Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2025

A new report on real estate agent and brokerage performance in the first quarter of 2025 shows that agent movement accelerated dramatically in opening months of the year. It tracked thousands of agent movements across brokerage models and markets. Tech-enabled brokerages followed, drawing 22.6% Traditional brokerages held a 19.7%

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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

JULY 21, 2025

Real estate agents at two Bonner County, Idaho -based brokerages are facing charges of breaching fiduciary duty and engaging in a racketeering scheme with developers to sell defective homes. The lawsuit also names several real estate agents at both brokerages as well as employees of the developers and TitleOne as defendants.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The new “360-degree product experience” will help brokerages and real estate professionals access data, manage listings and ensure accuracy. With this update, independent MLSs, brokerages, agents, appraisers and affiliates can access auto-populated data without the risk of data duplication.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2025

In his new role, White will act as the primary liaison between real estate agents , attorneys and loan officers to support coordination across Baird & Warner’s brokerage , mortgage and title service divisions. “I’m Baird & Warner has named Bill White Jr. Bill White Jr. His father, Bill White Sr.,

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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.

Agents

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.

Industrial

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

As someone who has been working in real estate tech for the last 15 years, I can understand why today’s agents—and the team leaders and brokerage owners who manage them—may feel stuck, paralyzed by fear and uncertainty. One of the biggest challenges I continue to hear from brokers regarding technology is poor user and feature adoption.

Industrial

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.

Agents

Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2025

He said the brokerage is making its listings available through advancing programming interfaces (APIs) to all major real estate portals including Zillow, Redfin , Trulia and Homes.com to ensure maximum exposure for consumers. . Our North Star remains clear: to build the most agent-centric real estate brokerage on the planet, Sanford said.

Brokerage

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

However, in what Kelman says is an effort to preserve a sellers ability to control how their property is marketed, Redfin is also asking MLSs to create a coming-soon designation for listings that precludes search sites from showing how long a home has been for sale and at what prices.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2025

The new division is designed to support agents working in a growing sector of the housing market with tools tailored to land and ranch transactions. Land and ranch agents deserve more than just a traditional brokerage, said Taryn King, chair of the brokerage’s land and ranch agent advisory committee.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

Defunct discount brokerage REX Real Estate is not giving up in its antitrust battle against Zillow and the National Association of Realtors (NAR). REX believes the panels opinion is based on the absence of evidence of concerted action, and the conclusion that Zillow independently re-designed its website. It is appealing a U.S.

MLS

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

HomeLight is an Arizona -based real estate platform designed to connect agents with clients. One respondent said that “buyers are always short on money, and having to pay the agents commission can be difficult if a seller is not willing to pay their brokerage commission.” 30 and Nov.

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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.

Brokerage

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

They discuss the utility of artificial intelligence (AI) for the real estate industry, as well as JPARs solutions designed to enhance agent and brokerage performance. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. To kick things off, Marroquin explores her early involvement with artificial intelligence.

Technology

Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2025

Compass has entered into a partnership with renovation firm Chapter to integrate design and remodeling services into the home buying and selling processes across markets in New York, Florida, Connecticut and New Jersey. Buyers will gain access to estimates and design plans that help evaluate a property’s potential prior to purchase.

Renovation

Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

Michael Ketchmark , the lead plaintiffs counsel in the Gibson commission lawsuit against real estate brokerages, told Inman News that his firm is closely monitoring NAR s vote and will determine its next steps based on the outcome. And the decision comes under the shadow of a potential legal challenge. What’s next?

Brokerage

Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2025

In the ongoing debate over NAR’s Clear Cooperation Policy , one question looms large: who really benefits when a single agent or brokerage represents both sides of a real estate transaction? Many private listings ended up being double-ended deals. In Boston, for example, one firm controlled 17.1% of all listings.

Marketing

Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2025

It often involves coordinating with stagers, hiring photographers, waiting on edited media, producing videos, drafting descriptions, designing flyers, and uploading everything to the MLS. Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic add-on in real estate — it’s becoming core infrastructure. Each step introduces friction.

Marketing

Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2025

Brokers, also known as managing brokers, designated brokers or brokers-in-charge, are typically owners or supervisors of real estate brokerages. You must have a leadership mentality and the ability to see the bigger picture to grow your brokerage. Is scrolling homes on Zillow a favorite pastime of yours?

Property Management

Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2025

While the nation’s top real estate teams are found at a variety of brokerages, one brand dominated the 2025 RealTrends Verified Rankings. The systems they provide are designed to help teams grow strategically.” Like Gubb, Sauls has not turned a blind eye toward the tools, training and technology offered by other brokerages.

Brokerage

Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2025

Zillows adoption of this two-tab design in no-commingling markets was the source of an antitrust lawsuit from now-defunct discount brokerage REX Real Estate , as the two-tab design prevented REX listings from being viewed alongside MLS listings. The company began using an IDX feed to power its listing portal in 2021.

MLS

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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Marketing

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A group of current and former real estate executives have launched The Helm, a coaching platform designed to provide professional development to a more diverse audience. They allege that the brokerage repeatedly ignored complaints about the men due to their financial success.

Industrial

Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2025

The idea here is that if a brokerage is holding listings back, theyre only sharing those listings and publicly marketing those listings to buyers who work with them. Its literally designed to protect sellers and buyers! NextHome is joining eXp Realty in committing to Zillow s new listing standards.

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Real Estate News

JULY 30, 2025

Skip to Content Agents Brokerages MLS/Assn Tech Industry By the Numbers Consumer Illustration by Lanette Behiry/Adobe Stock Tech AI that replaces ‘human hires’; another brokerage deal for Canva Luxury Presence unveils “autonomous AI marketing team” for agents. Plus, Anywhere adopts Canva, York Baur joins Lone Wolf and more tech news.

Brokerage

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Is it best for consumers, (who anti-trust laws are designed to protect?) Are we comparing it to Compass’ gamesmanship ushering in a worst-case scenario where buyers need to go through 20 brokerage websites to see all that’s available? Does cc work? Do I benefit from it? Would I like it to stay in place? It depends.

MLS

Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2025

Some brokerages are what I sometimes think of as Lily Pads because theyre waystations where agents sometimes goalbeit brieflyto level up their commission splits. Lily Pad brokerages attract and recruit based on a higher split, but fail to retain a cohesive team because they dont lead with a culture focused on long-term career growth.

Branding

Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

The UPGRADE community an acronym for Unlock Potential, Grow Real Estate, And Design Everything is positioned as a multifaceted platform with a focus on personal development, health, business, leadership, investing and lifestyle. This is more than a move, its a mission, Williams said in a statement.

Brokerage

Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2025

NAR noted that the policy is designed to exist in conjunction with CCP, which requires listing brokers to list a property on the MLS within 24 hours of publicly marketing it. Our position has never been to dictate brokerage business models, Brian Donnellan, the president and CEO of Bright MLS, wrote in an email.

Industrial

Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2025

NWMLS announced the changes last week, stating in a press release that the changes were designed to “provide buyers and sellers with complete transparency regarding referral fees their brokers pay or receive in connection with their clients’ transactions.”

MLS

Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2025

Suzanne Rothman, who served as the designated broker KMS Realty, will serve as the managing broker of United Real Estate Specialist. Suzanne and her agents are complementary and additive to the brokerage,” Louis Parrish said in a statement. Ten days later, I merged my office.”

MLS

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

These rankings are designed to help top-performing agents and teams highlight their accomplishments within their specific local markets, enhancing their credibility where it matters most — close to home. Agents, Teams, and Brokerages must submit verifiable data in order to be ranked.

Agents

Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

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Staging

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Its important to understand how real estate teams work for you to decide whether its the right career move for you. Joining a team is a very personal decision. Our goal is to help educate you on what a real estate team is, how they work and the types of agents who thrive on teams. How do real estate teams work? Teams are led by a team leader.

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