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Planning an Open House? Don’t Forget These Key Preparations

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

If you’re planning on selling your home, you’re probably going to have open houses so that you can let buyers see for themselves the wonderful features of your home. How can you get the most impact from an open house? Now she wants to have an open house. The spring selling season is upon us.

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Study: Real estate firms thrive on repeat and referral business

Housing Wire

Referrals from past and repeat customers still generated the greatest number of inquiries for real estate firms in 2020 with 30% of brokerage business coming from this source, the same amount as in 2018, when the survey was last completed. In 2018, 1% of surveyed brokerages said their business came from open houses.

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Brokers prepare for changes after Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit verdict

Housing Wire

“I think it will come down to the individual brokers to get the damages, and that kind of money will put a significant amount of the brokers out of business,” the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Drysdale Properties broker-owner said. This doesn’t have some immediate impact on the way that we conduct business.” I do believe they will.

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As the market shifts to purchase, LOs get creative

Housing Wire

Just before a customer buys a container of pre-made Borscht, they see Naumovych’s business cards and flyers that lay neatly near the checkout area. This advertising strategy, among a handful of others, has helped the LO connect with Russian-speaking Realtors and win the business of borrowers from former Soviet countries. “I

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9 innovative strategies to get more real estate seller leads in 2024

Housing Wire

According to the National Association of Realtors ® (NAR), 70% of broker/broker associates and 69% of sales agents have a website. I’ve been building my social media presence consistently for about three years now and am finally at the point where people recognize me in my neighborhood, at open houses, and at Realtor® events.

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‘Find buyers before agents!’ Mortgage industry reacts to the NAR settlement

Housing Wire

NEXA has always been focused on purchase loans , which means some of its LOs do significant business with buyers’ agents. Kortas believes that good buy-side agents will remain highly relevant and garner more business as competitors wash out. Caccia said that 80% of his business comes from buyers’ agents.

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LenderPulse Q3 2023 survey: Mortgage pros look to cut marketing spend

Housing Wire

The rest of the surveyed professionals were evaluating or planning to purchase lead generation services, loan originations systems including Encompass and Arive, customer relationship management (CRM) and services that maximize repeat and referral business for lenders, such as Homebot. Of the 166 completed surveys, 31.9%

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