Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

The calculations reached by CubiCasa technology are aligned with American National Standards Institute standards and the technology can be used without prior training by anyone with a smartphone. The CubiCasa mobile application allows users to produce 2D and 3D floor plans by just scanning a property.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

According to the firm, CubiCasa’s technology reduces the subjectivity and inconsistency of the traditional “hand-drawn sketch” method of determining a home’s size, still used by appraisers today, and empowers even untrained homeowners to produce accurate results.

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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. Technological and Operational Adjustments : While seemingly unrelated, about 2.5%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

While brokers frequently prioritize sophisticated recruitment tactics and having the best technology stack, it’s vital to revisit the fundamental elements of human interaction and organizational retention underpinning a successful brokerage. For a newer agent, discussions may focus more on training and basic sales techniques.

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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

JULY 9, 2024

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. Chris Heller, President, OJO I am focusing my attention and energy on two things.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2024

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

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In the role, Steere will be charged with “reimagining core market center leadership training,” with the hope of recruiting future leaders to the company. “As In August, the company launched a resource guide to help agents navigate rule changes related to the antitrust settlement agreed to by the National Association of Realtors.

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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

JUNE 4, 2024

The company’s initial approach, offering flat fees and leveraging technology to streamline processes, initially captured attention and gained traction, promising to change how real estate transactions are completed. Alexandra McEwen is a Realtor with McEwen Realtors.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Even recently, with technologies like virtual tours or dollhouse-style immersive walkthroughs that provide floor plans, those services can be expensive and require special training and equipment and take a long time to collect data, Allen explains. And properties in the United States are very large and complex.”.

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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. Only 1% of respondents say they are restructuring their compensation model.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2024

While some in the real estate industry are expecting to see a decline in the number of buyer’s agents as a result of the National Association of Realtors ‘ (NAR) nationwide commission lawsuit settlement agreement , others have taken it a step further and are betting their companies on it. Meet the AI real estate agent. and even worldwide.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In regards to the outcome of the Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit , Kelman said it was one that Redfin has long prepared for, which he felt was evident in the firm’s commitment to giving consumers a better deal and the announcement of their break from the National Association of Realtors.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

In settling this lawsuit, Real joins Compass , the National Association of Realtors , Anywhere , Keller Williams and RE/MAX in settling the commission lawsuits. We chose to settle this lawsuit to direct our energy to our agent community,” CEO Tamir Poleg said in a statement. “We

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

Sarah Wheeler: What differentiates Lofty’s technology? We want to be the operating system for our users and their essential operating staff — for agents, Realtors, and brokers, no matter how big they are. I think the most important thing is to really to understand the boundary of the technology.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2024

With technology changing faster than new agents answer phone calls, choosing the right real estate brokerage software can sometimes feel like a full-time job. The right real estate brokerage software will help you gain market share, train, recruit, and retain more (and better) agents, and make more profits.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Joining and engaging with groups of fellow Realtors on Facebook should be a key tool in every agent’s toolbox. LCA’s tagline is “exploring the science of real estate,” and you’ll find plenty of advice about technology here. Many Realtors are using Canva to cut their marketing budgets in half. 188,000+ Realtors can’t be wrong!

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

What it means is there is a higher percentage of potential fraud per file,” Elizabeth Berg, the vice president for education and training at FNF Family of Companies , told attendees of the American Land Title Association’s ALTA One conference on Thursday. Our realtor partners are hurting,” Berg said. It is brute force.

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Appraiserblogs

MARCH 12, 2021

Technology has made so many improvements in the last decade and we now have the chance to truly improve our home valuation system. The response also includes comments on several additional questions. Thank you for taking the time to review these thoughts.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

There’s a lot AI can do here to reduce complexity, because it can understand language and we can train the model in a very real estate-specific way. We’ve trained our AI models to be extremely specific to help agents, brokerages and end customers as well. SW: What differentiates your tech? SW: Tell me more about your background.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2020

Prior to becoming Zumper’s CMO, Goode was president, chief marketing and commercial officer at London-based Elvie , where he built the brand from an early-stage startup into one of the fastest-growing women’s health technology companies in the world. office’s Talent Development operations.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2024

Rocket Companies , the parent company of Rocket Mortgage , hired its first chief technology officer this week, bringing former Thomson Reuters and Intel executive Shawn Malhotra into the fold. As a technologist, one of the biggest strategic imperatives that we have is to bet big on technology , and specifically AI technology.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2024

Recruiting and retaining high-performing agents remains a critical challenge for brokerages, especially in the environment created by the National Association of Realtors ’ recent $418 million settlement in a litany of agent commission lawsuits. When labeled training data is not available (i.e.,

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

The National Association of Realtors ( NAR ) currently has about 1.5 Offer Specialized Training : Providing training programs focused on rental transactions can equip agents with the necessary skills and knowledge. Provide Rental-Specific Tools : MLSs can invest in tools and technologies that streamline rental processes.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2024

JA: The new rules related to the National Association of Realtors antitrust settlement put the onus on MLSs to make sure they’re in compliance. How prepared for these changes do you think MLSs are from a technology standpoint? They can get that listing done within seconds. JA: How are you leveraging AI?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

As more and more people enter the real estate industry – membership at the National Association of Realtors has ballooned to a record 1.6 Top brass at Keller Williams has long recognized the need to roll out new technology to its army of agents, with mixed success. These brokerages are not alone in terms of their technology offerings.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Forecasting another purchase market in 2023, Nguyen started using his proprietary software for something new – to pursue relationships with realtors. “I I never had to work with realtors, but now I spend a lot of time working with realtors – supporting them and partnering with them,” Nguyen said in an interview with HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

The data are sobering: The Agent Movement Index , the number of experienced Realtors switching brokerages each month, was at its lowest level since 2016. Newly licensed agents: 25% Newly licensed agents will require extensive training and coaching to start generating revenue for your brokerage.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

A survey of appraiser members and non-appraiser members conducted by the National Association of Realtors found that only 3% of the 2,353 respondents reported witnessing or experiencing discrimination in an appraisal. Among appraiser respondents, more educational opportunities for new appraisers was also the top ranked response.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In a purchase market, there are multiple stakeholders who have vested interests in the transaction – buyers, sellers, Realtors – and originators, all working under time-driven constraints including rate-lock commitments, mortgage-based contingencies and move-in/move out dates which all rely on timely and accurate decisions.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2022

The solution lies in embracing technology to address this growing gap in title and escrow hires. Title companies may want to evaluate their technology and make upgrades to meet the digital needs of the next generation of title professionals. The emphasis, particularly on the escrow side, should be on technology.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

“For things like homeowner’s insurance , title insurance, and realtors, we’ve now just become a marketplace. Secondly, we are going to continue to invest in our technology and drive products, like One Day Mortgage, that are innovative and groundbreaking and drive the adoption of those products across the industry.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2021

That’s true even if those complex, multi-outcome tasks didn’t really require highly trained professionals. Those include collaborative communications (Realtor to closing officer; loan officer to escrow assistant, etc.) Presented by: Radian. Things like: “How long until the closing? So what’s the practical application of all this?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

The first thing we go through when I work with real estate brokerages — whether it’s in helping them to streamline their technology or to prepare for sale — is their financials. That might mean sitting through some training videos. And, one thing that I always spot in these financials is excess spending. But at least that’s on purpose.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In many cases, no technology existed to specifically address that new requirement (or could only be created on a costly, custom basis). And not all of them are technological. The industry has evolved in the way it hires, trains and deploys its human resources. Technology, too, has changed.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Her office later had an infraction by the real estate commission and had to take extensive training on fair housing (surprise, surprise). Recently, as a Realtor, I reached out to my network to help sell my grandmother’s Detroit home. She said a lot without explicitly anything. Okay, but that was 20 years ago. I hope you will join me.

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