Tech Veteran Joins ERA Real Estate ERA Real Estate announced that Mukesh Vardhan has been named Vice President of Product Management, a newly created position. Vardhan brings nearly two decades of experience in product development and management, having previously worked for tech giants eBay and Apple.
Nine Percent Drop in January’s Real Estate Showing Activity Sluggishness portends slower spring showing and sales activity in key markets across U.S. If January is any indication, home sellers are bracing themselves for a tenuous start to 2019, as the first month of the year saw a 9 percent drop across the U.S. in year-over-year […]
Become a Category of One: Maximize Your Referrals It’s still all about the relationship. Why do sales associates spend billions of dollars buying leads and chasing strangers? The research is clear. Buyers and sellers prefer to work with someone they know, like, and trust. That’s why, according to REAL Trends 2018 Consumer Study, some 92 […]
The Other Side of Real Estate: The Key to Making Successful Tech Decisions It’s amazing how simple some concepts appear but how complicated they are in practice. Here are some observations on how decision making at the brokerage level can improve. Who’s the decision maker? Ultimately, the broker-owner is the final decision maker at 99 […]
Website Accessibility Lawsuits Soared in 2018 What are you doing to make your website more accessible? You better do something, or you may have to face a lawsuit. Thanks to a 2017 decision by the Department of Justice (DOJ), legal challenges over website accessibility for disabled individuals are a rising threat to companies with an […]
Broker Public Portal: Brokers Report on Adoption With a partnership with Homesnap, brokerage firms are finding success with the Broker Public Portal. The Broker Public Portal has quickly evolved into a viable alternative to paying for advertising and leads on the portal sites. REAL Trends spoke with two brokers who were early adopters to talk […]
Tech Firm Market Leader Joins the Keller Cloud Keller Williams has announced Market Leader, a pioneer in sales and marketing technology for the real estate industry, as a Platinum Partner in the Keller Cloud Innovator Program.
2019 Market: Opportunities and Challenges An uncertain market creates opportunity for brokers who learned from their mistakes in previous down markets. With the housing sales forecast for 2019 decidedly uncertain, this sets up to be a challenging year for all incumbents, regardless of their size, market, brand name or business model. The news about executive […]
Global Trends: Prices Will Rise in 2019 at Slower Pace Here are the factors affecting property prices, according to the 2019 Knight Frank Prime Global Forecast. Slowing price growth is the story for 2019. Five of the 15 global cities tracked in the Knight Frank Prime Global Forecast—New York, Singapore, Dubai, Mumbai, and Hong Kong—all […]
CoreLogic Releases Most Recent HPI Forecast CoreLogic®, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, released its latest CoreLogic HPI Forecast Validation Report that compares its 12-month CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI) Forecast to the actual CoreLogic Home Price Index. The report compares the changes in national and key Core-Based Statistical Area-level (CBSA) […]
