Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

AgentCoach.AI , an AI-powered real estate coaching company, is launching a new training platform for real estate agents. The new platform will leverage specialized training bots to help agents prepare for business. Productivity tools are also available to keep agents on track. said in a statement.

Agents

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

So, let’s start with the basics: What is a real estate broker vs. an agent? To answer that, we’ll take a deep dive into the differences between the many types of real estate professionals, including a real estate agent and a real estate broker. Summary What is a real estate agent? What does a real estate agent do?

Agents

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

From luxury property tours to laugh-out-loud real estate memes, these 21 agents and influencers bring the best of the industry right to your phone. Whether you’re an agent, a real estate investor or just love stunning homes, these real estate Instagram accounts are a must-follow. Thats where The Broke Agent comes in!

Agents

Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2025

Real estate agents flourish when they can generate referrals, and Jason Mitchell Group (JMG) has practically industrialized the process. This has enabled JMG agents to close more transactions. This has enabled JMG agents to close more transactions. RE/MAX Results has a department dedicated to training.

Brokerage

Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2025

For some agents , these private transactions are tools of exclusivity and strategy. Four agents with strong opinions; Isom Coleman in Sacramento, Calif.; Some agents use off-market listings as a way to double-dip commissions, Willoughby said. Or maybe theres a buyer in the agents network ready to go. Why would we hide it?

Agents

Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2025

Because the agents who commit to growth, who lean into learning, who keep showing up—that’s who wins in this business. Look at what’s listed, what’s sold, how long it took, and how close the sale prices are to the asking prices. Something powerful. Not just today. In any market. And like any skill, it’s built over time. Explore trends.

Agents

Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2025

A new report from Anytime Estimate , a subsidiary of Clever , reveals that while the vast majority of American homesellers still plan to work with real estate agents in 2025, concerns about trust, commission fees , and agent value are reshaping expectations of those entering the housing market.

Agents

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Brokerage giant eXp Realty is adding a superstar agent to its ranks. The company announced the recruitment of Phoenix -based agent Joshua Smith, a high producer who closed 297 transactions in 2023. Smith is the latest addition to eXp Realty’s expanding global agent network. agents by the The Wall Street Journal.

Agents

Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

The 2024 NAR settlement has reshaped the residential real estate industry, creating a new dynamic in how listings are distributed among agents. Notably, the median listing is now held by agents who are more focused on the list side of transactions and are higher producers overall. annual production 15 listings/year 64.7%

Agents

Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2025

Growing dissatisfaction among real estate agents , concerns over declining commissions , and shifting views on the National Association of Realtors (NAR) are among findings in Redfin’s 2025 Industry Survey. Declining satisfaction, economic worries Agent morale has dropped 5% since last year, with just 21.2% saw a positive impact.

Agents

Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

We discussed the current market conditions and revisited the propertys previous listing history including that the last agent had failed to sell it, eventually pulling it off the market 60 days later. Unfortunately, the prior agents never reported the incident, allowing the scammer to attempt it again this time, through me.

Agents

Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2025

Lofty Bloom also reportedly guarantees ZIP code exclusivity, allowing agents and teams to establish themselves as the “go-to expert” in their neighborhood of choice without competing against others using the same platform. Campaigns launch automatically based on preset triggers, giving agents more time to focus on closing deals.

Agents

Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2025

Real estate commissions for buyers agents have remained relatively stable since new rules from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) took effect in 2024, according to a new report from Redfin. Buyers agents earned an average commission of 2.40% on U.S. home sales during the first quarter of 2025. In Portland, Ore.,

Agents

Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2025

Real estate brokerages with revenue share models provide agents with a way to generate income beyond closing transactions with their own clients. But when it comes to creating a robust revenue-share downline, agents at two revenue share brokerages — eXp Realty and The Real Brokerage — say there is no one right way to build a downline.

Agents

Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

The latest data through February 2025 shows agent mobility dropping across all tracked measures, signaling an unexpected dip as the real estate industry heads into its traditionally active recruiting season. As weve highlighted in recent months, the continued slowdown in agent movement is reflective of ongoing market uncertainty.

Agents

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

While many agents are all-in on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube, theres another social media platform thats incredibly powerful: LinkedIn. Keep reading to learn why LinkedIn for real estate agents is so important, plus tips to optimize your profile and how to get real estate leads on LinkedIn.

Agents

Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2025

Now the mortgage lender is inviting external real estate agents and brokerages to take advantage of the program. “How do you close more business by connecting with people, executing that marketing with the audience, because you understand where they come from, what they need, and where they’re at right now in 2025? .

Agents

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The arrangement known as cooperative compensation allows sellers to choose to offset the cost of buyers’ agents. The settlement requires listing agents to stop making offers of compensation for buyer’s agents on Multiple Listing Services (MLSs). It explicitly allows for such offers to be made off-MLS, however.

Debt-to-income ratio

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2024

31, 2023, and has since reshaped the business practices for real estate brokerages and agents across the country. And it is a little bit early, but some of the preliminary data I have looked at show that sellers are continuing to pay buyer agent compensation.” It is no secret that many first-time homebuyers are struggling.

Marketing

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This is evident when you ask any highly successful agent where they find their clients. That’s wonderful and something to be admired, yet I’ve had many agents who are earlier in their careers ask me HOW these agents built this referral machine. Asking for referrals can be intimidating for some agents and it can feel sales-y.

Agents

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

I wish there were more voices closely scrutinizing whether this settlement provides the value it claims to aggrieved class members and whether the attorneys have provided a third of a billion dollars in value to the class,” she wrote. In a document filed on Monday in U.S. The objection is 132 pages in length. Following the Aug.

Pre-approval

Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2025

13 among mega teams by closed sales volume. And more importantly, it allows our agents to co-brand easily. Conversion is key At the heart of Partner Real Estate’s model is a team structure that aims to free agents from the grind of lead generation , Kusuma said. The agents in my team — they just show up.

Technology

Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2025

Amor and Banosian are actively promoting the product line through in-person training with loan officers, real estate agents and financial advisers. Top 10 U.S. mortgage lender Rate is investing in the nonqualified mortgage ( non-QM ) space by launching a new suite of products. The product requires just one year of income verification.

Closing

Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2025

As the industry moves toward faster, more digital-first transactions, AI is playing a pivotal role in redefining how agents operate, market, and compete. Agents often juggle five to ten vendors per listing, coordinate timelines that stretch across weeks, and navigate delays that cost not just time—but buyer attention and seller trust.

Marketing

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Youve likely heard about real estate teams and how they can impact your career but what exactly are they, and why are so many agents joining or building teams? Our goal is to help educate you on what a real estate team is, how they work and the types of agents who thrive on teams. Joining a team is a very personal decision.

Purchase and sale agreement

Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

Nearly three-quarters of Hispanic and Black sellers reported that their agent recommended using a private listing network, compared to only 24% of white sellers. Home sellers who did not list their properties on the MLS lost out on more than $1 billion in sale proceeds over the past two years, according to a study published Monday by Zillow.

MLS

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Not long ago, homeowners insurance was a minor concern for most homebuyers, real estate agents and mortgage originators. Climate change is increasing the intensity and severity of natural disasters. Their study included data across more than 9,000 ZIP codes. Places like Florida are projected to be in debt should another disastrous storm hit.

Design

Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2025

Backed by sharp increases in both traffic and agent participation, Homes.com reported 104 million average monthly unique visitors in the first three months of this year. That figure, which is up dramatically from early 2024, signals a fundamental shift in the digital real estate hierarchy and in how agents want to work online, Florance said.

Agents

Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2025

of home sales from January through March included concessions such as money toward repairs, closing costs or mortgage rate buydowns. a year ago and close to the record figure of 45.1% a year ago and close to the record figure of 45.1% According to a new report from Redfin , 44.4% Thats up from 39.3% at the start of 2023.

Seller concession

Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2025

From launching its agent-focused Fintech product Real Wallet to Tamir Poleg ’s AI likeness delivering his Q1 2025 earnings prepared remarks , the company is pushing the envelope when it comes to tech in the real estate space. We are here to work for the agents and build something for the agents.

Technology

Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2025

Lone Wolf Technologies has released Deal Tracker, a new pipeline dashboard designed to give real estate agents a centralized, real-time view of the home transaction process from initial contact through closing. A visual pipeline tracker displays transaction steps, from warm leads to closed transactions.

Technology

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The latest data through January 2025 shows that while agent movement in January rose from Decembers lows following a typical seasonal pattern the rebound is notably weaker than in most prior years. Meanwhile, the count of active agents continues a modest decline but has not yet reached levels seen back in 2018.

Agents

Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2025

At some brokerages , if a transaction is successfully closed, the broker will pay the referring broker a portion of their commission as a referral fee. It’s with this same goal in mind that Northwest MLS (NWMLS) said it chose to implement referral fee disclosures. More harm than good?

MLS

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

per month per user Contract required: Month-to-month Integrations: Popular CRM platforms, lead generation platforms, accounting software Dotloop is perfect for bringing agents, clients, and support teams together on every transaction. Your unique business needs will determine which transaction software is right for your business.

MLS

Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

Most agents we work with have, but usually to write listing descriptions packed to the gills with fluffy language and way too many em dashes. Here are twelve mind-blowing ideas and prompts smart agents are using to close more deals with ChatGPT in 2025. Sound familiar? ChatGPT is MUCH smarter than you think How smart?

Branding

Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2025

Tamir Poleg, chairman and CEO of The Real Brokerage , closed out the prepared remarks section of his firms first-quarter 2025 earnings call by addressing the transformative technological era the industry is currently operating in. billion and the number of transactions closed during the quarter jumped 77% to 33,617. million a year ago.

Technology

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Without accountability, even the best leads won’t translate into closed deals. Action plan: Position your team as a growth engine, providing agents with consistent leads and opportunities to succeed. Personalize follow-ups to maintain relationships long after closing.

Development