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2024 will see increased real estate agent mobility: Relitix

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After a multi-year decline in agent movement between brokerages , Relitix ’s Agent Movement Index shows a clear bottoming out in early fall of 2023 and increased real estate agent mobility as we move into 2024. “We Agents will begin moving more between brokerages in 2024 as the market begins to normalize.

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Buyers are being picky — here’s how you can navigate it as a real estate agent

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While I hate to be the bearer of bad news, that era is almost most definitely drawing to a close. home sales in nearly 30 years as high mortgage rates frustrate buyers, the market is reshaping real estate once again, placing buyers on the back foot and swinging the pendulum back to favoring sellers.

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Real estate agents are bracing for the impact of the commission lawsuits

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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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Real estate agents wonder if inventory levels will ever return to ‘normal’

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The pandemic definitely changed the real estate market ,” Todd Alperin, a Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate The Masiello Group agent based in Southern New Hampshire, said.

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No seasonal slowdown this year as real estate agents report a busier-than-usual fall

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But if the pandemic surges up again, I think we’re just going to get busier and busier here, because we are definitely located in the correct position, outside of New York City, where parents can still commute to work and children can have space needed for homeschooling and things like that,” Kanacki said.

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How 2020 exposed a greater need for collaboration between real estate agents and LOs

Housing Wire

But we also must acknowledge that the core definition of any stimulus is to implement something that causes an immediate, short-term response. The loan pre-qualification step is an area that almost all parties need for a successful outcome (consumers, real estate agents, loan officers, insurance agents).

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Opinion: Sitzer/Burnett decision presents an uncertain future for buyer agents

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Real estate agents are facing a contracting issue that could seriously upend the traditional housing landscape. Under current guidelines, sellers pay a 5-6% commission on a sale which is split between the buyer and listing agents. I’ve advocated for loan officers and real estate agents my entire career.

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