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Congratulations to the 2021 RealTrends Game Changers. These brokerage leaders grew their brokerages dramatically over the past five years. Brokerages are chosen based on transaction side percentage growth between 2016-2020.

In this edition of RealTrending, Steve Murray, senior advisor to RealTrends, shares his thoughts on how to compete in today’s competitive arena. He’ll share a book recommendation and reveal some insights into why agent productivity is flat even though growth in the agent rankings is at all-time highs.

Homes are selling within days in many U.S. metros, and the day a home is listed can have an impact on time on market and sale price. Spoiler alert: Thursdays are the best day to list a home.

Ben Caballero once again topped RealTrends’ list of the top 1,000 real estate agents in America in 2020. Here’s a breakdown of which agents thrived in 2020.

Lower taxes, rational pandemic policy and a higher quality of life are bringing a huge influx of wealthy buyers into Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Miami area, moving more Florida agents into the top 20 of RealTrends The Thousand.

No surprise, big growth is the theme of 2020, with RealTrends + Tom Ferry The Thousand and America’s Best Real Estate Professionals showing huge boosts in transactions sides and volume, yet productivity has not increased year to year (2019-2020).

Is the home buying party winding down? If a new forecast turns out to be correct, price growth for existing single-family homes will taper off significantly next year.

The National Association of Realtors released a profile of LGBTQ Home Buyers and Sellers, and, honestly, they want what most Americans want — an affordable home.

Americans who made out-of-town moves last year typically paid less money for larger houses, according to a new Zillow® analysis of moving data from northAmerican® Van Lines. We’ve got more moving trends below.

Is there an easier, more intuitive way to recruit agents? Lone Wolf Technologies thinks so. The company recently launched Recruit, an artificial-intelligence (AI) recruiting tool for brokers.