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10 essential skills real estate agents should possess

Housing Wire

Achieving success as a real estate agent requires more than simply understanding the mechanics of the job. Here are 10 essential skills every real estate agent should possess. Here are 10 essential skills every real estate agent should possess. Another hat to place on your head?

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How to Become a Real Estate Agent in Illinois (IL) in 5 Steps

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If you’re interested in becoming a real estate agent in Illinois, you’ll be happy to hear that the path to getting your real estate license in the Prairie State doesn’t require as much of a time commitment as other states. 1] As a real estate broker in Illinois, it is not legal for you to work independently.

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The evolution of the more productive real estate agent 

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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 Just how we do contracts now is so much faster. Brokerages Invest in Tech.

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HomeServices asks Supreme Court to apply arbitration to Sitzer suit

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In late October 2023, a Missouri jury found HomeServices of America, as well as Keller Williams and the National Association of Realtors , liable for colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. There is no dispute that the plaintiffs agreed to contracts that include mandatory arbitration provisions.

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Opinion: NAR has finally met its match

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For decades, disruptors and innovators in the residential real estate industry have been trying to chip away at the near monopoly that Realtors have had over home sales. The monumental verdict in the Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit trial may finally be the giant-killing blow against the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

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Opinion: More can be done to shorten the average time to close

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In fact, if you were to describe the home-buying experience solely upon the things we see in advertisements, the home-buying process would end with the sales contract, and all parties would merrily proceed directly to the handing over of the keys. There’s an entire industry built upon the “what’s next” in question.

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How JVM Lending plans to expand without any loan originators

Housing Wire

We would feed them leads, but they came back to us because they didn’t know how to structure the full document deals,” Jay Voorhees, co-founder at JVM Lending, said in an interview with HousingWire. We are going to pursue the investor niche aggressively, meeting very specific realtors. I thought it was sparse.

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