Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

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. We know — you didn’t get into real estate for the love of marketing or tech.

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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. In this article What is real estate prospecting?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

For real estate professionals, the changing landscape is a call to action. Brokerages and individual agents alike need to understand the market and adapt their strategies to showcase creativity, become memorable and lead with empathy. Share helpful infographics Visual content is king.

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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. 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

JANUARY 10, 2024

Between leveraging your personal network, filming YouTube videos and even the unpleasant task of cold prospecting, real estate professionals today wear all the hats. 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.

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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.

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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. Social media gives you the perfect opportunity to build a brand that resonates.

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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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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Robert Reffkin is confident that Compass and its agents have what it takes to continue growing and succeeding in the changing real estate environment. “In We are a company of top agents.” annual increase in the number of transactions closed by Compass agents, which came in at 38,449 sides for a volume of $40.1

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

real estate?market business as a real?estate?professional. Finding out that Chicago’s real estate market could still skyrocket a double-digit percentage?is Studying listing information for the current year and comparing with past years?—?list?prices,?new a stellar real estate team. Home prices?are

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Real estate agents in the leafy suburbs of Bergen County, New Jersey say the current housing market — with historically low inventory and record-high prices — is actually more challenging than the multiple offer chaos they sweated through during the pandemic. “At as of March 6, 2024.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2021

Real Estate Exchange (REX) filed an antitrust lawsuit Tuesday in federal court against Zillow , accusing the company of anticompetitive behavior related to showing certain homes on its platform. Real Estate Tech Demo Hour. Tune in March 16th to experience demos from the most innovative real estate technology solutions.

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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

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. Posnick noted that one client even had the settlement notification postcard on the kitchen table when he and another agent from the firm went to meet with the seller to sign their listing agreement.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

There were nine new pending contracts for every 10 new listings, a slower rate than the 9.9 The post No seasonal slowdown this year as real estate agents report a busier-than-usual fall appeared first on HousingWire. Over the last four weeks ending on Sept.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

But like the temperatures, which are far from the triple-digit figures the residents of the Texas state capital will see in the coming months, local real estate professionals say that even though the market is warming up, it is nowhere near the frenzy at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Real estate professionals throughout the state attribute the resilience of the state’s housing market to its perpetually low inventory problem. Inventory is almost nonexistent,” said Melissa Kingsbury , a Redfin agent who works in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. “If It’s depressing,” Laricy said of the downtown market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2021

When Gogo Bethke began her career in real estate back in 2011, the Romanian immigrant felt like social media was her only option to generate leads and close deals. “I 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

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

“I think one of the major trends we are seeing is that our overall inventory is up 60% year over year compared to 2023,” said PJ Smith, president of the Naples Area Board of Realtors and the broker-owner of Naples Golf to Gulf Real Estate. “We Smith attributes the uptick in inventory to a bump in new listings.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As demand for homes continues to outpace new listings, CrossCountry Mortgage (CCM) is introducing a new cash-offer product, the company announced Thursday. The product is limited to conventional loans, primary residences and buyers who are represented by a real estate agent. “In

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2020

Rather than a typically busy spring home-buying season , the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the bulk of home-buying this year into the summer months, and real estate agents are busier than ever. Since homebuying season was pushed back from this spring, realtor.com ’s Housing Market Recovery Index reported that August is the new May.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Zillow and Redfin’s partnerships come at a time when buyers are increasingly turning to new construction due to a rate lock-in effect caused led by high mortgage rates. New single-family home sales rose 23.8% in June from a year ago while the market saw 28% fewer new listings added during the same period.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

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 I called the listing agent and it was listed three hours ago, but it was sold,” the Cincinnati, Ohio -based eXp Realty agent said. “We We couldn’t even see it.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

1 real estate portal. 2 — the second-largest real estate portal?” We’re the most trusted of all real estate portals, and we have more real estate journalism than any other site.” Here are some takeaways from the session: 1. Not embracing the underdog status. ” 3. .”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Moderation in mortgage rates led to a pickup in demand for residential real estate, but limited inventories across the country hindered actual home sales , the Federal Reserve reported in its Beige Book survey of regional business contacts that was published Wednesday.

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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. They need new listings and they are so desperate that they might take a fraudulent listing.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I’ve seen more homebuyers cancel deals in the last six months than I’ve seen at any point during my 24 years of working in real estate. They’re getting cold feet,” said Jaime Moore, a Redfin Premier real estate agent in Reno, Nevada. Year-over-year new listings were down 14.4%.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

Real estate focused artificial intelligence firm Restb.ai Through this new partnership, all Black Knight Paragon MLS platform users will have access to the Restb.ai With Restb.ai, we’re helping our MLS clients deliver more value to brokers and agents nationwide. Using the listing photos uploaded by the agent, Restb.ai

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

While the real estate industry is forever in flux, one constant is that it’s a relationship business. One of the biggest challenges for agents is finding new clients and staying top-of-mind until they are ready to buy or sell. Vetted by HousingWire | Our editors independently review the products we recommend.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Recruiting and keeping the best talent is critical in today’s real estate market. On a national basis, year-over-year MLS production reports show the average real estate agent’s income is down 28%. Having an edge is imperative in any business, especially real estate.

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Empire Appraisal Group

AUGUST 3, 2023

NEWS & MEDIA Bilanol/Getty Images Plus Source: [link] Study: Real Estate Hot in Hurricane Ian-Hit Areas By Kerry Smith Storms rarely have a long-term effect on the local real estate market. Cape Coral-Fort Myers listings dropped for two months after Ian but rose for the six after that. FORT MYERS, Fla.

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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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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Total home sales are outpacing new listings by a wide margin every month, and real estate tech company Homesnap foresees the shortage continuing in 2021 unless more sellers enter the market. The divide between supply and demand is striking: compared to last year, total new listings increased.22%,

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

If you’re in the real estate industry, you certainly know that the average time from mortgage application to closing has been hovering around 50 days. It’s not a point of pride or badge of honor for any mortgage, title, real estate or valuation firm.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. New listings within both property types fell sharply from the same period last year,” said study author Jonathan Miller, “keeping upward pressure on prices.”. Aspen, Colorado.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

real estate market were for inventory growth, sales growth and home-price growth across the U.S. New listings Last week, 59,000 new single-family listings came to market. New listings volume continues to run ahead of last year and we see more sellers than last year. They climbed starting Jan.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Add a welcoming doormat, some potted plants on the porch or a new doorknocker for example. Remember, you’ll have an agent, one or two buyer clients and maybe their kids walking in for the showing. Mention it in the agent-to-agent comments in the MLS. In the foyer, the goal is to have a bright, spacious feel.

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