Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Roughly 10 months since first expanding into Florida , Ryan Serhant’s eponymous brokerage is expanding into its third market in the state. Previously, the brokerage only operated in the Miami and Palm Beach County markets. we’ve found much more than just a brokerage,” Mark Raumaker said in a statement. “In s first in Orlando.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Referrals from past and repeat customers still generated the greatest number of inquiries for real estate firms in 2020 with 30% of brokerage business coming from this source, the same amount as in 2018, when the survey was last completed. In 2018, 1% of surveyed brokerages said their business came from open houses.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Robert Reffkin -helmed firm is welcoming back Bob Gerlach, who retired from the brokerage in 2021, according to an announcement on Wednesday. Gerlach is joining Compass as a sales manager supporting brokerage professionals in the Palo Alto market as part of the firm’s management team.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Christie said he returned to the brokerage because of its technology, agent network and culture. Compass’s client-centric service is incomparable to other brokerages,” Christie said in a statement. Prior to joining Serhant, Christie was with Compass from 2018 to 2021.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2023

The executive shake ups in the brokerage space are continuing this week, with Compass announcing that Mark McLaughlin is returning to the firm to serve as Chief Real Estate Strategist. McLaughlin previously became a key member of Compass in 2018 when the brokerage purchased his firm, Pacific Union , for north of $80 million.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Sandra Hines and Blake Waggoner from The Hines Group will join as senior broker and broker, respectively, and Dave Janssens will join as managing broker at the California -based brokerage led by Mauricio Umansky. Together, the three agents will cover West Seattle and the Eastside areas of Seattle.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

The fast-growing real estate firm The Real Brokerage just added to its agent count. Brohm and his team have been with eXp since 2018. We just no longer felt that it was the best brokerage for what we are building.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

She joined Realty ONE in August 2018. Realty ONE Group International, which was founded in 2005 and is based in Las Vegas, is a real estate franchise brokerage. Kathy Baker, a 2023 HousingWire Woman of Influence , was promoted to the position of chief coaching officer. In her previous role, Baker was vice president of learning.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Edgerton and Reisinger will have an impact on the global network of 550-plus independent real estate brokerages. Edgerton moves up from her position of executive vice president of operations, which she’s held since 2018. million global transactions a year.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2021

To stay up to data on real estate brokerage news, please check out RealTrends’ BrokerSource newsletter. After selling her 29% stake in New York City-based Douglas Elliman in 2018, Dottie Herman will step down as CEO and long-time Douglas Elliman leader Scott Durkin will take over. Douglas Elliman is ranked No.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

On Wednesday, the brokerage announced perhaps its biggest move ever outside the Windy City, stating that they have acquired Christie’s International Real Estate , a New York City-based brokerage. The brokerage was founded 2000 by Thad Wong and Mike Golden , who remain the companies’ co-CEO’s. The deal is set to close Dec.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Discuss the weather, how your pets are handling the pandemic, even the housing market, but these brokers will steer the conversation to one subject, and one subject alone – the residential real estate brokerage Compass. Compass – the broker will lament – puffs itself up as a “tech” company, but it’s really just another brokerage.

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Inman

APRIL 20, 2023

Yves Jean-Baptiste bought Rapid Realty in 2018, but now says the former owner Anthony Lolli actually used the deal to pawn off a failing business.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Massachusetts -based boutique real estate firm Lindo Realty Group has joined the commonwealth’s top independent real estate brokerage, Jack Conway & Co. Prior to founding the Lindo Realty Group in 2018, Robbie Lindo worked at Jack Conway for more than a decade as a top salesperson and then as a manager.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Fathom Holdings is the latest brokerage to make a significant C-Suite change. Fregenal has served as Fathom’s CFO since 2012 and as president since 2018. ” Cary, North Carolina based Fathom was among the biggest movers by transaction sides in the RealTrends 2023 brokerage rankings. million in sales volume in 2022.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2021

OWN Marin, a veteran team of five agents, announced last week that they switched from the New York-headquartered brokerage to the San Francisco-based outfit. The brokerage, which declined comment, has hundreds of agents in Marin County – which lies just north of San Francisco County – and is the no. billion in VC cash.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Snapping up Alexander is part of a “national expansion plan,” said Chris Lim, president of growth at @Properties, with the Windy City brokerage eying a “half-dozen” franchise announcements in the coming year. But in 2018, a private equity firm, Charlottesville, Virginia-based Quad-C Management, took a stake in the company.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

In 2020, he established his brokerage, SERHANT , which now spans 19 states and has more than 500 employees. After the publication of his book, “Sell It Like Serhant” in 2018, Serhant realized that 40% of its users applied its techniques beyond real estate, across diverse sectors such as health care, photography and law.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In a lawsuit filed last week, a mortgage brokerage claimed that one of its former loan officers stole a database containing client names and information and brought it with him to a new job at NEXA Mortgage. 1, 2018, and requested and was provided Smart Mortgage’s closed loan log for files he originated at Smart Mortgage between Oct.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

The national real estate brokerage found that the nationwide median sale price reached $420,357 in March 2024. from 2018 to 2023. Even as the median U.S. That’s according to a pair of reports released Thursday by Redfin. That figure was up 5% year over year and was only 3% below the peak price of $432,496 in May 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The app firm, which was acquired by the real estate brokerage franchisor in 2018, “will continue to service existing client agreements throughout their expiration,” Keller Williams spokesperson Darryl Frost told HousingWire. The company claimed on its website that it had more than 3,000 brokerages and 300,000 agents using its app.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Like the other copycat commission lawsuits, the plaintiff James Tuccori, an Illinois resident who purchased a home listed on the local MLS in 2018 with the help of an @properties agent, is accusing real estate industry players of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions.

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Inman

MARCH 27, 2023

Garcia was with Compass from 2018 to early 2023 and generated $205.5 million in sales volume during her last two years with the brokerage. Houston real estate veteran Haley Garcia has taken her seven-person team to Keller Williams.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2023

Founded in 2018, key features of Bonzo include a campaign builder to conduct personal and customized outreach at scale; messaging that supports voice, video and text; an ad builder for Google and Facebook ; and a pipeline dashboard to organize the sales process.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Instant homebuyer Opendoor has acquired “tech”-focused mortgage brokerage RedDoor , the companies announced Friday. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Sacramento, RedDoor calls itself a “digital first mortgage brokerage” that can preapprove a loan applicant “within 60 seconds,” likely what was appealing to the iBuyer.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

Budnick has been part of the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices brand since 2002, serving first as a broker and executive vice president of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Florida Realty Network , and then as the firm’s president and CEO starting in 2018. In May 2021, she was named CEO of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

But it remains the biggest player in a blossoming segment of real estate, in which tech-fueled companies – and even traditional brokerages – aspire to have a hand in every element of the home buying process. In 2018, the firm acquired Los Angeles-based discount brokerage Open Listings for an undisclosed sum. Roughly $8.7

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As someone who worked for a large, nationally branded brokerage for 30+ years, I had a front-row seat to many mergers and acquisitions. Owning a brokerage isn’t what it used to be More and more aging broker-owners are considering retiring or moving on from real estate. I would love to say they all went well, but they didn’t.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In 2018, it acquired Franklin American Mortgage. Kevin Leibowitz, CEO of Grayton Mortgage , said his brokerage had signed up with Citizens in anticipation of them opening up in New York. A spokesperson for Citizens did not immediately reply to a request for comments.

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Inman

MAY 30, 2024

William Brown, who served as CEO of the company though 2018, is entitled to damages after Matterport prevented him from selling all of his shares when the company went public in 2021.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

Residential real estate brokerages will not do as well in 2022 as they did in 2021, but let’s not get carried away. Our mortgage business took a pretty tough hit,” said Ryan Schneider, who has been Realogy’s CEO since the start of 2018. Ryan Schneider, CEO of Realogy. That seemed to be the message of Realogy Holding Corp.’s

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2022

Back in 2018, Robert Reffkin exuded that Compass agents were literally invested in the brokerage’s success. The approach contrasts Compass with other full-service brokerages, including Realogy , who do not have an agent equity program. But agents tethering their success to Compass’s is today a small part of the brokerage.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2021

1 residential real estate brokerage by sales volume – and no. Quad-C , a private equity firm based in Charlottesville, Virginia, invested an undisclosed stake in @properties back in 2018. The Chicagoland market’s no. 8 nationally, according to RealTrends – is now expanding.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2022

Additionally, all these businesses had a minimum revenue of $100,000 in 2018 and $2 million last year. Mortgage brokerages on the list included The Everest Equity Company (No. Magazine ‘s 5,000 fastest-growing companies in the U.S. The companies are U.S.-based, based, privately held and independent as of Dec.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2022

The real estate brokerage unveiled its first annual report Monday, a federally required document for any public company. Indeed, most other brokerages either do not provide an adjusted EBITDA figure or give one at less variance to net income. And agents who work at Compass say the brokerage gives them tools to be productive.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The National Fair Housing Alliance and nine other housing organizations filed a lawsuit against Redfin on Wednesday, accusing the online brokerage of racial discrimination and favoritism toward predominately white neighborhoods. These minimum price limits serve no legitimate purpose.

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