Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

Real estate closing gifts personalize and ultimately strengthen the relationship between you and your client, which can lead to a string of referrals. We curated some standout closing gift ideas for buyers and sellers and assembled this guide to help you navigate the closing gift process.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

The deal involves two of the nations top-four brokerages by sales volume in 2024, according to data from RealTrends Verified. billion across more than 177,000 home sales. billion across nearly 236,000 sales. That deal is expected to close in the second or third quarter of 2025. Compass ranked No. 4 with $133.8

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The brokerage announced this week that it has added the Milwaukee -based Houseworks Collective real estate team. The deal brings 15 agents and more than $60 million in annual sales volume to Keller Williams. The team has a strong record of multimillion-dollar sales revenue, accumulating $118.5

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2025

While the nation’s top real estate teams are found at a variety of brokerages, one brand dominated the 2025 RealTrends Verified Rankings. The other brokerages are all fine, but Keller Williams just has so many great properties and we don’t want to leave,” Gubb said. In 2024, Gubb’s team closed 88 transactions totaling $103.7

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2025

The Dallas-based brokerage was founded in 1937 by Judge B. Over its almost 100-year history, its grown from a mom-and-pop operation to one that has more than 1,000 agents that closed 4,432 transactions in 2024, good for $1.8 billion in sales volume. Conlon says staying a franchise gives Judge Fite the best of both worlds.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In 2022, Crye-Leike Real Estate Services closed roughly $7 billion in sales volume, according to data from the 2023 RealTrends Verified rankings. The T3 Sixty Real Estate Almanac reports the same numbers, while the brokerage companys 2022 Annual Report pegged its sales volume at $8.5 which the company said did $1.75

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2025

Its a crucial reason why new school brokerages like The Agency and Real outsold Keller Williams last year. If you want to scale your team or brokerage in 2025, lead by example, or get left behind. If you want to grow your team or brokerage in 2025, lead by example, or get left behind. Not convinced?

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2024

Fast-growing firm The Real Brokerage is celebrating its 10 th anniversary by announcing that it has surpassed 20,000 agents. The team closed nearly $120 million in sales volume in 2023. Realty Group , a Southern New Hampshire -based independent brokerage led by Jill O’Shaughnessy. Jill & Co.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As real estate agents adjust to sweeping changes brought by the commission lawsuit settlement, a new report from discount brokerage Clever Real Estate reveals one thing hasn’t shifted: Americans still overwhelmingly trust full-service agents to sell their homes. Why would they do this?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

Founded by Ivan Sher in 2018, ISLuxury has closed nearly $2billion in sales in Las Vegas and Henderson, Nevada, over the past three years. The new office, located in Newport Beach, California, includes 11 agents who joined from other brokerages , and it will be led by Christi Carrillo.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2024

According to a press release, the merger is expected to close in 2025 and is subject to regulatory approval. In an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Compass informed its shareholders that it will purchase the companies for $150 million in cash at closing, along with roughly 44.13 brokerages.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2025

The Los Angeles -based independent brokerage achieved its best-ever placement in the 2025 RealTrends rankings , coming in at No. 13 among mega teams by closed sales volume. “We have our conversion sales coach, James MacDonald, and he’s a full timer,” Kusuma added. Every single day, we train.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2024

The Real Brokerage announced Thursday the addition of several new teams across the U.S. The newly released 2024 RealTrends Verified rankings , based on 2023 data, showed that Real was the sixth-largest brokerage in the country for sides (48,905) and ranked No. 10 for sales volume ($21.2 10 for sales volume ($21.2

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

According to the complaint, Newhart and the other defendants transferred “things of value,” specifically underpriced, nonvoting stock in Newhart-owned mortgage brokerages to real estate agents and brokers, who in return referred their clients back to the Newhart-owner mortgage brokerages.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The brokerage announced Wednesday that the KW Integrity market center has merged with Sparta, New Jersey-based Clearview Realty , bringing 25 agents and tens of millions of dollars in annual sales volume to KW Integrity. million in sales volume. In June, independent brokerage TJ Lewis Real Estate affiliated with Keller Williams.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Typically, with franchise organizations, it’s all about the sales process and bringing on more franchises. The lack of training and guidance by brokerages is horrible. Dwiggins: Those forms are created by a committee of competing brokerages, which is literally how we got into the lawsuit to begin with.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Last but not least, real estate agents prepare documents such as closing documents, purchase agreements, and leases while ensuring that the transaction is in compliance with local laws and their client’s terms are met. An agent may also be present at closings to review closing documents and help guide their client through the final steps.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2025

Tamir Poleg, chairman and CEO of The Real Brokerage , closed out the prepared remarks section of his firms first-quarter 2025 earnings call by addressing the transformative technological era the industry is currently operating in. The firms sales volume rose 80% year over year to $13.5

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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. Additionally, the teamerage’s $180.853 million sales volume in 2022, earned it the No. million.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The family-run brokerage firm recorded some legal w ins and losses , developed new tools for agents and clients , and navigated one of the slowest years for home sales in nearly three decades. of the loan amount) at settlement to use toward their closing costs.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2024

Invariably, these same articles classify all real estate brokerages and models as identical. Perhaps there are internal policies within some of the companies that are standardized, but the categorization of all brokerages as identical showcases the ignorance of the author. That’s a 20% reduction in revenue for the brokerage.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2025

Collectively, the group brings more than $400 million in career sales and 500-plus closed transactions across Maryland markets, including Annapolis and Severna Park. Anchor Home specializes in high-end residential sales, staging, new construction consultations and renovation strategies. Their average listing price is $1.7

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The Seattle-based brokerage found that real estate investor purchases dropped by 2.3% In October, the typical sales price for an investor-owned home was 55% — or $181,567 — more than what most investors paid. Philadelphia (109%) and Newark, New Jersey (106%) followed closely behind. As the U.S. of investor purchases.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2025

billion deal to acquire digital real estate brokerage firm Redfin , industry observers are still trying to understand the future of one key asset: Bay Equity Home Loans. The RocketRedfin deal is expected to close in Q2 or Q3. Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman will continue to lead the brokerage, reporting directly to Rocket CEO Varun Krishna.

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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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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2024

Austin-based independent brokerage TJ Lewis Real Estate is affiliating with Keller Williams , according to an announcement on Tuesday. In 2023, TJ Lewis closed 141 transaction sides for a total of $39.5 million in sales volume, its news release stated.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

Today, we have significantly added to our presence in the Southeast, welcoming the top brokerage in Tennessee,“ Reffkin said in a statement. In 2023, Park Real Estate agents closed 9,776 transaction sides for a total of $6.245 billion in sales volume, making it the No. 1 brokerage in the state by sales volume and the No.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2025

In the ongoing debate over NAR’s Clear Cooperation Policy , one question looms large: who really benefits when a single agent or brokerage represents both sides of a real estate transaction? Many private listings ended up being double-ended deals. But these benefits may come at a hidden cost.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Access your growth playbook From the pandemic-fueled frenzy to the sobering reality of a post-pandemic slowdown,, real estate brokerages were locked in a relentless quest for growth—eager to expand market share while trimming operational fat. However, RealTrends GameChangers defied the odds and outperformed their peers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

The real estate technology company will be aided on this journey by additional capital it has secured from its ownership group, which includes private equity partner Vector Capital , and brokerages Howard Hanna Real Estate Services and Windermere Real Estate , according to an announcement on Friday.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2023

Despite market headwinds, the top brokerages continued to show growth in the 2023 RealTrends 500 brokerage rankings. 1 in sales volume to to the top of the list and retained their No. of all brokerage-controlled sales in the country, staying even with the 2022 rankings, with 35.9% Last year, Compass rose to No.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

One of the most successful real estate teams in Texas is making a major brokerage move. Based in San Antonio , the Neal & Neal Team finished 2024 with $338 million in sales volume and 914 homes sold. That performance ranked them second in closed units and third in gross commission income across all Keller Williams teams nationwide.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

These rankings are designed to help top-performing agents and teams highlight their accomplishments within their specific local markets, enhancing their credibility where it matters most — close to home. However, Leading RE agents and team bested the sales volume.

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Real Estate News

JUNE 14, 2025

Real Estate News Staff June 14, 2025 7 mins Editor's note: The brokerage business is a busy one, with frequent moves, mergers and milestones. Here we highlight some of the latest activity among brokerages across the U.S. Over the years, she climbed the ranks from agent to associate broker to brokerage owner.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2025

According to a news release, PRG Group sold 277 units in 2024, generating $130 million in sales volume. Callan has more than five decades of experience in residential and commercial brokerage services, investment, development and financial leadership. He has spent the past 31 years running PRG Group.

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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. In 2023, Broker’s LLC amassed over $500 million in closed sales through 1,694 transactions, an eXp news release stated.

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Housing Wire

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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