As the market heats up and inventories shrink, sellers are once again becoming more aggressive about overpricing their property.
Seriously overpriced listings still don’t sell, even in the best of markets. What can you do to persuade your sellers to be realistic?
A major reason that sellers overprice their properties is that their [...]
Warren Buffet really opened up a can of worms when he made the statement in the Spring of 2012 that he would buy “a couple hundred thousand” single family homes and hold them for a long time, at low mortgage rates. The moment that statement came from his lips, every hedge fund in [...]
Note: Transcribed from an actual prospecting call.
Owner: Hello?
Agent: Hi, is Rusty there?
Owner: This is him.
Agent: Hey, Rusty, it’s (Agent) with (Anywhere Realty). How are you today Rusty?
Owner: I’m good. How’s it going?
Agent: Doing well. Hey, listen, I’m actually calling you about the property that you had for sale on [...]
What does it take for new agents to succeed? Some 277 broker‐owners and managers from the Texas Association of Realtors shared their observations about the factors they have seen that contribute to new agent success.
More than 1.5 million people currently hold real estate licenses in the United States, but only a small [...]
Royal LePage, the largest real estate company in Canada, recently surveyed their buyers and sellers to uncover what matters most in terms of the service they receive from their real estate professional. The results have important implications for both domestic and international real estate practitioners.
Phil Soper, the CEO of Royal LePage, was [...]
Professional marketers aim to solve this problem on a daily basis. Therefore, it’s not surprising when ordinary folks, like us, get a little confused when trying to discern it.
Before we dive in, it’s important we don’t leave out the final piece to this equation, “owned media.” This includes our websites, blogs, and [...]
As eager real estate buyers and investors rush to take advantage of what may be their last shot at dirt‐cheap prices, regional housing bubbles seem to be emerging in various markets across the United States. According to CNN Money and online real estate broker Redfin, housing markets in New England, California and South [...]
Businesses that sell directly to consumers love to automate their work. Whether it’s a regular postcard blast, outsourced call center, or an email drip campaign, staying “in contact” with a company’s sphere of connections has always been easier when it is scheduled, standardized, and managed in a way that takes as little custom [...]
I wrote a “post‐PC‐era survival guide” almost two years ago. The piece was inspired by Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco where Steve Jobs declared, “We are going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device. We are going to move the digital hub, the center of [...]
I’ve talked to a lot of real estate brokerages about their customer relationship management (CRM) software.
In general, they always seem to face two main challenges: the user interface (UI) and user adoption.
Let’s address those challenges.
User interface
Entire books have been written on the subject of user interfaces. We’ve come to understand how [...]
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