WASHINGTON (June 26, 2017) — Existing housing inventory has declined year over year each month for two straight years, but new consumer findings from the National Association of Realtors® offer hope that the growing number of homeowners who think now is a good time to sell will eventually lead to more listings. That's according to [...]
How to easily automate different parts of your business Samantha Bullock Adam DuVander, a marketing developer at Zapier, loves application programming interfaces (APIs), and he wants everyone to know it. With Zapier, users learn how to automate different parts of their business without writing complicated code. During DuVander’s session, participants will create their own custom [...]
How do you build a personal brand from the ground up in real estate? Peter Lorimer Whether growing a brand as an agent, a company or a brokerage, the most important thing is knowing who you are. Ask the questions: “Who am I? What’s my value add to the industry?” Then carve out your niche. [...]
Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate: A listing in ‘splitsville’ Leigh Brown Reposted with permission — show notes and credits here. In this episode, Leigh Brown welcomes Rachel Hammer, a board director of the Ottawa Real Estate Board. She has been in real estate for over 11 years and was a former crisis counselor for the [...]
How to stage a home on a budget Inman Reposted with permission from Moshells.com. When you show your home’s best features by staging it effectively, you help increase your final selling price without breaking the bank. As our infographic below shows, the following five golden rules of home staging will help you show off its [...]
Fredrik Eklund of ‘Million Dollar Listing’ releases anti-bullying song Marian McPherson On Million Dollar Listing New York, star Fredrik Eklund is loved for many things: his acute business skills, his sharp sense of humor, his collection of colorful socks and, last but not least, his ability to be transparent about his journey as a gay [...]
Developing wealth is a hot topic in today’s economy. Some individuals have come to realize one efficient means of developing wealth is through home ownership and real estate. One way to determine this would be looking at the property values over time and monitoring the trend. Let us look at property values from the American [...]
Building permits increased in most markets, but we see fewer permits and more expensive construction in high-priced markets. In the era of limited housing inventory, adding new construction is one of the means to deal with housing affordability issues. At the local level, metropolitan areas are doing the most to address the housing shortage by [...]
Why you need predictive analytics to thrive in 2017 Inman Content Studio Amazon’s surprise $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods represents another significant growth notch in the Seattle tech behemoth’s belt. Its ever-expanding presence in our daily lives doesn’t just come from the smarts and aggressiveness of founder Jeff Bezos, but from predictive analytics, which [...]
Secrets of high-growth real estate teams Joe Skousen As we all know, the real estate industry is hyper-competitive. And because there are few better catalysts for innovation than competition, real estate is constantly blazing new ground. Real estate expansion teams — teams that do business in multiple markets — are one of the industry’s latest, [...]