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6 strategies to get more from your MLS searches

Housing Wire

It’s time to get more creative, aggressive and profitable with your MLS searches. 6 strategies to actively and creatively mine your MLS 1. Maybe there’s a builder spec home that doesn’t have 3 offers on it, something that’s back on the market or a for-sale-by-owner home that isn’t getting showings.

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Opinion: Sitzer/Burnett decision presents an uncertain future for buyer agents

Housing Wire

Under current guidelines, sellers pay a 5-6% commission on a sale which is split between the buyer and listing agents. In order to survive, buyer agents will need to show this value to buyers and be willing to have clients pay a set fee or a pre-negotiated percentage of the sale price to secure the business.

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How online auctions deliver on the promise of pre-foreclosure sales

Housing Wire

The great promise of short sales and other distressed pre-foreclosure sales as a foreclosure alternative is most fully realized in a competitive and transparent online auction marketplace, according to recent data from the Auction.com Market Validation Program (MVP) for pre-foreclosure sales. Falling Short.

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10 easy ways to make your next listing sell ASAP

Housing Wire

Even if you have little competition from other homes for sale, it’s your job (and the seller’s expectation) to market, advertise, show and sell their home in its best light. Then create your checklist based on these top 10 action items to do before you approve the first showing: 1.

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7 best real estate schools in Florida (FL) for 2024

Housing Wire

In Florida, getting licensed as a real estate agent begins with the completion of an approved 63-hour Sales Associate prelicensing course. Self-paced online Gold Coast School $263 Classroom, livestream, or online MLS Campus Real Estate School $83.88 out of 5.

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11 Homeselling Myths, Debunked

The Close

After all, a new listing on the MLS gets the most attention in the first week. Home sale preparation is done like a dealership preps the cars for the lot. Selling a home is the same—it’s not just a sign in the yard and a posting on the MLS. Then interest starts to taper off. Sellers will ask, What are you doing to sell my home?

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Agents, here’s how to boost your sales production

Real Trends

Coming off of a year that brought the highest number of home sales in 15 years , the market is starting to show signs of normalizing. Agents who reveled in the red-hot market may now be wondering how to keep their production up, with sales falling about 10% from 6.125 million sales to around 5.4

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