Gone are the days when agents alone had access to listing data and acted as gatekeepers to their clients. Today’s on-demand technology has given clients on both ends of the transaction access to immediate and seemingly limitless property information. Many brokers see this shift as a threat to the business model that has proved profitable […]
Main Street Realty Ltd. was looking for technology that could give the brokerage a marketplace advantage. With dotloop they found a platform that’s transforming their business. With six offices and a hundred and twenty-two agents, Main Street Realty Ltd. in Toronto, ON has seen impressive growth since it was founded by broker Mike Cartwright just […]
The revolution in connected technology seems to have been tailor-made for the real estate industry. But just bringing in new devices and software does not guarantee that your business will improve. Transformation requires putting your bigger purpose first. Technology Is No Longer The Magic Bullet Twenty years ago, investing in new technology almost guaranteed increased […]
Historically, service providers in the real estate industry have done anything and everything to get new business – Joined local real estate offices to present their services, taken prospective agent partners out to lunch and have even gone as far as just leaving a stack of flyers at brokers’ offices. While some have seen success […]
A recent report in Forbes magazine stated that Millennials are now in the prime position to make a huge impact on the real estate industry. Representing more than 80% of first-time home buyers, it’s expected that this group of individuals will shake up how real estate professionals think about promoting and providing their services. Millennials […]
When Craig McLelland, Chief Operating Officer at Better Homes & Garden Metro Brokers in Atlanta, started noticing more and more of his agents’ using online solutions to get transactions done, the writing was on the wall for him: the way real estate transactions were taking place was changing, and Metro Brokers needed to implement a […]
Barry Waterman is no nonsense. Barry, the Broker-President at Coldwell Banker Waterman Realty on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, is a man who’s all business. So when he started looking for a digital solution for his office, he wasn’t looking for fluff. He’d been looking for a long time not just for a tool to provide digital […]
We’ve all heard some version of the same story before: “This career will give me the freedom to pursue my dreams, family, travel, passions, etc.” But all too often our careers can yield unexpected complications, or take our lives along a different path. We wake up to find that our expectation of how we thought […]
This webinar focuses on how successful brokers, or rather, the ones who are trying to be more successful, should take a few cues from the start-up technology world. Focus, flexibility, and scrappiness – along with the right tools, ideas, insights and innovative thinking – can get you everywhere when you know how to harness it […]
