Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2025

NWMLS is a broker-owned MLS and is the only MLS in the country that prohibits agents from marketing a property on the internet privately or publicly unless its listed in the MLS. Unlike NARs CCP, NWMLS does not allow agents to withhold listings from the MLS as privately marketed office exclusives. State law supersedes MLS rules.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

As a result, we’re now only 21% fewer homes on the market than this point in 2019. Last year, the unsold inventory was piling up each week; this year the market is much more stable. Overall, the days spent on market is 24% higher now than a year ago. 66 vs. 53 days. Affordability is not catching any break.

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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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Sales Mortgages Days on market As-is 348

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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Marketing MLS Brokerage Days on market 270

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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Marketing Days on market Industrial As-is 363

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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Brokerage MLS Days on market Residential 380

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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Marketing Days on market Sales As-is 543

Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

Oh, and it’s also getting smarter and faster every day. Unlike humans, ChatGPT is getting smarter at breathtaking speed: What you can (and can’t) do with ChatGPT in 2025 While we expect our assessment to change in the next 10 minutes, as of today, we think ChatGPT’s best use case is for real estate marketing.

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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

MAY 6, 2025

We believe that delayed marketing will create customer confusion and we are not participating, Pareja said. On April 10, we announced our partnership with Zillow , where we committed to launching all eXp listings on the first day of advertising. Every decision, every investment, every innovation is filtered through that lens.

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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

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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MLS Brokerage Days on market Industrial 234

Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2025

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, Reffkin wrote in an email to HousingWire in late March. But now the industry has its answer. The only change is that consumers will need to be logged-in to those sites.

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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

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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Sales Days on market Mortgages Lending 541

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

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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Sales Days on market Investor Mortgages 538

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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Sales Days on market Mortgages Investor 473

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

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

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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Days on market Loans Sales Mortgages 538

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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MLS Design Days on market Agents 243

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

We did two other significant deals earlier this year Latter & Blum and Parks Real Estate , who were also leaders in their respective regions and markets. Compass has been vocal about its desire to make significant market share gains , and Golod says its latest acquisition certainly wont hurt.

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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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Days on market Mortgages Land Marketing 456

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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Days on market Sales Mortgages As-is 458

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

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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Marketing Investor Sales Days on market 542

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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Marketing Sales Days on market Mortgages 539

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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MLS Brokerage Agents Sales 259

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

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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Marketing Days on market As-is 508

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

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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Marketing VA loan Days on market Loans 432

HomeLight

MAY 14, 2025

Fast facts about selling a house as is in Vermont Median sales price in Vermont $430,000 Average days on market (DOM) for Vermont 36 Disclosures Vermont law requires sellers to disclose material facts about the property through the Sellers Property Information Report. Looking to sell a house as is” in Vermont?

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HomeLight

MAY 15, 2025

Whitney is known for completing transactions 42% faster than the average agent in their market. It used to be that first-time homebuyers made up the majority of the market, but in recent years, especially last year, downsizers outnumbered first-time buyers. Looking to sell a house as is in Plymouth? Real estate transfer taxes?

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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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Marketing Sales Days on market Mortgages 545

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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Marketing Sales Days on market Mortgages 545