Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2025

Knowing this, real estate agents should always find friendly, conversational ways to stay on their potential clients minds year-round. As a bonus, postcards can also serve as a heartfelt extension of your gratitude for the working relationship with past clients.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

As concerns about flooding, extreme temperatures and wildfires grow — and what that might mean for future insurance costs — this tool also helps agents inform their clients in discussing climate risk, insurance and long-term affordability.” New listings in the Midwest hold the least amount of climate risk, according to Zillow.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Regularly update content, share valuable insights about the local market, and interact with potential clients. Make sure you’re ready to share new listings and that potential clients can easily contact you through your platforms.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2024

Compass also said it is not seeing any changes in new listings with regard to commission offers, whether on the Compass platform or on multiple listings services (MLSs). It’s launching a beta version of its client dashboard in October, with full rollout finishing at the beginning of 2025.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

New listings have risen approximately 8% compared to last year, yet overall inventory remains below typical spring levels. Simultaneously, persistently high housing costs have driven pending home sales down by 4.2% year over year, the largest decline in three months with the exception of the previous four-week period, which saw a 4.4%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2021

And 54% of homes sold above their asking price in May — another a record high, up from 26% a year ago, according to a new report from Redfin. The report also shows the housing market also set new records for home-selling speeds and competition, although seasonally adjusted home sales and new listings flattened from April.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

With its potential to reach new clients and gain tremendous ROI, social media has become one of the most effective marketing tools for businesses big and small. In this article, we’ll share ideas and tips, including the best way to present new listings and how to engage your followers with valuable educational content.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

One of the biggest challenges for agents is finding new clients and staying top-of-mind until they are ready to buy or sell. Today, It is an all-in-one platform designed to help real estate agents manage many aspects of their business, including building meaningful relationships to grow repeat and referral business with clients.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Monika DeRoussel was in a meeting, away from her phone and email, when a client messaged her that a property in their price range and desired neighborhood had a for-sale sign in the yard. When the meeting concluded, DeRoussel quickly reached out to the seller’s agent to see if her client could get in for a tour, but it was too late. “I

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

We found that more than 99% of new listings in March included offers to pay the buyer’s agent. Furthermore, more than 96% of all listings included offers of 2% or more, and more than 67% are offering to pay 2.5% Compass has the best value proposition for buyers of any brokerage firm,” Reffkin said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2020

Home sellers are seeing their homes go under contract in record time, with nine new contracts for every 10 new listings.”. Anecdotally, Realtors are telling me there is no shortage of clients or home seekers, but that scarce inventory remains a problem,” Yun said. “If Yun forecasts existing home sales to increase to a 5.8

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Altos Research’s Market Action Index score for the county, which has 70 municipalities, illustrates the challenges agents and their clients have faced. 70 towns, 90 new listings Local agents say the county’s tight inventory situation is largely to blame. “We as of March 6, 2024. There is nothing to show.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

In the nearby metro area of Cape Coral-Fort Myers , active single-family inventory over the previous 90 days averaged 6,500 listings as of March 15, above its March 2020 level of 5,044 listings and approaching its March 2019 level of 7,243 listings. Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

. “This geographic expansion and sharing of listing data significantly increases opportunities for members across the participating MLSs. This collaboration will benefit thousands of agents across Georgia ultimately allowing them to provide greater levels of service to the clients they serve.”

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 25, 2024

We had a client recently list a property for $2.4 The number of new listings of luxury homes increased 11%, far outpacing the 2.6% increase in new listings of non-luxury homes And as the inventory of luxury homes rises, they remained on the market for a median of 40 days—two days longer than a year earlier.

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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. Today, it’s about meeting the new demands of a varied and tech-savvy market — all while adding a personal touch.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

It was mid-February when clients, family and friends began asking Jason Posnick about strange postcards appearing in their mailboxes. We’ve signed 47 new listings year to date, and we’ve had plenty of conversations with other sellers that we didn’t sign, but there are a lot more conversations surrounding transparency,” Posnick said. “It

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

There were 3,541 respondents to the online survey which ran from May 3-10, 2021, of which 1,731 had a client. New listings of homes for sale were down 12% from the same period in 2019, and active listings — the number of homes listed for sale at any point during the period — fell 49% from the same period in 2019.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

New listings and pending home sales data from Altos Research captured the housing markets around Asheville coming to a screeching halt. Altos Research data shows that, as was the case in Asheville, new listings and pending home sales in Tampa have fallen off a cliff since the storm’s formation.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

In Denver in particular, new listings increased 29.12% month-over-month and 22.63% year-over-year. Active listings at month’s end rose 13.14% to 5,511 homes, an astounding 45.87% gain year-over-year. Serious buyers showed discernment as they know inventory is growing. With only 1.3

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

In 2024, agents have two choices; learn how to run your entire business from the apps on your phone or tablet, or find a new career. The days of running back to the office to write a tricky email to a client, follow up with a lead, or post on social media are long gone — and they’re never coming back.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

With Restb.ai, we’re helping our MLS clients deliver more value to brokers and agents nationwide. Agents will be able to spend significantly less time on manually entering listings, enabling them to focus instead on interacting with homebuyers and sellers.” “Building Restb.ai According to the press release, Restb.ai

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

If an uptick in housing inventory and more favorable interest rates materialize in 2025, you’ll still need to find creative ways to generate buzz for your listings and expand your client network. Listing and marketing properties is a complicated process. Meeting new clients is the engine of your business.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

But these new listings aren’t attracting buyers, and pending home sales dropped 4.2% But new listings are heading in the opposite direction, according to Altos Research data. Nationwide housing inventory showed a glimmer of recovery toward the end of 2024. month over month in January.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2021

“We are seeing a typical late-spring slowdown in new listings and pending sales, but prices don’t typically peak until late August, and their growth remains completely unhinged,” said Daryl Fairweather, Redfin’s chief economist. Presented by: Move Sales.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As a SmartZip user, you’ll get immediate access to its customer relationship management (CRM) tool, pre-populated with client data from your target market so you can begin marketing to those potential sellers. Reach 150 captures your clients’ positive reviews and showcases them to your contacts across the web.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Equipped with the right real estate marketing tools, you’ll save time, scale faster, and attract more clients — all without having to learn 40 new complicated skills and programs. Real estate agents today need outstanding websites — or, at the very least, highly functional ones — to both attract and communicate with clients.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Studying listing information for the current year and comparing with past years?—?list?prices,?new new listings, sold listings, days on market, off-market listings?—?will Guiding your clients to a price?that What matters for your market (wherever you are) is what patterns are developing near you.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

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. This includes using social media, email marketing, online advertising, and maintaining a professional website to attract and engage potential clients.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2024

Market Leader is an all-in-one solution for generating real estate leads, nurturing them with automated tools, and converting them into long-term clients. Once they’re ready to engage, you’ll be notified that it’s time to reach out with a personal touch, leveraging their collected property search history so you can win them as clients.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2021

“I never know how my day is going to go, because when a new listing comes on the market in Knoxville, the race is on. But broker Renee Humme, with Prime Mountain Properties , said the lower property taxes, mountains and surrounding scenery, and low cost of living are the main draws for most of her clients.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 27, 2024

Nationwide, the number of new listings is up 8.2% I’ve heard some clients say, ‘it’s so hot outside I don’t want to see anything,’” said Joe Hunt, a Redfin Manager in Phoenix. year-over-year, but pending home sales are down 4.3%, the most in the last four months.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Snatching up first-time homebuyers is akin to striking gold — since developing a relationship with them can mean a loyal client for life. Regular communication keeps you top-of-mind when clients are ready to make a move. Of course, you can’t do everything — but consistency is important.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

News Corp has an audience of over 160 million, and there’s a lot of that audience that doesn’t come to Realtor.com. ” Quality leads: Eales emphasized the importance of supporting buyer’s agents and helping them serve their clients better. My first priority is to bring them across.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2024

Caruso said this is indicative of the markets in Indiana, where low inventory, high interest rates and inflationary pressure are still making it hard for clients to find — and afford — a home to buy. That’s led to a rise in new listings in Indianapolis as more homeowners are putting their houses on the market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Check out Wise Pelican Typically, you’d mail the just sold letter to homeowners who live around a property you just helped your client to sell. The goal of this type of letter is to promote a new listing in the neighborhood, to position yourself as the expert by providing information about the listing, and to find more business.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2022

One of my agents has a client who is making an offer on a house that will probably end up going for over $250,000 over list price and most of what we are seeing is either all cash offers or eliminating contingencies.”. According to the Hilton Head Area Association of Realtors , the median home sale price jumped 15.3%

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