Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2021

The severe lack of inventory in today’s housing market has been a source of stress for home buyers and real estate agents alike. HousingWire sat down with Realtor.com CEO David Doctorow to learn how agents and brokers can alleviate some of the frustrations their clients are facing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

Bonnie Williamson never intended to be a real estate agent. properties , another rapidly expanding brokerage franchise, has always fancied itself as a brokerage with real tech bonafides. In 2020, it launched its own agent-focused product, dubbed “pl@tform.” Real estate agents are busier than ever.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Realtors can usually count on their biggest season being spring, followed by summer, but nothing about 2020 has been normal, including home-buying patterns. Kanacki said that when it came to seasonal buying, “we’re still riding the wave with 2020.” Now, believe it or not, fall home-buying season is in full swing.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2023

And just like the bears who are starting to wake up from their long winter naps, homebuyers and sellers are coming out of hibernation… or at least they normally do. The pandemic definitely changed the real estate market ,” Todd Alperin, a Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate The Masiello Group agent based in Southern New Hampshire, said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

No matter where you are in the state, real estate agents in Virginia are facing low inventory conditions that are creating frustrating scenarios for their buyers. “I I have buyers that are looking, but to find a house that you love enough to pay a high price for — and to be at over a 6.5%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The bidding wars that put smiles on the faces of sellers and simultaneously drove buyers to rip their hair out weren’t as frequent in August, according to the latest report from brokerage Redfin. But buyers shouldn’t get too excited. of offers written by Redfin agents facing competition in August.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A second home seller in Nevada has filed a lawsuit alleging that real estate industry players in the state have colluded to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. District Court in Las Vegas by Nevada home seller Angela Boykin. 16, 2020, and the present.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Husky Homes real estate team, led by Alison Crim, has joined Compass , the company announced on Tuesday. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, the team of eight had been affiliated with Keller Williams Realty Madison East since its debut in 2020. “We The team specializes in buyer and seller representation as well as new construction.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

The suit, known as Fierro, after its lead plaintiff Gael Fierro, a Californian home seller, accuses the real estate industry of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. Patrick Thurber, a California home seller, is an additional named plaintiff in the suit.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

The latest copycat commission lawsuit alleges that real estate industry players in Nevada have colluded to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. District Court in Las Vegas by Nathaniel Whaley, who sold a home in Las Vegas in April 2022 and paid a buyer broker commission.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

1 city in population growth for the last eight years and it was the hottest job market in 2019 and 2020, according to the Wall Street Journal. Rapidly accelerating home prices come with a variety of challenges for lenders and real estate agents, including one of the biggest pain points right now — the appraisal gap.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

On Friday, home seller plaintiff Dalton Jensen filed an antitrust lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Utah, accusing real estate industry players of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. 9, 2020, and the present, and paid a buyer broker commission.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The modified rule still gives sellers and their listing brokers a role in setting compensation for buyers’ brokers,” the filing states. “The modified rule still gives sellers and their listing brokers a role in setting compensation for buyers’ brokers,” the filing states.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

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. I wanted to close before May 1, so I selected a buyer who was already in underwriting. I briefly considered a “listing only” agent , but chickened out.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In 2018, real estate agent Luis Robledo received a lead for a potential buyer looking to live in Venice Beach, California. The lead had come through Ylopo, a real estate digital marketing solution that aims to help agents find more clients while simultaneously building their brand and team.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A home seller plaintiff in California filed an antitrust lawsuit on Friday in U.S. District Court for Northern California, accusing the real estate industry of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. The copycat commission lawsuits have made it to the West Coast.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

District Court in Arizona, Joseph Masiello, an Arizona resident and home seller, accuses several real estate companies of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. According to the filing, Masiello was “required to pay a 2% commission ($8,200) to the seller broker and a 2.5%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

” Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. The post Threat of climate change looms large for some home buyers appeared first on HousingWire. “I had one client in St.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

While the slowdown has resulted in a return to pre-pandemic levels of market activity, real estate agents across the state believe that an issue far greater than 7% mortgage rates may cause the housing market to slow further. “We We have an insurance problem,” said Charlotte Johnson , a Keller Williams agent based in Mandeville.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

When the Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed last week the changes it would like to see in how real estate agents and brokers are compensated through its statement of interest filed in the MLS Property Information Network commission lawsuit , few in the real estate industry were surprised by the agency’s desire to decouple commissions.

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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. So far, Offerpad’s agents have played a bit role in the company’s growth.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

the copycat suit alleges that real estate industry players have colluded to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. Defendants’ conspiracy inflated buyer broker commissions, which in turn inflated the total commissions paid by Class Members. 18, 2020, and the present.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

That’s kind of evaporated,” Martell said on Tuesday morning in a session during The Gathering , HousingWire’s real estate and mortgage conference held in Scottsdale, Arizona. The company now has a digital HELOC offering. Judge Stephen R. Martell believes there will not be “a zero commission” market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The share of Black and Asian first-time buyers is down from 6% in 2021, while the share of white first-time buyers is up from 82% and Hispanic homebuyers up from 7%. Conversely, White and Hispanic Americans experienced gains in buyer shares. NAR found the age of repeat buyers increased to 59 years from 56 years last year.

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McKissock

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Even before the pandemic, homebuyers and sellers were experimenting with a new, online model of real estate — instant buying, or “iBuying.” However, do-it-yourself home-buying and selling can be overwhelming because buyers and sellers are inundated with information without knowing what to do with it.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2021

That kind of drawn-out timetable is typical for the majority of western nations that use the auctioneer system where a seller works with one, perhaps two, auctioneers. fee to the seller. They also had to pay for the brokerage sign outside their home, newspaper advertising, online ads and the brochures for potential buyers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

In an opinion filed on Friday, Circuit Court judges Florence Pan and Karen Henderson ruled that the settlement agreement reached by the DOJ and NAR in November of 2020, does not prevent the DOJ from reopening its investigation into the trade group’s Participation Rule and Clear Cooperation Policy. Circuit Court of Appeals in D.C.,

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

An assumable mortgage enables a qualified buyer to take over a seller’s mortgage terms, including the existing balance and interest rate. trillion in mortgages were originated in 2020 and 2021, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported. How do you help real estate agents? Raunaq Singh About $8.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Like the other copycat commission lawsuits, the plaintiff James Tuccori, an Illinois resident who purchased a home listed on the local MLS in 2018 with the help of an @properties agent, is accusing real estate industry players of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2021

Per a recent Redfin study , 65% of home offers written by company agents in June faced competition, down from a rate of 72.1% But recently, we’ve started to see buyers get cold feet. Two of my buyers just had their offers accepted because the sellers’ first buyers backed out. in May and a peak of 74.1%

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McKissock

APRIL 20, 2021

Becoming a real estate agent requires a giant leap of faith and an investment of time and money. That’s why some agents may choose to test the waters with a part-time real estate position while hanging onto a steady income from another job. How much is a part-time real estate agent salary?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In 2020, the DOJ’s antitrust division agreed to a settlement after investigating the trade groups listing and agent compensation policies. The settlement proposed at the time included requirements for NAR to boost transparency about broker commissions and to stop misrepresenting that buyer broker services are free.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The funding will go toward product development and business development with real estate agents to reduce their time-to-close to 10 days, significantly higher than the industry average. Sellers are more likely to accept cash offers, which UpEquity claims translates into up to 4% savings for the all-cash buyer.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

“The pandemic has catalyzed purchases by millennial first-time buyers, many of whom can now work from anywhere.” ” Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The home seller plaintiffs and MLS Property Information Network’s (MLS PIN) efforts to address the Department of Justice’s “significant concerns” about their proposed settlement agreement in the Nosalek commission lawsuit were not enough. Leal also asked Saris to give the DOJ until Feb.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

The company collects a 3% buyer agent commission, keeps a third of it, and refunds the rest to the buyer; it does not charge a seller agent commission fee. DR Horton and Dream Finders both ranked in the top 10 in 2019, and Lennar made a top 10 appearance in 2020. However, new-home sales were up 5.9%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Change is inevitable, and there is arguably no industry more prone to change than American real estate. From rapid technological advancements employed by real estate agents to innovations surrounding ways consumers can view housing information, the market has continued to adapt and evolve to better serve American consumers.

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