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The state of the homebuilding market

Housing Wire

Our upcoming State of the Residential Construction Industry (SORCI) Report will reflect how builders have braced for impact: Despite the rate of new contracts slowing, margins didn’t decrease. of builders showed profitability with $1 million plus contracts on average. Homebuilding Contract Values.

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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. As agents, we know better.

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Reverse mortgage originators on the referral opportunities they’re watching in 2024

Housing Wire

Opportunity in the current mortgage market may be challenging to find — and that could arguably be truer for those who offer reverse mortgage products for clients. That leaves a reverse mortgage option, which would then eliminate the existing forward mortgage payment, and such clients remain key for Cullen’s business, he said.

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3 Real estate lessons learned from the dance floor of “Dancing with the Stars” 

Housing Wire

From working as a high-profile real estate agent and founding my company The Agency to writing my book “The Dealmaker” and having my own show “Buying Beverly Hills” — as well as having my personal life in the headlines — I’ve had the unique experience of embracing life’s great stage. The discomfort zone is the growth zone.

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Twixmas is the perfect time to claim email amnesty

Housing Wire

Just like you should be wrapping up your business and closing out your books before the last day of the year, you also need to wipe the slate clean so that you can jump in and move forward with fresh goals, new clients and an uncluttered mindset.

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homegenius Real Estate’s geniusprice allows agents to conduct pricing estimates in as little as five minutes

Housing Wire

So much has evolved in the real estate process – agents and brokers no longer flip through the pages of MLS books, thumb through a Rolodex or fill out carbon copy contracts with their clients. geniusprice technology is not a CMA. For more information on geniusprice technology, please visit homegenius.com.

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Two home offices? Real estate agents dish on the latest must-have amenities

Housing Wire

Dallas-based agent Alex Trusler, with the Trusler Group , said many of his coupled clients don’t want to share their office space. “I’ve I’ve got several clients right now that two offices are absolute requirements, or another area that you can use for a second office,” Trusler said. Across large swaths of the U.S.,