Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

Founded in 1976, FirstTeam operates more than 46 offices with 2,200-plus sales agents. “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. The firm is among the largest privately held U.S.

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Agents Brokerage Staging Equity 365

Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

New home sales have been one of the brighter housing stories since the home sales crash in 2022 — as we can see in the chart below, new home sales have been able to grow since then. When we take a more extended look at new home sales, we aren’t working from an elevated level — slow and steady wins this race.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

The CMO Playbook speakers are forces in the industry with interesting backgrounds and paths to their current role,” said Jennifer Laws, senior vice president of sales at HW Media. “We Attendees can find inspirational speakers on stage during the Marketing Leaders sessions. The CMO Playbook sessions are especially interesting.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The majority of recent home sellers overwhelmingly prefer traditional full-service real estate agents, with 77% choosing this method for their sale — nearly eight times more than those who opted for a ‘For Sale By Owner’ (FSBO) transaction (10%). Why would they do this?

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2024

Now that new home sales are trending lower , with fewer permits, are we getting closer to the end of this cycle? New home sales aren’t collapsing but they’re not growing anymore either, so the ball is in the Fed’s court now. months at the current sales rate. They will build as long as new home sales are growing.

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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. Anchor Home specializes in high-end residential sales, staging, new construction consultations and renovation strategies. Their average listing price is $1.7

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We may be nearing the bottom in home sales even if mortgage rates don’t decline. This would be the first inkling of a housing market where sales could start to post year-over-year gains. Soaring mortgage rates stifle buyer demand There are only 319,000 single-family homes in the contract- pending stage.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

In recent weeks, home sales also faltered in the face of 7% mortgage rates. There are many ways to measure home prices and even more signals about future sale prices. The median price paid for newly pending home sales has been averaging just 2% more than a year ago. There were 4% more sellers, including the immediate sales.

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Sales Mortgages Marketing Staging 377

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Dwiggins: Tell us a little bit about the acquisition of Virtual Staging AI and the strategy for that. Wacksman: It’s a great young company that has innovated a way to do virtual staging. This gives good sales agents room to prove themselves. You also have a more educated buyer on how commissions work.

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Technology Staging Agents Brokerage 364

Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

The CMO Playbook speakers are forces in the industry with interesting backgrounds and paths to their current role,” said Jennifer Laws, senior vice president of sales at HW Media. “We Attendees can find inspirational speakers on stage at the Marketing Leaders section. The CMO Playbook sessions are especially interesting.

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Staging Marketing Industrial Mortgages 368

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Although your sellers have already made a great decision by choosing to hire a real estate agent (which can add about $34,000 more to their final sale price), what year-end pricing strategies can you use to position your listings for maximum appeal?

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Staging Investor Closing Closing costs 370

Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Everyone knows it’s been a very dry 18 months for home sales. All of these signals point to rising home sales in 2024. There are still a lot of people who assume that mortgage rates need to fall before we see a rebound in home sales, but the data shows that we only need stability in the mortgage markets. Why the difference?

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Sales Mortgages Closing Staging 466

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. Our head of sales is a life-long Realtor, one of the first people I hired when I was at Better. Sarah Wheeler: You founded MaxHome.AI in January. Very early on, I brought on people from Better who understood the industry.

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Brokerage Staging Industrial Agents 364

Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2022

Back then, we had higher sales, higher inventory, and less price growth, but we had a massive credit bubble. Today we have fewer sales, few listings, and much hotter home-price growth. Las Vegas some sales were down 24% year over year as median sales price was up 21% year over year. housing market as savagely unhealthy.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

According to a survey released Tuesday by John Burns Research & Consulting , the top 50 MPCs sold more than 34,600 new homes in 2023, up 24% from the nearly 28,000 sales in 2022. And in 2023, each of the top 50 communities sold at least 368 homes, although that’s fewer than the 2021 record of 460 sales per community.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Today the National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales fell once again to 4.80 Even though this was a beat of estimates, the sales decline trend due to higher mortgage rates and home prices continues. From NAR Research : “Total existing-home sales notched a minor contraction of 0.4% million in August.”

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Sales Mortgages Staging As-is 458

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

home sales. But outside of a 12-month window in 2021 and 2022 where investor purchases and sale prices surged in tandem, ”the two variables don’t seem to move together.” They represented 22% of all sales in the mid-priced tier and 21% of all sales in the most expensive tier. of all U.S.

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Investor Sales Staging Equity 450

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Yun took the stage on Tuesday at NAR NXT , the trade group’s annual conference in Anaheim, California. However, as mortgage rates stabilize and home sellers adapt, “Existing-home sales will rise by 15% next year,” Yun said. In 2023, new-home sales are up 5% year to date, Yun said.

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Sales New Construction Staging Mortgages 458

HomeLight

DECEMBER 4, 2024

If you’re looking to receive top dollar from your home, have a speedier sale with less time on the market , and appeal to more buyers online and at showings, you should strongly consider staging your home. Here’s what you need to know about staging a bedroom. HomeLight can connect you with a top-performing agent near you.

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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. Rather than 3%, 4% or 5%, if mortgage rates can just head down toward 6% and remain there, all housing data will improve and we could see a resurgence in permits as new home sales grow.

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Mortgages Staging Development As-is 412

Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

Before rushing to a price reduction for your real estate listing, its important to take a step back and evaluate all the factors that could be affecting the sale. Inside, staging can make a huge difference. Simply put, there are more buyers than there are homes for sale. Is the home being marketed effectively? Does it show well?

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Staging Sales Agents Marketing 336

RIS Media

MARCH 6, 2025

The Staging Collective has partnered with home sale funding firm HouseAmp to deliver a new seller financing program aimed at helping homeowners maximize their propertys sale potential, the companies have announced.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Setting the Stage for 2025 Heres the good news, 2025 is set to stabilize. By March, were likely to see a healthy uptick in sales. Despite this, the Las Vegas housing market held its ground with steady appreciation, climbing 5-7%. The key takeaway? and 6%, with potential dips below 6% by mid-year.

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Mortgages FHA loan Closing costs Staging 370

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Last year, the change in mortgage rates was rapid enough to drive home sales prices down. There’s no getting around the fact that sales are slow , demand is held back because the cost of money is so much higher than it has been recently. It’s notable that home sales prices are not yet declining rapidly like they did last fall.

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Sales Mortgages As-is Closing 441

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

However, bringing this technology to the point-of-sale stage allows lenders to screen candidates more effectively. The new partnership will allow lenders who use the Revvin platform to automatically verify any borrower at any point of the loan application process, according to a news release.

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Sales Lending Technology Staging 414

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

WFP has 150 agents and has executed $43 billion in sales volume over the past 25 years. Compass shares our passion for empowering clients at every stage of their homeownership journey and has been a powerful leader in driving positive change within our industry, Thomas Anderson, president of Washington Fine Properties, said in a statement.

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Brokerage Principal Staging Branding 305

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

AI for example, continues to take the main stage and rightfully so. AI eliminates menial, time-consuming tasks and empowers agents to instead focus on revenue generating activities and deliver essential customer service to sales-ready prospects.

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Industrial Technology Brokerage Agents 414

Keeping Current Matters

JUNE 12, 2025

That’s like leaving the fate of your sale to a coin toss. What we need to do now: We need to analyze the latest sales in your area to make sure you’re hitting the right number. Sometimes taking down old drapery, some light staging, or even a fresh coat of paint can completely change how a buyer feels about the home.

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Staging Agents Closing costs Inspection 220

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 We’ve come a long way since then.”

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MLS Staging Technology Agents 396

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. Some of these companies are much younger and are in a heavy growth stage, so its not an exact comparison.

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Brokerage Agents Mortgages Staging 393

Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2025

Nearly 40% of annual home sales happen between May and August, and were quickly approaching the most popular day to list your home: June 1*. Over 65% of first-time sellers would accept 20% less for their home to avoid the stress of staging, repairs, and the uncertainty of offers. This is where agents come in.

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Agents Marketing MLS Staging 350

Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2023

Now, she has recently been appointed president of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate (BHGRE), where she is tasked with leading the company’s global network of more than 12,000 affiliated brokers and independent sales associates. What are you hoping your time on stage accomplishes? GW: I’m really excited to attend the event.

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Staging Branding Industrial Technology 363

Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

The primary difficulty cited was the effort required 63% were surprised by the demands of staging, showings and repairs, while 37% were caught off guard by the emotional toll. This emotional burden has shifted priorities, with many sellers valuing convenience over maximizing their sale price. With the average U.S.

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Debt-to-income ratio Staging Loans Equity 346

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Whenever there is a change in the marketplace because interest rates go up 300% from their trough, or there are concerns that business practice change may lead to downward pressure on commissions , agents become worried about how many sales are going to be out there and how much money theyll be able to make on those sales.

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Brokerage Agents Technology Development 369

Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2025

Renovation 2: Taking (calculated) design and staging risks Part of creating a vibe that sells is taking risks. They walked us through their exact strategy for building a team, finding homes to renovate and sell and which renovations get the best ROI at the closing table. They might not be able to articulate why, but theyll know.

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Closing Renovation Hard money loan Design 362

Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Exuma believes that the platform will provide transformative change to every stage of homeownership. “My Private equity firm Exuma Capital Partners announced that it is the lead investor for a newly launched, AI-powered homeowner management tool called Property.com.

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Sales Renovation Staging Equity 421

Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

For example: What do you hope to achieve in the sale of your home? It also helps include them in solution-building, setting the stage for a negotiation that everyone leaves satisfied with. This shows you care and sets the stage for the other party to do the same. For example: Im sorry if I missed something.

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Staging Inspection Closing Agents 368