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

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

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

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

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 In 2023, it closed 13,225 transaction sides for a total of $5.919 billion in sales volume.

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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

APRIL 24, 2025

Through this affiliation, KW Premiere Properties gained 20 new agents, as well as PRG Group owner and operator Pat Callan, who will serve as the senior adviser for KW Premiere Properties. No one else came close to Keller Williams when we assessed the top brands in real estate for culture, training, and technology.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

Miami -based Real on Tuesday announced the addition of Harvest Realty , an independent brokerage in Southern California with 550 agents. Since its founding, Harvest has closed 5,210 transactions for $6.8 Real will also offer its virtual community platform to Harvest agents. billion including 1,627 sides for $2.4 billion.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2020

This week, industry experts discuss how to navigate client and referral partner expectations and minimize closing times when factors like these begin to decelerate the buying process. I get it, the seller needs to move, but doing a quick closing to incentivize the seller to accept your offer is no longer a selling point.

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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. Some integrations and custom branding may require upgrading to the Enterprise plan.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

If you dig a little deeper into the backgrounds of the agents on the Real Trends Verified list, you might think so. He was a bartender who started his real estate career in a market that was brand new to him. He didnt close his first deal an investor until month six. Some have both. But Brandon Halperin had neither.

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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 25, 2023

SoftPro , the nation’s top provider of title , closing, and escrow software, announced on Thursday that it has launched ClosingsLIVE, a cutting-edge communication portal for real estate settlements. For instance, a realtor may have multiple properties in progress with more than one settlement agent.

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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

APRIL 22, 2025

As an agent, thats why its important to learn how to take better listing photos yourself. You were probably thinking: Why on earth would an agent use this photo? The picture of the bathroom mirror with the agent crouched down or trying to hide around the corner. Check out this lens on Amazon. Interested in hiring a pro?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2022

An analysis of the top five-year movers by transaction sides show the big brands at the top. This ranking shows the firms that had the largest increase in closed transaction sides between 2017 and 2021. Close behind was Compass , with an increase of 213,524 sides. View the full rankings.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2024

RE/MAX is expanding its footprint in Salt Lake City with the acquisition of a 60-agent team. “RE/MAX has the tools and systems and resources that agents need in today’s real estate environment,” Mehinovic said in a statement. “I I want to provide my agents what they need to best serve their clients. “I

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Agents are gatekeepers for their clients. For example, a partnership with a mortgage broker make sure clients receive fast, reliable financing options that help the team close deals faster. Marketing and branding Effective marketing is essential to growing a real estate business or any business, regardless of the industry.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2024

Coldwell Banker Realty is adding another top-producing agent to its roster. Vicky is a highly regarded agent in the Bay Area and we are thrilled that she has chosen to affiliate with the Redwood City-San Carlos office,” Jennifer Lind, the Western regional president of Coldwell Banker Realty, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

For example, changing agent commission guidelines and emerging lead contact regulations are keeping professionals up at night. Together, these obstacles are forcing agents and brokerages to hit the sidelines and plan against seemingly insurmountable odds like facing Brady and the Patriots in the Superbowl. What does this look like?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In the first phase of the program, customers can use points to get discounts on their closing costs when purchase a home through the subsidiary Rocket Mortgage. To start, customers will receive a 7,500-point welcome bonus on their first reward activity – or $75 in savings on closing costs.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Spurred by the impact of the coronavirus, the partnership closed more than 1,600 RON transactions in the first half of 2020, a more than 200% increase over the 500 RON transactions that they closed in all of 2019, the companies told HousingWire. “We It’s a welcome improvement.”. We have continued to grab market share.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The role and value of real estate agents has come under scrutiny since the National Association of Realtors (NAR) settled a bevy of antitrust lawsuits related to offers of agent compensation on Realtor-owned multiple listing services (MLSs). What we want to do is be able to bring to light everything the agents are actually doing.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Today’s real estate website builder offers a turnkey, easy-to-use solution to help build your brand, market your business and generate more (and better) leads. And yes, there’s an MLS feed since most are IDX-enabled. Instead of learning to code or wrestling with WordPress, you can get your website up and running in an afternoon.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Coldwell Banker Realty is strengthening its roster of California- based agents. On Monday, the brokerage announced that it was welcoming top-performing agent Jing Hu to the firm’s office in the Silicon Valley hub of Cupertino. Hu was previously brokered with Keller Williams Santa Clara Valley.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2025

She runs a highly successful team, has close to a million followers on TikTok and keynotes major real estate conferences. Shes also absurdly charming and overcame high school bullies, a drinking problem, a failed marriage and multiple recessions to become a superstar agent. 2025 will be make or break for some agents. Absolutely.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2024

The firm has 10 offices and more than 1,200 agents throughout the state. ” In an email to MVP agents that was obtained by HousingWire , Carlson said the decision to affiliate with Realty ONE Group was partially motivated by the “greater technology , marketing, and branding” the company offers. . Realty ONE Group was No.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

successfully closed on the sale of this luxury, 4,700-square-foot property on Park Avenue on the Upper East SIde of Manhattan for $13 million. I’ll show you what it takes to succeed as a luxury real estate agent in any market. I’ll show you what it takes to succeed as a luxury real estate agent in any market.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, payments, insurance and proptech. A signer such as a customer closing on a loan appears before a notary on a video call and they complete, sign and notarize the document, he said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

At the recent Keller Williams Mega Agent Camp , the shaky economy was a common topic of conversation. Whether you believe these predictions or not, agents need to start preparing — yesterday — to avoid washing out the next time a recession hits. As a top-producing agent during the 2008 recession, I was unprepared.

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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. The number of agents switching brokerages is ticking upward and markets are stabilizing across the country. If you want to learn how to recruit agents, now is the time.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

.’ In a presentation for investors , Rocket outlined how its acquisition of Redfin will help the company create a more seamless and affordable way for consumers to transact real estate, showing how it will take consumers from the home search phase all the way through title and closing. But Zillow has that recognizable consumer brand.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

After the National Association of Realtors settlement changed how commission is paid, there was some fear among agents that buyers and sellers might forgo their services in favor of handling the transaction themselves. Polish your pitch Being a real estate agent is also a sales job, and the first thing you sell your clients is yourself.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

The move was announced via email to Real’s 26,000-plus agents and comes at a time when the brokerage continues to experience explosive growth in its agent count and revenue. His insight and advocacy for agents will remain invaluable as we continue to build the real estate platform of the future. Its volume soared from $14.4

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

Not even close. To learn how he did it, we sat down with Tyler to get his take on making your own luck in real estate, his advice for brand new agents and even his best script for drumming up business at parties. After starting his team, Whitman decided he didnt want to pigeonhole his agents into luxury listings.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2025

Experiencing it firsthand confirmed what he had hoped for a deep agent-first mindset that he believes will power the companys next phase of growth. Less than two months into the role, hes clear on his focus: organizational stability, deeper investments in agent education and technology, and measured expansion. What’s next?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

1 listing platform , Realtor.com has launched a sell-side agent tool kit. Listing Toolkit is a subscription-based service that is now available to agents nationwide. Listing Toolkit is a purpose-built solution that empowers agents to win more listings and sell more listings,” Elmquist said.

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