Author Archives: Patrick Kearns

EXp CEO on how his company’s profit share differs from KW

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Glenn Sanford said that in 2006, he brought 184 people into his profit-sharing group at Keller Williams. The next year, he received a check for only $6,000. Continue reading →

NRT CEO compares Compass’ agent recruitment to ‘shoplifting’

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NRT CEO Ryan Gorman compared Compass’ recruitment of agents and efforts to gain market share in competing marketplaces to “shoplifting” at Inman Connect in Las Vegas Thursday morning.  Continue reading →

NRT CEO compares Compass’ agent recruitment to ‘shoplifting’

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NRT CEO Ryan Gorman compared Compass’ recruitment of agents and efforts to gain market share in competing marketplaces to “shoplifting” at Inman Connect in Las Vegas Thursday morning.  Continue reading →

How to make your offer standout in a competitive market

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In hot real estate markets like San Francisco, buyers need to know that their offer won’t be alone. And that’s where a good real estate agent comes in — to help make that offer standout and educate that buyer on what they need to do to be competitive.  Continue reading →

Here’s how this 9-person team closed 600 transactions

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The Laurie Finkelstein Reader Real Estate Team announced at Inman Connect Las Vegas that last year about nine agents sold 608 homes, meaning, on average, each agent closed more than 60 transactions in 2018. Continue reading →

Zillow CEO Rich Barton: ‘Real estate agents are not going away’

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Rich Barton discusses Zillow’s ‘expansion’ into Zillow homes, his goal for the Zestimate and why he wants his company to be a home marketplace. Continue reading →

Real estate execs promise they don’t want to steal your data

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One of the things that often gets lost when discussing major acquisitions by big companies is the individual agent, who goes from utilizing a startup’s service to potentially running a crucial part of a business on a competitor’s platform. It happened … Continue reading →

Did Realogy just create a new industry standard for closing gifts?

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The final 15 minutes of ICLV’s CEO Connect was supposed to be a broad discussion about the country’s biggest companies — Facebook, Amazon and Google — and whether they would ever substantially enter the real estate business. That was, until this mornin… Continue reading →

HouseCanary CEO: ‘70% of all transactions will be automated’

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Douglas Elliman CEO Scott Durkin, however, slammed HouseCanary for ‘wanting a piece of our commission’ during an Inman Connect panel. Continue reading →