Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2024

Watch any of the glamorous pseudo-reality real estate shows on TV, and you might be tempted to become a part-time real estate agent. Most of the agents you see on TV wearing $1500 outfits work 80+ hours per week. As a real estate coach, I hear this question all the time.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2024

Just this week, I have spent time with successful people in the following pursuits: Technology consulting, software development, real estate sales, building construction and contracting, the law, nuclear physics innovation, advertising, medical sales, and product innovation. Is this fair?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools equip real estate agents with unprecedented capabilities. Since real estate tech changes by the hour these days, we did a deep dive into the most helpful AI tools for real estate agents on the market today.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Trends in the relative movement of experienced real estate agents between brokerages is an important strategic consideration for brokerage and franchise leaders. To capture these trends and report them to the industry Relitix recently developed its Agent Movement Index.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2024

While they may not be as trendy as they once were, a well-crafted real estate agent Facebook page is still the best way to generate leads on social media. Your Facebook page can help you build your personal brand, network with other agents across the country (hello, referral partners!)

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Hispanic consumers and homebuyers represent an opportunity for real estate and mortgage professionals who are prepared to serve them. One NAHREP session on AI showcased some truly incredible use cases for agents that can make marketing and relationship-building as easy as ordering an Uber, and all are available today.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2024

Interest rates, a key determinant of the real estate market’s health, are on a downward trend. Real estate agents need to brace themselves for a shift as we witness a market more reminiscent of previous pandemic years. The real estate industry must keep up with the big appetite for housing.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Too many real estate agents are watching artificial intelligence (AI) from the sidelines, assuming technology will never replace them. They repeat the mantra “Home buyers and sellers will always need a real estate agent.” So how can real estate agents be so cavalier about their job?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Pete Stebbins, 90, initially joined Fairway in 2012 and currently works as director of business development in the companys Madison, Wisconsin, office. The company said that Stebbins has been instrumental in connecting reverse loan originators with key industry partners, including real estate agents, financial planners and builders.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Danielle Wilkie: As you know, women make up over two-thirds of real estate agents in the country. Secondly, you’re going to see a rise of the creator economy in real estate. Over the next five years, I think any and all real estate agents will be coaches.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The receiving agent becomes the buyer or seller’s primary point of contact and representative, and the referring agent receives a referral fee if a transaction closes. Sometimes, a real estate agent may choose not to work with a specific buyer or seller. What are the benefits of referrals?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Some entrepreneurs are never given the credit for being so. Are real estate agents undervalued? Of these, real estate agents are in the crosshairs of the naysayers, who suggest that this group is largely paper-pushing, monopoly-driven, and low-value addition. Sounds a ton like real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Generative artificial intellegence, such as ChatGPT, is changing everything—a statement that comes as little surprise to anyone these days, and least of all to the many real estate agents whose markets are being saturated by artificial intelligence (AI)-empowered buyers. But, fortunately, those fears are misplaced.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A group of current and former real estate executives have launched The Helm, a coaching platform designed to provide professional development to a more diverse audience.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Valon intends to use the fresh capital to boost product development and expand its reach to new markets. Clever Real Estate also partners with Valon to match buyers and sellers with local real estate agents who offer cash rebates, commission discounts and other products. The firm is currently valued at $1.1

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

These are all untrue and offensive words that come up when searching “Realtors” or “Real estate agents.” And before getting my real estate license in 2009, I had the same opinion, too. While this seems obvious, I hear time and time again how agents are trying to “convince” people to work with them.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2024

“PartnerUp Coaching makes it easier for those top tier agents to share their secret sauce with a much wider audience, elevating the entire industry in the process.” The PartnerUp Coaching platform is part of Side’s PartnerUp Program, a suite of professional development and income-generating programs available to the Side community.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

This piece will explore some of the key domains where AI is having the greatest impact for real estate agents, brokers and the innovative companies leading the charge. Their all-in-one platform allows agents to send out mailers to leads at scale, with personalized copy developed by AI and hand-written notes produced by robots.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

And while it seems that this is a tactic for elders to avoid high costs, high crime and over development, those who keep an eye on who moves where in America say it has been happening off and on for decades. But the potential value for older homeowners is not strictly monetary, the article said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Implement targeted marketing campaigns: Dig into your CRM and develop targeted marketing campaigns to reach out to your SOI effectively. Attend training workshops, webinars, and conferences to acquire new skills and knowledge that can help you stay ahead of the competition.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2025

A new report reveals that real estate agents are switching brokerages at an accelerated pace, reshaping the industrys competitive landscape and pressuring firms to adopt recruitment and retention strategies. The study analyzed four major MLSs that represent nearly one-third of all agents in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

I am a big believer in developing a brand for your real estate business from Day One. The power of branding in real estate In the real estate world, there’s a prevailing belief that “You are the brand” as an agent. A great brand is a valuable tool, and it’s worth protecting.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Held live from the National Association of Realtors ‘ (NAR) NXT Conference in Boston, the conversation covers broker leadership tips, the value of designations and certifications, and educational resources for real estate agents. Some courses are online or live and all are about leadership and leadership development.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

As we continue to invest deeply into providing our KW-affiliated brokerages support for the development of their team leaders and operating principals, we are excited to welcome Shanan, who will spearhead those efforts,” KW President and CEO Mark Willis said in a statement. “An

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

“I really commend LandVest and Christie’s for the efforts to concertedly not just educate, but listen to the brokers and the agent community about the kinds of issues the business practice changes raise and develop practices that are responsive to that,” Sudduth said. “I I feel really well supported.”

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A large portion of the new development on the market has been purchased by homebuyers. A lot of sellers are worried about finding their next house because even though listings are rising, there’s still a housing shortage,” said David Palmer, a Redfin Premier real estate agent in Seattle.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This gives good sales agents room to prove themselves. On the flip side, we’ve spent billions of dollars over the last decade building and developing — or buying and integrating — software for real estate agents and teams. To get the buyer and seller what they want, we have to have super agents, not just agents.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

The January 2025 Pacific Palisades and Eaton fires destroyed more than 15,000 structures, displacing over 150,000 residents and further straining the already limited rental supply, according to the California Department of Housing and Community Development.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

Consumers purchase homes, but Compass touts its technology among prospective real estate agents. Because agents are the heart of the business. Real estate agent may be a single term, but it covers a multitude of functions: presentation, negotiation, consolation, trouble-shooting, travel, project management.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

“We are honored to help recognize the agents and teams on the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Top Producer List that hold themselves to a higher standard in our industry and have achieved extraordinary results on their client’s behalf.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

The fact is, real estate agents do more than just sign the dotted lines for their clients. Studies show agents spend 87 hours on average during a purchase deal, navigating more than 200 outcomes to drive a transaction toward success. And for real estate professionals, its only a matter of keeping up and staying valuable.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Sanchez: When you look at the industry, only 26% of leadership positions in real estate are held by women, even though over 60% of real estate agents are women. We’ve always been a new-agent company. If you take the top 10 agents in Orange County right now, eight of them started at FirstTeam.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2025

The startup eSelf AI recently introduced whats being coined the worlds first AI real estate agent. And it has already shown its chops: having provided enough quality leads to generate $100M in sales for a real estate brokerage firm in Portugal. This kind of development should be a wake-up call for the industry.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

We’ll break down everything you need to know about real estate referral fees, including how they work, typical referral fee rates, how to draft and manage referral agreements, and how to develop a successful referral network. Yet referrals are one of the best ways new agents can close more deals and earn more money.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

The most successful agents on the Real Trends Verified lists focus on specific (and highly lucrative) niches. “We’re just promoting who we are, and then those who value real estate agents and advice and education are our obvious clients. Hes accumulated a lot of real estate knowledge over the years.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

Mangus then worked to build the dedicated reverse mortgage department at his new company from scratch and has found a notable degree of success by building Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) for Purchase (H4P) business through the use of continuing education (CE) classes designed for licensed real estate agents.

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