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Top Alaska indie brokerage merges with Keller Williams mega team

Top independent brokerage Madden Real Estate in Fairbanks, Alaska, owned by Wes Madden, has been sold to Ed and Dar Walden, heads of  The Walden Team, a division and mega agent team of Keller Williams Alaska Group.Madden Real Estate has been the top real estate team in Alaska since 2009 and in the top 50 […]

Mortgage Preflight to dish legitimate buyer lead credit scores in minutes

Prospects are often lost to real estate agents when wanna-be buyers walk into the office door or visit open houses without being pre-qualified by a lender.Agents don’t like to show houses to people who don’t know how much they can afford or whether or not they even qualify for financing. And for folks who haven’t […]

San Antonio Board of Realtors to hold vote on whether to eject directors

Here’s something that doesn’t happen every day: One of the largest local Realtor associations in Texas will hold an emergency meeting next week to vote on whether two of their officers should be removed from the board of directors.On April 5, members of the San Antonio Board of Realtors (SABOR) will decide whether to comply […]

What are the top 10 cities for millennial homebuyers?

Millennials are saddling up and moving to the South and West, according to realtor.com’s Top Cities for Millennials report. This year, Salt Lake City; Miami; Orlando, Florida; Seattle; Houston; Los Angeles; Buffalo and Albany, New York; San Francisco and San Jose, California, took the top spots due to a robust job market, access to affordable […]

5 family-friendly client events perfect for summer

Ah, summer: time to go on vacation, get some sun, visit the beach or pool — and build your real estate business. Particularly for families with kids, summer is the ideal time to sell a house. So it’s also the ideal time to host a family-friendly event that brings exposure to your brand. There are […]

Daily market update: March 29, 2017

We’ll add more market news briefs throughout the day. Check back to read the latest. Most recent market news: Black Knight Home Price Index Report U.S. home prices at the start of 2017 continued the trend of incremental monthly gains, rising 0.1 percent from December New York continues to lead the states on a monthly […]

How to move your entire real estate business into the cloud

If you’ve followed along through entries one, two, three and four, you’ve pretty well stopped generating paper. Your calendars, notes, lists and transaction docs are in the ether. But paper still comes your way (not everyone is as technologically astute as you!) And you still have scads of old files, memos, notebooks and other valuable documents […]

Why explaining the appraisal process to clients early is crucial

After a seller and buyer reach a “meeting of the minds,” meaning that they have agreed to a price, terms and conditions so that a sale can move forward, most purchase agreements provide each principal a number of opportunities to re-visit the agreement. When a problem arises, they can negotiate the issue, renegotiate the purchase offer […]

The rise of the next-generation 100% commission brokerage

Those hoping that the next generation of 100-percent commission brokerages would just die a death may want to see a therapist about their denial.These thick-skinned companies are alive and well, and the tenacious breed of broker-owners who run them have gotten used to being called flat-fee scumbags.They say they know what it feels like to be […]

It’s 1 a.m. — are you up? I’d like more information about your real estate listing

Real estate leads can come at any time, and in today’s super-connected world it might be via email, online internet inquiry, text message, Facebook messenger or any other number of ways people are communicating today. Regardless of how contact was initiated, when they hit up your phone or inbox in the middle of the night, […]

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