Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

One option is that NAR and the MLSs can no longer require cooperative compensation, but listing agents and their sellers can still offer the buyer broker compensation if they so choose. It is a situation where buyers need to pay their own agents and sellers have to pay their agent separately?”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In both cases, our clients and Compass had to design new ways to structure the transaction to get a favorable outcome for all parties. Without revealing any confidential details, for example, Compass is using mostly its own equity rather than cash to deliver value to the sellers. This remains the most active part of the market.

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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). With Wise Pelican, you can try both — it’s a fantastic resource for beautifully designed postcards and letters. For letters, use the template below: Dear (first name), I’m (your name), a real estate professional with (brokerage).

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

The application provides customers with a categorized library of ready-to-share video content that covers an array of real estate topics, from market trends and seller insights to neighborhood snapshots, all aimed at catalyzing lead generation for agents. Our expansion into the U.S. Our expansion into the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

On Monday, the now defunct discount brokerage filed an appeal with the U.S. In mid-May 2022, REX ceased its brokerage operations. REX Real Estate is back again trying to get a new trial in its false advertising lawsuit against Zillow.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

California-based Impac Mortgage Holdings is repositioning itself as a mortgage brokerage and voluntarily giving up its seller-servicer designation with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Another issue is home sellers’ bias against buyers using FHA loans, where offers from non-FHA borrowers are often selected even though lower in price. CHLA commends FHA for its work on its “Mythbusters” initiative, designed to blow up the myths around FHA loans by educating lenders and home sellers.

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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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Inman

AUGUST 31, 2023

The company's quick turnaround of marketing assets is ideally designed to complement the urgency-based system 72SOLD leverages to promote listings, said co-founder of BoxBrownie Brad Filliponi.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

Another issue is home sellers’ bias against homebuyers using FHA loans, where offers from non-FHA borrowers are often selected even though lower in price. CHLA commends FHA for its work on its “Mythbusters” initiative, designed to blow up the myths around FHA loans by educating lenders and home sellers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

California-based Impac Mortgage Holdings , a former mortgage lender repositioning itself as a brokerage firm, announced on Thursday that NYSE American, LLC. The company will now operate as a mortgage brokerage, giving up its retail consumer direct lending division and winding down its third-party origination (TPO).

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

Things are continuing to heat up in Zillow Group’s legal battle with discount brokerage REX Homes , as the September 18, 2023, trial date looms ever closer. In mid-May 2022, REX ceased its brokerage operations. On Friday, Judge Thomas Zilly, the U.S. NAR also believes its side will succeed in the lawsuit.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2023

The MLS noted that this change does not impact its impartial system of offers of cooperative compensation, and that offers of compensation remain negotiable and at the discretion of the home seller. Sellers could agree to have their broker enter as little as one cent in the compensation fields, which was as close to zero as one could get.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

Zilly also pointed out the unlike other brokerage, Zillow continued to display REX’s listings. Two months prior, in January 2021 , Zillow began moving homes out of its initial search results for sellers who chose not to use agents adhering to the NAR and local multiple listing service (MLS) practices.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

1, 2024 , Washington state’s agency law requires agents to have a written agreement with buyers (as well as sellers) to spell out the exact scope of the services provided by the agent, as well as the compensation the client has agreed to pay them in return. As of Jan. At the firm level, we have file reviewers who work off a checklist.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

Many economists are predicting low mortgage rates for an extended period of time which will keep the red-hot seller’s market intact indefinitely. With that in mind, home sellers are racing to the market and searching for ways to pay lower commissions to list their properties that they are confident will sell quickly. .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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. SmartZip uses predictive analytics to pinpoint likely sellers from 6 to 18 months in advance, offering a huge advantage in today’s low inventory market. Automated marketing: Yes.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Two months prior, in January 2021 , Zillow began moving homes out of its initial search results for sellers who chose not to use agents adhering to the NAR and local multiple listing service (MLS) practices, creating a two-tab design for agent listings and “other listings.” In mid-May 2022, REX ceased its brokerage operations.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The program is designed to help agents connect with buyers, improve their brand recognition and convert leads into clients. It allows agents, teams, and brokerages to purchase targeted display ads in chosen ZIP codes, putting them among the top agents on Zillow. The name of the game here is search traffic and lead generation.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It’s perfect for agents, with helpful design and marketing tools tailored for real estate. The platform offers a mix of customizable templates and the option to upload your own designs. Prices start at $59/month for individuals and go up for teams, with affordable plans for larger groups. Starting at $0.91

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The Seattle-based real estate brokerage and listings platform will be publishing flood risk information on nearly every home on its listing platform, it announced on Tuesday. “Could this actually reduce the value of this existing homeowner and essentially take away a lot of their net worth?”.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Any law restricting foreign land ownership mustn’t penalize real estate professionals, legitimate sellers, lienholders and future property owners. Sellers must have confidence that it is not their responsibility to verify the national origin of the buyer.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

Two months prior, in January 2021, Zillow began moving homes out of its initial search results for sellers who chose not to use agents adhering to the NAR and local multiple listing service (MLS) practices. REX ceased its brokerage operations in mid-May of 2022.

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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% Zillow is mostly known for its practice of selling buyer agent leads through its Premier Agent program, while Homes.com has touted its “your listing, your lead” model, which focuses on seller agents.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

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. It became one of the fastest-growing brokerages at the time in Canada, and then I sold that in 2014, and moved to the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

The mailers are titled “Notice of Proposed Settlements” and they began hitting the mailboxes of home sellers in mid-February. The firm was appointed as the designated settlement administrator for the suit in 2022, over a year prior to any settlement agreements being reached. What do the postcards say? she asked. “It

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The third day of the highly consequential Sitzer/Burnett class action buyer broker commission lawsuit included a deep dive into the training materials used by various brokerages and the testimony of three of the named plaintiffs. Ketchmark countered this with the fact that nothing on the slides designated things as a model.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

Lamacchia also stressed that it is impossible to claim that the system is rigged because sellers can choose how much compensation they offer the buyers’ broker, or whether they even want to offer cooperative compensation. Home sellers can do as they please, and if they don’t want to hire a Realtor, they don’t have to.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Both buyers and sellers value the combined benefits of his individual talents along with membership in one of the most respected real estate firms in New York City. Accreditations and designations Highlight your professional credentials and any special designations you’ve earned. Jane Doe specializes in luxury markets.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2022

The deal probably ends a lawsuit that the National Fair Housing Alliance and like-minded groups filed 18 months ago accusing the brokerage and popular real estate listings website of offering services in predominantly white neighborhoods at a “substantially greater rate than it does in communities of color.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

During his testimony, Alford said that NAR’s Participation Rule “is not designed to benefit home sellers.” Under cross examination on Friday, he clarified that the legal question of whether there was a conspiracy between the defendants was not under his purview, stating: “That’s the job of the jury.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2020

The first is listing tools – the products designed for you to convert potential sellers into listing contracts. And the last area is seller tools or companies that help to convert lookers to buyers (I could probably have thought of a better name here). Seller tools / Buyer conversion tools.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

iBuying has opened up a completely new path for sellers. Is it the leader of an agent team at a virtual brokerage? A solo practitioner at a traditional “indie” brokerage? People are encountering mortgage brands that are warmer, more human, and place a greater emphasis on design. It’s scattershot.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

With the Experts network, prospective sellers are matched with an expert who has relevant experience selling similar properties in their building or neighborhood, StreetEasy said. NAMB leads brokers in advocating for consumer data privacy. Presented by: NAMB. In June 2019, it began using photos to help decide the appeal and worth of a home.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Exam Prep: The Basic Prelicensing package features three e-books and a course manual designed to help you retain essential real estate concepts and prepare for the state exam. You can also opt-in to Freedom Trail’s broker recruitment program to be contacted directly by local brokerages that are hiring new agents.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2021

Successful agents, brokerages and loan officers of the future are going to rely significantly on technology to find, nurture and engage with buyers and sellers while also playing an expanding role as personal advisors. “My business is not designed to make my competitors like me, especially retail competitors,” he said.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

It says buyer and seller are: Prudent and knowledgeable. I forced myself to look beyond habit, beyond assumptions, and beyond my support of groupthink — beyond even my certifications, licenses, credentials, and designations. buyer and seller are avariciously motivated; biased. Buyer and Seller are Prudent and Knowledgeable.

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