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

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Facing a challenging housing market can be daunting for agents and loan officers alike. As industry professionals grapple with uncertainties, market shifts and evolving dynamics, the key to thriving lies not only in adapting to change but also in embracing it as an opportunity for growth.

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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

MAY 17, 2024

Conversations across panels, roundtables, announcements, and everywhere in between seemed to trend toward the same general topic: How do we make the most of a market that continues to offer as many challenges as it does chances? Further, 76% of consumers stated that they feel frustrated when this expectation goes unmet.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

William Shakespeare said it well: “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” For me, running a brokerage , handling complex real estate deals, negotiating contracts and navigating the dynamic landscape of high-stakes transactions are all in a day’s work. The discomfort zone is the growth zone.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Although high mortgage rates, elevated home prices and limited housing inventory have crippled the 2023 housing market, the outlook for 2024 is brighter, according to Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors (NAR). “The bond market is forcing the Fed to pivot.”

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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. “We are the storm,” the text read. Timing is a fool’s game.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

To me, branding a company is a chance to define yourself for the market and build a recognizable and memorable identity. While you can develop name recognition over time, I believe that naming your team or brokerage something other than the leader’s name allows more opportunity for scale and differentiation. Think again.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

At this early stage, it’s unclear how such commissions would be paid since buyers could pay their agents out of their pockets or negotiate commissions as a seller concession in the closing costs. NAR said that the changes , if approved by the court, will go into effect in mid-July 2024.

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Realty Biz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Suddenly there was a brilliant and dramatic explosion of light as the side boosters separated, falling to earth and the second stage roared to life propelling the massive craft into space. Shortly afterward, I was speaking with a successful broker about changes within her brokerage and the local market when the similarities struck me.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

“We started this process back in June when I resigned our NAR board seat, which are appointed to the top 50 brokerages in the country,” Rath told HousingWire in an interview Tuesday. That is really when we started the process of evaluating where we can drop memberships for our agents. There is a lot of unwinding to do there.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The Austin, Texas-headquartered real estate brokerage closed 1.22 Keller executives touted during a company meeting Monday that the 38-year-old brokerage made inroads with the luxury market last year: Keller posted over 25,000 closed transactions north of $1 million, a 34 percent gain from the prior year.

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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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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

We curated a shortlist of the top real estate podcasts that provide useful information for agents at every stage of their careers. Whether you’re looking to stay informed or motivated, gain market insights, or learn strategies from the masters — our list of the best real estate podcasts for agents can help you level up your business in 2024.

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The Close

JUNE 3, 2022

One of the many marketing strategies that new listing agents struggle with, home staging is probably the most challenging. Hiring a professional stager is expensive, and DIY staging is something of a mystery for most new listing agents. to get the best home staging tips for 2022. Download Home Staging Tips & Guide.

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The Close

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Opening your own brokerage is a huge milestone in your real estate career. However, if you don’t accurately estimate your real estate brokerage expenses, your startup dream can quickly become a nightmare. In my 28-year career in real estate, I have launched or coached more than 20 startup real estate brokerages.

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The Close

OCTOBER 24, 2023

So you’re thinking you want to switch real estate brokerages in the new year, but you’re not sure how or where to start? When I knew I needed to make a change, I had no idea which brokerage I would choose, when the right time would be, or where to start. Are your goals and direction not aligned with your brokerage or team anymore?

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Marco Santarelli

OCTOBER 23, 2023

If you are thinking of starting or expanding your own real estate brokerage, you might be wondering how profitable this business can be. The answer is not simple, as profitability depends on many factors, such as market conditions, location, competition, and business strategies. Is owning a real estate brokerage profitable?

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RIS Media

DECEMBER 30, 2020

I was a team leader at Keller Williams and wanted to own my own brokerage, so I investigated several other large brokerages and found RE/MAX to be the best fit for me because they let me operate the way I like to run the brokerage while still giving me large company support. Please describe the experience. . Time-block.

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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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Propmodo

JUNE 22, 2023

For the first time in history, New York County, which encompasses the island of Manhattan, had the highest number of early stage startups in the U.S. At the same time, in San Francisco, where the office market is heavily weighted toward the tech industry, tech companies have been shrinking their footprints or relocating altogether.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

Take your customers on virtual tours Virtual property tours are essential in real estate marketing, and these tours leverage VR technology’s power. Moreover, properties featuring 3D tours spend less time on the market — typically around one-third less time — and agents can secure higher selling prices.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2022

“People used to talk about Compass all the time,” said Jonathan Miller, a real estate appraiser at Miller Samuel , who compiles housing market reports for Douglas Elliman , a Compass rival. The real estate brokerage unveiled its first annual report Monday, a federally required document for any public company. And there’s a $21.3

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

brokerage firms. In addition, HW Media will be home to the industry’s leading journalists and creators, charged with building communities and serving audiences across digital media brands, virtual and live-event stages, and social media and podcast platforms. HW Media currently publishes HousingWire and FinLedger.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Anywhere Real Estate partnered with agent-client collaboration platform RealScout to allow the company’s affiliated real estate agents and franchise owners “to engage, nurture, and convert clients at each stage of the real estate journey,” according to an announcement on Friday.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 6, 2021

I was a land developer first (and still am), but as a land developer and a broker with a small brokerage, the reality is that I could not compete without technology. Another big push for us is getting market information to our agents, so we designed a program that allows them to learn about the market quickly.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

However, there is an opportunity in the closing process for better integration between platforms to improve communication and sharing of documents between the brokerage, lender and closing company, each of which has its own process and technology, to relieve some of that stress. For more information, click here.

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RIS Media

APRIL 29, 2021

The real estate brokerage model has its roots in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Unfortunately, some brokerages are still stuck in the “good old days,” with systems, processes and marketing that haven’t changed much over the decades. Brand your brokerage. Update your brokerage’s technology.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Chris had the idea to talk about “discount brokerages,” and I thought it was great. Chris had the idea to talk about “discount brokerages,” and I thought it was great. Alternative Brokerage Models: Are We Trying to Solve a Problem That Doesn’t Exist?

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RIS Media

AUGUST 27, 2021

As technology and data continue to transform the real estate industry and spur competition, some brokerage concierge programs have been developed to provide their agents a leg up. They also make more money for clients, their agents and, of course, brokerages. Olivia Mariani is the director of Marketing at Curbio. Agent Stress.

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RIS Media

MARCH 11, 2021

That can minimize the importance of true branding for many people when they create their marketing strategy—but branding your brokerage is crucial to building a business that will withstand changes in the market. In many ways, our phones have replaced our televisions, which is great news for your brokerage.

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RIS Media

APRIL 1, 2021

As the real estate landscape continues to evolve, and as consolidation continues to rise, it’s crucial to prepare your brokerage for the future by cementing a strategy for business expansion while creating a valuable asset. Brokers need to build bigger brokerages consistently. Partnerships. Technology.

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GeekEstate

OCTOBER 29, 2021

I’m excited to release Thomvest’s real estate technology market map, which includes more than 240 companies operating within the residential real estate segment. This is the third update to the market map and includes over 100 additional companies — a testament to the pace of entrepreneurship in this segment.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

The public is demanding a broker that offers the same cost savings and efficiencies in the real estate market that they receive everywhere else. Many economists are predicting low mortgage rates for an extended period of time which will keep the red-hot seller’s market intact indefinitely.

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RIS Media

APRIL 25, 2021

” In 2008, Hazzi noticed a gap in the market and founded his boutique firm. .” ” In 2008, Hazzi noticed a gap in the market and founded his boutique firm. Hazzi admits that he was “very scared” last March when things ground to a halt, the stock market dropped, and everyone was getting laid off.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2023

Profitability has been a sore spot for Robert Reffkin and his brokerage, Compass. Reffkin doesn’t shy away from the fact that the brokerage has received billions in venture capital and debt. He’s grateful for it, but also knows the days of red ink must end. “We Affordability has become the number one problem.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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