BHHS CEO Who Denied Compass Was Acquiring His Firm Last Month, Just Stepped Down Companies Are Beginning To Use Two Scenarios When Forecasting The 2025 Economy Lack Of Clarity Continues To Define The New Global Trade War Era The headlines screamed Gino Blefari had stepped down as HomeServices CEO, and everybody in the industry gave a knowing nod. A month ago, after some terrific reporting by the...
NYC Rentals Are Setting New Price Records As Mortgage Rates Remain Stuck Manhattan Is Not A Leading Indicator For The US Housing Market Multifamily Sales Are Expected To Go Big In 2025 Back in college, I remember reading a story about the first lead singer for Van Halen getting into a bar fight, saying his adversary’s problem was “more dental than mental.” I applied the literary flex to today's...
Redfin Snapped Up By Rocket Mortgage Becoming A Notable Threat To Zillow Redfin, The Discount Real Estate Broker, Never Figured Out How To Be Profitable Rocket Has Always Seemed To Defy Interest Rate Gravity And Redfin Has Great Tech Wow. Today is the birthday of the World Wide Web. No one saw the acquisition of Redfin by Rocket Mortgage coming, and perhaps that's what makes this transaction so...
SeatTime Is The Primary Emphasis Of Real Estate CE Classes CE Classes Are A Cottage Industry That Likely Doesn’t Try To Protect The Consumer Professional Competence Should Be Rewarded, Not Punished I’ve always been a fast test taker. I can’t explain it, but in high school and college, I was always one of the first students to turn in my exams. I’m certainly not the smartest, as my grades would...
It is Never Ethical To Hide Information From Homebuyers All Real Estate Brokerages Would Love To Have Both Sides Of A Sale Compass Is Pushing For A Private Network To Control Listings And Recruitment I need to get something off my chest as I watch the "NAR Clear Cooperation" litigation wars play out. Compass is banking on Clear Cooperation being dismantled to set up a private listing network. I...
• NAR Membership Is Wildly Bloated By “Ghost” MLS Members
• If NAR Membership Collapses, Research And DC Lobbying Efforts Will Stop
• Florida Has The Most Real Estate Agents Per Capita, And DC Has The Fewest
• A Third Of Agents Don’t Know About The Lawsuit And Confusion Will Be Severe
• Saturday Is The Day Buyers’ Agent Compensation Gets Tested In The Marketplace
• Sellers Likely Won’t Net Out More For Their Homes
• Real Estate Brokerage Industry Sharply Cut Costs To Survive Elevated Rates
• Industry Is Placing Hopes On Surge In Demand From Anticipated Rate Cuts
• Redfin Emerges From Pandemic With Residential Real Estate Leadership Role
• Reality shows are cheap to produce and remain popular with audiences
• Almost everything said and shown in these shows is a lie
• Real estate is only the vehicle for character interactions
• Two Realtor associations that own a Colorado MLS sold it to a private firm
• The unprecedented sale was to reduce legal exposure to the NAR settlement
• Business rules of an MLS conflict with Realtor associations (a.k.a. steering)
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My friend and Chicago appraiser colleague Michael Hobbs interviewed me for a two-part podcast: "The PahrooZings Podcast showcases inspiring appraisers and professionals who are field-leaders.” I met Michael through our [...]
