Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Robert Reffkin is confident that Compass and its agents have what it takes to continue growing and succeeding in the changing real estate environment. “In We are a company of top agents.” Year over year , Compass gained 26 basis points of market share, bringing its total share of home sales in Q1 2024 to 4.76%. in 2003. “We

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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

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

JULY 18, 2023

Agent recruitment has been off to a strong start this month at The Agency Dallas. In recent weeks the brokerage has welcomed brokers and agents who have collectively closed over $110 million in the last 12 months, the company claims. In 2022, he recorded a sales volume of $30 million. and Mexico.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Not helping FHA, VA borrowers get off the sidelines Under current FHA rules, sellers can contribute up to 6% in concessions to FHA borrowers to cover closing costs, prepaid expenses and discount points. “But agent commissions have never been a closing cost from a buyer perspective. Grant said.

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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. Working in real estate sales for a few years, and now you want to challenge yourself and raise the stakes? Visit Agent Image 3. Kayla Lee of SERHANT.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Nominations for the 2022 HousingWire Tech100 Mortgage and Tech100 Real estate are closing today. The Tech100 Mortgage Award recognizes the companies and solutions that are revolutionizing the mortgage process – from origination to closing, and servicing to secondary markets. million agents as of last year.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Less than a month after Compass snagged two top-performing Chicago-based @properties agents, @properties has evened the score in the Windy City. According to data from BrokerMetrics , the Tesars have closed a combined sales volume of $25.4 The husband-and-wife team have more than 20 years of combined real estate experience. “The

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

However, the tactical approach of regular check-ins and focusing on retention as a cornerstone of fortifying your real estate agent ranks is often underestimated or overlooked. 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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As a real estate agent, you may think clients should care more about their next home than your life story. And while that may be true, well-crafted real estate agent bios can build trust and credibility and serve as a powerful tool in an agent’s marketing arsenal — giving prospective clients. So let your personality shine.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2023

Atlanta-based Christie’s International Real Estate franchise affiliate Ansley Christie’s International Real Estate poached Georgia’s top performing agent Shirley Gary and 25 of her agents, the company announced in a press release on Thursday. 1 spot in Georgia in the 2023 RealTrends America’s Best Rankings.

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HomeLight

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It’s closing time and the pressure’s on. Even with a rock-solid offer in hand, the hard part of your home sale is yet to come. Cue the closing attorney. Connect with a Top Agent to Sail Through to Closing Working with a top agent can help you get to closing day faster — and get you more for your home sale.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

On Friday afternoon, my real estate agent called with good news. The agent wished me well and said that she would appreciate a review on her website. I wanted to close before May 1, so I selected a buyer who was already in underwriting. Congratulations!” You just sold your house.” And that was that! They were wrong.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2023

When you think about a real estate team , you automatically think they must be more productive than individual agents, right? Clearly, over the last decade, teams have grown far faster than individual agents in terms of closed transactions. in terms of closed transactions from 2011 to 2022. Not so fast. over that period.

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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

MAY 13, 2024

population moving to the South, and 16% of Compass transactions last year being referrals, our expansion in the Southeast allows for more connections and opportunities for our agents as our national network grows.” The Brentwood, Tennessee-based firm has 15 offices and more than 1,500 agents spread across five counties.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A home inspection hasn’t yielded any problems, so nothing is standing in the way of closing, right? A licensed appraiser conducts the evaluation and considers the condition of the property, the location and sales of comparable properties (comps) in the area. Mortgage lenders want to make sure the property is worth the sale price.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In the nearly two months since a Missouri jury found the real estate industry liable for colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions, Jason Posnick has fielded a lot of questions about commissions and cooperative compensation from clients. They actually seem more on the side of the real estate agents,” Posnick said. “It

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

While I hate to be the bearer of bad news, that era is almost most definitely drawing to a close. home sales in nearly 30 years as high mortgage rates frustrate buyers, the market is reshaping real estate once again, placing buyers on the back foot and swinging the pendulum back to favoring sellers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

The 2022 RealTrends 500 rankings top movers by transaction sides is based on 2021 sales data. Top movers is a ranking of the 50 firms in the RealTrends 500 that had the largest increase in closed sides or largest increase in sales volume between 2020 to 2021. Top 50 Movers by sales Volume. View the full rankings.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2022

The decision to close the channel also reflects fierce competition from its peers in the broker space, primarily from United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM). The gain-on-sale margin also nosedived to 1.16% in the second quarter, down from 1.96% in the previous quarter. loanDepot shares closed at $1.84 billion and $10.5 in cash on hand.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Long known for its salaried compensation for agents, Redfin is trying a new pay model in two of the nation’s largest housing markets to help boost its market share. According to Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman , the other aim of this change is to create million-dollar agents. “We So, we really think we struck the right chord here.”

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HomeLight

MAY 3, 2024

As the week before closing on a house approaches, the countdown begins. But what happens the week before closing on a house? Connect with a Top Agent to Sail Through to Closing Working with a top agent can help you get to closing day faster — and get you more for your home sale.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2023

Gary Keller took to the stage at the 2023 Keller Williams Mega Agent Camp in Austin, Texas , Tuesday morning with his usual bravado: a black-and-white video featuring his favorite animal, the buffalo , in a thunderstorm, alongside a motivational message for agents. million home sales this year, significantly down from the 6.12

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

Mangus then worked to build the dedicated reverse mortgage department at his new company from scratch and has found a notable degree of success by building Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) for Purchase (H4P) business through the use of continuing education (CE) classes designed for licensed real estate agents. Curtis Mangus.

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RIS Media

JULY 9, 2023

Three Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Nevada Properties agents closed over $11 million in sales volume across the Las Vegas Valley in one week. Alexis Michaud with the Mullin Group sold a Summerlin property for $5.25 Alexis Michaud with the Mullin Group sold a Summerlin property for $5.25

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Inman

APRIL 15, 2024

MacDonald is the latest agent to boomerang back from a previous brokerage amid intense competition. In 2023, while an agent at Compass, she closed approximately $20 million in sales volume.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2022

Trusted by over 1 million users, NotaryCam’s eClose 360 platform allows borrowers to close anytime from pretty much anywhere. NotaryCam’s customers are the first to express their satisfaction with the company’s future-thinking approach to closings. The pandemic has brought extra hurdles for everyone. Rick Triola.

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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

MARCH 1, 2021

The closing process, that time between underwriting approval and the actual closing, is the mortgage industry’s not-so-secret Achilles’ heel. That’s not a knock on the good professionals who enact minor miracles choreographing the multi-faceted ballet that is a typical closing. Let’s admit it.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

His goal is to bring his sales numbers up to $450 to $500 million, with origination coming from different states, and potentially capitalizing on a little refinance boom in the latter part of 2023. The problem we have with the people that already own a home is you cannot buy with sales contingencies here. It’s a conundrum.

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HomeLight

MARCH 28, 2024

Editor’s note: On March 15, 2024, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) announced a landmark lawsuit settlement that will change the way real estate agent commissions are handled in the future. These changes will “decouple” seller and buyer agent compensation. Let’s look at the pros and cons of for sale by owner.

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HomeLight

MARCH 22, 2024

When you bought your home, you probably remember paying closing costs beyond the purchase price. Now you’re preparing to sell, and a common question for first-time sellers is, “Who pays closing costs when selling a house?” Connect with your top agent matches today at no cost. Connect with your top agent matches today at no cost.

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RIS Media

MAY 22, 2023

Over the past few years, closing a real estate deal was easy for many real estate agents. The actual closing seemed like just a formality. Homes flew off the market almost as soon as they were listed.

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HomeLight

MARCH 28, 2024

When a home sale closing is delayed, it’s usually the buyer holding up the deal due to financing hiccups, low appraisals, title issues, or problems found during the final walkthrough. But what happens if a seller misses the closing date? The closing date is always in the contract. What happens on a home sale closing date?

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RIS Media

JUNE 27, 2023

OneKey® MLS, the largest MLS in New York, has announced that residential, condo, and co-op sales transactions in the regional MLS coverage area saw a 2.6% increase in closed median sale price month-over-month from April to May 2023. MoM appeared first on RISMedia.

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HomeLight

APRIL 25, 2024

Buying a home involves a flurry of paperwork, but perhaps the most important document is the closing disclosure, also known as a CD in real estate. This guide will break down what a CD includes, why it’s so important, and the most common mistakes to watch for so your closing doesn’t get delayed.

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