We won't police ourselves, so..... Hat tip to SM for sending this in: Jerry Del Mauro hoped...
‘Litter On A Stick’
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Realtors Talking Shop
Ethics and ‘Sold Before Processing’
The selling of listings prior to MLS input has happened since the beginning, but in the era of inventory desperation, we're now seeing companies openly advertising 'previews' of their listings before they put them on the MLS. Before long, the MLS will just become the...
The Trojan Horse of Real Estate Sales
What never gets mentioned is that every realtor has signed an agreement to share their listings with one another. This is how realtors are destroying the industry from within - because we foster the illusion of having a cooperative MLS but are happy to deprive our...
“Losing Steam”
The real estate business has been too easy the last few years, and it appears a tougher market is coming, which will help weed out the agents. Unfortunately, downturns don't discriminate - a slower market will cause the retirements of realtors young and old, of...
Logo To Lead Us
This ought to fix everything! The REALTOR® brand represents the organization’s unique role and heritage in shaping the real estate industry over its 100-year history, where it has built tremendous brand equity among its members, partners and property buyers and...
Get Good Help
They had the big meet-up in the desert - where a 'cohort of startup entrepreneurs; disruptive company founders; top-producing practitioners; owners of brokerages big and small; coaches; executives across new and old franchisors; MLS and association leaders; big data...
Operation Transparency
This is the fourth installment of my essay on the future of real estate sales. I'll send this along to Brad Inman, who is gathering thoughts for a leadership conference at the end of March, so they have my perspective from the street. In summary: The unconscious...
What A Realtor Does
Typically, if you want to know what a realtor does to sell your house, you have them over to make a listing presentation in person. Because of antitrust laws that 'promote fair competition for the benefit of consumers', the commission rates charged by realtors are...
Rex And Reality
Somebody needs to say something, so I guess it will be me. Though I'm still shocked that realtors and their management are willing to stay this quiet, for this long - their silence is deafening. The disrupters are the only ones doing the talking, and because no...
Future of Real Estate Brokerage
Rob filed his report on Friday, and it's a good summary of where we are. The winning solution? Not the big agent teams, nor the employee model like Redfin: Future of Brokerage Black Paper by Robert Hahn on Scribd
