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The Real Brokerage looks to build on 2023’s explosive growth

Housing Wire

With its supercharged growth over the past two years, it is no surprise that The Real Brokerage topped the 2024 RealTrends 500 Top Movers list for both transaction side count and sales volume. But for Real, which runs a virtual brokerage model with revenue sharing for its agents, the goal is to get better, not necessarily bigger.

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A record year for real estate brokerage firms

Housing Wire

Capitalizing on these market factors, brokerage firms in the 2022 RealTrends 500 brokerage rankings broke records in market share, closed transaction sides (there must be inventory somewhere!) The top four — Realogy Brokerage Group (RBG), HomeServices of America , Compass and eXp Realty — now have 20% market share in the U.S.

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Inside Redfin’s unique, brave and vulnerable business model

Housing Wire

Alipour gushed about Redfin’s training program, and she accessed maternity leave benefits other agents lack. Redfin is a publicly traded company, a nationally recognized listings website and one of the biggest brokerages in the country. Some agents, like ones at RE/MAX , even pay the brokerage fees for office space and marketing tools.

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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. But it truly is day zero.

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The ‘double-edged sword’ of dual licensing

Housing Wire

The company recently launched a mortgage brokerage firm that offers a plug-and-play program for real estate agents to become mortgage loan officers, a practice called dual licensing. An originator since 1999, Read got his real estate license in 2014 and opened up his real estate brokerage in 2019.

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Multiple Lamacchia REALTORS® Inducted to 2022 RACM Board of Directors

Lamacchia Realty

Michelle Wesson has been with Lamacchia Realty since 2014 and was one of the Flagship REALTORS® for the Company’s Worcester office in 2016. As a full-service, value-based brokerage, Lamacchia Realty’s? training ,? He was named an Alternate on the board for the 2021 year. Patrick will serve as a Director for the 2022 year.

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Lamacchia Realty Announces Top Producing REALTORS® for January 2024

Lamacchia Realty

Click here to learn more about Cyndi: Cyndi Deshaies Genevieve Botelho joined Lamacchia Realty in 2014 and within 12 months her business exhibited an outstanding rate of growth at 1,200% ! Her trained eye and negotiation experience allows Becky to keep her clients’ best interests in mind and ultimately close the deal!