Babe Ruth, the greatest baseball player of all time, knew there was no coasting. Each day was a unique challenge with a new game, changing pitchers, different ballparks and specific strategies to win. He recognized that what worked in the last game doesn’t count today, or as the “Sultan of Read more…
A Modern Day Heir A Florida broker was getting up in years and ready to slow down to enjoy the fruits of all his labor. Over coffee with his son he said, “it’s time for me to start planning my retirement and I’m thinking about giving you half the business. You’ll Read more…
“Make hay while the sun shines.” Medieval English farmers harvesting their hay coined the phrase as they watched the gloomy weather closely, making the most of small windows of changing circumstances. Most real estate brokers and agents today are enjoying the euphoria of rebounding market conditions as buyers and sellers are Read more…
Here is an amazing fact: Almost ½ of the entire U.S. residential industry is conducted by approximately 1% of the brokerages. In June, The Real Estate Almanac published by leading research and advisory firm T3 Sixty, noted that 48.9% of all the existing home sales were conducted by the top 1,000 firms. Amazingly, this number has Read more…
Setting the New Norm “Never let a crisis go to waste.”Various renditions of the quote have been attributed to many throughout the years including Winston Churchill and Rahm Emanuel. For real estate brokers, it means not just getting through the current crisis, but taking steps to come out stronger on Read more…
What A Difference 8-Weeks Makes I was in Texas when I got the call that Realogy was sending me home (along with more than sixty of my peers from across the various Realogy brands). Just like you, we have been operating in a new remote world where health and safety Read more…
The real estate industry has long experienced disruptors such as non-traditional business models, new commission splits, technology, disappearing brick and mortar, etc., but no one foresaw the biggest disruptor as a microscopic infectious disease. That’s the reality today as the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has swept the nation, taking lives, Read more…
Arnold Palmer said, “timing is everything in life and in golf.” If Arnie had been a real estate broker, he would have added “and selling your brokerage.” Most brokers I meet admit they think about selling their companies but very few have a real plan for the timing of when Read more…
Ask ten brokers what agents need to be successful and you’ll generally get ten different responses ranging from leads, apps, training, nicer offices, better technology– even tough love. While these may be important, what agents really need is something more basic and if you can provide this one resource, you’ll Read more…