Real estate coach Tom Ferry’s tech suite is now available to all

Tom Ferry’s all-in-one tech suite The Hub, which includes the Contactually-developed Tom Ferry CRM iis now available to all agents. Continue reading

Compass offers discounted health care to agents

Compass agents will have access to insurance from national carriers – including Cigna – as well as dental, vision, payroll administration services, compliance and liability support and other human resources offerings. Continue reading

Fighting Back: Give agents what they need and consumers what they want

How are real estate broker-owners responding, adapting or changing? Here’s what Nico Hohman, broker-owner of Hohman Homes Real Estate Brokerage & New Home Consultants in Tampa, Florida, is doing. Continue reading

LeadingRE to arm brokers against disruption with webinar series

Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, a network of the top-producing indie brokerages, is launching a series of webinars hosted by Mike DelPrete. Continue reading

Trelora tells buyers to ditch agents and keep their commissions

An upstart, low-fee Colorado brokerage that is trying to blow up the way agents get paid has announced it’ll support traditional commissions — even as it also offers incentives for buyers to ditch their agents altogether. Continue reading

Expect regulator scrutiny as teams become more prominent: NAR

Real estate teams have generated buzz in recent years and a new survey from the National Association of Realtors shows there’s a reason for that. Just over a quarter of Realtors, 26 percent, are members of a real estate team, according to NAR&#82… Continue reading

Luxury Connect: The biggest news and takeaways

The industry’s top agents descended on Los Angeles this week from all corners of the globe to network, make new connections and hear advice on how to take their business to the next level. Continue reading

The Real Word: What we know about Zillow’s Premiere Agent program

At a recent closed-door event in Boston, president of media and marketplace at Zillow Group, Greg Schwartz, spoke to approximately 100 top agents about Primer Agent 4, which has begun its implementation phase in select markets. Here’s what we learned. … Continue reading