CMLS’ Denee Evans will speak at Gathering of Eagles in 2023
The first step to safeguarding any real estate business’ future is the same — leads. This first step is why the brokerage-consumer-MLS relationship is so important. Gathering of Eagles attendees will hear from Denee Evans, a MLS leader with a…
RealTrends 500 – 2022 was a difficult year for top independent public brokerages
Robert Reffkin, CEO of Compass, may have said it best when telling analysts and investors listening to the fourth-quarter earnings call that 2022 would be a “very difficult” year. Despite the difficulties Compass and Reffkin encountered in 2022, his company…
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Keller Williams joins $100 million Houston real-estate team
According to a Thursday announcement, the Houston-based Garcia Real Estate Group will join Keller Williams after leaving Compass. Haley Garcia founded the team in 2015, after selling her boutique independent brokerage firm. Garcia is a specialist in luxury listings but…
Black Knight, ICE go headfirst against FTC
Intercontinental Exchange and Black Knight are challenging the Federal Trade Commission’s decision to halt their merger. The FTC specifically cited competition between Black Knight’s Optimal Blue’s pricing engines and the internal technology embedded within Encompass. This is in addition to…
UWM and loanDepot update financing arrangements
Two major lenders made changes to their financing arrangements Wednesday according to filings with Securities and Exchange Commission. According to a filing, the move is similar to PennyMac’s one week ago. United Wholesale Mortgage established a $500 million warehouse line…
CoStar conducts another round of layoffs
CoStar Group, a commercial real estate company, is going through yet another round. CoStar filed a Work Adjustment and Retraining Notification in California earlier in March. It stated that it had eliminated 62 positions. The company spokeswoman confirmed the cuts….
Two home finance applications are combined
Homebot, a finance portal designed to facilitate ongoing communication between customers and lenders, acquired Menlo Park-California-based Quo Finance, a mobile app that provides financial guidance for first-time home buyers.The partnership will merge both platforms together and will expand Homebot’s database…
Why buying a home is a sound decision
You want to make sure that your decision to buy a home is a good one. Many people think about how home prices will change in the next few years and how this could affect their investment. We aren’t expecting…
7 steps to a successful negotiation
What is the biggest challenge for real estate agents? It’s Negotiation! You must learn to negotiate. We believe knowledge equals confidence, while ignorance equals fear. Negotiation occurs not only when an offer is made, countered, and hopefully accepted but also…