Smart-home tech for agents: Best smart outlets

In this weekly column, hosts Brandon Doyle and Colton Pratt walk through smart-home products and showcase their capabilities while reviewing pros and cons. This week, they tested 12 smart plugs. Find out which brands come out on top. Continue reading

Pulse: 26 handlers for ‘Another agent said we could get more money’

We asked, and you all came out in droves to share your best responses. Our favorite handlers from last week’s Pulse survey include asking to see the other agent’s math and emphasizing an ethical obligation to disagree. Continue reading

How to bring veteran clients value by understanding MPRs

Getting through the VA’s appraisal process can be a deal-breaking nightmare — if you don’t know how it works. Navy veteran and agent Phil Capron, sheds some light on common loan-approval issues you can help veteran clients avoid. Continue reading

The Real Word: A drive-by at an Opendoor listed home

Watch Byron Lazine and Nicole White give a real estate agent’s perspective on industry-related topics. This week, they discuss a house party gone wrong. Over Halloween weekend, there was a party at a vacant home in Arizona listed by Opendoor where five… Continue reading

California’s top female real estate brokers on rising to leadership

Female leaders in the real estate industry share their hard-won wisdom on how they struggled to rise to the top. Continue reading

Smart-home tech for agents: Best smart light bulbs

In this weekly column, hosts Brandon Doyle and Colton Pratt walk through smart-home products and showcase their capabilities while reviewing pros and cons. This week, they’ll light up and compare smart bulbs. Continue reading

Why ‘coming soon’ listings need to be governed

People need to stop thinking of coming soons and pocket listings as identical, they aren’t. The Clear Cooperation Policy needs to pass. Coming soon needs rules codified that are separate from private, off-MLS sales. Continue reading

30 promotional ideas to keep you top-of-mind

It’s the time of year when we’re all looking forward to the holidays and planning our promotional gifts and marketing mementos. Whether you’re looking to change up your current holiday giving or want to start a new tradition, we’ve got a host of great … Continue reading

Pulse: How do you overcome ‘Another agent said we could get more money’?

Real estate agents handle countless objections from clients and prospects in their daily course of business. We want to hear yours. Take this one-question survey to share your top objection handler for another agent’s over promise. Continue reading

Showdown in San Francisco: High drama, huge stakes at NAR

This week, NAR members gather to face another set of tough decisions about the future of real estate. This time, pocket listings take center stage. Continue reading