The world is moving out there, although it doesn’t look like it. First the explainable, hard-evidence stuff. Then I’ll get to the other stuff (ahem, politics). The US 10-year T-note in the last year. With the Fed approaching a hold-point, and unknown effects from reverse-QE, the next big move will be based on economic news. […]
Seattle-based Windermere Real Estate has just appointed Brooks Burton, the former EVP and COO of Ohio-based HER Realtors, as its first COO. Brooks Burton The new position has been created to allow Windermere CEO Geoff Wood and his co-presidents to focus less on day-to-day operations and more on company engagement and growth. As COO, Burton […]
Reposted with permission — show notes and credits here. Sometimes, being a real estate agent means sticking it out for clients in the most dire situations. For one agent, sticking it out meant showing three houses even though he had a puddle of blood pooling in his shoe. In this episode, Leigh Brown welcomes Peter Murray, […]
Most companies, including real estate brokerages, will tell you they care deeply about customer service. But when five-star real estate agent reviews are ubiquitous across rating platforms, how are discerning buyers and sellers supposed to find the agents — and brokerages — who care most about the service experience? Quality Service Certification (QSC), a customer […]
Has this ever happened to you? It’s a weeknight, and you’re sitting on the couch browsing through Amazon.com or your favorite online department store looking at clothes or the latest gizmo. You’re not really browsing because you’re not ready to buy anything — you’re just comparing prices, features, etc. via GIPHY Then, you get distracted. […]
You’re probably familiar with this scene on the TV: A young couple purchases a fixer-upper and wants to change the layout, the outdated features and a few other undesirable features the home has to offer. Within 30 to 60 minutes, you see this fixer-upper become transformed into something you would see on the front cover […]
How many Starbucks coffees would it take to pay for a down payment on a new home? Let’s use Alexandria, Virginia, as our example. According to Starbucks pricing, a Grande Starbucks Cappuccino costs $3.65. The Metropolitan Regional Information System (MRIS) and current market stats list the average sold price in Alexandria in June at $612,327; […]
Thad Wong, co-founder of @properties, says the biggest change happening for brokerages right now is a major movement toward reducing costs. The trick to doing that while still remaining competitive is to replace certain expenses with valuable, competitively priced technology. Brokerages that can’t make this change might be in danger of going out of business, […]
Fidelity National Financial has agreed to acquire Real Geeks, a customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing system for real estate agents. The acquisition marks another step by Fidelity into real estate, coming after it purchased CINC (Commissions Inc.), a business platform for real estate teams, for a reported $250 million in 2016. Fidelity National Financial […]
Danielle Hale Danielle Hale has been an economist researching the housing industry for almost a decade; she was incredibly helpful with shaping Inman’s deep dive on the home listing shortage earlier this year as the managing director of housing research for the National Association of Realtors (NAR). So it’s perfectly appropriate that she’ll be joining […]
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