Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As a real estate agent, you may think clients should care more about their next home than your life story. And while that may be true, well-crafted real estate agent bios can build trust and credibility and serve as a powerful tool in an agent’s marketing arsenal — giving prospective clients. So let your personality shine.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Generative artificial intellegence, such as ChatGPT, is changing everything—a statement that comes as little surprise to anyone these days, and least of all to the many real estate agents whose markets are being saturated by artificial intelligence (AI)-empowered buyers. Keep Up AI is making buyers smarter.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

We curated a shortlist of the top real estate podcasts that provide useful information for agents at every stage of their careers. Whether you’re looking to stay informed or motivated, gain market insights, or learn strategies from the masters — our list of the best real estate podcasts for agents can help you level up your business in 2024.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2023

The nation’s second largest multiple listing service , Bright MLS , will begin allowing listing agents to put in a blanket offer of compensation for buyer brokers of zero dollars or more, starting on August 9. Bright has always offered flexibility and has never specified a cooperative compensation amount,” the announcement states.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

agent count, meanwhile, fell from 58,719 at end of 2022 to 55,131 at end of 2023. The company’s global agent count is up 0.6% annually to 144,835, due to slight growth in its Canadian agent count and a strong uptick in its international agent count, the latter of which rose from 60,175 at the end of 2022 to 64,536 at the end of 2023.

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Inman

MAY 29, 2023

When listing a luxury property, agents must bear in mind that buyers’ expectations are higher than ever. And color can effectively illustrate that designer lifestyle. They want to see a home that aligns with the aspirational architectural content they watch and read.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Too many real estate agents are watching artificial intelligence (AI) from the sidelines, assuming technology will never replace them. They repeat the mantra “Home buyers and sellers will always need a real estate agent.” So how can real estate agents be so cavalier about their job?

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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. Calque’s collaborative BBYS solution doesn’t disintermediate agents or lenders.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2022

Starting May 25, “several hundred” real estate agents in the Raleigh, North Carolina and Denver metro areas will no longer have access to Premier Agent , thanks to major changes coming to Zillow ’s lead generating platform. The percentage an agent pays depends upon the sale price of the property.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2024

As a real estate agent , you’re in the business of helping people plan for their future — whether it’s helping prospective buyers find their forever home, starter house , or next investment property. But it can be even more difficult for real estate agents since many are self-employed.

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Inman

MARCH 6, 2023

Well-designed bedrooms can inspire a heartfelt reaction that buyers won’t be able to ignore. Bedrooms that promise great comfort and sanctuary can generate a visceral response.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

If you sold a home and paid a commission to a real estate agent, you may be part of class action settlements,” the postcards read. The firm was appointed as the designated settlement administrator for the suit in 2022, over a year prior to any settlement agreements being reached. Millions are expected to be sent out across America. “If

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The third day of the highly consequential Sitzer/Burnett class action buyer broker commission lawsuit included a deep dive into the training materials used by various brokerages and the testimony of three of the named plaintiffs. Ketchmark countered this with the fact that nothing on the slides designated things as a model.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This tool uses technology from Roomvo , a home design visualization platform. The tool empowers prospective homebuyers to imagine the potential of a home while playing with different design styles. It’s one way Redfin ‘s using AI to make real estate better for buyers, sellers, and agents.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

One option is that NAR and the MLSs can no longer require cooperative compensation, but listing agents and their sellers can still offer the buyer broker compensation if they so choose. It is a situation where buyers need to pay their own agents and sellers have to pay their agent separately?”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

To convert these leads into business, the brokerage developed teams — also called units — headed by captains who are successful agents with high lead conversion rates. Djon said these leaders are “at the top,“ with the ability to recruit other agents and override what the unit does, which is a way to retain these top-performing employees.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Dubbed the KW Real Estate Agent Professional certificate, the program will give participants a head start in the real estate industry. The KW Real Estate Agent Professional Certificate has a kit with 124 hours of content, including videos, readings, assessments and hands-on projects.

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Empire Appraisal Group

JUNE 6, 2024

Study: All-Cash Buyers Pay 10% Less A new study shows sellers would rather leave money on the table and accept an all-cash sale than risk losing the sale completely because the mortgage falls through. We find sellers are willing to leave money on the table to avoid the risk.” In policy terms, U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

Today, both sellers and buyers expect to handle a majority of the process online. If a volume-based discount brokerage cannot do all of these things, it may fail due to an inability to retain or recruit agents, lack of profitability, and poor customer service ratings. . That is a much easier task to accomplish.”.

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Inman

MARCH 29, 2023

The more a buyer is educated about the ins and outs of a transaction, the more comfortable they'll be with bumps in the road. Luxury agent Cara Ameer offers insights designed to help you keep buyers on track.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

And often your first impression as a brokerage or an agent is your online presence. A well-designed and captivating digital platform instantly conveys professionalism, credibility and exclusivity — and the opposite can turn customers away. Create — or share links to — content that educates and inspires potential buyers.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2024

The program was designed to help military service members successfully transition to civilian status by becoming homeowners and building the wealth they missed out on during the war. On Tuesday, the VA announced that will it implement temporary rules to allow buyer-paid broker fees. And veterans can use them multiple times.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Sheila Reddy, CEO at Mosaik, to talk about how the company is leveraging their experience building technology solutions for healthcare to benefit real estate agents and homebuyers. So everything’s really designed with both of those viewpoints in mind.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

Zillow is mostly known for its practice of selling buyer agent leads through its Premier Agent program, while Homes.com has touted its “your listing, your lead” model, which focuses on seller agents. In prior notes, KBW had also referred to CoStar as the “top beneficiary” of a change to the buyer agent landscape.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Most importantly, your website should be designed with prospective clients in mind, giving them the exact information they need and steps to get in touch. Remember — your prospective clients are glancing through dozens of agents’ websites. Notice how the biggest heading on this landing page directly addresses the audience’s desires?

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

This transformative technology has opened up a new world of possibilities, empowering agents and captivating potential buyers like never before. These immersive experiences enable prospective buyers to explore properties in three dimensions from the comfort of their homes.

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Eppraisal

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Not many people know that all real estate agents can not call themselves Realtors® In order for real estate agents to call themselves Realtors® they must belong to the National Association of Realtors® (NAR), their state Realtor® associations and their local Realtor® associations. What's the difference?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Less than three weeks out from the trial start date, plaintiffs in the Sitzer/Burnett buyer broker commission class action lawsuit filed a notice to withdraw three named plaintiffs. The two-page filing offered no explanation for the decision. “The

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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. Motions to dismiss the lawsuit are currently pending.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

So far, week one of the Sitzer/Burnett bombshell class action antitrust buyer broker commission lawsuit has seen four of the five named plaintiffs testify in front of the jury. The buyer who chose them and who they’re working for should pay them,” Ellis said. Rhonda Burnett was the second plaintiff to take the stand.

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Real Estate News

JUNE 27, 2023

Listing Showcase, a ShowingTime+ product, is designed to provide a more "immersive" experience for buyers and give listings agents an edge.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2021

Despite all the talk about tech and disruption, agents continue to play a large role in the buying process. Statistics show that anywhere from 88–90% of home buyers with an agent and use that agent as their go-to source for information. An agent’s professionalism and trust factor skyrockets.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

Filed last Wednesday in the Western District of Missouri, the Umpa suit, named after its lead and only plaintiff Daniel Umpa, accuses the real estate industry of allegedly colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. Because this blanket offer must be made available to every buyer-broker using the MLS (i.e.,

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Access to a hyper-local agent is more important now than ever. With Wise Pelican, you can try both — it’s a fantastic resource for beautifully designed postcards and letters. Better yet, get permission from the listing agent to do a mailer around their sold listing, if possible.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

He also said that the idea that agents and MLSs are colluding is “ridiculous.” Ketchmark told webinar viewers that when he and his wife went to buy their first home, they sat with their agent and looked at for-sale properties in a phonebook-style MLS listing book. If they want to hire just a regular agent, they are free to do that.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

by 1% to 2% just by cutting the commission paid to buyer’s agents.” The writer in the Economist says, “…either the fat fee [real estate commission] inflates the house price, or the buyer ends up paying a similar fee when he or she sells.” Home prices would likely fall.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Every 12 years, a cosmic thing happens, and agents in all 50 states come due for their real estate continuing education (CE) and licensing renewal. CE bundles price range: $135 to $469 Visit Aceable Agent Upgrade Pick Kaplan 50+ years as a leading education provider Self-paced, interactive content accessed via an online format.

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