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Poll: Will you use Amazon Key in your real estate business?

Today Amazon announced the launch of Amazon Key, a new service that invites Amazon Prime subscribers to install smart locks on the doors to their houses or apartments, which delivery people can then unlock with an app on their phones. Those who decide to buy into Amazon Key could also grant entry to others — […]

7 outrageous real estate client demands

Buyers and sellers often misunderstand the scope and responsibilities of a real estate agent. Then again, agents don’t really come with a quantifiable job description, which is a big part of the problem in the first place. It’s no wonder consumers think that everything between showing and listing homes falls in an agent’s wheelhouse. Unfortunately, […]

Should real estate investors get a license?

In the beginning, I wondered if I should get my license. I made my first real estate investment deal in 2005, and as an investor, I knew I didn’t need a real estate license. Every investment guru out there said that becoming a licensed agent was a bad idea — I would be held to […]

3 simple steps to generating leads with Facebook ads

There are really only a few principles to creating winning ads on Facebook that generate leads — including name, email and phone number — for under $10 a piece. If you follow these principles, you should be able to start generating leads very quickly. Do customer research The only goal of a lead generation ad […]

Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: Snow boots or cowboy boots?

Reposted with permission — show notes and credits here. Director of marketing with Re/Max North-San Antonio, Frankee Chapa, talks about the difference between real estate in Maine and Texas, the “real estate 15” (much like the freshmen 15), ways to combat it and the importance of putting your best out there — whether it’s your personal […]

Airbnb appears to increase rents and home prices

Home-renting service Airbnb has raised ire and eyebrows in recent years for totally transforming the way people can book travel accommodations. It also appears to be raising rents and home prices in major U.S. cities, at least according to a new working paper from academics at UCLA, the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, […]

Are robot dogs the next big thing in home automation?

In the very near future, Fido may be the one turning on the lights for you. Also, he may be a robot. A new report from The Wall Street Journal out today says that Sony, the Japanese consumer electronics and media giant that was the Apple of the 1980s, is planning to unveil at a […]

Hurricane season takes toll on over 270,000 homes, report finds

This year’s brutal Atlantic hurricane season is being recorded as one of the top 10 most active of all time. In documenting the aftermath, a new report from mortgage lender Freddie Mac assesses the total damage and details how the storms will put pressure on critical housing needs in both the short and long term. […]

Over 80 percent of real estate pros use an iPhone for work

The typical American household in 2017 owns more than two Apple products, and even as Samsung and Apple duke it out for top smartphone market share, the real estate industry appears to have a clear favorite: iOS. According to an Inman reader poll, real estate falls in the Apple craze camp, at least when it […]

Why these indie brokers don’t plan to ‘sell out’

CEO Mark McLaughlin has grown Pacific Union International from 17 offices to 41 offices and 2 billion to 14 billion in revenue in the eight years that he’s owned the company. Matt Beall, CEO of Hawaii Life, is another successful principal broker; with 228 brokers and agents and 13 offices spread across four islands, Beall […]

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