Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Lickstein helped craft an AI-powered tool designed to educate brokers and is currently developing a compliance framework. Eventually, this person ended up working for his company and was the first to ask about ChatGPT’s use in the business. Externally, I’ll be giving state-of-the-art tools to my best agents and teams.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2021

In the past, when brokers thought about low-fee brokerage firms, they thought of low service. But, there’s a new breed of low-fee brokerage (not to be confused with a discount brokerage which offers a low commission to buyers and sellers), that is a hybrid between a 100% model and a traditional brokerage.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 19, 2023

The newest prop tech applications to moat the client relationship are home management tools. This has created a competitive market where buyers are struggling to find suitable properties, leading to increased competition and few bargains. While many real estate businesses already offer ancillary services (e.g.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Redfin is a publicly traded company, a nationally recognized listings website and one of the biggest brokerages in the country. Way back in the drab plaid of the 1970s, brokerages often classified agents as employees and offered them health care and pension plans. With a two-year-old, I couldn’t meet the quota,” she said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

“Our goal is to provide New Hampshire Realtors with the tools they need to be information leaders in the industry, and HousingWire offers the very best housing news, data and research available,” said 2024 NHAR President Joanie McIntire. Learn more about HousingWire subscriptions here.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The seller, who struggled to find a buyer in a cooled down housing market, agreed to deposit a lump sum payment into an escrow account at closing – ultimately saving Davis $6,900 in monthly payments in the first two years. It gives the buyer and seller the feeling of beating the mutual enemy, ‘the market,’ and gaming the system.”.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

My name is (your name), and I’m a licensed real estate professional with (your brokerage). For letters, use the template below: Dear (first name), I’m (your name), a real estate professional with (brokerage). There are still plenty of buyers interested in this area. Access to a hyper-local agent is more important now than ever.

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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. The following list of ten ways to use VR in real estate could forever change the way you do business.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

Like all of the publicly traded brokerages, Zillow Group saw its stock prices slide, dropping 13.4% Analysts and industry experts attributed the differing stock performances to the business-model discrepancies between Zillow and Homes.com. on the day of the NAR settlement announcement.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

Wright said that the industry has been “vilified by certain plaintiffs’ lawyers, sensationalized by a few reporters and misrepresented by people who know little about this business.” Michael Ketchmark, the attorney who won the Sitzer/Burnett case, argues that the workload of the buyer’s agent has decreased with the advent of the internet.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Trading volumes in eight residential brokerage or listings companies rocketed up 319% to almost 80 million shares on Friday. The opposite trajectories of their stock prices seem to reflect investor appetites for their different business models. Of these eight companies, CoStar and Zillow are by far the largest by market capitalization.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2021

While addressing all of these issues is important, should we not have more stories and conversations about how brokerages can capture the most important stakeholder of all? Let’s dive into two areas that technology partners and independent brokerages can align to ensure that demand is captured and more at-bats are won. The homebuyer.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Your real estate website should serve multiple functions, almost like a digital business card with an MLS listing storefront, a booking platform, a home valuation page, and even your background story and biography. Use quantifiable data, such as your total volume of sales or number of years in the business, to demonstrate your credibility.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The splashy buy further situates Zillow as more than a website with pictures of homes for sale, but a competitor to real estate brokerages. The Seattle-based company announced in September Zillow Homes, a traditional brokerage business, hiring agents in Phoenix, Tuscon, and Atlanta. and Canada use their software.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Instead, he is focusing his efforts on potentially having to adapt to where Atlas Title’s business comes from. We used to sell certain tools to the agent by telling them they would be great for their buyer, but now we may have the opportunity to bring those tools right to the buyer,” Braga said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

By analyzing hundreds of relevant data points, including market trends, historical sales data, consumer behavior, credit card debt, and more, AI tools can forecast which properties are more likely to be listed for sale in the near future. Top tool: Market Leader Tools like Market Leader make driving sellers to home valuation pages easy.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Buyside is a marketing and data analytics company that provides consumer-facing tools aimed to give homebuyers complete transparency. With this real estate marketing software, brokers are given a list of buyers actively working with their brokerage, which they can show to potential homeowners. Ashley Terrell, EVP, Partnerships.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The program aims to provide real estate professionals with exposure on the Zillow platform, offering access to a wide range of features, tools and resources to generate leads and grow their businesses. The program is designed to help agents connect with buyers, improve their brand recognition and convert leads into clients.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

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. In a recent episode, Nashville agent Marie Lee shares how she targets out-of-state buyers relocating to Nashville.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Cliffco Mortgage Bankers is among the rare independent mortgage banks doing more business than last year. To get there, Cliffco, which has been in business since 1987, is going after the non-qualified mortgage ( non-QM ) market and investing in tech to get in front of buyers and non-agent referral partners.

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2021

From lead to close to commission, we’re helping agents and brokers get a leading edge in a competitive marketplace and elevate the real estate experience they provide to buyers and sellers today.”. This a great moment for real estate agents, brokerages, and MLSs,” said Aaron Kardell, Homespotter CEO.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Forbes Global Properties is owned and run by brokerages, with a Forbes ownership stake. Unlike other branded real estate groups, Forbes Global Properties is not merely a listing tool for agents — it offers direct and measurable access to potential high-net-worth buyers through Forbes’ worldwide media penetration.”.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the real estate market continues to grapple with high interest rates and low inventory, agents entering the market are looking for affordable client relationship management (CRM) tools that offer a cost-effective means to automate and manage client interactions.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

Those unwilling to embrace and adopt these cutting-edge tools will likely be left behind. Scaling lead generation with AI In the fast-paced and competitive market we’re experiencing today, effective lead generation can be the make or break of a brokerage.

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Lamacchia Realty

JULY 21, 2023

After spending over a year as a REALTOR with Lamacchia Realty, Chris Rochon has made the exciting jump to the Business Development team. Chris served buyers and sellers in the Greater Merrimack Valley area during his time as a REALTOR. He loves building relationships and helping others find success in the business.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In real estate, one such disruption is caused by drones, which have become an extremely effective tool for mapping and marketing property. More than taking pictures, videos, and plotting property boundaries on a map, drone mapping provides buyers and sellers with low-cost, high-resolution, and frequently updated imagery.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2023

While it’s certainly buzzworthy technology, it’s been met with reticence in the brokerage world. In a recent RealTrends BrokerPulse , real estate brokerage leaders responded that they are embracing artificial intelligence (AI), they are doing so cautiously. I’m not building a business to fund a lifestyle.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

After years of aggregating behavioral data from homebuyers and homesellers at the largest real estate brokerages in the country, Buyside is proud to announce the launch of their expansion into core & ancillary services by focusing on the homeowner. For more information, visit getbuyside.com or email sales@getbuyside.com.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

They repeat the mantra “Home buyers and sellers will always need a real estate agent.” Powerful AI tools are already transforming residential real estate and forward-thinking agents are paying attention. ” The authors examined 63 generative AI use cases, across 16 business functions and 850 occupations. trillion to $7.9

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Share your insights about it on your stories or your statuses, offer tips for buyers and sellers and showcase your expertise. Regularly updated profiles on platforms like LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter can serve as a digital business card, making it easier for potential clients to find you. Read about what’s going on in the market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

So I got into the real estate business from then on. This is from 2009 — I opened up a high-tech real estate brokerage with actual agents, working through transactions day in day out and really understanding what processes look like. What they end up doing is having a selection of tools, but it’s highly fragmented.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Referral business is crucial to your bottom line as an agent. Imagine if you could bottle the enthusiasm your clients have for working with you and use it to capture new business in 2024. According to the National Association of Realtors® (NAR), 89% of buyers would recommend their real estate agent to others.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Rocket Pro TPO supports broker partners in a number of ways by giving them tools, training, leads and referrals and industry knowledge that may be otherwise difficult for a small brokerage to access. Rocket Pro TPO aims to help its broker partners grow their businesses. Speed Sets Mortgage Brokers Apart From Competition.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 11, 2023

Lamacchia Realty is proud to announce their ranking as #1 Brokerage overall in Leominster by closed transactions per MLSPIN Brokerage Market Share Report*. Lamacchia Realty has been serving buyers and sellers since 2006.  The post Lamacchia Realty Ranks #1 Brokerage in Leominster for 2022 appeared first on Lamacchia Realty.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

HousingWire recently spoke with Propertybase CEO Vance Loiselle about real estate tech and how the past year has accelerated the need for digital collaboration tools across the entire customer journey. HousingWire: What role has the increase in technology played for both businesses and consumers in the real estate space?

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Listing Spark

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Real estate investors operate differently than conventional buyers and sellers, especially to get the 26.9% Instead, investor-friendly brokerages are a better fit for your goals. Most important is a brokerage that’s built for investment deals , not one that only works with conventional homeowners.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

I’ve been in this business 25 years, and the mix of disruptive forces at play right now is new, real, and, I think, lasting. For those agents who do have plenty of business, the velocity of the market is unreal. Is it the leader of an agent team at a virtual brokerage? A solo practitioner at a traditional “indie” brokerage?

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