Real estate professionals are well aware that the services they provide are critical to their clients — but the challenges inherent in the job seem to get more acute every year. Between would-be disruptors trying to muscle in on agent commissions to the difficulty of differentiating a single agent’s business in the busy world we […]
Being a real estate broker is the best job in the world, but carries some of the biggest challenges — from how to manage, hire and release agents effectively, to whether and how you should be working with up-and-coming technology platforms. Your attention gets pulled in a thousand different directions at once just keeping your […]
When Apple released the first iPhone in 2007, no one could predict how the device would influence society — or that we’d still have iPhones in 2018. But those devices have created a world where consumers can look up clothes, furniture and even cars online, ordering new items with a few clicks. The “instant consumer” […]
Redfin’s Housing Demand Index, which is based on Redfin customers requesting home tours and writing offers across 15 major metro areas, fell 6.2 percentage points from October (136) to November (127) — the third consecutive month of declines after a summer of “virtually flat” readings, the company reported today in a blog post. The seasonally […]
Is there a trick to getting application programming interfaces (APIs) right? Jess Martin, co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) at First says you should always save optimization for later: you want to make wise decisions as you’re developing, but don’t obsess over performance until you actually see how things perform. Listen in as moderator Tom […]
Nick Morton went from being an endodontist to a bona fide entrepreneur, co-founding holiday-themed apparel company Tipsy Elves. Listen in to hear the inspirational and compelling story of the duo who dropped everything and risked it all to turn a passion project into a full-time business. Hear about the successes (including their experience on Shark Tank) […]
When Zillow asked Henry County, located in Illinois with about 50,000 residents, to provide the real estate company with tax roll data in May 2016 under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the government office stalled for a year and then tried to charge Zillow $2,500 for the data under a new ordinance, according to […]
November panned out to be a month of considerable progress for the housing market, and the latest U.S. Census Bureau new residential sales report is another point on the scoreboard. New single-family home sales rose to a seasonally adjusted rate of 733,000 — a 17.5 percent month-over-month and a 26.6 percent year-over-year gain in home […]
“Bitcoin now accepted,” read a real estate flyer posted on Facebook Wednesday by Nicole Lopez-Cummins, an agent with Intero Real Estate Services and team leader of the PR Group in Houston. As her market still recovers from the damage wrought by Hurricane Harvey, Lopez-Cummins and her team hope to tap into an emerging market of real […]
The Go Management Company, which operates Keller Williams franchises in 14 markets across North Texas; New Mexico; and Memphis, Tennessee; today announced a partnership with InsideMaps to provide 3-D tours, high dynamic range (HDR) videos and floor plans to its 4,500 agents. The agents will have free access to InsideMaps’ basic plan that includes 3-D tours, floor plans […]
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