Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2021

A real estate agent at Compass Florida in Coconut Grove, Schechter has 12 years of experience in the real estate industry, so he’s familiar with its cyclical ups and downs. There’s plenty of advice available to help buyers and sellers navigate the current housing market. for $895,000. By 10 a.m.,

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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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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

With low housing inventory nationwide, agents are using innovative ways to find real estate seller leads and convert them into listings. To help you snag more listings, we updated our list of proven strategies to win more real estate seller leads in 2024.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Life events happen. A question I love to ask potential sellers is “By when would you like your home sold to the right buyer?” Call other agents that you have a relationship with that may not want to or can’t hold their own open houses. I know you work with other agents and can’t give me everything.

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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 8, 2024

Real estate agents in the leafy suburbs of Bergen County, New Jersey say the current housing market — with historically low inventory and record-high prices — is actually more challenging than the multiple offer chaos they sweated through during the pandemic. “At

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

Networking can be intimidating for some real estate agents. It is an extremely broad term that encompasses many types of activities — from attending speed networking events (think: speed dating but for entrepreneurs) to stopping by your friend’s summer barbecue. Yet real estate networking doesn’t have to be scary.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Real estate prospecting is a necessary activity for agents aiming to build a robust pipeline of buyer and seller leads. There are numerous methods an agent can use to prospect, some traditional and others that leverage technology. It could be next week, it could be next year.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

For many, buying a home is a complex process, and navigating the real estate market’s rules and regulations can be tricky, especially in states where property sale prices remain a secret. Work with a real estate professional with MLS access In non-disclosure states, the role of real estate agents becomes even more crucial.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2023

Secret Service , notified the title industry of a rise in what is known as vacant lot fraud, or seller impersonation fraud. “We We started to hear a lot about seller impersonation fraud early on in the year,” Tyler Adams, the CEO of CertifID, said. “We Oftentimes this leads to the discovery of vacant lots. million, according to NAR.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Real estate agents today need outstanding websites — or, at the very least, highly functional ones — to both attract and communicate with clients. If you target luxury buyers and sellers, it’s worth considering this investment, which also comes with the ability to choose a DIY or done-for-you build-out.

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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%. That’s part of the reason so many sellers remain on the sidelines.”

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Hank Miller Team

JANUARY 16, 2023

Prices and inventory of course, but the massive influx of "hobby agents" over this period was a lesser covered negative result. The number of real estate agents soared to record highs, as did buyer remorse and complaints. Some agents add stipulations and conditions. That’s not a given so keep a file.

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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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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Real estate farming, or geo-farming, is a lead generation strategy in which the agent focuses on a specific geographic area. Real estate farming also includes traditional marketing methods like sending direct mailers, knocking on doors and nailing your locally relevant social media presence.

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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

MAY 6, 2024

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. This is how they make that happen.

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

SELLERS, HERE'S WHAT TO DO IF A BUYER REQUESTS REPAIRS AFTER INSPECTION Selling your home and moving into a new one can be an exciting life chapter. A common issue that sellers should be prepared for is a buyer requesting repairs after the home inspection. So, what do you, as a seller, do in this scenario?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

New findings from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) show a fresh picture of who’s buying and selling homes, with more first-time buyers entering the market and families looking for homes that fit multiple generations. It’s founded by real estate agent Haley Ingram, who gets the struggles of agents with social media.

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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

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. Recently, Interested Party Contributions (or seller concessions) have been allowed with HECM for Purchase loans.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

We negotiated to get the sellers the highest price possible. 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! Many of us are in sellers’ markets with very low inventory.

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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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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

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.” Last October, FHA introduced a proposed seller credit for the H4P program.

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Hank Miller Team

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Real estate contracts occasionally collapse due to Buyer problems, but what if the Seller bails out? Can a Buyer sue a Seller if they refuse to close? What used to be infrequent is becoming more common; Sellers backing out of contracts. If that happens, what can a Buyer do?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

And with millennials emerging as the largest generation of homebuyers in today’s market, comprising 28% of all homebuyers, real estate agents need to master social media or they might miss out. Sixty percent of agents surveyed believe that social media provides higher quality leads than the MLS.

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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 sellers, if given the choice, would seldom choose a lengthy construction financing process to a cash offer on a dilapidated house. Already a member?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ask the average real estate agent or broker in America if they believe the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and brokerages are likely to win the bombshell Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit case on appeal. But in the end, the people most affected by this legal limbo are the millions of agents and brokers themselves.

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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. “It Kansas City, Missouri. Become a member today.

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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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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Community events. Between leveraging your personal network, filming YouTube videos and even the unpleasant task of cold prospecting, real estate professionals today wear all the hats. SmartZip primarily benefits experienced listing agents, yet any agent willing to nurture seller leads can thrive with this platform.

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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

JUNE 24, 2021

What the lawmaker came up with has ignited a national debate among real estate agents, on the weighty subject of Fair Housing Act violations and the invariably emotional home sale process. What the legislation refers to is, in real estate lingo, a “love letter” from prospective buyer to home seller.

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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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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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