POWER BROKER Report Archives

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Firms, Tenure and Experience: The Profile of Today’s REALTOR Although the housing market is always shifting, results from the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®’ 2015 Member Profile show that REALTOR® office and firm affiliations remained largely unchanged from last year. Most REALTORS® are independent contractors (83 percent)...	2015-06-23
First-Time Homebuyers: Changing Over Time The National Association of REALTORS® has tracked the demographics of first-time homebuyers since 1981 in the Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers. Over time, first-time homebuyers have become a smaller share of all buyers. First-time buyers are more likely to be single females, and...	2019-02-27
Five Keys to Leaving a Positive Leadership Legacy Many successful business people have pondered their leadership legacy—and many of them struggle to find the answer. Your legacy is defined by the impact you have on the lives of others after you are gone. It is how you will be remembered. We are all leaving a legacy,...	2018-06-28
Flexible Work Hours Most Valuable Perk for Employees Flexible work hours are the perk that influences employee satisfaction the most, according to a new survey by Clutch, a B2B research firm. More than 40 percent of the full-time U.S. employees surveyed say that flexible hours are the most important perk they receive, and over half...	2018-02-24
Flexiblity, Mobility and IoT Will Dominate Workplace in 2016 As businesses plan for workplace changes in 2016, five trends seem to be dominating the conversation, according to research conducted by Boston-based software company Planon, a global leader in Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS). According to Planon's research, here...	2015-12-29
Foot Traffic Points to a Strong Start in 2015 For several years, NAR Research has tracked foot traffic as a means of predicting housing activity in subsequent months. This data provides valuable insights about future trends and points to a robust spring market. SentriLock LLC., makers of the lock boxes that one-third of...	2015-01-20
For Corporate Mobility, It’s All About the Service Metrics Mobility industry KPIs (key performance indicators) go way back, but recent buzz may have you thinking otherwise. One long-standing metric is “overall service satisfaction” – a rating given by transferring employees to RMCs for mobility services coordination. Other...	2016-06-07
For Your Agents: Attend Weekend Events to Increase Your Sales You may be fully booked with open houses and showings this upcoming weekend, but take a look at your calendar and choose another weekend that's pretty open. Got one? Block it off. That weekend is going to be your productivity booster. Any gaps in your client database are about to...	2018-09-28
Forecasting Housing in 2019: Not Better for Buyers, but Not Worse If the expectations about housing in 2019 can be summed up in one word, it's this: balanced. After months and months on a runaway track, home prices have started to temper, and will continue to moderate in the upcoming year, according to new predictions by several sources....	2018-12-03
Foreign Buyers Retreat from Purchasing U.S. Residential Property in 2016 The slowdown in economic growth in many countries, rising U.S. home prices, and the strengthening of the U.S. dollar against many foreign currencies led to a retreat in foreign buyers purchasing U.S. residential property, according to NAR’s recently released 2016 Profile of...	2016-08-16
Four Factors to Motivate Your Employees Daily While a healthy paycheck contributes to employee satisfaction, money won’t keep the best employees if other more important aspects of their employment are not met, according to a national authority on leadership science. “If the workplace environment doesn’t...	2018-06-28
Four Steps to Help Identify Superior Talent Interviewing is a vital part of the staffing process, so in order to select the best talent for your organization's needs, the interview must be done right. Hiring expert and business consultant Scott Wintrip says that conventional interviews don't work, and that hiring...	2017-05-01
Four Ways to Effectively Attract a Diverse Workforce Is your team diverse? Do you invest to ensure your team reflects the needs and attitudes of your customers and clients? They need to reflect the communities your employees live, work in and provide services to. When a lot of people think about diversity, they focus on gender,...	2019-01-24
Fourth Quarter Highlights from the Lenders' Landscape Every quarter, NAR Research surveys a panel of mortgage originators about their recent lending activity as well as plans for the current period and beyond. In the 4th quarter of 2014, lenders’ confidence in non-Prime and non-ATR (ability-to-repay)/QM (qualified mortgage) products...	2015-03-26
Fourth Quarter Kicks off with Continued Equilibrium A strong continuation of equilibrium-oriented trends mark the start of the fourth quarter, according to the realtor.com® National Housing Trend Report for September 2013. While key indicators show a relatively consistent pace with August figures, the year-over-year perspective...	2013-10-18
GBO: R.I.P.? Demise of the Corporate Listing ... and What to Do About It Pardon the jargon, but you relocation pros recognize GBO as a Guaranteed Buyout Offer, the ultimate and most expensive of corporate relocation benefits. GBOs are becoming an endangered species though – and may become the passenger pigeon of relocation policy. Why is...	2014-03-27
Gen X and Homebuying It’s true that millennials are the largest group of homebuyers and have been featured heavily in the news, partly due to recent discussions about student debt and delays in homeownership[1]. However, Gen X is also an important generational group: they comprise 26 percent of...	2016-09-21
Generation X Homebuyers in 2019 The Gen X (1965-1979) cohort often is ignored, sandwiched as it is between Younger Boomers (1955-1964) and Older Millennials (1980-1989). While it’s true that millennials overall are the largest group of homebuyers, Gen X is also an important generational group: they comprise 24...	2019-05-31
Get Ready to Meet International Service Needs Where will your next corporate customer or foreign national purchaser hail from? Whether it’s Brazil, China or Belgium, it’s apparent that international activity is increasing, based on global mobility trends and home sale statistics. Are you ready for this potential new...	2013-12-17
Getting the Most out of Meetings Many employees probably groan and grumble when they see that the boss has scheduled yet another meeting. But Cameron Herold, a business development expert and author of “Double Double: How to Double Your Revenue and Profit in 3 Years or Less”, insists it doesn’t need...	2015-11-18

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