Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The allure of the name recognition of large national brands is causing many independent brokerages to affiliate as mortgage rates rise and housing inventory remains low. Ocala, Florida -based Foxfire Realty is the latest firm to join a national brand, announcing its move to RE/MAX on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

California-based home equity investment firm Splitero launched its own real estate brokerage , Splitero Homes, this week. Clients must retain a stake of at least 20% in their homes. Hence, Splitero Homes will primarily serve sellers of homes that are already clients of Splitero Funding , the home equity investment business.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

In the 24 hours after news broke of the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) settlement agreement in the commission lawsuits , Doug Danzey, the leader of the eXp Realty -brokered teamerage The Cobalt Group , said the most pervasive emotion among his agents has been panic. “I More off-MLS listings? It is really going to go backwards.

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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. The copycat commission lawsuit was filed on Friday in U.S. 16, 2020, and the present.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

million settlement with plaintiffs in two bombshell buyer commission lawsuits have been made public, and they stipulate that the brokerage conglomerate make significant changes to its practices. Anywhere will eliminate any minimum client commission requirements that company owned brokerages may have.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

More home sellers on the East Coast are getting in on the commission lawsuit action. Defendants in the lawsuit include the Florida Association of Realtors , the nation’s largest state Realtor group with 238,000 members, and 16 large local brokerages, with agent counts ranging from 655 to nearly 4,000. 4, 2019 and the present.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Imagine if you could bottle the enthusiasm your clients have for working with you and use it to capture new business in 2024. In this article, we’ll show how to procure top-notch client testimonials, where and how to share them, and how to leverage them to bolster your reputation and close more deals in 2024.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Real estate brokerage eXp Realty has entered into an affiliated business agreement with Orlando, Florida -based title fi r m Citrus Closing Group , according to an announcement on Thursday. “We Citrus Closing Group serves clients in the Florida counties of Lake Seminole, Osceola, Orange, and Brevard.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

District Court for the Western District of Missouri , the lawsuit is named after its lead plaintiff, Maryland home seller Daniel Umpa. Due to how HomeServices and its affiliates handle their client contracts, if a dispute arises, each client is entitled to individual arbitration of their claims. Filed in late 2023 in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

I don’t feel that the space that we are moving into is going to somehow be better for the consumer,” Anthony Lamacchia , the broker-owner of Lamacchia Realty , said Monday morning during a panel discussion at HousingWire ’s annual conference The Gathering. Is that in the seller’s best interest?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In late November, the firm announced that Elizabeth Ruehrwein, a top agent in the Rehoboth, Massachusetts area joined RE/MAX Integrity , leaving Lamacchia Realty , previously known as Keystone Property Group. The firm currently serves buyers and sellers in Essex County, the Merrimack River Valley and Southern New Hampshire.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2021

In the past, when brokers thought about low-fee brokerage firms, they thought of low service. But, there’s a new breed of low-fee brokerage (not to be confused with a discount brokerage which offers a low commission to buyers and sellers), that is a hybrid between a 100% model and a traditional brokerage.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

The Gibson suit was filed in late October 2023 by Michael Ketchmark, just after a Missouri jury ruled in favor of his clients in the Sitzer/Burnett suit that found real estate industry players liable for colluding to artificially inflate agent commissions. The Umpa suit was filed in late December 2023 by a Maryland home seller.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

and Realty Austin in Austin/San Antonio, in their transactions with Compass over the past few weeks. In both cases, our clients and Compass had to design new ways to structure the transaction to get a favorable outcome for all parties. We were honored to represent the owners of DPP in Pasadena, Calif.,

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The complaint alleges that due to this rule, home sellers in Manhattan paid inflated broker commissions. In its email, REBNY said that complaint is “laden with numerous inaccuracies regarding the RLS, the Universal Co-Brokerage Agreement, and the business of real estate.” It is not required for a seller to compensate a buyer’s agent.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While the lawsuit does name large corporate brokerage firms as defendants, including Keller Williams , Side , HomeServices of America , and Fathom Realty , the robust defendant list also includes real estate teams, such as The Loken Group and Hexagon Group , as well as an individual broker, Mark Anthony Dimas.

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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. Our expansion into the U.S. Our partnerships with LeadingRE and RealtyOne are just the beginning.

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Lamacchia Realty

APRIL 19, 2024

April 19, 2024 – Lamacchia Realty is pleased to announce that Lynn Walsh has joined Lamacchia Realty’s Leominster office. Along with being extremely motivated, Lynn is energetic, warm, and straight forward with her clients and never misses a detail. I am thrilled that she has decided to join Lamacchia Realty.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Pearson also has concerns about what this will now mean for how she and her agents handle client meetings or how to word things on open house fliers. “I Like Kelman, Chip Stella believes a shift to how agents work with buyers and sellers is imminent, and he’s working to prepare his agents for a variety of outcomes.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 11, 2023

Lamacchia Realty is proud to announce their ranking as #1 Brokerage overall in Leominster by closed transactions per MLSPIN Brokerage Market Share Report*. The Lamacchia Realty market share county-wide is very strong. Laurie Howe Bourgeois ranked as the number one REALTOR® in both Leominster and Fitchburg for 2022.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2022

Lamacchia Realty ranked Number One Independent Brokerage by market share in Leominster , Hudson , and Worcester.* Additionally, Lamacchia Realty was ranked the #1 Real Estate Brokerage overall in Leominster! Lamacchia Realty Ranked #1 Brokerage in Leominster. Per MLS PIN Residential property SF, CC, MF.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

With several of the major brokerage houses already having settled, NAR was in the untenable position of fighting to protect a business model that was already compromised by the settlements.” An industry insider at a top brokerage shared a similar sentiment. “We The days of door opening are over. Almost any time in history the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Serhant used this story to illustrate how he manifested this deal by religiously following up with the client. Since then, he has helped the same client purchase multiple properties and has gained loyalty for life. Our industry is currently in a shift,” said Veronica Figueroa, founder of the eXp Realty -backed FIG Team. “We

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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. Thanks to Lisa Chinatti, the broker-owner at Chinatti Realty Group , he was not completely caught off guard. Lisa is super on the pulse. What do the postcards say?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

Remain calm, trust that you are in the right place and go sell real estate,” Wendi Harrelson, the president of Keller Williams Realty International -owned regions, said during the presentation on Monday. Seller concessions is money that is being given by the seller directly to the buyer,” Papasan said. Don’t panic.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

After almost five years of litigation, it is clear that Keller Williams Realty, Inc. In a statement on Wednesday, NAR spokesperson Mantill Williams said that compensation is “always negotiable” between agents and their clients.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 12, 2024

Lamacchia Realty achieved multiple Number One Rankings for Market Share in 2023 in Worcester & Leominster. CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL PRESS RELEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL PRESS RELEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL PRESS RELEASE The company’s mission has become to guide REALTORS®, employees, and clients to their success.

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Lamacchia Realty

MARCH 1, 2024

March 1, 2024 – Last night during the Leading Real Estate Companies of World annual conference in Las Vegas , Lamacchia Realty won the award for most Outgoing Referrals out of all Category Five companies! I’m thrilled that we’ve won this award and even more thrilled that we helped so many clients relocate this year!

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Lamacchia Realty

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

On Monday, September 18 th Lamacchia Realty announced its most recent acquisition of the well-known Seekonk brokerage, Keystone Property Group which has had over $100 million in annual sales volume in Massachusetts and Rhode Island for the past several years.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Lamacchia Realty Worcester office is number one overall for closed transactions and is number one independent for sales volume in all of Worcester County in 2023. The brokerage is number one independent firm in the city of Worcester by both closed transactions and sales volume. Get to know all the Worcester Office REALTORS® here!

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 12, 2024

Lamacchia Realty’s Leominster office is the number one office overall by both sales volume and closed transactions in the city of Leominster as well as the number one brokerage by both sales volume and closed transactions. Either way you cut it, no one sells more homes in Leominster than Lamacchia Realty.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

1, 2024 , Washington state’s agency law requires agents to have a written agreement with buyers (as well as sellers) to spell out the exact scope of the services provided by the agent, as well as the compensation the client has agreed to pay them in return. As of Jan. It is kind of like dating,” Sax said. “So,

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Most brokerage leaders know about the multiple challenges facing the real estate industry, not the least of which are the major class-action lawsuits. This means all those agents who say they have homebuyer clients but who haven’t executed a bilateral agreement are, in fact, engaging in unlawful misrepresentation of their status.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Anywhere Real Estate partnered with agent-client collaboration platform RealScout to allow the company’s affiliated real estate agents and franchise owners “to engage, nurture, and convert clients at each stage of the real estate journey,” according to an announcement on Friday.

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Lamacchia Realty

MAY 7, 2024

Lamacchia Realty, Inc. Her reason for becoming a real estate agent is to continue her desire to work with people and have clients be as happy with their lifestyle as she is providing it to them. She prides herself on being honest and trustworthy and works tirelessly to provide her clients with the best possible experience.

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

After over a decade of serving buyers and sellers in New Hampshire, Lamacchia Realty is in the process of opening their first branch office in The Granite State! We are very excited to serve dramatically more homebuyers and sellers in the Southern New Hampshire market and in time grow all the way up the state with additional offices.”

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Lamacchia Realty, Inc. Eileen is a member of the Lamacchia Realty 2017 , 2018, 2019 , 2020, 2021, and 2022 President’s Club , and the 2020 , 2021, 2022 President’s Club ELITE. To round out the year, Eileen took home the award for Most Acquired Clients companywide. Click here to learn more about Eileen Doherty.

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