Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

This proves your expertise to clients and allows you to provide them with knowledge about the real estate market. The median list price of homes in the US is $435,000; the median price of new listings is $435,900. The market action index is 37, indicating that there is a slight seller’s advantage.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

“Healthy markets are ones where buyers and sellers have access to all relevant data for their decisions. of new listings in August have a major risk for extreme heat, while 33% are at risk of extreme heat exposure. New listings in the Midwest hold the least amount of climate risk, according to Zillow.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2021

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. “Sellers are still squarely in the drivers’ seat, but buyers have hit a limit on their willingness to pay. . from April.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2024

“It has been four and a half months since the announcement of the NAR settlement, and we have not seen a noticeable change from before the settlement in either the percentage of sellers that offer buyer’s agent commissions or in the average commission amount they’re paying the buyer’s agents,” Compass CEO Robert Reffkin said on the call. “To

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

The past year and a half, with its rising mortgage rates , low inventory, and economic uncertainty, has been a challenge for real estate pros, not to mention the buyers and sellers they serve. Regularly update content, share valuable insights about the local market, and interact with potential clients.

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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

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. Altos considers any score above 30 to be a seller’s market. 70 towns, 90 new listings Local agents say the county’s tight inventory situation is largely to blame. “We

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 27, 2024

Average asking prices were lowered by over 7% of home sellers, which is higher than it has been since November 2022 and higher than 4.7% 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.

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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 That would bring the full-year total to 5.4

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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

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

MAY 3, 2024

As the spring selling season kicks off, many educated sellers know that buyers are experiencing spring fever and are tired of sitting on the fence watching home prices increase. In Denver in particular, new listings increased 29.12% month-over-month and 22.63% year-over-year. With only 1.3

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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. The mailers are titled “Notice of Proposed Settlements” and they began hitting the mailboxes of home sellers in mid-February. Lisa is super on the pulse. What do the postcards say?

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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

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If you’re an agent, team or brokerage looking to keep a pipeline of qualified listing leads coming your way, SmartZip may the solution you need. SmartZip uses predictive analytics to pinpoint likely sellers from 6 to 18 months in advance, offering a huge advantage in today’s low inventory market. Automated marketing: Yes.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Real estate prospecting is a necessary activity for agents aiming to build a robust pipeline of buyer and seller leads. 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

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

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

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.” Using the listing photos uploaded by the agent, Restb.ai

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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. We negotiated to get the sellers the highest price possible. Even if you’re months or even years away from moving, a seller’s prep session is one of the services I offer homeowners.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is why creating an avatar of your ideal client and creating content for them (and only them) should be your primary goal on social media. To generate leads from your social media posts, you need to know your ideal client’s fears, desires, and understand the problems you can solve for them. Touring a new listing?

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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

JULY 8, 2024

Expired listing cold calling script Cold calling expired listings is a proven (if sometimes terrifying) way to find new business. These sellers were on the market with another agent before and could not sell. Usually, they’re inundated with agents calling them for the first few days after their listing expires.

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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

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. I have sellers saying, I think were at the top of the market Im ready to cash out and put my money into another investment.'”

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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

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. SmartZip primarily benefits experienced listing agents, yet any agent willing to nurture seller leads can thrive with this platform.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When I talk to clients and they are wondering why their $3 million condo isn’t selling, I’m like, ‘I don’t know, dude, maybe it has to do with the three people who got killed in front of your building last night.’ In comparison, Chicago has 1,545 listings. A CBS Chicago analysis of police data from Jan. 1 through Dec.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Virtual open houses are a unique way to help you stand out from other agents as a tech-savvy marketer and can help get your listings in front of hundreds (possibly thousands) of potential buyers online. Let’s discuss some of the benefits of a virtual open house — for you and your clients.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

We’d love to see CINC home pages focus more on personal branding and client service. A blog and a few buyer and seller education pages would make CINC a perfect IDX site. Bleeding-edge tech + sleek, modern design + an emphasis on client service = IDX perfection. Showcase IDX Pricing: Starting at $84.95 UX design quality: 4.6

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Title agents dread being blamed by everyone from the buyer to the seller, from the real estate agent to the lender, for that delay that falls between the signing of a sales agreement and the signing of the closing documents. More than a few real estate agents have come to dread calling the closing company to find out when they can close.

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