Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2022

After a month of very little change in April , the construction sector had a solid month of job growth in May, according to the U.S. Construction gained 36,000 jobs in May, with residential building adding 5,000 jobs and residential specialty trade contractors gain 11,700 jobs. The post Residential construction jobs now 7.6%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Mark Woodling is the EVP of brokerage, based Dallas. Jonathan Salyer is the EVP of construction, based in Phoenix , while Erin Taylor is the EVP of finance and accounting, also based in Phoenix. “We To better accommodate its national expansion plans, Wrightwell also made a series of new leadership appointments.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Zillow Group ‘s new-construction listings will be automatically syndicated to Redfin. The deal between the listing platforms comes as new construction listings form roughly 30% of the housing sales market. Real estate brokerage and listings platform Redfin was also in the red in Q1 — reporting a $60.8

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The fastest growing brokerage in insurance industry history, Acrisure , announced Wednesday that it has acquired title insurance and settlement service provider Tempo Title , marking its entrance into the real estate services business. The post Insurance brokerage Acrisure buys Tempo Title appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2023

Daryl Owen , the founder of top California independent brokerage Nationwide Real Estate Executives , is joining eXp Realty and taking 200 agents along with him. RealTrends couldn’t independently confirm those figures; NRE has not submitted data to the RealTrends brokerage rankings since 2019.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Ryan Serhant and his brokerage SERHANT. HousingWire real estate reporter Jeff Andrews sat down with Serhant to talk about the show, how it changed his life and the brokerage, and what he sees coming in the industry following the commision settlement by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). At this point, we’ve gained, I think, 1.3

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

New construction is backed up,” she said. According to Ellison, new construction in the Birmingham area typically accounts for 15% to 20% of the houses on the market at any given time, but that has not been the case over the past four years. “The We went from not a lot of people looking to five or six showings on a property. “I

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2021

In the past, when brokers thought about low-fee brokerage firms, they thought of low service. But, there’s a new breed of low-fee brokerage (not to be confused with a discount brokerage which offers a low commission to buyers and sellers), that is a hybrid between a 100% model and a traditional brokerage.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

Veteran real estate broker-associate Christina Khosrowabadi, who has closed more than $140 million in sales since 2022, has joined Christies International Real Estate Sereno , one of northern Californias largest independent brokerages. Im excited to be part of a brokerage that supports agents in doing their best work.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2025

New York-based real estate brokerage SERHANT. Southern is responsible for roughly 65% of all brownstone sales in downtown Jersey City and handles the bulk of new construction deals for buildings six stories or fewer. Southern, who has been the leading individual agent in Hudson County, N.J., According to SERHANT.,

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Census Bureau shows how the business landscapes changed for homebuilders , lessors, agents , brokerages and other real estate professionals in the first full year after the pandemic began. A once-in-a-century pandemic, global inflation, supply chain shocks – 2020 truly was a pivotal year. Now, newly released data from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2025

For mortgage rates to go lower, we need to focus on the labor market, which has been critical to every economic cycle in recent history, and particularly the labor market for residential construction and remodeling, Mohtashami wrote. Redfin data released this week showed some positive signs for housing affordability.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2023

Greg Vogel, the founder and CEO of Land Advisors , a Scottsdale-based land brokerage, had some stronger words about the analysis and the building ordinance. The original purpose of the Groundwater Management Act was really consumer protection,” Vogel said.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 14, 2025

The brokerage regularly assists clients in Greater Orlando with residential real estate, as well as with property management, new construction and luxury homes. Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Mann Global Properties is the latest firm to join the lifestyle real estate brand.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2022

A total of 431,000 non-farm payroll jobs were added in March, and employment in the construction industry is now above its pre-pandemic level, after the industry added 19,000 jobs. In the construction industry, unemployment fell 6.0% Mortgage brokerage shops employed 137,300 workers in February compared to 135,700 in January.

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Inman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Having grown up in a family-owned construction business, the former Nest Seekers International chief economist always knew she wanted to run her own brokerage. Now in partnership with Side, she has the resources to do so.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Sales were half that in 2023, but the commercial real estate brokerage notes that $1.5 Similarly, construction has slowed but remains elevated. The number of units under construction peaked in the fourth quarter of 2022 at above 53,000 and fell to about 36,500 in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to Cushman & Wakefield.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Pareja took over as CEO at eXp in April 2024 and became the first Hispanic CEO of a major real estate brokerage in U.S. Pareja also believes that collaboration is the biggest key to success in the industry, which motivated him to release eXp’s streamlined forms online for other brokerages and agents to use and benefit from.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The new construction industry was not blind to the impacts this will have on housing demand. Builders are starting on construction on fewer single-family houses, but they’ve been breaking ground on more apartments and condominiums. million housing units under construction, an all-time record. and multifamily falling 13.1%.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

The team has a particularly large footprint in sales of new developments, having sold 1,500 newly constructed condominiums. On the brokerage’s second-quarter 2024 earnings call , Compass laid out an aggressive plan for expansion in major markets across the company, having identified 30 of them.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

For the most part, many brokerages and real estate agents on the buyer’s side of the transaction have continued on with a “business as usual” approach until we have certainty as to the true impact. Such an approach would likely tend toward a transactional, brokerage-focused revenue model.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

RealReports is a real estate platform that gathers property data — including construction permits, climate risk, rental rates, flood insurance costs, remodel potential and valuation — in one place. It pulls information from more than 30 data providers. Earlier this month , the company partnered with New England-based PrimeMLS.

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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. In terms of products, Gade said he will have the opportunity to access VA construction loans at UMortgage. Arizona-based Gade, a graduate of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2023

Recruitment is a crucial determinant of growth and success for real estate brokerages. Like your customer, the recruitment process can be visualized as a sales funnel, where potential recruits enter at the top, and the best-suited agents emerge at the bottom as ideal members of your team or brokerage.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2023

The lion’s share of the job growth in December came from gains in the leisure and hospitality sector (up 67,000 jobs), the health care sector (up 55,000 jobs), and the construction sector (up 28,000 jobs). The construction sector’s large increase is thanks to a sizable gain in the number of specialty trade contractors which added 16,600 jobs.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

The marketing campaigns that agents construct with AdBuilder will include “a custom landing page optimized for lead capture,” and agents will receive data on how their campaigns are received and interacted with, according to the release.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2025

Kastner said many of the lower commissions shes observed are tied to new-construction homes located outside Seattles core. Most sellers are choosing to pay a 2.5% or 3% commission to the buyers agent, but I am seeing an increase in the number of sellers offering 2%, said Stephanie Kastner, a Redfin Premier agent in Seattle. In Portland, Ore.,

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2024

” Rechat will offer its suite of tools and services to all Peerage Realty brokerages. Its partners include several independent firms that deal in residential resales and new construction marketing. ” Peerage Realty Partners serves luxury home markets through 206 offices and 6,100 sales representatives across the U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2022

Construction gained 32,000 jobs in July, with residential building gaining 2,900 jobs and residential specialty trade contractors gaining 11,200 jobs. Employment in the construction sector is now 82,000 jobs higher than in February 2020. A year ago there were nearly 300,000 workers at mortgage banking firms.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

1 brokerage by transaction side count announced the launch of eXp Exclusives , which will be open to eXp agents and their clients in the U.S. eXp Realty is looking to get into the exclusives game. On Tuesday, the nation’s No. and Canada.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2021

We’re operating within a labor and supply constrained economy inside a competitive real estate market, especially in the construction, renovation and closing spaces,” said Jeremy Wacksman, chief operating officer at Zillow, in a written statement. “We construction workers. Can independent real estate brokerages outperform iBuyers?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

I’ve seen every market shift imaginable as an agent, team leader and executive in the brokerage , mortgage and proptech space. By directing their energy towards positive and constructive thinking, they set the stage for growth. These are the mindset and actions that set successful agents and loan officers apart in a down market.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2024

Her achievements at RE/MAX include being inducted into the brokerage’s Hall of Fame (2008) and Circle of Legends (2018), as well as a Lifetime Achievement award (2011). According to a news release, the team has a particular focus on new construction, luxury homes and waterfront properties. million.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2022

And mortgage brokerages, which don’t have the burden of high overhead, are heavily recruiting retail LOs whose pipelines have thinned in recent months. With over 200 branches in West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana, Trew said the bank is focused on purchase and the construction business.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Meanwhile, he counts on home builders to ramp up new construction, as the existing-home inventory shortage lifts demand for new homes. The market is fiercely competitive with so many business models among which to choose – from do it yourselfers to iBuyers to discount brokerages, to full service and rebates,” he said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Rich DeNicola: My favorite HW+ article is the Real Trends Brokerage Compensation Report. It is a phenomenal resource for any brokerage owner. We all know the statistics on how new construction has lagged the needs of the country for the past decade. HousingWire: W hat has been one of your biggest learning opportunities?

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Real Estate News

JUNE 17, 2025

Skip to Content Agents Brokerages MLS/Assn Tech Industry By the Numbers Consumer Shutterstock By the Numbers Builder sentiment sours heading into summer The NAHB’s June confidence index was the third-lowest in the past 13 years as new home prices weaken and buyers remain on hold. Housing permits for single-family homes fell 4.7%

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