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DataDigest: Study shows agents are aplenty, most with few or no sales

Housing Wire

.” Barriers to entry (or lack thereof) In the second part of his three-part study, published last October, Brobeck argues it is too easy to become a licensed agent. A 2015 NAR study noted that becoming a licensed agent takes on average 70 hours, which is 302 hours less than it takes to become a cosmetologist.

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How scammers are using AI to commit new fraud in real estate

Housing Wire

It’s causing us in the industry — title settlement, real estate, mortgage lending, the attorneys — to rethink, can you even trust a voicemail? So you have a client that appears to have left a voicemail: ‘Hey, I’m traveling. So, let’s pull this string one layer deeper. And it goes all the way through closing.

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Opinion: Title firms can win more business by turning workflow weaknesses into strengths

Housing Wire

When TRID requirements were introduced in 2015, title agents quickly realized that this was not a form change. The industry has evolved in the way it hires, trains and deploys its human resources. A title agency’s average time to close is never lost on its clients. Instead, it was a process change.

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Risk of mortgage fraud is on the rise in the current market

Housing Wire

Eric Hill, an Atlanta real estate agent representing a nationwide homebuilder, had a plan to help more than 100 homebuyers get mortgages. There were 1,150 SARs filings lodged in 2015 related to potential mortgage fraud involving the GSEs, according to the FinCEN data, and last year that number stood at 5,042.

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Lamacchia Realty Announces Top Agents for the Mid-Year 2021

Lamacchia Realty

She is an expert at guiding her clients through the home buying and selling process to make sure their needs are met. Joselin is one of Lamacchia Realty’s top agents, consistently selling over 40 homes each year and more than $20 million in sales volume. Additionally, Shauna was recognized as a Top Producer for 2020.

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Lamacchia Realty Announces Top Producing REALTORS® for November 2023

Lamacchia Realty

She is an expert at guiding her clients through the home buying and selling process to make sure their needs are met. Joselin is one of Lamacchia Realty’s top agents, consistently selling over 40 homes each year and more than $20 million in sales volume. Click here to learn more about Eileen Doherty.

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Lamacchia Realty Announces Top Agents for July 2021

Lamacchia Realty

Her reason for becoming a real estate agent is to continue her desire to work with people and have clients be as happy with their lifestyle as she is providing it to them. She is an expert at guiding her clients through the home buying and selling process to make sure their needs are met.

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