POWER BROKER Report Archives

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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
The Value of the MLS? Providing the Best Listing Data Data accuracy matters. More than one in five Americans have a mistake in their credit report. Those errors could cost them dearly: They could end up unfairly paying higher interest rates for their mortgages. Remember how the real estate market imploded, yet many...	2018-09-28
Industry Gathers for NAR Innovation, Opportunity & Investment Summit in San Francisco Over 400 innovators, investors and Realtors® gathered in San Francisco for NAR’s inaugural Innovation, Opportunity & Investment Summit (iOi) on August 28 - 29, to discuss and collaborate on real estate’s most pressing technology issues. During the summit, real...	2018-08-31
The Art of 'BRT': Building Relationships With Trust Looking back at the factors that have helped create a sustainable business model for over 20 years, I reflect on marketing strategies, sales skills, training and always trying to do the right thing, in addition to a variety of other factors that can—and have—contributed to...	2018-08-31
U.S. Housing Markets Moving Into Rent Territory for First Time in Over 8 Years: Report U.S. housing markets, when viewed as a whole, are now in rent territory, meaning renting and reinvesting, on average, will outperform owning and building equity in terms of wealth creation, according to the latest national index produced by Florida Atlantic University and Florida...	2018-08-31
Facebook Makes Ad Changes Following HUD Fair Housing Complaint Shortly after a complaint was filed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Facebook has announced it is removing 5,000-plus ad targeting options this fall that "relate to attributes such as ethnicity or religion." Most of the removed...	2018-08-31
The New Super Heroes: Introducing The Intangibles There are seven capital investments available for organizations to build value and wealth. These capital investments are Human, Relationship, Spiritual, Customer, Organizational, Physical, and Financial. In the 1980 winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y., the U.S. Men’s...	2018-08-31
Student Loan Debt an Ongoing Hurdle to Homeownership The U.S. currently has a student debt load of over $1.4 trillion, which accounts for 10 percent of all outstanding debt and 35 percent of non-housing debt. The magnitude of the debt continues to grow in size and share of the overall debt in the economy. While this amount of debt has...	2018-08-31
Branching Into Commercial Real Estate: Risk vs. Reward Whether it’s an attorney for a retail chain looking for a corner location with lots of foot traffic or a CPA for a developer of creative space who need tenants, chances are an experienced residential broker’s database is loaded with potential commercial opportunities. How...	2018-08-31
3 Ways Technology Is Changing Real Estate From digital open houses to artificial intelligence (AI) platforms to bitcoin cryptocurrency, new technologies are taking over the real estate industry by storm and accelerating the pace of business. With tech-savvy millennials representing the largest group of homebuyers, it is...	2018-07-31
Consumer Confidence Increased Marginally in July The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index® increased marginally in July, following a modest decline in June. The Index now stands at 127.4 (1985=100), up from 127.1 in June. The Present Situation Index improved from 161.7 to 165.9, while the Expectations Index...	2018-07-31
Appreciation on a Decelerating Trend Appreciation is on a decelerating trend, according to ATTOM Data Solutions' latest quarterly report. On a national scale, prices rose 6.3 percent in the second quarter of 2018—the fifth quarter in a row of slowing. "Annual home price appreciation nationwide has...	2018-07-31
Power Broker Strategies: Staying True to the Vision After working in the corporate world for many years, Nancy Fennell obtained her real estate license in 1985 and hasn't looked back. Today, as president of Dickson Realty, Fennell believes that homeownership is still one of the cornerstones of the American Dream, which is why she...	2018-07-30
You Got Your MTV, Now Say 'I Want My BPP' In August 1981, MTV became the first all-music video channel. It went live with its first video by The Buggles, "Video Killed the Radio Star." The cable television channel had a little over 200 videos to air. Sixteen of those videos featured Rod Stewart. Still,...	2018-07-30
Curb Appeal and Home Staging: Projects That Increase Appeal First impressions matter, especially when showing a home. Almost all (99 percent) REALTORS® recently surveyed believe curb appeal is important when attracting a buyer[1]. For that matter, presenting a house as a future home is almost as important: 77 percent of buyers’ agents...	2018-07-30
Real Estate Brokers Turn to Pocket Listings in Rising Markets The real estate market has heated up so much in certain regions that brokers are taking transactions into their own hands—or, rather, their pockets. With increasing prices and, seemingly, more buyers willing to pay an amount that’s leaving the seller with a nice profit, the...	2018-07-30
Bring Calm to the Chaos in Your Business As the selling season continues to pick up, many agents find themselves busy and struggling to fit everything into their days. Although they’re grateful for the business, they worry that other important people and tasks are falling through the cracks. As a result, they may work...	2018-06-28
Harvard: Crawl in Incomes Led to Unaffordability Over the course of the past 30 years, Americans' earnings and the economy have been on parallel paths, but at mismatched strides. Now, homebuyers are paying for it. Affordability continues to be a headwind for housing, according to the Harvard University Joint Center for...	2018-06-28
Smart Homes: The Way of the Future or a Risk to Homeowners? Glitches of early iterations aside, AI-based technology has come a long way, and has an increasingly active presence in the lives of homeowners who are looking for convenience and savings in a pushed-for-time era. From adaptive thermostats that automatically gauge energy usage and...	2018-06-28
RISMedia Announces Call for 2019 Newsmakers Nominations are now open for RISMedia’s 2019 Real Estate Newsmaker Awards. Set to be released in the December 2018 issue of Real Estate magazine, the forthcoming list of Newsmakers will include hundreds of influential real estate professionals, as well as individuals outside...	2018-06-28

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