Company-Wide Sales Meeting 4.1.2025

View the slides here.

The New accessRedwood is now live!

We have partnered with StackWrap to create a new platform that allows our agents to be informed and find their key tools and systems as quickly and easily as possible. Go to accessredwood.com and log in with your existing credentials, and tell us what you think of this streamlined dashboard. Please reach out to your ASM with any feedback or suggestions.

Congratulations to our latest quarterly Redwood Standard of Excellence Award winner: Karen Beach! She embodies Redwood’s Core Values and is always positive and willing to go above and beyond for others.

April is Fair Housing Month

Please watch this Newsday Documentary, an undercover investigation detailing a three-year investigation that uncovered widespread evidence of unequal treatment by real estate agents on Long Island. Watch the documentary here.

Clear Cooperation is in the news.

Stay current on the latest with this article from Housing Wire and these articles from Inman and 1000Watt.

Private Exclusives

Redwood agents have access to Final Offer’s network of listings, and RealScout and Anywhere will be coming soon.

Redwood’s position: Only use private exclusives when it is in your client’s best interest. Common use cases include when sellers want privacy, testing the market, and preparing a listing. The Private Exclusive Addendum to the Listing Agreement form must be used in these cases.

Don’t forget! When activating a private exclusive in BrightMLS, you must update your listing settings so the listing populates on IDX feeds!

For more information on office exclusives and BRIGHT’s policies regarding them, check out their helpful guide.

Core Partner Updates

Agents love Highland Title’s Agent Quote App!

It gives you access to

Seller net sheet
Seller’s Multiple Offers
Monthly Affordability
Rent vs. Buy
Order Title
Marketing Flyers

Learn more and download the app here.

ACM - March 18-19 Federal Reserve Meeting — 3 Takeaways for Real Estate Pros:

Fed Funds Rate: The Fed held rates constant at its 2nd meeting of the year in March.
Quantitative Tightening: The Fed will begin slowing the pace of balance sheet reduction in April. This means the Fed will be active buyers in the bond market, replenishing a high percentage of their expiring bond securities.
Long-term interest rates, like those on mortgages, are determined in the bond market
The Fed being buyers in the bond market increases demand, which increases prices, which in turn lowers the rate offered and hence RATES – in theory
2025 Updated Fed Forecast: The updated forecasts, where economic growth was revised downward and inflation upward, are conflicting. Typically, movements in growth and inflation tend to move in the same direction. The conflicting nature of these forecasts makes it hard for the Fed to take decisive action in either tightening or loosening monetary policy. It will take more time to make data-driven decisions to change the direction of monetary policy substantially