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

JANUARY 2, 2024

Filed last Wednesday in the Western District of Missouri, the Umpa suit, named after its lead and only plaintiff Daniel Umpa, accuses the real estate industry of allegedly colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2024

For Linda O’Koniewski , the broker-owner of Leading Edge Real Estate , one of the largest hiccups so far was when one of her agents brought a buyer offer that included concessions to a seller. The seller basically told them to drop dead,” O’Koniewski said. “So,

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

Personally, I haven’t done so much training on forms myself in over a decade,” said Anthony Lamacchia , the broker-owner of Massachusetts-based Lamacchia Realty. For Lamacchia, it is essential that his agents and brokers are able to clearly explain and communicate about the forms they are asking clients to sign.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

The past year and a half, with its rising mortgage rates , low inventory, and economic uncertainty, has been a challenge for real estate pros, not to mention the buyers and sellers they serve. In life, we sometimes find ourselves plunging headfirst in t o the unknown.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

As brokerage firms fine tune how to handle the business practice changes outlined in the terms of the National Association of Realtors’ nationwide commission lawsuit settlement agreement , which are set to go into effect on August 17 , many are focusing on how their agents will handle compensation on both the buy-side and the sell-side.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Top 10 mortgage lender and servicer Newrez is partnering with Newzip , a tech-enabled real estate platform, to roll out a program aimed to save buyers and sellers on credit costs. Dubbed Newrez Home Rewards, buyers will be matched with a real estate agent who works with Newzip and provided booking services.

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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. Patrick Thurber, a California home seller, is an additional named plaintiff in the suit.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Keller Williams Realty has partnered exclusively with the online learning platform Coursera to offer a comprehensive introduction to the business of real estate. Dubbed the KW Real Estate Agent Professional certificate, the program will give participants a head start in the real estate industry.

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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. According to the filing, Masiello was “required to pay a 2% commission ($8,200) to the seller broker and a 2.5%

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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. District Court in Las Vegas by Nevada home seller Angela Boykin. The copycat commission lawsuit was filed on Friday in U.S.

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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. By enforcing this mandate, the NAR establishes an anticompetitive market where sellers are coerced into subsidizing the buyer’s costs.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In 2018, real estate agent Luis Robledo received a lead for a potential buyer looking to live in Venice Beach, California. The lead had come through Ylopo, a real estate digital marketing solution that aims to help agents find more clients while simultaneously building their brand and team.

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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. As the saying goes, everything is bigger in Texas.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Anywhere Real Estate partnered with agent-client collaboration platform RealScout to allow the company’s affiliated real estate agents and franchise owners “to engage, nurture, and convert clients at each stage of the real estate journey,” according to an announcement on Friday.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In the face of a copycat commission lawsuit , the Real Estate Board of New York has vowed to fight. In an email blast sent to REBNY members, the New York City real estate agent trade group said it would “vigorously defend the litigation.” It is not required for a seller to compensate a buyer’s agent.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

More home sellers on the East Coast are getting in on the commission lawsuit action. Plaintiffs in Florida and Pennsylvania filed lawsuits on Monday, accusing real estate industry players of allegedly colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. 4, 2019 and the present.

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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. “Sellers can sell their home for more and have their home seen by more buyers while buyers have more choices of homes and can afford representation.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Husky Homes real estate team, led by Alison Crim, has joined Compass , the company announced on Tuesday. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, the team of eight had been affiliated with Keller Williams Realty Madison East since its debut in 2020. “We The team specializes in buyer and seller representation as well as new construction.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The turbulence in rates has trickled down to individual markets like Cincinnati, where real estate agents say they dont know what to expect from sale to sale. Its unpredictable, said Teena Jackson, a Redfin agent in Cincinnati. Its a symptom of a market thats transitioning away from sellers.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This substantial reduction in inventory has intensified competition among Chicago’s more than 15,000 licensed real estate agents, making it increasingly challenging to secure listings and clients. It should come as no surprise that the top real estate agents continue to command a significant portion of the market.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

While not yet reaching the trillion-dollar mark, Miami ‘s total real estate value, including both residential and commercial properties, was estimated at approximately $650 billion as of 2023, according to the Miami Association of Realtors. As of Sept. In 2023 they totaled $1,237,333,276 in total volume.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2024

Not many people in any profession enjoy making cold calls to potential clients, but a venture capital-backed technology startup hopes to make it a little easier for real estate agents. According to Bardi’s LinkedIn, he attended the University of Southern California and worked as a real estate broker at Rodeo Realty for a year.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2024

Hardy is the owner of Snyder Kinney Bennet and Keating LLC , which does business in Southeastern Michigan as Signature Sotheby’s International Realty. According to the complaint, the plaintiffs believe the “wrongful acts of the defendants” have caused them to lose earning potential, and have been an overall detriment to their business.

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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. As a flat-fee brokerage, Homie charged sellers a flat fee to list their property on the MLS.

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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

AUGUST 10, 2020

Rather than a typically busy spring home-buying season , the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the bulk of home-buying this year into the summer months, and real estate agents are busier than ever. Now, agents are showing and selling nonstop. Homes on the market sold four days faster year over year, as total inventory is down 35%.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Atlanta is one of the most active and valuable real estate markets in the United States. The city represents over $1 trillion in residential real estate asset value, creating a ripe environment for real estate agents and homebuyers alike. Atlanta also claims the crown as the No.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

RE/MAX The Collective will serve buyers and sellers throughout Yakima, Ellensburg and Cle Elum and it will specialize in rural and residential properties as well as large agricultural farms. Larson said she is currently looking to grow the firm by bringing in more real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Opendoor and eXp Realty officially launched their new partnership on Thursday, Inman first reported. This integration is making Opendoor cash-offer solutions available to eXp Realty’s nearly 90,000 agents. The Opendoor option will be part of every single one of my listing presentations going forward.

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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. The managing partner of ACCEL Realty Partners in Boise, Steve Caporale, said that the video gave him pause, especially since, “The market has been softening a bit.”.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2024

In a lawsuit filed Thursday, real estate startup Homie Technologies claims that home seller consumers were not the only ones harmed by the real estate industry’s allegedly anticompetitive practices. Buyers using Homie would receive some or all of any BAC offered by the seller,” the complaint states.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) may have had its home seller commission lawsuit settlement agreement approved , but that does not mean it is free from the homebuyer commission lawsuits. Last week, as Judge Stephen R.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Real estate agents in the leafy suburbs of Bergen County, New Jersey say the current housing market — with historically low inventory and record-high prices — is actually more challenging than the multiple offer chaos they sweated through during the pandemic. “At Now it is a different conversation.

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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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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The partnership makes it easier for Realtors to steer home sellers to Curbio’s services, and an investigation by Inman News in March revealed how problematic the partnership could be. Customers who believe they were wronged ultimately blamed their real estate agent for introducing them to Curbio.

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