The reality of being a real estate agent can be brutal. Your phone buzzes at 9:00 p.m. with a client question. You get a text early on a Sunday morning about a showing. Your family dinner gets interrupted by an appraisal that needs attention. Sound familiar? Real estate agents sacrifice a lot for their careers,…
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A broker called me last week and said something I haven’t stopped thinking about. “Jemila, I think I built the wrong thing.” She wasn’t talking about her production. She wasn’t talking about her market share. She was talking about the structure underneath all of it. Whether the business she’d spent a decade building would still…
Editor’s Note: Social Skills is a bi-monthly feature in RISMedia’s Daily News focused on social media and digital marketing tips, trends and solutions for agents and brokers. In today’s digital landscape, video isn’t just a trend—its the reigning king of real estate marketing. Algorithms on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and even Facebook are explicitly designed to…
For multi-entity brokerage owners, enterprise value is built over years—through agent growth, revenue expansion and operational scale. But a new whitepaper from thedeepdive.tech, “The Valuation Discount Hiding in Plain Sight,” reveals that a silent threat in the back office can erase millions of that value the moment a buyer starts due diligence. Buyers don’t just…
Compass takes majority stake in Peerage Compass International Holdings (CIH) has assumed a controlling stake in Peerage USA Holdings LLC, a firm that invests in and supports multiple Sotheby’s International Realty franchises, as part of a debt-restructuring transaction. The maneuver involves taking 51% of the common equity in a parent company tied to certain Sotheby’s…
Building on a newly established company structure designed to accelerate innovation and support nationwide growth, Realtracs—Tennessee’s largest MLS, supporting 19,000-plus professionals across six states—has announced a major expansion with the introduction of national coverage through new brokerage participation, calling the move a “significant step forward in the next evolution of MLS platforms built to support…
The real estate industry is at a breaking point. As Wall Street suits and corporate conglomerates scramble to consolidate, Realty ONE Group International is turning up the heat. Today, we are doubling down on our status as the largest and fastest-growing family-owned global franchise in the world, sending a clear message: scale is nothing without…
Agents have long done some version of pre-marketing—reaching out to their networks, posting on social, circulating a “Coming Soon” to their database. But what hasn’t existed, until now, is a way to make those listings publicly visible: open to every buyer and searchable by anyone. Zillow Preview changes that. Rather than keeping pre-market listings behind…
Above: Colette Ching. After more than 20 years in real estate leadership, one thing has remained constant: markets change, people don’t. In every cycle, we see the same pattern. When the market is strong, many can win. When the market shifts, only the skilled and the supported rise to the top. Today, we are firmly…
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Spring is the busiest season for home sales, but the ‘dream home’ narrative often ends abruptly once the inspector arrives. Visible mold or a history of moisture issues frequently leads to inspection contingencies, allowing buyers to back out or demand costly repairs, while lenders may refuse financing on affected homes. Restoration 1 owners Vanessa and…
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