Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

On Monday, the independent brokerage announced that it had acquired Springfield, Massachusetts-based Sears Real Estate. Founded in 1971 by Paul Sears, Sears Real Estate is owned and operated by the family of current National Association of Realtors president Kevin Sears. Kevin Sears, President of National Association of Realtors. “It

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

Co-founded by Sean Soderstrom, Dan Breitbach and Joe Urciuoli, the proptech company sells an AI-powered software platform to help real estate brokerages with their recruiting efforts. Courted identified three main problems with how brokerages have historically recruited agents. The company has expanded to 50 markets in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

By enforcing this mandate, the NAR establishes an anticompetitive market where sellers are coerced into subsidizing the buyer’s costs. This system, with its veiled surcharges, illegally warps the real estate market.” AF Realty Group is the smallest of the new defendants with just 15 agents, according to the complaint.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

With our commitment to providing insights that housing professionals can make decisions on, HousingWire announced a new partnership with Greater Bergen Realtors , delivering exclusive news, market data and housing research to agents in New Jersey’s Greater Bergen Realtors association.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Real estate brokerage is definitely not for the faint of heart. Not just the industry stalwarts in major metros, but smaller firms that dominate the peripheral markets. By the numbers Consider this: It’s estimated that there are currently about 125,000 brokerage firms in the United States. With the Realtor count close to 1.6

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

Redfin showcased pockets of growth in the first quarter of 2024 despite challenging housing market conditions. The brokerage posted revenue of $225.5 Redfin’s brokerage revenue hovered around $125 million, up 5% from a year ago. Redfin’s brokerage revenue hovered around $125 million, up 5% from a year ago.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

As lenders adapt to a purchase-centered market , HousingWire spoke to Brian Boero, CEO of 1000watt , about opportunities to grow lenders’ effectiveness in the Realtor and broker market. HousingWire: What’s happening right now in the Realtor world that lenders should know more about?

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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. With 30% of brokerage business coming from referrals and repeat customers, it is critical for agents to build and maintain relationships with their clients.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2023

2022 was a roller coaster year, continuing the strong pandemic and post-pandemic fueled housing market through the first half of the year. Then, in the third quarter, we saw an abrupt stop to the record-breaking housing market. of all brokerage-controlled sales in the country, staying even with the 2022 rankings, with 35.9%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ask the average real estate agent or broker in America if they believe the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and brokerages are likely to win the bombshell Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit case on appeal. Such an outcome, many predict, could eventually force a disassociation between the Realtor-owned MLSs and the NAR mothership.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Roomvu , a Canadian-based video marketing platform for residential real estate agents, is partnering with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (LeadingRE) and Realty One to mark Roomvu’s expansion into the U.S. Our partnerships with LeadingRE and RealtyOne are just the beginning.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

The complaint names 35 entities as defendants, including the National Association of Realtors , local and national brokerages, MLSs and local Realtor associations. Patrick Thurber, a California home seller, is an additional named plaintiff in the suit. 17, 2020, and the present. 17, 2020, and the present.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Real estate executives disagree on many things, but nearly everyone agrees that the terms of the National Association of Realtors’ commission lawsuit settlement agreement , if approved by the court (a big if), would generate significant change within the industry.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

Coldwell Banker Realty , a New England-based residential real estate brokerage , welcomed The DelRose McShane Team , the brokerage announced on Wednesday. No one else compares when it comes to brand recognition and tools to market our clients’ homes. Led by Mike DelRose Sr., Mike DelRose Jr. said in a statement. DelRose Sr.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Anywhere demonstrated our leadership strength in 2023, driving meaningful results in a tough real estate market,” Ryan Schneider , Anywhere president and CEO, said in a statement. “In The company produced these results amid “an incredibly difficult year for the housing market,” Schneider said during an earnings call on Thursday.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

The 2021 real estate market was one for the ages: record low interest rates and housing inventory gave way to record high home prices and sales. Capitalizing on these market factors, brokerage firms in the 2022 RealTrends 500 brokerage rankings broke records in market share, closed transaction sides (there must be inventory somewhere!)

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Like the other commission lawsuits, the Masiello suit takes aim at the National Association of Realtors’ Participation Rule, which requires listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to the buyer’s broker in order to list a property on a Realtor-affiliated MLS. 5, 2020, and the present.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Podcast: Comparing real estate team and brokerage profitability. Study: It’s true, real estate teams outperform brokerage firms. RealTrends Brokerage Compensation Report. However, these super-sized teams aren’t the only ones turning a profit — a profit that dwarfs most real estate brokerage’s profit. Broker Studies.

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that it had 1,509,195 members at the end of April, a decline of 2.96% from the 1,554,604 members it had at the end of 2023 but higher than its numbers in February and March. You can find more information in our recent update in Realtor Magazine.“ How many is unclear.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The California Association of Realtors on Monday made its standard forms directly integrated and available on the dotloop platform. Dotloop’s platform also integrates with more than 75 CRM, accounting, marketing and automation platforms and offers a mobile-first app that enables agents to accept offers from anywhere. and Canada.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Realty ONE Group International has joined six other real estate brokerages in settling the commission lawsuits. We don’t want to spend any more time with the distractions that litigation tends to bring and instead are ready to blow the doors open to the next few years of an exciting real estate market.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

If you’re struggling to market your business on social media, or worse, haven’t even started yet, you might be in for a rude awakening in 2024. Prioritize reputation over reach The key to successful social media marketing is to build meaningful connections with people in your farm area who want to buy or sell real estate.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

Michelle Corridon, deputy policy director at the VA, announced at the Mortgage Bankers Association ‘s Secondary & Capital Markets Conference in New York that the circular would be issued between now and June 12. The circular would be issued while the agency engaged in a formal rulemaking process.

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Inman

APRIL 17, 2024

Real estate software and marketing services firm Reliance built a new website for Hegg Realtors, South Dakota’s most tenured brokerage.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2021

RealTrends Market Leaders report ranks the top residential real estate firms in over 160 different metropolitan areas based on 2021 RealTrends 500 brokerage rankings. When it comes to movers and shakers in the Market Leaders report, it can be boiled down to Compass and flat-fee brokerages. 3 in transaction sides and No.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Similar to the other commission lawsuits, the latest two take aim at the National Association of Realtors’ Participation Rule, which requires the listing broker to make a blanket offer of compensation to the buyer’s broker to list the property on the MLS. Both lawsuits are seeking class-action status. 4, 2019 and the present.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

Amidst this backdrop, brokerages face a critical task; keeping their agent counts from diminishing. The data spanning from 2009 to 2023 reveals a notable correlation between the total real estate transactions in the USA, termed national transactions , and the movement of agents between brokerages.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

(Photo Credit: AJ Canaria) While industry leaders may be taking a more optimistic view on some of the changes triggered by the commission lawsuits and how the National Association of Realtors settled them, they still feel strongly that changes to the commission structure will have an overall negative impact on consumers. “I I don’t know.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

The latest findings from Relitix’s Agent Movement Index (AMI) for March 2024 reveal a nuanced landscape in the real estate sector, with shifts in agent activities suggesting stabilizing and evolving market conditions. This stabilization is possibly linked to a resurgence in property sales, hinting at a more buoyant housing market ahead.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

In the 24 hours after news broke of the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) settlement agreement in the commission lawsuits , Doug Danzey, the leader of the eXp Realty -brokered teamerage The Cobalt Group , said the most pervasive emotion among his agents has been panic. “I It is really going to go backwards.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

HomeServices of America , the last remaining brokerage defendant in the landmark Sitzer/Burnett antitrust commission case , has agreed to pay $250 million in damages to settle lawsuits that will change agent compensation across America. The New York Times first reported the story. The Minnesota-headquartered firm had $133.8

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

. “Keller Williams teaches agents to run profitable businesses with good margins and reserves, and in my eyes, exemplifies this given they are one of the few private brokerages that still exist,” Leung said in a statement. Leung was a finalist of Realtor Magazine ‘s prestigious 30 under 30 2017 class.

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Inman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

local broker marketplaces are the gold standard and will continue to push Romania in the right direction so we can create an equitable real estate market that protects consumers and small businesses across the country, writes Romanian Realtor Dan Negulescu.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Realtors , was founded in 2014 by Jackson and Matt Lesher. The brokerage boasts a team of roughly two dozen licensed agents , as well as support staff members in marketing, management and transaction coordination roles. ” Corcoran Prime, previously known as The Agency Inc. .

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

While revenue rose at eXp World Holdings during the first quarter of 2024, the firm was still unable to turn a profit due to the challenging housing market. Sanford indicated that eXp may be among the last of the large brokerages yet to settle and is not currently in discussions for a settlement. million in Q1 2023.

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Lamacchia Realty

APRIL 29, 2024

We are pleased to announce that Emerson Realtors out of Auburn, Massachusetts have joined forces with Lamacchia Realty. Emerson Realtors was co-founded by Kevin Maher, a fifth generation REALTOR® whose career spanned an impressive 45 years. We are looking forward to the next chapter for our brokerage.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While the lawsuit does name large corporate brokerage firms as defendants, including Keller Williams , Side , HomeServices of America , and Fathom Realty , the robust defendant list also includes real estate teams, such as The Loken Group and Hexagon Group , as well as an individual broker, Mark Anthony Dimas. 13, 2019, to the present.

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