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Opinion: All the ways the class-action commission lawsuits are misguided

Housing Wire

No seller must use a real estate agent to sell a home — ever. In fact, considering inter-family and estate transfers as well as for-sale-by-owners, as many as 20% of all transactions may not include the use of an agent. Consumers are free to sell or buy a home without an agent — and consumers know this.

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Cracking the code on marketing to the Realtor channel

Housing Wire

That’s nearly 200,000 above the previous peak in 2006. Agents and brokers are anxious about this, and no one sees it changing any time soon. For those agents who do have plenty of business, the velocity of the market is unreal. Things in the real estate agent and broker world right now are, in a word, intense.

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Ben Caballero heads RealTrends’ 2020 top agent list

Housing Wire

Most of the highest producing real estate agents in the country belong to an established, national brokerage. RealTrends , which is owned by HW Media , on Friday released its annual list of the top 1,000 agents in the country for 2020, with separate tallies for sales volume and the number of deals done.

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What’s next after a historic housing boom?

Housing Wire

By the fall, real estate agents in Boise, Idaho were passing around a video they didn’t like but couldn’t resist watching. But — in the same beat — Caporale added, “There is still a massive influx of buyers, and I am not seeing a significant drop in demand.” There’s buyer fatigue and real questions about affordability.”

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Inside Redfin’s unique, brave and vulnerable business model

Housing Wire

Redfin is a publicly traded company, a nationally recognized listings website and one of the biggest brokerages in the country. But what makes Redfin different – what makes it radically, transformatively different – is that it classifies real estate agents as employees. million members are independent contractors.

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The evolution of the more productive real estate agent 

Housing Wire

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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Lamacchia Realty Announces Top Producing REALTORS® for October 2023

Lamacchia Realty

To learn more about Leslie, click here: Leslie Storrs Tondreau Bradford Thelin is an award-winning and service-oriented full-time professional real estate agent in Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.  His focus is on helping buyers and sellers have a stress-free, efficient, and smooth real estate transaction experience.