The real estate industry has never felt the need to create a powerful search portal in response to Zillow. There should have been an industry-wide effort to create a realtor-centric website to support our business, but NAR and others just shrugged it off. Traditional...
Compass Family- I'm excited to announce that as of today Alain Pinel will be joining our growing team in the Bay Area! Measured by sales volume, Alain Pinel is one of the ten largest brokerages in the country, according to Real Trends. Over the last 30 years, they...
The growth of the Compass team in San Diego has been incredible - starting with zero agents last January to around 350 agents today (I was #160). Our region has had the best launch in Compass history, so our affable CEO came to congratulate us for the one-year...
Today, Ryan Gorman, the CEO of NRT which owns Realogy (Coldwell Banker, Century 21, Corcoran, etc.) took a major shot at Compass. He released this two-page 'questionnaire' for his agents to use when interviewing with Compass, but he sure comes off as desperate and...
More tidbits, mostly from Leonard's daily Compass email: Here are some interesting Los Angeles-area market stats: There were 580 closed sales of $5 million+ in 2018, versus 602 in 2017. There were 157 closed sales of $10 million+ in 2018, versus 185 in 2017, (down...
Compass realtors and staff volunteered today to help with the 36th Annual Holiday Baskets put on by the Community Resource Center of Encinitas. It is a fantastic event where families below the poverty line receive food, clothes, presents, and bikes:...
Today we attended the soft opening of the new Compass office at 1953 San Elijo Ave., Suite 101 in Cardiff By-the-Sea (next door to Cicciotti's). More than 100 Compass agents will occupy both floors eventually (63 now). Other offices being built include a 22,000sf,...
We attended the Compass REtreat in Los Angeles over the last day and a half. It was a quick get-together to roll out the future plans, participate in four breakout sessions on the usual topics - social media, team-building, scripts, and risk management - and attend...
More tip-toeing around the Coming Soon topic in Realtor Magazine yesterday: The surge in off-market “pocket listings”—those held off the MLS in favor of secret channels and networks between agents or within a brokerage—is a growing issue in the real estate industry....
Trying out the Compass tools:
