Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2025

When Robert Palmer launched LPT Realty in March 2022, he didnt just set out to build another real estate brokerage. He wanted to redefine what a brokerage could be. In just three years, the Florida-headquartered firm cracked the top 10 of the RealTrends Verified Brokerage Rankings , No. 14 by sales volume.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The simple answer is that real estate agents are paid on commission, typically a percentage of the property’s sale price. Now, it’s time to join a brokerage. Depending on the brokerage, agents may pay anywhere from $25-$500 per month to be a part of the brokerage. How do real estate agents get paid?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

RealTrends Verified first arrived on scene in March 2024 as the first dual-verified real estate sales performance platform that highlights brokerages , agents and teams that deserve to stand out among their peers. With new updates and larger datasets, agents and brokerages will benefit from better visibility at the local level.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2025

However, in what Kelman says is an effort to preserve a sellers ability to control how their property is marketed, Redfin is also asking MLSs to create a coming-soon designation for listings that precludes search sites from showing how long a home has been for sale and at what prices.

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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 systems they provide are designed to help teams grow strategically.” Like Gubb, Sauls has not turned a blind eye toward the tools, training and technology offered by other brokerages.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Technology provider Payload is integrating with the brokerage firm, according to a recent announcement. Coldwell Banker Realty just made earnest money deposit payments much easier for real estate agents and homebuyers. With its new integration, Coldwell Banker Realty — a subsidiary of Anywhere Real Estate Inc.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

HomeLight is an Arizona -based real estate platform designed to connect agents with clients. HomeLight notes that this is becoming more common for existing-home sales. The company’s 2024 Top Agent Insights survey gathered perspectives from more than 750 real estate agents between Oct. 30 and Nov.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2024

With technology changing faster than new agents answer phone calls, choosing the right real estate brokerage software can sometimes feel like a full-time job. Here’s why: Good software might help your brokerage stay afloat in a post-lawsuit market. The looming chaos from the commission lawsuits sure isn’t helping.

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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. Policy in context: what happens if Clear Cooperation fades?

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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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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Compass’ brokerage firm recruiting efforts continue. Deasy Penner Podley , or DPP Real Estate is the latest boutique brokerage to affiliate with the national firm, according to an announcement on Tuesday. billion in sales volume, according to the release. Moving forward, the firm will be known as DPP @ Compass.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

She went from a brand new agent in 2020 to running her wildly successful boutique brokerage with Side in less than four years. ” TikTok riches are in the niches TikToks algorithm is designed to give users exactly what they want when they want it. Can you build a thriving real estate business on TikTok? Kina Desantis did.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2021

San Francisco-based real estate brokerage Side announced Monday that they raised $150 million, ushering in a new phase for the four-year-old company. For example, top Beverly Hills luxury producer Ben Bacal started the brand “Revel Real Estate” under the Side brokerage. How to Diversify Your Brokerage to Weather Economic Hardship.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

With home sales still at historically low levels and uncertainty over the commission lawsuits , real estate brokerage executives prize good leads more than ever. To convert these leads into business, the brokerage developed teams — also called units — headed by captains who are successful agents with high lead conversion rates.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

The company has added independent brokerage Delhougne Realty Group , a St. million in sales volume on 1,160 transactions in 2023. The addition of the Delhougne Group is designed to bolster eXp’s roster of high-performing agents in St. eXp Realty is expanding its footprint in Missouri. Louis-area team that tallied $353.3

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

As it became clear that many real estate professionals are in need of guidance, brokerages and industry leaders have launched a variety of educational resources and training courses for agents and brokers. The webpage is open to agents across the industry regardless of their brokerage affiliation.

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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. In 2022, his team closed $887 million in sales on 1,091 transactions, with an average home price of $740,000, eXp said in a statement Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

Move Sales , OpCity Acquisitions , OpCity Inc. These processes (the ‘Unlawful Bundling’) are designed to amass a tremendous (and tremendously growing) database which the defendants then characterize as ‘leads,’” the complaint states. The suit claims that NAR, along with Move Inc., and REA Group Ltd. 23, 2020, and the present.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2025

Some brokerages are what I sometimes think of as Lily Pads because theyre waystations where agents sometimes goalbeit brieflyto level up their commission splits. Lily Pad brokerages attract and recruit based on a higher split, but fail to retain a cohesive team because they dont lead with a culture focused on long-term career growth.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We looked at pricing, design quality, ease of use, lead generation features, and then combed online reviews to get feedback from other working Realtors. With competition for online leads heating up, we think AgentFire’s brand-first approach can be a game changer for brand-conscious agents, teams and even boutique brokerages.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2024

Roof AI , an artificial intelligence -powered sales assistant that helps real estate and mortgage companies generate revenue across their business units, announced the integration of OpenAI ’s technology into its system, significantly boosting its capabilities.

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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

JUNE 2, 2025

Staging a home can make or break a sale but the traditional approach is broken. Collov AI leverages proprietary model training to develop its AI agent , enabling it to understand architectural context, interior design principles, and staging best practices tailored specifically for real estate applications. from Stanford.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

The UPGRADE community an acronym for Unlock Potential, Grow Real Estate, And Design Everything is positioned as a multifaceted platform with a focus on personal development, health, business, leadership, investing and lifestyle. This is more than a move, its a mission, Williams said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2025

These real estate mailers are designed to spread holiday cheer, express gratitude and maintain a personal touch among your network. These postcards are sent out after a successful home sale, showcasing the property that has just changed hands. But where do you start? Don’t worry; we’ve got you covered.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2025

Consumers want and expect a single-search experience, where all available homes for sale can be viewed seamlessly, Hendricks wrote. Despite its creation of the two-tab design and compliance with the policy, Zillow has been a vocal critic of the no-commingling policy and has lobbied NAR to get rid of the optional rule.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2025

Some brokerages are what I sometimes think of as Lily Pads because theyre waystations where agents sometimes goalbeit brieflyto level up their commission splits. Lily Pad brokerages attract and recruit based on a higher split, but fail to retain a cohesive team because they dont lead with a culture focused on long-term career growth.

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The Specialized Team Every team members role is based on their strengths agents specialize in either listings or sales, while support staff focuses on marketing or transactional details. Team structures to avoid While most team structures are designed for growth and success, not all teams are set up that way.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2025

Welcome to the world of real estate sales! Interview multiple brokerages I cant tell you how many times Ive heard an agent say they joined a specific brokerage because they had a friend who worked there. Do your due diligence and meet with several brokerages in your area – large and small, franchise and independent.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

Movement Mortgage has tapped Brady Yeager to join the team as national sales director, a role that will lead the expansion of Movement across the country. In his role as national sales director at Movement, Yeager will focus on the company’s growing sales team. At Cobalt, Yeager oversaw $5 billion in production.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

However, other email tools not specific to real estate agents (like Mailchimp and Flodesk) offer built-in templates that make delivering beautifully designed email newsletters a cinch. Create a responsive newsletter design One of the best ways to make things easy on yourself is to use real estate newsletter templates.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

In fact, there aren’t many mortgage lenders, builders or real estate brokerages that haven’t at least fleetingly entertained the notion. CRE assets are subject to a myriad of regulatory requirements, zoning laws, and environmental considerations that don’t apply to home sales, requiring thorough due diligence and compliance measures.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

Good luck explaining to your seller that if your home is marketed as an Office Exclusive or Private Listing it will never be allowed on Zillow or Trulia unless it’s listed with another brokerage. On Monday, Redfin , which is to be acquired by Rocket Companies for $1.75 billion , announced that it was adopting a similar policy.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

Name Job Title Company Name Aaron Heidorn Director of Software Engineering & Infrastructure Cloudvirga Aaron Smith Director, Sales CubiCasa Adrian Provost Chief Executive Officer Realty ONE Group Terminus Ana LeBlanc Human Resources Director InterLinc Mortgage Annie Lemon Producing Branch Manager Gold Star Mortgage Financial Anthony Russo Diamond (..)

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2025

Brokers, also known as managing brokers, designated brokers or brokers-in-charge, are typically owners or supervisors of real estate brokerages. You must have a leadership mentality and the ability to see the bigger picture to grow your brokerage. It allows you the opportunity to be in charge of other agents and run a business.

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