Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

So if you’re a lender, the question you should be asking is — how can I engage those 106 million households tomorrow? Milestones takes a much more holistic and comprehensive approach to homeownership — it’s about providing clients with solutions for all things home-related. What seeds can I plant now that will grow in the near future?

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The Close

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

There’s plenty of advice for homeowners about what not to say when selling your house. But this list is for agents: things you should never say to your clients. Real estate has universal truths (the lockbox will not work), but agents have to be diplomatic despite these truths. But you don’t.

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The Close

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

There’s plenty of advice for homeowners about what not to say when selling your house. But this list is for agents: things you should never say to your clients. Real estate has universal truths (the lockbox will not work), but agents have to be diplomatic despite these truths. But you don’t.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

We have an agent and play private gigs, clubs, corporate events, festivals and even the occasional wedding — though we politely refuse to do ‘typical’ wedding favorites like the Macarena, Brown Eyed Girl, and the Electric Slide. People often say that when you do something you love, it won’t feel like work.

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1000Watt

OCTOBER 27, 2023

There are a few reasons for this (a poorly-timed acquisition in rentals, an extraordinary investment in technology over the years), but the heart of the matter is simple: Redfin has always paid its agents salaries. Making payroll every two weeks for over 2,000 agents is a sobering reality. The best agents have never been at Redfin.

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Realtor.com

JANUARY 18, 2023

“Home buyers are looking for any indication that you’d be willing to accept an offer that’s below list price,” says Annapolis, MD, real estate agent Greg Beckman. “If If you say the wrong thing to a buyer, the person might make you a lowball offer.” Don’t have your agent yet? So, what’s a bad answer?

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The Close

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

According to Chris Voss, former FBI hostage negotiator and author of “ Never Split the Difference ,” the majority of our communication—55%, in fact—comes from our face and body language. However, when your clients veer into avoiding direct questions about simple things, like areas of interest or how much they can afford, that’s a red flag.

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Lighter Side of Real Estate

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But, as the saying goes, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is… 10 Signs You May Be Dealing With a Fake Owner Scammers aren’t new to real estate; they’ve been around for years in different forms. But they could also get away with the entire purchase price of a house, if a buyer never realizes it’s a scam.

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HomeLight

JANUARY 12, 2024

A lot of people don’t have the money — they’ve got equity in their home, but they have no way of accessing it,” says Eddie Crosslin , an agent with Crye-Leike Real Estate Services. Melinda is a top-selling agent in Tennesee who completes 18% more sales than the average agent in the state.

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 20, 2023

But, as soon as you spot a weird stain on your ceiling that you never noticed before, you’ll wish you had paid a little more attention every now and then. You don’t want to wait until one is bald before you get a new one,” says Mike Montpetit , a top real estate agent in Cary, North Carolina. It’s like having tires on your car.

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Lighter Side of Real Estate

JULY 20, 2022

There’s a never-ending loop of real estate shows you can watch on TV nowadays. You can go from watching one agent helping a couple buy their first home on a shoe-string budget, to another helping a family who just won the lottery buying a home bigger than they ever hoped for in the blink of an eye. 2) How many agents ?!

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BAM Media

MAY 13, 2024

But Eric, The Broke Agent , pushed me to showcase more real estate content because we always want to be evolving. We never want to get stuck in one type of content bucket. So, that’s the type of content I started to focus on: content that showed the vulnerable side of being an agent. That’s where my true passion lies.

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The Close

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Real estate agents are wondering what not to wear, and I don’t blame them. But that’s where we come in, with this list of 10 Realtor outfits to never, ever wear. 10 Real Estate Outfits You Should Never, Ever Wear These are some general rules, and I feel strongly about them. Read on for the what and the why! (Oh

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The Residential Specialist

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Donating time to charitable causes can be personally fulfilling and a lead-generation tool for your business By Michelle Huffman Real estate agents have a reputation for being good neighbors. Two-thirds of REALTORS ® volunteer in their communities monthly, according to a National Association of REALTORS ® report, but some agents do much more.

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The Residential Specialist

OCTOBER 24, 2022

As the real estate market shifts, expert agents share what the industry will look like heading into 2023. Although the market has cooled down in some regions, agents and experts across the country don’t foresee a crash or drastic downturn in 2023. “The Don’t compare 2022 or 2023 to 2021 or 2020 because that’s unrealistic, Miller says.

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HomeLight

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As agents, you’re expected to know the latest real estate industry trends. But to reap the benefits, it’s important to know what and how you should post because things are changing fast for 2023. Peitz says we need to be aware of what she calls “the digital vs. the physical.”. And I would say to people, ‘Wait a minute.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

If you want to get metaphorical, don’t listing agents “mask” the real price of a house or condo for sale when they under-price the property and set an offer date? But what I didn’t know, what I still don’t know, and what I’ll never know is why people make these “dummy offers.”

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The Close

MARCH 1, 2024

Agent perspective: The tips on this list are probably things that agents already do, but building client relationships means taking them up a notch and doing them strategically and with purpose. Really, the only thing you can control is … you. The only con is that it takes time and thoughtfulness to do it well.

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Realtor.com

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But there are some things to be mindful of,” says Dan Mock , vice president of operations at Mister Sparky. Pay close attention to the location requirements in the manual,” says Mallory Micetich , home expert at Angi. Generators should be at a distance of at least 20 feet from your house or other structures.

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The Close

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Too often the clichés they use make clients hate them and leave experienced agents rolling their eyes. The listing might suggest a rare find to some buyers, but there are better ways to say that. What to Say Instead You can still hype up the excitement for a good listing. Real Estate Listing Clichés 1.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Not only that, you could always go back to the buyer and agent with that unconditional offer for $980,000 offer and say, “If you come up to $1,000,000, we’ll accept your offer.” After our experience with the previous property, I had no doubt that agents had heard about what Bram and Mary did. Sorry, not sorry!

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McKissock

JULY 6, 2022

One of the main responsibilities of a real estate agent is to effectively organize all the competing interests of a transaction (or pieces of the jigsaw puzzle). Most agents quickly realize that “coordinating the chaos” is a major part of their role in a given transaction. As agents, we know better.

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HomeLight

JUNE 19, 2023

Let’s lay it all out: How pre-qualifications and pre-approvals are similar Pre-qualifications and pre-approvals have a few things in common. Before jumping into the differences between pre-qualifications and pre-approvals, you should understand that neither guarantees a mortgage or an accepted offer. What’s the difference between them?

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Realty Biz

JANUARY 9, 2024

There are specific things all sellers should know. The effort you put into selling a house should never be understated. Things have evened out. From experience, many potential sellers need the guidance of skilled agents. Never underestimate the importance of how your home stacks up to the competition.

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HomeLight

AUGUST 3, 2022

As real estate agents, we’re no different. No one has laid out this concept quite like Nick Krautter, an agent since 2006, author of The Golden Handoff and CEO of City & State Real Estate in Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA. Since then, he’s bought five or six other agents’ businesses. I mean, I had 150, right?

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

I have it on good authority that there were a whopping 296 showings in one week that the property was on the market and that made many of us in the agent community ask, “Did these 296 buyers, their partner, and their agents wear a hole in the carpet, or what?” Their agents too. But how do you get to 85 offers?

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1000Watt

APRIL 5, 2024

Some agents I know barely remember 2021. When I do speaking engagements, I always tell people that “If you’re good, you’re good”, meaning that good brokers, agents, and companies will figure out a way to adapt. And HGTV has made us all amateur real estate agents and contractors over the past decade, remember?

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Fancy Pants Homes

MAY 9, 2024

The house that starred as the Byers’ home in Season 4 of Stranger Things is now for sale. We recently had the exclusive opportunity to sit down with Felicia Vaisa, the real estate agent representing the Stranger Things -featured house, who shared plenty of intriguing facts about the property with us.

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HomeLight

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Add in historically low interest rates and a generally cheaper price-per-square-foot, and suburban homeownership has never looked more attractive. In fact, while other industries have struggled this year, 88% of HomeLight real estate agents say bidding wars are on the rise in their area, describing the situation as “insanely competitive.”.

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Broke Agent Media

JANUARY 26, 2023

BAM Key Detail: During an epic hour-long BAM webinar with David Childers, the president of Keeping Current Matters (KCM), Byron Lazine asked how agents can articulate to consumers the unique buying opportunity present in today’s market. Long-term homeowners should view this market…right now…as a unique buying opportunity.

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BAM Media

MAY 9, 2024

How many times have you gone to look up a service provider you’ve never used or a restaurant that you’ve never been to and check their reviews and ratings? 1—Get used to asking Asking for feedback from someone you’ve been helping can feel awkward at first, but as with most things, practice makes perfect. Asking for help?

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Real Trends

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Sometimes I find myself saying to my agents, “Real estate work is weird, isn’t it?” When people think about what real estate agents do, they picture them showing houses, writing contracts and handing over keys at the closing table. Handwritten cards are a great thing to track in your CRM.

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RIS Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

One of the biggest challenges for buyer’s agents is trying to help buyers as the housing market continues to shift. And one of the best things you can do is prepare buyers for the journey they are about to embark upon. Buying a home should never be about trying to “time” a market.

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HomeLight

AUGUST 17, 2022

For Dr. Carlton Bell, a well-known Tom Ferry coach and veteran real estate agent, that means conducting seller seminars. The market right now is the market where you should become a listing agent or should be a listing agent, “says Bell. Dr. Bell says that the payoff happens when the seminar is over.

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RIS Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

However, a question that should be on every broker/owner’s mind is: how can this help my agents and my businesses? A stabilization year would be a good thing for us as an industry to see house price appreciation, inventory levels and some of those critical things settle down a little bit.

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HomeLight

MARCH 2, 2023

A HomeLight survey of over 1,000 top real estate agents nationwide found that, on average, fresh paint adds an estimated $7,571 in resale value for a 152% ROI. But how can you tell if you should repaint your house before selling it? HomeLight’s data shows that the top 5% of agents sell homes for as much as 10% more.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 31, 2023

When I sold the condo, the buyer’s agent asked, “Would you include the tables and chairs in the sale?” ” Now here’s where things get tricky. I would do things just to entertain myself, like actually email the lawyer back , which I would never do today. Nobody ever sat on it.

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