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Recruiting real estate agents: A complete roadmap for 2024

Housing Wire

The data are sobering: The Agent Movement Index , the number of experienced Realtors switching brokerages each month, was at its lowest level since 2016. To help, we put together this guide to walk you through our nine-step system to recruit, nurture, and retain producing agents in 2024. They listen.

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5 tips to upgrade your real estate networking game

Housing Wire

This is particularly crucial in real estate, where personal recommendations hold substantial weight. The National Association of Realtors found that 68% of people who found their home through a real estate agent discovered that agent through referrals from their family or friends.

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Even super hot housing markets like LA are cooling off

Housing Wire

Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers from each city share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. Our local market feature spotlights five different areas across the country for each HousingWire Magazine. Rapid City, South Dakota. Rapid City, South Dakota. Los Angeles, California.

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Bridging the gaps in the home buying process

Housing Wire

Title agents historically have felt like they played second fiddle to other players in the buying and selling of real estate. Regulators were suddenly curious about what exactly the industry contributed to a real estate transaction. A title agent can begin by delivering the vision.

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Simplify Real Estate Investment: Essential House Flipper Platforms You Need Now

Listing Spark

They offer a range of features, including property search and analysis, project management, financial tracking, and even marketing solutions. These platforms should provide features for property search and analysis, project management, financial tracking, and marketing.

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Opinion: Automate title status check info with AI

Housing Wire

More than a few real estate agents have come to dread calling the closing company to find out when they can close. It’s traceable to overuse and misuse of phones and email as project management queues and order-entry portals. But most understand that there are a lot of phone calls, emails and texts exchanged.

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Opinion: More can be done to shorten the average time to close

Housing Wire

Unfortunately, those ads don’t talk much about the next month or six weeks, the period real estate professionals call the “settlement process.” More than a few real estate agents will roll their eyes and sigh when asked by a client, upon the signing of a sales contract, “What’s next?”

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