Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

At the 2024 Keller Williams Family Reunion event in Las Vegas, co-founder and executive chairman Gary Keller took the stage on Tuesday and spoke to a room full of real estate agents about the importance of buyer agency agreements within the context of the ongoing antitrust lawsuits.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In the ever-competitive real estate market, creating a consistent flow of real estate buyer leads is strategy for success. Extending a broad (but strategic) net is part of knowing how to generate buyer leads in real estate. It’s packed with stylish templates for social media, events and more.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2022

RESPA has strict rules for real estate and mortgage professionals regarding kickbacks, referrals, and unnecessary fees. It also does not preclude a real estate broker or agent and a lender from collaborating on marketing activities. The buyer should be a seasoned rancher or farmer looking to expand.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Find your audience Not every real estate transaction is the same because not all buyers and sellers are the same. Do you specialize in helping first-time buyers and sellers, or are you leaning towards working with real estate investors ? They cross-promote the event.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The relationship between a loan officer and a real estate agent is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle, as the two must combine forces to help borrowers achieve their goal of buying a home. You can even collaborate on buyer education around the home buying process, leveraging each others’ expertise.

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McKissock

APRIL 28, 2021

It makes sense, but it can make the real estate process even tougher for buyers. That means it’s often the real estate agent’s job to ease their minds and lighten the situation. Here’s how to handle emotional buyers like the pro that you are. Know Their Problems — and Solve Them.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Generate seller leads using AI Artificial Intelligence (or AI) is changing the way agents work in so many ways, and that includes how we generate seller leads. Data analysis allows real estate agents to focus their marketing efforts (and budget!) Let’s be honest, spending money on lead generation can get expensive.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

There was industry-wide shock when the Missouri jury found NAR, Keller Williams and HomeServices of America liable for colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. For Haber, the final straw was NAR’s lack of a backup plan in the event the industry lost the Sitzer/Burnett trial.

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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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Birmingham Appraisal

JUNE 21, 2023

Real estate agents, as trusted guides for their clients, must possess a good understanding of the factors that influence property appraisals. In this blog post, I’ll discuss key appraisal factors, and common challenges, and offer valuable insights for real estate agents to navigate the appraisal process effectively.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2021

These are the words real estate agents use when asked to describe the current state of the market and what it’s like to buy a home today. Buyers are facing unprecedented challenges, they say, due to a confluence of housing market conditions: Pricing. If you’re an FHA or VA buyer, you don’t stand a chance.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

Many homeowners choose to sell because of major life events, such as a marriage, a new child, a new job, or a divorce. For repeat buyers and first-time buyers who entered the market in 2022, the average mortgage rate was above 6%. Others simply want to move to a different house or city.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2023

Brena Nath, Director of HW+ and Events When looking at the home-buying process, I’ve always found it fascinating and impressive that the title agent usually wins the buyer-driven social media post. To add to the story, the buyer usually doesn’t even pick the title agent — the seller does.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

That’s what I think is invariably going to happen because you’re going to have more seniors, the silver tsunami, selling and there are fewer buyers so the give is going to be lower home prices.” “[I]f you lower the overall home price, the serviceability becomes more affordable,” she told the outlet.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

There are still plenty of buyers interested in this area. In fact, we had (number) offers, which means there are still ready, willing, and qualified buyers eager to make an offer! You can use other agents’ listings here, but be careful not to imply that you’re the agent. Are you considering selling your property?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

As recently as five years ago, homeowners insurance was certainly not top of mind for most homebuyers and their real estate agents , but the rapidly rising cost of insurance premiums is changing that. For some buyers, surprisingly high insurance premiums are causing them to second-guess the property they have selected. “I

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2021

While home-buying has been historically seen as difficult, the process is getting a rebrand as loan officers, real estate agents and industry experts answer the questions that Gen Z (and any generation that won’t willingly admit to using the app) have on TikTok’s platform. Not a member?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2021

Patrick, a first-time homebuyer, was competing with buyers who were waiving basic contingency requirements and/or putting in offers that far exceeded the seller’s asking price. Most buyers want a move-in ready home, and few want to put up with the hassle of hiring a contractor. The rest of this content is for HW+ members.

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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. This cohort accounted for 1,950,000 properties — equating to 39% of total homes purchased! stares down the barrel of a considerable economic downturn.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

First, more buyers are using agents in 2023 than in 2003. Second, buyer agreements are not new. Third, Compass agents have doubled down on training to help them better communicate their value proposition. Compass has the best value proposition for buyers of any brokerage firm,” Reffkin said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The second day of the trial for the Sitzer/Burnett bombshell class action buyer broker commission class action lawsuit included plenty of insights into how the plaintiffs are approaching what is expected to be a battle royal. In the book, Keller also mentions that each side in a real estate transaction gets an average of a 3% commission.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. This is sick, and I want it to end,” said Sharon Aubuchon, a RE/MAX Premier Realty agent in Prairie Village, Kansas a suburb of Kansas City. Aubuchon says buyers are making too many concessions.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

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. If they dropped, they might be unhappy with their brokerage.

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McKissock

JUNE 30, 2021

Want to take your business to the next level and develop real estate clients who will become evangelists for your brand? Follow these useful tips: What the best real estate agents know about wowing their clients. Free Guide : Become a social media marketing master with this free guide just for real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

The number one differentiator about our program is we understand that as a real estate agent, you have one job: to generate leads,” says SERHANT. Smaller, more specific courses, such as The Buyer Presentation , are priced at $347. She even has one specifically for your first 30 days as a real estate agent.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Real estate agents are always looking for vetted, high-quality leads — and especially so during 2023 market conditions. These providers offer a rapid and cost-effective means for real estate agents to gather a list of potential clients and ultimately boost sales.

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PennyMac

JULY 20, 2021

Whether you are buying or selling a home, your real estate agent will be your partner through one of the most significant transactions of your life. Finding the right agent should involve careful planning and research, but many of us just don’t know where to start. How long have you been working as a real estate agent?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Perhaps the most significant news, made under the fanfare of “Come Together” by the Beatles, is that the nation’s largest mortgage lender pledged “to build bridges” for their brokers partners by connecting them with real estate agents. Exclusive access to the HW+ Slack community and virtual events. Already a member?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It is an eventful week within the Slack channels of Knock , and an anxiety-filled one for the company’s about 50 loan officers. The revised plan would appear similar to the scrapped pay reduction in one respect – a focus on repeat business from Knock’s network of real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In a video discussing its marketing strategy, also released this week, CoStar tells real estate agents that it plans to run the Homes.com ads on streaming platforms, broadcast TV and digital radio, as well as during major events. We’ve climbed from No. 5 or 6 to No.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In May the real estate agent listed a two-bedroom home in Fountain Hills, Arizona, 30 miles north of Phoenix, for $342,000. Exclusive access to the HW+ Slack community and virtual events. Zillow CEO Rich Barton. Antonio Pellegrini was stunned. Then Zillow came along. “It This content is exclusively for HW+ members.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2021

“Everyone should be taking notice of the moves that Walmart’s making, because they’re absolutely going to come into the mortgage space,” Cagney said at HousingWire ’s 2021 Spring Summit event on Thursday. But now, with proof of concept cleared and a large war chest, he intends to buy a mortgage lender to achieve scale.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2021

After a review of Atlanta area property records, it would appear Kim Klir is the most successful real estate agent in world history. Of those sales, Klir was the listing agent for 1,213 of the 1,613 deals, according to FMLS data. But Klir was mostly invisible to buyers’ agents. Already a member?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

After the series wraps early next year, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the predictions for next year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

“The pandemic has catalyzed purchases by millennial first-time buyers, many of whom can now work from anywhere.” ” Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process.

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Raleigh Realty

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

What is Dual Agency in Real Estate and Should you Avoid it Most buyers and sellers are familiar with how listing agents and buyer’s agents work which leads us to the question of what is dual agency in real estate? What is Dual Agency in Real Estate?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Events like this one encourage us to explore what’s keeping that leadership gap in place and push for ways to change the status quo. I appreciate that I can sort channels by topic so that conversations about content review and conversations about our upcoming events are cleanly separated, even if they involve the same people.

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