Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

In the motion, the Batton plaintiffs argue that the three settling brokerage firms “did not reveal their intent to release homebuyer claims” until Friday and didn’t reveal that they planned to specifically prevent the Batton 1 plaintiffs from pursuing their claims until Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

Real estate brokerage William Raveis has returned to the acquisitions business. As operating partners, we help agents succeed with our world-class coaching, marketing, and innovations like Raveis365, a one-of-a-kind communication and technology platform developed exclusively for us by Microsoft.“ Our business model is unique.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

My name is (your name), and I’m a licensed real estate professional with (your brokerage). Emails are easily forgotten, end up in the spam folder, or are never opened at all — but a letter in the mail ensures you occupy your audience’s mindshare for much longer. Access to a hyper-local agent is more important now than ever.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Additionally, like the three other brokerage firms that have already settled, Compass has agreed to make changes to its business practices as part of the settlement. Compass recorded $227.977 billion in sales volume in 2022, according to RealTrends data. This story is developing. million total from the four other settlements.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A common thought among brokers revolves around the idea that if your gross commission income or office size is not increasing, you’re not successfully growing your brokerage. 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

MARCH 15, 2024

Mortgage pros have closely monitored the commission lawsuit developments since a Kansas City, Missouri jury determined that NAR, HomeServices of America , and Keller Williams conspired to inflate or maintain high commission rates through NAR’s so-called Participation Rule. You should be finding buyers before real estate agents anyway.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2023

Recruitment is a crucial determinant of growth and success for real estate brokerages. Like your customer, the recruitment process can be visualized as a sales funnel, where potential recruits enter at the top, and the best-suited agents emerge at the bottom as ideal members of your team or brokerage.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Real Brokerage has appointed Christian Wallace as chief of integrated home services, the company announced on Thursday. Prior to joining the brokerage , Wallace worked at some of the leading companies in the industry, such as Rocket Homes , Better.com , Opendoor and Farmers Insurance. At Rocket Homes where Wallace worked from Feb.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The ongoing housing market decline, which saw existing-home sales fall 36% in 2022 alone (on a seasonally adjusted annual basis) and 41% overall to September’s low, is the sharpest (though not the deepest) in the history of this industry. As such, it certainly feels like that pendulum is a labrys slicing through our brokerage firms.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

In the newly proposed rules handed down in October, the H4P program would, in certain circumstances, allow for inclusion of an interested party contribution of up to 6% of a home’s sale price. But after concerns were brought to the attention of policymakers during the proposal’s comment period, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The brokerage noted that Lim will remain at Christie’s as a senior advisor and global brand ambassador, working to expand the relationship between the real estate business and the auction house, among other duties. Since leaving Compass in 2022 after a seven-year stint, he has consulted for real estate brokerages and proptech firms.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

last year, has joined brokerage firm UMortgage , the company announced on Tuesday. He’ll join forces with fellow veteran loan originator Jay Bunte in the brokerage firm. years and did some other sales jobs before joining the mortgage space about a decade ago. Arizona-based Gade, a graduate of the U.S. and Paramount Bank.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2023

Maggie Wu has returned to Compass , and she’s bringing her four-person The W Team to the New York brokerage. In December 2021, she had left Compass to join the young brokerage SERHANT. With the move, Wu returns to where she began her career as junior partner on the Jing Chen Team in 2019. where she launched her own team.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

I have spoken numerous times over the past 35 years about the fairness and efficiency of what I refer to as the Realtor marketplace , which is a combination of a multiple listing service with Realtor association oversight, supported by a majority of brokerage firms and sales agents. Buyers may begin to go directly to listing agents.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2023

In this business practice, real estate brokerage firms offer homeowners a small upfront payment in exchange for the exclusive right to list and sell the property in the future. They risk facing a penalty of 3% of their property value if the property is transferred, or if they use another brokerage firm in the sale of the home.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In response to the marketplace and at the urging of consumer advocates, NAR began to develop guidance for local MLS broker marketplaces as part of what always has been a very involved and public rule-making process aimed at creating the most consumer-friendly market possible. As the trial of Burnett v.

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Broke Agent Media

JANUARY 17, 2023

If you’ve decided to join a brokerage in your market, what you bring to the table is not the only thing that matters. Researching your brokerage options. Don’t be the person to ask questions that can easily be Googled or found on a brokerage’s website. . Double-digit sales. Double-digit reviews.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2023

Founded in 2018, key features of Bonzo include a campaign builder to conduct personal and customized outreach at scale; messaging that supports voice, video and text; an ad builder for Google and Facebook ; and a pipeline dashboard to organize the sales process. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 24, 2022

Christie’s International Real Estate is finalizing the sale of its company-owned Manhattan brokerage office to Brown Harris Stevens, the company has announced. Sale to Brown Harris Stevens. The acquisition included a 20-agent company-owned brokerage office in New York City.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Right now, the first suit to go to trial should be the Sitzer lawsuit (named after its lead plaintiff), which was scheduled to begin on February 21, 2023, but at the request of Anywhere (referred to as Realogy in all court filings), it has been postponed indefinitely, as reported by Real Estate Reporter Brooklee Han. Judge Stephen R. Bough of U.S.

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The Close

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Today’s sophisticated agents want more from their real estate brokerage than just the basic file review, supervision, and commission disbursement. So if you don’t want your brokerage to get left in the dust, you will need to step up the real estate services you provide. You’ll quickly overload yourself and your staff. Let’s dive in.

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Realty Biz

OCTOBER 2, 2023

David has been named as one of the top 100 producers in Lake Norman real estate sales and earned the Top Negotiator Award in 2020 from HomeLight. Nancy will focus on recruiting, retention and professional development. David is a top producer in Charlotte and has earned multiple production awards over the course of his 20-year career.

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The Close

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Are you considering taking the leap of faith and heading out on your own, but you don’t know if you should start your own brokerage from scratch or purchase a real estate franchise? In my 28-year real estate career, I have built two independent brokerages and was an investor in two franchises with Keller Williams Realty.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The splashy buy further situates Zillow as more than a website with pictures of homes for sale, but a competitor to real estate brokerages. The Seattle-based company announced in September Zillow Homes, a traditional brokerage business, hiring agents in Phoenix, Tuscon, and Atlanta. and Canada use their software.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2022

The acquisition is intended to enable Seattle-based Redfin to expand its loans products nationally, as it wants to be a one-stop-shop for brokerage and lending. The acquisition is intended to enable Seattle-based Redfin to expand its loans products nationally, as it wants to be a one-stop-shop for brokerage and lending.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2021

The buy is Compass’s first since the residential brokerage started publicly trading shares earlier this month. Glide, which was founded in 2017, provides tools like eSignature and the digitization of sales processing forms. Unclear is whether the California MLS may renege its relationship with Glide.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2021

REX grabbed national attention in March when the residential real estate brokerage filed a lawsuit alleging an antitrust conspiracy between listings giant Zillow and the powerful National Association of Realtors. The brokerage has “Co-listed properties with MLS agents to increase the online presence of client’s listings.”.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

News just broke that private equity investor LLR Partners announced strategic investments in two mortgage technology companies — Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang ( click here for article ). million investment in eOriginal, a multi-year Tech100 winner that developed a ‘simple closing experience for lenders, borrowers and settlement agents.’

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

The chief executive officer for real estate brokerage Side announced a fresh $50 million in venture capital money spearheaded by ultra-prolific financier Tiger Global Management. For many years, everyone thought brokerage was ripe for major disruption,” said Gilles Duranton, real estate professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

Real estate still relies on a “system” unable to integrate production across the silos of media, brokerage, lending, insurance and trading. The GSE’s $8B profit in 2Q could buy most of the brokerage industry. Lenders should expect to redesign workflows and business rules to determine if a loan is “Fit 4 Sale.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To begin with, his reputation for excellence is ironclad: over a decade of experience as a real estate broker and over $300,000,000 in total sales. In 2024, Tate received Coldwell Banker’s International President’s Premier Award representing the company’s top 1% of all sales professionals. So let your personality shine.

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Realty Biz

JANUARY 4, 2023

People have developed new digital behaviors and now expect: to have information about properties available in real-time online. A Real Estate Portal, Multiple Listing System (MLS), or simply marketplace is an online medium where real estate agents list their properties for sale or rent. What is a Real Estate Portal?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In mid-May 2022, REX ceased its brokerage operations. After nearly 10 days of trial proceedings, Zillow is ready for its years-long legal battle with REX Real Estate to be over. District Court in Seattle hearing the trial.

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Real Trends

MARCH 3, 2023

The Real Brokerage is celebrating a new addition, with the largest team to date joining the firm. The 20- person Jason Martin Group announced Thursday that it was leaving @properties to join The Real Brokerage. million in sales volume in 2021. The post The Real Brokerage welcomes its largest team appeared first on RealTrends.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

Scaling lead generation with AI In the fast-paced and competitive market we’re experiencing today, effective lead generation can be the make or break of a brokerage. Their all-in-one platform allows agents to send out mailers to leads at scale, with personalized copy developed by AI and hand-written notes produced by robots.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Motto Mortgage, a national mortgage brokerage franchise, and wemlo , a mortgage processing solution with an all-in-one digital platform, tapped Chris Erickson as vice president of product and strategy for both brands this week. Edelen most recently was a regional sales manager at Nations Lending.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In August, the company acquired the brokerage Superior Rate Mortgage of New England. Also in August, Movement announced new hires in the sales executive team , such as 34-year veteran Sarah Middleton to the new position of chief growth officer to attract, onboard and develop sales leaders.

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