Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Too many real estate agents are watching artificial intelligence (AI) from the sidelines, assuming technology will never replace them. They repeat the mantra “Home buyers and sellers will always need a real estate agent.” So how can real estate agents be so cavalier about their job? trillion to $7.9

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Each year, RealTrends Verified identifies the country’s most successful residential real estate brokerages, teams and agents – verifying transaction sides and closed sales volume for top-performing real estate brokerages — to give you the full picture of real estate performance.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

In the competitive world of real estate recruitment, brokerages fight for the attention and loyalty of talented agents who can drive their success. As the lifeblood of the industry, agents play an important role in attracting clients, closing deals and determining the ultimate profitability of a brokerage.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The allure of the name recognition of large national brands is causing many independent brokerages to affiliate as mortgage rates rise and housing inventory remains low. Ocala, Florida -based Foxfire Realty is the latest firm to join a national brand, announcing its move to RE/MAX on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

According to the release, the Sears Real Estate name and branding will be used along with the Lamacchia Realty branding for at least a year during the branding transition, as the companies feel the names is so well known in the area. billion in sales volume in 2023. Based in Waltham, Mass.,

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

Unfortunately, the hype and frenzy surrounding the AI explosion has spurred a deluge of gimmicks from companies looking to get eyeballs on their brand, with little to no value being created. Since 2020, Addressable has facilitated nearly $2 Billion in home sales across 44 states.

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RIS Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

A year ago, in March 2020, on the heels of an active January/February that set the year up as a strong one for home sales, the reality of COVID-19 hit the U.S. “Our le adership team has experienced market downturns and challenges before, so we knew we wanted to do more for our agents and brokers—not less. total of 5.64

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2022

When the restaurant Tom Hunt worked at as a server temporarily shut down during the spring of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he decided it was the right time to pursue his longtime desire of becoming a real estate agent. Hunt is just one among thousands of agents who has ventured into the field of real estate during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As a result, homeowners either must sell their current home and suffer through double moves and short-term rentals to access the equity they’ve accrued, or they have to make contingent offers that require the sale of their current house to close. Calque’s collaborative BBYS solution doesn’t disintermediate agents or lenders.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Let’s face it, mortgage sales is not for the weak. As an introvert, when I first started in the operations side of the mortgage world I dreaded the weekly pipeline calls with the sales manager I supported. Social media has also played a big part in my branding and business model. The complete opposite of myself.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The homegenius Platform reimagines the entire real estate experience, giving consumers more access, deeper insights and better service, all available on a co-branded website with their financial institution. With the seamless integration of the homegenius Platform, consumers can: Connect with experienced real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Upon joining eXp Realty, new brokerages can immediately realize the benefits of the partnership, which include stock equity, elimination of overhead costs, minimized brokerage risk and liability, access to brokerage support and operations, agent support and services, revenue share opportunities, and more.

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Real Trends

JUNE 10, 2022

Top-performing real estate agents and teams closed an average of 241.2 2021 was a banner year for real estate agents, and even more so for The Thousand agents and teams. closed transaction sides and sales volume of $253.8 However, sales volume was way up, with the average team closing $257.5

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Despite stalling home sales in the third quarter, Anywhere Real Estate managed to deliver “considerable profitability.” The company closed the third quarter with $1.6 ” The company produced these results as home sale transaction volume dropped 13% over last year. .” million in July, 4.04 million in August, and 3.96

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s no secret that homeowners search online to find a listing agent who can sell their home quickly and for top dollar. If you’re an agent, team or brokerage looking to keep a pipeline of qualified listing leads coming your way, SmartZip may the solution you need. But what if you could find them first?

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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

MARCH 13, 2024

From the thrill of a sale to the pursuit of new leads, it keeps you on your toes. As a way to deal with this, many agents and brokers seek out professional mentorship as a means to gain insight and level up their performance. You can’t advise yourself, you’re too close to it. Ventures. “So is the way to go.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2023

Daryl Owen , the founder of top California independent brokerage Nationwide Real Estate Executives , is joining eXp Realty and taking 200 agents along with him. In 2022, his team closed $887 million in sales on 1,091 transactions, with an average home price of $740,000, eXp said in a statement Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2023

1 in sales volume to to the top of the list and retained their No. 1 this year, with 397,138 transactions side, sparking an incredible growth line for the brand. of all brokerage-controlled sales in the country, staying even with the 2022 rankings, with 35.9% Agents with RT500 firms had an average of 6.6 of all Realtors.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2021

When Gogo Bethke began her career in real estate back in 2011, the Romanian immigrant felt like social media was her only option to generate leads and close deals. “I Instead, the Michigan-based eXp agent created her Facebook business page shortly after passing her licensing exam in 2011 and named it “Gogo’s Real Estate.”. “I

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RIS Media

APRIL 19, 2022

Team leaders all over the country tell me of their agent’s lack of productivity and look for solutions to get these agents increasing their sales efforts to list, sell and convert more, but still have agents that seem to be coming up short even with these market conditions. This is not the case.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2021

Today, RealTrends + Tom Ferry announced the 16 th annual The Thousand list of America’s top 1,000 real estate sales professionals and teams. He gets paid a fee at closing, and he’s very effective at it. RealTrends America’s Best Sales Professionals grew by nearly 4,000 agents and teams between 2019 to 2020.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2023

Last week’s listings rate remained super low and available inventory of homes for sale fell again by almost 1% to 410,000, according to Altos Research. Christina Panos: We work closely with agents to ensure their marketing strategies are nimble.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The relationship between a loan officer and a real estate agent is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle, as the two must combine forces to help borrowers achieve their goal of buying a home. By strengthening your relationships with agents you’ve worked with in the past, you can be their first choice for a referral.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Fewer agents? At the root of many of these predictions is the notion that the settlement agreement will result in a higher level of agent attrition than analysts would anticipate solely based on the housing market slowdown experienced over the past two years. “If They will have to find a way to attract more agents all of a sudden.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Successful agents, brokerages and loan officers of the future are going to rely significantly on technology to find, nurture and engage with buyers and sellers while also playing an expanding role as personal advisors in all things related to mortgage, insurance, moving, renovating and new home transitioning. How do I find a doctor?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Real estate agents are always looking for vetted, high-quality leads — and especially so during 2023 market conditions. These providers offer a rapid and cost-effective means for real estate agents to gather a list of potential clients and ultimately boost sales.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“The Settlement resolves all claims in the Lawsuits and similar claims on a nationwide basis against RE/MAX … and releases RE/MAX and the Company, their subsidiaries and affiliates, and RE/MAX sub-franchisors, franchisees and their sales associates in the United States from the Claims,” the SEC filing reads. “By In fact, the U.S.

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RIS Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

From better pay to an array of tech resources, newer companies are doing anything they can to appeal to agents. The company’s chief executive maintains that Real’s focus is on the people at the closing table. “Agents do a vast majority of the work, and they should be entitled to more money in their pockets.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

The fusion of technology, quick sales and incredible demand from the public have created a tsunami of discount-based brokerages trying to fill that public demand. The real estate brokerage has experienced rapid growth, doubling in sales three years in a row, from 2017 through 2019. That is a much easier task to accomplish.”.

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Realty Biz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Real estate agents of all types rely upon their ability to build client relationships, as poor client-building means not enough clients to sustain your business. Thus, marketing yourself, your professional services, and your overall brand, becomes one of your primary tasks. Digital Branding and Marketing is a Big Job.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

LenderLogix, a provider of mortgage automation software and application programming interfaces (APIs), has launched LiteSpeed, a white-label streamlined point-of-sale (POS) system that serves small- to mid-sized mortgage lenders. The company was featured in HousingWire’s Tech 100 in 2022.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Name Job Title Company Name Aaron Kardell Vice President of Product Lone Wolf Technologies Aayaam Kapoor Vice President of Product and Agency Real Estate Webmasters Amaly Quiroz Vice President of Transaction Operations eXp Realty Amy Gorce CEO REdistribute Andrew Binkley President Constellation Real Estate Group Ankur Bansal President of HomeLight (..)

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

In his new position, he will help build visibility for the brand, attract more agents as well as drive agent’s performance through coaching and development. “I As part of his role at Real, Nartey will teach agents how to pitch the value proposition of The Real Brokerage.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Motto Mortgage, a national mortgage brokerage franchise, and wemlo , a mortgage processing solution with an all-in-one digital platform, tapped Chris Erickson as vice president of product and strategy for both brands this week. For the Motto brand, Erickson will focus on streamlining the product ecosystem for franchisees.

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Realty Biz

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The ERA network was also the first national real estate brand to offer home warranties in 1973 and we were also the first to offer a guaranteed home sale program. There are many other firsts, but one that shows our relevance today is that we pioneered the flexible branding model. Can you talk about the program?

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