Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Much like lawyers needing to take a separate bar exam in each state they wish to practice in, real estate agents’ training and licensing requirements vary by state. PRO TIP You may see the terms “real estate agent” and “Realtor” used interchangeably. While a Realtor is indeed an agent, the term doesn’t work both ways.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

They also explore the National Association of Realtors ‘ (NAR) commission lawsuit settlement , agent training deficiencies and more. Overall, there aren’t any requirements on the franchise, which allows us to tap into a different market than our competitors. Dwiggins: I am a free market guy.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Describing the modern-day mortgage market as challenging would be an understatement, to say the least. The average rate throughout 2024 for 30-year fixed mortgages was 6.72% higher than it was during the 2008 market crash. It reflects another pressing issue of imbalanced supply and demand in the housing market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

The debate surrounding the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Clear Cooperation Policy is raging on. Brokers you better be training your people correctly, so you don’t get a negligence or misinformation claim, Dwiggins wrote in another post.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

This is an experienced agent or broker who provides leads, training, mentorship, support and other resources for the team members. It can vary widely depending on the size of the team, its overall goals and the type of market it serves. Every team member brings a particular skill set to the table. Teams are led by a team leader.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In terms of options, we’re very fortunate to have some of the top brokers in the country working with us on a product suite we will soon take to market. DA: When we started out, I thought AI would be most helpful in marketing , getting people in the funnel. SW: How did you decide what part of the process you wanted to improve?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

The number of first-time homebuyers made up 32% of all buyers in 2023, according to a report released by the National Association of Realtors. Against that backdrop, Zillow identified prime markets for first-time homebuyers , and half of them were nestled in the Midwest.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2023

None of the surveyed mortgage professionals said staff cuts caused decreased ability to close loans and lack of training were the challenges they faced. LenderPulse requests surveys from 24,000 mortgage professionals across the country on market trends and lender opportunities and challenges. Of the 155 completed surveys, 32.3%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

Like the athletes in Paris, Realtors and brokers across the U.S. have been busy training and preparing to be ready for Aug. 17, the date on which the terms of the National Association of Realtors ’ (NAR) nationwide commission lawsuit settlement agreement are set to go into effect. His confidence didn’t just come out of nowhere.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Apart from selling produce that is popular in former Soviet countries, these stores represent a marketing opportunity for Alex Naumovych, a loan officer at Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corporation. Borrowers have called me from seeing my advertising in the stores and a couple of Realtors, too.”. trillion in 2021.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2021

Keller Williams is launching the KW New Homes community and partnering with Legacy International to offer new home sales training to address the increasing opportunity in the market. While lumber prices have shown some improvement in spot markets, these declines take time to translate into lower construction costs.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

In his new role, Banosian said he will be leveraging his success as a top producing loan originator to help other Rate LOs grow their business and take market share. It’s also really hard to get an offer accepted in most markets. I look for the opportunity in every market. What else do you think distinguishes your success?

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2024

In this role, Kaufman will oversee sales and marketing efforts for the company’s new development projects across Florida and North Carolina. Prior to that venture, Kaufman was a vice president and principal of a luxury residential real estate marketing firm. Kaufman is also a member of the Florida Board of Realtors.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2024

On the RealTrending podcast produced by HousingWire , host Tracey Velt chats with San Antonio-based Realtor Jessica Conrad in the final installment of JPAR Real Estate ’s four-part Settlement Strategy Playbook series. She also explores JPAR’s agent training and resource efforts.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

The firm describes TomAI as a “version of ChatGPT trained on 20+ years proven-effective real estate strategy from hundreds of the industry’s leading coaches and thousands of market-dominating agents.” A beta version of the tool launched in August 2023 for Tom Ferry coaching clients.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2024

We are using this slower market to double down on new customer acquisition, new product launches, and improving our customers’ experiences. At this time our clients are looking at process improvements, streamlining technology, and lowering per-unit costs so using this time wisely – before the next ‘normal’ market – is important.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The seller, who struggled to find a buyer in a cooled down housing market, agreed to deposit a lump sum payment into an escrow account at closing – ultimately saving Davis $6,900 in monthly payments in the first two years. It gives the buyer and seller the feeling of beating the mutual enemy, ‘the market,’ and gaming the system.”.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

With this new partnership, CRMLS and CubiCasa say they will deliver more value to consumers through digital floor plans, and help create a more organized and transparent real estate market. “With our CubiCasa partnership, we can influence market adoption of floor plans thanks to their easy-to-use technology and valuable data outputs.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Amid the tight housing market , First Team wants to go back to its “agent-first” model, focusing on its marketing programs as well as training its agents, the company said in a statement. We are a company made by Realtors for Realtors, which is exceedingly rare in our industry today.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Meanwhile, a customer relationship management system, along with experts in marketing, sales and other areas, are designed to support these teams, he said. “If Djon Luxury Real Estate is expanding its sell-side business, training buyer-side real estate agents on the necessary contracts and selling their value to the consumer.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2022

Market conditions have forced countless LOs, including Dicker, to find creative solutions to lock down home purchases for clients whose purchasing power has diminished greatly in the past six months. But any market that pushes some businesses to the brink of insolvency also will create opportunities for others. And he’s far from alone.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

As the commission lawsuits heat up, real estate brokers are gearing up to add buyer representation agreements and training, cut costs and hone value propositions, according to RealTrends Q4 2023 BrokerPulse survey. In addition, 52% predicted the market would be flat this quarter, similar to sentiment in the third quarter.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

For decades, disruptors and innovators in the residential real estate industry have been trying to chip away at the near monopoly that Realtors have had over home sales. The monumental verdict in the Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit trial may finally be the giant-killing blow against the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) is calling for policy changes that would help alleviate the difficulties for homebuyers using Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans when competing in tight markets. mortgage market in 2023, up from 14.3% of the U.S. in 2022, according to HUD.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2024

I vividly recall when Homie first entered the market. By offering consumers more affordable options and greater flexibility, these models have expanded access to real estate services, particularly for individuals and families navigating an arguably more difficult housing market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is facing yet another lawsuit. The latest complaint, which is seeking class-action status, was filed on Friday by eight real estate agents in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The suit claims that NAR, along with Move Inc., Move Sales , OpCity Acquisitions , OpCity Inc. and REA Group Ltd.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

We’ll also share best practices for developing and sending real estate newsletters and recommend some essential tools to make your email marketing stand out. Save time with pre-written newsletters from Market Leader Don’t have time to write three or more newsletters every month? Lets dive in!

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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

AUGUST 20, 2020

In San Antonio Knock is partnering with Keller Williams Heritage and Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Don Johnson Realtors, and in Austin Knock is partnering with Berkshire Hathaway Texas Realty to give homeowners the option to “swap” their current house for their dream home.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2024

The Real Brokerage has poached a high-performing Realtor team in Cleveland. Real hopes the team can provide more juice to a market that’s part of a trend of booming cities in the midwest. Kaim Team is bringing its 25-members to the company, becoming the largest team operating in Ohio that’s affiliated with Real.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Impact of NAR’s new buyer agency rules : The implementation of new National Association of Realtors (NAR) rules around buyer agency appears to have frozen many agents in place. Brokerages have put recruiting efforts on hold while management focuses on training and support to adapt to these changes. a monthly score of 94.7,

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The National Association of Realtors , Keller Williams , and Berkshire Hathaway are still going to court to fight the allegations. Some 40% of respondents say they are focusing on educating and training their agents. Today, the first class action commission lawsuit goes to trial in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2024

Here’s why: Good software might help your brokerage stay afloat in a post-lawsuit market. The right real estate brokerage software will help you gain market share, train, recruit, and retain more (and better) agents, and make more profits. That difference is everything.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

After the 2008 mortgage meltdown, JVM let go of all its loan originators and trained its employees to target the jumbo loan market in the San Francisco Bay area instead. JVM, which has also had a market presence in Texas since 2017, saw opportunity for investment properties and plans to capitalize on the growing market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the average tenure of an agent with a brokerage is six years. The real estate market is saturated with brokerages offering almost identical commission structures, technical support and growth opportunities. Agent retention is a nuanced game requiring a multifaceted approach.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) announced the launch of the Residential Real Estate Council’s (RCC) Broker Solutions , a new resource available to its over 1.5 million members nationwide through the Realtor Benefits Program , on Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

He became a top-producing real estate agent in the area and in 1991 became the manager of the largest office for Prudential Long Island Realty , training agents throughout the East Coast markets. Four years later, Harney founded his own brokerage, National Homefinders, using market insights to grow the business to 500 agents.

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