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. The lender and LO can make or break the transaction.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

With low housing inventory nationwide, agents are using innovative ways to find real estate seller leads and convert them into listings. Data analysis allows real estate agents to focus their marketing efforts (and budget!) When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

You know what you do, but how do you explain it in such a way that a buyer understands your value, the required agency forms and everything involved to make it to the closing table? Ultimately, every homebuyer prospect, every contract and every negotiation is different, but your value should be consistent for all situations and clients.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Real estate agents and brokers , are you relying solely on that buyer drip you set up for your motivated and qualified clients? Today we’ll show you how to deploy 6 creative ways to get more from your searches so you can get those buyers in contract faster. Has the drip run dry? “Wanted!

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A housing market marked by relatively high interest rates and tight inventory — and punctuated by the practice of home inspection waivers to sweeten offers — are taking a bite out of business for home inspectors, who play a key role in the sales process by ensuring that buyers are not being sold a lemon of a house.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Real estate agents are always looking for vetted, high-quality leads — and especially so during 2023 market conditions. These providers offer a rapid and cost-effective means for real estate agents to gather a list of potential clients and ultimately boost sales.

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Birmingham Appraisal

JUNE 13, 2023

Appraisal Tips For Real Estate Agents As a real estate appraiser with over 30 years of experience, I have seen many changes and challenges in the appraisal profession and the real estate market. I believe that appraisers and agents have a common goal: to help their clients buy or sell a home.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2022

Today, homes are selling faster than usual because of the shortage of inventory and high buyer demand. COVID changed the real estate industry in a big way since it provided many people with an opportunity to work remotely and live almost anywhere. Fortunately, there are many ways you can sell your house fast.

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Real Estate Agent Tenants Real Estate Agents 381

Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

When we contemplate the potential of AI and Web3 technologies in real estate , it goes beyond simply revolutionizing how consumers search for homes and take ownership of assets. The stakes in real estate are higher, and the cost of making a mistake is substantial.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2024

Real estate agents are optimistic about the housing market and working to implement buyer agency agreement as we head into 2024, according to the RealTrends Q1 2024 AgentPulse survey. Better buyer and seller presentations to break down payment to a more granular level,” was one agent’s response.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2021

They also had to pay for the brokerage sign outside their home, newspaper advertising, online ads and the brochures for potential buyers. Home buyers like my mother and father outside the U.S. If a showing is to happen, buyers must make appointments with each seller auctioneer to view those homes. An additional $6,400.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In May the real estate agent listed a two-bedroom home in Fountain Hills, Arizona, 30 miles north of Phoenix, for $342,000. The company said it would complete purchases that are under contract but not closed, and will continue to work on reselling existing inventory. Zillow CEO Rich Barton. Then Zillow came along.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2020

And while real estate agents repping luxury homes aren’t seeing as many bidding wars as they did this summer , their respective housing markets are still crazy right now. Contracts during this time also skyrocketed 62%. Since it’s a summer destination, Palm Beach’s busy season for home-buying starts on Nov.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s true that first-time buyers make up a larger piece of a smaller pie, as housing inventory shrinks. However, this rise in first-time buyers helps explain what’s driving demand and keeping upward pressure on prices in a market with mortgage rates currently surpassing 7%. It never will be. I’ll explain later.)

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Eppraisal

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This year the real estate industry is experiencing a market frenzy with a colossal amount of buyers looking for homes. The inventory of homes available is historically low. According to an article on keepingcurrentmatters.com, "A normal market's inventory sits at 6 months. We're currently at 3.7

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Empire Appraisal Group

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Lusky, DigitalVision, Getty Images Source: [link] FSBO Sellers Regret Not Having an Agent By Melissa Dittmann Tracey Survey: Sellers who go-it alone are twice as likely to be unsatisfied with the experience – and more likely to say their earlier opinion, “agents are overpaid,” was wrong.

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Realtor

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s very important for first-timers to do research and understand all their options before they start looking for a home,” says Cara Ameer , a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker who is licensed in California and Florida. for first-time buyers is $12,274 (around 6%), in addition to $1,983 in closing costs.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

Bonnie Williamson never intended to be a real estate agent. As more and more people enter the real estate industry – membership at the National Association of Realtors has ballooned to a record 1.6 For brokerages – and agents themselves – transaction sides and sales volume are easy ways to measure productivity.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Brokerage 383

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

And many buyers are waiting on the sidelines, paralyzed by low housing inventory and high rates. It essentially allows qualified buyers with a government loan to purchase a home by assuming responsibility for the sellers’ mortgage terms, including the current balance and interest rate.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2021

The country was paralyzed amid the current health crisis and many borrowers and sellers alike are frightened to enter purchase contracts and move forward with transactions already in progress. Even some of the most seasoned real estate agents have had to slow down in their current business model.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Benefits can include: No down payment Competitive interest rates No private mortgage insurance (PMI) Limited or no closing costs Funding fee waived for service-connected disabled veterans More favorable credit criteria Loan types There are a number of VA loan options to meet the needs of today’s veteran buyers, including purchase and refinance.

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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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Realtor

JULY 13, 2021

Getty Images Buyers, we know it’s hard out there for you right now. In our current seller’s market, the national inventory of active listings is down 43.1% All of this demand means buyers are going to ever-greater lengths to make their offer stand out.

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Eppraisal

MARCH 15, 2022

When interviewing for a real estate agent to help you purchase a home, be sure to ask them what type of buyer representation they are going to provide to you. There are multiple types of buyer representation with differences in what they entail. There are benefits and downsides to each type.

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Hank Miller Team

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Seems that just over 70 of recent homebuyers have buyer’s remorse. In Feb '21 we noted that 44 of homebuyers had buyer's remorse, these new stats are bonkers. This number is a bit of a surprise and the reasons have to do with price but also with just about every other aspect of the buyer's transactions. Most of them.

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Realtor

APRIL 14, 2021

But there are still many great opportunities if you’re patient and have a great real estate agent and lender.”. Experts say p otential buyers should make pre-approval their first step. Buyers all over the country are facing bidding wars after making an offer. Get pre-approved ASAP.

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Mortgage Real Estate Agent Buyers Real Estate 159

Birmingham Appraisal

JUNE 1, 2022

Because real estate agents and appraisers are striving for similar results (estimating accurate value) we can all gain valuable insight from the same market data. Granted, the job of a real estate agent is to get the highest price for their client, but they must still live in the real world by studying historical sales trends.

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Eppraisal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The inventory of listed homes on the market has been historically low. Home buyers will not be competing with as many other home buyers, and there will not be as many cases of multiple offers on homes as there has been. Buyers will start to see that they will be able to negotiate listing prices again.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

AUGUST 20, 2021

Earlier in the year, I appraised a home to have a market value that was twenty-eight thousand dollars ($28,000) higher than the contract price. Contrary to popular belief, good appraisers do not magically appraise homes at their contract price simply to rubber-stamp a sales price. This is a good example. Here’s another example.

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Raleigh Realty

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

and in order to answer that question, you need to understand how Real Estate Agents make money. If you could go back to your first year as a Real Estate Agent, what advice would you give yourself? One of the first questions new Realtors have for me is always 'how much money will I make in my first year?'

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Berkshire Hathaway

JUNE 21, 2021

Today’s market is a market of extremes, with mortgage rates hovering near low records, buyer demands higher than ever, with a low inventory of houses, it’s enough to make one’s head spin! Experience: You can’t put a price on experience, a real estate professional has seen it all or done it all and that is invaluable!

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Hank Miller Team

JULY 7, 2022

Probably not a bad question as the changes in quarter 2 of 2022 were dramatic, As the Fed fights rampant inflation, buyers are faced with dramatic rate increases and sellers with a comparative lack of activity. Both the stock market and national housing market went bonkers and home buyers were right in the middle of it all.

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Appraisal Real Estate Agent Contracts Real Estate 52

Realtor

APRIL 14, 2021

But there are still many great opportunities if you’re patient and have a great real estate agent and lender.”. Experts say p otential buyers should make pre-approval their first step. Buyers all over the country are facing bidding wars after making an offer. Get pre-approved ASAP.

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Mortgage Real Estate Agent Buyers Real Estate 78

Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

To generate real estate leads, SmartZip employs predictive analytics that sifts through consumer data from sources like credit card companies, market data from MLS and other demographic data. Real estate agents using SmartZip gain immediate access to its CRM populated with the data.

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Real Estate Real Estate Agent Tools Agents 336

Eppraisal

OCTOBER 2, 2021

It's imperative, now more than ever, to have an experienced real estate agent who has your best interests at heart. There are key skills you should look for in your listing agent or selling agent. The real estate markets in 2020 and so far in 2021 have been like no other.

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Agents Real Estate Agent Marketing Real Estate 36

Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2023

Arrogance is when they won’t listen to comps and have reasons other than real value to try to justify their price. Secret #2 Sometimes, especially in a low-inventory market, your potential seller client may know about comparable sales you didn’t capture. How would it compare in the eyes of the buyer?

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Sellers Construction Real Estate Finance 358

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

AUGUST 20, 2021

Earlier in the year, I appraised a home to have a market value that was twenty-eight thousand dollars ($28,000) higher than the contract price. Contrary to popular belief, good appraisers do not magically appraise homes at their contract price simply to rubber-stamp a sales price. This is a good example. Here’s another example.

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Appraisal Market Value Contracts Agents 263