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The Real Brokerage settles Umpa commission lawsuit for $9.25M

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Fast-growing, publicly traded The Real Brokerage announced Monday that it had reached a settlement agreement with the plaintiffs in the Umpa commission lawsuit. The brokerage will pay $9.25 The Real Brokerage closed $14.4 The Real Brokerage closed $14.4 million into a qualified settlement fund, as part of the agreement.

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San Francisco Realtors partner with AI startup Sidekick

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AI -powered real estate assistant Sidekick unveiled a partnership with the San Francisco Association of Realtors (SFAR) on Monday. As the AI capital of the world, San Francisco is the ideal place to launch Sidekick to sophisticated Realtors, at just the right time,” Michael Martin, co-founder of Sidekick, said in a statement.

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Proptech startup Courted grows its roster of brokerage partnerships 

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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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Realtors still get most of their leads from Facebook

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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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Nestfully adds BeachesMLS and MIAMI Realtors SEFMLS to its database

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BeachesMLS ’ and MIAMI REALTORS SEFMLS , South Florida ’s two largest Multiple Listing Services (MLSs), have begun providing complete listing data to Nestfully , a public search portal sourced directly from the MLS, the company announced last Wednesday. If added together, Nestfully’s five MLSs have 343,000+ agent and brokerage subscribers.

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Real estate brokerages: Tech won’t ruin us

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So began one of the more compelling panels at RealTrends’ “Gathering of Eagles” conference in Colorado Springs – “Intersection of tech and brokerage.”. Any real estate talk about technology can degenerate into to just saying the word “technology.” “We Don’t go out and build a consumer-facing technology,” McClelland advised.

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2023 RealTrends real estate brokerage rankings show growth in low-cost firms

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Despite market headwinds, the top brokerages continued to show growth in the 2023 RealTrends 500 brokerage rankings. These four brokerage companies did just over $20 billion in residential gross commission revenue, which shows steady growth in a down market,” said RealTrends Senior Advisor Steve Murray. “In of all Realtors.

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