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

APRIL 30, 2024

In the newly proposed rules handed down in October, the H4P program would, in certain circumstances, allow for inclusion of an interested party contribution of up to 6% of a home’s sale price. Broker perceptions Scott Harmes, the national manager of the reverse division at brokerage C2 Financial , believes that HUD’s changes are constructive.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

If you opt for the handwritten note option, I’d shorten this by removing the last paragraph and jumping straight from the data to the closing sentence. My name is (your name), and I’m a licensed real estate professional with (your brokerage). You’ll want to include the list price, sale price, and days on market. Great news!

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

last year, has joined brokerage firm UMortgage , the company announced on Tuesday. He’ll join forces with fellow veteran loan originator Jay Bunte in the brokerage firm. years and did some other sales jobs before joining the mortgage space about a decade ago. Arizona-based Gade, a graduate of the U.S. and Paramount Bank.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2023

Maggie Wu has returned to Compass , and she’s bringing her four-person The W Team to the New York brokerage. In December 2021, she had left Compass to join the young brokerage SERHANT. With the move, Wu returns to where she began her career as junior partner on the Jing Chen Team in 2019. where she launched her own team.

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RIS Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

A year ago, in March 2020, on the heels of an active January/February that set the year up as a strong one for home sales, the reality of COVID-19 hit the U.S. “Our advice was for them to reach out to people with kindness and a helping hand—not a sales pitch. They developed new shows for Facebook Live. total of 5.64

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

California-based ICE Mortgage Technology announced this week two enterprise agreements to integrate its eClose solution to Maxwell and Roostify platforms, enabling a more streamlined closing process for lenders and borrowers. Encompass eClose will be part of the mortgage fintech Maxwell’s point-of-sale platform.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2021

Today, RealTrends + Tom Ferry announced the 16 th annual The Thousand list of America’s top 1,000 real estate sales professionals and teams. Ben developed a process and a service offering — very focused and limited in scope — to help large-production builders effectively market their properties through the MLS and other online resources.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2021

The buy is Compass’s first since the residential brokerage started publicly trading shares earlier this month. Glide, which was founded in 2017, provides tools like eSignature and the digitization of sales processing forms. Compass closed trading Monday at $18 per share, good for a market capitalization of $7 billion.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In response to the marketplace and at the urging of consumer advocates, NAR began to develop guidance for local MLS broker marketplaces as part of what always has been a very involved and public rule-making process aimed at creating the most consumer-friendly market possible. And who is hurt most by that proposition?

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RIS Media

JANUARY 24, 2022

Christie’s International Real Estate is finalizing the sale of its company-owned Manhattan brokerage office to Brown Harris Stevens, the company has announced. Sale to Brown Harris Stevens. The acquisition included a 20-agent company-owned brokerage office in New York City. billion in closed volume.

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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.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2022

The acquisition is intended to enable Seattle-based Redfin to expand its loans products nationally, as it wants to be a one-stop-shop for brokerage and lending. But Redfin is first eliminating 121 mortgage roles, less than 2% of the total staff, mainly in sales support, capital markets, and operations.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2021

In its quarterly earnings call on Thursday, CEO Jay Farner and CFO Julie Booth described a sophisticated company that has developed a product solution for every piece of the home-buying and home-selling ecosystem. Mortgage, title, appraisal, servicing, iBuying, real estate brokerage , green energy — the gamut.

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Realty Biz

JANUARY 4, 2023

People have developed new digital behaviors and now expect: to have information about properties available in real-time online. A Real Estate Portal, Multiple Listing System (MLS), or simply marketplace is an online medium where real estate agents list their properties for sale or rent.

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The Close

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Are you considering taking the leap of faith and heading out on your own, but you don’t know if you should start your own brokerage from scratch or purchase a real estate franchise? In my 28-year real estate career, I have built two independent brokerages and was an investor in two franchises with Keller Williams Realty.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

and Canada closed 374,824 transactions, up 16% over Q3 2019. Agents closed $127.5 billion in sales volume, up 25.4% That’s why we are working with our agents daily, understanding the hurdles they face and developing in real time what they need now.”. 30, Keller Williams agents in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Motto Mortgage, a national mortgage brokerage franchise, and wemlo , a mortgage processing solution with an all-in-one digital platform, tapped Chris Erickson as vice president of product and strategy for both brands this week. Edelen most recently was a regional sales manager at Nations Lending.

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Realty Biz

JULY 1, 2022

NYSE: COMP), a leading technology-enabled residential real estate brokerage, today announced the appointment of Dawanna Williams to its board of directors effective July 1, 2022. Williams currently serves as Founder and Managing Principal of Dabar Development Partners. Compass, Inc. About Compass.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

News just broke that private equity investor LLR Partners announced strategic investments in two mortgage technology companies — Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang ( click here for article ). million investment in eOriginal, a multi-year Tech100 winner that developed a ‘simple closing experience for lenders, borrowers and settlement agents.’

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

After years of aggregating behavioral data from homebuyers and homesellers at the largest real estate brokerages in the country, Buyside is proud to announce the launch of their expansion into core & ancillary services by focusing on the homeowner. For more information, visit getbuyside.com or email sales@getbuyside.com.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

She was nominated as a 2022 HW Insider for her work in building the company’s digital closing platform from the ground up. “There have been several moments that have shaped my personal and professional development and led to me being captivated by this industry.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

Donny Kirby, former vice president of national direct-to-consumer sales at Wyndham Capital Mortgage , spent more than 12 years at Charlotte, North Carolina-based company before leaving to start a mortgage broker shop, Cornerstone Home Loans. Kirby hopes to have a total of 15 LOs and close $50 million in production volume by year-end.

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Real Trends

JUNE 10, 2022

Top-performing real estate agents and teams closed an average of 241.2 closed transaction sides and sales volume of $253.8 And, for the first time in the ranking’s history, individual ranked agents had an average sales price of over $1 million. However, sales volume was way up, with the average team closing $257.5

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

A Chicago-area real estate developer and two mortgage professionals participated in a mortgage fraud scheme that defrauded banks out of at least $3 million, the U.S. A more secure closing process for everyone involved. She most recently worked for Forum Mortgage Bancorp , a regional mortgage brokerage, Illinois state records show.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

They’ll want to know you have what it takes to close the type of deal they are looking for, and that you can help them reach their financial goals. To begin with, his reputation for excellence is ironclad: over a decade of experience as a real estate broker and over $300,000,000 in total sales. So let your personality shine.

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Broke Agent Media

MARCH 31, 2023

And now, the company will be closing down its real estate brokerage division, which will go into effect on June 1st. On January 24, the company laid off another 1,300 employees—300 in sales and marketing and 1,000 local field positions from more than 500 locations. Others are faced with a different dilemma.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

Scaling lead generation with AI In the fast-paced and competitive market we’re experiencing today, effective lead generation can be the make or break of a brokerage. Their all-in-one platform allows agents to send out mailers to leads at scale, with personalized copy developed by AI and hand-written notes produced by robots.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In January 2019, Keller, a charismatic Texan who co-founded the company in 1983, took back control of the brokerage from longtime employee John Davis, who had been CEO for just two years. At the time, the residential brokerage industry was grappling with a wave of consolidation, disruptions in technology, poaching wars and slowing growth.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

The history of AI and where it is going The Turing Test was developed by Alan Turing in 1950. A functioning neural network was viewed as the pathway to develop AI capable of learning anything a human could, and perhaps becoming more intelligent than humans. It re-emerged in the AI scene in October 2012. What is next?

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Realty Biz

MARCH 27, 2023

The brokerage has served the surrounding San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange and Los Angeles counties for the past 19 years. Black and Taylor are highly regarded as leaders in residential, commercial, land, and multi-unit property sales, and are known for their considerable expertise in mortgage products and practices.

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Realty Biz

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The brokerage has four offices along Colorado’s Front Range in the state’s two largest cities, Denver and Colorado Springs. They focus on being a full-service firm that serves the entire spectrum of clientele including first-time homebuyers, luxury vacation homes, land development, ranches and more. for outdoor enthusiasts.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 10, 2021

Residential real estate sales have continued to flourish during the COVID-19 health pandemic and have been critical to keeping the economy afloat. We have the technology to do this, but the laws and business practices need to catch up so that we can provide safe, remote digital real estate closings. View the entire issue here.

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Realty Biz

MAY 1, 2023

Many were contacted over the last few weeks to get their insights and observations on what they see as the top challenges facing their brokerages for 2023. Economists are now forecasting a deeper downturn this year which could see 2023 existing home sales fall below 4.0 This will hit many brokerages hard.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

HW Media, publisher of HousingWire, FinLedger, and producer of Engage Events, today announced it has closed on the strategic acquisition of REAL Trends, the residential real estate industry’s leading report that ranks the performance of the top U.S. brokerage firms. Minor & Brown PC served as legal counsel to REAL Trends.

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The Close

DECEMBER 5, 2022

After the list, we cover step-by-step instructions for how to choose a real estate coach who will help you close more deals with less stress this year. Sean Moudry & The Close PRO Successful agents who have plateaued in their career; agents who are starting a brokerage or team. Sean Moudry , The Close Pro.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Their collective expertise spans the entire spectrum of the sector, encompassing areas such as lending, tech, real estate, appraisal, compliance, operations, sales and so much more. The following list of honorees comprises many more examples of exceptional leadership from some of the industry’s most accomplished women.

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