Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2021

Sudi Hernandez of Cloud 9 Real Estate Group loses leads when a client hears her Cuban accent. James Dunn of eXp Realty surprised a client with his answer to their question, “You’re white, right?”. Amy Kong of Trust Real Estate hosts open houses where people ask, “Where is the agent?”. That compares to a U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2024

Realty ONE Group is making moves in Florida. The firm announced on Friday the affiliation of Florida-based MVP Realty Associates. Derek Carlson, the founder, CEO and broker of MVP Realty Associates, has been named CEO and broker of the new Realty ONE Group MVP. Realty ONE Group was No.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

It is fitting that the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are the backdrop for the final two weeks leading up to when the real estate industry will undergo its largest structural change in decades — a feat of near-Olympic proportions. Like the athletes in Paris, Realtors and brokers across the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

Bonnie Williamson never intended to be a real estate agent. She then went on to teach high school French, but after six years of dealing with “hormonal teenagers” Williamson was ready for a change, and on a friend’s suggestion interviewed at the local Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty affiliate. “It

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The top brokerage in the country by transaction side count, eXp Realty , has settled the commission lawsuits. The parent company of eXp Realty, eXp World Holdings , announced the settlement on Monday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

On Wednesday, Higher Tech Realty , dba Mark Spain Real Estate , filed a notice informing the U.S. Originally filed in November 2023, nearly a month after the jury verdict in the Sitzer/Burnett suit, the Phillips case accuses real estate industry players of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2024

District Court for the Central District of Utah, include the usual cast of antitrust lawsuit characters: the National Association of Realtors (NAR), Anywhere Real Estate , Keller Williams Realty , HomeServices of America , and RE/MAX. Defendants in the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Realtors can usually count on their biggest season being spring, followed by summer, but nothing about 2020 has been normal, including home-buying patterns. 20, the National Association of Realtors said that contract signings were up 23% year over year. Now, believe it or not, fall home-buying season is in full swing.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Women make up more than half of the real estate agents in the United States, yet women make up less than a third of nationally-recognized real estate coaches — The Helm aims to change that,” Wilkie said in a statement. “We

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

District Court in Arizona, Joseph Masiello, an Arizona resident and home seller, accuses several real estate companies of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. In a copycat suit filed last Friday in U.S. Masiello sold a home on an Arizona MLS through HomeSmart “in or about October 2021.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Originally filed in late November, the Phillips lawsuit accuses real estate industry players of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. This system, with its veiled surcharges, illegally warps the real estate market.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A second home seller in Nevada has filed a lawsuit alleging that real estate industry players in the state have colluded to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. The copycat commission lawsuit was filed on Friday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas by Nevada home seller Angela Boykin.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A copycat commission lawsuit filed on Thursday by home sellers in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, accuses 47 real estate industry defendants of allegedly conspiring to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions.

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Lamacchia Realty

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Lamacchia Realty's Top Producing REALTORS® for October 2024! Lamacchia Realty, Inc. has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for October 2024! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® company-wide and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month!

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

The suit, known as Fierro, after its lead plaintiff Gael Fierro, a Californian home seller, accuses the real estate industry of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. For his part, David Kissinger, the CEO of Glendale Realtors, stated that the suit is “meritless.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2024

There are just five days to go until the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) nationwide commission lawsuit settlement agreement , but the trade association is not out of the lawsuit woods just yet. In a lawsuit filed on Monday by Douglas Hardy, Glenn Champion and Dylan Tent in U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) partnered with Curbio earlier this year for its NAR Realtor Benefits program, which provides discounts to Realtors on a wide variety of goods and services. Customers who believe they were wronged ultimately blamed their real estate agent for introducing them to Curbio.

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Lamacchia Realty

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Lamacchia Realty's Top Producing REALTORS® for September 2024! Lamacchia Realty, Inc. has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for September 2024! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® company-wide and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month!

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Plaintiffs in Florida and Pennsylvania filed lawsuits on Monday, accusing real estate industry players of allegedly colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. In an email, Marla Martin, a spokesperson for Florida Realtors, said the trade group was working on a statement about the allegations.

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Lamacchia Realty

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Lamacchia Realty's Top Producing REALTORS® for August 2024! Lamacchia Realty, Inc. has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for August 2024! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® company-wide and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month!

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Lamacchia Realty

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Jessica Rizzo Named Best REALTOR® in the Berkshires On October 26th, 2024, The Berkshire Eagle announced the winners of its annual Best of the Berkshires Awards. We are thrilled to announce that Jessica Rizzo has officially been named as the Best Real Estate Agent in the Berkshires in 2024!

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

The latest copycat commission lawsuit alleges that real estate industry players in Nevada have colluded to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. Unlike other commission lawsuit, the Whaley suit only names Realtor associations as defendants. The suit was filed on Monday in U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

The company recently launched a mortgage brokerage firm that offers a plug-and-play program for real estate agents to become mortgage loan officers, a practice called dual licensing. of the loan amount, with a $5,000 cap, which adds to the typical buyer-side agent commission of up to 3%. according to the company.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

In an amended complaint filed on Friday, home sellers Danielle and Jessie Kay (who sold a house in Baden, Pennsylvania, in December 2021 with the help of an agent from Realty One Group Gold Standard ) were added as a plaintiff. The Pennsylvania copycat commission lawsuit has some new defendants and a new plaintiff.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

Sparks and personal insults flew between Anthony Lamacchia , the broker-owner of Lamacchia Realty , and Michael Ketchmark, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs in the Sitzer-Burnett commission lawsuit , during their virtual debate hosted by HousingWire on Friday afternoon. It dehumanizes Realtors and turns us into money-making machines.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Tampa-area agent Jeff Borham of eXp Realty said that protocols for insurance are having an impact. Borham said that during situations like this, his team transitions from being real estate agents to being members of the community who are helping their neighbors brace for the storm.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

The outage, which has disrupted agents’ workflow since the attack on Aug. 9, impacted an estimated 5% of agents across the country. The cyber attack left real estate agents unable to add or remove listings, update statuses or access key information about other members.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While the lawsuit does name large corporate brokerage firms as defendants, including Keller Williams , Side , HomeServices of America , and Fathom Realty , the robust defendant list also includes real estate teams, such as The Loken Group and Hexagon Group , as well as an individual broker, Mark Anthony Dimas.

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Lamacchia Realty

JULY 31, 2024

Lamacchia Realty, Inc. has released their “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for the Mid-Year 2024! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® company-wide and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the first 6 months of the year! Nicole was honored with the 2023 Meghan A.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Real estate agents largely felt prepared to tackle the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) commission lawsuit settlement agreement , according to the recently published Stephens Summer 2024 Real Estate Agent Survey.

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Lamacchia Realty

JULY 11, 2024

Lamacchia Realty, Inc. has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for June 2024! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® by company and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month! June 2024 Winners of the Top 10 for the Company are: Michael Valencia , P.A.

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Lamacchia Realty

JUNE 7, 2024

Lamacchia Realty, Inc. has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for May 2024! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® by company and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month! And for the first time ever, AJ qualified for President’s Club ELITE in 2022.

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Lamacchia Realty

MARCH 7, 2024

Lamacchia Realty, Inc. has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for February 2024! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® by company and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month! To learn more about Cheryl Perry, click here.

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Lamacchia Realty

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Lamacchia Realty Dalton Wins Best Real Estate Agency in the Berkshires On October 26th, 2024, The Berkshire Eagle announced the winners of its annual Best of the Berkshires Awards. Lamacchia Realty Dalton , formerly Berkshire Dream Home, is honored to be officially named the Best Real Estate Agency in the Berkshires for 2024!

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

On Friday, the National Association of Realtors (NAR), Anywhere Real Estate , Keller Williams Realty , HomeServices of America and RE/MAX filed motions to dismiss the suit, which was originally filed in mid-August in U.S. District Court in Utah. It noted U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Agents, Lenders Assist Purchasers During Complex Homebuying Process With 86% of all purchasers using their services—the most of any information source—real estate agents were vital to the homebuying process. The most helpful source of information during the house hunt was the agents themselves.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2024

In short order, she started her own brokerage — Gold Group Realty — that pulled her family out of poverty and into success. Iowa Realtor Lori Bogle has a similar story. When the COVID-19 pandemic started, she got burned out on real estate and found herself drinking more often.

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