Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Paul Hurst , chief innovation officer at First American , to talk about the challenge of attracting and retaining tech talent and how to know if a project has a big enough vision. Sarah Wheeler: How do you think about buy versus build? And how do you protect it?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

When Jen Dillard, broker and team leader of Jen Dillard Real Estate Team, and her family first moved to Hood River, Oregon, she didn’t know anyone. She hadn’t started her real estate business there yet, and she was lonely — so to meet new people, she decided to throw a holiday party and invite anyone she could. “I

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Murphy is not only a legendary football player, he is also a top-producing real estate agent, investor and broker-owner. Below, he spoke with HousingWire about his career in real estate and as a professional football player. Aaron Rodgers was the first pick for Green Bay that year and I was the second pick.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

Defend gives firms the ability to detect fraud in real time. We couldn’t be more excited about this game-changing technology that Proof is bringing to its platform,“ Aaron Davis, the CEO of Florida Agency Network , the state’s largest independent title agency , said in a statement. “We

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Sure, your real estate landing pages look great — but do they convert? A good real estate website includes more than just drool-worthy images of homes priced to sell. While they do care about finding the right fit, they are also looking for information that solves their most pressing problem: buying or selling a house.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Rocket Mortgage launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool on Tuesday that allows its client experience teams to analyze sentiment, record behavior patterns, transcribe conversations and create tailored experiences during customer interactions. Rocket estimates that Synopses will save the servicing team nearly 40,000 hours annually.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

“The simple answer is that Zillow is wholly focused on solving real consumer problems with software. We are advantaged primarily because we are a product and technology company first.” However, Barton noted that he and the team at Zillow do not see the changes outlined in NAR’s settlement agreement as revolutionary.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In today’s rapidly changing technology landscape, businesses in the title insurance , mortgage and real estate industries must prioritize cybersecurity response planning and business continuity. It’s like having a superhero team ready to jump into action whenever trouble strikes.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

However, the tactical approach of regular check-ins and focusing on retention as a cornerstone of fortifying your real estate agent ranks is often underestimated or overlooked. The real estate market is saturated with brokerages offering almost identical commission structures, technical support and growth opportunities.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2023

Recruitment is a crucial determinant of growth and success for real estate brokerages. Like your customer, the recruitment process can be visualized as a sales funnel, where potential recruits enter at the top, and the best-suited agents emerge at the bottom as ideal members of your team or brokerage.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Responding to the real estate agent’s or prospective borrower’s first call is the start of this race. Build the right team Given the new technologies and expert outsourcing options available to lenders today, staffing up to handle new business doesn’t make as much sense as it did in the past.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In five of the six size categories of teams both gross profit margins and net income margins declined from the second quarter 2023 results. real estate teams and individual agents as clients for their accounting and bookkeeping services. Teams with annualized revenue between $800,000 and $1.5 to 40.6%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

The first is the ongoing impact of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, which if deployed effectively provide an opportunity for property managers to increase operational efficiency and unlock business intelligence. The rental real estate space is built on human relationships between owners, investors, vendors and residents.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Because of an apparent error made by staff at ICE Mortgage Technology ‘s Surefire customer relationship management (CRM) platform, more than 600,000 emails and texts were sent without permission to real estate agents, business partners and past clients of loan officers around the country.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

million in the first quarter of 2023 and cut approximately 91% of its workforce over an approximately 18-month period — due in large part to a substantial decline in its funded loan volume. There was a total of about 29,818 loans funded for the year ending on Dec. in Q1 2023 decreased by about 67% from 0.9% million and $301.1

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As a real estate agent, you may think clients should care more about their next home than your life story. And while that may be true, well-crafted real estate agent bios can build trust and credibility and serve as a powerful tool in an agent’s marketing arsenal — giving prospective clients.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Recruiting and keeping the best talent is critical in today’s real estate market. On a national basis, year-over-year MLS production reports show the average real estate agent’s income is down 28%. Broker-owners’ operations teams are receiving more and more “non-payment” of MLS dues notices.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

2021 RealTrends Team Profitability Study. Podcast: Comparing real estate team and brokerage profitability. Study: It’s true, real estate teams outperform brokerage firms. Over the past 15 to 20 years, the emergence of the mega-team has garnered the headlines. First, we’ll talk about revenues.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Real estate is a vibrant, dynamic and competitive industry. Across the country, the best real estate coaches serve as valuable mentors who can help agents and brokers achieve the success they deserve. “It’s A quick internet search will prove that real estate coaching programs are plentiful.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

During a virtual open house hosted by Keller Williams to answer agent and broker questions about the settlements in the commission lawsuits , the overwhelming message was for real estate professionals to focus on what they can control. We’ll learn how to navigate the new rules and we have time to get clarity about that.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Generative artificial intellegence, such as ChatGPT, is changing everything—a statement that comes as little surprise to anyone these days, and least of all to the many real estate agents whose markets are being saturated by artificial intelligence (AI)-empowered buyers. But, fortunately, those fears are misplaced.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I hate to say it, but they can be kind of mercenary in how they go about things, and they look for the best percentages they can.” Due to this, Marx Sterbcow, the managing partner at Sterbcow Law Group , fears the real estate industry may be in for a “death by a thousand cuts.” “I Ten thousand fists in the air indeed.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2021

I saw a social media post recently by our local ‘mega-agent’ entitled: “Breaking News: Individual Real Estate agents added to Endangered Professions List!”. This post compares the individual real estate agent to “a tennis player using a wooden racket” or “a football player with a leather helmet.” The individual agent.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2022

Today’s RealTrending features an exclusive interview with Kristan Cole, founder and CEO of the Kristan Cole Real Estate Network of Keller Williams Realty. Cole’s team is ranked No. 27 mega teams by volume and No. 18 by transaction sides in 2021 The Thousand top agents and team nationwide.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The timeline moves about as quickly as the news does, which is why it can be such a valuable resource for those trying to keep up with current events. Dr. Lautz regularly tweets about her speaking engagements and articles she’s consulted on, as well as provides commentary on NAR reporting. real estate research firm, in 2001.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In her first video appearance since the jury verdict in the Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit , National Association of Realtors president Tracy Kasper told NAR members that she shares their disappointment in the decision. As she has stated previously, NAR plans to appeal the verdict and that Sitzer/Burnett saga is far from over.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

I’ve seen every market shift imaginable as an agent, team leader and executive in the brokerage , mortgage and proptech space. Be selective about influence Successful individuals in a tough market are discerning about the company they keep. Chris Heller is Chief Real Estate Officer with OJO Labs.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

That’s where real estate testimonials come into play. According to the National Association of Realtors® (NAR), 89% of buyers would recommend their real estate agent to others. We recommend creating a space on your website and showcasing your best real estate client testimonials there.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Tom Davis, chief sales officer at Deephaven Mortgage , offers information about products that can get borrowers qualified and goes into some of the trends he’s seeing in the market today in this executive conversation. There are high income and high-net-worth self-employed borrowers and real estate investors in every town.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2023

When you think about a real estate team , you automatically think they must be more productive than individual agents, right? Clearly, over the last decade, teams have grown far faster than individual agents in terms of closed transactions. While most brokerage firms have embraced teams, some have not.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Dan Stewart, founder and CEO of Happy Grasshopper , to talk about the company’s tech strategy in creating content that resonates with consumers. Today we’re nurturing about 37 million contacts on behalf of our members. And this content is not typically about real estate.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

I am a big believer in developing a brand for your real estate business from Day One. I’m talking about more than naming yourself John Doe Realty and ripping a logo off of Canva. The power of branding in real estate In the real estate world, there’s a prevailing belief that “You are the brand” as an agent.

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Inman

JANUARY 22, 2024

Ahead of Inman Connect New York this week, newly installed First Team Real Estate CEO Michele Harrington dishes on ambitious plans for 2024 and what she'll be talking about at ICNY on Tuesday.

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RIS Media

APRIL 15, 2024

Dan Prud’homme, principal at The Prud’homme Team and a pivotal figure at William Raveis Real Estate (formerly the Carolina Realty Group) in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, stands as a beacon of innovation and strategic foresight within the real estate sector.

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RIS Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A villa in the Algarve region of Portugal Casaiberia Real Estate Lagoa, Portugal Paulo Lopes, CEO [link] Tell us about your company. Casaiberia, established in 2007, stands as a prominent figure in Portugal’s real estate realm.

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Realty Biz

MARCH 24, 2024

Century 21 Real Estate LLC., a global industry leader and the most recognized name in real estate*, is fortifying its presence in the Salt Lake City Metropolitan area with its latest affiliation of Wasatch Life Realty.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 22, 2024

But the switch to real estate was all about her love of beautiful homes. The best part of my weekends as a kid was when… The post Trust Powers Bainbridge Island Mother-Daughter Team appeared first on RISMedia.

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