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Washington-based indy firm joins RE/MAX

Housing Wire

Another independent brokerage has chosen to align with RE/MAX. The brokerage will now operate under the name RE/MAX The Collective. Larson started her career in real estate as an agent at a large national franchise in 2014. The new firm is owned by Haley Larson, who joined RE/MAX with her 17 agents.

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RE/MAX closes out fall months with new top-producers, franchisees

Housing Wire

The firm currently serves buyers and sellers in Essex County, the Merrimack River Valley and Southern New Hampshire. In 2014, Bentley started his team at RE/MAX with Christie and four other agents, by 2016 the team had expanded to 10 agents and in 2018 they transitioned from a team to an independent brokerage, Bentley’s Real Estate.

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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. No buyer must use a real estate agent — ever. No buyer must use a real estate agent — ever. They may buy directly from a seller, whether that seller is represented by an agent or not. Just look at CoStar’s dominance over the commercial brokerage market.

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The ‘double-edged sword’ of dual licensing

Housing Wire

As the engines of the housing and mortgage markets continue to sputter due to higher interest rates and fewer buyers, industry innovators are looking for ways to get their company’s wheels off the ground. of the loan amount, with a $5,000 cap, which adds to the typical buyer-side agent commission of up to 3%.

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Opinion: Real estate is already changing, despite commission lawsuit’s outcome

Housing Wire

Buyer’s agent commissions won’t necessarily go away Two weeks ago, the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) and the Residential Listing Service modified their rules starting Jan. This means a listing agent can now present their listings to the public, offering $0 buyer agent compensation. It’s already happening.

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Rechat CEO Shayan Hamidi on keeping up with the furious pace of AI

Housing Wire

This is from 2009 — I opened up a high-tech real estate brokerage with actual agents, working through transactions day in day out and really understanding what processes look like. It became one of the fastest-growing brokerages at the time in Canada, and then I sold that in 2014, and moved to the U.S.

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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. Way back in the drab plaid of the 1970s, brokerages often classified agents as employees and offered them health care and pension plans. With a two-year-old, I couldn’t meet the quota,” she said.

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