The Appraiser Coach

JULY 25, 2023

But how can you mitigate your workload without losing your good clients? It may not seem important now that things have slowed down, but now is the very exact time you should be preparing for changes that are bound to come again in the future. Take care of emails from good, loyal, easy-to-work-with clients (your “A” clients) first.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

One of the biggest challenges for agents is finding new clients and staying top-of-mind until they are ready to buy or sell. An industry favorite for its popular CRM, Top Producer can help you keep in touch with all your prospects with timely text messages, emails, and market reports delivered to their inbox. Wondering how?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

SmartZip uses predictive analytics to pinpoint likely sellers from 6 to 18 months in advance, offering a huge advantage in today’s low inventory market. SmartZip’s analytics are based on over 250 data points related to the properties and homeowners in your target market. Then, it deploys marketing campaigns on your behalf.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

While brokers frequently prioritize sophisticated recruitment tactics and having the best technology stack, it’s vital to revisit the fundamental elements of human interaction and organizational retention underpinning a successful brokerage. Regular check-ins are a simple, effective way to reduce churn.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

While marketing to your sphere of influence, networking, and direct mail campaigns work, they can be time-consuming and they don’t always yield quick results. Data analysis allows real estate agents to focus their marketing efforts (and budget!) Then, drive traffic to your home valuation page using social media or targeted advertising.

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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. Snatching up first-time homebuyers is akin to striking gold — since developing a relationship with them can mean a loyal client for life. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The ongoing housing market decline, which saw existing-home sales fall 36% in 2022 alone (on a seasonally adjusted annual basis) and 41% overall to September’s low, is the sharpest (though not the deepest) in the history of this industry. As such, it certainly feels like that pendulum is a labrys slicing through our brokerage firms.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

HousingWire: How has the current market affected the way lenders approach customer relationships? If you’re an LO, you need to offer your clients something that fits today’s narrative — making the most of the home that you’ve got, while being on-call to help when someone needs to borrow money or move. This is where Milestones fits in.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

This dip can be partly attributed to the recent acquisition of 3D scanning company Matterport , as well as the costs associated with the Homes.com marketing campaign during the Super Bowl LVIII broadcast in February. But the company posted a net profit of only $7 million, significantly less than in previous quarters.

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The Appraiser Coach

JULY 25, 2023

When the pandemic hit us full force in 2020, business skyrocketed. We had never been busier! If I had tried to do everything the same way I. Read More

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Now, you’re likely asking yourself, Why am I reading about squirrels in a marketing article? But as history has shown us time and again, the refi market periodically booms, drops and then reliably evens out. No one knows precisely when, but when it does, the purchase market will reemerge as your bread and butter. Glad you asked.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

“Homesnap has spent years building tools that reinforce the agent-client relationship and arm both home buyers and agents with the data and software they need to find homes and do their jobs,” said John Mazur, CEO of Homesnap. “We PROJETO was originally only made available to the firms own clients in September. starting in January.

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McKissock

DECEMBER 30, 2020

We live in an era of great real estate technology, but are you using it to your advantage when it comes to running your business? Today’s high-tech tools mean you can automate processes and tasks, organize and analyze information more quickly, reach new real estate clients , and do a better job of staying in touch with current ones.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

BoomTown , a marketing automation platform for real estate professionals, announced Thursday the acquisition of Brokermint , which uses technology to consolidate and automate back office and transaction management functions through scalable software solutions. BoomTown was named a 2020 HWTech100 winner.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Below are a few lessons title agents can take from previous down cycles that could help them adapt to current market conditions. It’s been a while since the settlement services industry faced such a competitive market. Of course, this was all but inevitable after the amazing numbers brought to market in 2021.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Course content is written and taught by active, seasoned industry professionals, and course upgrades feature engagement with instructors experienced in your local market. The CE Shop’s real estate continuing education topics may include tax deferred exchanges, real estate finance, USDA rural loans or real estate advertising compliance.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The historically low interest rates that led to a boom in refinances in 2012 had ended, and Interfirst struggled to maintain volumes in following years as the market turned to purchase. And today, unlike many other mortgage lenders, we reenter the residential mortgage origination market without any legacy challenges.”.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

Technology has rapidly changed the process for listing and buying homes, and the general public is taking note and adjusting their expectations of what a real estate broker should be. The public is demanding a broker that offers the same cost savings and efficiencies in the real estate market that they receive everywhere else.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

It is possible, said Garg, because of Tinman, a platform that interacts directly with the customer — meanwhile, in other platforms in the market, a human extracts information from borrowers, he said. In that time, the market, the industry and the consumer changed dramatically. How can Better succeed in a purchase market?

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McKissock

AUGUST 21, 2022

Marketing your real estate business can take a lot of time—especially tasks that might seem repetitive or menial. Thanks to technology, it just got a whole lot easier. You don’t have to repeat basic marketing tasks daily anymore but can leverage your time by automating your real estate business marketing. Direct mail.

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McKissock

MARCH 24, 2021

According to most Internet marketers , webinars work. You get an opt-in email address, and your clients get a useful webinar. Are you going to create content that helps your clients with their specific needs? Think about conversations you regularly have with clients that are focused on educating them.

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The Appraiser Coach

OCTOBER 17, 2023

There are a lot of things you have to juggle, and clients and lenders have their own ideas of how it should be. Isn’t technology these days pretty good for getting most information from the desktop? What about in regards to comp photos? If we don’t need original photos for hybrids, do we need them at all?

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

MAY 12, 2022

Here’s one of their advertisements on YouTube. When I first saw these advertisements, I thought the tech was slick! I am a huge fan of using technology when appraising properties. One of my bank clients ordered one of the new Desktop Appraisals that Fannie Mae is accepting. Did You Mislead Your Client Today?

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The Appraiser Coach

MARCH 19, 2024

We try to set up appointments while we’re stumbling around getting specs on a property and we play phone tag with potential clients because we’re not always able to pick up. Your clients need to feel important enough to have a live person to talk to so they can walk away having had a stellar experience.

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Lamacchia Realty

JULY 31, 2023

Right Choice Real Estate has been a dominating force in the Bristol County market for decades. Ron and Dawn Rusin will remain actively involved in running the office particularly in the first few months during the transition and they will continue to assist clients for years to come. Billion in real estate, with over 500 Agents.

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McKissock

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The winner was “marketing” with 39% of the votes. Marketing (39%). More than one-third of survey respondents said that marketing is the most expensive aspect of their real estate business. Specific areas of marketing where agents reported spending the most money include: Personal website. .”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2021

I started three years ago when I started in real estate and my goal was to build a brand to help connect with new clients and to make sure past clients remember me. Over half of Realtors said that social media was their top lead-generating technology tool, according to an October survey report from the National Association of Realtors.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

With home prices expected to hold steady and even grow in many markets, real estate agents face a unique market shaped by shifting demographics, evolving buyer expectations and lingering economic uncertainties. In this article Overview: Best Real Estate Software for 2024 PropertyBase Market Leader Wise Agent Zurple BoomTown!

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The Appraiser Coach

MARCH 5, 2024

I had the opportunity to talk with a coaching client about an opportunity that came up for her to act as a staff appraiser. Change makes us re-evaluate our mindset, our habits, and sometimes our beliefs about something. For all these reasons and many more, it is common – natural, even – for us to resist change.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Housing market inventory is low right now. Low inventory means fewer choices for homebuyers, but for years enterprising real estate agents have worked around tight market conditions by searching for off-market homes that fit their clients’ specifications. Historically low. compared to a year prior.

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Raleigh Realty

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Not only does this help new agents learn all the inventory in their local markets but it also gets them familiar with driving through all the subdivisions and neighborhoods. Staying in touch with your clients cannot be replaced even by the best technological tools or by another individual. I’m not that kind of person though.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

From upgrading your real estate website with eye-catching and functional marketing tools, to harnessing AI and a few other unconventional tactics, this guide explains the best lead generation ideas for real estate agents. Ahead, we’ll go over some traditional and more innovative marketing tactics.

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The Appraiser Coach

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

When I work with clients, I usually send them home with some homework. There are many people out there who know the principles to success, but many of them don’t do the one thing that will make those principles actually helpful: acting on them. This guy actually did the homework he got!

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2021

A qualified appraiser will compare recent sales of similar local properties, market trends and conduct a visual inspection of the home’s interior and exterior to determine the property’s fair market value. Due to today’s booming housing market, the appraisal process may take anywhere from days to weeks to complete.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

New findings from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) show a fresh picture of who’s buying and selling homes, with more first-time buyers entering the market and families looking for homes that fit multiple generations. For real estate professionals, the changing landscape is a call to action.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

In fact, if you were to describe the home-buying experience solely upon the things we see in advertisements, the home-buying process would end with the sales contract, and all parties would merrily proceed directly to the handing over of the keys. However, the settlement process varies from client to client, location to location.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Cheaply made shoes may fall apart rather quickly compared to high-quality running shoes that are made with better materials and technology. This is not an advertisement for them. However, my client stated that something seemed off about the value. They were trying to low-ball the appraised value for the client.

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