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5 Ways Real Estate Agents Can Give Back

McKissock

Want your real estate career to make an impact on your local community? There are ways real estate agents can give back and serve people in need. Through real estate charities and some creative thinking you can use your career to help others—you might meet some like-minded real estate agents while doing it, too.

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DataDigest: The remarkably resilient agent commission rate

Housing Wire

On Friday afternoon, my real estate agent called with good news. The agent wished me well and said that she would appreciate a review on her website. The plaintiffs essentially argue that sellers are subsidizing buy-side agents and it’s an anti-competitive practice that lacks transparency. Congratulations!”

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Guaranteed Rate deploys Gateless’ Smart Underwrite solution

Housing Wire

“When Guaranteed Rate introduced the world’s first fully digital mortgage in 2015, it revolutionized the industry. Now, with Smart Underwrite, we can continue to expedite and streamline the process for both our customers and real estate agents.

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DataDigest: Study shows agents are aplenty, most with few or no sales

Housing Wire

On average for all areas studied, 70% of agents sold five or fewer homes in the past year, and 49% sold only one or no homes. ” Barriers to entry (or lack thereof) In the second part of his three-part study, published last October, Brobeck argues it is too easy to become a licensed agent.

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Zillow believes the evolution of the industry will only help it grow

Housing Wire

In particular, Barton highlighted Zillow’s Premier Agent program, which sells buy-side leads to agents who are part of the Premier Agent network. million real estate license holders, many handle only one or two transactions a year. Eighty-percent of all real estate transactions across the U.S.

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Judge’s ruling: it’s heartland homeowners v. NAR

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors – the trade group that purports to represent real estate businesses, agents, and consumers – and arguably the four biggest companies in residential real estate: Realogy , Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices of America , RE/MAX , and Keller Williams. The defendants?

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Guaranteed Rate’s Larry Steinway makes the jump to Revolution Mortgage

Housing Wire

Steinway left Guaranteed Rate last month, eight years after he returned to the Illinois retail lender in January 2015. Steinway is the sole loan officer in his branch and is supported by the rest of his five team members, who primarily focus on marketing its realtor relationships. It’s the local relationships.

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