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. The HECM for Purchase is not a refinancing tool; it is not akin to a Home Equity Line of Credit ( HELOC ).

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A 22-year-old, Chicago-headquartered software company, ShowingTime is what it sounds like: “Our products automate the showing, scheduling and management processes” for real estate agents and agent associations, the company’s website reads, claiming that more than 1 million agents in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A housing market marked by relatively high interest rates and tight inventory — and punctuated by the practice of home inspection waivers to sweeten offers — are taking a bite out of business for home inspectors, who play a key role in the sales process by ensuring that buyers are not being sold a lemon of a house.

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

We are in a rising-cost housing market and this is a time when consumers should be really leaning into the expertise of an agent, but we have messaging out in the world that is kind of devaluing the agent. Han: What are you doing to help your agents identify and articulate their value proposition?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2021

fell to a four-month low in January as builders expressed concerns about higher house prices, COVID-related supply chain issues and construction costs. Builder confidence in single-family homes dropped to 83 in January from 86 in December, according to the National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo Housing Market Index.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To get there, Cliffco, which has been in business since 1987, is going after the non-qualified mortgage ( non-QM ) market and investing in tech to get in front of buyers and non-agent referral partners. Target buyers for Cliffco include non-traditional buyers seeking investor loans.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

SentriLock , the home lockbox company wholly owned by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), announced Tuesday that they created a computer and smart phone platform to help real estate agents juggle their home showing appointments. Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Despite low inventory, the housing market is expected to remain strong in 2021 due to low mortgage rates. And with this housing boom will come even more questions from homeowners who want to know their housing options. Many real estate professionals discount the seller lead.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We service our loans and do a lot of unique things to keep our LOs and their referral partners top of mind after the transaction closes, like including the picture and contact information of both the LO and their real estate agent on the mortgage statement. That’s why we started NAF Cash.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Your path to real estate licensure begins with 120 hours of classes in an approved Ohio real estate license education program. From completing your required coursework to taking the licensing exam, keep reading to learn how to become a real estate agent in Ohio. Ready to find a real estate brokerage?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Texas residents interested in becoming a real estate agent must first complete 180 hours of approved coursework to be eligible to sit the state licensure exam. We estimate that it’ll take three to six months to get up and running as a licensed real estate agent in the Lone Star State.

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McKissock

MARCH 14, 2021

Having a website and running a blog does not suffice to market your real estate business in 2021. Social media marketing has been growing in significance over the last few years, and the COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated this trend. Furthermore, Facebook marketing is relatively easy and quick to implement.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This is a strategic move as some of the hottest housing markets in the country are currently located in Nevada, California and Arizona. The mortgage insurance and real estate services company first introduced titlegenius in Florida this past May. Biden administration prioritizes cybersecurity as fraud risks grow.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2022

Dhingra has over 20 years of experience helping homebuyers and real estate agents and is an expert when it comes to harnessing the power of social media to help educate and inform people on the home-buying process. HousingWire: What is your most useful tech tool?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s true that first-time buyers make up a larger piece of a smaller pie, as housing inventory shrinks. However, this rise in first-time buyers helps explain what’s driving demand and keeping upward pressure on prices in a market with mortgage rates currently surpassing 7%. It never will be.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

HW Media : What is your most useful tech tool? HW Media : What do you think will be the big themes for the housing market in 2022-2023? Many media outlets are fretting about a possible housing crash because panic gets them more clicks than reason. The market is cyclical; we’ve been here before, and we’ll be here again.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2023

The slower housing market and uncertain economic conditions took their toll on the number of real estate brokerages and firms that were named to Inc. Last year , over 60 real estate brokerage firms or real estate teams made the list, but this number shrank to just 36 in 2023.

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Clear Capital

MAY 24, 2022

And we’ve learned a lot over the last decade as we’ve researched and developed more accurate AVM tools. It’s important to know if your AVM will perform in an uncertain housing market and here are some tips for choosing the right AVM for property valuations. What is an AVM in Real Estate ? .

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Miller Samuel

MARCH 18, 2020

In light of this slowdown, some real estate agents have suggested that market times be modified to cast a better light on listings that will languish due to the virus. In a global pandemic or worldwide catastrophic event, housing market stats will be internally adjusted by consumers to factor the event into the equation.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Use the right tools to reach out to your database Consider using Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software such as kvCORE, Happy Grasshopper or Contactually to regularly email your database. At a minimum, making five calls per day is easily doable, so start there and do more if you can. The possibilities are endless.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

Clearly, we love that the housing market supports so many professionals and households. But ultimately, efficient mortgage lending and real estate sales is what is most important to a healthy housing market. Real estate is a $206 billion industry, according to IBISWorld. Jobs are important.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

APRIL 15, 2021

Whether you were already diving into the home buying process when COVID-19 hit the headlines, or you were just thinking about getting started, home buyers everywhere are wondering if they can go forward with their moving plans. Check out these resources from Cleveland Appraisal Blog regarding virtual tools for all of your real estate needs!

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Eppraisal

OCTOBER 31, 2023

 Better yet, use a real estate agent to do a comparative market analysis and calculate your home’s value impartially. In addition to comps, they pay attention to current market trends and personally look at the property’s interior and exterior and note defects.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2021

HousingWire: Why, in today’s market, is property condition data more important than ever? Homes in hot markets are receiving all cash offers the first day they hit the market, with iBuyers and SFR investors expanding both their footprint and the types of properties they are targeting.

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McKissock

APRIL 16, 2021

March was the hottest month in housing history. “The housing market set a slew of records for prices, home-selling speed, and competition in March, making it the hottest month for housing since at least 2012,” according to this story from Redfin. Want helpful tools for dealing with the appraisal gap?

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Raleigh Realty

MARCH 23, 2021

We would imagine it's the same in most real estate markets around the country as we have found the same to be true of homes for sale in Charlotte as well. Buyers want to work with the best local Realtors® to help them when buying a home because it is such a large financial purchase with so many different components involved.

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Lamacchia Realty

DECEMBER 11, 2023

THE HIDDEN COSTS OF SELLING YOUR HOME WITHOUT A REALTOR® There is no denying it, the housing market has been a rollercoaster over the last several years. From the Covid-19 driven frenzy in 2020 to the significant inventory slowdown this year , buyers , sellers , and agents have all had adapt and grow comfortable with change.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Public health officials note that we have many more tools to address this latest — and likely not the last — challenge. More specifically, that means targeting an unemployment rate close to 4%, inflation close to 2%, and using regulatory tools to prevent unsound lending or other financial imbalances. The encouraging news?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

But what makes Redfin different – what makes it radically, transformatively different – is that it classifies real estate agents as employees. These employee agents are exceedingly more productive than the average independent contractor agent. million real estate agents. A profitable division.

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McKissock

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Are you wondering what the best clients to work with are to advance your real estate career? There are many different career opportunities in real estate. While some real estate agents and brokers prefer to work with homebuyers, others decide to specialize in working with property investors.

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Listing Spark

AUGUST 23, 2023

If you’re a typical home seller offering a 3% commission to your listing agent, that’s a median cost of $11,172 or $14,037, respectively. There are valuable services that real estate agents provide, such as advertising the property, listing it on the MLS, handling the title process, and negotiating deals.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2020

“We believe in the value of continuing to innovate, adapt to the changing industry and times by delivering extraordinary experiences and providing our family of agents with the latest in tools, training and the technology that they need to continue to defy mediocrity and give 121%,” said Orhan Tolu, Century 21 Real Estate Alliance CEO and owner.

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Hank Miller Team

JULY 7, 2022

Probably not a bad question as the changes in quarter 2 of 2022 were dramatic, As the Fed fights rampant inflation, buyers are faced with dramatic rate increases and sellers with a comparative lack of activity. Both the stock market and national housing market went bonkers and home buyers were right in the middle of it all.

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McKissock

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In recent years, the real estate industry has noticed some significant trends in the commercial and residential housing markets. Moreover, earlier this year a bidding war broke out over a 140,000-square-foot shopping center housed at Office Depot in Port Charlotte, Florida. Free eBook : Is your market hot?

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

MAY 12, 2022

Enter the next new and cool tool. Before we talk about this new tool, let me share an experience I recently had. After all, at times, I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed. In some complex measures, I have a tool I use to get the proper angle degree of walls. That was a huge game-changer. SOMETHING NEW.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2022

Several large mortgage brokerages see the market-wide volatility as a recruiting tool. Real estate firm RE/MAX acquired Motto Mortgage in 2016 to create a “one-stop-shop” in which homebuyers can work with both a real estate agent to find a home and a Motto Mortgage loan originator to secure financing. “As

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Lamacchia Realty

MARCH 12, 2024

The first line of defense is hiring a REALTOR® who is experienced in handling the complexities of multiple offers in this adjusting market with higher rates. Compose a Personal Letter While the actual terms of an offer are ultimately most important, sellers often want to know more about why a buyer wants to purchase their home.

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