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

JUNE 9, 2025

Here are seven ways that a claw machine is similar to today’s real estate market — and why you can still win. It feels that way in the real estate market right now, where inventory is tight (except where it’s not), interest rates are unpredictable, the economy is changeable, buyers are cautious and sellers are stubborn.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Florida real estate market has reached unprecedented heights with major projects getting funding from developers across the country and even overseas. Understanding the market landscape Florida has long been a bellwether for national real estate trends.

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Inman

JUNE 9, 2025

Is spending $20,000 to $40,000 on traditional home staging necessary? Until recently, virtual staging wasn’t a true alternative — it was expensive, slow and often looked artificial. That changed with AI.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

On Tuesday, the residential real estate giant announced the acquisition of Virtual Staging AI (VSAI). Founded in 2023 by Michael Bonacina and Mikhail Andreev, VSAI helps home sellers, agents and photographers create digitally staged images of a listing, eliminating the need for physical furniture in the home.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2025

LPT Realty achieves growth by tailoring compensation models to the career stage of its real estate agents, from newbies who get the most out of a flat-fee model to superstars who like a traditional split. What that creates is [that] we actually have alignment with our team leaders,” said LPT CEO Robert Palmer. It is a lead generator for us.”

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RIS Media

MAY 8, 2025

At a time when housing inventory has been a persistent challenge and market constraint, agents are searching for any edge they can get when selling homes.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

Both the weekly new contracts and all the homes in the contract pending stage are below last year. This housing market is on hold until mortgage rates come down. Some markets are much slower than others. Inventory is up There are now 632,000 single-family homes unsold on the market around the U.S. When will that be?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

From the RISE stage in Las Vegas , Real unveiled three new products for agents and clients on Tuesday. Leo CoPilot can help agents generate automated marketing materials by leveraging data from an MLS. Real also unveiled Leo of Clients on the RISE stage Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The hardest position to take in analyzing the housing market is one that is contrarian and bullish. When everyone knows that the housing market is sluggish and weak, but the data shows surprising strength. This week, we count 14% more homes in the contract pending stage now than a year ago. The market is different now.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Stats are the fuel to the fire of the real estate market and will make you exude confidence in conversations with potential clientsmaking them feel confident in hiring you to represent them. This proves your expertise to clients and allows you to provide them with knowledge about the real estate market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2025

The resulting housing market crash and the Great Recession led policymakers to overcorrect by tightening mortgage lending standards and limiting funds for new construction. In turn, millennials , who were just starting to enter the housing market, were faced with fewer choices as homebuilding activity fell to its lowest level in 60 years.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2025

Collectively, the group brings more than $400 million in career sales and 500-plus closed transactions across Maryland markets, including Annapolis and Severna Park. Were always proud to partner with top brokerages and agents who share our commitment to delivering an exceptional experience for buyers and sellers across every market we serve.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

What stage is the company in right now? Divya Aathresh: We are still very early, in the pre-seed stage. 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. Sarah Wheeler: You founded MaxHome.AI in January.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2025

Every good buyers agent knows the look buyers get when they walk into a newly-renovated kitchen they dont just like, but love: “ Our partnerships with designers work so well because we can give our real estate advice based on our market knowledge and the feedback weve gotten from buyers over the years, and they can make it beautiful.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

After a year filled with rate swings, unpredictable markets and a bit of drama (thank you, inflation), the real estate world is ready for a fresh start. Whether youre looking to buy your first home, upgrade or simply gain clarity on the current market , this guide is your insiders playbook to tackle 2025 with confidence.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

With the first mortgage market in a state of flux, the competition for consumers’ home equity business has reached unprecedented levels. This sets the stage for an exhilarating showdown: Who will emerge victorious in the home equity battle? According to CoreLogic, total home equity skyrocketed to an astounding $33.8

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

The announcement comes shortly after Rocket unveiled the first stage of its rebrand and is a part of the company’s conscious effort to unify Rockets many companies under a single umbrella. Per a release from the Detroit-based fintech, the Rocket.com website is an AI -driven, “intuitive” experience.

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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.” Redfin leaned into that, and it didn’t work.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2025

This week at The Gathering by HousingWire , reverse mortgages took center stage on Tuesday as HW Media CEO Clayton Collins welcomed two leading industry executives to the stage. Market size vs. potential When asked about the size of the market, Mayer described it as “enormous” but with a lot of unrealized potential.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

Many who bought during the pandemic are now rethinking their decisions, citing changing lifestyles, financial miscalculations, and shifting market conditions, according to new data from Opendoor. Delaying the next purchase, setting priorities With affordability concerns looming, many first-time sellers are hesitant to re-enter the market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

real estate market is in and it may surprise you, but pretty much all the signals for housing in 2024 are pointing for growth now. While a robust housing market is generally a positive thing, this is not all good news to every person. There are millions of would-be homebuyers who are simply priced out of the market.

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Real Estate News

APRIL 4, 2025

Brokerage leadership coordinated a private listings push in the region despite MLS rules restricting pre-marketing and the risk of steep fines for agents.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Wallace brings more than 30 years of experience as a leader of tech-focused mortgage, asset management and capital market platforms. ” Daniel Wallace MAXEX chairman and co-founder Tom Pearce shared Decker’s praise for Wallace, highlighting the new COO’s vision for building an accessible central mortgage market platform.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

. “FirstTeam’s impressive growth is fueled by a robust ecosystem designed to nurture agents at every stage of their career,” said Michele Harrington , the companys CEO.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

At any time of year, an effective pricing strategy can be the difference between a home that sells quickly at a desired price and one that languishes on the market for months. Refresh online listings and staging If property photos don’t reflect the season or the current state of the property, give your online listing a quick update.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Of the surveyed pool, 42% have sold since late 2022 as rising mortgage rates cooled the post-pandemic market. In August, directly after the NAR settlement went into effect in most markets, Redfin reported that the typical U.S. Nearly 1 in 4 sellers (24%) view the polarizing FSBO method as the worst way to sell a home.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

On Thursday, MLS leaders took center stage at several conference sessions, including discussions of the business practice changes driven by the NAR commission lawsuit settlement and how the role of the MLS — and the MLS-broker relationship — has evolved as a result. “And

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Unlike a lot of forecasters in the mortgage world, a few months ago our projection included the notion that with strong jobs data and some inflation fears, the bond market could indeed push mortgage rates over 7%. Those scenarios are possible, and its going to be fascinating to see how the bond markets react to new administration policies.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here are my three key points on the labor market recovery since I retired my COVID-19 recovery model on Dec. And the third is the most important one at this stage of the cycle: 3. However, the labor market isn’t breaking: jobless claims data is almost below 200,000. Does this mean the labor market is breaking? 9, 2020: 1.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

Todays builder survey gives us more clues about what stage they’re in, and it isnt good. If mortgage rates rise from todays level, this will be a negative for the labor market, which has already been shedding government jobs in 2025. The chart below is not very encouraging.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

“This has created an even less durable final rule that does not reflect market, technological , and practical realities.” He said the “stage is set for a more data-driven lending environment.” “Consumers now control their financial data, sharing it securely with third parties.

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Inman

APRIL 9, 2025

Luxury consultant Chris Pollinger speaks with Samantha and Nicole Senia of LA's Elite Home Staging about the newest trends in outdoor space design.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

The labor market isn’t tight anymore and that will eventually be good news for mortgage rates. The current state of the labor market results from a series of events, with COVID-19 being a significant catalyst. Today the labor market is less tight, but the Fed would love to see this number even lower, down to 7 million.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Working in this arena, you see all kinds of different markets, and the common denominator is that once a senior is in that stage of life, it remains and continues to be an opportunity. I applaud him, and also challenge other leaders in other markets to follow his lead.

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Inman

APRIL 2, 2025

Author and trainer Bernice Ross offers a laundry list of don'ts when it comes to preparing a home to hit the real estate market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2023

The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week. Now that I believe the seasonal inventory bottom is in, we can focus on the next stage: tracking the weekly data on how much inventory growth we can get this year before the seasonal inventory starts to decline.

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