Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Luxury Realty Group , a subsidiary of Luxury Realty Group Holdings , launched the beta testing for its conversational AI services website vuHome.ai, the company announced on Tuesday. The l uxury real estate brokerage firm partnered with Kore.ai The product will be available across its brokerage operations in Las Vegas.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

PureWest Christie’s International Real Estate , a Montana -based real estate brokerage, is expanding into northern Idaho , the firm announced on Tuesday. The brokerage , which is a longtime affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate, is the largest independently owned brokerage in Montana.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

The battle among big brokerages for top agents continues in Texas, where eXp Realty added two top teams last week. “Our decision to join eXp Realty is driven by a shared vision for the future of real estate,” Seder said in the statement. The Mike Seder Group joined eXp after spending more than 25 years with RE/MAX.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Massachusetts -based boutique real estate firm Lindo Realty Group has joined the commonwealth’s top independent real estate brokerage, Jack Conway & Co. Prior to founding the Lindo Realty Group in 2018, Robbie Lindo worked at Jack Conway for more than a decade as a top salesperson and then as a manager.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As a real estate agent, you may think clients should care more about their next home than your life story. And while that may be true, well-crafted real estate agent bios can build trust and credibility and serve as a powerful tool in an agent’s marketing arsenal — giving prospective clients.

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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. 186 spot on the Inc.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The iBuyer announced that it was teaming up with eXp Realty on Tuesday. With this integration, eXp agents will be able to request a cash offer on qualifying homes on behalf of their clients directly through their eXp agent dashboard.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Realty Group joined Compass as its founding team in Madison, Wisconsin , the company announced on Tuesday. The team of three, led by principal Liz Quinn, was previously affiliated with Realty Executives. Realty Group as our first Compass team to join in Madison,” said Fran Broude, regional vice president with Compass.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

The past year and a half, with its rising mortgage rates , low inventory, and economic uncertainty, has been a challenge for real estate pros, not to mention the buyers and sellers they serve. Regularly update content, share valuable insights about the local market, and interact with potential clients.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Real estate is a vibrant, dynamic and competitive industry. Across the country, the best real estate coaches serve as valuable mentors who can help agents and brokers achieve the success they deserve. “It’s A quick internet search will prove that real estate coaching programs are plentiful.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Anywhere Real Estate partnered with agent-client collaboration platform RealScout to allow the company’s affiliated real estate agents and franchise owners “to engage, nurture, and convert clients at each stage of the real estate journey,” according to an announcement on Friday.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

eXp Realty is looking to get into the exclusives game. 1 brokerage by transaction side count announced the launch of eXp Exclusives , which will be open to eXp agents and their clients in the U.S. The app will also house all of eXp’s active MLS listings and the service is free to eXp Realty agents. On Tuesday, the nation’s No.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In the nearly two months since a Missouri jury found the real estate industry liable for colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions, Jason Posnick has fielded a lot of questions about commissions and cooperative compensation from clients. It has been cool to hear that.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Dallas-based United Real Estate is expanding its footprint in its home state. United Real Estate | DFW Properties is merging with Grapevine, Texas-based Insight Realty Network , according to an announcement on Thursday. The merger expands United Real Estate’s agent count to 830 in North Texas and 1,810 statewide.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While the lawsuit does name large corporate brokerage firms as defendants, including Keller Williams , Side , HomeServices of America , and Fathom Realty , the robust defendant list also includes real estate teams, such as The Loken Group and Hexagon Group , as well as an individual broker, Mark Anthony Dimas.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2022

Two Myrtle Beach Century 21 franchises have filed a lawsuit against eXp Realty , alleging that eXp Realty agent Joel Barber stole profits and private real estate data during secretive, “unauthorized” late night office visits. accessing “password-protected” company computers to steal client data. and 5:30 a.m.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Over the weekend, CoStar Group announced that it has agreed to acquire real estate tech company Homesnap. Homesnap has spent years building tools that reinforce the agent-client relationship and arm both home buyers and agents with the data and software they need to find homes and do their jobs,” said John Mazur, CEO of Homesnap. “We

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

California-based home equity investment firm Splitero launched its own real estate brokerage , Splitero Homes, this week. Clients must retain a stake of at least 20% in their homes. Hence, Splitero Homes will primarily serve sellers of homes that are already clients of Splitero Funding , the home equity investment business.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2021

Alanna Strei of eXp Realty in San Diego and Cornerstone Communities’ new San Diego townhouses. Real estate agent Alanna Strei’s client wanted to check out “Tesoro Vista Del Sur,” 134 newly built townhouses in the Ocean View Hills area of San Diego. The post Are homebuilders burning bridges with real estate agents?

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2023

By now, you’ve all heard the buzz about artificial intelligence (AI) and the potential impact on the real estate industry. In a recent RealTrends BrokerPulse , real estate brokerage leaders responded that they are embracing artificial intelligence (AI), they are doing so cautiously.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2021

Sudi Hernandez of Cloud 9 Real Estate Group loses leads when a client hears her Cuban accent. James Dunn of eXp Realty surprised a client with his answer to their question, “You’re white, right?”. Amy Kong of Trust Real Estate hosts open houses where people ask, “Where is the agent?”.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Phillip Cantrell is the CEO of Benchmark Realty LLC based in Franklin, Tennessee and the executive vice president of Strategy for United Real Estate. No big deal, except for one thing: Almost all MLS information is already syndicated with every large real estate portal. Look around. It’s already happening.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Becca Summers does not typically include Wells Fargo on the lender recommendation list she gives to clients. However, when mortgage rates started rising in the spring, Summers encouraged her clients to take advantage of the bank’s mortgage rate lock product. Looking back, Summers is glad she encouraged her buyers to swap lenders.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Like the other commission lawsuits, the Umpa suit alleges that the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and more than a dozen other real estate industry firms have colluded to artificially inflate agent commissions. United Real Estate also filed a motion to dismiss the suit for failure to state a claim.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2020

eXp World Holdings , the parent company of eXp Realty , said its profit soared to a record in the second quarter as the dollar-volume of transactions rose 26% from a year earlier to $13 billion. eXp acquired Showcase IDX in July, bringing a technology company focused on agent website and consumer real estate portal technology to the company.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Asteroom, a smartphone-based provider of mobile 3D home tours for real estate professionals, has announced a partnership with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Fox & Roach which gives agents access to Asteroom ’s 3D tour technology, image enhancement and 3D virtual staging capabilities. Sell Speed is available now in beta.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

and Realty Austin in Austin/San Antonio, in their transactions with Compass over the past few weeks. In both cases, our clients and Compass had to design new ways to structure the transaction to get a favorable outcome for all parties. We were honored to represent the owners of DPP in Pasadena, Calif.,

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Top 10 mortgage lender and servicer Newrez is partnering with Newzip , a tech-enabled real estate platform, to roll out a program aimed to save buyers and sellers on credit costs. Dubbed Newrez Home Rewards, buyers will be matched with a real estate agent who works with Newzip and provided booking services.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Real estate agents gathered at the Palladium Theater in New York City’s Times Square on Thursday to learn networking and lead generation strategies from some of the nation’s top luxury real estate agents at the Goldbar Live conference. There is no one size fits all in this business,” Kirman said. “It It is super random.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Real estate brokerage eXp Realty has entered into an affiliated business agreement with Orlando, Florida -based title fi r m Citrus Closing Group , according to an announcement on Thursday. “We Citrus Closing Group serves clients in the Florida counties of Lake Seminole, Osceola, Orange, and Brevard.

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Lamacchia Realty

MARCH 1, 2024

March 1, 2024 – Last night during the Leading Real Estate Companies of World annual conference in Las Vegas , Lamacchia Realty won the award for most Outgoing Referrals out of all Category Five companies! I’m thrilled that we’ve won this award and even more thrilled that we helped so many clients relocate this year! “I’m

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Carnegie Mortgage Partners will offer mortgage products to clients of Keller Williams Bergen County Partners , a Keller Williams franchise with 15 offices spread across Ridgewood, Woodcliff Lake, Tenafly, Fort Lee and Rutherford. Carnegie Mortgage Partners’ office is in Ridgewood, New Jersey. BCP operates as a team led by Al Donohue. “We

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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. Dallas-based agent Alex Trusler, with the Trusler Group , said many of his coupled clients don’t want to share their office space. “I’ve

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Inman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

NYC Compass broker Jaime Richichi is taking her talents to Sotheby's International Realty. Richichi's home base will be SIR's East Side Manhattan brokerage; however, she's also licensed to serve clients at the brokerage's East Hampton and William Pitt offices.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Plaintiffs in Florida and Pennsylvania filed lawsuits on Monday, accusing real estate industry players of allegedly colluding to artificially inflate real estate agent commissions. More home sellers on the East Coast are getting in on the commission lawsuit action. Both lawsuits are seeking class-action status.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Husky Homes real estate team, led by Alison Crim, has joined Compass , the company announced on Tuesday. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, the team of eight had been affiliated with Keller Williams Realty Madison East since its debut in 2020. “We The team specializes in buyer and seller representation as well as new construction.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

The Gibson suit was filed in late October 2023 by Michael Ketchmark, just after a Missouri jury ruled in favor of his clients in the Sitzer/Burnett suit that found real estate industry players liable for colluding to artificially inflate agent commissions.

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