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 25, 2025

As such, unlike NARs CCP which allows for office exclusives, NWMLSs does not, leading to Compass claiming that it has the most restrictive homeowner marketing rules in the country. Outside of Washington, homeowners can choose to list their home as a Compass Private Exclusive or Compass Coming Soon and receive the benefits of pre-marketing.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

The thing to keep in mind for the housing market as we roll into March is that mortgage rates have been easing down. The 30-year fixed mortgage has followed suit, recently falling as low as 6.75%, the lowest level since mid-December. Our weekly pending home sales data continues to run about 3% below last year. Thats a pretty notable swing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2025

The CCP requires listing brokers to share a listing to the MLS within 24 hours of publicly marketing the property. However, the policy allows for office exclusives which can be marketed to other agents in the same brokerage and in one-on-one communication with agents at other firms. What is CCP?

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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. An open, fair, transparent, and comprehensive marketplace benefits all market participants, including sellers, buyers, brokers, and appraisers. Northwest MLS has declined to adopt those misguided, exclusionary rules.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The updates include a customizable Housing Market Data tool that gives users the power to customize charts and data on the HousingWire site and a gifting tool that allows subscribers to share news and articles with people in their network without a HousingWire subscription.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2025

Under MREDs policies, a property had to be listed on the MLS within 24 hours of it being publicly marketed, but agents and sellers had the option to put it on a MREDs private network, which allows other MLS subscribers to see the listing, but it does not syndicate it, allowing the seller more control over how the listing is marketed.

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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. At one point, a poll asked the hundreds in the audience: What are your thoughts on Clear Cooperation?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2025

As MLSs across the country work to implement the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Multiple Listing Options for Sellers (MLOS) policy, brokerages and some Realtor associations are busy creating the new disclosures needed for delayed marketing exempt listings.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As we approach the end of another hot year for the market, homebuyers and sellers are eagerly looking ahead to the 2022 housing market. Will the market continue its streak of strong growth, or are we finally about to see a slow down? I actually expected immediate sales to be dropping at this point, but it isn’t.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2025

This shift is prompting real estate professionals and consumers alike to reevaluate implications of this marketing approach. Office exclusives, also known as private or pocket listings , refer to residential properties that are marketed privately rather than being broadly shared through the Multiple Listing Service (MLS).

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

At Bright MLS , Compass said agents are allowed to market office-exclusive listings on the MLS. Compass wrote that this ensures participation / sharing with agents who participate in that MLS while giving agents and sellers greater flexibility in marketing a property. NAR is expected to vote on CCP in the coming weeks.

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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. If a listing is publicly marketed but unavailable on IDX feeds for any length of time it will not be able to be displayed on Zillow any time during the life of the listing.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

Is the home being marketed effectively? Is the price aligned with current market conditions? Here are the initial items to check on: Marketing photos and description: Start by reviewing your marketing strategy. These markets are very local and can last weeks, months or years. Does it show well?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2025

Under what NAR is calling its MLS Listing Options for Sellers policy , sellers will have the option to delay marketing their listing publicly as long as they sign the required disclosure. Expanding choice means that NAR is still not letting homeowners choose precisely how to market their homes, but this is a small step in the right direction.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Another positive data line is that the days on market are above 30 days, which is something I would love to see year-round. The days on market are very seasonal, but we haven’t had the days on market stay over 30 days year-round since 2020, which is a reflection of active listings still being near all-time lows.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

However, in 2020 new listing data came back, and we don’t want to see the new listings continue to decline this year — that would be a double negative for the housing market. Days on market growing One of the reasons I called the housing market savagely unhealthy in 2022 was that houses flew off the shelves once they were listed.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

If home sales moderate from these levels, that would be perfectly normal to me because clearly now the existing home sales market is outperforming my expectations with these last two sale prints. The National Association of Realtors ‘ existing home sales report for October came in at a solid beat of estimates at 6.34 million and 6.2

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

In 2021, HousingWire published an article spotlighting Austin as one of the hottest housing markets in the country. 1 in population growth for eight straight years and The Wall Street Journal named it the hottest job market in 2019 and 2020. Contrast that with June 2022, when the average was a mere 29 days.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2022

This level, while historically still low, will mean the days on market will go higher, and this will give people choices. Here are two charts from the National Association of Realtors that will show that homes simply come off the market too fast to give housing a breather. million and 6.16 million and 6.16

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2024

Let’s keep it simple: total active listings are still below 2019 levels nationally, and the days on market are under 30 days today. Of course, the housing market didn’t have the credit sales boom it had from 2002-2005, but it lacked inventory. As you can see in our new listing data, we are showing growth.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

You can also position yourself as an expert in these life scenarios and use that in your marketing; this will attract motivated clients to you and keep you top of mind for referrals. This is a great option if you have a marketing budget and want to target sellers likely to sell in your zip code. Who are these motivated clients?

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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. This is when your buyers need you the most. Thats why having a definitive homebuying checklist is an essential part of your agent toolkit. Have you spoken to a lender? What is your reason for purchasing a new home?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The data examined below represents multiple listing service data and mortgage market analytics for San Diego County, as well as the state of California and the country as a whole from 2019 to 2023. Mortgage data paints a similar picture of the increasing competitiveness of the San Diego market. In 2022, however, only 55.3%

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2023

Just when I thought days on market were returning to normal, that number for existing homes fell back down to 22 days. If the days on the market are at a teenager level or even lower, it’s never a good sign for the housing market. This is why the days on the market are so low historically after 2020.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

To get the housing market to be sane and normal again, we need inventory to get back in a range between 1.52 – 1.93 million ; this is still historically low, but this gives the housing market a breather from the madness that we see today. One of the critical data lines that I want to see improve this year is days on market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2024

Although there is no doubt that business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) nationwide commission lawsuit settlement agreement are going to impact how real estate industry professionals operate, economists aren’t too sure they’ll have much bearing on the housing market. “I

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

We’ll also share best practices for developing and sending real estate newsletters and recommend some essential tools to make your email marketing stand out. Its up to us as agents to stay engaged and stay in contact with our clients. Lets dive in! Summary What is a real estate newsletter? Why send a regular real estate newsletter?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

“We are seeing some price drops start to happen and a little bit longer days on market.” Fontantella isn’t the only one seeing slower market conditions in Bergen County. The Altos Research Market Action Index score for the county has dropped from a 90-day average of 54.63 in early May to 47.88 as of Sept.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Stats are the fuel to the fire of the real estate market and will make you exude confidence in conversations with potential clientsmaking them feel confident in hiring you to represent them. This proves your expertise to clients and allows you to provide them with knowledge about the real estate market.

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HomeLight

APRIL 2, 2025

I would say sellers in this market have a pretty good understanding of what their home has to offer, and if they’re selling it as is, oftentimes they’re doing the things that they need to do to put the house on the market or the property on the market for an as-is sale, he adds. I don’t think so.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2020

Compared to last year , the housing market this year has seen some big changes. The hottest zip codes have bucked the national trend of a housing market slowdown during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Danielle Hale, realtor.com’s chief economist said in the report. Homes in these markets are on the market between seven and 25 days.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I would argue yes, and the housing market today looks a lot like what we saw in late 2022. I give more details in this interview on why I believe the housing market dynamics shifted on Nov. The days on market have always been a critical data line for me. However, the fact that this is over 19 days is a good thing.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

With a 90-day average median list price of $4.3 As of May 13, the median days on market for single-family properties in Santa Monica with a median price of $1.85 million (the lowest market segment) and a median price of $2.622 million was 35 days and 17 days, respectively.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

Much of the criticism surrounding CCP has been about how certain information (like days on market and price drop history) can supposedly have a negative impact on a listing. But Carter believes this information is vital for consumers, as days on market helps a buyer negotiate a price while helping a seller with pricing strategy.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Days on market fell from 36 days to 21 days on a year-over-year basis. The housing market is hot. I previously wrote that if we really saw cracks in the housing market, these are a few indicators to track and to beware of doom and gloom housing headlines. year over year. Don’t listen. The increase of 15.5%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2021

This also closed the books on 2020’s housing market as we finished out the year at 5,640,000 total existing-home sales — a 5.6% When I think about the 2020 housing market, the big take-home is not the V-shape recovery in many of the housing metrics or even the hotter-than-expected price growth. Inventory is at all-time lows of 1.9

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