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Side’s Guy Gal on championing the high-volume real estate agent

Housing Wire

It became very obvious that you had this segment of real estate professionals that was unlike most others,” said Gal, who launched San Francisco-based Side in 2017 with Edward Wu and Hilary Saunders. “It When we looked at the industry, every brokerage that existed served the 1.3 Guy Gal CEO at Side. “It

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San Francisco-based OWN Real Estate makes the leap to Keller Williams

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San Francisco-based real estate team OWN Real Estate joined Keller Williams , the company announced on Wednesday. Founded by Wilson Leung, the team has 19 real estate agents and six staff members. In 2022, OWN Real Estate sold 80 homes, amounting to more than $107.1

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CFPB fines Freedom Mortgage and Realty Connect nearly $2 million for illegal kickbacks

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The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued orders against Freedom Mortgage Corporation and Realty Connect USA Long Island for illegal kickbacks on Thursday, the first enforcement action associated with the 1974 Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act in six years. million fine.

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Why Hometap is betting on the growth of the home equity investment market

Housing Wire

“We do see this as a new asset class in the real estate ecosystem and we see it as complementary to traditional debt options that exist today,” Dan Burnett, head of investor product at Hometap, said in an interview with HousingWire. One is through the market that we’ve approached.

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Real estate teams beat brokerage firms in profitability

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Podcast: Comparing real estate team and brokerage profitability. Study: It’s true, real estate teams outperform brokerage firms. RealTrends Brokerage Compensation Report. However, these super-sized teams aren’t the only ones turning a profit — a profit that dwarfs most real estate brokerage’s profit.

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Compass snags two Chicago-based @properties brokers

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The top agents were previously at brokerage @properties. “We With her 20 years of experience, Hodge is one of the top-producing agents in the western suburbs of Chicago. “I’m She ranked among the top 1% of Chicago Realtors in 2017 and is also a past president of the Women’s Council of Realtors.

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Newrez launches mortgage JV with Georgia-based Keller Williams franchise

Housing Wire

GLG is a Keller Williams Realty franchise group of residential real estate brokerages located in Georgia, servicing Alpharetta as Keller Williams Realty North Atlanta , Roswell as Keller Williams Realty Consultants , Peachtree Corners as Keller Williams Realty Chattahoochee North and surrounding metropolitan Atlanta areas.