Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

South Carolina-based Movement Mortgage has acquired the brokerage Superior Rate Mortgage of New England to expand operations in the region, the company announced Wednesday. The acquisition is another step to boost its sales amid shrinking loan origination volumes. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Kofi Nartey, a top real estate broker with a client list of celebrities and prominent athletes, has joined The Real Brokerage as a national growth leader. In his new position, he will help build visibility for the brand, attract more agents as well as drive agent’s performance through coaching and development. “I

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Broker Kathy Kaye and agent Lorraine Baker joined Coldwell Banker Warburg , a New York City-based real estate brokerage, the company announced last week. Kaye and Baker each bring $200 million in career sales volume to the firm, according to its press release. million in sales volume. In 2022, the team closed more than $28.5

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Roughly 10 months since first expanding into Florida , Ryan Serhant’s eponymous brokerage is expanding into its third market in the state. Previously, the brokerage only operated in the Miami and Palm Beach County markets. “We we’ve found much more than just a brokerage,” Mark Raumaker said in a statement. s first in Orlando.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

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. For letters, use the template below: Dear (first name), I’m (your name), a real estate professional with (brokerage). Call or text me with any real estate questions!

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Additionally, like the three other brokerage firms that have already settled, Compass has agreed to make changes to its business practices as part of the settlement. Compass recorded $227.977 billion in sales volume in 2022, according to RealTrends data. This story is developing.

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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

MARCH 15, 2024

Mortgage pros have closely monitored the commission lawsuit developments since a Kansas City, Missouri jury determined that NAR, HomeServices of America , and Keller Williams conspired to inflate or maintain high commission rates through NAR’s so-called Participation Rule. You should be finding buyers before real estate agents anyway.”

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Real Brokerage has appointed Christian Wallace as chief of integrated home services, the company announced on Thursday. Prior to joining the brokerage , Wallace worked at some of the leading companies in the industry, such as Rocket Homes , Better.com , Opendoor and Farmers Insurance. At Rocket Homes where Wallace worked from Feb.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The ongoing housing market decline, which saw existing-home sales fall 36% in 2022 alone (on a seasonally adjusted annual basis) and 41% overall to September’s low, is the sharpest (though not the deepest) in the history of this industry. As such, it certainly feels like that pendulum is a labrys slicing through our brokerage firms.

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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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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The brokerage noted that Lim will remain at Christie’s as a senior advisor and global brand ambassador, working to expand the relationship between the real estate business and the auction house, among other duties. Since leaving Compass in 2022 after a seven-year stint, he has consulted for real estate brokerages and proptech firms.

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Inman

JANUARY 29, 2024

Mitchelson will work with the Corcoran Affiliate Network's sales team to lead strategic growth through the addition of new Corcoran affiliates.

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Broke Agent Media

JANUARY 17, 2023

If you’ve decided to join a brokerage in your market, what you bring to the table is not the only thing that matters. Researching your brokerage options. Don’t be the person to ask questions that can easily be Googled or found on a brokerage’s website. . Double-digit sales. Double-digit reviews.

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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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RIS Media

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Or more to the point, nothing should stay the same, especially in the real estate industry, where sales numbers can be spectacular one year, then plummet the next.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

I have spoken numerous times over the past 35 years about the fairness and efficiency of what I refer to as the Realtor marketplace , which is a combination of a multiple listing service with Realtor association oversight, supported by a majority of brokerage firms and sales agents.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2023

In this business practice, real estate brokerage firms offer homeowners a small upfront payment in exchange for the exclusive right to list and sell the property in the future. They risk facing a penalty of 3% of their property value if the property is transferred, or if they use another brokerage firm in the sale of the home.

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Real Trends

MARCH 3, 2023

The Real Brokerage is celebrating a new addition, with the largest team to date joining the firm. The 20- person Jason Martin Group announced Thursday that it was leaving @properties to join The Real Brokerage. million in sales volume in 2021. The post The Real Brokerage welcomes its largest team appeared first on RealTrends.

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Realty Biz

OCTOBER 2, 2023

David has been named as one of the top 100 producers in Lake Norman real estate sales and earned the Top Negotiator Award in 2020 from HomeLight. Nancy will focus on recruiting, retention and professional development. David is a top producer in Charlotte and has earned multiple production awards over the course of his 20-year career.

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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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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2023

Founded in 2018, key features of Bonzo include a campaign builder to conduct personal and customized outreach at scale; messaging that supports voice, video and text; an ad builder for Google and Facebook ; and a pipeline dashboard to organize the sales process. The company has more than 2,000 clients, according to its website.

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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.

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Realty Biz

JANUARY 17, 2023

Here are three key areas of focus to drive business growth in 2023: Increase the value of your brokerage to your agents - With even more pressure on brokerages today , leaders are taking a hard look at t he value their brokerage provides to agents versus the value the brokerage extracts from those same agents.

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RIS Media

AUGUST 3, 2021

Brokerages interested in increasing their activity while lowering their costs can benefit from marketing workshops. They also provide your team with information on all the tools and resources needed to move listings and boost their sales. In real estate, there are free marketing workshops with useful diagnostics for brokerages.

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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. On the other hand, Compass has shot up the brokerage rankings – placing 2 nd in U.S.

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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

JUNE 10, 2021

REX grabbed national attention in March when the residential real estate brokerage filed a lawsuit alleging an antitrust conspiracy between listings giant Zillow and the powerful National Association of Realtors. The brokerage has “Co-listed properties with MLS agents to increase the online presence of client’s listings.”.

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Realty Biz

JANUARY 11, 2023

The brokerage serves the residents of Eugene, Springfield, Albany, Corvallis, Philomath, and Junction City to the north, and Cottage Grove and the Dexter/Lowell and Veneta/Elmira regions to the south and west of Eugene, as well as Florence on the Pacific Ocean. According to realtor.com ® , the median home sales price in Eugene, OR.,

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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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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The splashy buy further situates Zillow as more than a website with pictures of homes for sale, but a competitor to real estate brokerages. The Seattle-based company announced in September Zillow Homes, a traditional brokerage business, hiring agents in Phoenix, Tuscon, and Atlanta. and Canada use their software.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

The chief executive officer for real estate brokerage Side announced a fresh $50 million in venture capital money spearheaded by ultra-prolific financier Tiger Global Management. For many years, everyone thought brokerage was ripe for major disruption,” said Gilles Duranton, real estate professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

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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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