Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2025

Daniel Dennis, a longtime real estate executive with nearly two decades of leadership experience, has been named senior vice president of sales and service at RE/MAX , the company announced Monday. In his new role, Dennis will oversee sales and support services for brokerages in company-owned regions across the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2025

Roughly two years after Kamini Lane took the helm at Coldwell Banker Realty , the real estate industry has gone through quite a bit of change and faced its fair share of challenges. Brooklee Han: There is a lot going on right now that is impacting the real estate industry. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The brokerage has acquired Washington Fine Properties (WFP), a luxury real estate brokerage located in the Washington, D.C., WFP has 150 agents and has executed $43 billion in sales volume over the past 25 years. At the end of 2023, the number of principal agents at the brokerage stood at 14,683. metropolitan area.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2025

While many brokerage leaders experiment with reimagined commission models and marginal tweaks, The Real Brokerage is playing a different game altogether. Only three years ago, The Real Brokerage was ranked for the first time on the RealTrends Verified Brokerage Rankings. 5 by sales volume.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

By contrast, legacy brokerages did not perform nearly as well. Every moment of friction is potentially a lost sale. And among privately held brokerages, the one executing most effectively on what Compass is proving in the public markets is SERHANT. is its own sales technology incubator and accelerator.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2025

Formed initially as an agent team in South Florida, the brokerage launched in 2022 as Agile. We’ve got great teams that are able to bring in new agents under this model, whereas before when we launched the brokerage we werent really focused on bringing in brand new agents, Brookens said. 10 in sides and No.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2024

bringing a team with more than $300 million in career sales. because we feel the real estate industry is in need of change,” Smith said in a statement. “In In many ways, the industry has become stagnant, and we refuse to accept that. Key Avenue Group is leaving Keller Williams for SERHANT., first entered South Carolina in 2023.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

The customizable AI bots created with eSelf AIs platform have been adopted across various industries, including education, customer service, and real estate. Looking ahead, Clia believes AI agents could significantly alter real estate sales by reducing reliance on human agents and cutting operational costs.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

Leading brokerage Compass announced some key leadership moves this week to bolster its operations in the Southeast, including Florida. The brokerage has hired industry veteran Nikol Solares as senior managing director of new development marketing. It is the nation’s leading brokerage by sales volume.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

Real estate industry executives may not see eye to eye on the National Association of Realtors ‘ (NAR) Clear Cooperation Policy (CCP), but there is one thing they do agree on — the vast majority of sellers receive the most benefit from listing transparency and broad exposure of their listings. “The What makes the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

There’s a reason why eXp Realty regards itself as the “the most agent-centric brokerage on the planet.” According to the brokerage, Caldwell is no slouch when it comes to sales volume. He and his 30-agent team pulled in $200 million in sales revenue over an unspecified time period.

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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. million in sales volume.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

But in light of Redfins blockbuster sale to Rocket Mortgage that was announced less than two weeks later, hindsight dictates that Kelman may have known that the end of independence was coming for the company hes run for almost 20 years. Launched in 2004, Redfin was named after the companys mission to redefine the real estate industry.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

Owning a real estate brokerage may seem like a lucrative business, but in reality, many brokers struggle to turn a profit. High overhead costs One of the biggest obstacles broker-owners face is the high cost of running a brokerage. Well break down the key reasons why most broker-owners dont see the financial success they anticipated.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Dwiggins: Since we started the company back in 2014, we were always looking to try and be a little bit different from the rest of the industry, in the sense of it wasn’t about having tons of agents. It was about the quality of the people who shared sort of the same vision for the industry. A lot of companies have banned that.

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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? I ask, How can I support you?

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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. Our industry is no exception. The firms sales volume rose 80% year over year to $13.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

We are always trying to grow and provide more for our agents and for all of our customers, whether that is on the brokerage side or the franchisee side, so we are always looking forward. On the brokerage side, we [work to] attract agents to the brand and expose them to our unique model. Clear said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

What has changed for real estate brokerages since then? 31, 2023, and has since reshaped the business practices for real estate brokerages and agents across the country. “I’m I’m hoping that this Halloween, when I’m taking my kids around trick-or-treating, it won’t be nearly as stressful,” Kelly said.

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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 28, 2025

Compass goes on to claim that NWMLS has successfully prevented any meaningful threat to itself and its owner brokerages by adopting and enforcing a series of rules designed to force anyone wishing to buy or sell a home in the Seattle area with the help of a real estate professional to do so through its platform.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2025

The Dallas-based brokerage was founded in 1937 by Judge B. billion in sales volume. With its history and success, Judge Fite has seen its fair share of suitors over the years looking to acquire it, but CEO Ashley Conlon sees value in remaining a franchise with Century 21, which the brokerage joined in 1997.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Stone Point is no stranger to the real estate industry, as it also holds strategic investments in Lone Wolf Technologies , Homepoint , CoreLogic and Meridian. Czarnecki has over two decades of real estate industry experience. In addition to the partnership with Stone Point, the firm also announced leadership changes.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Recruitment efforts have been a mainstay of The Real Brokerage ‘s growth efforts in 2024. And the digital brokerage platform continues to grow this week with another affiliation. ” Since then, ROVI has not only grown its agent count but has accounted for $2 billion in home sales, according to Real.

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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. This is especially true in markets on the fringes of its footprint, or in areas where brokerage clients are moving to or from.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

You can network and build community with other agents worldwide, keep up-to-date on the latest industry trends, stay motivated when you’re feeling discouraged, learn directly from some of the top real estate leaders, and even potentially find new clients! ” 1. We are smaller, with about 3,400 members. Join Introverts in Real Estate 7.

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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. Our growth demonstrates that we’ve filled a void in our industry, and it makes me even more determined to pursue our mission of changing the real estate experience for our agents and the clients they serve.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2025

Redfin may have been acquired by Rocket , but it still operates a real estate listing portal and it doesnt want the industry to forget that it too has skin in the the debate surrounding the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Clear Cooperation Policy (CCP).

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The brokerage announced this week that it added Dallas-based The Trusler Group. The husband-and-wife team of Alex and Karla Trusler bring a high-performing team to Compass, having completed $37 million in sales over the past year. The Trusler Group was previously affiliated with Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s for 13 years.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2024

markets on Monday as the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 3% and 2.6%, respectively. While technology-sector darlings such as Nvidia and Apple got thumped the hardest, the real estate industry also took its fair share of lumps. Brokerage stocks were especially mixed. We’d argue that U.S. RE/MAX shed 4.7%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2024

Invariably, these same articles classify all real estate brokerages and models as identical. Despite the news report claims, there has never been a “standard” model nor a “standard” commission in this industry. On an 80/20 split the agent would receive $8000 (80%), and the brokerage would take $2000 (20%). That’s just false.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Whether you’re looking to start a career in real estate, already have one or are involved in real estate transactions, you may find yourself wondering about industry terminology and job titles. The industry acronyms alone look like alphabet soup. Now, it’s time to join a brokerage. What does a real estate broker do?

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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? of total market volume and an industry-leading 11.3% Many private listings ended up being double-ended deals. of all listings.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

As a panel of real estate leaders gathered to discuss the future of the MLS at the National Association of Realtors ‘ NXT conference in Boston, Errol Samuelson , Zillow ‘s chief industry development officer, found himself and his company in a bit different standing than usual with the audience of several hundred agents and brokers.

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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. Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman will continue to lead the brokerage, reporting directly to Rocket CEO Varun Krishna. They will be a great fit. billion in 2022, $4.2

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

For many in the real estate industry, Aug. 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. In the same way, we felt this was just too important to keep online in house.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Despite having long ago settled the commission lawsuits , legal challenges continue to mount for real estate industry giant Anywhere. The suit also alleges that the defendants which include the brokerages, agents, brokers, support staff, title companies and banks involved in the transaction coordinated to gain an unfair advantage.

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