Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Today, it’s about meeting the new demands of a varied and tech-savvy market — all while adding a personal touch. Design and share infographics that provide valuable real estate tips or market statistics, making complex information easily digestible and shareable. Share helpful infographics Visual content is king.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

SmartZip primarily benefits experienced listing agents, yet any agent willing to nurture seller leads can thrive with this platform. The company provides robust marketing and nurturing tools, including a CRM with lead data, home valuation landing pages, direct mail campaigns, a comparative market analysis tool and more.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Listing and marketing properties is a complicated process. For every new listing, you’ll be reminded when to tackle important milestones. The median dollar value spent using a staging service was $600, compared to $400 when the sellers’ agent personally staged the home. Here are two tools to help.

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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 29, 2023

It’s perfect for agents, with helpful design and marketing tools tailored for real estate. The platform offers a mix of customizable templates and the option to upload your own designs. Plus, you can tailor your mailing list to target the right demographics. Starting at $0.91

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Here are some options to help you build a strong real estate website: Luxury Presence This high-end website builder is used by most design-forward agents and brokerages for its stunning layouts, high-resolution video capabilities and a sleek luxury feel. Canva is perfect for everything from new listings to brand promotion.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

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. Property Insights help you save, note, and assign MLS property listings of interest to your clients within Top Producer’s CRM.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2024

MLS connectivity: Connect your IDX-enabled website with your MLS and send listingsand listing details in marketing pieces. Marketing: You automatically receive a customizable property marketing package to promote each new listing. Automatically add new online leads to drip campaigns with Market Leader’s marketing automation.

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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. Best practices include creating and sharing valuable, relevant content that addresses common concerns or interests of buyers or sellers. It could be next week, it could be next year. Why not join them?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

The mailers are titled “Notice of Proposed Settlements” and they began hitting the mailboxes of home sellers in mid-February. The firm was appointed as the designated settlement administrator for the suit in 2022, over a year prior to any settlement agreements being reached. What do the postcards say? she asked. “It

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Instead of generic design templates, LCA Marketing Center’s templates are designed for agents, by agents. The app allows you to quickly choose and edit design templates for social media, flyers, postcards, and even signs and business cards — all from your phone.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

With Wise Pelican, you can try both — it’s a fantastic resource for beautifully designed postcards and letters. 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

JUNE 21, 2024

Brand-conscious agents will love Wise Pelican’s designs. You can also create custom mailing lists by importing your listing information directly from your MLS or use the draw tool to create a custom area for $0.10 each Bulk discounts offered for 100+ items Subscriptions start at 500 postcard minimum Mailing list: $0.10

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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. This increased exposure will help you find new leads, especially those impressed by your marketing skills.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Her Facebook is mostly made up of local Michigan homebuyers and sellers, while her LinkedIn has a lot of other agents and real estate professionals and her Instagram is a mix of both. If you look at our Instagram right now though, it is probably mostly listings, so we actually need to get better at that.

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Eppraisal

MARCH 18, 2022

Some agents even have an "ABR" designation (Accredited Buyer's Representative) from the National Association of Realtors. Your agent should be reaching out to other agents to see if they have any sellers with homes that meet your criteria. This is where almost all agents list their sellers' homes.

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 21, 2024

Developed over time with the guidance of prominent designer John Saladino initially and then later with the legendary architect Peter Marino who reimagined the structure back in 2005 and oversaw a 10,000 square foot addition to the house. We are seeing more new listings across the country, and it’s something we’re also seeing locally.

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PennyMac

JULY 20, 2021

How many are sellers? Understanding unique issues like the schools, historic district designations, development plans, and even traffic patterns is essential. But just because an agent knows your desired zip code does not mean they have been successfully helping buyers and sellers there. Do you have a recommended vendors list?

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CA Realty Training

MARCH 29, 2021

This may also be the case when working with sellers. For example, you may be working with a seller that doesn’t want to hold an open house or place a “For Sale” sign in their yard. If your seller still insists, then listen and respect their decision. It is designed to help you take action on the important dates and milestones.

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Eppraisal

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Working with buyers requires a different skill-set than working with sellers. A sellers agent's job is to market and sell a client's home. In fact, the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) offers a designation real estate agents can earn for working specifically with buyers. A buyers agent's job requires many more key skills.

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Appraisal Today

AUGUST 25, 2023

The sellers custom built the home between 2007 and 2009, using high-end materials and finishes, including a wall of windows and 26-foot-high ceilings in the great room. The seller wanted that to be a part of the home, and he didn’t want it down in a cellar. But the MLS is also finding new benefits in its partnership with RPR®.

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Will Springer Realtor

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Well, thats starting to feel a lot like modern home design. Vanishing in some new builds. The result: homes that are more compact yet cleverly designed because in todays market, virtually every square foot has to pull double duty. increase to $1.1M, according to the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (chart).

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Listing Spark

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What should buyers and sellers be doing right now? How the housing market affects the rest of the economy How to approach the current housing market as a seller Final advice for buyers in the current housing market Are buyers pulling out of contracts at the last minute? How to vet real estate agents as a seller.

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Listing Spark

JANUARY 12, 2023

Home sellers should focus on their local market and pull out all the stops when listing a house. 2022 Market Trends: Decrease in sales, values, and new listings in Austin, TX; median home value up 9.9% New construction in 2023 is slowing down due to an increase in inventory and a declining market.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 11, 2023

Others are specializing in the design and construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) as detached backyard homes (also known as “ mother-in-laws ”). The single-family housing market is sluggish, as many prospective buyers and sellers have chosen to focus on enjoying the many weeks of beautiful weather. New price: $70M ($3978/sq.

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Will Springer Realtor

APRIL 8, 2021

Here’s the key difference between now and 2008-2010: Homeowners have record levels of equity and should be able to tap into that to sell their homes – probably for a profit in this sellers’ market – and avoid foreclosure. The image was taken from a drone above The Parc, a condo in Belltown, where I am promoting one of my new listings.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 8, 2021

To be sure, the market is still leaning heavily in the sellers’ favor and listings are slimmer than a strand of spaghetti. New listings are up 6.3% Condo sales are in a similar boat, with new listings higher – by 4.3% It’s a similar tale for single-family homes as a subset of the market. 1 vs. Sept.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2022

>> Insights from 12,000 consumers and over 300 architectural designers show that 51% of residents will work from home in 2022, up from 33% before the pandemic. >> The Puget Sound region suffered from a severe lack of new construction in the decade ending in 2020, according to U.S. Designed by William J.

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Here’s a negotiating tactic that you may not have thought of: Sellers who “spy” on buyers when they are visiting the home. About three in every 10 sellers say they have used a camera on the property during an open house or showing at their home, according to a study of more than 2,000 consumers from LendingTree. SMILE FOR THE CAMERA.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 13, 2024

SETTLEMENT FOLLOW-UP A judge has preliminarily approved the $418M antitrust class-action settlement involving sellers’ compensation to brokers/agents in residential real estate sales. News of the settlement and its impact topped last month’s newsletter. seconds – when not parked in a penthouse high atop a gleaming new urban condo.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2021

“Greater participation of sellers and builders in the months ahead will make home sales possible while easing some of the pressure on price growth, which is currently rising at a double-digit percent rate and has been for almost six months.” Real Estate Tech Demo Day.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 9, 2022

The cities of Seattle and Renton offer pre-approved ADU designs to help streamline the government-approval process which can often be onerous. Don’t get me started about Seattle’s design review exercise!) . The number of new homes for sale fell 19% (4009) across the county from June to July and 9.5% Kirkland gets it too.

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Will Springer Realtor

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

HB 1951 would remove “Don’t Know” from the Seller Disclosure Statement that owners complete with the sale of a home. The survey also said that among sellers in the 12 months ending mid-2021, 46% went on to purchase a larger home. >> The U.S. rental-vacancy rate dropped to 5.8% For our housing market, it’s time to have that talk.

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 8, 2022

While the number of new listings in June jumped 8.2% in new listings and 57% in active listings at the start of this month (3256), up 124% from a year ago. May 2019 (1409) had the highest number of new monthly listings in the last dozen years, followed by June of last year (1351). It’s a 5-bed, 6.75-bath

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 12, 2021

The county saw new listings and end-month Active listings rise but Pending sales slip, suggesting buyers are no longer snatching every listing on the Northwest MLS as they become available. Listed at $1,995,000 ($725/sq. Sellers typically ask for back-up buyers. The sellers are asking for $2.1M ($472/sq.

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 13, 2023

We certainly see that in all forms of residential real estate – from new construction to finding items for the home. The brighter news is that labor shortages and supply-chain disruptions are improving but it’s hardly “back to normal.” New single-family-home listings rose 3.8% List: $2.7M ($1484/sq. of waterfront.

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 8, 2022

. >> Homeowners are open to space-saving tradeoffs in new construction, with 85% willing to consider island seating over a separate dining space in the kitchen. After a continued rise in sales activity through March, the number of Seattle listings under contract and new listings have eased. List: $5.75M ($1575/sq.

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