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The Realty ONE Group has announced it has signed an exclusive partnership with Dr. Eric Thomas (“E.T.”), a real estate coach, author and motivational speaker. Thomas will provide online coaching services through the ONE University (One.U) business coaching platform. According to the company, Dr. Thomas agreed to this arrangement after speaking at Realty ONE Group’s…

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The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) has released its 2023 Community & Transportation Preferences Survey. The survey  is a national poll taken every three years to gauge people’s partialities regarding their home’s location or potential location as well as community attributes they find desirable. The 2023 survey found that Americans living in walkable communities report…

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The cooling effect of elevated mortgage rates and affordability challenges on home prices has held firm in recent months, as new reports show that the price tags for homes in the U.S. have seen their first annual decline in over a decade.  According to the latest S&P Case-Shiller Index, home prices decreased 1.2% year-over-year in…

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It was only six short years ago that Bob Goldberg took the reins as CEO of the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR). But it is hard to imagine a busier, more challenging time to lead the million-strong REALTOR® community, from a reckoning with racism and a global pandemic, to a broadside assault on the fundamental…

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Adding to a slew of recent positive news around housing, the latest data shows new-home sales rising significantly in May, up a blistering 12.2% from the previous month and 20% year-over-year, as a steady real estate rebound continues to defy recession predictions. Every region saw significant increases in sales, with the Northeast in particular experiencing…

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Weichert Real Estate Affiliates, Inc. has announced it has been named a finalist for Franchise Business Review’s 2023 Franchising@WORK Awards. The awards recognize franchise companies based on employee satisfaction–Franchise Business Review conducts surveys of corporate franchise employees, franchise supplier employees, and franchise owners’ employees across North America each year. Survey participants are asked questions related…

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United Real Estate has announced its second expansion in Huntsville, Alabama, solidifying its position in the top three residential brokerages in the local market. United’s Leading Edge Real Estate Group, which joined United’s national network in 2022, and Huntsville-based Revolved Realty have merged operations. The combined companies and their 300 agents will operate as Leading…

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With nearly a decade under his belt in the real estate industry, Tony Mattar has learned from some of the best agents in Chicago. Their mentorship and guidance led him to not only scale his business, but do so by building an authentic, collaborative and successful team.  “I started a real estate team wanting to…

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With CEO Bob Goldberg announcing his retirement effective at the end of 2024, the National Association of REALTORS® has formally launched a nationwide search for its next chief executive officer. NAR has outlined its intention to identify candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences, both inside and outside of the real estate industry. Reporting to the…

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For Suneet Agarwal—CEO of Best Sac Homes Group and Big Block Realty North in Sacramento, California—providing the most agent-centric platform in the country is the name of the game. And with Curbio, a leading pay-at-closing home improvement solution for sellers who want to sell fast and for the most money on their side, Agarwal and…

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OneKey® MLS, the largest MLS in New York, has announced that residential, condo, and co-op sales transactions in the regional MLS coverage area saw a 2.6% increase in closed median sale price month-over-month from April to May 2023. OneKey® MLS, which provides monthly statistics for residential real estate transactions from Montauk to Manhattan, north through…

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When you move into a house in a homeowners association (HOA) neighborhood, you might want the fees they charge to be as low as possible. Buying a home is a significant expense, and you might want to reduce costs where you can. But are low HOA fees a good idea? You might assume smaller bills…

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The Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors Inc. (HGAR), OneKey MLS and TitleVest recently hosted a virtual panel featuring several prominent New York real estate leaders to discuss the impacts of artificial intelligence on the industry.  In an extension of HGAR and OneKey MLS’ “Be Your Best” education and professional development series, the organizations stated that…

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For Bob Hale, who is celebrating and being celebrated for 50 years as a titan in the real estate industry, there’s very little time for looking back, and none at all for lamenting “the good old days.” That’s because he’s hale and hearty, pun intended, and still a full-timer after 35 years as president and…

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Barbara Fox specializes in the luxury real estate market in Manhattan, selling apartments and townhomes. Manhattan is New York City’s most expensive and densely populated borough. Since New York City is a renting town, the founder of Fox Residential Group often works with first-time buyers who are entering the market to the tune of well…

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For REALTORS®, selling a house should be the start of a relationship with a client, not the end. As you keep in touch with buyers, providing expertise will enhance your standing. Owners want to improve their properties with any number of projects. But what’s appealing to some can be appalling to others. They should understand…

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For today’s Thoughts on Leadership, I want to talk about how we commemorated Juneteenth, the federal holiday that occurred on Monday, June 19. Juneteenth marks the historic day (June 19, 1865) in Galveston, Texas when the last remaining enslaved people in the U.S. received the long-awaited news that the Civil War was over. Under President…

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Succession planning is a crucial aspect of any organization, and your brokerage is no exception. The first step in succession planning is defining the vision for success. The only thing more powerful than vision is shared vision. Once the shared vision is in place, the BATON framework can help real estate organizations ensure they have…

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Cost burdens and affordability have become two of the most acute, most urgent issues to emerge from the last three turbulent years in the housing sector, according to Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS), which released its “State of the Nation’s Housing” annual report this week, estimating that over 2 million renter households have…

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Editor’s Note: RISMedia recently released its 2023 Top 1,000 Power Brokers, exclusively for RISMedia Premier Members. In this special interview series, we talk to some of our top-ranking brokers to garner their insights and strategies for sustaining their firms’ success. For more information, click here.  Despite flat numbers as a result of the shifting market…

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