Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

But the session did not reach a looming inflection point for real estate agents: Whether they must tell homebuyers what commission percentage they stand to make. At issue is unprecedented transparency required out of real estate agents. The NAR says that the matter is now in the Justice Department’s hands.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Realtors 428

Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

Bonnie Williamson never intended to be a real estate agent. As more and more people enter the real estate industry – membership at the National Association of Realtors has ballooned to a record 1.6 For brokerages – and agents themselves – transaction sides and sales volume are easy ways to measure productivity.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Brokerage 409

Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

Several days without MLS access can add up for a brokerage, Gerrett Snedaker, broker at Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate|Wine Country Group, told North Bay Business Journal. Somewhat fortunately, he said, August tends to be a slower time in South Californian real estate market.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Brokerage 367

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Real Brokerage continues to add to its agent count. Lafayette, Louisiana-based District South Real Estate Co. has joined Real, according to an announcement on Tuesday. Led by Carrie Théard and Sean Hettich, District South’s 40 agents serve home buyers and sellers in Louisiana’s Acadiana region.

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Brokerage Real Estate Agents Realty 399

Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2023

However, in terms of the average price of properties closed, our research shows that individual agents have the upper hand. While most brokerage firms have embraced teams, some have not. This report can serve as guidance when choosing teams for your brokerage.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Brokerage 370

Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2021

I saw a social media post recently by our local ‘mega-agent’ entitled: “Breaking News: Individual Real Estate agents added to Endangered Professions List!”. This post compares the individual real estate agent to “a tennis player using a wooden racket” or “a football player with a leather helmet.”

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Clients 460

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Alliance would rank as the nation’s 23 rd and 29 th brokerage in volume and transaction sides, respectively, on the 2023 RealTrends Top 500 list. Recognized Alliance members amassed $8.53 billion in sales volume while completing 15,919.3 transaction sides in 2022. million in 2022. 50 David Merrick Coldwell Banker Bain Vancouver, WA 35.3

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Real Estate Real Estate Agent Realty Agents 267

Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

In the competitive world of real estate recruitment, brokerages fight for the attention and loyalty of talented agents who can drive their success. As the lifeblood of the industry, agents play an important role in attracting clients, closing deals and determining the ultimate profitability of a brokerage.

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Brokerage Real Estate Agents Marketing 334

Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2023

The slower housing market and uncertain economic conditions took their toll on the number of real estate brokerages and firms that were named to Inc. Last year , over 60 real estate brokerage firms or real estate teams made the list, but this number shrank to just 36 in 2023.

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Real Estate Brokerage Realty Real Estate Agent 369

Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2023

Low-cost residential real estate brokerage is not necessarily a new phenomenon. About 50 years ago, a trailblazer named Dave Liniger created the concept of “real estate maximums,” birthing RE/MAX. Are agents really keeping 100%? Low-cost brokerage has kicked brokers in the teeth over the years.

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Real Estate Brokerage Real Estate Agent Realty 351

Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2021

Many scholars and antitrust lawyers, but not many agents, say U.S. real estate commissions are artificially inflated by an illegal horizontal conspiracy between NAR and brokerages. But more than just representing labor, they also represent management (brokerages) and claim to work in the best interests of consumers.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Brokerage 430

Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2021

Amy Kong of Trust Real Estate hosts open houses where people ask, “Where is the agent?”. These are instances of racism experienced by Hispanic, Black and Asian real estate agents. But they point to something more specific – homebuyers and sellers surprised to interact with a non-white real estate agent.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Realtors 399

Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

South Carolina-based Movement Mortgage has acquired the brokerage Superior Rate Mortgage of New England to expand operations in the region, the company announced Wednesday. The post Movement Mortgage acquires brokerage Superior Rate appeared first on HousingWire. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Brokerage Mortgage Real Estate Agent Loan Officers 488

Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

Fast-growing firm The Real Brokerage is welcoming yet another top-performing agent to the company. Arizona-based David Newman and his 12-member team, David Newman Partners, are moving to The Real Brokerage, according to an announcement on Wednesday.

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Brokerage Realty Real Estate Agents 348

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Christie’s International Real Estate is poised to enter the Austin market this fall as it launches a new affiliate. The brokerage firm will be owned and operated by Jerry Mooty Jr., Mooty, who owns @properties Christie’s International Real Estate offices in Dallas and Frisco, is also Jones’ nephew.

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Brokerage Real Estate Realty Agents 328

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

million agents that are licensed and members of the national association, and only about 6% are full-time, experienced high-volume – facilitating at least one transaction a month – professionals. When we looked at the industry, every brokerage that existed served the 1.3 “Across the country today, there are roughly 1.4

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Brokerage 403

Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2020

The line between traditional iBuyer and brokerage is getting ever-so-blurry for venture-backed startup Opendoor. billion in VC funding, is looking to bring aboard real estate agents in Phoenix, Arizona, to support its “Home Reserve” iBuying platform, according to Inman , which spotted a jobs posting Friday morning.

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Brokerage Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents 536

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Another independent brokerage has chosen to align with RE/MAX. Yakima Valley, Washington-based The Real Estate Collective , is RE/MAX’s latest franchise, according to an announcement on Tuesday. The brokerage will now operate under the name RE/MAX The Collective.

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Real Estate Real Estate Agent Brokerage Agents 403

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The excited and at times nervous first-time homebuyers that James Dunn often represents ask him how that whole process of taking out a mortgage works, and Dunn, a Los Angeles-based real estate agent with eXp , replies with a few trusted names. There are probably three or four people that I work with,” Dunn said.

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Brokerage Mortgage Real Estate Agent Real Estate 471

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

based brokerage, announced last week the launch of its custom real estate listing system, PROJETO. Over the last few months, iBuyers and brokerages alike have launched solutions to keeping business going during the pandemic, including virtual home tours , 3D home tours and hosting virtual open houses.

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Brokerage Real Estate Agent Real Estate Realty 544

Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2021

Such are the ambitions of an array of companies today including Zillow and real estate brokerage Compass. But Rocket’s announcement provides a couple of specific ways it wants to cut into the real estate market and challenge traditional agents. of the sales price.

Real Estate 430

Real Estate Brokerage Real Estate Agent Agents 430

Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Kofi Nartey, a top real estate broker with a client list of celebrities and prominent athletes, has joined The Real Brokerage as a national growth leader. In his new position, he will help build visibility for the brand, attract more agents as well as drive agent’s performance through coaching and development. “I

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Brokerage Real Estate Agents Clients 312

Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

The outage, which has disrupted agents’ workflow since the attack on Aug. 9, impacted an estimated 5% of agents across the country. The cyber attack left real estate agents unable to add or remove listings, update statuses or access key information about other members.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Realtors Agents 340

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. Presented by: Axis Technical Group.

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Real Estate Brokerage Mortgage Lending 403

Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

Fast-growing The Real Brokerage posted a $3.97 During the second quarter, Real once again delivered best-in-class growth with our agents closing a record number of transactions,” said Tamir Poleg , the CEO of Real. Like many other brokerages , the firm is still in the red (it lost over $20 million last year).

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Brokerage Agents Mortgage Lending 314

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.

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Real Estate Brokerage Real Estate Agent Agents 383

Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

The top agents were previously at brokerage @properties. “We With her 20 years of experience, Hodge is one of the top-producing agents in the western suburbs of Chicago. She ranked 102nd in the 2023 RealTrends ranking of the top agents in Illinois by volume. Her sales volume was of $25,146,500 in 2022.

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Real Estate Agent Realtors Real Estate Agents 331

Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

On Friday afternoon, my real estate agent called with good news. The agent wished me well and said that she would appreciate a review on her website. It wasn’t so long ago that experts said the internet would drastically bring down agent commissions. I briefly considered a “listing only” agent , but chickened out.

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Agents Real Estate Agent Real Estate Brokerage 413

Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

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!) The top four — Realogy Brokerage Group (RBG), HomeServices of America , Compass and eXp Realty — now have 20% market share in the U.S.

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Real Estate Brokerage Realty Agents 330

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. The loan pre-qualification step is an area that almost all parties need for a successful outcome (consumers, real estate agents, loan officers, insurance agents).

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Loan Officers 300

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Chris Lim is stepping down as president of Christie’s International Real Estate , according to an announcement on Tuesday. 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.

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Real Estate Real Estate Agent Brokerage Agents 405

Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2022

The real estate brokerage has not announced agent hires, but it has tapped a managing broker for the state in John Wollberg. Wollberg was most recently the executive vice president and managing director of sales and operations at Brown Harris Stevens , a Manhattan-based brokerage headquartered on Park Avenue.

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Brokerage Real Estate Agents Valuation 385

Hank Miller Team

JANUARY 16, 2023

Prices and inventory of course, but the massive influx of "hobby agents" over this period was a lesser covered negative result. The number of real estate agents soared to record highs, as did buyer remorse and complaints. YES, but the devil is in the details of the brokerage agreements.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Brokerage 98

Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued orders against Freedom Mortgage Corporation and Realty Connect USA Long Island for illegal kickbacks on Thursday, the first enforcement action associated with the 1974 Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act in six years. million fine.

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Realty Mortgage Real Estate Brokerage 370

The Robert Weiler Company

DECEMBER 9, 2022

When you think of the terms commercial real estate agent, broker, or realtor, do you use them interchangeably? We often give a name to someone who helps clients buy or sell commercial real estate without considering each unique position, their responsibilities, education, certification or licensing, and expertise.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Realtors Agents 78

Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

As real estate agents, we recognize that unity and community spirit are invaluable, especially when facing such trying circumstances.” Brokerages jump in to help agents In the aftermath of the Hawaii disaster, some brokerages stepped up as well.

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Real Estate Realtors Real Estate Agent Brokerage 362

Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2023

By now, you’ve all heard the buzz about artificial intelligence (AI) and the potential impact on the real estate industry. While it’s certainly buzzworthy technology, it’s been met with reticence in the brokerage world. So, the stuff that Zillow’s doing, we’re incorporating,” he says.

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Real Estate Real Estate Agent Brokerage Realty 293