Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Automated chatbots can help you field calls, texts, emails and website inquiries to qualify incoming leads and segment buyers and sellers by their areas of interest in your CRM — all before you even pick up your phone to call or text those prospects. Need more examples?

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation announced on Tuesday a series of reverse mortgage maneuvers designed to increase the company’s investment in the space. To ‘lead by example’ “These strategic investments reflect our deep commitment to the future of our reverse mortgage business,” said Steve Jacobsen, CEO of Fairway. “We

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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.

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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. The Company has no visibility as to when these dislocations will abate and return the industry to normalized volumes and margins,” Mangiaracina said.

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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

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

JANUARY 17, 2024

1 With over 12,000 Americans turning 65 every day in 2024, this burgeoning market will undoubtedly continue to bring more buyers and sellers to the table over the next decade. That’s where reverse purchase financing comes into play, the funding option specifically designed for older Americans.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It’s perfect for agents, with helpful design and marketing tools tailored for real estate. If you’re into real estate marketing, it’s a go-to for everything from business cards to eye-catching online ads. It’s not just postcards, though – think business cards, magazines, door hangers, and more.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

million Realtors are in the business of streamlining processes to best serve all current and future homeowners across this country,” said Tracy Kasper, president of NAR, in a statement. The proposed FEMA form would not be useful to buyers and duplicative for sellers, virtually having them check the same box on a different form.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

District Court in Seattle determined that Zillow did not make deceptive change to its only agent listings that forced REX Real Estate to go out of business. In a verdict announced late Friday afternoon, a jury in a U.S.

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McKissock

MAY 15, 2023

Thinking about starting an appraisal business? Perhaps you’re taking over that business because your mentor is retiring; maybe you’re relocating to another market; maybe you’re starting a competing firm. Depending on circumstances, the costs of starting an appraisal business can range from fairly high to very low.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The integration also aims to tackle the payment procedure during a real estate closing, in which several parties receive payments through sources like broker/agent commissions, underwriter fees, title search fees, taxes, payoffs and seller proceeds.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 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. We hope the court sees this suit for what it is: REX seized upon Zillow’s website design change to hide its own business failings.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

While the real estate industry is forever in flux, one constant is that it’s a relationship business. Today, It is an all-in-one platform designed to help real estate agents manage many aspects of their business, including building meaningful relationships to grow repeat and referral business with clients. Wondering how?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

“The undisputed evidence in this action shows that neither NAR nor its affiliated MLSs were involved in Zillow’s decision to implement the challenged two-tab display that allegedly drove REX out of business,” he added. This ruling affirms Zillow’s business decisions were squarely focused on improving the data on our website for consumers.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The program aims to provide real estate professionals with exposure on the Zillow platform, offering access to a wide range of features, tools and resources to generate leads and grow their businesses. The program is designed to help agents connect with buyers, improve their brand recognition and convert leads into clients.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

How do you convince the sellers of $15 million homes to work with you? Use this tool: Coffee & Contracts Thoughtfully designed by former real estate agent Haley Ingram, Coffee & Contracts offers a suite of upscale social media templates for every social platform. Visit Coffee & Contracts 2.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2021

Access to property data and an ability to efficiently target prospective sellers can give agents and brokers a competitive edge in this low-inventory environment. PropStream empowers real estate professionals to grow their business by enabling them to easily research properties, identify leads and effectively market to those leads.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

When the internet came along, it changed everything, except one thing — it didn’t change the way this business has run, and it is the corporate titans that are doing this.” That’s just one of the small details of our business that Michael is unaware of,” Lamacchia said. Don’t require the seller to pay for it,” Ketchmark said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

With Wise Pelican, you can try both — it’s a fantastic resource for beautifully designed postcards and letters. We negotiated to get the sellers the highest price possible. Even if you’re months or even years away from moving, a seller’s prep session is one of the services I offer homeowners.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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. Use AI-powered lead generdation to identify high-priority sellers. Enhance your brand with custom landing pages designed to convert real estate seller leads.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

In March, Impac announced changes to the business. The company has also voluntarily relinquished its government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) seller/servicer designation due to the lack of conventional GSE origination volume and servicing rights over the past several years.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

After a slight falter in July, Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index, a composite index designed to track consumers’ housing-related attitudes, intentions and perceptions is back up 3.3 After July’s HPSI survey, Fannie Mae confirmed it was a seller’s market after a 4% month-over-month gain. points in August to 77.5.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Endpoint , a platform that provides buyers, sellers and agents with a completely digital way to close on properties, announced Tuesday that it has secured an additional $150 million in funding. The funding came from parent company First American Financial Corporation. Since its founding in 2018, Endpoint has raised $220 million in capital.

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Listing Spark

APRIL 27, 2023

Episode Summary In this episode, Aaron Jistel interviews Lori Carlisle, the president of Model Property Brands, discussing the importance of home staging for selling properties, decluttering, depersonalizing the property, current trends in home staging, and the ideal customers and projects for their staging and design business.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2021

According to the National Association of Realtors 2021 Home Buyers & Sellers Generational Trends Report , 84% of buyers 30 years and younger cite “helped buyer understand the process” as the most important benefit provided by real estate agents during the home purchase process. Propertybase is here to help.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Referral business is crucial to your bottom line as an agent. Imagine if you could bottle the enthusiasm your clients have for working with you and use it to capture new business in 2024. Further, their study found that 36% of sellers who worked with an agent found them through a referral by friends or family.

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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

APRIL 22, 2022

In a letter posted on Zillow Group ’s blog page on Wednesday, SVP of business operations Stephen Capezza told agents that Zillow would be moving to a “post pay” or “success fee” payment structure in Raleigh and Denver. These changes to Premier Agent come just months after Zillow shuttered its money-hemorrhaging iBuying business.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This comprehensive guide delves into the best free real estate CRMs available, offering insights into the best CRM software to level up your business. The free plan’s social media integrations are particularly beneficial for connecting with business accounts.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

I’ve been in this business 25 years, and the mix of disruptive forces at play right now is new, real, and, I think, lasting. For those agents who do have plenty of business, the velocity of the market is unreal. iBuying has opened up a completely new path for sellers. Branding, in our view, is business.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The basic IMB business model is to originate federally backed mortgages including FHA, VA, government-sponsored enterprise (GSE). As of second quarter 2022, the MBA expects the employment cut to be only between 2 and 10%. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

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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). Then there are ToolkitCMA (in business since 1990!)

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McKissock

APRIL 14, 2021

In other cases, a client may reach out to a former real estate agent and discover the agent has moved, has outdated contact information, or is out of the business. The easiest way to turn your clients into future business is to stay in their lives. Doug Breaker , CEO of HomeFinder.com , suggests appealing to their interests.

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