Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2024

Fast-growing real estate firm The Real Brokerage announced the launch of its Real Partners program on Wednesday. The brokerage is still accepting applications for its partner program. Real Partners is a group of preferred vendors, tools and services for Real agents to utilize.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

Things just keep getting better, according to real estate brokers surveyed for the Q2 2024 HousingWire BrokerPulse survey , with 54% who are “optimistic” about the next three months in residential brokerage, compared to some 48% of those surveyed for the Q1 2024 HousingWire BrokerPulse survey who felt the same.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2024

Valuation in the residential brokerage industry has some characteristics that are unique when compared to other industries and businesses. First, the business of residential brokerage is highly dependent on the recruiting, retention and production of independent contractor sales agents. approach to value.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Photo credit: AJ Canaria Hilary Saunders , the co-founder and chief broker officer at Side , sees the current challenges facing the real estate industry as yet another opportunity for brokerage models to further evolve. “I The brokerage models have to adapt,” Saunders said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2024

Stamford, Connecticut -based independent brokerage NewBridge International Realty Group is affiliating with Coldwell Banker Realty , according to an announcement on Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

Co-founded by Sean Soderstrom, Dan Breitbach and Joe Urciuoli, the proptech company sells an AI-powered software platform to help real estate brokerages with their recruiting efforts. Courted identified three main problems with how brokerages have historically recruited agents. The company has expanded to 50 markets in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Top-producing mega team PREMIERE Group is joining fast-growing firm The Real Brokerage , according to an announcement on Monday. His vision of building a tech-first, agent-centric brokerage aligns with our mission at Real. PREMIERE was built to be a different kind of brokerage team, so this was not a move we entered lightly.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Brokerages took notice, resulting in a surge in companies and office locations competing for their share of listings, according to CoreLogic multiple-listing service data shared exclusively with HousingWire. In this environment of high rates and tight inventory, brokerages have had to become sharp elbowed.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Real Brokerage continues to add to its agent count. Hettich got his start in real estate at a large national brokerage, while Théard has a successful career as an agent at a small local boutique firm. “By Lafayette, Louisiana-based District South Real Estate Co. has joined Real, according to an announcement on Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

eXp Realty has acquired Broker’s LLC , a 500-agent independent brokerage based in South Florida and founded by Claudia Serna, eXp announced on Thursday. Originally from Colombia, Serna founded Broker’s LLC in 2004 and grew her independent brokerage to more than 500 agents throughout South Florida.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2024

” Chris Cox , chief technology and digital officer at Keller Williams , said the brokerage’s mantra is to put “data that we have to work to make our agents more successful.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

With home sales still at historically low levels and uncertainty over the commission lawsuits , real estate brokerage executives prize good leads more than ever. To convert these leads into business, the brokerage developed teams — also called units — headed by captains who are successful agents with high lead conversion rates.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

It is unsurprising, then, that Texas has seen a boom in new real estate brokerage offices in the past five years. 1 brokerage by listing count from 2019 through 2023. The top 10 brokerages in Dallas by listing count were responsible for 12,145 listings in 2023. of the MLS listings held by these brokerages in 2019 to 7.2%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

The remaining brokerage defendants in the Batton 2 homebuyer commission lawsuit filed a joint motion to dismiss the suit last week. This is the second time the remaining defendants have looked to get the case dismissed.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

With market uncertainty, real estate agents had been sticking with their current brokerage., According to Relitix’s Agent Movement Index continues to rise on a seasonally adjusted basis as agents begin switching brokerages at a faster rate than 2023. but that’s all starting to change. respectively.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

Michael Saleh, a former senior vice president of Rocket Mortgage who spent about two decades at the company, has transitioned from the retail lending channel to wholesale by launching independent brokerage firm Zoom Home Lending. Each LO is closing 12 loans per month with an eventual goal of 15 to 20.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

Real estate agents appear to be more open to changing brokerages in 2024 compared to last year, according to a recent Coldwell Banker survey. Agents cited several reasons that could compel them to switch brokerages. The survey also examined agents’ priorities when choosing a brokerage to affiliate with.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2024

The nation’s eighth-largest brokerage today announced a merger between existing affiliate United Real Estate I DFW Properties and Fort Worth-based Stryve Realty. United Real Estate is growing in Dallas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

The top-producing Suarez Team is joining real estate firm The Real Brokerage , according to a company announcement on Wednesday. Real president Sharran Srivatsaa expressed his enthusiasm in welcoming the Suarez Team to his brokerage. “I Before joining Real, the team was affiliated with Keller Williams Beverly Hills. 14 for volume.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

Fast-growing, publicly traded The Real Brokerage announced Monday that it had reached a settlement agreement with the plaintiffs in the Umpa commission lawsuit. The brokerage will pay $9.25 The Real Brokerage closed $14.4 The Umpa suit is the only commission lawsuit in which Real has been named as a defendant.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

In the competitive world of real estate recruitment, brokerages fight for the attention and loyalty of talented agents who can drive their success. As the lifeblood of the industry, agents play an important role in attracting clients, closing deals and determining the ultimate profitability of a brokerage.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

Boutique luxury brokerage Tate Property Group has joined Coldwell Banker , the company announced last week. The Austin , Texas-based brokerage was founded in 2008 by Pat Tate, who will be jumping to Coldwell Banker with her son, Drew Tate, and three other agents. The group will relocate to the Coldwell Banker’s Westlake office.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Relitix’s Agent Movement Index continues to rise on a seasonally adjusted basis as real estate agents continue the trend of switching brokerages at a faster rate than 2023. Trends in the relative movement of experienced real estate agents between brokerages are an important strategic consideration for brokerage and franchise leaders.

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MARCH 22, 2024

Each year, RealTrends Verified identifies the country’s most successful residential real estate brokerages, teams and agents – verifying transaction sides and closed sales volume for top-performing real estate brokerages — to give you the full picture of real estate performance.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2024

In 2018, the brokerage onboarded RE/MAX Heritage in Yarmouth, Maine , led by Mike Lepage. As a result, Davin’s brokerage boasts 165 agents all over Maine and on the seacoast of New Hampshire. The brokerage has been ranked as one of the top private independents in the country by RealTrends in 2024.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

Through this merger , Corcoran Baer & McIntosh will welcome Woodward Realty Group’s 26 agents, bringing the brokerage ’s agent count to more than 130. Corcoran Baer & McIntosh , a franchisee of Corcoran Group based in New York City , acquired New Jersey -based Woodward Realty Group , the companies announced on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

First Team Real Estate , the largest independent brokerage in California , left Christie’s International Real Estate , the company first told Inman on Wednesday. Additionally, the independent brokerage is enabling its agents to market luxury listings on Luxury Portfolio International , a company First Team helped create.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

With its supercharged growth over the past two years, it is no surprise that The Real Brokerage topped the 2024 RealTrends 500 Top Movers list for both transaction side count and sales volume. But for Real, which runs a virtual brokerage model with revenue sharing for its agents, the goal is to get better, not necessarily bigger.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

But all of that changed on Thursday, when Whaley’s counsel filed an amended complaint naming 15 brokerages as defendants. The Brokerage Defendants also serve an essential role in the conspiracy by executing the conspiracy’s objectives on the ground,” the complaint states. “In

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Like with most things in life, real estate brokerages come in a variety of shapes and size, from white-glove service firms to discount brokerages to flat-fee firms that offer al a carte services. Every big brokerage has some of them, but if you think about some of the most productive agents, a lot of them sit on Compass’ platform.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

In real estate brokerage, growth is the name of the game and for 2024 (based on 2023 data), The Real Brokerage and The Agency are winning that game. Obviously, brokerages grow in a multitude of ways, with agent movement/recruiting being just one. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices RW Towne Realty also had a strong showing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

In fact, the sweet spot for acquisitions over the next couple of years is going to be the small one-office brokerage firms.” With the headwinds facing the real estate industry, Wright and Murray believe smaller brokerage firms will be looking for a place to land, making acquisitions a possibility for even one-office, 25 agent firms.

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2024

At the center of the appeal is Bough’s denial of the Burton suit plaintiffs’ motion to alter or amend the order granting final approval to the brokerage defendants’ settlement agreements. Cheatham, Robert Douglass, Douglas Fender and Dena Fender.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

Fast-growing firm The Real Brokerage is welcoming yet another top-performing agent to the company. Arizona-based David Newman and his 12-member team, David Newman Partners, are moving to The Real Brokerage, according to an announcement on Wednesday. He and his team were most recently brokered at Hague Realty in Scottsdale.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

FresYes Realty , one of California ‘s top real estate agent teams, has left the indie ranks to join The Real Brokerage. Farris, a Tom Ferry Team Coach , is also bringing his weekly FresYes Insider newsletter to the virtual brokerage. Founded in 2014, The Real Brokerage serves 49 states, D.C., million in volume.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

New England-based independent brokerage Bean Group has made the leap to eXp Realty. It is the first brokerage to join eXp Realty through Boost, eXp’s newly released brokerage incentive program. Bean Group, which had been affiliated with LeadingRE , is one of the top brokerages in Northern New England.

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