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Why Bob Goldberg, NAR’s new CEO, has some convincing to do

Reposted with permission from Rob Hahn. In the middle of the afternoon on Friday, June 23 — a curious time to be releasing such major news — NAR announced that it had chosen NAR Senior VP Bob Goldberg to be the next CEO, replacing the retiring Dale Stinton. As you can imagine, I’ve had more than […]

Daily market update: June 26, 2017

We’ll add more market news briefs throughout the day. Check back to read the latest. Most recent market news Monday, June 26 Affordability Increases Despite Tightening Domestic Monetary Policy, According to First American Real House Price Index Real house prices decreased -1.6 percent between March and April. Real house prices increased by 11.0 percent year-over-year […]

NAR: Sellers aren’t selling, renter confidence continues to dip due to financial fears

According to the National Association of Realtors Housing Opportunities and Market Experience Survey (NAR HOME), the solution to low inventory woes may not come from robust housing starts or flipping single-family rentals into owner-occupied homes again. It may come from the 71 percent of homeowners who feel it’s a “good time to sell” their home — […]

How long will we be in this financial market standstill?

Financial markets are in a most peculiar place: a standstill. This last week extended the June freeze: The 10-year T-note this week traded between 2.19 percent and 2.14 percent; mortgages are not moving at all, hovering close to 4.00 percent; and the S&P 500 stayed between 2435 and 2447. The period of exceptionally low volatility […]

How to stage a home on a budget

Reposted with permission from Moshells.com. When you show your home’s best features by staging it effectively, you help increase your final selling price without breaking the bank. As our infographic below shows, the following five golden rules of home staging will help you show off its best assets: The five golden rules are: 1. De-personalize: […]

Fredrik Eklund of ‘Million Dollar Listing’ releases anti-bullying song

On Million Dollar Listing New York, star Fredrik Eklund is loved for many things: his acute business skills, his sharp sense of humor, his collection of colorful socks and, last but not least, his ability to be transparent about his journey as a gay man. With LGBT Pride Month coming to a close, Eklund has […]

Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: A listing in ‘splitsville’

Reposted with permission — show notes and credits here. In this episode, Leigh Brown welcomes Rachel Hammer, a board director of the Ottawa Real Estate Board. She has been in real estate for over 11 years and was a former crisis counselor for the government before she made the switch to real estate. Hammer didn’t […]

How do you build a personal brand from the ground up in real estate?

Whether growing a brand as an agent, a company or a brokerage, the most important thing is knowing who you are. Ask the questions: “Who am I? What’s my value add to the industry?” Then carve out your niche. Building a personal brand is kind of scary. You worry about making mistakes, and it becomes […]

How to easily automate different parts of your business

Adam DuVander, a marketing developer at Zapier, loves application programming interfaces (APIs), and he wants everyone to know it. With Zapier, users learn how to automate different parts of their business without writing complicated code. During DuVander’s session, participants will create their own custom project, which they can take back to the office for real […]

Facebook’s new chatbots are learning to negotiate

By Brian Blum; reposted with permission from AIM Group’s Classified Intelligence Report.  Chatbots on Facebook Marketplace may soon be able to “negotiate” with you over the price of items for sale. And if new research released by Facebook this week is any indication, you probably won’t know you’re talking to a bot and not a […]

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