Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

District Court in Arizona, Joseph Masiello, an Arizona resident and home seller, accuses several real estate companies of colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. Masiello sold a home on an Arizona MLS through HomeSmart “in or about October 2021.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

district court in Florida, accusing HomeServices and its subsidiaries, BHH Affiliates and HSF Affiliates , of conspiring to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. On Monday, homebuyer James Lutz filed a class-action antitrust lawsuit in a U.S. Lutz is being represented in the suit by Randall P.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The family sold the franchise in October 2021 but remained with RE/MAX Preferred Properties until the move. Ryan Levenson, who is the 2023 president of the East Tennessee Realtors’ Association , is a third-generation real estate agent, following his parents, Rich and Patti Levenson, into the business.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Friedman’s suit was in regard to the 2021 sale of his Park Slope home, in which he paid a buyer broker commission. According to Friedman’s initial complaint, this artificially inflated real estate agent commissions. Instead, if a seller wishes to compensate the buyer’s agent, they must pay the agent themselves.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Sellers 427

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The demand for real estate has grown to a frenzy in some areas of the country over the last year and succeeding in those competitive markets requires skill, experience and finding innovative ways to get deals done. That’s why we’ve invited Xio Sandoval, a top Century 21 Realtor, to speak at our Spring Summit on March 4.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

In an amended complaint filed on Friday, home sellers Danielle and Jessie Kay (who sold a house in Baden, Pennsylvania, in December 2021 with the help of an agent from Realty One Group Gold Standard ) were added as a plaintiff. The Pennsylvania copycat commission lawsuit has some new defendants and a new plaintiff.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Real Estate Board of New York is now fighting a second copycat commission lawsuit. District Court in New York by Robert Friedman, a resident of Brooklyn who sold a property in Park Slope in May 2021 with the help of a Douglas Elliman agent. The suit was filed in late December in U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

Just days after awarding Zillow and National Association of Realtors (NAR) a major victory in their legal battle against REX Real Estate , the court made it clear that Zillow’s fight is far from over. It is literally false not to characterize REX’s listings as ‘Agent Listings.’

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Lamacchia Realty

APRIL 8, 2024

has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for March 2024! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® by company and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month! Shauna was also named in the Boston Agent Magazine’s Who’s Who 2022 edition ! Lamacchia Realty, Inc.

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Realtors Realty Real Estate Agents 72

Lamacchia Realty

MARCH 7, 2024

has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for February 2024! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® by company and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month! Lisa Gray is an experienced REALTOR® working out of the Salem, NH office and is licensed in MA, NH, and ME!

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Realtors Realty Real Estate Clients 72

McKissock

APRIL 20, 2021

Becoming a real estate agent requires a giant leap of faith and an investment of time and money. That’s why some agents may choose to test the waters with a part-time real estate position while hanging onto a steady income from another job. How much is a part-time real estate agent salary?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Plaintiffs in Florida and Pennsylvania filed lawsuits on Monday, accusing real estate industry players of allegedly colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. In an email, Marla Martin, a spokesperson for Florida Realtors, said the trade group was working on a statement about the allegations.

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Realty Realtors Brokerage Real Estate 427

Lamacchia Realty

MAY 7, 2024

has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for April 2024! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® by company and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month! Shauna was also named in the Boston Agent Magazine’s Who’s Who 2022 edition ! Lamacchia Realty, Inc.

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Realtors Realty Real Estate Clients 57

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Another day and another class-action antitrust commission lawsuit accusing the real estate industry of colluding to inflate real estate agent commissions has been filed. But this latest one comes with a twist — it was filed by homebuyers, unlike the others filed by home sellers. 2 in the U.S.

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Real Estate Realtors Sellers Agents 427

Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 3, 2024

has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for December 2023! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® by company and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month! She was awarded Most Transactions and Most Sales Volume in 2018 2019 , 2020 , and 2021 for our Woburn Office.

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Realtors Realty Real Estate Clients 73

Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 27, 2022

has released their “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for all of 2021! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® by company and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the year! Paul is also consistently named a top producing agent in the Woburn office as well as company-wide.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

On Friday afternoon, my real estate agent called with good news. The agent wished me well and said that she would appreciate a review on her website. What’s especially interesting is that unlike average or low-performing agents, top-performing agents simply don’t lower their commission rates very often.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

Latinos are twice as likely to use Federal Housing Administration financing than non-Hispanic white borrowers, but most of the real estate agents the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals surveyed felt FHA borrowers were at a competitive disadvantage. last year, respectively.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Sellers 383

Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Detroit-based lender’s unmatched combination of name recognition, digital infrastructure and consumer technology enabled it to originate more than $670 billion in mortgages in 2020 and 2021, smashing records in the process. billion in 2021. Its parent Rocket Companies rode the wave to a stunning $9.4 And Rocket is well aware.

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Loan Officers Retail Real Estate Agent Real Estate 370

Lamacchia Realty

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for October 2023! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® by company and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month! Additionally, Leslie is a member of the 2019 , 2020 and 2021 President’s Club.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2022

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.

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Agents Real Estate Agent Real Estate Clients 383

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) released a report on Friday that found 88% of all first-time homebuyers in the U.S. The share of Black and Asian first-time buyers is down from 6% in 2021, while the share of white first-time buyers is up from 82% and Hispanic homebuyers up from 7%. million in 2021, up from 50.5

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Lamacchia Realty

DECEMBER 11, 2023

THE HIDDEN COSTS OF SELLING YOUR HOME WITHOUT A REALTOR® There is no denying it, the housing market has been a rollercoaster over the last several years. From the Covid-19 driven frenzy in 2020 to the significant inventory slowdown this year , buyers , sellers , and agents have all had adapt and grow comfortable with change.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2021

Compass announced Monday that it has reached an agreement to buy San Francisco-based real estate transaction platform Glide , a deal that some California real estate agents may feel uneasy about. The buy is Compass’s first since the residential brokerage started publicly trading shares earlier this month.

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Agents Brokerage Real Estate Agent Realtors 383

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s a 4% year-over-year increase of 511 principal agents since Q3 2022 and a 3% increase of 422 agents compared to the second quarter of 2023. Additionally, Compass posted a 98% principal agent retention rate for the quarter —the second-highest retention rate since the company went public in April 2021.

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Agents Real Estate Agent Realtors Brokerage 406

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Women make up 66% of all Realtors, according to the National Association of Realtors ‘ 2022 Member Profile , but hold just a fraction of executive leadership positions throughout the industry. For one: We’re going to see agents drop out of the industry. But that doesn’t mean all those people had a good experience.

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Real Estate Agent Agents Real Estate Realtors 370

Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

The feature , published earlier this month, noted that Rocket embarked on a local LO hiring spree in 2023 to capture purchase market business from real estate agent connections. So it seems like the real estate community is reacting positively to this particular program,” Emerson told analysts.

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Loan Officers Mortgage Real Estate Agent Real Estate 370

Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 11, 2024

has released their “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for all of 2023! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® out of the over 500 agents in Lamacchia Realty by company and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the year! Lamacchia Realty, Inc.

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Realtors Realty Real Estate Agents 67

Lamacchia Realty

DECEMBER 5, 2023

has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for November 2023! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® by company and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month! She was awarded Most Sales and Most Sales Volume in 2018 2019 , 2020 , and 2021 for our Woburn Office.

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Realty Realtors Real Estate Agents 73

Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2023

plans to invest in tech, reduce vendor costs and focus on realtor partners in 2023. These are things we wanted to do in 2020 and 2021, but with the influx in volume, we had to focus on what’s in front of you, which is closing transactions.”. billion production volume in 2021. Justin Messer, CEO at Prosperity Home Mortgage.

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Mortgage Real Estate Real Estate Agent Realtors 395

Lamacchia Realty

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for August 2023! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® by company and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month! She was awarded Most Sales and Most Sales Volume in 2018 2019 , 2020 , and 2021 for our Woburn Office.

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Realty Realtors Real Estate Clients 74

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

This advertising strategy, among a handful of others, has helped the LO connect with Russian-speaking Realtors and win the business of borrowers from former Soviet countries. “I Borrowers have called me from seeing my advertising in the stores and a couple of Realtors, too.”. trillion in 2021. trillion in 2021.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In the first nine months of this year the National Association of Realtors (NAR) has collected $229.6 million in membership dues from 1.542 million members, who are mostly real estate agents and brokers. million to the Realtors Political Action Committee. Oppler was NAR’s president for 2021.

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Real Estate Agent Agents Real Estate Realtors 395

Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2023

In a vacant lot or seller impersonation scam, public records are searched to identify real estate that is free of mortgage or other liens, as well as the identity of the property owner. Then, posing as the property owner, the scammer contacts a real estate agent to list the property. billion in 2021.

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Sellers Real Estate Realtors Real Estate Agent 383

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But the virus has had anything but a negative impact on real estate in El Paso. According to multiple real estate agents and mortgage brokers, low interest rates and a high percentage of “essential” jobs in their town has kept the housing market and local economy strong. Interest rates were so low, at 2.5%

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Housing Market Real Estate Agent Marketing Realtors 417

Lamacchia Realty

JUNE 6, 2023

has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for May 2023! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® by company and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month! Horton’s VIP Realtor distinction, placing him in the top 5% of REALTORS® in Broward County.

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Realtors Realty Real Estate Clients 73

Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2023

economy and real estate markets, having worked at the National Association of Realtors and Move, Inc. before joining Realtor.com in 2021 where he led a team covering broader economic trends, housing activity and consumer issues. Ratiu has more than 15 years’ experience tracking the U.S.

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