Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Understanding that real estate housing markets are hyperlocal, the RealTrends Verified City Rankings represent the newest evolution of RealTrends agent and team rankings. This year’s inaugural rankings feature agents and teams from 50 cities across the U.S., Find out which agents and teams ranked highest in your city here.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

To help, we reached out to real estate agents nationwide to compile our list of the best books for real estate agents. Best books for mindset Failing Forward by John Maxwell Rebecca Del Pozo , an agent and trainer out of Washington State, recommended this book, saying, I read this book in 2003 when I was a brand new real estate agent.

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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.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

As an agent, you know a beautifully staged home turns into a sold one. According to the National Association of REALTORS (NAR), 82% of buyers agents say that home staging makes it easier for a buyer to envision themselves living in a home. Are you looking to create a branded website to showcase your listing photos?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

Instead, its continuing to add agents at an explosive rate. On its earnings call for the fourth quarter of 2024, the company disclosed that its agent count was 24,140 at the end of the year. Real credited its technology offerings and business model for the explosive growth in agents.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

She went from a brand new agent in 2020 to running her wildly successful boutique brokerage with Side in less than four years. Luckily, she had the time to (patiently) walk us through the exact strategies she used to build a Zoomer real estate brand on TikTok and gave us her advice for new agents. Most agents dont bother.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Platinum Realty Group — led by broker/owner Christy Rabe — will now operate under the nationally recognized brand as part of a strategic effort to expand services and attract agents. She is known for maintaining an active sales presence while also managing her company’s day-to-day operations.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2025

Over the last decade, Ive interviewed dozens of the country’s most successful real estate agents. He walked us through finding his ikigai, his best tips for new agents and his exact strategy for building his Instagram account into his primary lead source. We recently sat down with Prats to learn how he did it.

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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? Let’s start with the basics.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2025

Every experienced agent in his city was likeable or at least they could fake it convincingly enough to get by. Start where you are, but find your tribe As a new agent, where you work is almost as important as how well you work. Hes gracious and kind, quick-witted, and he has a wildly charming Irish brogue. Wait, open houses?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

If your dream is to own your own brokerage and manage a team of top-performing agents, leading your team to success means much more than hanging a new license on your wall. To excel, you must enter the industry with four main elements: a clear vision, a recognizable brand, an inspired team, and the systems to support them.

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Real Estate News

JUNE 14, 2025

Skip to Content Agents Brokerages MLS/Assn Tech Industry By the Numbers Consumer Illustration by Lanette Behiry/Real Estate News Agents Agents Decoded: How to get more from your MLS It may not be flashy, but your MLS is still one of your most powerful tools. Our MLS is the envy of agents across the world , for good reason.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2025

Some brokerages are what I sometimes think of as Lily Pads because theyre waystations where agents sometimes goalbeit brieflyto level up their commission splits. Culture is the blueprint, not the byproduct When people talk about brand, they often think of logos or marketing materials. But at its core, your brand is your culture.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2025

Furniture rentals, photography sessions, and weeks of back-and-forth leave agents stuck in the past. a Silicon Valley-based startup, is transforming the property marketing process with Collov AI , the real estate industrys first listing marketing AI Agent. Thats why Collov AIs Visual Agent is designed to be as simple as taking a photo.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Real estate marketing startup Realoq is launching a new data solution for brokers and agents. Realoq offers a customized MLS platform that allows unique branding and direct access to consumers. Realoq offers a customized MLS platform that allows unique branding and direct access to consumers.

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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. If youre reading this article, youre not alone.

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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.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2025

has added one of New Jersey’s top-performing agents Patrick Southern as part of its expansion into the Garden State. Southern, who has been the leading individual agent in Hudson County, N.J., New York-based real estate brokerage SERHANT.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

In this tantalizing conversation, Collins and Neuberger survey the CMO’s path into marketing , his experience and approach to the field, brand presence, social media and Realtor.com’s recent buyer agency advocacy campaign. The Realtor.com brand presented new opportunities in terms of brand trust, media relationships and syndication.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2025

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. We generate buyers and listing appointments for our agents,” he said. They don’t prospect.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2024

1 brand in the 2024 RealTrends Verified + Tom Ferry The Thousand. In late May, when RealTrends Verified released The Thousand rankings, it appeared that RE/MAX had lost its crown as the top brand to Keller Williams. The re-ranking process revealed that RE/MAX had in fact retained the top spot among the brands represented on the list.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This success pushed one of the countrys top luxury real estate brands to a strong year for sales volume. Philip White , president and CEO of Sothebys International Realty, attributed the brands success to a simple truth. The luxury real estate market is on a growth trend early in 2025. sales volume increased 9.4% year over year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

RealTrends Verified first arrived on scene in March 2024 as the first dual-verified real estate sales performance platform that highlights brokerages , agents and teams that deserve to stand out among their peers. Nate Smoyer “This is going to be the brand’s biggest year ever. How can agents and teams benefit in 2025?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Sanchez: When you look at the industry, only 26% of leadership positions in real estate are held by women, even though over 60% of real estate agents are women. We’ve always been a new-agent company. Our licensing school brings in brand-new agents, whom we train and develop to help them become superstars.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

At just 26 years old, he launched the clothing brand 90265, which pioneered a number of fashion trends. In 2011, he founded the innovative brokerage The Agency RE, and he recently launched a real estate agent trade group that aims to serve as an alternative to the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2025

Theyre not just looking for agents; they want advisors who are tech-savvy, emotionally intelligent, and deeply honest. Were leaning into this by helping agents build personal brands, sharpen their communication, and use data to educate, not intimidate clients. Buyers and sellers are more informed and more skeptical than ever.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Platinum brings a 2,500-agent team with a presence in markets across Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa and Missouri. Meanwhile, Braklow highlighted an agent-centered approach to marketing and education at United as major factors behind partnering with the real estate giant. The financial terms of the merger were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

“We are connecting buyers and sellers, but we are also creating a dynamic marketplace where brands can engage with consumers in meaningful ways while reinforcing the RE/MAX brand’s leadership in innovation and consumer-centric strategies.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

” Shared brand values Rocket’s year to date has been marked by a series of changes in the company’s outreach and branding. “We think we can create a stronger overall brand by really optimizing the interaction between these brands.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2025

Some brokerages are what I sometimes think of as Lily Pads because theyre waystations where agents sometimes goalbeit brieflyto level up their commission splits. Culture is the blueprint, not the byproduct When people talk about brand, they often think of logos or marketing materials. But at its core, your brand is your culture.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Ive done it all, from being a new agent with boots on the ground to running multi-state operations for large real estate firms. Related article How to be a successful real estate agent (without going broke) Here are some quotes to fuel your passion and help you create a business that reflects your unique vision. Sorry, Grandpa!

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2025

We joined Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate brand a little more than a year ago with a desire to grow and that we have thanks to the brands robust tools, technology and support, Sterling said. Founded in 2007 by Lora and Mitch Umbarger, Advantage Realty Partners will now be integrated into the Heritage Group brand.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2025

Leaders said the move is aimed at accelerating Sprout Realtys growth across Austin, Waco, Dallas-Fort Worth and other parts of northwest Texas , while allowing the firm to maintain its brand identity and leadership structure. The combined firms now represent 111 agents who handled 1,563 transactions and $738 million in sales volume in 2024.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2025

While the nation’s top real estate teams are found at a variety of brokerages, one brand dominated the 2025 RealTrends Verified Rankings. For top team leaders, coaching, technology and the network created by the Keller Williams franchise system are common reasons why they feel the brand is the best place for their businesses.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

This is an exciting milestone for all Keller Williams agents and franchisees, Gary Keller, the co-founder and executive chairman of Keller Williams, said in a prepared statement. Stone Point is no stranger to the real estate industry, as it also holds strategic investments in Lone Wolf Technologies , Homepoint , CoreLogic and Meridian.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2024

This week on the “ Real Estate Insiders Unfiltered “ podcast, hosts James Dwiggins and Keith Robinson sit down with Sherry Chris , executive adviser at Anywhere Brands , and the former CEO of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate. Next, Robinson mentions Chris’s tenure as the CEO of the Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate brand.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The firm announced Monday that it had acquired Scottsdale-based My Home Group , adding more than 2,200 agents to its headcount. Due to the brand recognition of My Home Group, Fathom is planning on retaining the firm’s name. “We That was good for the No.

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