Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Housing market inventory is low right now. According to the National Association of Realtors’ existing home sales report in August, inventory was down 13.4% Burns is a luxury real estate agent in Maui, Hawaii and Clark is a patent and intellectual property attorney in the Washington D.C. Historically low.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Beginning a career as a real estate agent is an exciting time. That’s why new agents shouldn’t miss these three panels at HW Annual that will set you up for a long, successful career. . What conditions will your clients be buying and selling in? Building the Amazon of real estate.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

Bonnie Williamson never intended to be a real estate agent. As more and more people enter the real estate industry – membership at the National Association of Realtors has ballooned to a record 1.6 For brokerages – and agents themselves – transaction sides and sales volume are easy ways to measure productivity.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2020

As Americans ditch urban cores for roomier abodes in the suburbs, real estate agents say the list of must-haves has changed: buyers are looking for pools, home offices and makeshift learning centers. In Dallas, even though demand is through the roof and inventory is low, buyers remain choosy. The post Two home offices?

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2021

The severe lack of inventory in today’s housing market has been a source of stress for home buyers and real estate agents alike. HousingWire sat down with Realtor.com CEO David Doctorow to learn how agents and brokers can alleviate some of the frustrations their clients are facing. Why or why not?

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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. Looking for more listing leads?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Real estate is a vibrant, dynamic and competitive industry. As a way to deal with this, many agents and brokers seek out professional mentorship as a means to gain insight and level up their performance. A quick internet search will prove that real estate coaching programs are plentiful. Who’s it Best For?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Check out these nine downloadable real estate prospecting letter templates to help you make an impression in your neighborhood or zip code. My name is (your name), and I’m a licensed real estate professional with (your brokerage). Access to a hyper-local agent is more important now than ever.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2023

When we contemplate the potential of AI and Web3 technologies in real estate , it goes beyond simply revolutionizing how consumers search for homes and take ownership of assets. The stakes in real estate are higher, and the cost of making a mistake is substantial. Why was it such a game changer?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Few things affect the real estate market more than the rise and fall of interest rates , which has a ripple effect that directly influences everything from buyer behavior to market trends. How interest rates impact your clients Let’s look at how interest rates can impact buyers, sellers or homeowners looking to refinance.

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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

MARCH 14, 2024

No matter where you are in the state, real estate agents in Virginia are facing low inventory conditions that are creating frustrating scenarios for their buyers. “I For Matt Salway in the Virginia Beach metro area, the tight inventory conditions are creating a rather hot market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Though this seems like a whole new stress-inducing worry for many real estate agents , the fact is that commissions have never been a set amount, just an expectation or a tradition in many markets. So how do you provide overwhelming value to your buyer clients? Repeat, referral, lather, rinse and repeat. Be a matchmaker.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Real estate farming, otherwise known as geo-farming, is a dependable lead generation method that can help to create a steady pipeline of real estate leads and clients in your area. In this article What is real estate farming? Why should I try real estate farming?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Between leveraging your personal network, filming YouTube videos and even the unpleasant task of cold prospecting, real estate professionals today wear all the hats. In one moment, you may be a content creator, and in the next, a customer service agent, administrative assistant, marketing strategist, copywriter and editor — all in one.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2024

The recent commission lawsuits have had a profound impact on real estate agents and brokerages as they face increased scrutiny and pressure to provide more transparency in their commission structures and potential conflicts of interest. HousingWire: The coaching world, particularly in real estate, can be competitive.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The world of real estate is constantly in flux, yet one thing remains true: Lead generation is one of the most important requirements for maintaining a successful real estate business. and dwindling inventory in most states, today’s brokers must get creative to keep a fresh pipeline of homebuyers coming through the door.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

Despite mentioning that a reverse mortgage can be used for the purchase of a new home, much of this article seems designed to introduce real estate agents to the concept of the H4P product. Boomers are said to be one reason inventory has been in short supply and the housing market has been frozen.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Real estate transactions are rarely stress-free. This holds true for many of the most challenging situations in real estate. Consider the residential client disappointed at the lack of inventory , or the commercial investor with many vacancies in a once-thriving property.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Despite multiple class-action antitrust commission lawsuits , increased uncertainty over mortgage rates and low housing inventory , Compass CEO and founder Robert Reffkin says “there has never been a better time to be in real estate than right now.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

We’ve all heard the news: over 60,000 real estate agents left the profession in the first half of 2023. Whether you’re newly licensed or an experienced agent who had a productive year — if you’re looking for a change, it’s likely you’ve started receiving emails, letters, and phone calls from all kinds of real estate firms.

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

In 2020, real estate industry veteran Rainy Hake Austin took her decades of experience to The Agency , where she currently serves as president of the Beverly Hills, California-based brokerage firm. Brooklee Han: The past four years have been a bit chaotic for the real estate industry.

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Hank Miller Team

JANUARY 16, 2023

One of the craziest segments of the last two years was real estate. 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.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

Ironically, the technology he’s developed can be a benefit to real estate agents as well. When I originated loans, there were a certain number of people that just didn’t need an agent — because the buyers and sellers knew each other in some fashion. SW: Why did you want to develop this platform?

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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. Real estate brokers need to be able to target these clients effectively, so they can close deals quickly. Many real estate professionals discount the seller lead.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Tom Cronkright, co-founder and executive chairman of CertifID and CEO of Sun Title , to talk about battling the latest frauds and scams as bad actors leverage a new arsenal of tech tools to wreak havoc on buyers and sellers of real estate. So, let’s pull this string one layer deeper.

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Birmingham Appraisal

JUNE 13, 2023

Appraisal Tips For Real Estate Agents As a real estate appraiser with over 30 years of experience, I have seen many changes and challenges in the appraisal profession and the real estate market. I believe that appraisers and agents have a common goal: to help their clients buy or sell a home.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2023

With the industry cooling down slower than expected, LOs are having to work harder and get creative to overcome the double whammy of surging rates and a lack of inventory. Wax said about 50 to 60% of his clients are first-time homebuyers. Every single client scenario is different,” Marckwardt said. “[The

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

How do you articulate the value you bring when representing a homebuyer in a real estate transaction? Ultimately, every homebuyer prospect, every contract and every negotiation is different, but your value should be consistent for all situations and clients. For instance, are your buyer clients also listing clients?

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Robert Reffkin is confident that Compass and its agents have what it takes to continue growing and succeeding in the changing real estate environment. “In We have brought down expenses and continue to grow our agent count and inventory advantage,” Reffkin said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

While the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont housing market may be decently hot, local real estate agents feel that it could be hotter. There has been a little bit of a downturn, it was a little bit frothier earlier in the year,” said Andrea Gordon , an Oakland-based Compass agent.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

You should be finding buyers before real estate agents anyway.” NEXA has always been focused on purchase loans , which means some of its LOs do significant business with buyers’ agents. Kortas believes that good buy-side agents will remain highly relevant and garner more business as competitors wash out.

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McKissock

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

is becoming increasingly more entwined with real estate. But does that mean real estate agents need to worry about artificial intelligence taking their jobs? Artificial Intelligence in Real Estate Speeds Up the Document Search. Be a Good Thing For Real Estate Agents?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

There is power in steady, unchanging predictability, both in life and in real estate. The industry is also contending with commission lawsuits and what this will mean for real estate long term. I once had a client pay me one of my favorite compliments I have ever received. Predictability IS certainty.

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Inman

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Low inventory combined with pent-up homebuyers looking to make their dollars go further is already driving up competition this spring, real estate agents told Inman.

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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? If you’ve ever been “ghosted” by clients you showed homes to, this may have been the reason. ” Homework: Take a close look at your buyer clients.

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