Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In the ever-competitive real estate market, creating a consistent flow of real estate buyer leads is strategy for success. Extending a broad (but strategic) net is part of knowing how to generate buyer leads in real estate. Of course, you can’t do everything — but consistency is important.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

Feb 27, 2024 By Sara Stover, Meghan Thibault and Sara Stover, Meghan Thibault Real estate farming: Become the go-to agent in your area using these tips, tools & strategies Feb 08, 2024 By Megan DeMatteo The 11 best real estate CRMs for 2024 Jan 12, 2024 By Megan DeMatteo Get more real estate buyer leads in 2024 Nov 29, 2023 By Megan DeMatteo 16 (..)

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Real estate agents are always looking for vetted, high-quality leads — and especially so during 2023 market conditions. These providers offer a rapid and cost-effective means for real estate agents to gather a list of potential clients and ultimately boost sales.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Top 10 mortgage lender and servicer Newrez is partnering with Newzip , a tech-enabled real estate platform, to roll out a program aimed to save buyers and sellers on credit costs. Dubbed Newrez Home Rewards, buyers will be matched with a real estate agent who works with Newzip and provided booking services.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2023

“Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was normal for inventory to rise in February as the spring home sellers began listing their homes and buyers weren’t yet out in force,” Simonsen wrote in his February 13 housing market update. We are seeing some modest increases, but the pressure is still there for the buyers,” Redding said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Keller Williams Realty has partnered exclusively with the online learning platform Coursera to offer a comprehensive introduction to the business of real estate. Dubbed the KW Real Estate Agent Professional certificate, the program will give participants a head start in the real estate industry.

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Inman

MARCH 28, 2024

As Better reports $543 million 2023 loss, CEO Vishal Garg says the company has made fundamental changes to its business model that will help it pivot to providing purchase loans to homebuyers.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Three researchers believe a first-of-its-kind dataset has enabled them to definitively answer a long-debated question: why have buyer agent commission rates been so stable historically? So how is the uniformity and permanence of buyer agents’ 2-3% rate possible in a free market? billion in Missouri alone.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

As brokerages across the country have begun implementing buyer agency contracts into their business practices in the wake of the Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit verdict, the Consumer Federation of America is warning consumers that they may be filled with “unfair provisions” that primarily protect agents and brokers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

Guaranteed Rate has introduced a new feature that allows sellers working with a G-Rate loan officer to pay a fee that locks in a permanently discounted mortgage rate for a buyer. The real estate agent works with the seller and a Guaranteed Rate loan officer to pay a fee and lock in the discounted rate for a buyer.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

As mortgage rates continue to decline, Chad Earnest’s mantra with his referral partners in 2023 is “no buyer left behind.” Homebuyers have traditionally been the byproduct of our referral partners, such as real estate agents and homebuilders,” Earnest said. “We

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

District Court in New York against the Real Estate Board of New York and several brokerages, according to court filings. Friedman’s suit was in regard to the 2021 sale of his Park Slope home, in which he paid a buyer broker commission. The filings did not provide any insight into why the suit was dismissed.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Jeremy Foster, founder and chairman of Calque Buying a home today can be stressful and fraught with complicated issues, such as contingencies requiring the buyer to sell their current home before qualifying for the home they want to buy. debt-to-income requirements) instead of requiring substantive changes to the real estate process.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The team specializes in buyer and seller representation as well as new construction. 15 in the state of Wisconsin by transaction sides, according to the RealTrends 2023 America’s Best list. “As Compass launched operations in Wisconsin in 2021 and currently operates eight offices with 175 real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

Summary The Millionaire Real Estate Agent Drive with NAR Real Estate Rockstars Podcast The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience Real Trending by HousingWire Elite Agent Secrets The Listings Lab Podcast with Jess Lenouvel Real Estate Training and Coaching School 5AM Call Keeping it Real The full picture 1.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2023

The slower housing market and uncertain economic conditions took their toll on the number of real estate brokerages and firms that were named to Inc. Magazine ’s 5000 list for 2023, a ranking of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S. Last year’s top ranked real estate brokerage firm, DASH Carolina , dropped from No.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The seller, who struggled to find a buyer in a cooled down housing market, agreed to deposit a lump sum payment into an escrow account at closing – ultimately saving Davis $6,900 in monthly payments in the first two years. It gives the buyer and seller the feeling of beating the mutual enemy, ‘the market,’ and gaming the system.”.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As brokers and LOs close out a challenging year and set their sights on 2023, it could be tempting to take a pessimistic view. However, there are actionable steps and strategies they can take to ensure 2023 is as profitable as possible. Most industry observers expect 2023 to be much more consistent.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Even as the housing market slowed in 2022 and 2023, the fraudulent activity of bad actors did not let up. home buyers and sellers it survey were targeted with suspicious or potentially fraudulent activities, while 10% were targeted for real estate fraud and 5% suffered losses during their real estate transaction due to fraudster.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

If you decide to use a realtor it can make the experience much smoother, much easier and ultimately far better for you as a buyer. Join us in this article as we discuss the many different benefits of a Ventura Realtor when buying land in 2023 and why you should consider this as an option before you take the long road all by yourself.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

In the third quarter of 2023, 88.5% To conduct this study , Redfin analyzed data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency ’s National Mortgage Database as of the third quarter of 2023. For repeat buyers and first-time buyers who entered the market in 2022, the average mortgage rate was above 6%. in mid-2022. below 5%, 59.4%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2023

Industry players are largely pessimistic about the economic climate and expect interest rates to trend up in the near term future, according to the HousingWire Q2 2023 LenderPulse survey. In a high-rate environment, lenders call the temporary rate buydown a win-win strategy for both sellers and buyers when used appropriately.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Turning point A turning point for the home equity investment market came with the closing of the first rated securitization of notes backed by HEAs in September 2023. DBRS Morningstar’s rating of the $224 million securitization opened up new types of bond buyers that have inherently lower costs of capital, Saluda Grade CEO Ryan Craft said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

In addition to the monetary award, Real has also agreed to implement business policy changes as part of the settlement, including “clarifications about the negotiability of commissions, prohibitions on claims that buyer agent services are free, and the inclusion of listing broker compensation offers in communications with clients.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

million in 2023, smaller than its $457.6 In the purchase space, Martell said that real estate agents are the company’s “biggest source” of leads and are all “trying to figure out” what the NAR settlement will mean for the market. loanDepot recorded a non-GAAP adjusted net loss of $142.4

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

A couple of weeks ago, mortgage rates soared to a new 2023 high, reaching over 7% on a 30-year fixed-rate loan for the first time since November 2022. Yet higher mortgage rates aren’t all bad news for savvy real estate agents. Lofty home prices make matters worse – the median home sales price was $436,800 as of Q1 2023.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

As recently as five years ago, homeowners insurance was certainly not top of mind for most homebuyers and their real estate agents , but the rapidly rising cost of insurance premiums is changing that. For some buyers, surprisingly high insurance premiums are causing them to second-guess the property they have selected. “I

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

There was industry-wide shock when the Missouri jury found NAR, Keller Williams and HomeServices of America liable for colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. But at this point it really isn’t about NAR, it is about the future of the industry.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

For many real estate professionals, 2023 was the year of the commission lawsuit , and the year could not end without one last copycat suit. 2023, Umpa is a resident of Maryland and the lawsuit is in regards to the sale of two homes, one in Maryland and one in Ohio.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

MoxiWorks , a real estate technology platform, just made it easier to create and share presentations thanks to its latest product integration. The company combined its two tools — MoxiPresent and MoxiConnect — to streamline the creation of presentations , buyer tours and annual property reviews to send the assets directly to customers.

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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. commission ($10,250) to the buyer broker.” 5, 2020, and the present.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Berg told ALTA One attendees that they should be particularly wary of escrow account “shenanigans” and that they need to keep tabs on how builders and real estate agents are shifting funds around through escrow accounts. Our realtor partners are hurting,” Berg said. It is brute force.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

This article is part of our ongoing 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. Inventory was so tight that homes often went to buyers with large down payments or even all-cash offers. In March 2023, it was just 2.2 So what does this all mean for housing in 2023 as we move into the home-buying season and second half of the year?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Mortgage assumption is a niche option that gained momentum in 2023. An assumable mortgage enables a qualified buyer to take over a seller’s mortgage terms, including the existing balance and interest rate. In 2023, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the U.S. Launched in September 2023, the company secured $1.25

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

While Zillow’s net loss of $23 million for the quarter, which was up from its net loss of $22 million in Q1 2023, did not necessarily reflect Barton’s confidence, the firm’s 13% annual increase in revenue to $529 million did. million real estate license holders, many handle only one or two transactions a year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

31, 2023, the Gibson lawsuit pits three Missouri home sellers, Don Gibson, Lauren Criss and John Meiners, against National Association of Realtors , Compass , eXp World Holdings , Redfin , Weichert Realtors , United Real Estate , Howard Hanna and Douglas Elliman. Its agents also offer buyer broker compensation.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2023

The latest numbers have many in the industry starting the year on a hopeful note, with the possibility that we’ll see mortgage rates returning to the 5% range in 2023. These hopes for a declining rate have many loan officers feeling optimistic about 2023’s business prospects after experiencing lower volumes last year. Make a plan.

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