Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

The market grappled with low inventory and mortgage rates that gave many homebuyers a reason to pause. Today, there are 100,000 more homes on the market than there were in March of last year — that’s 21% inventory growth. Robert Reffkin’s Compass held on to the top spot in sales volume, ranking No.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

In fact, the sweet spot for acquisitions over the next couple of years is going to be the small one-office brokerage firms.” With the headwinds facing the real estate industry, Wright and Murray believe smaller brokerage firms will be looking for a place to land, making acquisitions a possibility for even one-office, 25 agent firms.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

In real estate brokerage, growth is the name of the game and for 2024 (based on 2023 data), The Real Brokerage and The Agency are winning that game. The 2023 housing market was a period of uncertainty with low inventory and industry challenges. Here are the Top Movers by transaction sides and sales volume.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Pre-pandemic, Jacksonville’s housing market was propelled by strong tailwinds: affordability relative to the rest of the Sunshine State, Florida’s lack of income tax and the quality of life benefits of having a river and oceanfront, to name a few. However, new-home sales were up 5.9%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Top-producing mega team PREMIERE Group is joining fast-growing firm The Real Brokerage , according to an announcement on Monday. Founded in 2017 in Greensboro, North Carolina by David Keener, the PREMIERE Group operates as a teamerage , providing agents with marketing and operations resources. million.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Like with most things in life, real estate brokerages come in a variety of shapes and size, from white-glove service firms to discount brokerages to flat-fee firms that offer al a carte services. Fewer agents? Obviously, RE/MAX comes to mind as it has a large franchise model that is tied to agent count,” Tomasello said. “If

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2024

Valuation in the residential brokerage industry has some characteristics that are unique when compared to other industries and businesses. First, the business of residential brokerage is highly dependent on the recruiting, retention and production of independent contractor sales agents. approach to value.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

The latest findings from Relitix’s Agent Movement Index (AMI) for March 2024 reveal a nuanced landscape in the real estate sector, with shifts in agent activities suggesting stabilizing and evolving market conditions. reflecting ongoing adjustments in the market. March’s report saw the AMI reaching a score of 114.6,

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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

MARCH 22, 2024

I’m sharing a transformative announcement with you today, one that marks a new era for RealTrends and propels forward the vision of bringing transparency to what it means to be a top-performing real estate brokerage, team or agent. You market your brand and business online. Agent and Team Rankings will be unveiled in June.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

New England-based independent brokerage Bean Group has made the leap to eXp Realty. It is the first brokerage to join eXp Realty through Boost, eXp’s newly released brokerage incentive program. Bean Group, which had been affiliated with LeadingRE , is one of the top brokerages in Northern New England.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

On Monday, the independent brokerage announced that it had acquired Springfield, Massachusetts-based Sears Real Estate. 166 nationwide in the 2024 RealTrends Verified sales volume rankings, after its agents closed $1.78 billion in sales volume in 2023. Based in Waltham, Mass., Lamacchia Realty was ranked at No.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2024

Agents are the lifeblood of real estate brokerages. Recruiting and retaining high-performing agents remains a critical challenge for brokerages, especially in the environment created by the National Association of Realtors ’ recent $418 million settlement in a litany of agent commission lawsuits.

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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. The brokerage, which was founded in 1976 by Gene Boone, will now be known as RE/MAX Foxfire.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Compass’ brokerage firm recruiting efforts continue. Deasy Penner Podley , or DPP Real Estate is the latest boutique brokerage to affiliate with the national firm, according to an announcement on Tuesday. Based in Pasadena, DPP @ Compass has over 175 agents serving an area spanning from Santa Monica to Palm Springs.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

Fast-growing firm The Real Brokerage is welcoming yet another top-performing agent to the company. Arizona-based David Newman and his 12-member team, David Newman Partners, are moving to The Real Brokerage, according to an announcement on Wednesday. Newman has more than 20 years of experience in the real estate industry.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2023

Redfin was in the red yet again in the second quarter , but its losses are narrowing and it’s tweaking its unique brokerage model to court more experienced agents in pricey coastal areas. The brokerage and portal’s real estate services division, its principle source of revenue, dropped to $180.6 million, down from $606.9

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Roughly 10 months since first expanding into Florida , Ryan Serhant’s eponymous brokerage is expanding into its third market in the state. The team’s 16 agents are SERHANT.’s Previously, the brokerage only operated in the Miami and Palm Beach County markets. In early February, SERHANT. s first in Orlando.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Originally filed in late November, the Phillips lawsuit accuses real estate industry players of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. By enforcing this mandate, the NAR establishes an anticompetitive market where sellers are coerced into subsidizing the buyer’s costs.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Real estate brokerage eXp Realty has added industry veteran Wendy Forsythe to its leadership team. On Thursday, the firm announced that Forsythe was joining eXp as its new chief marketing officer. She will also oversee eXp Realty’s brand management and advertising, as well as the firm’s digital marketing and public relations.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

This dip can be partly attributed to the recent acquisition of 3D scanning company Matterport , as well as the costs associated with the Homes.com marketing campaign during the Super Bowl LVIII broadcast in February. In the first quarter, the sales team for Homes.com generated nearly $40 million in net new bookings. billion. “We

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Anywhere Real Estat e felt the brunt of slow home sales during the fourth quarter of 2023 as the company reported a loss of $107 million during the three-month period. The company produced these results amid “an incredibly difficult year for the housing market,” Schneider said during an earnings call on Thursday. It generated $1.3

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A common thought among brokers revolves around the idea that if your gross commission income or office size is not increasing, you’re not successfully growing your brokerage. According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the average tenure of an agent with a brokerage is six years.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

These housing professionals have been gaming out the potential impact on buyers’ agents – a significant source of referrals. Loan officers and mortgage executives expect home sellers and homebuyers to negotiate more aggressively on commission paid to buyer agents, potentially bringing costs down.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

California-based home equity investment firm Splitero launched its own real estate brokerage , Splitero Homes, this week. Our brokerage is unique,” Michael Gifford told HousingWire. “It’s So that’s a major differentiator from us and other agents.” I will say that real estate brokerage is a far cry from Fintech.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

West Coast juggernaut independent brokerage John L. Scott Real Estate has acquired boutique brokerage Sterling Johnston Real Estate , based out of Redmond, Washington. The acquisition brings 43 additional agents to John L. Scott’s primary Bellevue office, Seattle Agent Magazine reported.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2023

2022 was a roller coaster year, continuing the strong pandemic and post-pandemic fueled housing market through the first half of the year. Then, in the third quarter, we saw an abrupt stop to the record-breaking housing market. 1 in sales volume to to the top of the list and retained their No. transactions per agent last year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 26, 2023

There is no question that the headline of the year in 2023 for many publicly traded brokerages was the commission lawsuits. With mortgage rates trending downward in recent weeks and economists expecting them to further recede in 2024, analysts are feeling guardedly optimistic about how the publicly traded brokerages will perform in 2024. “I

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Existing home sales are down, mortgage interest rates are up, and the economic uncertainty is palpable. Real estate brokerage is definitely not for the faint of heart. Not just the industry stalwarts in major metros, but smaller firms that dominate the peripheral markets. Most brokers are feeling the crunch.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Knoxville, Tennessee -based Realty Executives have gained some top-producing agents. Ryan Levenson, who is the 2023 president of the East Tennessee Realtors’ Association , is a third-generation real estate agent, following his parents, Rich and Patti Levenson, into the business. million in sales volume.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Roomvu , a Canadian-based video marketing platform for residential real estate agents, is partnering with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (LeadingRE) and Realty One to mark Roomvu’s expansion into the U.S. Our expansion into the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

These lawsuits threaten to radically reshape the residential brokerage landscape, and could be the catalyst for a fat decline in the annual commission pool as well as the industry shedding as many as 80% of agents, according to a team of analysts at Keefe Bruyette Woods. You are forewarned — there are charts! Who’s most exposed?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

South Carolina-based Movement Mortgage has acquired the brokerage Superior Rate Mortgage of New England to expand operations in the region, the company announced Wednesday. The acquisition is another step to boost its sales amid shrinking loan origination volumes. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2023

Approximately 400 Dilbeck agents and support staff will operate under the Engel & Völkers brand. Under the leadership of Mark Dilbeck, the company’s majority owner since 1998, the indie brokerage achieved $1.04 billion in sales volume last year, according to the RealTrends 500 rankings. million in volume.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2022

The real estate brokerage has not announced agent hires, but it has tapped a managing broker for the state in John Wollberg. Wollberg was most recently the executive vice president and managing director of sales and operations at Brown Harris Stevens , a Manhattan-based brokerage headquartered on Park Avenue. real estate.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

HomeServices of America , the last remaining brokerage defendant in the landmark Sitzer/Burnett antitrust commission case , has agreed to pay $250 million in damages to settle lawsuits that will change agent compensation across America. The New York Times first reported the story. The jury verdict came to $1.76 billion in damages.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

home sale price remains near record highs and supply stays constrained in many locales, two of the most populous states that have seen a surge in demand since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic are showing signs of a pullback. The national real estate brokerage found that the nationwide median sale price reached $420,357 in March 2024.

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