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NAR board votes to leave dues unchanged in 2025

Housing Wire

Code of ethics changes In addition to voting on membership dues, NAR’s board of directors also voted to amend Article 4 of the trade group’s code of ethics, in an attempt to clarify Realtors’ obligations when they have ownership interest in a property. represent themselves 2. represent a member of their immediate family 3.

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Real estate commission dispute? Do this.

Housing Wire

Over the past year or so, we have seen an uptick in questions relating to commission disputes between brokers and their clients. A typical commission dispute arises when, after signing a listing agreement or buyer-broker agreement: A seller-client “cancels” a valid purchase contract. A seller-client cancels a listing.

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Why Diversify? Multiple Streams, Multiple Dreams!

Appraisal Buzz

This article is featured in the 2023 edition of the Appraisal Buzz Magazine. Read all these articles and more in the latest edition HERE. Our fees were cut in half overnight, and the AMC model suddenly walled us off from clients with whom we had worked so hard to build rapport. The appraisal profession was rocked to its core.

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Real Estate Risk Management: Putting Clients’ Interests First

McKissock

Real estate agents are commonly sued for breaching their duty to act in the best interests of their client. To protect your clients’ interests, and reduce your own risk exposure, check out our highly-rated course, Know the Code: Your Guide to the Code of Ethics. Overview of NAR Code of Ethics: Articles 1–13.

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4 Ways to Help Manage Client Expectations

McKissock

The reality, however, is many agents struggle to properly set and manage the client’s expectations of how the chaos is going to work and how the process is going to play out. Managing client expectations is critical, and sadly, often overlooked as part of the agent/client relationship. Click here to read the full article.

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How ChatGPT can help you work more efficiently and generate more leads

Housing Wire

We will get to examples in more detail later in this article. They can be persuasive, use sales closing techniques and sound like a legal draft, as referenced in a CNN news article about an agent named Asion: Recently, a client reached out to Asion with a problem: the woman had moved into a pre-construction home and couldn’t open her windows.

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Benefits Of Using a Realtor to Buy Land In 2023

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

This week, I welcome back guest blogger, Ashley Rodriguez with bins4less , who wrote this article for the Cleveland Appraisal Blog. Join us in this article as we discuss the many different benefits of a Ventura Realtor when buying land in 2023 and why you should consider this as an option before you take the long road all by yourself.

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