Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

San Francisco-based real estate technology firm RealScout on Thursday announced that its making its RealScout Exclusives platform available to all brokerages. RealScout said that the nationwide launch of the platform follows years of successfully powering exclusive listing strategies for leading brokerages.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

A boutique real estate brokerage based in Kern County, California , has joined the Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate network. In recent years, it has built a reputation as a women-led brokerage with a focus on personalized service.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

The industry veterans describe it as an AI-driven platform for real estate team and brokerage valuations and sales. FIJI is the future of real estate brokerage valuations and M&A. Im also excited about the new FIJI AI tools that will give brokerages ongoing advice and support to reach their goals, Murray said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2025

The former chief financial officer of cloud-based real estate firm The Real Brokerage has filed a federal lawsuit alleging she was pushed out of the company after becoming pregnant and taking maternity leave.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

The move is part of a broader expansion strategy by the fast-growing brokerage , which gained recent attention through its feature on the Amazon reality series “Luxe Listings Toronto.” For years, the top 10% of agents have dominated the industry, yet traditional brokerages have failed to truly reward them in a real way.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

When I started my first brokerage in my late twenties, I was full of ambition but had no idea what to expect. If your dream is to own your own brokerage and manage a team of top-performing agents, leading your team to success means much more than hanging a new license on your wall. Now you have to do some tedious stuff.

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Housing Wire

JULY 3, 2025

Compass continues to welcome agents to the firm, this time via two independent brokerage integrations in Texas. The brokerage is also currently facing its fair share of legal challenges — including being named as a defendant in a telemarketing lawsuit. That’s on top of other courtroom battles with Northwest MLS and Zillow.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

While the commission lawsuits and the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) settlement occupied notable portions of 2024 for The Real Brokerage , impressive organic growth is the firm’s true highlight of the year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Processing is a big piece of what brokerages care about, so we have a copilot that we’re getting feedback on and plan to have six or seven copilots that will launch next year. We’ve trained our AI models to be extremely specific to help agents, brokerages and end customers as well. SW: Tell me more about your background.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2025

He said the first step is to identify which agents truly matter to the future of the brokerage. You’re just trying to grab onto a rock in markets like that. That’s what it feels like. Buffini: For us, it’s about sorting and qualifying the agents that you have. Who are the agents that you feel like you can’t lose?

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Real Estate News

JULY 1, 2025

The Real Brokerage and Realty ONE Group have each paid millions to home sellers, but now face litigation from buyers claiming they paid inflated prices.

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Real Estate News

JULY 4, 2025

Regional brokerages are seizing opportunities — and grabbing the mic — as consolidation and conflict shift the balance of power in residential real estate.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2025

The housing market continued to cool in May, with buyer leverage increasing across many regions of the country, according to a new survey from The Real Brokerage. Branding takes back seat to economics, culture Survey findings suggest that brand reputation plays a limited role in how agents choose a brokerage.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2025

Some brokerages have rules that disincentivize agents to join teams because they make more money if they stay solo. Others have restrictions that prevent agents already at the brokerage from joining teams. Some now operate at a scale that blurs the line between team and brokerage — coining terms like “teamerage.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2025

Two of Chicago’s largest independent real estate firms — Baird & Warner and Dream Town — have announced a merging of operations, creating a top residential brokerage in the region based on 2024 home sales , the companies said. 13 in the Top Private Independents in the 2025 RealTrends Verified top brokerage rankings.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

At the same time, agent counts at other publicly traded companies have exploded, with The Real Brokerage (+1,173%), Fathom Realty (+136.6%), Compass (+78.8%) and eXp Realty (+64.9%) leading the way. This dynamic makes many consumers willing to pay for a full-service brokerage, if for no other reason than to reduce their anxiety.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Ryan Serhant ’s eponymous brokerage has been in rapid growth mode this year following the success of the Netflix show “Owning Manhattan,” and now investors want in on the action. Technologies, the umbrella company that includes the brokerage — will be used to develop the company’s AI platform known as S.MPLE.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Leading real estate brokerage William Raveis is making another game-changing acquisition before the new year. This week, the firm announced the acquisition of Nantucket, Massachussetts -based brokerage Jordan Real Estate (JRE). Co-owners Gloria Grimshaw and David Callahan acquired the brokerage from founder Lucille Jordan in 2007.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2025

The Real Brokerage has not been shy when it comes to its technological ambitions. Last week, The Real Brokerage took another step toward its goal of providing agents an AI concierge service available to consumers via text message with its acquisition of Flyhomes ’ AI-powered home search portal.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Side has filed a preliminary injunction against Tal and Oren Alexander and their brokerage, Official Partners , that seeks to prevent them from dissipating, hiding or moving collateral for a loan that Side claims the brothers have defaulted on.

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Real Estate News

MAY 24, 2025

LeadingREs Jessica Edgerton explained how regional and family firms can excel by reacting to market changes quickly and building culture and trust.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Real Brokerage is keeping attendees of RISE, its third annual agent conference, on their toes. Additionally, the brokerage said it expects that Real Wallet users will have the opportunity to earn promotional rewards points that are redeemable toward reduced brokerage and transaction fees.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2025

Mountain Realty ERA Powered has acquired Miller & Associates Real Estate , an independent brokerage based in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. After nearly 20 years as a successful independent brokerage, I wanted to be able to offer my agents a steppingstone to even greater success,” Miller said in a statement. “As

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Whether youre running a large brokerage, managing a small team or working on your own, the right transaction management platform can take the worry out of compliance and lighten your workload. From managing compliance to automating commission disbursements, its built to grow with your brokerage.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

The Hooper commission lawsuit plaintiffs and the brokerage defendants that have reached proposed settlement agreements are looking to make things official. The four brokerages have agreed to business practice changes, as well as total payments of $44.05

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2025

A new report on real estate agent and brokerage performance in the first quarter of 2025 shows that agent movement accelerated dramatically in opening months of the year. It tracked thousands of agent movements across brokerage models and markets. Tech-enabled brokerages followed, drawing 22.6% Traditional brokerages held a 19.7%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2025

Birmingham, Michigan-based brokerage @properties REMI Christie’s International Real Estate is opening its 10th office in the state in July by expanding into the lakeside resort town of Traverse City. Leading the new Traverse City office is longtime area agent Molly Buttleman, who recently joined the firm from Coldwell Banker. leaders added.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2025

According to the announcement, Chris will be tasked with providing strategic counsel on strengthening relationships, building trust and enhancing collaboration with brokerage leaders. NAR said this outreach will focus on creating an open dialogue with brokerage leaders and finding more opportunities to better support NAR members.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Brokerages are scrambling to adapt to the post-settlement landscape of real estate, and more of them are turning to the same method for growing their headcount — acquiring new teams. The addition of teams is an efficient way for major brokerages to bolster agent counts and boost sales volumes on their income statements.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Housing Rights Initiative (HRI) is taking aim at 165 real estate agents, brokerage firms and landlords in its latest series of lawsuits filed in Chicago. Defendants in the suit include major brokerage companies such as Coldwell Banker , Christies International Real Estate , Keller Williams and Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Chicago.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

Owning a real estate brokerage may seem like a lucrative business, but in reality, many brokers struggle to turn a profit. High overhead costs One of the biggest obstacles broker-owners face is the high cost of running a brokerage. Well break down the key reasons why most broker-owners dont see the financial success they anticipated.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

What has changed for real estate brokerages since then? 31, 2023, and has since reshaped the business practices for real estate brokerages and agents across the country. “I’m I’m hoping that this Halloween, when I’m taking my kids around trick-or-treating, it won’t be nearly as stressful,” Kelly said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In 2011, he founded the innovative brokerage The Agency RE, and he recently launched a real estate agent trade group that aims to serve as an alternative to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). JA: With agent commissions poised to drop, a recent study showed that many brokerages would not be profitable at lower rates.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

There’s a reason why eXp Realty regards itself as the “the most agent-centric brokerage on the planet.” According to the brokerage, Caldwell is no slouch when it comes to sales volume. ” Caldwell is no stranger to brokerage network innovations. We are thrilled to welcome him and his team to eXp.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This is especially true when various MLSs, brokerages and agents are taking their own approaches to dealing with the business practice changes. As Sharran Srivatsaa , the president of The Real Brokerage , sees it, there are two primary agent camps right now. Some of them are throwing hissy fits with this.”

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