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 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

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

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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Inman

AUGUST 2, 2023

New construction listings on Zillow will now automatically be syndicated to Redfin. The companies believe the partnership will extend the reach of the homebuilders' listings while aiding consumers.

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Inman

AUGUST 4, 2023

Home transactions may be down, but you wouldn't know it from most brokerage payrolls. Real estate hiring churned along in July, according to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 4, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Do you remember the good old days of pre-construction condominiums? I remember when, among other things, you could purchase a pre-construction condo with a mere 5% deposit. That was the reason to buy pre-construction condos back in 2004, not to mention that absurd 5% deposit structure. And that was it.

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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

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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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

APRIL 30, 2024

Broker perceptions Scott Harmes, the national manager of the reverse division at brokerage C2 Financial , believes that HUD’s changes are constructive. But right now, I don’t think they said anything that we didn’t already know.” Tane Cabe Tane Cabe, also of C2 , concurs with Harmes.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

The Marcus Skenderian Real Estate Group works across commercial real estate , architecture, construction , development and residential sales. “Compass has the best tools and technology in the industry, allowing us to operate at efficiencies we’ve only been dreaming of for the past three years,” Skenderian said in a statement.

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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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Inman

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Fostering a feedback culture sets the stage for greater collaboration and performance improvement across your organization. Luxury consultant Chris Pollinger offers the strategies you need to make it happen.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Trading volumes in eight residential brokerage or listings companies rocketed up 319% to almost 80 million shares on Friday. About 73% of revenue in the period came from the residential segment, which includes revenue from seller-side agents and listings for newly constructed homes.

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RIS Media

MARCH 4, 2024

Century 21 Real Estate LLC has announced the affiliation of female-led Florida-based brokerage, Soflo Home Realty Corp. Located north of downtown Miami in Delray Beach, the six-year-old multilingual firm assists affluent clients in markets from luxury pre-construction and new construction homes.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As someone who worked for a large, nationally branded brokerage for 30+ years, I had a front-row seat to many mergers and acquisitions. Owning a brokerage isn’t what it used to be More and more aging broker-owners are considering retiring or moving on from real estate. I would love to say they all went well, but they didn’t.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Last week, we wrote a letter to FHA , offering constructive suggestions to ensure a level playing field between borrowers where the seller agrees to fund buyer brokerage commissions and where the seller doesn’t.

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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 6, 2023

Meanwhile, in addition to diversifying their portfolios, brokerage firm owners are keeping their cost structure under control to be profitable in a shrinking market. Amid the Federal Reserve ’s tightening monetary policy and political instability, they believe the market will shift at least six months from now. .”

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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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Inman

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The 2023 real estate market has been a bit of a conundrum for agents and brokerages. Construction of new homes is largely stalled or at least not meeting the high demand, and many homeowners who locked in record-low interest rates during the pandemic simply aren’t willing to leave their homes and sell.

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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 Trends

MARCH 7, 2023

The company employs designers, planners and construction workers to supervise the contractors’ work. area based presale renovation company HomePrep last month and partnered with Florida-based brokerage The Keyes Company last December. The company claims that listed renovated homes sell faster than those that are not.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Because the larger brokerage firms, historically, tend to represent more buy side than sell side, they “may be looking at a big loss of revenue,” says Murray. ” So, he recommends brokerages “manage their companies away from a sales office-based culture.” “He got up to 20% to 30%, as I recall.”

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Inman

APRIL 7, 2023

The start of spring usually marks more brokerage transactions and ramped-up construction schedules. But payroll growth was weaker in March, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

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Notorious ROB

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

I really enjoyed this conversation with Tom Woiwode who is not only the broker-owner of a large regional real estate brokerage, Coldwell Banker Access Realty with 13 offices throughout Georgia and South Carolina, but also owns Seabrook Classics , a high-end custom furniture maker, and Savannah Millworks , a custom wood products manufacturer.

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Real Trends

MAY 6, 2022

In the instant poll answered by approximately 1,000 people in the convention hall, including board members, 36% pointed to the lack of new construction as the biggest culprit for lack of inventory. The post NAR members stymied by clogged construction appeared first on RealTrends.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

Last week, we wrote a Letter to FHA , offering constructive suggestions to ensure a level playing field between borrowers where the seller agrees to fund buyer brokerage commissions and where the seller doesn’t.

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Realty Biz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Gina is known for her knowledge of new construction, interior design, and condo transactions. She then used her industry knowledge to assist her mother in opening their own brokerage where she quickly took over the back-end business operations.

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Realty Biz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The brokerage was established in 2021 by Aimee and Terry Peterson. Prior to their transition into real estate leadership, Aimee spent time in custom home construction while Terry was a commercial appraiser. The brokerage works with local non-profit organizations, such as Habitat for Humanity.

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Real Trends

MAY 6, 2022

In the instant poll answered by approximately 1,000 people in the convention hall, including board members, 36% pointed to the lack of new construction as the biggest culprit for lack of inventory. The post NAR members stymied by clogged construction appeared first on RealTrends.

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Inman

JULY 7, 2023

Builders and residential contractors added nearly 60,000 jobs in June — about 11,000 more than expected for this time of year, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Realty Biz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Founded in 2018 by current broker/owner, Rhonda Folks, the brokerage has rapidly expanded to two locations in Bunn and Louisburg. The company’s affiliated agents assist clients in areas including property management, new construction, and traditional residential sales. Century 21 Real Estate LLC.,

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

The market, however, is expected to grow as HEI companies seek to partner with mortgage lenders and real estate brokerages. From a consumer protection standpoint, it’s a bit of a Wild West,” said Jenny Song, principal at Navitas Capital , a real estate and construction technology-focused venture capital firm.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

But like real estate brokerage Compass , another company significantly financed by the SoftBank Vision Fund , Opendoor has constructed an empirically money-losing business model with little sign of reversing course. The company also grew the price range for which it buys homes and where it operates.

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Realty Biz

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Founded by Steve and Jessica Poulos, the Washington brokerage serves the South Puget Sound area, focusing on Thurston, Pierce, Lewis, Mason and Grays Harbor Counties. Details: Steve and Jessica Poulos founded their brokerage in 2017. Jessica leads the majority of the brokerage operations with a focus on agent learning and development.

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