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Side’s Guy Gal on championing the high-volume real estate agent

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“It became very obvious that you had this segment of real estate professionals that was unlike most others,” said Gal, who launched San Francisco-based Side in 2017 with Edward Wu and Hilary Saunders. When we looked at the industry, every brokerage that existed served the 1.3 Across the country today, there are roughly 1.4

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Compass snags two Chicago-based @properties brokers

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The top agents were previously at brokerage @properties. “We With her 20 years of experience, Hodge is one of the top-producing agents in the western suburbs of Chicago. “I’m She ranked among the top 1% of Chicago Realtors in 2017 and is also a past president of the Women’s Council of Realtors.

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Fast-growing brokerage Side enters NYC

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The real estate brokerage has not announced agent hires, but it has tapped a managing broker for the state in John Wollberg. Wollberg was most recently the executive vice president and managing director of sales and operations at Brown Harris Stevens , a Manhattan-based brokerage headquartered on Park Avenue.

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Real estate teams beat brokerage firms in profitability

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Podcast: Comparing real estate team and brokerage profitability. Study: It’s true, real estate teams outperform brokerage firms. RealTrends Brokerage Compensation Report. However, these super-sized teams aren’t the only ones turning a profit — a profit that dwarfs most real estate brokerage’s profit.

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‘Will your wins’: Luxury agents share tips for breaking into the high-end market

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Real estate agents gathered at the Palladium Theater in New York City’s Times Square on Thursday to learn networking and lead generation strategies from some of the nation’s top luxury real estate agents at the Goldbar Live conference. Eventually, in 2017, he heard back from the husband.

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CFPB investigating Rocket Homes for illegal kickbacks

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Rocket Homes Real Estate , a real estate affiliate of Rocket Companies , is being investigated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for possibly violating the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) when it charged fees for referring Quicken’s mortgage clients to real estate agents, according to officials.

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Once at the fringes of housing finance, home equity investment companies look to grow their stake

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When Hometap launched in 2017, the Boston-based fintech offered an unorthodox answer to this question for homeowners looking for an alternative to a loan. We do see this as a new asset class in the real estate ecosystem and we see it as complementary to traditional debt options that exist today,” Burnett said.

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