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The week in real estate industry deals: March 13-17

While real estate agents chase leads and close deals on houses, there’s another level of deal-making that takes place within the real estate industry: mergers, acquisitions, integrations and partnerships. We’ll be recapping every week’s noteworthy deals that didn’t make it into print (and some that did) for your perusal. We missed you last week! Coldwell […]

Zillow Group’s Bridge Interactive vs. Upstream: A data management arms race?

Listings, listings, listings. Debates about where they go online, when, and in what form — plus who controls all of that — have fired up the real estate industry since the advent of the internet.As the ways for harnessing electronic listing and other real-estate related data multiply, the need to enter data into different systems becomes increasingly […]

NAGLREP Housing Policy Summit covered Fair Housing and Equality Act issues for LGBT citizens and agents

On Tuesday, The National Association of Gay and Lesbian Real Estate Professionals wrapped up its first-ever Housing Policy Summit, which gathered well-known LGBT and allied housing leaders from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the National Association of Realtors (NAR), HRC and the LGBTQ Task Force to pinpoint issues and craft legislation […]

Voodoo Agent: Getting leads — the good news and the bad news

Sixty five million leads are generated a year just online, says Gary Gold in the third episode of Voodoo Agent. The bad news? That means it’s really easy to get leads, so you’re going to be fighting for yours. “The key to this business — where all the money is made — is that lead going […]

Purplebricks, UK hybrid real estate brokerage, to invade US with $60M

An elderly British man asks a homeseller if he used the real estate firm Purplebricks to sell his home.“They’re just online, aren’t they?” asks the seller.“No, no, they’re proper estate agents,” insists the elderly man. “You just don’t pay commission.”Looking dazed, the seller politely excuses himself. Then he screams into a cupboard.He has experienced “commisery,” viewers […]

Daily market update: March 17, 2017

We’ll add more market news briefs throughout the day. Check back to read the latest. Mortgage rates: 30-Year Fixed Rate Mortgage Rates for the Past 6 Months | Credio 15-Year Fixed Rate Mortgage Rates for the Past 6 Months | Credio Home equity rates: Average Home Equity Loan Bank Rates by State | Credio Average […]

How big data improves the real estate industry

Big data is a term that gets thrown around quite a lot in conversation, but for good reasons. It is making a big splash in the business world, acting as a harbinger of the new high-tech age. The real estate industry was not as overly quick to embrace the winds of change, but at this […]

‘Ugliest House of the Year’ tells a tale of tragedy and redemption

A company that prides itself on buying ugly homes fast has declared the results of its “Ugliest House of the Year” contest, and the winner could just as appropriately be described as the most heartbreaking house of the year.But the after pictures offer an optimistic glimpse into what’s possible with some good renovations and a […]

5 tech tools that could make your real estate mobile office possible

Have suggestions for products that you’d like to see reviewed by our real estate technology expert? Email Craig Rowe.On the brokerage level, virtual real estate offices are trending. And since the beginning of real estate, agents have been on the go. Being mobile in this industry, however, continues to get easier with a little help […]

How to create harmony between your work and personal life

Reposted with permission from Matt Bonelli “Control your calendar.” All too often real estate agents are missing out on important personal or family time to work with clients. This doesn’t always happen because work needs to get done but because agents are not in control of the scheduling. Does this sound a bit like you? […]

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