Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

As recently as five years ago, homeowners insurance was certainly not top of mind for most homebuyers and their real estate agents , but the rapidly rising cost of insurance premiums is changing that. The rate increases are dramatic,” said Thompson, who previously worked as a Keller Williams agent for 17 years.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2024

While they may not be as trendy as they once were, a well-crafted real estate agent Facebook page is still the best way to generate leads on social media. Your Facebook page can help you build your personal brand, network with other agents across the country (hello, referral partners!)

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

Other areas to find those listing leads: Educational events- Partner with a lender. Showcase the event as an economic update and interest rate update. Invite everyone in your database to these educational events. Make sure to call everyone that attends after the event. Offer your database an annual real estate check up.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

To help, we put together this guide to walk you through our nine-step system to recruit, nurture, and retain producing agents in 2024. Pitching and nurturing 20 producing agents will yield far better results than onboarding 100 brand new ones. If you want to include a call-to-action, invite them to an event or lunch meeting.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Is it correct to say that you partner with high-performing agents and take over their back-end operations, freeing up their time so they can focus on activities that actually make money, such as prospecting for new clients or directly working with existing clients? HousingWire : What criteria do you use to select your partners?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

That first party led Dillard to meeting some of her first friends in the area, and some of her first real estate clients, too. Here are Dillard’s 5 tips for hosting events in your community to help build your business. Build your database These events can serve as a direct way to build your database of contacts.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

Real estate agents and business leaders play a pivotal role in improving the cities in which they operate, making community service an essential value to their professions. Demonstrate your values to customers Buyers and sellers want more than just transactional relationships with their agents.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

Real Luxury , as the division will be known, will focus on helping luxury agents and teams, as well as their exclusive clients. The firm said that the launch of Real Luxury is in response to the growing number of luxury real estate agents and teams joining Real. “We

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Don’t look at the names in your past client and sphere list and assume they would not do something. Life events happen. It is all about meeting new clients and finding new customers. Stop by to see a past client. I know you work with other agents and can’t give me everything. Things change. Motivations change.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Beginning a career as a real estate agent is an exciting time. That’s why new agents shouldn’t miss these three panels at HW Annual that will set you up for a long, successful career. . What conditions will your clients be buying and selling in? Housing market super session.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2021

In light of that, HousingWire sat down with Peter Paglia, Chief Strategy Officer at HomeBinder, to discuss how to create a “Client for Life” in this environment. HousingWire: As the refi boom simmers down, why should lenders focus on creating clients for life? HW: How does HomeBinder help lenders establish Clients for Life?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Networking can be intimidating for some real estate agents. It is an extremely broad term that encompasses many types of activities — from attending speed networking events (think: speed dating but for entrepreneurs) to stopping by your friend’s summer barbecue. Yet real estate networking doesn’t have to be scary.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Our comprehensive guide to the best real estate marketing tools provides you with a helpful assortment of easy-to-use, effective marketing products to turn your business into a revenue engine in 2024. We know — you didn’t get into real estate for the love of marketing or tech.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

How much are real estate referral fees? Who pays the real estate referral fees and how are they paid? Drafting a referral agreement that works for all parties How to find a great real estate agent in another area When to accept a referral (and when not to)? What is a real estate referral fee?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

Our team is committed to staying true to his mission of educating agents and championing the dream of homeownership,” said David Childers, CEO of Keeping Current Matters. Harney began his real estate career in 1983 in Suffolk County, New York. “He believed it was truly good for Americans to own their homes.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of the passions that has spanned my career in its entirety is creating exceptional experiences — for agents and their clients, our brokerage staff and anyone who interacts with our brand. At The Agency, we have a unique position as both a real estate brand and a lifestyle brand. We make great impressions.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Through consistent and strategic prospecting, agents can create a steady flow of leads, ensuring continuous business opportunities. The objective is to build relationships, understand the needs of potential clients, and position yourself as a go-to resource when they are ready to buy or sell real estate.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The excited and at times nervous first-time homebuyers that James Dunn often represents ask him how that whole process of taking out a mortgage works, and Dunn, a Los Angeles-based real estate agent with eXp , replies with a few trusted names. Exclusive access to the HW+ Slack community and virtual events.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2024

The Alliance of Comprehensive Planners (ACP), a trade association for financial planners, will be holding its annual conference this October in Savannah, Georgia, and the event will feature two of the nation’s leading reverse mortgage lenders as key sponsors.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Eric Simon, the genius behind this account, takes all those cringe-worthy, laugh-out-loud moments every agent experiences and turns them into pure comedy gold. From client quirks to open-house mishaps, his posts are so relatable that youll swear hes been shadowing your day-to-day.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

My best suggestion is to create partnerships with reliable and resourceful professional agents who will work collaboratively with your team and employee client as well as act as liaisons in procuring the most cost-effective services to help make the transition a success. Marlon Seymour is a licensed professional NYS real estate agent.

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2024

The Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Service (ARMLS) announced a partnership with Lone Wolf Technologies that will give ARMLS subscribers access to a tool designed to give agents information to guide their clients through an uncertain market. ” This isn’t Lone Wolf’s first partnership with an MLS this year. .

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Real estate referrals are the lifeblood of most top producers’ businesses. This is evident when you ask any highly successful agent where they find their clients. Inevitably, their answer will be “my past clients and sphere.” Sometimes, a real estate agent may choose not to work with a specific buyer or seller.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Luckily, the mortgage industry is cyclical, so let’s take a look at how you can turn a negative into a positive and grab clients’ attention through effective marketing , ultimately growing your book while others’ shrink. Below are a few ways originators can best present themselves to real estate agents and stand out in a saturated market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2024

We’ve compiled our top Halloween real estate marketing ideas as a fun way to spice up your lead generation and set yourself apart from your competitors. These Halloween real estate marketing ideas can be used by individual real estate agents, teams and even brokerages.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Real estate farming, otherwise known as geo-farming, is a dependable lead generation method that can help to create a steady pipeline of real estate leads and clients in your area. Real estate farming, or geo-farming, is a lead generation strategy in which the agent focuses on a specific geographic area.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

As an introverted real estate agent and coach, I know firsthand how challenging networking can be. I started Move Over Extroverts to teach other agents how to face their fears and clear this common hurdle. Choose your events strategically. Imagine walking into a room teeming with 200 strangers. Scary, right?

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Real Estate Real Estate Agent Agents Training 429

Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2021

These are the words real estate agents use when asked to describe the current state of the market and what it’s like to buy a home today. Real estate agents cited a lack of inventory as the main hurdle preventing their clients from completing a transaction, according to the National Association of Realtors.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The relationship between a loan officer and a real estate agent is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle, as the two must combine forces to help borrowers achieve their goal of buying a home. And, clients will be happier with the experience. Interested in learning more?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

At a recent WIFS Phoenix event, Hopkins was able to bring a discussion about reverse mortgages to attendees and sat down with HousingWire ’s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD) to share details about the experience. Building the event To pull off the vision, the organization needed event sponsors. The event, which took place on Aug.

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Inman

DECEMBER 4, 2023

When luxury real estate agents need to foster their referral networks and forge new professional relationships, industry events are fundamental. But what about when you want to connect with prospective clients?

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

There have been numerous studies done on client retention over the years, and while the exact figures vary, most suggest that it can be anywhere from five to 25 times more expensive to acquire a new client than to keep an existing one. As real estate professionals, we know this. Set, and stick to, client retention goals.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

At the 2024 Keller Williams Family Reunion event in Las Vegas, co-founder and executive chairman Gary Keller took the stage on Tuesday and spoke to a room full of real estate agents about the importance of buyer agency agreements within the context of the ongoing antitrust lawsuits.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Generate seller leads using AI Artificial Intelligence (or AI) is changing the way agents work in so many ways, and that includes how we generate seller leads. Data analysis allows real estate agents to focus their marketing efforts (and budget!) Let’s be honest, spending money on lead generation can get expensive.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Brokerages and individual agents alike need to understand the market and adapt their strategies to showcase creativity, become memorable and lead with empathy. 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.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In May the real estate agent listed a two-bedroom home in Fountain Hills, Arizona, 30 miles north of Phoenix, for $342,000. After 25 days on the market, there were no takers for the 1,400-square-foot home and Pellegrini counseled his client about potentially lowering the listing price. Zillow CEO Rich Barton.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In the ever-competitive real estate market, creating a consistent flow of real estate buyer leads is strategy for success. Snatching up first-time homebuyers is akin to striking gold — since developing a relationship with them can mean a loyal client for life. LCA’s standout feature? An in-app direct mail tool.

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