Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Inventory is almost nonexistent,” said Melissa Kingsbury , a Redfin agent who works in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. “If The downtown area’s slower housing market conditions have caused many agents and firms to open offices in the hotter suburban markets, or leave the state altogether, according to Laricy. 1 through Dec.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Monika DeRoussel was in a meeting, away from her phone and email, when a client messaged her that a property in their price range and desired neighborhood had a for-sale sign in the yard. When the meeting concluded, DeRoussel quickly reached out to the seller’s agent to see if her client could get in for a tour, but it was too late. “I

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Buyers Marketing Inventory Investors 378

Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2024

Agents are like seasoned athletes, always training, strategizing, and refining their techniques. Just like athletes, real estate professionals must stay in top form, learning new plays and adapting to the game’s ever-changing dynamics. The more clients you help achieve their goals, the faster you’ll achieve your own.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

Secret: Many of our coaching clients can set one expired appointment per day, take two listings per week, and are grossing over $1 million per year. Because it’s not just the expired listing that you are selling, i t’s the additional business it creates for you. This is if you are only somewhat OK with this skill.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Instead, the Michigan-based eXp agent created her Facebook business page shortly after passing her licensing exam in 2011 and named it “Gogo’s Real Estate.”. “I I told everyone ‘Hey, I’m a brand new agent and I’m learning this as I go and I’m going to take you guys on the ride to see what it takes to be a Realtor.’

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

New listings have risen approximately 8% compared to last year, yet overall inventory remains below typical spring levels. Simultaneously, persistently high housing costs have driven pending home sales down by 4.2% year over year, the largest decline in three months with the exception of the previous four-week period, which saw a 4.4%

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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. Today, It is an all-in-one platform designed to help real estate agents manage many aspects of their business, including building meaningful relationships to grow repeat and referral business with clients.

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Real Estate Clients Tools Contracts 338

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

FACT : When you look at that amazing new listing that just hit the market and you see the listing agent and ask, “How did that agent get that listing?!” It is almost always because the seller already knew the agent! GOAL: Be that agent who the seller already knows and gets that listing.

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Real Estate Agents Clients Sellers 354

Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

In the nearby metro area of Cape Coral-Fort Myers , active single-family inventory over the previous 90 days averaged 6,500 listings as of March 15, above its March 2020 level of 5,044 listings and approaching its March 2019 level of 7,243 listings. Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings.

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Insurance Inventory Marketing Real Estate 367

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Brokerages and individual agents alike need to understand the market and adapt their strategies to showcase creativity, become memorable and lead with empathy. Demonstrating you have a keen understanding of the whole client journey — from staging and listing to settling into a brand-new home — will give you a competitive advantage.

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Real Estate Marketing Real Estate Agent Tools 367

Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

You’re excited to get your next listing on the market, but now you’re feeling the pressure to do an amazing job for your sellers, who have put their trust in you and are excited about making a move. Add a welcoming doormat, some potted plants on the porch or a new doorknocker for example. It matters!

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Sellers Inspection Agents Clients 348

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Real estate prospecting is a necessary activity for agents aiming to build a robust pipeline of buyer and seller leads. There are numerous methods an agent can use to prospect, some traditional and others that leverage technology. Here are some different methods that real estate agents use to prospect for leads.

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Real Estate Tools Real Estate Agent Open Houses 390

Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

“Black Knight is known for delivering highly innovative, proven and cutting-edge real estate solutions that strengthen customer relationships and help agents work faster and smarter, not harder,” Ben Graboske, the president of Black Knight Data & Analytics, said in a statement. Using the listing photos uploaded by the agent, Restb.ai

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Architecture Real Estate Agents New Listings 296

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Equipped with the right real estate marketing tools, you’ll save time, scale faster, and attract more clients — all without having to learn 40 new complicated skills and programs. Real estate agents today need outstanding websites — or, at the very least, highly functional ones — to both attract and communicate with clients.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s no secret that homeowners search online to find a listing agent who can sell their home quickly and for top dollar. If you’re an agent, team or brokerage looking to keep a pipeline of qualified listing leads coming your way, SmartZip may the solution you need. But what if you could find them first?

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Advertising Real Estate Tools Sellers 357

Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

This is especially effective if you’re newly licensed, just moved to a new area, or simply as an introduction if you’ve haven’t previously told your neighbors that you’re in the real estate industry. Access to a hyper-local agent is more important now than ever. However, you can get creative with these.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Snatching up first-time homebuyers is akin to striking gold — since developing a relationship with them can mean a loyal client for life. Additionally, Zurple’s automated pipeline management helps identify the most promising leads, notifying agents when they become hot leads.

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Real Estate Buyers Tools Real Estate Agent 366

Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

With record-low inventory nationwide, real estate agents seem to be hearing the same thing day in and day out: “I’d list my home, but where would I move?” For most agents, that’s the end of the conversation, ending the possibility of taking a new listing as well as facilitating the buyer side.

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Sellers Clients Inventory Agents 276

Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

He expressed disbelief at competitors who label buyer’s agents as “fake agents,” stressing that Realtor.com supports buyer’s agents and aims to generate more listings. News Corp has an audience of over 160 million, and there’s a lot of that audience that doesn’t come to Realtor.com.

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Real Estate Agents Buyers New Listings 347

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Studying listing information for the current year and comparing with past years?—?list?prices,?new new listings, sold listings, days on market, off-market listings?—?will Agents, you might have a new area of interest for prospective buyers.??. Guiding your clients to a price?that will help you?identify?the

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While you were pulling your hair out trying to come up with the perfect post idea, other agents in your farm area just…did it. That’s a lot of pressure for one phone call and where most new real estate agents fail. That’s where hooks come in. Hooks are short phrases that entice someone to click on your post. Guess what?

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Real Estate Marketing Tools Contracts 401

Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

In one moment, you may be a content creator, and in the next, a customer service agent, administrative assistant, marketing strategist, copywriter and editor — all in one. Yet, in a competitive real estate market, agents don’t always have the luxury of investing months into long-term brand-building.

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Real Estate Real Estate Agent Tools Agents 327

McKissock

MARCH 1, 2021

In 2002, when Dara Alperen Cipollone purchased her first home in East Boston, her real estate agent suggested she would be a great fit for residential sales. Q: How do your Millennial real estate clients find their way to you? A: My Millennial clients often come to me as a referral.

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Real Estate Clients Real Estate Agent Renovations 90

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Texas residents interested in becoming a real estate agent must first complete 180 hours of approved coursework to be eligible to sit the state licensure exam. We estimate that it’ll take three to six months to get up and running as a licensed real estate agent in the Lone Star State. That’s a longer program than in most states.

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Real Estate Real Estate Agent Agents Brokerage 356

Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2021

“We are seeing a typical late-spring slowdown in new listings and pending sales, but prices don’t typically peak until late August, and their growth remains completely unhinged,” said Daryl Fairweather, Redfin’s chief economist. ” How real estate agents can alleviate consumer pain points in a tight market.

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Buyers Real Estate Agent Real Estate Inventory 411

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

More than a few real estate agents have come to dread calling the closing company to find out when they can close. Title agents dread being blamed by everyone from the buyer to the seller, from the real estate agent to the lender, for that delay that falls between the signing of a sales agreement and the signing of the closing documents.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2022

Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. I believe that our market was undiscovered and undervalued for a really long time,” local Keller Williams agent, Tim Pierce said. Bluffton, South Carolina. However, this growth has come at a cost.

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CA Realty Training

MARCH 29, 2021

It’s important to know how to set up and maintain a good foundation with your clients. Listening is fundamental in creating a good working client relationship. Many agents are not in the habit of really listening to their client. Practicing this skill of active listening will give you insight to your client’s needs.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

In an ever-changing real estate market, agents are looking for the best way to generate leads. The short answer: circle prospecting is a strategy for generating real estate leads within a specific geographic area or around a particular listing or sale through outreach — usually cold calling, but it can include other methods.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2023

Secret #2 Sometimes, especially in a low-inventory market, your potential seller client may know about comparable sales you didn’t capture. If you’re showing your new listing versus its competition, do you look priced right , overpriced or priced so well you’d be dying to write an offer and snap it up?

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Eppraisal

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Finding a real estate agent who specializes in working with buyers is critical. A sellers agent's job is to market and sell a client's home. A buyers agent's job requires many more key skills. Knowledge of the Area Your buyer's agent should also know the area like the back of his/her hand.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2021

“I never know how my day is going to go, because when a new listing comes on the market in Knoxville, the race is on. But broker Renee Humme, with Prime Mountain Properties , said the lower property taxes, mountains and surrounding scenery, and low cost of living are the main draws for most of her clients.

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PennyMac

JULY 20, 2021

Whether you are buying or selling a home, your real estate agent will be your partner through one of the most significant transactions of your life. Finding the right agent should involve careful planning and research, but many of us just don’t know where to start. How long have you been working as a real estate agent?

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Sellers 69

Empire Appraisal Group

AUGUST 25, 2022

For buyers, you might be relieved to learn you no longer have to dash out to a new listing within five minutes of it hitting the market, submitting your offer eight minutes later for tens of thousands over the list price. For agents, you might want to “put some lipstick” on a low-ball offer.

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Sellers Mortgage Agents Clients 78

Birmingham Appraisal

JUNE 1, 2022

Because real estate agents and appraisers are striving for similar results (estimating accurate value) we can all gain valuable insight from the same market data. Granted, the job of a real estate agent is to get the highest price for their client, but they must still live in the real world by studying historical sales trends.

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CA Realty Training

JUNE 28, 2021

Remember that as their listing agent, it is your job to be direct. Remember to work from the place of helping your client. Your home listing must look good on the inside and outside. A clean house attracts prospective clients. You would want the exterior of your home listing to grab people’s attention.

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McKissock

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Clients demand instant gratification because of real estate technology. Potential clients can find properties and then reach out to you literally with the push of a button. Potential clients can find properties and then reach out to you literally with the push of a button. Bad photos can hurt your real estate business.

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Real Estate Technology Business Clients 81