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Agents harness the power of social media to generate leads

Housing Wire

When Gogo Bethke began her career in real estate back in 2011, the Romanian immigrant felt like social media was her only option to generate leads and close deals. “I Instead, the Michigan-based eXp agent created her Facebook business page shortly after passing her licensing exam in 2011 and named it “Gogo’s Real Estate.”. “I

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Are you fighting margin compression with data or guesses? 

Housing Wire

This is why we brought HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami, Kate Amor, senior vice president and head of enterprise products at Guaranteed Rate , and Arjun Dhingra, who lead sales and business development at All Western Mortgage , together for a preview of the information you can expect to hear at HousingWire Annual in Austin Texas, from Oct.

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New Hampshire 2023 Year in Review

Lamacchia Realty

The real estate landscape witnessed significant developments in 2023, as the New Hampshire market saw a historic low in listings. You can see this is the second year in a row that sales have been down since the 2020 COVID market, but now in 2023, sales are the lowest they’ve been since 2011.

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Will Springer Realtor - Untitled Article

Will Springer Realtor

Even with aggressive changes to state and local zoning and fewer obstacles for building developers, the highly regarded Urban Institute estimates that by 2044 the Puget Sound region will be 140K homes shy of real demand. That’s up from 36% of sales in 2022 but far from the peak this century of 45% in 2011, according to ATTOM. >>

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Affordability Woes Prompt Historic Housing Slowdown

Will Springer Realtor

Sales activity across the county is at historic lows; no October has experienced fewer listings in King County – not even close – since at least 1992 when records were first archived online. New listings for all home types in King County stood at 2157, a whopping 25% drop from September to October. Closed sales fell 0.9%

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HINTS OF SHARP INCREASE IN NEW CONSTRUCTION

Will Springer Realtor

It is developing several single-family and multifamily communities in King and Snohomish counties. The company forecasts an 8% YoY increase in new communities for 2021 across the U.S. ” Forward-thinking developers will go beyond trails and lap pools, “which have become ordinary,” suggests the experts from Burns.

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Will Springer Realtor - Untitled Article

Will Springer Realtor

This year’s “cold down” is stark, with 36% fewer new listings and about 26% fewer homes under contract (Pendings) for all King County home types combined as well as single-family structures alone – and that’s simply from October to November. Read my real estate forecast blog post after you finish the newsletter to learn more!)