Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This change, while disruptive and uncomfortable for some, has provoked the rapid adoption of real estate technology, the likes of which we haven’t seen before. Agents, teams and brokerages are now seriously reconsidering the technology platform, tools and services needed to effectively do business today.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tech-focused real estate brokerage Radius , flush with $14 million in venture capital raised this past April, has launched a mortgage lending arm in California that it plans to roll out to additional markets sometime next year. Is now a good time to invest in real estate automation technologies? Presented by: Axis Technical Group.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Florida -based Keyes Company , an independent real estate brokerage , partnered with housing data aggregator BHR , the company announced Tuesday. The product can be used as a tool to generate client leads. According to the 2023 RealTrends rankings of top real estate brokerages by sides, Keyes is ranked No.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A common thought among brokers revolves around the idea that if your gross commission income or office size is not increasing, you’re not successfully growing your brokerage. According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the average tenure of an agent with a brokerage is six years.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

based brokerage, announced last week the launch of its custom real estate listing system, PROJETO. This system uses virtual reality technology which allows clients to be put in a virtual representation of a property that hasn’t been built yet. Urban District Realty , a Washington, D.C.-based

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

Real estate brokerage William Raveis has returned to the acquisitions business. Founded in 2006, Carson Realty serves clients in the South Carolina markets of Hilton Head, Bluffton and Lake Keowee. Founded in 2006, Carson Realty serves clients in the South Carolina markets of Hilton Head, Bluffton and Lake Keowee.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

PureWest Christie’s International Real Estate , a Montana -based real estate brokerage, is expanding into northern Idaho , the firm announced on Tuesday. The brokerage , which is a longtime affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate, is the largest independently owned brokerage in Montana.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

The real estate sector is constantly evolving, and one technology has emerged as a true game changer: virtual reality (VR). This transformative technology has opened up a new world of possibilities, empowering agents and captivating potential buyers like never before.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

The brokerage boasts a team of roughly two dozen licensed agents , as well as support staff members in marketing, management and transaction coordination roles. The Corcoran Group has expanded in recent years and this week welcomed its first franchise in Oregon, Corcoran Prime , the company announced on Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

In turn, this will allow agents to provide even more value to their clients. Additionally, Florance believes this model will succeed because it focuses on selling homes and building brands for both agents and brokerage firms. The lead diversion model has genericized real estate brokerages,” Florance said. Brands matter.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2021

After spending a decade building a proprietary technology and productivity platform, United Real Estate Group is seeing its growth explode, according to Q2 2021 earnings report. Is technology finally providing the key to success? In the past, when brokers thought about low-fee brokerage firms, they thought of low service.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

Click here to nominate an industry insider — a client, colleague, boss or friend — it can even be you! Be it new experimental technology, legislation or regulation to respond to, disruptive proptech models, shifting market dynamics and so on,” said Price. And, what KPIs are you focused on in the near future?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

Redfin is expanding an agent compensation plan it launched last year by adding seven new markets starting in May, the national real estate brokerage announced Thursday. No other brokerage can offer agents a big traditional split and all the benefits, support, technology and customer introductions that we provide here at Redfin.

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Inman

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This kind of tech stack stifles productivity, creates data silos, puts out a bad experience for your clients and consumers, and mercilessly beats down your bottom line. It’s the myriad of tech solutions and their overlap that causes time-sucks and frustration, and you pay for it (on auto-renew).

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Christie said he returned to the brokerage because of its technology, agent network and culture. Compass’s client-centric service is incomparable to other brokerages,” Christie said in a statement. And on top of that, the platform allows for a user-friendly experience on behalf of both the client and the broker.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

million settlement with plaintiffs in two bombshell buyer commission lawsuits have been made public, and they stipulate that the brokerage conglomerate make significant changes to its practices. Anywhere will eliminate any minimum client commission requirements that company owned brokerages may have.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

The product is marketed toward real estate agents to help them build trust and credibility with their clients, a joint news release states. “In It can also help agents clearly communicate their unique value and services to homebuyers and other clients.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Mortgage technology firm Xactus named Michael Crockett as its chief operating officer. I’m honored to step into this position and help Xactus solve new client challenges,” Crockett said in a statement. “We He previously served as the company’s chief data officer.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

The product will be available across its brokerage operations in Las Vegas. Luxury Realty Group’s clients will be able to interact orally with an avatar, listing the criteria of their home of choice, with the platform subsequently generating tailored listings to match these preferences.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Agents and clients of the independently owned Los Angeles brokerage will have access to global luxury connections through the Christie’s International Real Estate network. The expansion into Southern California will also grant more agents access to Christie’s proprietary technology , pl@tform.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2024

Agents are the lifeblood of real estate brokerages. Recruiting and retaining high-performing agents remains a critical challenge for brokerages, especially in the environment created by the National Association of Realtors ’ recent $418 million settlement in a litany of agent commission lawsuits.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Stone Point Capital has purchased Vista Equity Partners’ stake in real estate software company Lone Wolf Technologies. ” Lone Wolf provides real estate technologies to over 1.5 million agents, 8,000 brokerages and hundreds of MLS ’ and associations in North America. The HousingStack is exclusively for HW+ members.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

A trustworthy Client Relationship Management (CRM) system is an important asset, allowing agents to effectively manage and track interactions with clients. Additionally, making a compelling weekly email newsletter using platforms like MailChimp keeps you relevant in the eyes of clients.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Illinois-based Baird & Warner , an independent real estate brokerage, partnered with proptech firm RealReports , the companies announced Tuesday. RealReports offers an unparalleled alternative to conventional property resources that will multiply our agents’ effectiveness and efficiency, while providing unique value to clients.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Over half of Realtors said that social media was their top lead-generating technology tool, according to a new survey report from the National Association of Realtors. Still, nearly half reported that they use it to help them build and maintain relationships with existing clients or to promote listings.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Regardless of the outcome, real estate brokers are doing all they can to prepare their brokerages and their agents for more transparency, education on the value real estate agents bring to the transaction, and more, according to the 2023 Q4 BrokerPulse survey , a forward-looking housing market sentiment survey by HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Team Pimentel serves clients in the Libertyville area and plans to continue serving clients in the North Shore area. She continued: “We did our due diligence and reviewed other brokerages. There was no comparison; Compass’s technology and its agent-first approach reigned superior by far.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2021

With four other real estate tech acquisitions in the last year, Lone Wolf Technologies recently added Boston Logic-owned Propertybase to its tech toolbox. The acquisition rounds out Lone Wolf’s technology platform that includes websites, lead generation tools, and CRM. According to the press release.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2023

Maggie Wu has returned to Compass , and she’s bringing her four-person The W Team to the New York brokerage. In December 2021, she had left Compass to join the young brokerage SERHANT. “We have an unwavering commitment to our clients to provide the utmost client service experience,” said Wu.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

The innovative HEI offering, the world-class technology , and a channel-led strategy were a perfect fit for Legacy.” The resources of Legacy also mesh well with Rook’s desire to offer its product to more potential clients, according to Ed Messman, co-founder and CEO of Rook Capital.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

While our industry is notorious for its lethargic adoption of new technologies, it is inevitable that AI will reshape many of the traditional and archaic processes that exist today. At the same time, there are numerous examples of ground-breaking implementations of this transformative technology that are already being used today.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

It was a part of the 2022 REACH Canada Cohort, a technology scale-up program backed by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Backed by venture fund Second Century Ventures , Roomvu has been recognized as one of Canada’s 20 most innovative tech companies. Our partnerships with LeadingRE and RealtyOne are just the beginning.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

As such, it certainly feels like that pendulum is a labrys slicing through our brokerage firms. For even the most astute operators, it’s been nearly impossible to get out ahead of a decline this sharp, resulting in brokerage profitability taking a huge hit. Retain and develop. Spend less money than you make.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The brokerage noted that Lim will remain at Christie’s as a senior advisor and global brand ambassador, working to expand the relationship between the real estate business and the auction house, among other duties. Since leaving Compass in 2022 after a seven-year stint, he has consulted for real estate brokerages and proptech firms.

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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.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The pay plan now known as Redfin Next , after rebranding from its original launch name of Redfin Max , allows agents to earn commission splits of up to 75% for transactions they generate on their own and up to 40% for transactions with clients they met via the Redfin platform.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

“The rise of generative AI is already changing how agents work, and on the heels of anticipated changes to how agents earn commissions, Sidekick will enhance the way agents, teams, and brokerages perform all of the mission critical aspects of supporting their clients and finding new opportunities.”

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