Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In this weeks episode of the RealTrending podcast , host Tracey Velt sits down with Portside Real Estate Group CEO Dava Davin to discuss the importance of buyer consultations, brokerage leadership styles and ancillary solutions for brokerage growth in 2025. Velt: You are the sole owner of the brokerage.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

By contrast, legacy brokerages did not perform nearly as well. And among privately held brokerages, the one executing most effectively on what Compass is proving in the public markets is SERHANT. What accounts for this difference? Technology is part of the story. Across each of these locations and functions, they have to be fluid.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

While the commission lawsuits and the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) settlement occupied notable portions of 2024 for The Real Brokerage , impressive organic growth is the firm’s true highlight of the year. I think 2025 is going to be another major growth year for us,” Poleg said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

The duo explore the current state of mergers and acquisitions, team-based brokerage models, commission compression, and growth opportunities for agents and brokers. What we’ve seen mainly is the activity is now at the local level between local brokerage companies. Why can teams make it work so much better than a brokerage?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

The stagnant housing market has brokerages across the country on their knees, but The Real Brokerage isnt waiting for market conditions to improve to grow its business. Another factor is Reals private-label program, which launched in 2024 and allows brokerage affiliates to keep their branding. It posted a net loss of $26.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Processing is a big piece of what brokerages care about, so we have a copilot that we’re getting feedback on and plan to have six or seven copilots that will launch next year. We’ve trained our AI models to be extremely specific to help agents, brokerages and end customers as well. Sarah Wheeler: You founded MaxHome.AI in January.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2025

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming the new norm for many real estate agents and brokerages. Delta’s annual real estate leadership survey explores insights from brokerage leaders on AI, marketing technology and forward-thinking insights. Delta Media considered these brokerages to be “medium to large.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Michele Harrington: After entering real estate sales right out of the Marine Corps , I built my own brokerage. The duo start the conversation by exploring Harrington’s path into the CEO’s role at FirstTeam. Six years ago, my whole company came over to FirstTeam. Over time, I became chief operating officer. Why is that?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

The moment felt surreal and inspiring for Chris Trapani and Ryan Iwanaga, co-founders of the Christie’s International Real Estate Sereno brokerage, as they repurchased their independence from @properties. Beyond that, the brokerage will now be the exclusive representative of Christie’s International Real Estate in the Bay Area.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

This cycle of ascent and decline is also evident in the residential brokerage industry. The same can be said for many regional and local brokerage firms that were once dominant but have since lost ground. Today, eXp faces pressure from a wave of low-cost, virtual brokerage firms. The question is: who will be next?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2025

The lawsuit contains the same allegations as other commission lawsuits, accusing the real estate brokerage and MLS defendants of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. Prior to the Keel suit, Side was notably one of the few major brokerages left that had not settled the commission lawsuits.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2025

While many brokerage leaders experiment with reimagined commission models and marginal tweaks, The Real Brokerage is playing a different game altogether. Only three years ago, The Real Brokerage was ranked for the first time on the RealTrends Verified Brokerage Rankings. Were going deep into pure tech innovation.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2025

The Real Brokerage has named Ravi Jani as its new chief financial officer. His appointment is effective immediately and follows the departure of former CFO Michelle Ressler , who was terminated amid an ongoing internal investigation. As CFO, Ravi will be instrumental in driving our next chapter of growth, margin expansion and value creation.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

One of the nation’s fastest-growing real estate brokerages announced a pending leadership change on Wednesday. Sharran Srivatsaa , president of The Real Brokerage , will be transitioning from his current role to the company’s board of directors effective June 1. Its volume soared from $14.4 billion to $21.2

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

According to the complaint, Newhart and the other defendants transferred “things of value,” specifically underpriced, nonvoting stock in Newhart-owned mortgage brokerages to real estate agents and brokers, who in return referred their clients back to the Newhart-owner mortgage brokerages. And Newhart is fighting back.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

The new office, located in Newport Beach, California, includes 11 agents who joined from other brokerages , and it will be led by Christi Carrillo. Carrillo, who most recently worked at a Newport Beach boutique brokerage, said she views the expansion as an opportunity to tap a broader network of referrals.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

At the same time, agent counts at other publicly traded companies have exploded, with The Real Brokerage (+1,173%), Fathom Realty (+136.6%), Compass (+78.8%) and eXp Realty (+64.9%) leading the way. This dynamic makes many consumers willing to pay for a full-service brokerage, if for no other reason than to reduce their anxiety.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Real Brokerage is keeping attendees of RISE, its third annual agent conference, on their toes. It can also explain an agent’s payout on any transaction and is integrated with Real Academy, which will give agents access to the brokerage’s entire catalog of training sessions and workshops. and Canada.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

What has changed for real estate brokerages since then? 31, 2023, and has since reshaped the business practices for real estate brokerages and agents across the country. I’m hoping that this Halloween, when I’m taking my kids around trick-or-treating, it won’t be nearly as stressful,” Kelly said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2025

According to the announcement, Chris will be tasked with providing strategic counsel on strengthening relationships, building trust and enhancing collaboration with brokerage leaders. NAR said this outreach will focus on creating an open dialogue with brokerage leaders and finding more opportunities to better support NAR members.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Ryan Serhant ’s eponymous brokerage has been in rapid growth mode this year following the success of the Netflix show “Owning Manhattan,” and now investors want in on the action. Technologies, the umbrella company that includes the brokerage — will be used to develop the company’s AI platform known as S.MPLE. Ryan and the SERHANT.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

The Hooper commission lawsuit plaintiffs and the brokerage defendants that have reached proposed settlement agreements are looking to make things official. The four brokerages have agreed to business practice changes, as well as total payments of $44.05 Despite the criticism, eXp is not giving up without a fight.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2025

NWMLS also has a direct interest in limiting competition among Seattle area real estate brokers, as it is owned and controlled by competing real estate brokerages, including the largest traditional real estate brokerages in the Seattle area.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Leading real estate brokerage William Raveis is making another game-changing acquisition before the new year. This week, the firm announced the acquisition of Nantucket, Massachussetts -based brokerage Jordan Real Estate (JRE). Co-owners Gloria Grimshaw and David Callahan acquired the brokerage from founder Lucille Jordan in 2007.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Side has filed a preliminary injunction against Tal and Oren Alexander and their brokerage, Official Partners , that seeks to prevent them from dissipating, hiding or moving collateral for a loan that Side claims the brothers have defaulted on. The federal charges against them claim that the behavior dates as far back as high school.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This is especially true when various MLSs, brokerages and agents are taking their own approaches to dealing with the business practice changes. As Sharran Srivatsaa , the president of The Real Brokerage , sees it, there are two primary agent camps right now. Some of them are throwing hissy fits with this.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Whether youre running a large brokerage, managing a small team or working on your own, the right transaction management platform can take the worry out of compliance and lighten your workload. From managing compliance to automating commission disbursements, its built to grow with your brokerage.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Housing Rights Initiative (HRI) is taking aim at 165 real estate agents, brokerage firms and landlords in its latest series of lawsuits filed in Chicago. Defendants in the suit include major brokerage companies such as Coldwell Banker , Christies International Real Estate , Keller Williams and Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Chicago.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In 2011, he founded the innovative brokerage The Agency RE, and he recently launched a real estate agent trade group that aims to serve as an alternative to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). As an entrepreneur, Mauricio Umansky has displayed remarkable versatility. I think it’s going really well.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

FirstTeam , an independent real estate brokerage based in Southern California , has begun its national expansion by opening new offices in Idaho and Washington , with plans to establish operations in Arizona , Nevada , and Oregon. brokerages and is a founding member of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

There’s a reason why eXp Realty regards itself as the “the most agent-centric brokerage on the planet.” According to the brokerage, Caldwell is no slouch when it comes to sales volume. ” Caldwell is no stranger to brokerage network innovations. As Leo says, eXp is where The Pros Go to Grow.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Brokerages are scrambling to adapt to the post-settlement landscape of real estate, and more of them are turning to the same method for growing their headcount — acquiring new teams. The addition of teams is an efficient way for major brokerages to bolster agent counts and boost sales volumes on their income statements.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Haag, in communication with NWMLS employees, said that real estate brokerage firms in Washington state, as members of NWMLS, have agreed to share all property listings with the entire brokerage community and the public for more than 40 years. Northwest MLS has declined to adopt those misguided, exclusionary rules. They dont, he said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2025

Kelman notes, however, that this would differ from the coming soon listings idea supported by some brokerages , which would limit access to just agents and potentially only to the agents in the brokerage the listing belongs to. Kelman said Redfin is doing this because it believes that all buyers should be able to see all listings.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

In 2021 , Zillow made the switch from individual syndication agreements with brokerages to IDX feeds, allowing it to obtain data directly from MLSs. VOWing to find a solution Prior to IDX feeds, virtual office websites (VOWs) were the first iteration of brokerages putting listing data online. These can be provided by their broker.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This decline suggests that agents are increasingly hesitant to switch brokerages as we move deeper into the fall season. Agents Exiting the Industry: There may be an uptick in agents who are planning to leave the real estate industry altogether, reducing the pool of professionals interested in changing brokerages.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The Real Brokerage ‘s expansion trend has continued with another major acquisition. The digital brokerage platform announced on Monday the addition of Amerivest Realty , a Florida-based brokerage, adding 400 agents across Florida , Colorado , Minnesota and Wisconsin to Real’s platform.

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