Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

When I started my first brokerage in my late twenties, I was full of ambition but had no idea what to expect. If your dream is to own your own brokerage and manage a team of top-performing agents, leading your team to success means much more than hanging a new license on your wall. Now you have to do some tedious stuff.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The family-owned brokerage firm announced the completion of two acquisitions on Wednesday. The merger combines the strengths of both companies, allowing us to better support agents, buyers, and sellers in the Dayton area while enhancing our leadership in the market.” The financial terms of the deals are not being disclosed.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

The duo explore the current state of mergers and acquisitions, team-based brokerage models, commission compression, and growth opportunities for agents and brokers. Murray: When the market turned down two and a half years ago, most of the national companies that had been very active (in M&A) departed. What is the secret to that?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

The stagnant housing market has brokerages across the country on their knees, but The Real Brokerage isnt waiting for market conditions to improve to grow its business. We believe our agent attraction pipeline is strong, and we are confident in continuing this momentum into 2025 regardless of broader market conditions.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2025

Lets call it what it is: most brokerages are way behind on AI. If youre not actively integrating AI across your brokerage s operations, youre not just behind, youre exposed. Its about rewriting your growth architecture for a market thats evolving faster than your old systems can handle. And thats where most brokerages get stuck.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

According to the announcement, firm founder Austin Frangoules and his team of 23 agents are affiliating with KWs Coastal Virginia Chesapeake market center. In addition to his real estate brokerage operation, Frangoules has also launched East Coast Mortgage , East Coast Insurance , Protector Title , and Frangoules Enterprises.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2025

HousingWires Marketing Leaders award celebrates the most creative and influential marketing minds of the housing economy. This year 55 honorees were selected.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In terms of options, we’re very fortunate to have some of the top brokers in the country working with us on a product suite we will soon take to market. Processing is a big piece of what brokerages care about, so we have a copilot that we’re getting feedback on and plan to have six or seven copilots that will launch next year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

This cycle of ascent and decline is also evident in the residential brokerage industry. Firms that once commanded the market and struck fear into their competitors are no longer as dominant. However, whether measured by agent count, transaction volume, or market share, their once-commanding leads have diminished.

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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., The acquisition gives Compass a firm footprint of high-end homes in an area with an expensive housing market. At the end of 2023, the number of principal agents at the brokerage stood at 14,683.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Michele Harrington: After entering real estate sales right out of the Marine Corps , I built my own brokerage. How are you doing that in this crazy housing market? Sanchez: We’re seeing some green shoots in the housing market. The duo start the conversation by exploring Harrington’s path into the CEO’s role at FirstTeam.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2025

As MLSs across the country work to implement the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Multiple Listing Options for Sellers (MLOS) policy, brokerages and some Realtor associations are busy creating the new disclosures needed for delayed marketing exempt listings.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

By contrast, legacy brokerages did not perform nearly as well. A more efficient and intuitive customer relationship management system (CRM); tools to create better marketing materials; streamlined client communications; and a place to manage the deal pipeline, transactions, and checklists in one place. Technology is part of the story.

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2025

Preparing for the summer season typically a peak period in most real estate markets requires strategic planning and a keen focus on the client experience. Competition can heat up quickly and as a global brokerage, heres how were preparing for a successful luxury summer selling season across the markets we serve and how you can do the same.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

I’m in New York and I know the real estate market here is very, very different than it is outside of Pittsburgh, or in Ohio, or in Missouri. The first maxim of real estate is that all real estate is local,” Gringer said. And so, you can’t look at a few counties in Missouri and extrapolate a national practice.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

But while Zillow did get its wish after NAR chose to uphold CCP for now, the trade groups new Multiple Listing Options for Sellers policy which creates the concept of a delayed marketing exempt listing has the potential to put some serious strain on Zillow and other listing portals like Realtor.com and Homes.com.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2025

A northern Nevada real estate brokerage led by a longtime local broker has joined the Century 21 network aiming to grow its presence across the region. In February 2020, she launched her own brokerage just weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic upended the housing market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A month after launching its new Private Exclusive Listings (PX) feature, agent-driven offer, negotiation and collaboration platform Final Offer has acquired Private Collection , a source of listing information for off-market properties. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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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. The numbers are particularly impressive given how slow the housing markets in Florida have gotten after the pandemic boom. Agiles story highlights what a different agent compensation model can do for a growing brokerage.

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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? A narrowing of opportunity and reduced market visibility that runs counter to the spirit of fair housing. The result? of all listings.

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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. Were going deep into pure tech innovation.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Despite 2025 housing market predictions changing fast , there are still key themes and trends for real estate leaders to watch to best serve their clients and business. 26 in Dallas to hear her full session on real estate brokerage economics. If we start to see them enter the market, it will be encouraging.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2024

31, 2023, and has since reshaped the business practices for real estate brokerages and agents across the country. The market is not great, so we aren’t often dealing with multiple-offer situations. It is no secret that many first-time homebuyers are struggling.

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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?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2025

Under the National Association of Realtors (NAR) new Multiple Listing Options policy, the trade group is allowing listing agents, with the signed consent and direct permission of their seller client, to delay publicly marketing a listing through Internet Data Exchange (IDX) feeds and syndication.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2025

The Real Brokerage has named Ravi Jani as its new chief financial officer. His financial acumen, market insight, and collaborative approach have already made a meaningful impact on our organization. He has more than 15 years of experience in capital markets, financial strategy and investor engagement.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Compass is certainly known for luxury property sales , but the nation’s top brokerage based on sales volume is looking to offer even more support to agents working on these types of deals. On Tuesday, the firm launched Compass Resort, a network for agents in vacation-home markets and clients searching for second homes.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2025

Some brokerages have rules that disincentivize agents to join teams because they make more money if they stay solo. Others have restrictions that prevent agents already at the brokerage from joining teams. Some now operate at a scale that blurs the line between team and brokerage — coining terms like “teamerage.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2025

A new report on real estate agent and brokerage performance in the first quarter of 2025 shows that agent movement accelerated dramatically in opening months of the year. It tracked thousands of agent movements across brokerage models and markets. Tech-enabled brokerages followed, drawing 22.6% of this group.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2025

Industry debate around off-market listings or pocket listings has become increasingly heated. For Willoughby, founder of The Jaymes Willoughby Team with Keller Williams Realty , off-market listings are a gamble that rarely pays off for sellers. Some agents use off-market listings as a way to double-dip commissions, Willoughby said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

On Thursday, eXp Realty announced that, as a brokerage, it was signing on to abide by Zillow s standards for listing transparency. At the core of Zillows listing standards is the belief that if a listing is marketed to any home shoppers, it should be marketed to all home shoppers. where all the data is siloed, Pareja said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

But in a turbulent housing market , it may have been this innovation that ultimately ended Redfin’s run as a standalone company. They still have to bear the cost of those agents, despite production not being there in a terrible housing market.” It shows in the data. Simply put, this competitive advantage didnt materialize.

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Real Estate News

MAY 24, 2025

LeadingREs Jessica Edgerton explained how regional and family firms can excel by reacting to market changes quickly and building culture and trust.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

I think agents should be trained to say, ‘In order for me to give you the most exposure and to maximize your value, you should be on the market,’” Umansky said. Every off-market listing I’ve been on — and I’ve been selling real estate for 29 years now — I’ve tried to convince my sellers to put it on the market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The report from the Seattle-based real estate brokerage highlighted household capabilities for handling mortgage and rent payments. HousingWire ‘s 2025 market forecast predicts slower price appreciation, although prices won’t turn negative. The report used data from a survey of 1,802 residents between the ages of 18 and 65.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2025

housing market. Market observers believe that the cuts will be paused when the Fed meets again at the end of January. Last week, the labor department reported a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 211,000 unemployment claims a lower-than-expected figure which signaled that the labor market isnt breaking, according to Mohtashami.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Leading real estate brokerage William Raveis is making another game-changing acquisition before the new year. This week, the firm announced the acquisition of Nantucket, Massachussetts -based brokerage Jordan Real Estate (JRE). Co-owners Gloria Grimshaw and David Callahan acquired the brokerage from founder Lucille Jordan in 2007.

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