred to as Realogy in all court filings), it has been postponed indefinitely, as reported by Real Estate Reporter Brooklee Han. Judge Stephen R.

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Real Estate Brokerage Property Management Buyers 326

Appraisal Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Both URAR and UAD acronyms are used in articles and references I have read. In the October 2024 issue of Appraisal Today Excerpts: Everyone has a different opinion of a “good” appraiser – clients, review appraisers, AMCs, other appraisers, regulators, etc. Sometimes they are very similar and sometimes not.

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Appraisal Contracts Modernization Clients 75

Lamacchia Realty

MAY 18, 2021

Real estate agents are trained and experienced at negotiating for the client to get the most out of each transaction and to ensure each step of the process is done with great attention to detail. This means negotiating the terms of contracts, closing costs, home inspections, and so much more. Review References.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Realty 74

Town & Country Residential Appraisals

AUGUST 8, 2022

However, since the borrower is not our client, that report will not be sent by us. USPAP defines the client as “the party or parties who engage, by employment or contract, an appraiser in a specific assignment”. Nowhere in the definition of client does it refer to who paid for the appraisal.

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Appraisal Clients Contracts Law 51

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2023

1] 180 Classroom hours are required before you become licensed in Texas Texas real estate license: Requirements checklist According to the Texas Real Estate Commision (TREC), a sales agent is a person who is licensed by the Real Estate Commission to act as an agent on behalf of a real estate broker and their clients.

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Real Estate Real Estate Agent Agents Brokerage 396

San Jose Real Estate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

These real estate changes are a result of a settlement between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the National Association of Realtors (NAR), and will affect Realtors and their clients nation wide. The commission is not negotiated in the purchase contract, but who pays the commission is a negotiation in the purchase agreement.

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Real Estate Contracts Open Houses Sellers 36

McKissock

JULY 26, 2022

Here are some tips on how to make the real estate transaction process as smooth as possible for you and your buyer clients. Regardless of the strengths and weaknesses of the competing offers, the seller can only negotiate one offer at a time until there is a binding contract. Finally under contract. Making an offer. Acceptance!

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Real Estate Counter Offer Buyers Inspection 81

Eppraisal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Client References and Reviews Request references from the agents you are considering. Speaking with previous clients can give you a firsthand account of their experiences. In addition to personal references, check online reviews and ratings on platforms like Google, Zillow, or Realtor.com.

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Agents Real Estate Agent Real Estate Contracts 36

Birmingham Appraisal

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Outlier sales refer to property transactions that significantly deviate from the typical or median sales price within a particular market area. Pressure from Clients Real estate professionals, including agents, often face pressure from clients to incorporate outlier sales into their Comparative Market Analysis (CMA).

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Clients Agents 93

McKissock

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Unlike typical clients who are maybe looking to buy a home every 5 to 10 years (or more), private investors are always on the market to buy or sell properties. Experienced investors could be easier to work with than residential clients in some ways.

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Retail Real Estate Investors Real Estate Agent 73

CA Realty Training

JULY 19, 2021

You have to build strong relationships with your clients to have a long, lucrative career in real estate. . When your clients like working with you, they will recommend your services to other people they know. So, now the question becomes, “how do you provide great customer service to your clients.” What does fiduciary mean?

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Clients 53