Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2021

If you’re a customer, what ends up happening is that your lender asks you for your name and social, and then the real estate asks you for it and then the title company does it and this keeps going, and it drives people crazy,” Baker explained. “So Buying a home is an incredibly chaotic, terrible process,” Baker said. “A

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

List all the best features of the home We start formulating the property description during our first meeting with a seller, taking notes about the unique features/improvements, and asking the seller what they love about the property. Seamlessly blending historic elegance with modern luxury, this 5 bedroom 3.5 Example: 0.25

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The essence of our industrys defense of modern MLS infrastructure rests upon a fragile foundation that says, “Its not perfect, but its the best we can do.” MLSs collect billions in agent dues annually. Yet, real estate agents have little control over how these funds are spent.

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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. For buyers, focus on delivering second-to-none service and support.

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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. Many of the best real estate CRMs have built-in features to segment your contacts list and automate your real estate newsletters.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The FHA should critically evaluate and simplify inspection criteria, review the inspection requirements for FHA appraisals, and modernize criteria wherever possible “to help reduce homebuying hurdles over non-essential, smaller home repair issues,” the authors wrote.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2021

Scale is a simple way for real estate tech companies to build custom, on-brand, and modern closing experiences using Qualia’s flexible infrastructure. #1. 75% of buyers and sellers. expect real-time property updates from their real estate agent. #2. 82% of buyers. 36% of home buyers.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Zillow and Realtor.com have agreed to share 3D home tours, interactive floor plans and photo listings between both platforms, the real estate portals announced this week. These statistics highlight shifting preferences for modern consumers who rely on digital tools to make homebuying decisions.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In this week’s episode of the RealTrending podcast , host Tracey Velt sits down with Debbie De Grote, founder of leading real estate and business coaching company Forward Coaching. De Grote also dives into new challenges and common mistakes for agents and how to avoid them. And even veteran agents could need a refresher.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

iBuying platform zavvie has launched zavvie Pro , with the goal of helping real estate agents turn homeowners into home sellers. “Zavvie Pro keeps the modern agent at the center of every sales transaction, no matter what the homeowner decides,” Lane Hornung, zavvie co-founder, and CEO, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 6, 2021

It had a large, fenced-in yard, modern appliances in an updated kitchen, a “man cave” for her husband, beamed ceilings, a massive master suite and was located in a good school district. With others waiting in line behind her, the seller wouldn’t budge on price. Sellers are surely getting greedy.”. That’s common these days.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 17, 2024

Understanding the Settlement The lawsuit that prompted this settlement was initiated by seller who felt they were unfairly treated in the real estate commission process. Traditionally, it has been expected that when hiring an agent to assist in selling a home, there would also be a 3% commission to the seller agent.

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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. Beyond that, Deephaven allows up to 3% seller concessions at closing. Mortgage interest rates have steadily ramped up throughout 2024. If thats not enough, affordability is still a distant dream for most homeowners. Its simple.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2023

Appraisal modernization is a hot topic right now, but updating the appraisal process is easier said than done. Freddie Mac’s appraisal modernization strategy With these challenges in mind, Freddie Mac continues to work on modernizing the appraisal process for lenders that deliver loans to Freddie Mac.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

And with millennials emerging as the largest generation of homebuyers in today’s market, comprising 28% of all homebuyers, real estate agents need to master social media or they might miss out. Sixty percent of agents surveyed believe that social media provides higher quality leads than the MLS.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

The best real estate CRM solution is the one that will manage your client interactions, increase the number of touchpoints with each client, and convert leads seamlessly into buyers and sellers. Below, we take a deep dive into the best real estate CRM solutions for solo agents, teams and brokerages.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

By the fall, real estate agents in Boise, Idaho were passing around a video they didn’t like but couldn’t resist watching. real estate in 2022 may see challenges to its biggest enterprises, including the National Association of Realtors and Zillow , and shifting adjustments to how work is done amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Design and share infographics that provide valuable real estate tips or market statistics, making complex information easily digestible and shareable. Use this tool: Coffee & Contracts Coffee & Contracts is like a membership-based social media toolkit for real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

Many real estate professionals remember the heyday of the 2000s when technology companies were determined to disrupt the real estate industry and replace real estate agents. Real estate is a $206 billion industry, according to IBISWorld. And, why not? However, it didn’t work.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

Fifteen years ago, I launched a business on a mission to modernize and decrease friction in the real estate finance supply chain. To our way of thinking, the model that suits modern mortgage lending to a ‘T’ is the marketplace model. The consumer knows and their real estate agent knows. They should.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

Its appraisal modernization pilot, which used hybrid appraisals, showed an 18% point reduction in confirmation bias compared with traditional appraisals, which rely on human observations and, as such, potentially could be riddled with overt or subconscious bias. An agent does a floorplan scan when they make a listing. that afternoon.

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Inman

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Knowing these trends and being able to discuss them with buyers and sellers will give Realtors a distinct advantage. Suggesting modern features to sellers to add to their homes before listing existing properties will also give agents additional power.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Unfortunately, those ads don’t talk much about the next month or six weeks, the period real estate professionals call the “settlement process.” More than a few real estate agents will roll their eyes and sigh when asked by a client, upon the signing of a sales contract, “What’s next?”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Unfortunately, those ads don’t talk much about the next month or six weeks, the period real estate professionals call the “settlement process.” More than a few real estate agents will roll their eyes and sigh when asked by a client, upon the signing of a sales contract, “What’s next?” in question.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

HW Media CEO Clayton Collins spoke with Reggora CEO and co-founder Brian Zitin about how 2020 changed appraisal tech and what appraisal modernization looks like moving forward. last year was in California, said Christopher Anderson, a Redfin real estate agent based in Napa, California. Presented by: Reggora.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Each episode will showcase three “weird, wonderful and wildly quirky homes” and share the backstories of their buyers and sellers, according to the announcement made by HGTV. The series will take fans into the action, touring one-of-a-kind homes on the market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

You’ll get 20+ “how to” videos to help you understand the fundamentals of the job, buyer and seller checklists, action plans and a textbook. Modern Real Estate Practice Prelicensing Package $299 Required 75 hrs. Modern GA Real Estate Practice w/ Exam Prep $338 Required 75 hrs.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 20, 2022

All the talk and attention given to appraisal modernization, appraisal waivers, desktop and hybrid appraisals contributes to anxiety. Borrowers, sellers, and real estate agents are seeking to lay blame for failed real estate transactions and often target the appraiser as the villain.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers from each city share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. Today, the Cache la Poudre River runs through modern-day Fort Collins. Our local market feature spotlights five different areas across the country for each HousingWire Magazine.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Real estate is an attractive field for experienced and aspiring entrepreneurs alike. Many of them are determined to make an impact in industries that have yet to be significantly modernized by technology. Both sellers and buyers have a lot to lose. Emotions run high. Ownership is personal.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

PRO TIP IDX stands for Internet Data Exchange, a system that allows real estate agents and brokers to display Multiple Listing Service (MLS) listings on their websites. A blog and a few buyer and seller education pages would make CINC a perfect IDX site. Showcase IDX Pricing: Starting at $84.95 UX design quality: 4.6

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

From upgrading your real estate website with eye-catching and functional marketing tools, to harnessing AI and a few other unconventional tactics, this guide explains the best lead generation ideas for real estate agents. Where do real estate agents get most of their leads?

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Birmingham Appraisal

JULY 12, 2023

Pricing a property correctly from the outset is crucial for attracting potential buyers and maximizing the seller’s return on investment. In this blog post, we will delve into the concept of the Law of Diminishing Returns and explore how real estate agents can utilize this knowledge to effectively price their listings.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As for the exhibitors, it was crazy how many were really tangential to the bread and butter of real estate agents. The system of now — where a home-seller pays the commission of both the seller and buyer’s agent — may change in the coming year or two.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2021

One of the most challenging aspects in a real estate transaction is the valuation process. A simple mistake could drastically slow down the process and frustrate lenders, home buyers and sellers. Using SCOUT, homeowners, inspectors, real estate agents and appraisers can collect property data on a mobile device.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

In an ever-changing real estate market, agents are looking for the best way to generate leads. In light of the recent NAR lawsuit outcome , seller leads are even more crucial. There are numerous tech tools available to agents to help with prospecting. Buying leads is easy but expensive.

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D Fritz Appraisals

AUGUST 11, 2022

Modern technology can give us higher quality photos and videos than ever before. A remote buyer can rely on an experienced real estate agent or broker to find the best property and receive their own personal virtual tour of the home via a video chat app. Make an official offer to purchase the property from the seller.

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