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Prices for luxury homes soared in the first quarter 

Housing Wire

Luxury home prices in the U.S. year over year in the first quarter of 2024, with the median price hitting a record $1.225 million, according to data from Redfin. In comparison, prices for non-luxury homes rose by 4.6% New listings of luxury homes soared 18.5% increase for non-luxury homes. surged by 8.7%

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How to become a luxury real estate agent

Housing Wire

If you’re known in your market as the expert who successfully sells properties between $1 to $3 million, how do you start getting clients looking for homes valued at $10 million+? How do you convince the sellers of $15 million homes to work with you?

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How to write a lead-winning, memorable real estate agent bio (+ examples)

Housing Wire

In 2024, Tate received Coldwell Banker’s International President’s Premier Award representing the company’s top 1% of all sales professionals. Tate’s track record working in luxury sales serves as the real estate version of the ‘Good Housekeeping Seal’ of approval. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Georgia.

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The best real estate companies to work for in 2024 (+ beyond)

Housing Wire

Related Articles 8 top real estate lead generation companies for 2024 8 best places to buy real estate leads in 2024 The 11 best real estate CRMs for 2024 Our deep dive on the brokerages Thanks to the internet, we’ve got all kinds of information at our fingertips. Are you an experienced luxury agent?

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The 22 must-have real estate marketing tools for 2024

Housing Wire

Our comprehensive guide to the best real estate marketing tools provides you with a helpful assortment of easy-to-use, effective marketing products to turn your business into a revenue engine in 2024. It gives you a “first mover advantage”, providing robust follow-up tools that help you nurture potential seller clients with ease.

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While the Austin housing market isn’t sizzling, agents say it is still warm

Housing Wire

Buyers are still buying and sellers are still selling. As of March 22, 2024, the 90-day average median number of active single-family listings in the Austin metro area was 6,895 — up from an all-time low of 1,070 listings in April 2021. In November 2023, this figure actually surpassed its pre-pandemic level at 8,527 listings. “If

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Residential Appraisals and Airbnb Income?

Appraisal Today

We’ve seen more luxury properties sell (larger homes) and buyers at higher price points (larger homes) have been taking advantage of being able to work from home. Sellers, it’s time to listen. Sellers could sell and relocate to an area with much lower home prices, which a friend of mine recently did. appraisal reporting.