Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

While sellers of existing homes have struggled with rising rates and softening demand, homebuilders have not only survived, but thrived in this market thanks to the use of mortgage rate buydowns , a tool more widely used by builders since their business is selling homes and clearing inventory. months in January 2022 to 10.1

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2023

Jot’s proprietary technology matches home buyers and sellers with a qualified notary for their transaction and makes it easy for notaries to accept assignments that fit within their schedule, while providing the tools to successfully manage their business and access to professional development resources.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

mortgage rate, the prospective buyer with a $3,000 budget can afford a $453,000 home. In October, a buyer with the same monthly budget and a 7.8% Redfin agents report that buyers have come to terms with rates in the 6s, even if they’re double the historically low costs that buyers had during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2022

Right after the Great Recession, between 2009 and 2011, buyers viewed a median of 12 homes before purchasing, as inventory was plentiful. From 2004 to 2006, during the housing boom years, even though homes were moving at a rapid pace, buyers typically looked at nine homes.

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Inman

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In partnership with Roomvo, the brokerage and search portal's new Redfin Redesign tool grants homebuyers the ability to alter room finishes while alerting agents to a buyer's growing interest.

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Inman

DECEMBER 14, 2023

According to broker Joseph Santini, buyer agreements are good for buyers and good for buyer agents. Find out more about these valuable tools and how to get them signed.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

I actually started out as a buyer’s agent myself… and I see buyer’s agency as being a very valuable tool for buyers,” Sanford said during the Q&A session. I’m concerned, quite frankly, about what this might mean to buyers who may not be able to afford representation if things change up too much.”

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Inman

MAY 7, 2024

Realtors and buyers are both confused right now, writes mega-team leader Carl Medford. To help buyers sort out the mess, here are our top 10 answers for buyer questions.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The seller, who struggled to find a buyer in a cooled down housing market, agreed to deposit a lump sum payment into an escrow account at closing – ultimately saving Davis $6,900 in monthly payments in the first two years. It gives the buyer and seller the feeling of beating the mutual enemy, ‘the market,’ and gaming the system.”.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

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Inman

JUNE 5, 2023

Question misconceptions and challenge the status quo to put this powerful buyer tool to work for your hopeful clients, writes trainer Darryl Davis.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

1 listing platform , Realtor.com has launched a sell-side agent tool kit. Realtor.com has access to a large audience of buyers and sellers, and compared to the competition, a higher portion of our audience is ready to find an agent to help them transact. In its attempt to topple Zillow as the No.

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Inman

APRIL 10, 2023

Announced on Monday, the new filter enables users to search for homes within a range of monthly mortgage payment prices that fit their budget, instead of just listing prices.

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Tools Buyers Mortgage Technology 142

Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

“In today’s dynamic market, success hinges on effectively conveying your value as an agent and the unique benefits of the tools you use,” Chad Jacobson, CEO at PrimeMLS, said in a statement.

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Inman

MAY 8, 2023

It's time to question unfounded legal warnings and negative scenarios that don't make sense so that we can put this tool to use for buyers, the CEO of Darryl Davis Seminars writes.

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Real Estate News

JUNE 27, 2023

Listing Showcase, a ShowingTime+ product, is designed to provide a more "immersive" experience for buyers and give listings agents an edge.

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Tools Design Agents Buyers 221

Inman

JANUARY 24, 2023

Zillow and UWM executives are optimistic mortgage rates will come back down but advised real estate agents at Inman Connect New York on Tuesday to get familiar with affordability tools like interest-rate buydowns.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

By analyzing hundreds of relevant data points, including market trends, historical sales data, consumer behavior, credit card debt, and more, AI tools can forecast which properties are more likely to be listed for sale in the near future. Top tool: Market Leader Tools like Market Leader make driving sellers to home valuation pages easy.

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Real Estate Sellers Real Estate Agent Tools 387

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Generative artificial intellegence, such as ChatGPT, is changing everything—a statement that comes as little surprise to anyone these days, and least of all to the many real estate agents whose markets are being saturated by artificial intelligence (AI)-empowered buyers. Keep Up AI is making buyers smarter.

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Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Marketing 359

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Real estate professionals handle a plethora of personal data from buyers and sellers, making them enticing targets for cyber threats. Conducting due diligence in technology selection A crucial aspect of bolstering cybersecurity is choosing the right tools and platforms for real estate transactions.

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Real Estate Real Estate Agent Training Tools 428

Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

In this article, we’ll review Top Producer’s comprehensive suite of solutions and the benefits of each tool in the Top Producer arsenal. Top Producer offers an innovative customer relationship manager (CRM) tool that lets you store all your contacts and client communications, with text and email capabilities from within the platform.

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Real Estate Clients Tools Contracts 359

Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

In the video posted on Wednesday, Wright addressed claims that the internet age and tools available to homebuyers should have reduced the cost of using a buyer’s agent. Michael Ketchmark, the attorney who won the Sitzer/Burnett case, argues that the workload of the buyer’s agent has decreased with the advent of the internet.

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Listing Spark

MARCH 18, 2024

In modern practices, there are plenty of online tools homeowners can use to navigate the market, negotiate deals, and successfully sell their homes without hiring a real estate agent. Then, see how innovative tools and services can help you manage the project based on your preferred timeline and budget. How is it helping?

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Listing Spark

APRIL 17, 2024

By regularly assessing the digital (and analog) processes you use and considering the benefits new tools have to offer, you can strengthen your operations and remove costly inefficiencies. Even adding instant messaging tools can help you quickly reach out to your preferred specialists and get inspections or services scheduled immediately.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

But a significant portion of this generation remain renters and are utilizing homeownership tools less frequently than younger age groups. That year, they accounted for 39% of all buyers, according to the National Association of Realtors , pushing millennials out of the top spot for the first time since 2014.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

Zillow is mostly known for its practice of selling buyer agent leads through its Premier Agent program, while Homes.com has touted its “your listing, your lead” model, which focuses on seller agents. In prior notes, KBW had also referred to CoStar as the “top beneficiary” of a change to the buyer agent landscape.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Lickstein helped craft an AI-powered tool designed to educate brokers and is currently developing a compliance framework. That led to the company ultimately comparing the marketing output of ChatGPT and a human worker, leading Lickstein and others on his team to understand the potential to leverage the tools. “We

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Inman

JUNE 5, 2023

Not crazy about buyer love letters? Mortgage expert Rick Guerrero says that a great lender can reach out to the listing agent on a buyer's behalf to offer information and reassurance.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

The area is seeing interest from domestic buyer s in major cities alongside the West Coast looking for a change of scenery and slower living.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) on Wednesday unveiled its state flood disclosure tracker tool , aiming to offer clarity and access to survey existing state disclosure requirements for flood insurance.

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Kairos Appraisal Services

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We talk a lot about our real estate appraisal tools, but one thing we don’t talk about enough is how we integrate technology to support our appraisers. At Kairos… The post Kairos’ Innovative Tools for Residential Appraisers appeared first on Kairos.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

With access to cutting-edge tools like Performance Tracker, Compass AI , and the innovative Compass Collections, we are poised to enhance our client experience and deliver unparalleled service through the industry’s leading technology platform.” The team specializes in buyer and seller representation as well as new construction.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

The real estate professionals we serve count on us to provide holistic property data to power their tools, give them insights they can use to advise their clients, and help them do business. That same inventory powers the tools, services, and insights that are used to facilitate the home buying and selling process.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

For over a year now, we’ve been training out agents on our proprietary Buyer Mastery Program, equipping them with the skills, tools and materials they need to help serve clients in the post-NAR-settlement world.” “That means we believe a skilled agent will outperform an unskilled agent 10 to 1.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Real estate agents and brokers , are you relying solely on that buyer drip you set up for your motivated and qualified clients? Today we’ll show you how to deploy 6 creative ways to get more from your searches so you can get those buyers in contract faster. Are your buyers being more proactive than you are?

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Inman

MARCH 15, 2023

Here are five common questions buyer clients ask agents, incorrect responses from ChatGPT, plus the correct response agents should use to avoid litigation. AI is useful, but it's far from perfect.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

The company monetizes its platform’s traffic in a variety of ways, primarily by selling leads, software-as-a-service tools for agents and advertising services. Those same investors foresee fewer buyer agents as a result, or at least fewer that will pay for the premium services Zillow offers.

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