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Daily market update: March 23, 2017

We’ll add more market news briefs throughout the day. Check back to read the latest. First American’s Potential Home Sales Model February 2017 Potential Home Sales Potential existing-home sales decreased to a 5.7 million seasonally adjusted, annualized rate (SAAR). This represents an 89.8 percent increase from the market potential low point reached in December 2008. […]

How does virtual reality affect the real estate industry?

In this week’s video, Peter Lorimer of PLG Estates geeks out over the uses of virtual reality in real estate right now. If you have a massive property ($10 million-$12 million), there will naturally be international buyers interested. Virtual reality is an excellent way to show the property. You just send the virtual reality headset to […]

‘Why are the sellers selling’? What (not) to say

Having shown thousands of homes as a Realtor, I’ve fielded multitudes of questions from buyers as they’ve walked through various homes. Asking questions is wise — it’s better to get answers up front than discover nasty surprises after escrow closes.Ranging from sensible to silly, intelligent to inane, buyer queries help agents focus on potential concerns […]

Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate podcast Episode 16: Guns, drugs and a potential kidnapping situation

Have you ever had your client turn out to be a major player in a drug cartel? Todd Ferris has. Listen in to this week’s episode, and he’ll tell you all about it. Do you have a crazy real estate story to share? Email Leigh for your chance to tell it on the podcast! Leigh Brown is […]

Edina Realty puts agent training and mentoring on the ‘Fast Track’

What do you do with a degree in business and IT?Jake PerpichLots of things, but when your family is stacked with three generations of real estate professionals — both mortgage and agency — it’s perhaps not surprising that Jake Perpich decided to become an agent.And if he was going into the family business, he had […]

What venture capital looks for in real estate entrepreneur hopefuls

Do you have the most brilliant idea that will totally change the real estate industry and just need the dough (and strategic backing) to get started?Constance Freedman of Moderne Ventures, a venture fund and later-stage accelerator program for real estate, mortgage, insurance, title and home services industries, has some questions for you.The founder and managing partner […]

What would eliminating individual health care mandates mean for real estate agents?

Perhaps the most hated piece of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or ACA) — also known as “Obamacare” — is the individual mandate.This is the piece of the law that requires every citizen to secure private health insurance for himself or herself, or to pay an annual penalty for failing to do […]

Door, a Dallas hybrid real estate brokerage, nabs $2.3 million in funding

Another day, another hybrid brokerage funding round.Dallas-based Door, a high-tech brokerage that pockets only $5,000 for representing buyers and sellers, has raised $2.3 million to build on the momentum of a promising first year.It thinks it can succeed where other hybrid brokerages have failed, in part, by providing the same level of handholding as a traditional firm.Door closed about […]

Real estate broker prints 200 ‘welcome’ signs featuring 26 languages

When you drive into Albany in upstate New York, chances are you might spot a sign welcoming you in 26 languages to the neighborhood.That would be the brainchild of Alex Monticello and his local brokerage Monticello.Courtesy of Alex MonticelloThe independent broker-owner has printed up 200 signs, a $2,000 project thus far.His aim was to make all […]

Why your database is the central nervous system of your business

Reposted with permission from Matt Bonelli. Your contact database is the central nervous system of your business. Keeping it organized is essential for managing how you attract opportunities. You are in a people-based business, and if you don’t know about your people, how can you expect to provide them with the best possible service? Watch […]

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