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Download these 9 real estate prospecting letter templates that actually work

Housing Wire

Check out these nine downloadable real estate prospecting letter templates to help you make an impression in your neighborhood or zip code. My name is (your name), and I’m a licensed real estate professional with (your brokerage). Please think of me as your go-to resource for all things real estate.

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NAR: 31% of Realtors say they feel unsafe at open houses

Housing Wire

Real estate agent safety has been a concern for years, as the job requires showing empty homes or homes occupied by others, and meeting new people, often alone. Just this week, NAR reported that a real estate agent in Draper, Utah, was showing what she thought was a vacant house for sale to a potential buyer.

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Study: Real estate firms thrive on repeat and referral business

Housing Wire

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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Are Open Houses Worth It?

Eppraisal

Historically, open houses have been a marketing staple for listing agents. Open houses can be an effective tool in a buyer's real estate market. In this age of technology, most buyers search online for homes rather than driving around on the weekends looking at open houses.

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Mortgage rates are the highest they’ve been this year. Did loan officers expect this?

Housing Wire

For that reason, real estate prices are only going in one direction — and that’s up. If you wait for rates to drop to 5%, that $1 million house is going to be $1 million because everybody else is going to want it.” All those guys weren’t doing that much volume in 2019,” Clark noted. For comparison, lenders funded $2.4

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17 Realtors® Go Back in Time: First Year Real Estate Advice

Raleigh Realty

and in order to answer that question, you need to understand how Real Estate Agents make money. If you could go back to your first year as a Real Estate Agent, what advice would you give yourself? Real estate agents are known to wear multiple hats all the time and to bootstrap themselves more often than one could imagine.

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How rookie agents are faring during the pandemic

Housing Wire

When the restaurant Tom Hunt worked at as a server temporarily shut down during the spring of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he decided it was the right time to pursue his longtime desire of becoming a real estate agent. At the close of 2019, the National Association of Realtors had 1.4 million members. million members.

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