The California Bureau of Real Estate has decided to clamp down on the agent teams and groups - more on it from Rob Hahn: http://www.notorious-rob.com/2015/09/calbre-to-keller-williams-drop-dead/
Agent Teams Under Scrutiny
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The Future
Live Home Tours
There are new gadgets for real estate coming at us every day, but this one has some promise if it can live-stream without interruptions. From FT: http://journal.firsttuesday.us/tech-corner-reallync-hosts-virtual-home-tours/45666/ Have you ever given a client a tour...
Hiring a Realtor
Hat tip to the reader who sent this in: Today's post about discounting realtors dove tails nicely with my neighbor. He was adamant about doing the sale himself in order to save on commission. However, when his sale blew up in escrow he relented, and now he has hired a...
Discounting Realtors
Tom Ferry is real estate's #1 educator, and he and his staff are coaching realtors around the world. He was gracious enough to allow me to run his latest video below, where he discusses the developing trends in the business: Right off the bat, he mentions Commission...
Realtor Population
The recent N.A.R-commissioned DangerReport surveyed thousands throughout the industry, and found that the #1 threat to agents was.......fellow agents. In particular, the inexperienced and incompetent agents that threaten the credibility of others, and the industry as...
Realtor.com is Gaining Viewers
In San Diego, Realtor.com gets our listings automatically uploaded directly from the MLS, where Zillow and Trulia do not. If you don't see listings there, it's because agents don't know they have to upload manually, or prefer not to use Zillow/Trulia. Realtor.com is...
Zillow and the Future
Rob Hahn discusses his thoughts about the future of real estate agents after reading this in the Zillow 2Q/2015 Earning Call: For example, at the end of Q2, the number of agents spending more than $5,000 per month, grew 48% year-over-year. Agents spending over $2,500...
Realtor Transparency
I am a fan of transparency. The two best attempts of creating an agent-ranking website got shot down by realtors themselves. But outside entrepreneurs keep plugging away, and one of them could find the right mix and hit the jackpot some day. One website called...
Market Predictor
My thoughts on interpreting last month's sales count, and the future:
‘Cargotopia’
From Bloomberg (link HERE) Luke Iseman has figured out how to afford the San Francisco Bay area. He lives in a shipping container. The Wharton School graduate’s 160-square-foot box has a camp stove and a shower made of old boat hulls. It’s one of 11 miniature...
