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  Good morning. This is Steve Murray. I’m president of REAL Trends. With me today is Mark Stark, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Nevada Arizona California Realty and Alissa Harper VP of Growth from Buyside.

California Captured One-Third of the National Housing Recovery The United States housing market has gained nearly $11 trillion since bottoming out in 2012; California’s housing market got $3.7 trillion of it. The cumulative value of the national housing market increased by $1.9 trillion in 2018 to a total of $33.3 trillion. New York/Northern New Jersey […]

FAU Study Shows U.S. Housing Market Overheated, But Only Slight Downward Pressure on Demand for Home Ownership National housing prices as a whole are slightly overheated and residential real estate markets are experiencing minimal downward pressure on the demand for homeownership, according to a new study from faculty at the Florida Atlantic University College of […]

CoreLogic Launches Curated Solutions Program CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics, and data-enabled solutions provider, announced the launch of the Alliance Network, a group of third-party solutions that complement and easily integrate with CoreLogic real estate technology platforms such as Matrix™, Realist® and Trestle™.

Who is Kathy Kraninger? A surprise nomination of Kraninger to lead the CFPB has folks wondering about her position on critical issues. On Dec. 6, the U.S. Senate confirmed Kathy Kraninger as the next Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director by a 50-49 vote along party lines.

Don’t Let Distraction Take Over Stop living a life of distraction by following this simple formula. “Most Americans are living in a continuous state of partial attention,” according to behavioral psychologists. International business coach, Robin Sharma, observes, “The enemy of mastery is not mediocrity. It is distractions. The addiction to distraction is ruining many potentially […]

Who Should Be the Branding Machine? It’s time your agents were a powerful marketing force. Your agents have left the barn! It is hard to find them, get them to sales meetings and keep them tethered to the mothership. It’s time to round them up and let them become a powerful marketing force.

Hot Topics for 2019 Wonder who’s going to be in the news in the coming year? Here are my predictions. Zillow enters the brokerage business. There is some good news and some bad news here. They’ve been in the brokerage business since they launched Zillow.com. The real story is that they’re broadening their reach into […]

Recruiting and Retention: The Competition is Fierce More options mean more competition for brokers. How should brokerage leaders view these challenges? The competition for top agents has never been as fierce as it is now, and it will continue through 2019 and likely beyond. There are more, lower-cost options available to top-producing agents than ever […]

The Other Side of Real Estate: Predictions of a Changing Tide Recently, agents started talking about something new—their marketing and advertising spend. The new year is a time for reflection of the year past and setting goals for the year ahead. 2018 was a big transition as I moved from the software side of real […]