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Realtor scripts for managing seller expectations

Housing Wire

We all know that sellers hear what they want to hear and believe what they want to believe when it comes to how market conditions will impact the sale of their home. It is still a sellers’ market, just not the frenzy that it has been. Below I share some of my scripts for having those tough conversations with your sellers.

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Housing Market Forecast: Unpredictable Mortgage Rates to Shake Up 2025

Appraisal Buzz

With more properties available to buyers, sellers will be under pressure to compete. Working with an excellent realtor to assist price and market a house listing will be more crucial than in previous years. Compared to the record rent growth in 2022, the market for apartment tenants was comparatively favorable this year.

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Opinion: Here’s the latest data on what Realtors are witnessing in the housing market

Housing Wire

The monthly Realtors Confidence Index helps to dispel many of the myths and cut through the noise of what is currently happening in the market. The National Association of Realtors Research Group has produced the index since 2008, at a time of turmoil in the real estate market.

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Consumer advocate says policy changes are needed to help FHA buyers compete

Housing Wire

The authors suggest a two-fold recommendation — that more states and local municipalities pass “source of income” legislation so that tenants and homebuyers will be better protected; and for the U.S. of the U.S. mortgage market in 2023, up from 14.3% in 2022, according to HUD.

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eXp CEO Leo Pareja is teaching agents to navigate the post-NAR settlement world

Housing Wire

In a new episode of the HousingWire Daily podcast , Editor in Chief and host Sarah Wheeler sits down with eXp Realty CEO Leo Pareja to discuss the National Association of Realtors ‘ (NAR) commission lawsuit, the new rules that agents are facing, and how eXp is helping agents navigate these challenges to thrive in the marketplace.

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Your Guide to Optimizing LinkedIn for Real Estate Agents

Housing Wire

People will stick around for entertainment, so show off LinkedIn realtor expertise! Offer to find them off-market properties, help them find new tenants, or provide a CMA for any properties theyre considering selling. Expired sellers and FSBOs: This is for the bravest of agents out there!

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The mortgage rate pendulum swings yet again

Housing Wire

Mortgage rates hold major power in the housing industry; most importantly, high rates exacerbate the current affordability crisis by walloping the buying power of would-be buyers and discouraging some would-be sellers – those with low, fixed-rate mortgages – from listing their homes, a drain on available inventories.

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