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The National Association of REALTORS® is already reeling from lawsuits and leadership turmoil. If state and local associations push to decouple their memberships from national membership, that will likely have a big impact on NAR's annual revenue and influence. I imagine there is more to come from Brooklee Han, OLY and Jeff Andrews on this topic.
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Interesting LendingTree study written up by Chris Clow. But this headline assumes that potential borrowers are only shopping on rate. We know there are more dimensions to the mortgage sell, including consumer experience, technology, and speed to close. There's nothing wrong with shopping around, but there's also nothing wrong with sticking with your first lender if you're happy with the overall offering.
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Last week we had Damian Eales and Andy Florance onstage at HousingWire's The Gathering. My big takeaway from Damian's session is Realtor.com is positioning itself as the champion of the buyer's agent. With the acquisition of Matterport, Homes.com is doubling down on the listing agent. We didn't have Rich Barton onstage at The Gathering, but reading between the lines of yesterday's earnings call, Zillow seems to be positioning themselves as the champion of the consumer. In the long run, being with the consumer is the winning play, but in the short and mid term, the vast majority of Zillow's revenue comes from buyer agent leads, and the lead process on Zillow isn't exactly consumer friendly. This will be a difficult tightrope to walk, and I look forward to seeing how the team at Zillow takes on this challenge.
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Michael Simonsen does these incredible weekly videos with all the latest Altos data on the housing market. This week we're seeing a boost in inventory very late in the year, and I'm wondering if it's because of the recent decline in mortgage rates (https://lnkd.in/e7PZmQgF). Could Sarah Wheeler be right about the mortgage rate lockdown? Are we seeing some inventory unlocking?
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So impressed with the visualization work by our new data journalist, Will Robinson. This is exactly what I was thinking we would do when we hired our first data journalist! Also, this article is highly relevant to the shocking verdict in the Sitzer Burnett trial: https://lnkd.in/ehQPw6_u