Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Full-service mortgage lender Nations Lending and local Indiana real estate firm Carpenter Realtors launched a joint venture, Commitment Mortgage , in order to offer an end-to-end experience — from finding a home to closing a loan in a cooled-down housing market. “We trillion in 2022, down from the previous year’s $4.4

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

I recently read editorials and articles by such esteemed publications as The Economist , Entrepreneur Magazine , and The Wall Street Journal concerning the antitrust real estate commission lawsuits. And this one, “If not for the Realtors rule, many buyers wouldn’t use brokers or would negotiate lower commissions.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

the collateral) being insufficient, accounts for approximately 3x the national rate ( HDMA 2022 data). Homeowners do not experience the exponential power of appreciation nor capital gains, meaning real estate is not the same long-term, wealth-building investment vehicle for everyone. What’s going on in Detroit, then?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2023

2022 was a roller coaster year, continuing the strong pandemic and post-pandemic fueled housing market through the first half of the year. 4 with 355,627 transaction sides in 2022 to No. Steady numbers between 2022 and 2023 All firms in the 2023 RealTrends 500 (RT500) did approximately 40.6% of all Realtors.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If you’re interested in becoming a real estate agent in Illinois, you’ll be happy to hear that the path to getting your real estate license in the Prairie State doesn’t require as much of a time commitment as other states. 1] As a real estate broker in Illinois, it is not legal for you to work independently.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Wondering how to get a real estate license in Ohio in 2024? Your path to real estate licensure begins with 120 hours of classes in an approved Ohio real estate license education program. How long does it take to get a real estate license in Ohio?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

The National Retail Federation found that during the 2022 holiday season, retailers saw 17.9% In the world of real estate , transactions are not merely about properties but also the people behind them. By incorporating the principles of Giftology , real estate professionals can enhance the overall client experience.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The new requirements go into effect on November 25, 2022, and the terms of the GTOs are effective through April 2023. The GTOs and the $300,000 reporting requirement were established in 2016 by FinCEN and were originally designed to target shell companies purchasing real estate in Manhattan and Miami.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The real estate market has shifted, and we are in a new housing paradigm. It is always good to know where we are with the real estate market, but it is essential to keep all data in historical perspective. . Another measure the housing market, is whether a Realtor had a client who had a distressed sale in the last month.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 28, 2022

The 2022 housing markets across the U.S. According to the National Association of Realtors, home values increased by 16.9% This surge in demand is pressuring the diminishing … The post Real Estate Heats Up Across U.S., The post Real Estate Heats Up Across U.S.,

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

The latest copycat commission lawsuit alleges that real estate industry players in Nevada have colluded to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. District Court in Las Vegas by Nathaniel Whaley, who sold a home in Las Vegas in April 2022 and paid a buyer broker commission.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Roomvu , a Canadian-based video marketing platform for residential real estate agents, is partnering with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (LeadingRE) and Realty One to mark Roomvu’s expansion into the U.S. expansion comes after Roomvu’s successful launch in Canada in 2022. Our expansion into the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2022

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network , or FinCEN, is floating a proposed anti-money laundering rule that could impose reporting mandates on a broad swath of professionals in the residential real estate market, including real estate agents, brokers, attorneys, title insurance companies and settlement agents.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

The first Batton suit was filed in Illinois in January 2021 by Judah Leeder and later amended in July 2022 with Mya Batton as the lead plaintiff. Defendants United Real Estate and Weichert made similar claims in their motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction and failure to state a claim their filings.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

The uptick in home sales during the second quarter of 2023 helped Anywhere Real Estate get back in the black. After posting a net loss of $138 million in Q1 2023 , the real estate conglomerate rebounded to report $19 million in net income for the second quarter.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2023

Among those targets were a Memphis-based real estate company and a title company in Washington state that combined were swindled out of more than $200,000 through the scam. The victims targeted can be lenders, real estate agents, title companies and other escrow agents, attorneys as well as homebuyers and sellers.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The following profiles for our 2022 honorees include the origin stories of 100 industry elites who continue to have a major impact on the housing landscape. Congratulations to the 2022 HousingWire Vanguards who continue to improve and shape the housing landscape. Chief Real Estate Officer. United Real Estate Group.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Amy Breach, Real Estate broker on the Hill Team in Seattle for Keller Williams. The builder’s real estate agent swapped in the middle of the transaction, so things got a bit mixed up and no one updated the clients’ files to reflect the change in lender,” Summers explained. A lot of this depends on the homebuyer’s lender.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The residential brokerage was dismissed this week from one of the early real estate commission lawsuits , known as “Batton 1” after its lead plaintiff, a homebuyer named Mya Batton. At issue are the NAR’s rules and policies that govern MLSs, which are enforced by local Realtor associations that own the MLSs.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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. In 2022, Ryan ranked as the No. In 2022, Ryan ranked as the No. transaction sides and nearly $22.6

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

The phrase “in like a lion, out like a lamb” is typically used to describe the month of March, but it is also applicable to existing home sales trends in 2022. million, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released Friday. million existing homes were sold in 2022, down 17.8% After posting a 6.5%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

Filed in late 2023 in Missouri by Daniel Umpa, a Maryland home seller, the Umpa suit , like the other commission lawsuits, accuses real estate industry players, including Real, of conspiring to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. The Real Brokerage closed $14.4

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Path & Post Real Estate appointed Bekki Shae Smith to the role of managing broker, the Georgia -based boutique brokerage announced on Thursday. Before joining Path & Post, Smith was a Realtor , broker and partner at LOCAL Realty North ATL for three years.

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Inman

JUNE 22, 2023

Erin Morrison, 2022 National President Elect of the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance and proud Texas Realtor, is afraid. And so are some of your clients. Here’s what you need to know.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

The plaintiffs kept moving the finish line and I was sad as president of the National Association of Realtors not to be able to protect everybody, but at the end of the day we realized we need to be able to protect the most people that we can, and in this proposed settlement, that was what we were able to do,” Sears said.

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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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Raleigh Realty

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

One of the first questions new Realtors have for me is always 'how much money will I make in my first year?' and in order to answer that question, you need to understand how Real Estate Agents make money. If you're looking to make 100k in your first year as a Realtor you'll want to first reverse engineer the process.

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Inman

JANUARY 13, 2023

National Association of Realtors' membership edged ever closer to 1.6 million in 2022, but the real estate trade group expects a drop this year, according to data provided to Inman.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

REX Real Estate is back again trying to get a new trial in its false advertising lawsuit against Zillow. In January 2022, NAR filed a countersuit claiming that REX uses false advertising and misleading claims to deceive consumers in violation of the Lanham Act, but the countersuit was dismissed in late April 2022.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

the National Association of Realtors (NAR), et al kicked off this week in a Kansas City, Missouri, federal courtroom, there is a lot at stake for consumers and business competition. Class action attorneys allege real estate commission rates are too high and buyer brokers are being paid too much due to NAR rules. population.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Compass has joined the National Association of Realtors , Anywhere , Keller Williams and RE/MAX in settling the commission lawsuits. Compass recorded $227.977 billion in sales volume in 2022, according to RealTrends data. Just like the Sitzer/Burnett suit, the Gibson suit takes issue with NAR’s Participation Rule.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

When Kevin Sears stepped into the role of National Association of Realtors president on Monday following Tracy Kasper’s resignation , he became the trade organization’s third president in a little over four months. A licensed agent since 1994, Sears is a second-generation real estate professional. Charlie Baker.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Real estate giant Zillow came out victorious in its years-long legal battle with discount brokerage REX Real Estate. District Court in Seattle determined that Zillow did not make deceptive change to its only agent listings that forced REX Real Estate to go out of business.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

Co-founded by Sean Soderstrom, Dan Breitbach and Joe Urciuoli, the proptech company sells an AI-powered software platform to help real estate brokerages with their recruiting efforts. The firm raised $6 million in seed funding in May 2022.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

The first thing we go through when I work with real estate brokerages — whether it’s in helping them to streamline their technology or to prepare for sale — is their financials. And, one thing that I always spot in these financials is excess spending.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

The deal comes just days after the federal judge overseeing the commission case in Missouri approved a preliminary settlement that will see the National Association of Realtors and multiple other residential brokerages collectively pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and make large-scale changes to longstanding commission policies.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

A seasoned Realtor , Hines was Sotheby’s top broker in sales volume in West Seattle in 2018-2019 and also appeared on Forbes Market Leader’s list. According to the most recent RealTrends ranking , the Janssens Hines Team ranked 15th among the top small teams in Washington by volume in 2022. million in real estate.

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