Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Whether you’re looking to start a career in real estate, already have one or are involved in real estate transactions, you may find yourself wondering about industry terminology and job titles. The industry acronyms alone look like alphabet soup. So, let’s start with the basics: What is a real estate broker vs. an agent?

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 13, 2025

Lets be real: the real estate industry is changing. The changing role of a real estate team For decades, the primary role of a real estate agent was to facilitate a transaction. Industry trends show that homeowners locked into sub-3% mortgage rates find it difficult to justify moving when current rates hover around 6.5%

Industrial

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%

Agents

Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2025

Whether you’re just starting your real estate journey or hitting the reset button after a tough season, I want you to hear this: You didn’t choose an ordinary career — because this isn’t an ordinary industry. Because the agents who commit to growth, who lean into learning, who keep showing up—that’s who wins in this business.

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

MAY 1, 2025

Industry debate around off-market listings or pocket listings has become increasingly heated. For some agents , these private transactions are tools of exclusivity and strategy. Four agents with strong opinions; Isom Coleman in Sacramento, Calif.; Or maybe theres a buyer in the agents network ready to go.

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

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

JANUARY 23, 2025

Given the massive changes experienced by the real estate industry in the past six months, it is no surprise that at least a handful of the startups feel that the real estate space is ripe for innovation, giving way to a proliferation of AI agent platforms. We only use it as a tool to make it more efficient for our human agents.

Agents

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As real estate practitioners adjust to the practice changes that took effect in August, and the industry waits for final approval of the NAR settlement from the court in November, questions continue about seller offers of compensation. These are the questions that advocates who want to upend the real estate industry further cannot answer.

Debt-to-income ratio

Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2025

Coastline Real Estate Group , a 13-agent real estate team based in San Diego County, California, has joined The Real Brokerage. Since founding Coastline in late 2020, the group has closed more than $200 million in home sales and is ranked among the top 1% of teams in San Diego County. In 2024, it closed $67.4 and Canada.

Brokerage

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2024

31, 2023, and has since reshaped the business practices for real estate brokerages and agents across the country. Despite the initial concerns, many industry professionals say first-time buyers are currently faring no worse than other buyers — for now, at least. It is no secret that many first-time homebuyers are struggling.

Marketing

Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

Since our income is (usually) tied directly to closings, many real estate agents wonder how to close deals faster. Keep reading for expert tips on how to close real estate deals faster, plus ways to make your real estate transactions more seamless. Thats the quickest way to close a real estate deal fast.

Closing

Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2025

has acquired Zenlist , a real estate tech startup known for its agent-client collaboration tools. The deal boosts Realtor.com’s mobile-first capabilities — aiming to modernize the home search experience and empower more than 35,000 agents with smarter, more connected tools for today’s shifting real estate landscape.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2025

The Gambino Group at Compass — led by founder Carl Gambino — has expanded its roster with the addition of three experienced agents in Los Angeles and New York City. This year has been a standout for growth for our team, and the addition of these agents builds on that momentum,” Gambino said. “As

Agents

Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2025

On this week’s episode of the RealTrending podcast, host Tracey Velt sits down with Jay Papasan — an executive at Keller Williams and co-author of “The Millionaire Real Estate Agent” — to discuss what it takes for new agents to succeed in today’s competitive market. So people are still giving the same old books out.

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. Additionally, Monestier’s objection also claims that agents are still engaging in steering.

Pre-approval

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

APRIL 18, 2025

These findings reflect a lack of appropriate controls by closing agents and lenders to identify and fix issues, the report stated. Escalating fraud risks FundingShield flagged growing concerns around closing protection letter (CPL) validation. It found that 46.8% errors the highest number on record. In Q1 2025, 10.8%

Title

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

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. Much like it has in finance, logistics, and media, AI in real estate is offering agents a new way of working: faster, smarter, and more autonomous.

Marketing

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. Our industry is no exception. The catch was, listeners thought it was Poleg, but it wasn’t.

Technology

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

They also explore the National Association of Realtors ‘ (NAR) commission lawsuit settlement , agent training deficiencies and more. Dwiggins: Since we started the company back in 2014, we were always looking to try and be a little bit different from the rest of the industry, in the sense of it wasn’t about having tons of agents.

MLS

Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2025

JMG , located in 42 states, finished 2024 with approximately 820 agents nationwide — now over 1000 — with 10,279 closings and $5.1 In 2024, JMG closed more transactions by agent count than any of the other Mega 1000 brokerages in the U.S. One may argue that, by agent count, they may also be the most profitable. “We

Brokerage

Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2025

Maybe youve recently passed your real estate exam and obtained your license, or maybe youre simply thinking about becoming a real estate agent. Real estate is very much a learn on the job career, but luckily, there are many agents (like us!) Let us help you become successful faster with our top 19 tips for new real estate agents.

Agents

Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

During the conversation, the duo discuss traditional real estate team structures, offer unique resources for new team members and cover future trends in the real estate industry. To start the episode, Dowell dives into her early career as a new real estate agent in Chicago. When I bring agents on, I also help them with marketing.

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

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

JANUARY 27, 2025

The real estate industry is already in a whirlwind and the year has barely kicked off. To put it simply, the industry appears to be in its rapid evolution era. For example, changing agent commission guidelines and emerging lead contact regulations are keeping professionals up at night. Have a seat and buckle in.

Technology

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

With the election behind us, the industry is refocused on building momentum and driving growth in 2025. It also provides your agents with consistent closings, creating a more predictable and growth-focused pipeline. First, you free up your agents to focus on what they do best: closing deals. Ready to accelerate?

Brokerage

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. Our goal is always to be at the most competitive price and be an industry leader in place. So we’re always looking to have our margins be as competitive as possible.

Closing

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. Before last year, there were no conversations about buyer agent fees, so I don’t think consumers even realize what is going on behind the scenes,” Gilch said. More harm than good?

MLS

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And that’s, as you outlined, another example of us enabling the real estate industry to become more digital, integrated and productive. Robinson : How would you help agents understand how you are positioning your technology for the good of the industry and for the good of the agent? We have a phrase at Zillow.

Technology

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

JULY 8, 2025

The Bruen Team — a small but rapidly growing real estate agency based in Morristown, New Jersey — recorded its best year ever in 2024 by closing nearly $40 million in sales volume and earning a spot in the 2025 RealTrends Verified rankings for small teams. Best year ever The Bruen Team closed $39.93

Brokerage