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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
More agents reacting to the current MLS situation, which is bleak: Is the Realtor-run property listing service in California obsolete? Several brokers, agents and “multiple listing service” operators expressed concern during a panel discussion Wednesday that...
We have convinced the public that buying and selling 'off-market' properties is sexy and cool, and the high-end agents in Los Angeles took it a step further to create a website to share listings privately. The PLS.com has 476 listings so far! I'd expect some quirky...
The basic premise that drives the real-estate-selling industry is that agents 'cooperate' with each other, which is code for 'I'll share my listings with you, and you share your listings with me'. We have a written agreement, and subscribe to the strict code of...
There was a snafu in the rush to sign the tax reform bill: "The Senate parliamentarian determined two minor provisions do not have budgetary impacts and had to be removed from the bill," the representative told Business Insider. "The Senate will still vote tonight,...
