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

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

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Attracting clients vs. chasing clients. Its a brilliant handbook on how to have the hard conversations with clients; my biggest takeaway was giving up Im here to save the day and fix your problems and replacing that with empowering clients to make (and own) their best choices. Partnering with charities and hosting events!

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2024

And the real possibility of creating efficiencies and reducing costs and maintaining what I refer to as the ‘heart of human’ definitely had my attention. SW: How does your background inform how you approach clients of BridgeAIvisory? And I refer to it as “from the boardroom to the break room.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2021

Bob takes a huge amount of pride in the presentation and marketing of a property, and he works with clients personally from the pre-listing stage all the way through to the closing. He keeps his clients fully informed on listing and market activity throughout the process. To get more clients. Not in a million years.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In their filing, the plaintiffs highlight HomeServices’ franchise agreements, training videos, as well as the now infamous Allan Dalton video, as evidence of HomeServices enforcing the National Association of Realtors’ Clear Cooperation policy.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Lenders and search companies alike need to look for trusted agent partners to provide the client with the experience they deserve. All our agents have an incredible amount of accountability to each of our partners to make sure all clients have a world-class real estate experience.”. Technology plays a vital role in this.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2024

How can you do a better job as you are handing off clients and customers to them? You call the client, then you call me to arrange it. Then you explain the report to the clients. Or maybe you do have a friend or family member that needs my help that you could refer me to. What do they expect of you? I do the inspection.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2024

Although I remained confident in my skills and the value I brought to my clients, I couldn’t help but question how I would compete with a company capable of offering such low-cost representation en-masse. I pondered how they could offer the assistance that buyers and sellers required at such competitive rates.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2024

Nearly 70% of the agents that join our company are referred to us by our very own agents, and if we have a chance to speak with those agents, 80% of them are joining Worth Clark.” Michaelis also mentions that the company invites broker-owners to bring their agents to Worth Clark for team training and other exercises that promote synergy.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

AI Agents: Your Strategic Partners in Appraisal Excellence To illustrate just one way how AI can be a game-changer in your business, below is a snapshot of a few of the custom AI agents we’ve developed for our clients. This AI Agent is trained on and powered by the current “FHA 4001.1

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 24, 2025

But our training must govern here and force us to ask the question, Does this adjustment protocol reflect current market verities? To fail to reflect them truly and correctly in the final value opinion is to mislead the client. of USPAP (bibliograph citation by reference). times 42-days or $5,523. See the dilemma?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

and ensuring that potential clients have the reverse mortgage option visible is a key focus for Bruser. I’m working with a couple of brokerage firms on a multi-part agent training series,” Borg said. “I’ve Florida is already an extremely popular retirement destination in the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

And I love the idea that we can get so deep with these clients and really impact their lives for the better.” When I think about the reverse product specifically, it really is such a unique product in the sense that it is really part of a life-planning exercise.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2025

Continuously refer back to the exam topics. It can also give your clients peace of mind to know youve planned for any incidents. E&O insurance covers losses your client may experience, but can also help you and your business by paying legal expenses and managing claims. I started my career as a buyers agent on a RE/MAX team.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2022

Your client is more than just another unit or commission. Some of the best loan officers do not have to spend any money on marketing because they have focused their business on building relationships with their clients. Through this process, the client develops a relationship with you, and sees you as more than just a loan officer.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 16, 2024

The Kahane & Associates team is dedicated to finding innovative ways to assist its clients in significantly reducing the costs of default servicing. The primary goal of the firm is to provide clients with the highest quality legal representation and the finest in personal service in the industry.

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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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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

Among key HECM-related updates, Ames noted that there is more inclusion and more references to other HUD guidance — including the Single Family Housing Handbook, which received extensive, years-in-the-making reverse mortgage updates last year. This helps the counseling handbook avoid both inconsistent and duplicative information.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2023

In particular, Holden noted the opportunity of training computer algorithms to review bank statements and identifying borrowers who have no credit but are making consistent rent payments every month. “We That’s something that will have to be overcome before we have wholesale adoption and use across the industry,” Stucky explained.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As a real estate agent, you may think clients should care more about their next home than your life story. And while that may be true, well-crafted real estate agent bios can build trust and credibility and serve as a powerful tool in an agent’s marketing arsenal — giving prospective clients.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

“I’m working with a couple of brokerage firms on a multipart agent training series,” Frank Borg, a Seattle -based originator with Fairway said in a February interview.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

Dahlhausen added that working as a loan officer is an opportunity for real estate agents to ”control the transaction” and ”ensure that the client is being taken care of” while increasing their compensation. Working as both an LO and agent was a way to better serve his clients, he said. For example, Realfinity pays LOs 1.4%

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2023

Today, the Massachusetts-based Cobalt Group has its core team of agents who operate as a traditional real estate team, but it also has other independent agents who work under the group’s overall umbrella, a key characteristic of what many in the real estate industry are now referring to as “teamerages.”

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 8, 2024

Some mortgage lenders would say there is a shortage of appraisers and believe the shortage is impacting their ability to deliver credible appraisals to their clients in a timely manner. There are also the economics of training new appraisers and the numerous and disparate state laws and lender prohibitions.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

It is trained on text data and learns to identify patterns from that data to generate human-like text responses. Creating new content, whether in the form of text, photos, videos or computer code, is referred to as generative AI. Building trust with prospects or clients takes time. These are large language models (LLMs).

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In agent training videos, Blefari said he pre-writes a 6% commission into all his listing agreements and that he only negotiates commissions if they go up. “I I was showing them [agents] what I did so they can learn from that,” Blefari said in his video deposition, according to Inman.

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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. Just sold stories If your clients are willing to be featured on your socials, celebrate their sale. Readers are more likely to remember stories that evoke emotions.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Instead of focusing on myself, I’ll focus on recruiting LOs, training and supporting them and building a great platform so that they can make money easily. We also help realtors follow up with their clients. We build relationships with existing clients, too. We know who referred a new client to us; we say thank you.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

One of my favorite seller clients was a FSBO who I became friends with. This script is an easy, non-salesy way to train your existing network of friends, family, coworkers, and everyone in your sphere of influence to send you leads when they come across them. Good for you + good for your clients! Lead with value! Don’t force it!

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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. You need to reserve enough energy to serve your clients well.

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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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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Do this before the appointment, and refer to our list of questions to get specifics. She developed training materials, classes, and coaching programs for her fellow introverts. How to prepare for a listing appointment Have a quick call with the sellers to ask them about their motivation, timeline, and price they have in mind.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2024

Phone number: Include the phone number you want clients to call. Hours: While choosing “Always open” is tempting for most agents, I’d recommend selecting the “Open on selected hours” This allows you to set expectations with potential clients about when you’re actually going to be available.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2022

Samson is so agent-centric, in fact, that its agents receive a 100% commission split and services like training, office desks, and help with marketing. In return, the Samson agent is asked – not told, asked – to refer clients to Cardinal Title Group , a title insurer wholly owned by Samson. “I This is no sure thing.

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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. Agents do pay for these leads, with Zillow’s “Zillow Flex” now taking a percentage of commissions from referred leads.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 12, 2024

For years, we have referred to our appraisal reports as “forms,” but they have always been appraisal “reports.” Additionally, appraisers should clearly communicate their pricing structures to clients, emphasizing the scope of work and the time required to complete that scope credibly. We can learn from this beautiful prose.

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