Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

“With access to cutting-edge tools like Performance Tracker, Compass AI , and the innovative Compass Collections, we are poised to enhance our client experience and deliver unparalleled service through the industry’s leading technology platform.” The team specializes in buyer and seller representation as well as new construction.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

The company recently launched a mortgage brokerage firm that offers a plug-and-play program for real estate agents to become mortgage loan officers, a practice called dual licensing. of the loan amount, with a $5,000 cap, which adds to the typical buyer-side agent commission of up to 3%. according to the company.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

In addition to the monetary award, Real has also agreed to implement business policy changes as part of the settlement, including “clarifications about the negotiability of commissions, prohibitions on claims that buyer agent services are free, and the inclusion of listing broker compensation offers in communications with clients.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Roomvu , a Canadian-based video marketing platform for residential real estate agents, is partnering with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (LeadingRE) and Realty One to mark Roomvu’s expansion into the U.S. expansion comes after Roomvu’s successful launch in Canada in 2022.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Further, compensation is set between the brokers and their clients and is always negotiable. Real estate commissions always have fluctuated given the market conditions and, according to RealTrends , commission rates are currently well below where they were in the ‘90s. Real estate agents know city and county property taxes.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

Did you know that in 2022, both younger and older Baby Boomers made up the largest generation of American homebuyers? 1 With over 12,000 Americans turning 65 every day in 2024, this burgeoning market will undoubtedly continue to bring more buyers and sellers to the table over the next decade.

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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. According to the DOJ, when a seller makes an offer of compensation to the buyer broker, the buyer broker does not need to compete on their compensation price in order to attract clients.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2022

One of the biggest benefits of social media for real estate agents and mortgage brokers is the ability to highlight your success stories to connect with clients. To go back to the full HousingWire Annual 2022 on demand page, go here. Watch the full session below.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Martell said that when the mortgage market meltdown happened in 2022, the company set a plan that included simplifying the organizational structure, focusing on client service and quality, automation and operating leverage. million loss in 2022. loanDepot recorded a non-GAAP adjusted net loss of $142.4 Judge Stephen R.

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Mortgage Real Estate Agent Real Estate Renovations 280

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

With this integration, eXp agents will be able to request a cash offer on qualifying homes on behalf of their clients directly through the eXp agent dashboard. Through this partnership, agents will have a choice to either refer their sellers to Opendoor or represent them in deals with the iBuyer. million in 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Check out Wise Pelican Typically, you’d mail the just sold letter to homeowners who live around a property you just helped your client to sell. We negotiated to get the sellers the highest price possible. Even if you’re months or even years away from moving, a seller’s prep session is one of the services I offer homeowners.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

With its potential to reach new clients and gain tremendous ROI, social media has become one of the most effective marketing tools for businesses big and small. We’ve compiled this list of savvy real estate social media post ideas to inspire your social strategy and keep your Instagram feed fresh and fun.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2023

The company’s GAAP net loss in Q1 was $411 million, a decline from 2022 Q4’s $493 million. Adjusted revenue exceeded the top end of our guidance, driven by healthy client demand and strong execution,” Jay Farner, CEO of Rocket Companies, said in a statement. decline from $19 billion in Q4 2022.

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Real Estate Agent Clients Mortgage Inventory 372

Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2023

Rocket Mortgage is throwing a big incentive at spring homebuyers, offering them up to $10,000 in closing cost credits if they work with a real estate agent through its affiliate, Rocket Homes. of their loan amount to put toward closing costs, helping defray upfront costs.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Real estate agents in the leafy suburbs of Bergen County, New Jersey say the current housing market — with historically low inventory and record-high prices — is actually more challenging than the multiple offer chaos they sweated through during the pandemic. “At as of March 6, 2024. “We There is nothing to show.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

After heating up like the rest of the country, the Louisiana housing market has continued to cool since interest rates began to rise in the second half of 2022. We have an insurance problem,” said Charlotte Johnson , a Keller Williams agent based in Mandeville. From 2022 to 2023 alone, rates jumped 21.2%.

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Insurance Housing Market Marketing Agents 380

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Another day and another class-action antitrust commission lawsuit accusing the real estate industry of colluding to inflate real estate agent commissions has been filed. But this latest one comes with a twist — it was filed by homebuyers, unlike the others filed by home sellers.

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Real Estate Realtors Sellers Agents 418

Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending. of UWM’s mix in 2021, and company executives expect that number to grow in 2022 as rates climb. billion, up 103.3%

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Mortgage Marketing Retail Lending 519

Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 1, 2024

That’s the largest annual increase in percentage terms since April 2022, the firm says. Homebuyers are doing whatever they can to pull together a large down payment in order to lower their monthly payments moving forward,” says Rachel Riva, a Redfin real estate agent in Miami. I had one client who put down 40 percent.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

According to the National Association of Realtors , in 2023, 41% of surveyed buyers signed agency agreements, up from 35% in 2022. Listing agents, most of whom also represent buyers as well as sellers, could continue to persuade their clients that today’s 2.5% The report was authored by CFA senior fellow Stephen Brobeck.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

It was mid-February when clients, family and friends began asking Jason Posnick about strange postcards appearing in their mailboxes. The mailers are titled “Notice of Proposed Settlements” and they began hitting the mailboxes of home sellers in mid-February. Lisa is super on the pulse. What do the postcards say?

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Agents Legal Realtors Clients 377

Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

Altos considers anything above a Market Action Index of 30 to be a seller’s market. While the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont housing market may be decently hot, local real estate agents feel that it could be hotter. Although agents say buyer demand remains strong, some are becoming frustrated. “It

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The company also increased its agents count by 4%, reaching 14,055 principal agents in Q3. That’s a 4% year-over-year increase of 511 principal agents since Q3 2022 and a 3% increase of 422 agents compared to the second quarter of 2023. Revenue decreased by 10% year over year to $1.34

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

based firms on percentage revenue growth from 2019 to 2022. The minimum revenues required are $100,000 for 2019 and $2 million for 2022. million in a Series A funding round in 2022. Interestingly, none of the top three companies on the 2023 list made the cut in 2022. The self-reported list ranks U.S. They must be U.S.-based,

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

When HomeServices of America reached a nationwide settlement agreement last week in the commission lawsuits filed by home sellers, it became the final defendant in the two original commission cases, Sitzer/Burnett and Moehrl, to do so. Representatives for Anywhere and Keller Williams declined to comment on the fast-approaching hearing date.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

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. Garrett said aside from cash buyers, he also has clients who have money to offset any appraisal gap.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

For most real estate agents, working with a reliable lending partner is essential to a smooth and successful transaction. That partnership is everything,” Amy Breach, a Seattle-based Keller Williams agent, told HousingWire in late 2022. Attorneys, Realtors and clients are a big part of our repeat business.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2023

based firms on percentage revenue growth from 2019 to 2022. The minimum revenues required are $100,000 for 2019 and $2 million for 2022. 5000 – 2023 CityLight Homes came in as the top-ranked real estate brokerage or team in 2023, claiming the No. 188), and Keeton & Co Real Estate (No.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

Arizona-based David Newman and his 12-member team, David Newman Partners, are moving to The Real Brokerage, according to an announcement on Wednesday. Newman and his team serve clients in Phoenix, Scottsdale , Paradise Valley and Southeast Valley. Newman has more than 20 years of experience in the real estate industry. “Our

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

If discrimination is committed by appraisers – as the news headlines would suggest – fellow appraisers and real estate agents say they rarely witness or experience it. For non-appraisers, the greatest challenge was lack of inventory , with 66% of respondents selecting this response.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

In eOriginal’s 2020 Tech100 nomination, the company boasted about the efficiency their ClosingCenter product brought to mortgage lending clients; Fairway achieved 80% faster mortgage acceptance by secondary market investors and also realized a 90% reduction in interest expenses to warehouse lenders for mortgages closed using ClosingCenter.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) handled about 6,400 assumptions, more than double the amount in 2022, according to The Wall Street Journal. Raunaq Singh wanted to capitalize on that opportunity and founded Roam , a platform that helps buyers and sellers with the assumption process. How do you help real estate agents?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

We’ve all heard the news: over 60,000 real estate agents left the profession in the first half of 2023. Whether you’re newly licensed or an experienced agent who had a productive year — if you’re looking for a change, it’s likely you’ve started receiving emails, letters, and phone calls from all kinds of real estate firms.

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

ARE YOU A "WANT-TO-BE" SELLER IN 2024? From low inventory levels to increasing mortgage rates , the real estate landscape has experienced a multitude of changes and challenges over the last several years, leaving many sellers wondering when the “right” time to list would be given current market conditions.

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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. July 25, 2022 . But is it because sellers are rushing to list their homes? Appraising Weird Stuff is Challenging!

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Every single client scenario is different,” said Hunter Marckwardt, executive vice president of CrossCountry Mortgage. “[The So when I look at what’s deterring clients right now, is sticker shock,” Gastelum added. Sellers are funding temporary rate buydowns but It’s really kind of a case by case.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

The National Retail Federation found that during the 2022 holiday season, retailers saw 17.9% Rethinking branded gifts One common practice in the real estate industry is gifting branded items like Cutco knives to home buyers and sellers. Add the clients’ names and the date of their closing.

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