Keyword: disruption
Real estate associations, Realtor members and their unique challenges
It’s no wonder that Realtor professionals are placing more and more pressure upon the associations tasked with connecting them to the latest and greatest technologies. The hysteria caused by the rapid growth of Zillow and Trulia along with the surge of mobile technologies, social media, and the idea of do-it-yourself real estate empowered by the likes of Google and popular ...
Is The Realtor Commission Model Still Unfair to Consumers?
The Infamous SIX Percent Realtor Commission So after several years of disruption within the real estate industry, a heated bubble, and now a flaccid economy, we’re wondering if agents are actually doing less work? If it’s a fact that agents are doing less work, have commissions also gotten smaller? We ask this question not because we have the answer but ...
Realcomp II Reduced Competition- Harmed Consumers
… Says an FTC Ruling. In a 4-0 ruling today, the FTC says Realcomp II acted to restrict consumers access to discounted listings through it’s websites, thus harming competition. In its opinion announced today, the Commission found that “the practices at issue improperly limit consumers’ access to information about the availability of these lower-priced alternatives,” and . . . concluded ...
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37 Steps Toward Becoming a 1.5 Real Estate Agent
originally published May 19, 2008 Open minded, but not distracted In this 2.0 versus 1.0 world of disruption, confusion, chaos, I want to lead my business forward. Even though I am a great agent, I must continue to find new ways of demonstrating my greatness to consumers both on and offline. I do not want to become caught up in ...
NAR- Plug Your Ears All You Want- It Just Keeps Coming
This past week I wrote about NAR and how fed up many Realtors are becoming: “As technology advances it seems NAR and the Boards bicker over a way forward and I for one see no end in sight. I think if something doesn’t change in the very near future we as an association, local and national may need to rethink our ...
The NAR, the Realtors Favorite Punching Bag- Hypocrite?
A lot of Realtors around the blogosphere love to beat up on NAR. They call them out on their talking points and basically use them to bash NAR over the head. I have no problem with that, but what it leaves me to wonder is why in the world do you pay your dues? Further, if you hate real estate ...
THE NEW POLITICS OF REAL ESTATE
Over the past seven years, we’ve watched our nation become polarized on many political levels. Liberal or Conservative, we are a nation divided, and it appears that some in Real Estate have taken a strategy directly from the political playbook of a particular party. POLITICAL STRATEGY: Create a monster (the President) Find polarizing issue (beat the President over the head ...
Russ Cofano- One of the most informative blogs I’ve seen
Russ breaks down the law regarding Seller Privacy vs. the Connected Web as it relates to the recent dust up over RedFin employees blogging about current MLS Listings… “Sellers and listing agents claim foul. How can someone have the right to post negative comments about the listed home for everyone in the world to see? There must be some legal ...
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