Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

“Our goal is to provide New Hampshire Realtors with the tools they need to be information leaders in the industry, and HousingWire offers the very best housing news, data and research available,” said 2024 NHAR President Joanie McIntire.

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

Details of the latest membership count comes as the trade group works to implement a series of major rule changes stipulated by the Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit settlement agreement, as well as fewer market opportunities for members due to historically low levels of existing-home sales inventory. How many is unclear.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

Listings are the life-blood of all successful real estate businesses, but making the leap from working primarily with buyers to working with sellers can be a challenge for many agents early in their careers. Many nosy neighbors end up turning into sellers, and hosting open houses is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your marketing skills.

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Lamacchia Realty

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

ARE YOU A "WANT-TO-BE" SELLER IN 2024? From low inventory levels to increasing mortgage rates , the real estate landscape has experienced a multitude of changes and challenges over the last several years, leaving many sellers wondering when the “right” time to list would be given current market conditions.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2024

We have provided our network with material that help them navigate a lot of the conversations that are happening with buyers and seller. We are making sure that our affiliated agents have the tools and resources to win more listings — so that is coaching program, marketing materials, tools.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The program aims to provide real estate professionals with exposure on the Zillow platform, offering access to a wide range of features, tools and resources to generate leads and grow their businesses. Lots of tools for agents Prominent reviews can help build trust and credibility among clients.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

In the first half, there was record low inventory and high buyer demand due to low interest rates. Both agree that the two biggest housing indicators going into 2023 are mortgage rates and housing inventory. We can also look at data trends for the current market inventory to predict positive signs in inventory in the spring season.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2021

But there are definitely a few main things to looks out for — many of which are carrying over from a turbulent 2020 and early 2021 — when it comes to the upcoming landscape for the rest of 2021: Lack of inventory Fluctuating interest rates Increased adoption of technology. Inventory issues. All about the rates.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

“OJO Labs provides intuitive, personalized consumer experience, streamlining the process by matching homebuyers and sellers with the insights, tools, and industry experts they need at just the right time,” Falcomer said. “This is crucial in Canada’s nuanced marketplace, which is moving at lightning speed.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

” He also points out that with 68% of sellers choosing based on relationships, agents need to be more proactive and not just rely on traditional methods like email newsletters. He adds, “There’s no drastic rate drop in sight, and inventory struggles persist. “The heart has changed.

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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. And the seller net proceeds continue to be a target.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The Knock Home Swap is a valuable tool that gives our agents a competitive edge in helping our customers buy and sell homes within their comfort zone quickly,” said Ben Schachter, broker-president and principal of The Signature Real Estate Companies.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

We negotiated to get the sellers the highest price possible. Even if you’re months or even years away from moving, a seller’s prep session is one of the services I offer homeowners. Many of us are in sellers’ markets with very low inventory. Inventory is extremely low, and the competition is fierce.

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Eppraisal

AUGUST 25, 2023

However, two significant hurdles that are currently prevalent are the combination of low housing inventory and high-interest rates. Secure Pre-Approval In a market with few homes available, having a mortgage pre-approval in hand is a powerful tool. They have access to off-market listings and insights into upcoming properties.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2020

The first is listing tools – the products designed for you to convert potential sellers into listing contracts. And the last area is seller tools or companies that help to convert lookers to buyers (I could probably have thought of a better name here). Listing tools. Seller tools / Buyer conversion tools.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2022

HousingWire: What are you fast thoughts on the following: Stuart Sim: My most useful tech tool is… my iPhone. Stuart Sim: Latest Market Trends + Real Trends lists — great information to keep me up to date to inform my customers and colleagues. The weirdest job I ever had was… Club Med GO.

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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. David Doctorow : We feel for home buyers and sellers. For buyers in today’s market, the severe lack of inventory adds another layer of frustration, FOMO (fear of missing out) and a sense of urgency.

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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. Many real estate professionals discount the seller lead. Many real estate professionals discount the seller lead. But real estate seller leads are important because they represent commodities for brokers.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s true that first-time buyers make up a larger piece of a smaller pie, as housing inventory shrinks. Not to mention the current mortgage rates at decades-high levels as well as sellers who are locked in with pandemic low rates. Sellers are even using this as a tool to attract buyers. It never will be.

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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

MAY 10, 2022

The report used real time listing data to show the limited housing inventory and the repercussions to home buyers. By using real time inventory data, and stratifying by income, the report highlights that for a household who earns $75,000 to $100,000 they have 411,000 fewer homes available for sale compared to pre-pandemic.

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Lamacchia Realty

MARCH 17, 2022

ARE YOU A "WANT-TO-BE" SELLER IN 2022? A lot of people are wondering about how the current situation impacts otherwise normal questions about inventory and when the right time would be to list. Inventory started low in 2020, and then dropped even lower in March 2020 during the stay-at-home mandates.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 19, 2023

The newest prop tech applications to moat the client relationship are home management tools. According to the latest data from Altos Research , the real estate market is experiencing unusual patterns in pricing, inventory and demand. However, with homeowner management technology, businesses can shift their focus to homeowner outcomes.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

You’ll need more tools and more skills to have a successful hunt. If your buyers can’t or won’t compete for scarce inventory, change your strategy. You’re less likely to have to compete for those, and the sellers are likely to be more motivated to make a deal.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2023

This is absolutely an advantage in today’s market and the low inventory landscape. The way I like to think about this is if we’re on a seller shortlist to represent their home, there’s no reason we shouldn’t be winning that listing simply because of the tools, resources and insights that we have.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2023

Depending on how the contract is written, the homebuyer must decide whether to walk away from the home they want, try to negotiate with the seller to bring the purchase price down or come up with the cash to make up the difference.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2022

People are dealing with soaring interest rates and low inventory of affordable homes for sale, and competing with equity-rich homeowners and investors vying for the same properties.”. Once customers find a home using Orchard’s home search tool, the firm prepares a cash offer and helps buyers negotiate an offer backed by Orchard’s cash.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2020

months worth of inventory and the median days on the market are 17. Even though there’s maybe a little bit more inventory right now it’s actually making our markets even stronger. million, and the average sale price is $1.72 million, making the sale-to-list ratio more than 100%.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It is really a great tool from a seller perspective to say, ‘Look, we don’t control rates, but what I can offer you is something that will offset this shock in interest rates that has happened here in the last nine or 10 months or so,’” Nunziata said. percentage points of the loan amount,” Nunziata said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2021

.” With “Raveis Purchase,” which officially launched earlier this month, WRRE will acquire the home-seller’s property for an initial payment of up to 80% of the current value of the home, which unlocks the majority of the equity and enables the seller to settle any mortgages.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

If you want to add effective real estate farming tips, tools and tactics to your marketing arsenal, our guide will show you how it’s done. Remember — most of the time, buyers and sellers may not be actively looking for your services, but when they are, real estate farming ensures you are always top of mind.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

Market observers say if rates do stay higher for longer, that will continue to build pressure for many nonbanks to use MSRs as a liquidity tool in managing their balance sheets — which will promote healthy MSR trading volume. And they’ve also been huge sellers of servicing over the last three years [often to each other].”

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Lamacchia Realty

OCTOBER 25, 2023

PRICE ADJUSTMENTS AND THE 2023 MARKET In March 2022, it was clear that the market was changing from a frenzied post-pandemic scene to one where it was assumed that rising mortgage rates would slow it down and help inventory finally rise back up. Inventory didn’t increase at the rate most assumed it would. It means they’re down.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Another issue with appraiser competency could be appraisers’ apparent lack of familiarity with valuation tools. For non-appraisers, the greatest challenge was lack of inventory , with 66% of respondents selecting this response.

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Home Junction

MAY 14, 2020

When agents come across slow times, current property data and real estate marketing automation tools can be used to attract new clients and keep them updated as conditions change. But to take these efforts to the next level with the smart use of technology, consider using current property data feeds and real estate marketing automation tools.

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Lamacchia Realty

JUNE 21, 2022

In early March it was becoming clear that the market was changing from a frenzied post-pandemic scene to one where rising mortgage rates would slow it down and help inventory finally rise back up. For the past few years, with inventory at historically low levels , sellers were coming pretty close to naming their price and buyers were paying.

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