Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2025

Under the National Association of Realtors (NAR) new Multiple Listing Options policy, the trade group is allowing listing agents, with the signed consent and direct permission of their seller client, to delay publicly marketing a listing through Internet Data Exchange (IDX) feeds and syndication.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2025

Office exclusives are becoming an increasingly significant segment of the Bright MLS marketplace, according to a recent Bright MLS study examining their impact on the broader housing market. This shift is prompting real estate professionals and consumers alike to reevaluate implications of this marketing approach.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Specifically, they are reaching out to home sellers who experienced a price drop or significant days on market. Recently, some brokerage firms have advocated for MLS rules that facilitate hiding property listings from consumers and lobbied the real estate industry to accommodate those exclusionary practices, he stated.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2025

The policy was a response to a proliferation of pocket listings and a rapid decline in housing inventory on the MLS, despite a large number of transactions still occurring. The CCP requires listing brokers to share a listing to the MLS within 24 hours of publicly marketing the property. It was out of this that CCP was born.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

Homeowners are the ones who own their homes, not the National Association of Realtors, and if the homeowner and their agent make a decision that they dont want to list it on any particular site for any particular reason, they ought to have a right to do that, he added.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

At the core of Zillows listing standards is the belief that if a listing is marketed to any home shoppers, it should be marketed to all home shoppers. Under this policy, sellers who sign a disclosure can withhold their listing from IDX feeds and syndication for a certain period of time within a time window determined by each MLS.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

When I attended a national real estate conference last month, the Clear Cooperation Policy the provision requiring listings to be published on the MLS within 24 hours of marketing a property predictably surfaced as a hot-button issue. 1) Support it, 2) Eliminate it, 3) I dont understand it, or 4) I have no opinion.

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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.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2025

Over a week ago, Compass and Reffkin sent a letter to MLS executives asking them to not include delayed marketing exempt listings, which were created by the MLOS policy, in virtual office website (VOW) data feeds. Without these mechanisms, we believe more listings will end up off-MLS across brokerages, the letter states.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2025

Three-phase marketing Compasss form outlines what it has coined as its three-phase marketing strategy, in which a property is listed as a Compass Private Exclusive, then as a Compass Coming Soon, and lastly on the MLS if it has failed to sell during the first two phases. Brobeck also highlighted the lack of risk disclosures.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

Most agents we work with have, but usually to write listing descriptions packed to the gills with fluffy language and way too many em dashes. Here are twelve mind-blowing ideas and prompts smart agents are using to close more deals with ChatGPT in 2025. Oh, and it’s also getting smarter and faster every day.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

One thing Compass ‘s supporters and critics both agree on is this: the brokerage is leveraging its swelling network of private exclusive listings to recruit agents. Our source said the meeting with non-Compass agents from across the country was “well attended.” But how Compass is doing it might surprise you.

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BAM Media

APRIL 4, 2025

But recent data from Bright MLS suggests thats changing. By February 2025, nearly 8% of new listings in Bright MLS were office exclusives, signaling a noticeable shift in how some brokerages handle inventory. So whats driving this trend, and what does it mean for agents, sellers, and buyers?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

As the debate surrounding the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Clear Cooperation Policy (CCP) rages on, California Regional MLS (CRMLS) CEO Art Carter chose to voice his stance on the issue in a nine-page op-ed posted on LinkedIn this week. The MLS is standing firmly behind the intent of the policy, he wrote.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Another goal Compass has been vocal about is further expansion of its ancillary services and integration of these services into the Compass agent platform. If we look at just the Chicago market, for example, @properties has a really strong title business and now that gives us a footprint in that market, Golod said. Golod said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

Lets take a look at the six necessary factors I coach agents to consider before speaking to their clients about a price reduction. Online appearance: Double-check that the listing is accurate and optimized in the MLS. First impressions matter, and poor-quality images can deter buyers before they even schedule a showing.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Real estate agents often make the mistake of believing their clients will remember them forever but they dont. Its up to us as agents to stay engaged and stay in contact with our clients. Content: Agents can include any combination of data and information. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission.

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BAM Media

APRIL 14, 2025

Redfin is the latest portal to weigh in on the MLS vs. private listing debate, following Zillows lead. And unlike Homes.com , which has positioned itself as fiercely pro-agent and anti-portal control, Redfin is pushing for balance. In addition, Kelman called out brokerages that promote coming-soon listings solely to internal agents.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

Since our income is (usually) tied directly to closings, many real estate agents wonder how to close deals faster. I see many agents chasing potential clients who have little or no sense of urgency. Days on market accrue. Be sure to collect the agents info when buyers are signing into the open house so you can follow up.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

What matters for your market (wherever you are) is what patterns are developing near you. new listings, sold listings, days on market, off-market listings?—?will the trends and patterns that are unique to your market and will allow you to?identify?any Being a market expert helps your brand? ?. will help you?identify?the

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Buyers agents are not just bright smiles that open doors were the guide our clients rely on to navigate the homebuying process. Thats why having a definitive homebuying checklist is an essential part of your agent toolkit. Take the time to walk them through what they can expect from showings to closing day.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

And with millennials emerging as the largest generation of homebuyers in today’s market, comprising 28% of all homebuyers, real estate agents need to master social media or they might miss out. Sixty percent of agents surveyed believe that social media provides higher quality leads than the MLS.

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 11, 2024

A Top Agent Can Help You Find A House You Can Afford We analyze millions of home sales to find buyer’s agents who will show you the right home at the right price. Agents don’t pay us to be listed, so you get the best match. Most of my investments are off-market, and by the time they hit the MLS, they get bid up,” she adds.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2024

With technology changing faster than new agents answer phone calls, choosing the right real estate brokerage software can sometimes feel like a full-time job. The right real estate brokerage software will help you gain market share, train, recruit, and retain more (and better) agents, and make more profits.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

Xactus Wednesday announced its new active listing scan program, which will scan residential addresses for changes in listing status and the average number of days on market for a neighborhood. The monitoring program, covering all 50 states, includes MLS listing data as well as public records from data aggregators.

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Realty Biz

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Days on Market, also known as DOM, is a widespread commercial term, which applies to all markets and products, be it a cake, a pair of shoes, or a real estate item. This concept has everything to do with the idea of “freshness” or actuality that any type of product has on a specific market. DOM on The Real Estate Market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Market homes to market yourself Ideally, your open house should showcase a property with a lot of natural foot traffic in your desired farm area. If you can’t nab listings like this, offer to sit open house events for busy agents at your brokerage who DO have listings in the areas you aspire to work in.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

” Last week, an agent on my team said there was a new listing that his clients were interested in, priced at $1,599,900, with offers ‘any time,’ and he asked, “What’s the least I can offer on this? . The listing agent has all the leverage here. But we know what the listing agent is going to say.

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Housing Wire

JULY 10, 2024

In this article, I’ll share close to two decades of experience as a licensed agent and small brokerage owner in Boston to help you compete and win listings with a dynamite listing presentation. As agents, we compete for a finite number of available homes to list and sell. What is their family size? It’s that simple.

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Lab Coat Agents

APRIL 21, 2025

Its your opportunity to showcase your value, build trust, and prove youre the best agent for the job. How Cloud CMA helps: Cloud CMA automatically pulls in comps based on the subject propertys details, so you spend less time digging through MLS data and more time preparing for the conversation. The good news?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) is a detailed report that helps real estate agents evaluate and determine the market value of a property. It is an essential tool that allows agents to clearly communicate a pricing benchmark for a property. It’s imperative that agents invest their time to properly prepare comps!

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BAM Media

MAY 20, 2025

Thats your chance to pull up real-time MLS stats, show historical market performance, or talk through whats actually happening in your area. Here are six ways to get buyers off the fence and into action: #1Move fast with Coming Soons and MLS listings. Be the agent who uncovers off-market opportunities. Even better.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2022

Market Growth. Look at the area’s market both today and historically. A good measure is to look at the days on market (DOM). Today most markets have a DOM of 30 days or less, which is a hot market. Anything more than that, and it may not be a market you want to invest in.

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Lighter Side of Real Estate

JULY 31, 2024

If you’ve been planning on selling your house, or are currently in the middle of doing so, you’ve probably heard that there will be some changes in how your home can be listed and marketed, with regard to a commission being offered (or not) to buyers’ agents.

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HomeLight

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Links and mentions of Arizona flat fee MLS companies in this story do not constitute an endorsement. You may be thinking about whether to use a real estate agent to sell your Arizona home or go the FSBO (for sale by owner) route and use an Arizona flat fee MLS company. What is a flat fee MLS listing service? Get Started.

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HomeLight

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Links and mentions of North Carolina flat fee MLS companies in this post do not constitute an endorsement. While the market is slowly cooling – or normalizing – home prices remain steady in many North Carolina cities and median days on market are relatively low, although today that can mean a week or two versus a day or two earlier this year.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 15, 2021

And other than a “Photos of the Week” in November and an “MLS Exaggerations” in October, we really, truly haven’t run More MLS Musings since September. Should we look at MLS photos or should we roll with the descriptions? The post More MLS Musings! I don’t even know where to start!

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