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Home prices stay elevated as inventory lags: Redfin 

Housing Wire

New listings have risen approximately 8% compared to last year, yet overall inventory remains below typical spring levels. Simultaneously, persistently high housing costs have driven pending home sales down by 4.2% year over year, the largest decline in three months with the exception of the previous four-week period, which saw a 4.4%

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5 activities real estate agents should do every morning

Housing Wire

Regularly update content, share valuable insights about the local market, and interact with potential clients. Make sure you’re ready to share new listings and that potential clients can easily contact you through your platforms.

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Top Producer Review: Features, pricing & alternatives

Housing Wire

One of the biggest challenges for agents is finding new clients and staying top-of-mind until they are ready to buy or sell. Today, It is an all-in-one platform designed to help real estate agents manage many aspects of their business, including building meaningful relationships to grow repeat and referral business with clients.

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Compass CEO Reffkin believes agents will still be valued in a post-settlement world

Housing Wire

We found that more than 99% of new listings in March included offers to pay the buyer’s agent. Furthermore, more than 96% of all listings included offers of 2% or more, and more than 67% are offering to pay 2.5% Compass has the best value proposition for buyers of any brokerage firm,” Reffkin said.

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Transform your real estate career overnight in 8 easy steps

Housing Wire

Just like athletes, real estate professionals must stay in top form, learning new plays and adapting to the game’s ever-changing dynamics. It’s all about practice, skill, and perseverance, ensuring you’re ready to score big for your clients—and yourself. The more clients you help achieve their goals, the faster you’ll achieve your own.

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“Greetings from Missouri!” Millions are finding commission lawsuit postcards in the mail. Agents say it’s an opportunity

Housing Wire

It was mid-February when clients, family and friends began asking Jason Posnick about strange postcards appearing in their mailboxes. We’ve signed 47 new listings year to date, and we’ve had plenty of conversations with other sellers that we didn’t sign, but there are a lot more conversations surrounding transparency,” Posnick said. “It

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How to set up your real estate database for referral success

Housing Wire

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?!” GOAL: Be that agent who the seller already knows and gets that listing. Adopted clients are buyers who bought your listings. Email is not enough.