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Connect the speakers: David Greenspan on the path of least resistance

For years, David Greenspan, vice president at Keep-In-Touch Systems, has been thinking about “mindshare” — the relative public awareness of a business or a product — and he believes that harnessing the phenomenon is the best way to form a path of least resistance between you and your prospective clients. After all, if you can […]

House flipping is on the rise despite high home prices, CoreLogic reports

As anyone who regularly watches Flip or Flop already knows, house flipping is on the rise, and a new report from property data developer CoreLogic confirms this.  An analysis of public records found that the ratio of flipped properties to sales reached 6.2 percent in the first quarter of 2018, the highest it’s been since […]

The week in financial markets: two moves

Given only one soft landing on record, odds favor a different end: with the best of intentions the Fed will hike onward until we discover that a recession began four months ago. Source: click here

NAR board approves $30 annual dues increase for 2019

The trade group plans to use the additional funds to boost its annual spending for political advocacy, a transaction management platform for members and other initiatives by $35.5 million and shore up its reserves. Source: click here

Notarize raises $20 million from Lennar, Realogy and others

Notarize, a startup that offers services to legally notarize real estate documents online, just raised $20 million in funding from giants including homebuilder Lennar and real estate holding company Realogy, among others. Source: click here

California agent launches first of its kind — an institute for divorce-related real estate matters

As any real estate agent who has helped a divorcing couple knows, dealing with a marital property can be a road dotted with landmines. How do you sell the house when one party doesn’t want to cooperate? How do you deal with dual representation? Who pays for what? In January, Laurel Starks, a divorce-property specialist […]

Connect the speakers: Robynn Eccles on team compensation structure

Coldwell Banker team leader Robynn Eccles has run a solo business and was a team member for years before launching her own team, so she has a lot of experience with different real estate models and says “compensation across the board has changed in the three years I’ve had my team.” She’ll be one of […]

Connect the speakers: Scott Curcio on team compensation structure

Scott Curcio, a team leader and broker associate at Baird & Warner, has been running a team for about three years and has a definite opinion about commission splits: “I think the splits are too high,” he explains. “When someone comes to you as a team leader, there’s a reason they aren’t running their own […]

Why you don’t need to use fear tactics to sell your services

As a group, there are definitely a few things real estate professionals, and by that, I mean those of us who sell real estate, should avoid. We don’t need headlines like “8 reasons selling without a real estate agent is a recipe for disaster.” Source: click here

CRM LionDesk roars into voice-activated internet with skills for Amazon Echo

Popular real estate CRM LionDesk has launched a skill for Amazon’s voice-activated-internet appliance, Echo. Customers of the CRM will soon be able to ask Alexa to share their top three tasks and appointments for the day. It will soon be able to share information about new leads, too. Source: click here

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