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Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate expands SoCal presence

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate is expanding its Southern California presence with a merger and a new affiliation, giving it 13 California-affiliated brokerages and more than 1,500 agents in the state. Source: click here

‘Elder orphans’ more likely to move: Study

A wave of unmarried, childless elderly people are likely to shape the future of housing. These “solo agers” must make big decisions about the course of their lives without input from loved ones. That includes their housing situations. Source: click here

WATCH: How to take your team’s branding to the next level

“Branding is evoking emotions and feelings from our customers, right? So it’s so important for us to stay very focused on the fact that those emotions and those feelings give us the opportunity in our business to grow more in-depth relationships,” Renee Funk, team leader at eXp Realty, said onstage at Inman Connect Las Vegas. […]

New $97M venture fund to focus on construction technology

Brick and Mortar Ventures, a firm that thinks of itself as the “Fifth Wall of construction,” announced Tuesday that it now has nearly $100 million to pour into high tech startups. The firm’s newly announced fund — which totals $97.2 million to be exact — will be used to invest in early-stage companies that focus […]

After ‘ghost agent’ purge, Keller Williams’ agent count is growing

Following two straight quarters of North American agent count declines, Keller Williams added nearly 3,000 associates in the second quarter. Source: click here

New York Fed calls US housing market ‘anemic’ and ‘lackluster’

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Monday described the U.S. housing market as “anemic” and “lackluster” in a blistering economic report that, nonetheless, acknowledged favorable labor market conditions and declines in mortgage interest rates as positive forces. Existing-home sales activity lagged in June with single-family home sales falling 1.5 percent, to 4.69 million units, and […]

WATCH: Rethinking your brokerage to maximize productivity

Onstage at Inman Connect Las Vegas, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Metro Brokers’ Craig McClelland and Hunter Rowe Real Estate owner Mike Regan discussed their efforts to build brokerages that are “departmentalized” to free up staff members’ time and allow them to focus. Source: click here

Delinquency and foreclosure rates remain steady: CoreLogic

After hitting a 20-year low, home delinquency rates across the country are holding steady. According to CoreLogic data released Monday, 3.6 percent of homeowners fell into some sort of delinquency on their mortgages in May — the same number as in April but down from 4 percent in March. Foreclosure rates, in which a home is seized by […]

WATCH: The systems and tools top recruiters love

Automation, automation, automation — oh, and taking the time to call your agents and remind them that you value them. These are the keys to mastering recruiting, productivity and retention — at least as three panelists explained it at the Inman Connect Las Vegas Thrive Broker Workshop. Source: click here

Lesson Learned: 10 lessons the pros learned the hard way

I’ve talked to brand new agents, seasoned veterans, and movers and shakers in the national spotlight over the past year, and one thing has always been true: Everyone has a story to tell and some wisdom to share. Here are some of our favorite, most actionable pieces of advice from the Lesson Learned columns. Source: […]

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