Remove Buyers Remove Clients Remove Project Management Remove Real Estate Agent
article thumbnail

The best free real estate CRMs for 2024 (+4 low-cost alternatives)

Housing Wire

As the real estate market continues to grapple with high interest rates and low inventory, agents entering the market are looking for affordable client relationship management (CRM) tools that offer a cost-effective means to automate and manage client interactions.

article thumbnail

5 tips to upgrade your real estate networking game

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors found that 68% of people who found their home through a real estate agent discovered that agent through referrals from their family or friends. Doug Lester , renowned career strategist, suggests a strategy that focuses on leveraging your existing client base to create more connections.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Recruiting real estate agents: A complete roadmap for 2024

Housing Wire

To help, we put together this guide to walk you through our nine-step system to recruit, nurture, and retain producing agents in 2024. They are far more common than listing agents or top-producing buyer’s agents, but will still bring in consistent revenue.

article thumbnail

Even super hot housing markets like LA are cooling off

Housing Wire

Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers from each city share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. While Nourmand said most of his clients have been local Californians, he has worked with a few Floridians and New Yorkers. “We Rapid City, South Dakota. Rapid City, South Dakota.

article thumbnail

Bridging the gaps in the home buying process

Housing Wire

Title agents historically have felt like they played second fiddle to other players in the buying and selling of real estate. Regulators were suddenly curious about what exactly the industry contributed to a real estate transaction. A title agent can begin by delivering the vision. Is it closing on time?

article thumbnail

Opinion: More can be done to shorten the average time to close

Housing Wire

Hopeful their initial offer might be accepted or that they might beat out other potential buyers. Unfortunately, those ads don’t talk much about the next month or six weeks, the period real estate professionals call the “settlement process.” However, the settlement process varies from client to client, location to location.

HOA 462
article thumbnail

Opinion: Automate title status check info with AI

Housing Wire

More than a few real estate agents have come to dread calling the closing company to find out when they can close. It’s traceable to overuse and misuse of phones and email as project management queues and order-entry portals. But most understand that there are a lot of phone calls, emails and texts exchanged.