Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Originally filed in late November, the Phillips lawsuit accuses real estate industry players of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. This week alone two new lawsuits were filed in Florida and Pennsylvania.

Brokerage 412

Brokerage Realty Real Estate Agent Real Estate 412

McKissock

JULY 3, 2022

It might seem difficult to save for retirement as a real estate agent when you’re not sure what your income will be from month to month, or when you don’t have an employer-sponsored 401(k). Free Guide : Download our free Real Estate Agent Income Guide for insights and trends to help you earn more in your real estate career.

Real Estate Agent 95

Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Investing 95

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Second Century Ventures , NAR’s strategic investment division, included Curbio in its “REACH” startup growth program in 2019. Today’s sellers want to work with real estate agents who offer added value, including the ability to get their home market-ready and spruced up without having to pay upfront,” said Olivia Mariani, CMO at Curbio.

Home Improvement 371

Home Improvement Realtors Real Estate Agent Inspection 371

Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2021

In 2002, Natalya Delcoure and Norman Miller, two real estate economists, set about to learn what fees consumers pay real estate agents in America. They were especially interested in real estate commissions. On average 6% of the proceeds from each home sale went to the participating real estate agents.

Real Estate 309

Real Estate Real Estate Agent Agents Brokerage 309

Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Originally filed in March 2019, the Moehrl lawsuit alleges that real estate industry participants including HomeServices, the National Association of Realtors (NAR), Anywhere , RE/MAX and Keller Williams conspired to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions.

Real Estate Agent 332

Real Estate Agent Realtors Real Estate Sellers 332

McKissock

MAY 11, 2021

Hopefully, as a successful real estate agent, your income will continue to increase throughout your career. That’s certainly the case for 65% of the real estate agents we surveyed who reported a rise in their earnings from 2018 to 2019. How a successful real estate agent earns more.

Real Estate Agent 57

Real Estate Agent Real Estate Business Agents 57

McKissock

APRIL 28, 2021

As of 2020, a whopping 88% of home buyers relied on the help of a real estate agent to get them through the process. This trend has been on the rise since 2001 when only 69% of buyers used a real estate agent. . As the real estate agent, it’s your job to assuage these fears.

Real Estate Agent 87

Real Estate Agent Real Estate Buyers Agents 87

Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

From waiving inspections and financing contingencies, to free leasebacks and uncapped escalation clauses, real estate agents say that buyers in Rhode Island are willing to do almost anything to get into a house right now. “It In Providence, the median list price has risen from $215,592 in May 2019 to $388,638 in May 2024.

Buyers 263

Buyers Inventory Marketing Real Estate 263

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

On Wednesday, home seller plaintiffs in northern Georgia filed a class-action antitrust lawsuit accusing real estate industry players of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. 22, 2019, and the present.

Real Estate 429

Real Estate Real Estate Agent Sellers Realty 429

Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

based firms on percentage revenue growth from 2019 to 2022. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2019. The minimum revenues required are $100,000 for 2019 and $2 million for 2022. 193 CertifID 2,807% 2017 A company dedicated to fighting wire fraud for the real estate industry.

Real Estate 349

Real Estate Real Estate Agent Technology Investors 349

Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

The success of iBuyers is the failure of real estate agents. After all, iBuying companies Opendoor , Redfin and formerly Zillow are predicated on home sellers eschewing a listing agent and selling their home to the company. The filing also warns of obstacles the company might face in employing agents.

Agents 371

Agents Real Estate Agent Real Estate Sellers 371

Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

Like the Department of Justice , the Federal Reserve has decided to weigh in on the real estate agent commission debate. They noted that in the Houston metro area, between 1997 and 2019, 2.58 of them including an offer to pay 3% of the sales price to the buyer’s agent.

Agents 353

Agents Legal Real Estate Agent Buyers 353

McKissock

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

As a real estate agent, your income is determined by your ability to close the deal. To successfully master the art of real estate negotiations, you’ll want to find the most creative and powerful strategies available. Check out our post: Best Books for New Real Estate Agents. Richard Shell.

Real Estate Agent 73

Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Contracts 73

Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Djon Luxury Real Estate is expanding its sell-side business, training buyer-side real estate agents on the necessary contracts and selling their value to the consumer. The change would go into effect in mid-July 2024 if the settlement is approved by a judge. People will still need to buy a home after July.

Brokerage 328

Brokerage Real Estate Realtors Real Estate Agent 328

Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2021

” How real estate agents can alleviate consumer pain points in a tight market. The severe lack of inventory in today’s housing market has been a source of stress for home buyers and real estate agents alike. But until then, the housing market will remain red-hot.”

Buyers 413

Buyers Real Estate Agent Real Estate Inventory 413

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

No seller must use a real estate agent to sell a home — ever. In fact, considering inter-family and estate transfers as well as for-sale-by-owners, as many as 20% of all transactions may not include the use of an agent. Consumers are free to sell or buy a home without an agent — and consumers know this.

Real Estate Agent 413

Real Estate Agent Real Estate Brokerage Agents 413

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Real estate agent safety has been a concern for years, as the job requires showing empty homes or homes occupied by others, and meeting new people, often alone. Just this week, NAR reported that a real estate agent in Draper, Utah, was showing what she thought was a vacant house for sale to a potential buyer.

Open Houses 545

Open Houses Realtors Real Estate Agent Agents 545

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A former executive at Auto Nation and Home Depot among other companies, Liebert was a fixture at last week’s “Family Reunion,” an annual gathering of Keller real estate agents. Liebert does not have a background in real estate. Team also did not have a real estate background. The firm’s U.S.

Real Estate Agent 372

Real Estate Agent Brokerage Real Estate Advertising 372

Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2022

The key to winning purchase business in 2022 remains as it was in 2021, the year before that, and the year before that – building and maintaining relationships with real estate agents. “The agent is crucial,” he added. trillion, while refinances will plummet by 62% to $860 billion from $2.26 trillion in 2021.

Realtors 386

Realtors Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents 386

Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

The proposed class for the suit includes all persons that sold residential real estate in REBNY Brooklyn using the services of one of the defendants and paid a buyer broker commission from Dec. 29, 2019, to the present. The suit was filed in late December in U.S.

Real Estate 373

Real Estate Sellers Real Estate Agent Agents 373

Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Mortgage lenders and real estate agents will need to incorporate HEI offerings into their businesses, said John Arens, head of the business unit at Aspire, an HEI platform owned by Redwood Trust. “We Potential partnerships Home equity investments are likely to become essential to the home finance product marketplace.

Finance 370

Finance Investing Real Estate Agent Real Estate 370

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A copycat commission lawsuit filed on Thursday by home sellers in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, accuses 47 real estate industry defendants of allegedly conspiring to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions.

Real Estate 461

Real Estate Realtors Realty Real Estate Agent 461

Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

SentriLock , the home lockbox company wholly owned by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), announced Tuesday that they created a computer and smart phone platform to help real estate agents juggle their home showing appointments. Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration.

Real Estate Agent 404

Real Estate Agent Real Estate Brokerage Realtors 404

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Take a look through the list of some of last year’s impressive honorees: HomeLight’s technology has helps hundreds of thousands of clients connect with top real estate agents and the company had 40 million transactions connecting to 1.2 million agents as of last year. from 2016 – 2019 as they entered 2020.

Real Estate Agent 341

Real Estate Agent Real Estate Retail Technology 341

Appraisal Today

JULY 29, 2022

57 Weird Real Estate Agent Photos. Excerpt: Yes, many great real estate photos really capture the house. More Terrible Real Estate Agent Photos for Appraisers. The post Weird Real Estate Agent Photos for Appraisers appeared first on Appraisal Today. Humor for Appraisers.

Real Estate Agent 52

Real Estate Agent Real Estate Appraisal Agents 52

Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 18, 2021

New listings – a key lever for home sales growth – have held up better than pending sales and are inching up increasingly close to 2019 levels. Offers no longer pour in the day a home hits the market,” says Phoenix Redfin real estate agent John Biddle. “It It has become.

Real Estate Agent 195

Real Estate Agent New Listings Real Estate Agents 195

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

billion in March 2019, suspended operations in March and did not resume buying homes until May. But it remains the biggest player in a blossoming segment of real estate, in which tech-fueled companies – and even traditional brokerages – aspire to have a hand in every element of the home buying process. Roughly $8.7

Valuation 391

Valuation Brokerage Real Estate Agent Real Estate 391

Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Its listings in 2023 fell below its 2019 level, although the drop was less steep than that experienced outside of Florida and far less steep than other metros like San Diego. Competition heats up In 2019, Watson Realty Corp. DR Horton and Dream Finders both ranked in the top 10 in 2019, and Lennar made a top 10 appearance in 2020.

Brokerage 381

Brokerage Realty Real Estate Inventory 381

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The lawsuit accuses its 29 defendants of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. 13, 2019, to the present. The lawsuit was filed on Monday by plaintiffs QJ Team, LLC. , a Texas-based homebuilder, and Five Points Holdings, LLC. , a holding company headed by DS News founder Mark Hulme, in the U.S.

Real Estate 402

Real Estate Realtors Realty Buyers 402

Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Burnett: After being founded in 2017, we made our first investments in 2018 and 2019. Kim: What are some ways Hometap sees a potential partnership with real estate agents or loan originators? We don’t have direct partnerships with real estate agents today.

Investing 315

Investing Real Estate Agent Marketing Real Estate 315

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

31, 2023, the Gibson lawsuit pits three Missouri home sellers, Don Gibson, Lauren Criss and John Meiners, against National Association of Realtors , Compass , eXp World Holdings , Redfin , Weichert Realtors , United Real Estate , Howard Hanna and Douglas Elliman. Its agents also offer buyer broker compensation.

Real Estate 392

Real Estate Sellers Realtors Real Estate Agent 392

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2021

From 2009 to 2019, the share of recent buyers who are 60 years and old grew 47% , while the share of recent buyers ages 18-39 fell by 13%. In addition, the median age of a homebuyer who completed their purchase within the past year rose from 40 in 2009 to 44 in 2019. Over the same time period, home values grew 31.2%.

Buyers 538

Buyers Housing Market Real Estate Agent Real Estate 538

Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

in 2019, but they are still much more likely than non-Hispanic whites to get denied a conventional loan. One real estate agent interviewed by the NAHREP surveyors said the biggest challenge in 2021 was discrimination against FHA borrowers. Last year, the Hispanic homeownership rate grew to 48.4% from 47.5%

Real Estate Agent 368

Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Sellers 368

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Instead of 25 to 30 offers on turnkey homes, we’re now seeing five to seven,” Nicole Dege, a Redfin real estate agent from Orlando said in a statement. of offers written by Redfin agents facing competition in August. In 2018-2019, total housing inventory was in the range between 1.52 million and 1.92 million to 5.61

Buyers 425

Buyers Inventory Real Estate Agent Agents 425

Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

Stearns has exclusive partnerships with real estate agent, builder and corporate relocation joint ventures, as well as a book of business with SoFi and Home Mortgage Alliance. Blackstone took full control of Stearns in fall 2019 after it exited bankruptcy due to significant debt problems.

Lending 536

Lending Retail Real Estate Agent Brokerage 536

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Despite what Zillow officials referred to as a “rough” first half of the year due to COVID-19’s impact on the economy, the $789 million represents a consolidated revenue growth of 22% from 2019. from November 2019, per Jeff Tucker, Zillow senior economist. billion visits. Cash and investments grew to $3.9

Home Value 393

Home Value Advertising Real Estate Agent Real Estate 393

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

At the end of August 2019, there were 5,472 homes for sale in King County, according to the Northwest Multiple Listing Service. Northwest MLS numbers show that throughout 2018 and 2019 the number of homes available for purchase on a given day hovered around 18,000. By the end of August 2019, active listings dipped to 16,697.

Inventory 445

Inventory Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents 445