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

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Gloria and David, longstanding pillars of the community, along with our presence on Main Street, where we are proud to have many of the island’s finest producers, gives us an unmatched client offering,” Raveis said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Agent-to-agent referrals aren’t as commonly mentioned in most real estate lead generation training courses as cold calling or door knocking. According to NAR , five percent of sellers and four percent of buyers found their agent through another agent’s referral. What are the benefits of referrals? It’s a win-win!

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Real estate brokers need to be able to target these clients effectively, so they can close deals quickly. Many real estate professionals discount the seller lead. But real estate seller leads are important because they represent commodities for brokers. By using this data, Buyside helps brokers generate and capture seller leads.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

With Q4 in full swing, many realtors are seeing buyers and sellers paralyzed by high interest rates and stagnant inventories. Shallis, with over three decades of experience in the real estate industry has helped realtors, buyers, and sellers navigate all types of market conditions. Key Strategies for Realtors in Q4 1.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2024

She believes the onus is on agents to “show up” for clients and communities rather than merely “showing off” past successes. HW: How important is it to educate clients about the “new normal” in residential real estate post-August 17? How do you recommend agents communicate these changes?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

What helped Erica Davis, a loan originator at Guild Mortgage , in the current high-rate environment is a seller-funded temporary 2-1 rate buydown. In a high-rate environment, lenders call the temporary rate buydown a win-win strategy for both sellers and buyers when used appropriately. in the second year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

Brokers turn to robust agent training According to our survey, brokerage leaders aren’t sitting around waiting for change to occur. They are boosting their agent training programs to provide more transparency around compensation and how to have those discussions with buyers and sellers.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2024

Sellers keep selling In the first month, nearly 98% of sellers continued to offer compensation to buyer’s agents—some agents even reported an increase in income by clearly defining their fee structure upfront and with each offer. Realtors are now communicating more proactively and responsibly given the state of uncertainty.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

More than 80% of recent buyers asked for at least one seller concession. Importantly, however, 65% of these recent buyers also reported making at least one concession to the seller, indicative of the seller’s market that exists in many parts of the country. Nearly 30% of recent buyers were not represented by an agent.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The business practice changes outlined in NAR’s settlement have been a massive positive for agents, according to Kelly, as it has become more important for them to talk with buyer clients at the start of the transaction process. We’ve always married very strong national training with equally strong regional training,“ Smith said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2024

I pondered how they could offer the assistance that buyers and sellers required at such competitive rates. 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.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

While ChatGPT has become a go-to tool for many of us, predictive analytics tools offer a more efficient, data-driven approach to generating new client leads. Called RAIA, Offrs AI chat tool uses conversational AI trained by licensed agents to qualify leads for you. Need more examples?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This is a dramatic and peculiar stance, given that same company a couple of years ago launched a $1 million annual advertising campaign touting a 1% listing fee, but only if the seller turned into a buyer for them. Sadly, the understanding of the difference between a client and a customer is pitifully poor in our industry.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Due to this, Edgerton and other industry leaders believe it is essential for agents to focus on training and education as the mid-July deadline looms just a few months away. He didn’t want himself and his agents in a place where the day came, and they didn’t know how to prove their value proposition or negotiate their worth with a client.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Every year I get a postcard on my birthday from my MLS, My MLS pays for technology that I’ll never use and they put on training I rarely attend. Sellers will still want to feel like their property is being marketed to the widest group of buyers. It’s only been three months and most of those fears have been proven to be unfounded.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Your prospective clients need to know hat you’re a real estate agent and you’re still an active player in the field. Establishing and maintaining your visibility involves actively engaging with potential clients, networking and participating in the local real estate community. And the more potential clients will trust you.

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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. When a potential buyer or seller lead searches for homes or a home valuation on Google, they are driven to your site by ads created and managed by Zurple’s advertising experts.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Ketchmark then discussed the agreements HomeServices franchisees have their clients sign. He also noted that he expects HomeServices agents to act as fiduciary to their clients and follow the NAR Code of Ethics. It’s a negotiation with the seller.” I was a successful agent. The value I add, I believe, is worth 6%.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

In addition to the monetary award, Real has also agreed to implement business policy changes as part of the settlement, including “clarifications about the negotiability of commissions, prohibitions on claims that buyer agent services are free, and the inclusion of listing broker compensation offers in communications with clients.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Real estate agents often make the mistake of believing their clients will remember them forever but they dont. Its up to us as agents to stay engaged and stay in contact with our clients. So, where do you start? In this article, weve compiled 49 compelling real estate newsletter ideas and subject lines.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In the deposition, Michael Ketchmark, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, asked Warner to comment on a training script from HomeServices CEO Gino Blefari in which he said that when he was an agent, he was supremely confident and would tell prospective clients that while commissions are negotiable “they only go up from 6%.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

“It’s very difficult to be an unaffiliated brokerage right now and compete with franchises who offer technology and training. RE/MAX’s toolbox is so impressive; joining RE/MAX for agent development, education, technology and marketing is going to benefit our agents and their clients in a big way.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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.” A referral estate referral occurs when a licensed agent or broker passes along a prospective buyer or seller to another licensed agent to handle a transaction. Choose your moment!

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

According to Ketchmark, the home sellers paid an average of $6,700 to the buyer’s agent in the transactions, adding up to $1.78 Ketchmark also presented Keller (and the jury present in the courtroom) with a script from Keller Williams University that agents can use to explain and negotiate commissions with clients. billion in damages.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

1 With over 12,000 Americans turning 65 every day in 2024, this burgeoning market will undoubtedly continue to bring more buyers and sellers to the table over the next decade. Recently, Interested Party Contributions (or seller concessions) have been allowed with HECM for Purchase loans.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Home Swap is offered exclusively through local real estate professionals who have been trained as Knock Certified Agents. Our agents are telling us that if it weren’t for the Home Swap, many of their clients would not consider making a move.”.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

home buyers and sellers it survey were targeted with suspicious or potentially fraudulent activities, while 10% were targeted for real estate fraud and 5% suffered losses during their real estate transaction due to fraudster. Even as the housing market slowed in 2022 and 2023, the fraudulent activity of bad actors did not let up.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Third, Compass agents have doubled down on training to help them better communicate their value proposition. Reffkin added that he also believes agents will have to sell their brokerage firm’s value proposition to prospective clients if they want to gain their business. Reffkin’s confidence came from what he called “five facts.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2024

In the newest episode of the RealTrending podcast , host Tracey Velt chats with Ryan Michaelis, chief growth strategist at Worth Clark Realty , about business growth through recruitment, flat-fee models for agents and the effects of the National Association of Realtors ’ (NAR) settlement on buyers and sellers across the industry.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Home Swap is offered exclusively through local real estate professionals who have been trained as Knock Certified Agents. Throughout our 94-year history, we have strived to deliver cutting-edge tools for our 3,000-plus associates and clients,” said Mike Pappas, president and CEO of The Keyes Company.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

If you’re known in your market as the expert who successfully sells properties between $1 to $3 million, how do you start getting clients looking for homes valued at $10 million+? How do you convince the sellers of $15 million homes to work with you? Visit Coffee & Contracts 2. Visit Agent Image 3.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

The video pointed to the many other things the trade organization does to assist Realtors, including its advocacy and lobbying work, as well as the opportunities it provides for training, education, and professional certifications.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2024

Most of us are not trained in the arcana of zoning laws and education districts nor do we understand what specific elements of a house are high-risk and which retain value. Most of us are not trained in the legal process and do not know all the questions to ask. As such, the process of buying the right house is crucial to get right.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

At the crux of the case is the allegation that commission rates are too high, it’s unfair that the seller pays the buyer’s agent’s commission, and that the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) Code of Conduct and MLS Handbook lead to set pricing. ” What’s at stake?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

“ The company said the goal is to cut down on the “friction” that can be experienced by buyers, sellers, agents and LOs during the housing transaction process. In addition, the company wants to provide an ownership vehicle that allows parties to capture more revenue in the transaction.

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