Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

2023 was a consequential year for real estate. Each year, RealTrends Verified identifies the country’s most successful residential real estate brokerages, teams and agents – verifying transaction sides and closed sales volume for top-performing real estate brokerages — to give you the full picture of real estate performance.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

Capital Fundings , a Florida -based private mortgage lender, has partnered with real estate investment platform Privy , the companies announced on Tuesday. Our commitment to empowering borrowers aligns perfectly with Privy’s mission to revolutionize real estate investment through technology and education.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

Home sellers looking to maximize their sale price may want to avoid the start of the busy spring buying season and list their properties closer to the midpoint of the year, according to a Zillow analysis released Thursday. metro areas, homes listed for sale between the start of May and early July 2023 posted the highest sales prices.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2024

Home sales in Pennsylvania jumped 23.6% On a year-over-year basis, sales were down 10.5%, but the 8,790 transactions that closed last month were a positive sign for real estate professionals in the Keystone State. existing home sales from February to March. one of the most populous states saw increased activity.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

During CoStar’s earnings call on Tuesday, Florance insisted that consumers and advertisers prefer a real estate portal with digital twins. “We We believe adding 3D digital twins for Homes.com will increase the leads we deliver, increase customer satisfaction, increase renewal rates, increase sales and increase site traffic further.”

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Birmingham Appraisal

JUNE 21, 2023

Helping Agents Understand Appraisal Factors That Impact Home Sales In the world of real estate, accurate property valuation plays an important role in the home buying and selling process. Real estate agents, as trusted guides for their clients, must possess a good understanding of the factors that influence property appraisals.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He began his presentation during the “Residential Economic Issues and Trends Forum” by analyzing the data points that impacted 2023 real estate conditions before diving into forecasts for next year. However, as mortgage rates stabilize and home sellers adapt, “Existing-home sales will rise by 15% next year,” Yun said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Check out these nine downloadable real estate prospecting letter templates to help you make an impression in your neighborhood or zip code. My name is (your name), and I’m a licensed real estate professional with (your brokerage). Please think of me as your go-to resource for all things real estate. Great news!

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Broker Kathy Kaye and agent Lorraine Baker joined Coldwell Banker Warburg , a New York City-based real estate brokerage, the company announced last week. Kaye and Baker each bring $200 million in career sales volume to the firm, according to its press release. million in sales volume. In 2022, the team closed more than $28.5

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

Ryan Serhant — the acclaimed real estate broker, media personality and serial entrepreneur — is moving beyond his career in real estate to delve into the broader arena of sales. Serhant has teamed up with former NBC News producer Kyle Scott to unveil SellIt, a sales training platform tailored for all types of entrepreneurs.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

On Monday, the independent brokerage announced that it had acquired Springfield, Massachusetts-based Sears Real Estate. Founded in 1971 by Paul Sears, Sears Real Estate is owned and operated by the family of current National Association of Realtors president Kevin Sears. billion in sales volume in 2023. Based in Waltham, Mass.,

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

In real estate brokerage, growth is the name of the game and for 2024 (based on 2023 data), The Real Brokerage and The Agency are winning that game. Here are the Top Movers by transaction sides and sales volume. Get the full picture on RealTrends Verified real estate brokerage performance on RealTrends.com.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Real estate brokerage eXp Realty has added industry veteran Wendy Forsythe to its leadership team. “Wendy’s extensive experience and passion for real estate marketing uniquely position her to lead our marketing strategies into a new era as we continue to expand globally. “I’m absolutely thrilled to join eXp Realty.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Despite stalling home sales in the third quarter, Anywhere Real Estate managed to deliver “considerable profitability.” ” The company produced these results as home sale transaction volume dropped 13% over last year. .” The company closed the third quarter with $1.6 million in July, 4.04 million in August, and 3.96

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

Additionally, 18 of the respondents identified as team leaders, 112 identified as real estate sales associates or broker associates, and 15 identified their position as other, with the most common response being broker-owner of their firm.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Tiffany Fletcher: Real Estate Owned (REO), acquired by lenders , banks, or financial institutions typically due to mortgage loan defaults, involves the strategic marketing and sale of existing properties to mitigate losses on outstanding loans. TF: Effective risk management in REO asset sales involves awareness of the intrinsic risks.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

With home sales still at historically low levels and uncertainty over the commission lawsuits , real estate brokerage executives prize good leads more than ever. Anthony Djon, CEO of Anthony Djon Luxury Real Estate , said his company gets 90% of its leads from listing portals Zillow and Realtor.com.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

In his new role, Mitchelson will lead the expansion of the Corcoran brand both domestically and internationally while working closely with the Corcoran affiliate network’s existing sales team. Before joining Corcoran, Mitchelson was the regional president of Windermere Real Estate , a Pacific Northwest-based luxury brokerage.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Ryan Levenson, who is the 2023 president of the East Tennessee Realtors’ Association , is a third-generation real estate agent, following his parents, Rich and Patti Levenson, into the business. 99 agent in Tennessee by sales volume in the RealTrends America’s Best rankings, closing 54.5 million in sales volume.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As a real estate agent, you may think clients should care more about their next home than your life story. And while that may be true, well-crafted real estate agent bios can build trust and credibility and serve as a powerful tool in an agent’s marketing arsenal — giving prospective clients. So let your personality shine.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Keller Williams Realty has partnered exclusively with the online learning platform Coursera to offer a comprehensive introduction to the business of real estate. Dubbed the KW Real Estate Agent Professional certificate, the program will give participants a head start in the real estate industry.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA) shared its annual “A-List” on Monday. Shirley Gary, Tracy Allen, Realty Group , and the Advanced Super Team ranked highest in AREAA’s real estate sales list, while Shashank Shekhar and Joanna Yu topped the loan originators rankings. She generated $200.92 billion in 2022.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Top 10 mortgage lender and servicer Newrez is partnering with Newzip , a tech-enabled real estate platform, to roll out a program aimed to save buyers and sellers on credit costs. Dubbed Newrez Home Rewards, buyers will be matched with a real estate agent who works with Newzip and provided booking services.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

Mirroring the trend for new home sales (+4.4%), pending home sales rose 0.9% Year over year, pending home sales were down 14%, a smaller decrease than the 15.6% The NAR’s Pending Home Sales Index climbed to a reading of 77.6 Overall, pending home sales fell in all four U.S. annual drop recorded in June.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

It relies on examinations of agents’ sales for five major real estate firms in each of four geographic areas; out of a sample of 2,000 agents, 100 were selected randomly from each firm in each area. To Brobeck, the fact that so many agents rely on residential sales for occasional, marginal or supplemental income is a problem.

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San Jose Real Estate

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This post on the coronavirus impact on real estate sales here in Silicon Valley is updated periodically, depending on unfolding events, so please check back often.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

successfully closed on the sale of this luxury, 4,700-square-foot property on Park Avenue on the Upper East SIde of Manhattan for $13 million. Working in real estate sales for a few years, and now you want to challenge yourself and raise the stakes? You might be ready to take on the luxury real estate market!

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

The real estate industry is facing one less copycat commission lawsuit. District Court in New York against the Real Estate Board of New York and several brokerages, according to court filings. Friedman’s suit was in regard to the 2021 sale of his Park Slope home, in which he paid a buyer broker commission. Garfield & Co. ,

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Robinson Appraisal Group

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

An Estate Sale Appraisal Process. After 25 years of handling estate sale appraisal in the Baltimore Metropolitan area I have seen my fair share of estate sales. But what is an estate sale? An estate sale means a person has died and the party/parties that inherited the property are selling it.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 9, 2024

To learn more about why CRM software is critical for lenders in this current down market, MortgageOrb interviewed Jason Perkins, founder and president of Bonzo , a relationship management automation solution that slashes the time mortgage and real estate professionals spend communicating with prospects.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

This year’s list of TECH100 Real Estate honorees represent a huge shift in the direction that the real estate industry is heading in. Though real estate may have fallen behind in technological advances compared to other industries in the past, all of that is changing, and this year’s list of Tech100 winners embody that shift.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

The complaint states that Jutla is bringing the action against Redfin “for unlawfully agreeing and conspiring to enact and enforce anticompetitive restrictions on Realtors contracting behavior, causing the Plaintiff to pay inflated buyer’s agent commissions on the sale of her home, as well as tandem purchase of a home in California.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Gerlach is joining Compass as a sales manager supporting brokerage professionals in the Palo Alto market as part of the firm’s management team. “We’re seeing a lot of real estate professionals return to Compass after a short stint away,” Kevin Patsel, Compass’ regional vice president for Northern California, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

Other defendants in the Sitzer/Burnett case, Anywhere Real Estate, RE/MAX and Keller Williams, settled for a combined $209 million. “This resolution allows us to concentrate on our primary goal: delivering unparalleled value in the real estate market and serving home buyers and sellers with the highest standards of service.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The Opendoor presentation projected sales of more than 37,500 homes in 2023. While home sales are down nationwide in 2023’s high-mortgage-rate environment , sales data suggests the aspiring disruptors are losing ground to industry stalwarts. Zillow Offers’ last full year of home sales netted a loss of $881 million.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

“We are excited to leverage the comprehensive approach to fraud prevention that CertifID provides, inclusive of software, insurance, and recovery and support services, to help prevent fraud and create the best experiences for our agents and customers, and all parties involved in real estate transactions.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

“The traditional ‘sell’ or ‘refinance’ mandates almost never align with the modern realities of today’s real estate market, or the family’s best interests.” On the platform, homeowners fill in information about their home, such as the estimated value and sale price, remaining mortgage debt, and their post-divorce goals.

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