Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

To help, I put together my best strategies for real estate social media marketing that still work in 2024, common mistakes to avoid, how to choose which platforms to focus on, and my favorite free and paid social media tools that can cut your work in half. Social media gives you the perfect opportunity to build a brand that resonates.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Last year at this time, we were seeing surprising home buyer demand with rates having fallen to the low 6s. We still see more sellers than last year. Each week, there are more new listings than a year ago, allowing inventory to build and eventually leading to more home sales this year than last. But we’re not there yet.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

If you want to thrive this year, choosing the right real estate apps is crucial. To help, we reviewed hundreds of options to put together this list of the best real estate apps for 2024. Think of it as another concierge service to offer your buyers to help you stand out.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Buyers facing high mortgage rates are pulling out of their home-purchase agreements at the highest rate in nearly a year. of homes that went under contract that month, according to a new report from Redfin. They’re getting cold feet,” said Jaime Moore, a Redfin Premier real estate agent in Reno, Nevada. The median U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Real estate prospecting is a necessary activity for agents aiming to build a robust pipeline of buyer and seller leads. The objective is to build relationships, understand the needs of potential clients, and position yourself as a go-to resource when they are ready to buy or sell real estate.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Our comprehensive guide to the best real estate marketing tools provides you with a helpful assortment of easy-to-use, effective marketing products to turn your business into a revenue engine in 2024. We know — you didn’t get into real estate for the love of marketing or tech.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

New findings from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) show a fresh picture of who’s buying and selling homes, with more first-time buyers entering the market and families looking for homes that fit multiple generations. For real estate professionals, the changing landscape is a call to action.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

“I called the listing agent and it was listed three hours ago, but it was sold,” the Cincinnati, Ohio -based eXp Realty agent said. “We There is no way you can stay on top of things unless you hire someone to watch new listings pop up every 10 minutes. Buyers are really struggling.” We couldn’t even see it.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

And with millennials emerging as the largest generation of homebuyers in today’s market, comprising 28% of all homebuyers, real estate agents need to master social media or they might miss out. Be sure to label on the photo or video that your post is a new listing, as people may miss the caption while scrolling.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

The past year and a half, with its rising mortgage rates , low inventory, and economic uncertainty, has been a challenge for real estate pros, not to mention the buyers and sellers they serve. Make sure you’re ready to share new listings and that potential clients can easily contact you through your platforms.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Between leveraging your personal network, filming YouTube videos and even the unpleasant task of cold prospecting, real estate professionals today wear all the hats. Yet, in a competitive real estate market, agents don’t always have the luxury of investing months into long-term brand-building.

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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 Altos considers any score above 30 to be a seller’s market.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

FACT : When you look at that amazing new listing that just hit the market and you see the listing agent and ask, “How did that agent get that listing?!” It is almost always because the seller already knew the agent! GOAL: Be that agent who the seller already knows and gets that listing.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JANUARY 30, 2024

That pretty much describes sellers. But in 2024 there’s a flicker of hope as sellers have thawed out just a bit. UPCOMING (PUBLIC) SPEAKING GIGS: 01/31/24 Joel Wright […] The post Are sellers finally starting to thaw out? Any thoughts?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

The suspicion was that there were a bunch of sellers who were waiting to sell: Once rates fell these sellers would come rushing back to this real estate market and we’d finally see inventory grow. Second, because people think of home sellers as being locked-in by high interest rates. Last week, 30.5%

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

There is so much talk about buyers sitting on the sidelines right now, but let’s talk about sellers who are also sitting. This is a local trend, but it’s something showing up in many markets across the country also.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

Your job in real estate is to be a problem solver. There is no greater problem for a motivated seller than figuring out why their home didn’t sell! You are a real estate professional , they have a home to sell. They clearly have a desire to sell and have demonstrated the willingness to list.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

New listings climbed during the past week and there are now 72,000 more single-family homes on the market. It appeared that new listings might be on the decline already, but the pace picked up a tad this week, which is encouraging. No one wants a scenario in which there’s a flood of sellers but no buyers.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2022

metropolitan areas in February 2022, based on year-over-year growth in median listing price according to the residential real estate listing website, Realtor.com. The table also reports the year-over-year percent change in new listings for each market. Table 1, below, reports the 10 hottest U.S. decrease.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Real estate agents: You can turn the next quarter into your best one yet by following this profitable and proactive plan. There are people who will absolutely be buying or selling real estate in the next 100 days. The only question is whether you will be the one to list (or sell) the next homes in your market.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2023

Unlike a typical spring homebuying season in which sellers are also looking to buy a home, people trying to relocate into a bigger or smaller home in the Mid-Atlantic region made up a relatively small share of the housing market. of sales were rental or investment properties or second homes , according to a survey of 1,063 listing agents.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

The second dynamic to watch here is how many sellers are cutting their prices each week. Both dynamics are elevated this year: more of the homes on the market have taken price cuts and the slope is pretty steep — meaning more homes each week are cutting prices because they don’t have offers from buyers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2022

Home price appreciation in February climbed 20% over the previous year, marking the 12th month of consecutive double-digit gains , according to figures released Tuesday by real estate analytics firm CoreLogic. Upstate New York had the lowest appreciation rates in the country, with Ithaca posting a 5.2%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There’s a showdown at the housing market corral between homebuyers and sellers. million active listings, but at just 1.28 Home prices ebb and flow, pricing was working in the sense that sellers met homebuyers to a degree. The post The standoff between homebuyers and sellers appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This is not a recipe to keep the home buyer momentum we saw building in December. Remember that the way to more selection for home buyers is with higher mortgage rates. Spring buyers’ market It’s the spring buyers market and inventory is falling each week. There are more buyers than sellers.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In May, I wrote about the signs to watch for a real estate market slowdown. The price of new listings is dropping. Home buyers got spooked when mortgage rates passed 5.5%. In April, May and June, when rates spiked dramatically from 3% to 6%, we saw inventory rise as buyers pulled back. in September to 6.5%

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

But since January, home buyers have defied all expectations. Sellers have not materialized, and buyers have been buying everything that becomes available. The peak of inventory for 2023 so far was the week of the New Year — that is insane. We could see inventory from distressed sellers emerge in 2025.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

To that I say, timing is everything in real estate. As the spring selling season kicks off, many educated sellers know that buyers are experiencing spring fever and are tired of sitting on the fence watching home prices increase. Serious buyers showed discernment as they know inventory is growing. With only 1.3

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

“I think one of the major trends we are seeing is that our overall inventory is up 60% year over year compared to 2023,” said PJ Smith, president of the Naples Area Board of Realtors and the broker-owner of Naples Golf to Gulf Real Estate. “We Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

We’re rapidly approaching the peak of the market in terms of seller listings, and as inventory builds, the sales rate will peak by the end of June. But when you add a spike in mortgage rates that makes homebuying less affordable, that leads to fewer buyers and inventory grows. More sellers means more sales can happen.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Even as money is more expensive and there are more sellers than a year ago, we can also see slight home sales growth over 2023. New listings rise New listings continue to show us that more sellers are interested in this market this year. Is new supply growing out of balance with demand?

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

If you need to communicate about the real estate market with buyers and sellers, you should join us. real estate market as of mid-May 2024. It’s the peak season for buyers and sellers. There are more sellers now as rates have stayed higher for longer. That’s up 1.5% for the week.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2021

Home prices have skyrocketed in the past year, and data from Redfin backs up what buyers, sellers, and agents have known for months. “This is the strongest seller’s market since at least 2006,” Fairweather said. The post Buyers are overpaying, but are there signs of a bubble? by the end of 2021.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

The other data line that is small but steady year-over-year is the new listings data, and if most sellers are buyers, that gives us more demand than in 2023, when new listings were trending at the lowest levels ever. I love that new listings data is growing yearly, but it’s been too light for me.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

I like to point out that consumers are more sensitive to changes in mortgage rates than to the absolute levels, and since rates are now basically unchanged for the month, just easing down from the early March peak of 7.2%, sellers and buyers are tip-toeing back into the market. More sellers means more sales will happen.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Meanwhile, other homes are lingering on the market for months and driving up the typical age of listings on Zillow to 72 days. To lure more buyers, sellers are coming to terms with the market conditions and are agreeing to apply price cuts to their homes. In January, one in five houses listed on Zillow included a price cut.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

real estate market were for inventory growth, sales growth and home-price growth across the U.S. Lower rates mean more buyer competition and less unsold inventory. New listings Last week, 59,000 new single-family listings came to market. This is a pivotal time for measuring buyer demand.

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